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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

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 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

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  • 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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    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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  • Marine!

    The Life of Chesty Puller

    by Burke Davis ...
    The gripping story of an extraordinary American hero, the most decorated man in US Marine Corps history, from a New York Times–bestselling author."We are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away from us now!" —Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMCIn the glorious chronicles of the US Marine Corps, no name is more revered than that of Lt. Gen. Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller. ... Read more

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  • SAS Zero Hour

    The Secret Origins of the Special Air Service

    by Tim Jones, Rannulph Fiennes ...
    The historian and author of Postwar Counterinsurgency and the SAS reveals the full story of how the Special Air Service Regiment began during WWII.Britain's elite Special Air Service Regiment is one of the most revered special-ops units in the world. Its high-profile operations include the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980 and the hunt for Osama bin Laden in southern Afghanistan ... Read more

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  • Double Cross in Cairo

    The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East

    by Nigel West ...
    As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in World War Two. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy-ring in North Africa and the Middle East. But, most remarkably, it was entirely fictitious. This network of imagined informants peddled dangerously false misinformation to Levi's ... Read more

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  • Invasion Diary

    A Dramatic Firsthand Account of the Allied Invasion of Italy

    by Richard Tregaskis ...
    A dramatic and richly detailed chronicle of the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy from one of America's greatest war correspondents.Following the defeat of Axis forces in North Africa, Allied military strategists turned their attention to southern Italy. Winston Churchill famously described the region as the "soft underbelly of Europe," and claimed that an invasion would pull German troops from ... Read more

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  • First to Fly

    The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, the American Heroes Who Flew for France in World War I

    by Charles Bracelen Flood ...
    "The compelling story of the squadron of adventurous young American pilots who were among the first to engage in air combat." — Tampa Bay TimesIn First to Fly, lauded historian Charles Bracelen Flood draws on rarely seen primary sources to tell the story of the daredevil Americans of the Lafayette Escadrille, who flew in French planes, wore French uniforms, and showed the world an American brand ... Read more

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