Biography: historical, political and military

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"e;A bikers war-compellingly recounted"e;The highly dangerous task of the aide-de-camp was often to carry urgent despatches with essential calls to action across the field of battle.

"e;The padre of the 86th Brigade, 29th Division, gives an account of his experiences at Gallipoli where he landed on 25th April 1915 to his evacuation on medical grounds on 12th August.

More than any other battle of the First World War, the battle of the Somme remains as the abiding memory of the appalling conditions, suffering and death of British manhood in the public consciousness.

'Autobiography of a Yogi' introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West.

Illustrated with a number of photographs from the French Front Lines in and around Verdun.

A Heart For Imbabura: The Story of Evelyn Rychner is about persecution, romance, celebrationof the life and ministry of Evelyn Rychner, missionary to Ecuador, has it all.

Sir John Slessor was one of the twentieth century's most distinguished wartime commanders and incisive military thinkers, and William Pyke's comprehensive new biography reveals how he earned this remarkable reputation.

Plutarch''s Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch''s Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings.

"e;It is now seven weeks since the dispatches from Paris reported that Stuart Walcott was attacked by three German airplanes and brought down behind the German lines, after he himself had brought down a German plane in his first combat on December 12, 1917, and that it was feared he had been killed; but even now, after the lapse of nearly two months, it is not definitely known whether his fall proved fatal, or whether the earnest hope of his friends that he is still alive may be realized.

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A Short but very valuable memoir from a future General of the American Army who faced his first baptism of first in the trenches of the First World War.

The renowned military correspondent of the Times Cyril Falls awarded this memoir two of his coveted stars (of three stars possible) and described it as follows:"e;** - Paul Lintier, a young field artilleryman doing his service when war broke out, kept a journal until the 22nd September when he was wounded, which is among the finest documents of its kind ever published.

"e;THE letters on life and thought at the Front contained in this volume were all written in tents and billets within range, or sound, of the guns.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosOriginally published under the pseudonym "e;Platoon Commander"e; these excellent memoirs were written by the noted novelist Arthur F.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos'I think of you, as I shall think of you to the end, if the end comes.

If you want to learn about one of historys greatest military commanders and uncover some of his secrets of drivedrive that enabled him and his small army to first subdue all of Greece and then the mighty Persian Empirethen you want to read this book.

David Shaw sees himself as an Average Joe.

Includes Gallipoli Campaign Map and Illustrations Pack -71 photos and 31 maps of the campaign spanning the entire period of hostilities.

[Includes 4 maps and 3 figures]This latest Leavenworth Paper is a case study in the wartime evolution of tactical doctrine.

A veteran Non-Commissioned Officer tells of his experiences among the shells, wounded and diseases of the Egyptian Campaign of World War One.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosA fascinating history of the First World War seen through the eyes of a highly respected and connected War Correspondent.

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

Casanova was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice.

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

Mein Kampf is an autobiography of Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.

The role of an army chaplain in war is an exceptionally difficult job and particularly in the hellish lunar landscape of the trenches of the First World War.

Of the many weapons in the German arsenal during the First World War amongst the most effective were the silent undersea craft of the Kreigsmarine.

Denis Oliver Bartlett now lies in Poperinghe New Military Cemetery in Belgium, a bright young man who was cut down in his prime during the 1915: these letters home provide a lasting and fitting tribute to him.

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls.

In Frederick Douglass' autobiography 'My Bondage and My Freedom' we can see the power of literacy and belief.

Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack - 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photosE.

In Peril on the Sea is the story of missionary widow Ethel Bell and her childrenMary, 14, and Robert, 11uprooted by the war from their West African station, find themselves on a small freighter bound for America.

Beginning with Leonides of Sparta, who died at Thermopylae in 480 b.

'Once they are aroused, once they are determined, nothing on earth and nothing in heaven will make women give way; it is impossible.