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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor peter doyle”
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  • Redcoats to Tommies

    The Experience of the British Soldier from the Eighteenth Century

    by Kevin Linch, Dr Michael Reeve, Dr Edward Gosling, Timothy Bowman, Adam Prime, Dr Eleanor O'Keeffe, Professor Ian Beckett, Dr Christina Welsch, Matthew Lord0, Dr Jacqueline Reiter1, Dr George Hay2, Professor Peter Doyle3, Robert Tildesley4, Dr Gavin Daly5 ...
    This book surveys and examines the history of Britain's soldiers from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It focuses on the lifecycle of a soldier, including enlistment and experience, and on identity, representations and place in society. It covers the diverse military forces of the British crown - the regular army, home defence forces, part-time soldiers, auxiliaries, officers, non ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • What Tommy Took to War

    1914–1918

    by Professor Peter Doyle, Chris Foster ...
    On the centenary of the Great War comes this poignant look at fifty objects never far from Tommy's side – official uniform, good-luck charms, phrasebooks, a sweetheart's letter, some unexpected and others more familiar. With sumptuous original photography and thoughtful text, this is life as the ordinary First World War soldier knew it. Inside front: What Tommy Took To War tells sobering, ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War

    by Professor Peter Doyle, Chris Foster ...
    Series Book 8 - Shire Collections
    In their companion volume to British Army Cap Badges of the First World War, authors Peter Doyle and Chris Foster present an overview of the main cap badges worn by the British Army during the Second World War, which continued the rich and varied tradition of British regimental insignia.This book describes and illustrates, for the first time in high quality full colour, the main types of cap badge ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • British Postcards of the First World War

    by Professor Peter Doyle ...
    Series Book 582 - Shire Library
    Illustrated with a wide range of postcards, this is a fascinating look into the response of the British people to the horrors of the war.Postcards sent by men on the front, and to them by their families, are among the most numerous, and most telling, surviving artefacts of the Great War. They tell us much about attitudes towards the war, and provide a great insight into men's lives, and into the ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • First World War Britain

    1914–1919

    by Professor Peter Doyle ...
    Series Book 14 - Shire Living Histories
    The First World War profoundly changed British society. The armed forces' need for mass recruitment saw the workforce severely depleted, with women stepping up to shoulder the burden; but nobody could ignore the social upheaval or the strains put upon daily life. With poverty a major issue at the outbreak of war, the extra wages put more food on the table for many families, in spite of rationing ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

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    London in the Twenty-First Century

    by Rowan Moore ...
    With a new introduction for the paperback.London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril.London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Wartime on the Railways

    by David Wragg ...
    From the American Civil War onwards, railways have been an important aspect of war. So important were the railways that in the First World War, the state took control of the railways, and then repeated this exercise in the Second World War. Wartime on the Railways describes the part played by Britain's railways during the Second World War, dealing not simply with operational matters or the impact ... Read more

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  • Bringing Uncle Albert Home

    A Soldier's Tale

    by David P Whithorn ...
    Private Albert Turley, was just an ordinary British soldier of the First World War. He died on the Somme for King and Country. He didn't win any medals for gallantry and has no known grave. Like thousands more soldiers, he left neither letters nor diaries from which to reconstruct his story.This is the story of one man's search for his distant relative, describing Private Turley's active service ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Posters of the First World War

    by David Bownes, Robert Fleming ...
    The First World War, a new low in the annals of armed conflict, coincided with a golden age for the relatively new art of advertising. Striking and colourful posters were produced throughout the years 1914–18 to recruit soldiers, promote investment, keep up morale and, naturally, to vilify the enemy; prominent artists including Alfred Leete paired bold images with punchy text to maximise impact. ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Ourselves and Others

    Scotland 1832-1914

    by Graeme Morton ...
    Series series New History of Scotland

    $27.99 USD

  • Flers & Gueudecourt

    Somme

    by Trevor Pidgeon ...
    Series series Battleground Europe
    Flers is of course best remembered for the first use of tanks in modern war. But the battles at Flers and Gueudecourt were also memorable as forming part of the last great advance of the British Army in this slogging match that was the Battle of the Somme in 1916. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Armed Struggle

    The History of the IRA

    by Richard English ...
    A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition.‘An essential book … closely-reasoned, formidably intelligent and utterly compelling … required reading across the political spectrum … important and riveting’ Roy Foster, The Times‘An ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

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