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“jonathan bastable”

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  • Voices from D-Day

    by Jonathan Bastable ...
    D-Day - June 6, 1944 - was a pivotal day in human history. This was the great turning point of the Second World War, when the largest armada ever assembled took a third of a million Allied men across the English Channel.The invasion force of 150,000 troops from Britain, the United States, Canada and many other nations fighting on the Allied side on D-Day under the command of Generals Eisenhower ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices from Stalingrad

    First-hand Accounts from World War II's Cruellest Battle

    by Jonathan Bastable ...
    This history of the pivotal WWII Battle of Stalingrad reveals newly translated firsthand accounts from Russian and German soldiers as well as civilians.In August of 1942, the German Army and Axis Powers invaded the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. The ensuing battle was one of the most protracted and bitterly fought conflicts of the Second World War. More than five months later, Germany was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside Pepys' London

    by Jonathan Bastable ...
    Journey to the seventeenth century and a dramatic period of political upheaval, plague, and fire, with this "vivid portrait of Restoration England" ( History Today).Inside Pepys' London reveals a vivid picture of London at a critical point in history, as it was poised to become a major center of international commerce and culture. It provides accounts of all aspects of contemporary life, from the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 21st-Century Novel

    Notes from the Edinburgh World Writers' Conference

    Edited by Jonathan Bastable ...

    $25.99 USD

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  • Soldiers

    A Global History of the Fighting Man, 1800–1945

    by John A Haymond ...
    A global study of how soldiers lived, worked, and fought, and how many died, spanning from the Napoleonic War to World War II.No matter the war, no matter the army, no matter the nationality, common threads run through the experiences of men at war. Soldiers highlights these shared experiences across 150 years of warfare, from the Napoleonic Wars through World War II and everything in between, ... Read more

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  • 1920

    A Year of Global Turmoil

    by David Charlwood ...
    "History writing at its best . . . teasing out extraordinary parallels between our current world and that of a century ago." —Tim Butcher, author of Blood RiverA pandemic has killed millions. Violent uprisings are tearing apart the Middle East. Nationalism is on the march in Europe. An unlikely candidate is running for president in the US on a populist platform to put "America first." The year is ... Read more

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  • Dunkirk: Nine Days That Saved An Army

    A Day-by-Day Account of the Greatest Evacuation

    by John Grehan ...
    The epic of Dunkirk has been told many times, but the numerous accounts from surviving soldiers and sailors were often a blur of fear and fighting with the days mingling into each other, leaving what is, at times, a confusing picture. In this book, adopting a day by day approach, the author provides a clear portrayal of the unfolding drama on the perimeter around Dunkirk, in the port itself and ... Read more

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  • The Allies

    Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II

    by Winston Groom ...
    Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly different Allied leaders--aligned to win World War II and created a new world order.By the end of World War II, 59 nations were arrayed against the axis powers, but three great Allied leaders--Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Waterloo Battlefield Guide

    by David Buttery ...
    Much of the material available to readers in the English language interested in the exploits of the troops of Hanover, Brunswick and Nassau is in the form of dry official reports, which stick to the basic facts and avoid all sentimentality and emotion. However, unbeknown to virtually anyone in the English-speaking world interested in the more human aspects of these 'foreign' troops fighting ... Read more

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  • Shooting Vietnam

    The War By Its Military Photographers

    by Dan Brookes, Bob Hillerby ...
    Discover what it was like to be amidst the action as a military photographer during the Vietnam War.Shooting Vietnam takes you there as you read the firsthand accounts and view the hundreds of photographs by men who lived the war through the lens of a camera. From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, they documented everything from the horror of combat to the people and culture of a land they ... Read more

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  • The Amritsar Massacre

    The British Empire's Worst Atrocity

    by Vanessa Holburn ...
    The history and impact of one of the most heinous acts of colonial repression suffered in British India—a massacre that continues to divide opinion today.The shocking massacre of 379 unarmed Indians in the enclosed Jallianwala Bagh park on the command of a British army officer on April 13th, 1919 is considered a brutal example of colonial abuse. Immediately afterwards martial law was established ... Read more

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  • The Roots of Ireland's Troubles

    by Robert Stedall ...
    The author of Elizabeth I's Secret Lover " places Ireland into a much wider context and takes it beyond the simplistic Catholic v Protestant dichotomy" ( The British Empire Blog ).Over the course of three decades in the late twentieth century, Northern Ireland was embroiled in the Troubles, a conflict characterized by the violent and bitter struggle between nationalists and unioni... ... Read more

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