Angus: 416 books
Sink the Tirpitz 1942–44
The RAF and Fleet Air Arm duel with Germany's mighty battleship
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war.
In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys. Her destruction suddenly became a top Allied...
Bannockburn
Scotland's Greatest Battle for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
‘ Everyone interested in the battle, for whatever reason, would do well to read this engaging book’ Sunday Times
In Scotland, history and politics often become entangled. For some, the past is a source of inspiration for the future. For others, it becomes a salutary lesson in what mistakes...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, naval ships of all sizes have revolutionized warfare. From the Viking longship, pirate ships and super dreadnoughts to today's nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, naval warfare has proved to be an essential component of military forces across the world....
Hunt the Bismarck
The pursuit of Germany's most famous battleship
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2019
Hunt the Bismarck tells the story of Operation Rheinübung, the Atlantic sortie of the Nazi Germany's largest battleship in May 1941.
Bismarck entered service in the summer of 1940. She was well-armed, with eight 15-inch guns as well as a powerful array of lighter weapons, while her armoured...
Tirpitz in Norway
X-craft midget submarines raid the fjords, Operation Source 1943
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2019
In September 1943, under the cover of darkness, six British midget submarines crept into the heart of enemy territory, penetrating a heavily guarded Norwegian fjord in an attempt to eliminate the threat of the powerful German battleship, the Tirpitz. Numerous previous attempts to attack the ship from...
Barney Barnfather
Life in a Spitfire Squadron
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Barney Barnfather flew Spitfires from November 1941 until the end of the war in Europe. He was in the thick of the fighting and saw action over France, Malta, North Africa, in the invasions of Sicily and Italy, and finally over Austria in 1945. This is his story.
Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism
Theories in Tension
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters...
by Angus Konstam
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2020
During the American War of Independence (1775–83), Congress issued almost 800 letters of marque, as a way of combating Britain's overwhelming naval and mercantile superiority. At first, it was only fishermen and the skippers of small merchant ships who turned to privateering, with mixed results....
by Angus Stroud
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Stuart England is an invaluable introduction to the political, religious and social history of seventeenth-century England. It provides a wide-ranging and lively account of core events, drawing on both contemporary sources and the latest interpretations by modern historians.
Starting with the legacy...
by Jennifer Backman, Simon Cook, Inger H. Dalsgaard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether...
Conditions of Knowing
An Essay Towards a Theory of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Angus Francis, Rowena Maguire
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The chapters in this book explore the impact of recent shifts in global and regional power and the subsequent development and enforcement of international refugee protection standards in the Asia Pacific region. Drawing on their expertise across a number of jurisdictions, the contributors assess the...
by Prof Philip F Harris, Dr Craig Ranson, Dr Angus Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
When examining patients with sports-related and exercise-related injuries, a thorough knowledge of anatomy is vital in order to make an accurate diagnosis and work out an effective treatment plan. In this helpful, practical book, a professional anatomist, an orthopaedic surgeon and a sports physiotherapist...
Economic Growth in the West
Comparative Experience in Europe and North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Hailed a "an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the way in which western economies work" [Times Literary Supplement], this penetrating study of economic growth compares and analyzes tic rates of economic advance in the twelve leading countries that comprise the industrial West....