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  • The Road to Dunkirk

    The British Expeditionary Force and the Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal, 1940

    by Charles More ...
    "A detailed and fascinating account" of a little known WWII showdown in Belgium between the British Expeditionary Force and the German army ( Barnsley Chronicle).This is an important reassessment of a critical period in the British Expeditionary Force's fight against the German armies invading France in 1940. On May 25, Lord Gort, the British commander, took the decision to move 5th Division north ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skill and the English Working Class, 1870–1914

    by Charles More ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, Skill and the English Working Class, 1870–1914 investigates the nature of work and the significance of skill in industrial manual labour during late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. The book places particular emphasis on apprenticeship while also examining industries like steelmaking, which required skill but did not employ apprentices. Additionally, it ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Britain in the Twentieth Century

    by Charles More ...
    In a century of rapid social change, the British people have experienced two world wars, the growth of the welfare state and the loss of Empire.Charles More looks at these and other issues in a comprehensive study of Britains political, economic and social history throughout the twentieth century. This accessible new book also engages with topical questions such as the impact of the Labour party ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • From Arromanches to the Elbe

    Marcus Cunliffe and the 144th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps 1944–1945

    by Charles More ...
    A scholarly exploration of the British armoured regiment and its part in the Allied campaign to liberate Europe during World War II.On June 14, 1944, the tanks of the 144th Regiment Royal armored Corps disembarked on Gold Beach during the Normandy landings. A long and bitter campaign began, taking them across Northwest Europe into the heart of Germany.During that advance the regiment took part in ... Read more

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  • Margaret Thatcher

    The Autobiography

    by Margaret Thatcher ...
    Published in a single volume for the first time, Margaret Thatcher is the story of her remarkable life told in her own words--the definitive account of an extraordinary woman and consummate politician, bringing together her bestselling memoirs The Downing Street Years and The Path to Power.Margaret Thatcher is the towering political figure of late-twentieth-century Great Britain. No other prime ... Read more

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  • Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    Series Book 6 - Winston S. Churchill Biography
    The sixth volume in the official biography: "A milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievement" (Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War).Starting with the outbreak of war in September 1939 and ending with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, this volume in the epic biography of Winston S. Churchill draws on remarkably diverse material: from the War Cabinet and other ... Read more

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  • Hell in Flanders Fields

    Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres

    by George H. Cassar ...
    On 22 April 1915, the men of the 1st Canadian Division faced chlorine gas, a new lethal weapon against which they had no defence. In defiance of a particularly horrible death, or, at the very least, severe lung injury, these untested Canadians fought almost continuously for four days, often hand-to-hand, as they clung stubbornly against overwhelming odds to a vital part of the Allied line after ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • OCR A Level History: Britain 1930–1997

    by Mike Wells, Nicholas Fellows ...
    Series series OCR A Level History
    Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resource.Build strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the in-depth analysis and structured support in this tailor-made series for OCR's British period studies and enquiries.- Develo... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Passchendaele Campaign, 1917

    by Andrew Rawson ...
    Series series British Expeditionary Force
    This is an account of the British Expeditionary Forces battles in the summer and autumn of 1917. It begins with the Allied plan to free up the Flanders coast, to limit German naval and submarine attacks on British shipping.The opening offensive began with the detonation of nineteen mines on 7 June and ended with the capture of the Messines Ridge. The main offensive started with success on 31 July ... Read more

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  • The Empire Project

    The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970

    by John Darwin ...
    The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial project. The British Empire, he argues, was much more than a group of colonies ruled over by a scattering of British expatriates until eventual independence. It was, above all, a global phenomenon. Its ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • The Battle for France

    Six Weeks That Changed The World

    by Philip Warner ...
    "Provides a fresh and invaluable explanation of the military and political events of that extraordinary campaign." — Scale Military Modeller InternationalAfter the long winter of the Phoney War, the invasion of the Low Countries and France by Hitler's rampaging armies threw the world into crisis. Chamberlain's government fell, Churchill became Prime Minister. France was humiliated, the British ... Read more

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  • Retreat & Rearguard: Dunkirk 1940

    The Evacuation of the BEF to the Channel Ports

    by Jerry Murland ...
    The dramatic story of how a quarter million men were evacuated from the coast of France—and how the British Expeditionary Force fought on.This book, part of the Retreat and Rearguard series, covers the actions of the BEF during the retreat from the Dyle Line to the evacuation points of Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais, Saint-Valery-en-Caux, and finally the Cherbourg Peninsula.Some of the engagements are ... Read more

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