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  • A Salute to One of 'The Few'

    The Life of Flying Officer Peter Cape Beauchamp St John RAF

    by Simon St. John Beer ...
    A poignant biography of a pilot who made the ultimate sacrifice in World War II.In a quiet churchyard is the grave of an airman who lost his life fighting in the skies over southern England in October 1940. The author happened to come across this grave, and after some initial inquiries discovered that nobody in the town was aware that this Battle of Britain pilot lay at rest in their parish ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Coleridge: Poems

    Introduction by John Beer

    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was the master impresario of English Romanticism -- an enormously erudite and tireless critic, lecturer, and polemicist who almost single-handedly created the intellectual climate in which the Romantic movement was received and understood. He was also, in poems such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,' 'Christabel,' and 'Kubla Khan.' the most uncanny, surreal, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    An inspiring collection from the great Romantic and Lakeland poet

    by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
    Series series The Great Poets
    One of the highly praised Lakeland poets, alongside his friend William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a founder of the Romantic movement in England. His work - still popular today - includes such classics as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan as well as the beautiful early poem Frost at Midnight: 'Or if the secret ministry of frost, Shall hang them up in silent icicles, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Arthur Hugh Clough

    by Arthur Hugh Clough ...
    Poems of religious doubt and closely-observed uncertainties, expressing the wants and feelings of man and women everywhere. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Romanticism, Revolution and Language

    The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot

    by John Beer ...
    The repercussions of the French Revolution included erosion of many previously held certainties in Britain, as in the rest of Europe. Even the authority of language as a cornerstone of knowledge was called into question and the founding principles of intellectual disciplines challenged, as Romantic writers developed new ways of expressing their philosophy of the imagination and the human heart. ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Ecosystem Services from Agriculture and Agroforestry

    Measurement and Payment

    Edited by Jean Francois Le Coq, Bruno Rapidel, John Beer, Fabrice DeClerck ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecosystem Services
    Agricultural systems are no longer evaluated solely on the basis of the food they provide, but also on their capacity to limit impacts on the environment, such as soil conservation, water quality and biodiversity conservation, as well as their contribution to mitigating and adapting to climate change. In order to cope with these multiple service functions, they must internalize the costs and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Arnhem 1944

    The Human Tragedy of the Bridge Too Far

    by Dilip Sarkar ...
    The airborne battle for the bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem ranks amongst the Second World Wars most famous actions inspiring innumerable books and the star-studded 1977 movie. This book, however, is unique: deeply moved, the author provides a fresh narrative and approach concentrating on the tragic stories of individual casualties.These men were killed at different junctures in the fighting, ... Read more

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  • A Bomber Crew Mystery

    The Forgotten Heroes of 388th Bombardment Group

    by David Price ...
    An antique trophy inspires a quest to uncover the history of an outstanding crew of WWII airmen who first flew into combat on D-Day.After discovering a discarded trophy in an Edinburgh antique shop, author David Price endeavored to tell the stories of the men whose names had been engraved upon it. Praised as 'Outstanding Crew of the Month', the members of 388th Bombardment Group set out on their ... Read more

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  • Who Killed Kitchener?

    The Life and Death of Britain's most famous War Minister

    by David Laws ...
    In June 1916, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener set sail from Orkney on a secret mission to bolster the Russian war effort. Just a mile off land and in the teeth of a force 9 gale, HMS Hampshire suffered a huge explosion, sinking in little more than fifteen minutes. Crew and passengers numbered 749; only twelve survived. Kitchener's body was never found.Remembered today as the face of the famous First ... Read more

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  • The Final Advance, September to November 1918

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    Series series British Expeditionary Force
    This is the story the British Expeditionary Forces part in the final days of the Advance to Victory. It starts with the massive offensive against the Hindenburg Line at the end of September 1918. Second Army launched the first of the British attacks in Flanders on the 28th, followed by Fourth Army the next day along the St Quentin Canal.Both First and Third Armies joined in, breaking the ... Read more

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  • Alastair Denniston

    Code-Breaking from Room 40 to Berkeley Street and the Birth of GCHQ

    by Joel Greenberg ...
    "The expertly researched biography of the man who created and led the British intelligence organization best known for cracking the Nazi's codes." — Midwest Book ReviewSome of the individuals who played key roles in the success of Bletchley Park in reading the secret communications of Britain's enemies during the Second World War have become well-known figures. However, the man who created and led ... Read more

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  • The Longest Year

    America at War and at Home in 1944

    by Victor Brooks ...
    The D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe, launched on June 6, 1944, is widely referred to as the longest day of World War Two. Historian Victor Brooks argues that 1944 was, in effect, the longest year” for Americans of that era, both in terms of United States casualties and in deciding the outcome of war itself.Brooks also argues that only the particular war events of 1944 could have produced ... Read more

    $12.99 USD