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  • Ypres

    Great Battles

    by Mark Connelly, Stefan Goebel ...
    Series series Great Battles
    In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own particular palette of values and imagery. It is now at the heart of First World War battlefield tourism, with much of it's economy devoted to ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Postcards from the Western Front

    Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War

    by Mark Connelly ...
    Series Book 17 - Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies
    Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated by British people, both during the First World War and in the twenty years following the Armistice.Mark Connelly’s definitive and engaging study of ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Quality ESL Programs

    An Administrator's Guide

    by Judith Simons, Mark Connelly ...
    This book is the first and only comprehensive guide for administrators building ESL programs. The guide provides insight into the development, administration, and evaluation of programs for ESOL students. It stresses the importance of facilitating policy decisions and creating a solid infrastructure for quality programming. The variety of integrated perspectives presented enables administrators to ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • We Can Take It!

    by Mark Connelly ...
    `We Can Take It!' shows that the British remember the war in a peculiar way, thanks to a mix of particular images and evidence. Our memory has been shaped by material which is completely removed from historical reality. These images (including complete inventions) have combined to make a new history. The vision is mostly cosy and suits the way in which the Britons conceive of themselves: dogged, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Celluloid War Memorials

    The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War

    by Mark Connelly ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Film History
    The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. This is both a work of cinema history and a study of the public’s memory of WW1.By the early twenties, the British film industry was struggling to cope with the power of Hollywood and government help was needed to guarantee ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • The British Army and the First World War

    by Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman, Mark Connelly ...
    Series series Armies of the Great War
    This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Saul Bellow

    A Literary Companion

    by Mark Connelly ...
    Series Book 14 - McFarland Literary Companions
    A three-time National Book Award for Fiction winner, Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is one of the most highly regarded American authors to emerge since World War II. His 60-year career produced 14 novels and novellas, two volumes of nonfiction, short story collections, plays and a book of collected letters.His 1953 breakthrough novel The Adventures of Augie March was followed by Seize the Day (1956), ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • George Orwell

    A Literary Companion

    by Mark Connelly ...
    Series Book 18 - McFarland Literary Companions
    George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most influential authors in the English language. His landmark novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have been translated into many foreign languages and inspired numerous stage and film adaptations. His well-known essays "A Hanging" and "Shooting an Elephant" are widely anthologized and often taught in college composition classes. The ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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    The Third Battle of Ypres

    by Peter H. Liddle ...
    Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and maritime dimensions of the battle, the politicians and manpower debates on the home front and it looks at the tactics employed, the weapons and equipment used, the experience of the British; German and indeed French soldiers. It looks ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Journeys End Battalion

    The 9th East Surrey in the Great War

    by Michael Lucas ...
    R.C. Sherriff, author of Journeys End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding of the conflict. Yet the story of his battalion has never been told in full until now. In The Journeys ... Read more

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  • Churchill and Orwell

    The Fight for Freedom

    by Thomas E. Ricks ...
    **A New York Times bestseller!A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.**Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by ... Read more

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