This book tells the story of WW1 in a clear and interesting way with historical facts. This book is totally different from any history book you have read. Readers can take a lot of joy and also understand the history of WW2 at the same time.
Everything you need to know about the first prototype tank, Little Willie. Beautifully illustrated in this fun, fact-filled book for children of all ages. Each page is packed with information, and the history of the first prototype tank which became the template for all tanks made across the world! A great learning resourse tool to help teach children about tanks and military history too.
The first time Frida Grünfeld was registered in a police record was spring 1931. She was Jewish, a prostitute, suspected of espionage – and she was pregnant. Frida was born in Leles, Slovakia in 1908, which was Austria-Hungary at the time. She lived a vagrant life the newly established Czehcoslovakia after WW1. In Bratislava she gave birth to a son, Berthold; but gave him away when he was only a week old. He later came to Norway as a refugee and became one of Norway’s most recognised psychiatrists. But what happened to Frida? In this book, the grandaughter Nina F. Grünfeld returns and searches for her grandmother. Through archives she finds interrogation files and court documents revealing clues and information, and she learns how the web is winding ever closer around Frida. The authorities were looking for people like her. Then the Nazis came to power. The story of Frida is a shocking tale of belonging, want and loss.
The official Help for Heroes Cook Book featuring recipes that celebrities, chefs and military people would like to feed to their heroes plus much more... The Food For Heroes Team is led by Sqn Leader Jon Pullen and comprises of Army and RAF Officers & NCOs and civilians. Photographers and chefs on the team have cooked and photographed all of the recipes which are featured in the book plus the pie on the cover! This book asks British personalities and servicemen and women, both current and past, Who their hero is Why they are their hero What they would feed them Contributors include Private Harry Patch (110 year old veteran of WW1), political figures including Gordon Brown and other party leaders; celebrities and sporting heroes such as Sir David Jason, Dame Judi Dench, Ewen MacGregor, Dame Vera Lynn, Sir Steve Redgrave, Bruce Forsyth, Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, the 4 service chiefs, Flight Lieutenant Michelle Goodman DFC, Captain Dave Rigg MC, Sub-Lieutenant Donald Keeble DSC and many others. Celebrity Chefs: Anton Mossiman, Ainsley Harriott, Antony Worrall Thompson, Brian Turner, Paul Gayler, Peter Gladwin Help for Heroes is a registered charity that is raising funds to support our wounded service personnel. Registered Charity number 1120920
Biography of best-selling novelist, Eric Knight whose work was praised by the literary establishment of the 1930s, but whose greatest acheivements were overshadowed by his biggest hit - he was the author of 'Lassie Come-Home'. A child immigrant to the USA, Eric Knight enlisted in Canada and returned to England to face the horrors of WWI, having already escaped once from the deprivation of the Yorkshire mill towns His biography is an epic account that spans some of the key historical moments early in the last century. With a creative mind, and a formidable spirit that sustained him from the trenches of Ypres, and through the Depression, to literary success and acclaim, he did not shy away from defending his native England once more – as confidant to the US President, he supported the efforts to bring the US into WWII which led to his untimely death in the service of the OSS, the forerunner to the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Matilda, a very British tank, all you need to know about her history from the beginning. This beautifully illustated book is packed full of fun facts and the history of tanks and how they came about, where and why they were used. A great learning resource tool too.
The Egyptian French relations in the period between ww1 and ww2 was never tackled before neither in Egypt nor in France. Anyone who studies political science or sociology or history of the middle east will definitely need this book, as its one of its kind. Egypt was the center of most of the libration movements all over the world starting from world war one all over the sixties. A well researched book about the Egyptian point of view concerning this topic.
In this sequel to his much-acclaimed first book, Once Aboard A Cornish Lugger,Paul Greenwood draws on his own experiences in the 1970s and 1980s to graphically bring to life the hardships and dangers faced by Cornish fishermen. More Tales From A Cornish Lugger tells of gales, whales, wrecks and rigours of life aboard the fishing luggers that worked off the south coast of Cornwall.
