Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “derek hunt”
Skip side bar filters

  • Beyond the Legend

    Bill Speakman VC

    by Derek Hunt, John Mulholland ...
    Beyond the Legend is the authorised biography of William (Bill) Speakman,who was awarded one of only four Victoria Crosses for action in the Korean War. It covers his sometimes controversial life, from his childhood in Altrincham, Cheshire, to his later life in South Africa – about which little has been known previously. Authors Derek Hunt and John Mulholland also explore the myth of the 'beer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Achieving net zero dairy farming

    by Emeritus Professor John Webster, Emeritus Professor John Webster, Dr Mohammed Ramin, Dr Petra Fant, Dr Miroslav Joch, Dr Mariana Vadroňová, Dr C. Alan Rotz, Dr Curtis Dell, Professor António Monteiro, Dr Özdal Gökdal0, Dr Luis O. Tedeschi1, Dr Marcos I. Marcondes2, Dr Sushil Paudyal3, Dr André F. Brito4, Dr Hugo F. Monteiro5, Dr Anouk van Breukelen6, Dr Robin R. White7, Dr Pol Llonch Obiols8, Dr Fernando Estellés9, Professor John Newbold0, Dr Alice Rocha1, Professor Shabtai Bittman2, Dr Derek Hunt3, Dr Kirsten Hannam4, Dr Barbara Cade-Menun5, Dr Sigrid Kusch-Brandt6, Dr Susanne Wiesner7, Dr Shabda Gajbhiye8, Dr Laxmi Prasad9 ...
    Series Book 171 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    To meet the targets outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement, many countries are actively working towards reaching climate neutrality and achieving net zero by 2050. With the livestock sector estimated to contribute approximately 11-17% of global greenhouse gas emissions, more research and innovation is required to understand the cause of these emissions and how they can be reduced.Achieving net zero ... Read more

    $179.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Fighting Nazi Occupation

    British Resistance 1939–1945

    by Malcolm Atkin ...
    "Everyone knows about the Home Guard but what about the other Secret Intelligence Services (SIS and M16)? You can read about them in [this book]." — This EnglandWhen Winston Churchill made his "we shall never surrender" speech in 1940, he was speaking in the knowledge that Britain's Secret Intelligence Service was planning a civilian British resistance movement to mobilize after the country had ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paddy Mayne

    Lt Col Blair 'Paddy' Mayne, 1 SAS Regiment (The true story behind the hit TV show SAS Rogue Heroes)

    by Hamish Ross ...
    'The best biography I've read recently' – Colin Bateman, Sunday Independent'An excellent examination of Mayne… Ross corrects many of the myths about him that have flourished over the years' - History of War magazine'This welcome reassessment, officially backed and well-researched, sets the record straight' – Soldier Magazine'Paddy' Mayne was one of the mo... ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bullets, Bombs and Cups of Tea

    Further Voices of the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98

    by Ken Wharton ...
    This is Ken Wharton's second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles told again from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier.This book looks deeper into the conflict, utilising stories from new contributors providing revealing and long-forgotten stories of the troubles from the back streets of the Ardoyne to the bandit country of South Armagh. Ken Wharton - himself a former soldier - ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rogue Warrior of the SAS

    The Blair Mayne Legend

    by Martin Dillon, Roy Bradford ...
    More than half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving four DSOs, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur, and he pioneered tactics used today by the SAS and other special operations units worldwide.Rogue ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • VC Heroes - The True Stories Behind Every VC Winner Since World War Two

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    For a nation with a long and proud military tradition, one token stands above all the others as a mark of recognition for the ultimate acts of individual feats of arms: the Victoria Cross. Awarded for one reason alone - to mark extreme acts of great heroism by British and Commonwealth servicemen in the face of the enemy - it is unquestionably the hardest club in the world to gain entrance to. Its ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Park

    The Biography of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, GCB, KBE, MC, DFC, DCL

    by Vincent Orange ...
    "A fine biography of one of the war's greatest unsung heroes," Royal Air Force Commander Keith Park ( The Daily Telegraph)."If ever any one man won the Battle of Britain, he did. I don't believe it is realized how much that one man, with his leadership, his calm judgement and his skill, did to save not only this country, but the world." So wrote Marshal of the RAF Lord Tedder of Keith Park in 1947 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • VCs of the First World War: Somme 1916

    by Gerald Gliddon ...
    Series series VCs of the First World War
    The Battle of the Somme, which lasted from 1 July to 18 November 1916, is remembered as one of the most horrific and tragic battles of the First World War. On the first day alone nearly 19,000 British troops were killed – the greatest one-day loss in the history of the British Army. By November the death toll from the armies of Britain, France and Germany had risen to over a million. This book ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Victoria Cross Heroes

    by Michael Ashcroft ...
    This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material. VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action. The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all VCs ever awarded. He ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • VCs of the First World War: Arras and Messines 1917

    by Gerald Gliddon ...
    Series series VCs of the First World War
    For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The Allied objective after the bloody Battle of the Somme drew to a close in November 1916 was to decisively break through the German 'Hindenburg Line' and engage the numerically inferior German forces in a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Long Road to Changi

    by Peter Ewer ...
    How flawed planning, dysfunctional personalities and empirical arrogance took Australia down the long road to Changi.In the 1930s while war raged in Europe, Australians were assured by politicians that the country was safe as long as the Union Jack fluttered over 'Fortress Singapore'. the reality was so different: Britain, over-stretched and under threat, skimped on the forces it needed to hold ... Read more

    $6.99 USD