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  • Beyond the Checkride: Flight Basics Your Instructor Never Taught You, Second Edition

    by Howard Fried, Gene Gailey ...
    THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE FOR NEW PILOTS--FULLY UPDATED!Covering the latest FAA regulations, Beyond the Checkride, Second Edition, is packed with invaluable lessons learned by trial and error based on the real-life experiences of hundreds of pilots. Originally written by legendary flight instructor Howard Fried and thoroughly revised by veteran pilot Gene Gailey, this practical resource takes you, step ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The War Went On

    Reconsidering the Lives of Civil War Veterans

    by Rebecca Howard, Zachery Fry, Jonathan Neu, Sarah Handley-Cousins, Angela M. Riotto, Kurt Hackemer, Tyler Sperrazza, Steven E. Sodergren, Matthew Norman, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, Kelly Mezurek, Adam H. Domby, Jonathan A. Noyalas ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    In recent years, Civil War veterans have emerged from historical obscurity. Inspired by recent interest in memory studies and energized by the ongoing neorevisionist turn, a vibrant new literature has given the lie to the once-obligatory lament that the postbellum lives of Civil War soldiers were irretrievable. Despite this flood of historical scholarship, fundamental questions about the essential ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • How Australia Became British

    Empire and the China Trade

    by Howard T. Fry ...
    Australia's tale of discovery, colonization and eventual settlement by the British is fraught with conflict. Wilson's discovery of the Eastern Passage, in 1759, was the event that opened up the South China Sea to burgeoning European trade. The political situation, however, was difficult. The Seven Years’ War followed by the American War had created great friction between Europe’s rival imperial ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Tree of Souls

    The Mythology of Judaism

    by Howard Schwartz ...
    The first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, Tree of Souls reveals a mythical tradition as rich and as fascinating as any in the world. Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz has gathered together nearly 700 of the key Jewish myths. The myths ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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  • All the Countries We've Ever Invaded

    And the Few We Never Got Round To

    by Stuart Laycock ...
    Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That's not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the Soviets. You can be fairly sure a lot more Iranians do. Or what about the time we arrived with elephants to invade Ethiopia? Every summer, hordes ... Read more

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  • Singapore - The Battle that Changed the World

    by James Leasor ...
    When Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, it was a devastating blow to the Allies, the British Empire and signalled a significant turning point in history. James Leasors story begins as far back as the early nineteenth century, with imperialism and the settlement founded by Sir Stamford Raffles. He charts the years leading up to Singapores defeat and the realisation that the West ... Read more

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  • The Boer Wars - A Brief History

    A Brief History, #1

    by Andrew Knight ...
    Series Book 1 - A Brief History
    The Anglo-Boer Wars will introduce you to, one of the Victorian Wars of the British Empire. A bite size comprehensive account of the two Anglo-Boer Wars fought between 1880-1881 and 1899-1902. A fascinating tale of one of the bloodiest and expensive wars for over a century, which pitted the two Boer Republics of South Africa (Orange Free State and The Transvaal) against the might of the British ... Read more

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  • British Battles of the Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1806

    Edited by John Grehan, Martin Mace ...
    Series Book 1 - Despatches from the Front
    The Napoleonic Wars was truly a world-wide conflict and Britain found itself engaged in battles, sieges and amphibious operations around the globe. Following every battle the commanding officer submitted a report back to the Admiralty or the War Office. Presented here together for the first time are those original despatches from some forty generals, captains and admirals detailing more than ... Read more

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  • Britain's Empire

    Resistance, Repression and Revolt

    by Richard Gott ...
    A magisterial history of resistance to the rising of the British empireAs the call for a new understanding of our national history grows louder, Britain’s Empire turns the received imperial story on its head. Richard Gott recounts the long-overlooked narrative of resisters, revolutionaries and revolters who stood up to the might of the Empire. In a story of almost continuous colonialist violence, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Invasion

    From The Armada to Hitler (1588-1945)

    by Frank McLynn ...
    Most people know that Britain was invaded by the Romans, by the Vikings and by the Normans. Many will know about the Spanish Armada, launched by Philip II in 1588 to bring Protestant England to submission. But fewer people know that Philip launched a second armada in 1596 or that invasion plans were drawn up by the French in 1692, 1708, 1743, 1756, 1759, 1796 and 1801, and by the French together ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Culloden

    Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire

    by Trevor Royle ...
    The Battle of Culloden has gone down in history as the last major battle fought on British soil: a vicious confrontation between Scottish forces supporting the Stuart claim to the throne and the English Royal Army. But this wasn't just a conflict between the Scots and the English, the battle was also part of a much larger campaign to protect the British Isles from the growing threat of a French ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • 100 Great Military Leaders

    History's Greatest Masters of Warfare

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Beginning with Leonides of Sparta, who died at Thermopylae in 480 b.c.e., and ending with General Giap, a Vietnamese leader; Moshe Dayan, commander of the Israeli Defense Force during the 1967 Six-Day War; and Colin Powell, 100 Great Military Leaders provides an informative overview of the careers and battles of one hundred military commanders and their places in history. Divided by eras, the ... Read more

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