Other books that might interest you

• 

  Twelve Days on the Somme - A...

  Sidney Rogerson

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This “brilliant and heartrending” memoir recounts one of the bloodiest battles of WWI—with a new introduction and a forward by the author’s son (John Keegan). 
   
  A joint operation between Britain and France, the 1916 Battle of the Somme was an attempt to gain territory and dent Germany’s military strength. By the end of the action, the Allied Forces had made just twelve kilometers. For this slight gain, more than a million lives were lost. 
   
  In this classic military memoir, Staff Sergeant Sidney Rogerson vividly captures the last spell of frontline duty performed by the 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. Awarded the George Cross for his service, Rogerson gives a frank and moving account of this notorious battle while demonstrating how he and his fellow soldiers faced the ordeal with resilience and good humor. 
   
  This edition includes a new introduction by Malcolm Brown and a Foreword by Rogerson’s son Commander Jeremy Rogerson.

  Show book

• 

  Your Mind and How to Use It - A...

  William Walker Atkinson

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Your Mind and How to Use It by William Walker Atkinson is an influential text in the history of self-help literature. It explores the connection between consciousness and the physical world, utilizing a cognitive approach that emphasizes mental discipline as a means of cultivating success and personal growth. The book offers readers practical advice on developing mental habits and skills, such as goal setting, concentration, visualization, and suggestion, to help them realize their ambitions in life. Read in English, unabridged.

  Show book

• 

  Prison-produced podcast ‘Ear...

  PBS NewsHour

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Prisoners inside one of California’s prisons are getting the opportunity to be heard—behind bars and beyond. “Ear Hustle” is a podcast that offers listeners a rare look at inmate experiences, from race relations to sharing a tiny cell. Jeffrey Brown reports.

  Show book

• 

  Winchester in the Great War

  John J. Eddleston

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The war of 1914–18 changed Britain forever. The movement for Irish Home Rule strengthened, women were in jobs they had never done before and, at the end of the war, were granted the vote for the first time. Political and military careers were won and lost and in all of these, Winchester played its part. Whilst this is a book about the Great War, that terrible conflagration which claimed so many lives, it is also expertly covers how that war touched the citizens of Winchester. It can be said that every city, town, village and hamlet contributed to the war effort but some cities, of which Winchester is certainly one, were of crucial importance to the final victory. It is true that Winchester was a major army depot, but it was also a city concerned with attempts to keep some normality in life. There were stories of loss but there was also humour, entertainment, fund raising, patriotism and tales of the darker side of life. With over thirty illustrations, some never seen before, Winchester in the Great War is a thorough account of the daily hardships and triumphs of those living in the city during one of the most defining and significant periods in the history of Britain.

  Show book

• 

  The Rise and Fall of the British...

  Lawrence James

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The renowned historian shares “a stylish, intelligent and readable” chronicle of Great Britain from the seventeenth century to the twentieth (The New York Times Book Review). Great Britain’s geopolitical role has undergone many changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain now occupies an isolated position as an economically fragile island that is often at odds with her European neighbors. In The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Lawrence James provides a nuanced reflection of Britain’s long and tumultuous transformation. Spanning the years from 1600 to the present day, James combines detailed scholarship with engaging popular history to provide a comprehensive, perceptive, and insightful history of the British Empire.

  Show book

• 

  The Imjin and Kapyong Battles -...

  S.P. MacKenzie

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  An “excellent history” of a massive Communist offensive and the brigades that resisted it (H-War).   The sacrifice of the British regiment known as the “Glorious Glosters” in defense of the Imjin River line and the hilltop fights of Australian and Canadian battalions in the Kapyong Valley have achieved great renown. Using official and unofficial source material ranging from personal interviews to war diaries, this in-depth study, the first of its kind, seeks to disentangle the mythology surrounding both battles and explain why events unfolded as they did. Based on thorough familiarity with all available sources, many not previously utilized, it sheds new light on fighting “the forgotten war.”   “In Korea, on the night of 22nd April 1951, communist forces unleashed what remains, to this day, their greatest offensive since Zhukov’s storm on Berlin. In the desperate fighting that followed, the key flanks of free world forces were held by one British and one Commonwealth brigade. The former took on a Chinese army; the latter, a Chinese division. Six decades later, an American historian has dismantled the barriers between Australian, British, Canadian, and New Zealand accounts of those whirlwind days to compose the only comparative analysis of the tragedy on the Imjin and the stand at Kapyong.”—Andrew Salmon, author of Scorched Earth, Black Snow: Britain and Australia in the Korean War, 1950

  Show book