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1917 The First World War in Photographs
Mud and Tanks
Av John Christopher, Campbell McCutcheon
Häftad, 2014
258 kr
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1917, the fourth year of the Great War, saw another year in the trenches for millions of troops mobilised in Europe. Apart from short patrols in the North Sea, the ships of the Royal Navy and Germany’s imperial navy remained in port. However, the enemy submarines were in operation intensively. In …
1942 The Second World War in Photographs
On the Offensive
Av John Christopher, Campbell McCutcheon
Häftad, 2015
258 kr
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1942 was the turning point of the war. In the words of Winston Churchill, it was ‘not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’In the Pacific the Japanese had been soundly defeated at the Battle of Midway, with the loss of four valuable and …
1918 The First World War in Photographs
End Game
Av John Christopher, Campbell McCutcheon
Häftad, 2015
258 kr
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1918 was the fifth and final year of the Great War. With thousands of fresh American troops heading across the Atlantic to fight on the side of the Allies, Germany’s High Command knew it had to strike a decisive blow to turn the course of the war in its favour. With revolution in Russia a peace …
Port of Tilbury in the 60s and 70s
Häftad, 2013
198 kr
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The 1960s saw a gradual movement of shipping from central London and the quays, wharves and docks of the upper River Thames down river to Tilbury and Harwich. There was a managed closure of the dock system west of Tilbury and between the early 1970s and 1980s, the Surrey Commercial, India & …
Locomotives of the Highland Railway
Av John Christopher, Campbell McCutcheon
Häftad, 2014
187 kr
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Formed from the merger of the Inverness & Aberdeen Junction and the Inverness & Perth Junction railways in 1865, the Highland ran from Perth in Central Scotland north to Inverness and then on up to Wick and Thurso. From Dingwall it ran west to Kyle of Lochalsh to serve Skye and the Western Isles. …
Ships of Scapa Flow
Häftad, 2013
181 kr
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The islands surrounding Scapa Flow made one of Britain's best natural harbours, while the location at the north of Scotland protected the approaches to the North Sea and Atlantic. The naval base was important during both wars but what makes Scapa Flow famous is its wrecks, the remains of a German …
Bradshaw's Guide Scotland's Railways East Coast Berwick to Aberdeen & Beyond
Volume 6
Av John Christopher, Campbell McCutcheon
Häftad, 2014
176 kr
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Bradshaw’s Guide of 1863 was the staple book to what’s what and where’s where for the mid-Victorians and it gives the modern reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century travellers. The railways themselves opened up Scotland properly to tourism for the first time, and many …
How to Fly a Battle of Britain Fighter
Spitfire, Messerschmitt, Hurricane
Häftad, 2014
145 kr
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Find out how a pilot was instructed in flying a Battle of Britain fighter, using the original Pilot's Notes for the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane, as well as Air Ministry flying notes on captured Messerschmitt Bf 109s. See how each compares, view their cockpits and learn how they fly. …
Bradshaw's Guide The Railways of Ireland
Volume 8
Av John Christopher, Campbell McCutcheon
Häftad, 2015
198 kr
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Bradshaw’s Guide of 1863 was the staple book on what’s what and where’s where for the mid-Victorians and it gives the modern reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century railway travellers. Built primarily to provide a passenger service, the railways of Ireland would go on to …
Infantry Training: The National Serviceman's Handbook
Häftad, 2023
185 kr
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Conscription, a feature of the British Army in wartime, did not cease with the end of the Second World War. For almost another two decades, men were conscripted for National Service and two years in the armed forces.For many it brought some discipline to their lives, for others, they got to see the …
St Kilda A Journey to the End of the World
Häftad, 2008
201 kr
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Using a unique series of images, many taken on the island of Hirta, the route is traced through the Western Isles and takes in Coll, Tiree, Skye, North and South Uist and St Kilda itself. The album itself was found in a Bristol antiques fair and the author collected another 40 or so period images …
Port of Southampton
Häftad, 2008
214 kr
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'Port of Southampton' is the story of the Hampshire port from Roman times to the present day, illustrated by a colelction of images showing everything from seaman's strikes to shipwrecks, the Titanic and Queen Mary, as well as the other famous ocean liners that have called at the port since the …
Thames Shipping in the 1960s and 1970s
Häftad, 2013
198 kr
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At one point London had one of the largest dock systems in the world, and certainly one of the busiest. From Gravesend and Tilbury all the way to the Pool of London, the sides of the river were crowded with ships, with large dock systems full of ships loading and unloading their cargoes. Passenger …
Elders and Fyffes
Häftad, 2008
150 kr
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Ubiquitous in ever supermarket and corner shop, it is hard to imagine a world without bananas. But it was once so! Britain's love affair with the humble banana is as much the story of Elders & Fyffes, a company set up to import the golden fruit into the United Kingdom. Originally, British imports …
Protect and Survive: The Home Office Civil Defence Manual of Basic Training
Häftad, 2007
125 kr
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The end of the Second World War heralded the start of a new war. It was the war in name only, fought out by the superpowers through propaganda, and using smaller nations as pawns in the military build-up that became known as the Cold War. New and chilling phrases entered the vocabulary - mutually …
Blitzkrieg
The Second World War in Colour
Häftad, 2014
301 kr
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Colour photography was a rare thing in the 1930s. Various systems of colour photography had been tried, including Dufaycolour and Kodachrome but the processes were time consuming and difficult to process. The Germans had developed Agfacolor, which was state of the art for the time and easily …
Titanic and Her Sisters
A Postcard History
Av Janette McCutcheon, Campbell McCutcheon
Häftad, 2014
304 kr
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In 1908, the White Star Line announced it was constructing a pair of sister ships at the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast. The new behemoths would dwarf even the largest ships of the time, being fully one-third larger than any ship afloat. They would also be the most sumptuous vessels built to date, …
