Retreat: Dunkirk and the Evacuation of Western Europe. On 26 May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave the order for Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of British troops from the harbour and beaches of Dunkirk. In Operation Cyc
Osprey Publishing. In March 1918 the Germans had successfully pushed the frontline to within 120km of Paris
The 1960s was the last decade of what might be called the traditional London docks scene. As the new ships appeared they were a little bigger and a little faster, but otherwise little different from their predecessors of an earlier genera
With an accessible, easy-to-read style, Southern Region in the 1950s: Year by Year acts as a wonderful guide for new readers, as well as the experienced enthusiast. Touching on a variety of ideas and themes that dominated the decade, incl
Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur was one of the most important rulers in the history of Morocco, which to this day bears the mark of his twenty-five year rule in the sixteenth century. Garcia-Arenal places this fascinating figure in a context of po
One way or another the Romans spent quite a lot of time in bed, in between conquering and civilising the known world. In Bed with the Romans takes the clothes off Roman society to reveal the truth about sex and sexuality. All manner of se
When the First World War broke out in 1914, the civilian population of Britain was exhorted to carry on with their normal lives by the slogan 'Business, as usual. This book looks at the ways children's lives in Britain were affected and i
Messines to Carrick Hill: Writing Home from the Great War. By contextualising and expanding the content of Wall's letters and setting them within the entrenched battle zone of the Messines Ridge, Burke offers a unique insight into
Crossing the Threshold: The History of Marriage Equality.
Richard III: from Lord of the North to King of England. Richard III is a paradox - the most hated of English kings, yet the most beloved, a deeply pious man, yet materialistic to the point of obsession, puritan, yet the father of a
Taj Mahal Foxtrot, at its heart, is a history of Bombay in swing time. In a decade, swing found its way onto the streets of India. They include the burly African-American pianist Teddy Weatherford; the Goan trumpet player Frank Fernand, whose ep
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis. The result is a new social tapestry-The Empathic Civilization-woven from a wide range of fields. Do we have the capacity and collective will to come
Drawing on a wealth of rare documents from archives in India, the UK and the USA, as well as interviews with the few remaining, now very elderly figures in the 1930s Mysore asana revival, Yoga Body turns the conventional wisdom about yoga
Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. Originally published in 1982 and updated in 1996, The Discovery of Insulin has won the City of Toronto Book Award, the Jason Hannah Medal of the Royal Society of Canada, and th
So You Think You Know Rock and Roll?: An In-Depth Q&A Tour of the Revolutionary Decade 1965-1975.
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The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences can still be seen within burlesque and steampunk fashions. It examines both high fashion imp
Those readers who have an interest in contemporary history will then have within their easy reach a reference to data which if frequently referred to, are rarely made explicit in historical works, to which The British Tommy brings but a complime
Seleucid Coins: A Comprehensive Catalogue: Seleucus I Through Antiochus III: 1-2.
The Classic M1 Garand: An Ongoing Legacy for Shooters and Collectors. The only full-power, semiautomatic standard infantry rifle in existence during World War II, the M1 Garand remains the most popular high-powered target semiautomatic in
The reader's guide on this historical tour is Mike Loades. Mike has been handling swords most of his life, as a fight arranger, stuntman and historical weapons expert for TV and stage. He considers the sword as a functional weapon, work o
Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicit
Including numerous case studies from diverse societies and periods, Food in World History examines and focuses on: * how food was used to forge national identities in Latin America * the influence of Italian and Chinese Diaspora on the US
In Thomas Jefferson on Wine, John Hailman celebrates a founding father's lifelong interest in wine and provides unprecedented insight into Jefferson's character from this unique perspective. In both his personal and public lives,
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Atlante dei 25 giorni dall'appennino al fiume Po. I dettagliati testi, le oltre duecento fotografie - alcune delle quali mai pubblicate in precedenza - e i documenti a corredo permettono al lettore di seguire nei dettagli lo svolgersi degli avve
Il colosso di Nerone. Multilingue: Ricostruzione lenticolare interattiva del monumento sul fronte, notiziestoriche, info, QR code, didascalie in 2 lingue sul retro.
Newly discovered photographs are presented alongside classic images of the funeral train that have been seared into public consciousness from two previous iterations of the work: a 1999 limited-edition and the 2000 trade edition, both long out-of-print
Images from the Underworld: Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting. In 1979, a Kekchi Maya Indian accidentally discovered the entrance to Naj Tunich, a deep cave in the Maya Mountains of El Peten, G
