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A British Home Child in Canada 2-Book Bundle
Marjorie Her War Years / Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2018
The biography of a British girl, split from her family by the British child migration program, learning to cope with her hard new life in Canada.
Marjorie Too Afraid to Cry — Book #1
In 1937, 10-year-old Marjorie Arnison was shipped from Britain to Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School near...
by Nick Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This essential guide provides a comprehensive survey of the most important debates in the criticism and research of contemporary British fiction. Nick Bentley analyses the criticism surrounding a range of British novelists including Monica Ali, Martin Amis, Pat Barker, Alan Hollinghurst, Kazuo Ishiguro,...
Modern British Food
Recipes from Parlour
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
A delightfully wacky, delicious, irresistible and witty collection of British classics with a twist and a turn, all based around the premise that food should fun for all and that flavour is the key to having a great time at the table.
Cow Pie – re-named and re-worked as Reindeer Pie at Christmas...
Literary Intellectuals
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is particularly true of the line in British...
Destructive and Formidable
British Infantry Firepower 1642-1756
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the British Army's victories over the French at battles such as Blenheim in 1704, Minden and Quebec in 1759, and over the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, were largely credited to its infantry's particularly effective and deadly firepower. For the first time,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Japan-British exhibition in London, 1910 was the most concerted and systematic attempt by Meiji Japan to explain its traditional society and arts, modern industry and empire, to its most important international ally, Great Britain. This is a facsimile edition of the original book compiled and...
Fit to Practice
Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven with the institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory...
by Major Stuart J. Archer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The IX Corps of the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) achieved a complete tactical surprise of the Turkish defenders with its landing on 6 August 1915. Yet, despite a huge superiority in resources and a ten-to-one advantage in men, the IX Corps failed to obtain its planned objectives....
Britain and the Revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989
Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series III, Volume XII
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2019
This volume documents the UK Government’s response to the unfolding social and political changes in Eastern Europe during 1989.
The year 1989 saw momentous change in Europe. It was the year in which Communist rule in Eastern Europe finally ended: with mass demonstrations, an end to one-Party...
A Dark Page in History
The Nanjing Massacre and Post-Massacre Social Conditions Recorded in British Diplomatic Dispatches, Admiralty Documents, and U.S. Naval Intelligence Reports
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
On December 13, 1937, Japanese troops captured China’s former capital, Nanjing. The events that followed became known as the Rape of Nanking, or the Nanjing Massacre, which, with its magnitude and brutality, shocked the civilized world. Mass executions, rampant raping, wholesale looting, and widespread...
by Giles Whiteley
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2018
This book examines the various ways in which the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling was read and responded to by British readers and writers during the nineteenth century. Challenging the idea that Schelling’s reception was limited to the Romantics, this book shows the ways in which his thought...
by Piers Brendon
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK
After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies...
Amazing Grace
William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament.
At the center of this heroic life...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
*Includes pictures of Diana and important people, places, and events in her life.*Discusses the controversies surrounding her life and the conspiracy theories about her death.*Includes lesser known details of her life. *Includes a Table of ContentsAnywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be,...