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  • At the Eleventh Hour

    Reflections, Hopes and Anxieties at the Closing of the Great War, 1918

    by Hugh Cecil, Peter H. Liddle ...
    Following on from the highly acclaimed Facing Armageddon and Passchendaele in Perspective, At the Eleventh Hour recognises that a world was ending in November 1918, and by international collaboration on the 80th Anniversary we learn through this book, what it was like to experience the transition from war to peace. Distinguished historians brilliantly convey a sense of immediacy as the Armistice ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Facing Armageddon

    The First World War Experience

    by Hugh Cecil, Peter Liddle ...
    Facing Armageddon is the first scholarly work on the 1914-18 War to explore, on a world-wide basis, the real nature of the participants experience. Sixty-four scholars from all over the globe deliver the fruits of recent research in what civilians and servicemen passed through, in the air, on the sea and on land. ... Read more

    $10.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight

    by J. Cecil Hughes ...
    "The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight" by J. Cecil Hughes is a comprehensive exploration of the geological features and history of the Isle of Wight. The book delves into the island's unique rock formations, fossil records, and the processes that have shaped its landscape over millions of years. Hughes combines scientific rigor with accessible language, making complex geological concepts ... Read more

    $0.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight

    by J. Cecil Hughes ...
    The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil Hughes invites readers into a world shaped by farming, rural life, practical cultivation, productivity, observation, and responsible use of land. First published in an earlier literary era, this enduring work offers more than a simple trip into the past. It preserves the language, assumptions, ambitions, and storytelling habits of its time ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Richard Fortey ...
    This ebook edition does not include illustrations.An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life.The history of life on Earth is far older – and far odder – than many of us realise. In ‘Survivors’, acclaimed ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Darkest Hour

    How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

    by Anthony McCarten ...
    A biographical portrait of Great Britain's renowned Prime Minister during World War II—the basis for the film starring Oscar-winner Gary Oldman."McCarten's pulse-pounding narrative transports the reader to those springtime weeks in 1940 when the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of Winston Churchill. A true story thrillingly told. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable." —Michael ... Read more

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  • The Geology of Britain

    An Introduction

    by Peter Toghill ...
    This book is a geological history of Britain from over 2,000 million years ago to the present day and describes the enourmous variety of rocks, minerals and fossils that form this fascinating island. ... Read more

    $20.09 USD

  • The Last Lion: Volume 2

    Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940

    by William Manchester ...
    A #1 New York Times Bestseller, this biography of the legendary British Prime Minister explores his life in an era of rising fascism and encroaching war.“**Told with skill and vivid anecdotes ... the story continues to shock and horrify.” —**TimeIn Alone, the second volume of William Manchester's brilliant three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, we witness the war within, bef... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Churchill

    Walking with Destiny

    by Andrew Roberts ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of 2018One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2018One of The New York Times’s Notable Books of 2018“Unarguably the best single-volume biography of Churchill . . . A brilliant feat of storytelling, monumental in scope, yet put together with tenderness for a man who had always believed that he would be Britain’s savior.” —Wall ... Read more

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  • FIELD GUIDE TO INSECTS OF BRITAIN AND NORTHERN EUROPE

    by Bob Gibbons ...
    Written by well-known naturalists and photographers, this guide will enable the easy identification of around 1,000 of the more common insects found in the region. The carefully chosen selection represents all insect groups, with a bias towards the more prominent species, so that all the butterflies, grasshoppers, crickets, damselflies and dragonflies occurring in Britain have been included. Over ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Catastrophe 1914

    Europe Goes to War

    by Max Hastings ...
    From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles—the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg—that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches.In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a conflict different from the familiar one of barbed wire, mud and futility. He traces the path to ... Read more

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  • The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia

    by Michael Braby ...
    As fascinating as they are beautiful, butterflies are a pleasure to watch and an important group of invertebrates to study. This second edition of the award-winning book The Complete Field Guide to Butterflies of Australia is a fully updated guide to all butterfly species on Australia's mainland and remote islands. Written by one of Australia's leading lepidopterists, the book is stunningly ... Read more

    $28.09 USD