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“andrew atteridge”

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  • A History of the Telegraph in France

    by Walter Lodian, Andrew Atteridge ...
    "In the year 1802, when Napoleon was first consul, there arrived in Paris two artisans of Poitiers. One of these men, Jean Alexandre, had invented a rudimentary form of the electric telegraph, and, with his friend Beauvais, he had left the little country town full of high hopes to submit his discovery to the great soldier who was then guiding the destinies of France. He requested a personal ... Read more

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    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Under cover of the bombardment, the Germans blew gaps in the wire and cleared paths through the minefield. By the following morning, they had established a hole through the outer defences a mile and a half wide and taken more than 100 prisoners. Their charismatic leader, the dynamic Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, was the most highly respected German general of World War II.Read about the daring ... Read more

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  • Dutch Light

    Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

    by Hugh Aldersey-Williams ...
    'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' – Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.****' – Literary ReviewFilled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens’s remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than th... ... Read more

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  • Letters from Verdun

    Frontline Experiences of an American Volunteer in World War I France

    by William C Harvey, Eric T Harvey ...
    The dramatic experiences of an ambulance driver in the Great War, told through personal correspondence and photographs.Though the United States was late to enter the Great War, a number of idealistic young Americans wished to take part from the beginning. One of these was Avery Royce Wolf, a highly educated scion of a family in America's burgeoning industrial heartland.Volunteering as an ambulance ... Read more

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  • A Soldier’s Tale: Albert Money at the Battle of Aubers Ridge, May, 1915

    Leadership, #10

    by David Tuffley ...
    Series Book 10 - Leadership
    I present this first hand account by my maternal grandfather, Private Albert Money (5537), of the King's Royal Rifles. The cover photo was taken November 1917 after spending several hospitalised years in France, Britain, and Australia, recuperating from his wounds, hence the Australian, not British Army uniform.Albert was born around 1885, a younger son of a Northamptonshire farming family in ... Read more

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  • Generalship

    Its Diseases and Their Cure

    by J. F. C. Fuller ...
    Major-General J.F.C. Fuller has been called “the most brilliant, most stimulating, and most arrogant and aggravating military writer of the twentieth century.” This book helped end his military career, for in it he presents a devastating critique of the decline of Western military thought, and in particular of the collapse of active leadership. He dates this to the end of the American Civil War, ... Read more

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  • The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755

    by Chris Hand ...
    Series Book 3 - New Brunswick Military Heritage Series
    Almost since Champlain's men first settled on St. Croix Island in 1604, the French and the English fought for control of Acadia, a huge area consisting of today's Maritime Provinces and parts of Quebec and Maine. The British assault on Fort Beauséjour in 1755 was the final act in this long struggle. The frontier between the two imperial powers lay along the Chignecto Isthmus, the neck of low, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Back to Basics

    The Education You Wish You'd Had

    by Caroline Taggart ...
    Don't know Midas from Oedipus? Wouldn't recognize a concerto from a sonata? Many of us wish that we could fill in the gaps in our education in order to avoid those embarrassing situations when we feel as if we don't know things that others do. In Back to Basics, bestselling author Caroline Taggart will provide readers with the opportunity to learn really useful stuff that was never taught in ... Read more

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  • The Vauban Fortifications of France

    by Paddy Griffith ...
    Series Book 42 - Fortress
    An illustrated history of the designs of Vauban, the foremost military engineer of France throughout the 18th century.Indeed, his expertise and experience in the construction, defence, and attack of fortresses is unrivalled by any of his contemporaries, of any nationality. In all three of those fields he was a significant innovator and prolific exponent, having planned approximately 160 major ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Fortifications of Verdun 1874–1917

    by Clayton Donnell ...
    Series Book 103 - Fortress
    Featuring illustrations throughout, this concise volume explores the development of the fortress of Verdun and the climactic battle that took place around it.The ring of fortifications protecting the city of Verdun on the Meuse River would become critical in the infamous battle of World War I. This book examines these fortifications, including the famous forts of Douaumont and Vaux that saw some ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Flags of the Napoleonic Wars (1)

    Colours, Standards and Guidons of France and her Allies

    by Terence Wise ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    In the summer of 1804, the eagle was chosen as the symbol of the French Army by Napoleon himself.The Emperor's sculptor, Chaudet, made the original model, and from this were cast bronze copies in the workshop of Thomire, which would be proudly borne into battle by many a French regiment. This fascinating work by Terence Wise explores in depth the flags, colours and guidons of the Napoleonic wars, ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Flags of the Napoleonic Wars (3)

    Anhalt, Kleve-Berg, Brunswick, Denmark, Finland, Hanover, Hesse, The Netherlands, Mecklenburg, Nassau, Portugal, Reuss, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland & Westphalia

    by Terence Wise ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    The third of three volumes examining the flags of the Napoleonic Wars (Men-at-Arms 77, 78 & 115).Terence Wise details colours, standards and guidons of Anhalt, Kleve-Burg, Brunswick, Denmark, Finland, Hanover, Hesse, the Netherlands, Mecklenburg, Nassau, Portugal, Reuss, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland & Westphalia.Ideal for vexillology enthusiasts, the text contains a plethora of illustrations ... Read more

    $12.99 USD