The book is based on David Ritchie's Civil War letters, journals, and newspaper articles. As both a combatant and war correspondent, he wrote descriptions and analyses of the war for...
Henry Pitman, on first being forced to eat a turtle diet, complained of the “violent looseness” that it caused. He “cured” his condition by ... The rising concern of the company captains can be seen in the logs of the Sampson, L.Mar.
Set against an ever-changing backdrop, from the Second World War to the Swinging Sixties, and featuring a glorious cast of socialites, writers and politicians, including Nancy Mitford, Iris Murdoch, Isaiah Berlin and John F Kennedy, Love's ...
From the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis (Zero Six Bravo, Judy) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill assigned the task of ...
never Before Henry could provoke Eli by suggesting his account was a lie, Lang's resounding voice announced it was time to switch places. Eli moved to the other side of the desk and Henry assumed the part of the prisoner, ...
'Women at War' reviews the epidemiology, changes in policy and demographics of women in the services, the factors affecting their health and health care while serving in austere environments, issues related to reproductive and urogenital ...
This is a different kind of World War II story, and Eddy tells it with conviction, supported by years of research and interviews.
Some reviews of the First Edition: 'Dr Ovendale does an admirable job of making sense of these diverse currents, and turns the history of the conflict into a coherent, readable...
This book tells the professional and personal experiences of American military psychiatrists and their colleagues in the longest conflict in American history.
This volume explores in close detail the events and factors leading up to the second Gulf War in 2003 and considers whether war with Iraq was inevitable.