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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • Reconstruction beyond 150

    Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom

    by Arlisha Norwood, Mark Elliott, A. James Fuller, Nicolas Barreyre, Peter Wallenstein, Mari N. Crabtree, Troy D. Smith, Professor Don H. Doyle, PhD, David Moltke-Hansen, Krista Kinslow, J. Mills Thornton, Garry Bertholf, Marina Bilbija, Peter Eisenstadt, Lawrence T. McDonnell ...
    Series series A Nation Divided
    No period of United States history is more important and still less understood than Reconstruction. Now, at the sesquicentennial of the Reconstruction era, Vernon Burton and Brent Morris bring together the best new scholarship on the critical years after the Civil War and before the onset of Jim Crow, synthesizing social, political, economic, and cultural approaches to understanding this crucial ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • 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

    $26.99 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

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  • The Journeys End Battalion

    The 9th East Surrey in the Great War

    by Michael Lucas ...
    The history of the Great British regiment's World War I service that inspired an award-winning play.R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey's End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his frontline 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 ... 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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