2018, ISBN: 9781473952003

Hardcover

Of all the daring PoW escape stories that have come to light in the last 100 years and immortalized by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape, the story of J.L. Hardy has to be one of… More...

Of all the daring PoW escape stories that have come to light in the last 100 years and immortalized by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape, the story of J.L. Hardy has to be one of the most remarkable. A PoW for three-and-a-half years, Hardy madeno less than twelve escape attempts while imprisoned by the Germans in the First World War, five of which being successful. In early 1915 he attempted to escape from Halle Camp, near Leipzig, by breaking through a brick wall into an adjacent ammunition factory. After five-months work the project proved impracticable. In the summer of 1915 he was transferred to Augustabad Camp, near Neu Brandenburg, and after being there 10 days he managed to slip away from a bathing party outside the camp, together with a Russian officer. After a difficult journey they covered the 50 miles to the Baltic coast. They swam a river, were nearly recaptured once, but eventually reached Stralsund. They nearly managed to get the crew of a Swedish schooner there to give them passage, but were arrested at the last moment. Hardy was returned to Halle and joined an unsuccessful attempt with a group of Russian officers to break down a wall. He then made a solo escape attempt by picking locks and breaking through a skylight before sliding down a rope onto the street. From here he slipped into the rain and darkness. He spoke enough German to make his way by train to Bremen. Here, broken down by cold and hunger, the Germans recaptured him. He was then transferred to Magdeburg, where he escaped with a Belgian officer using 'subterfuge, audacity and good fortune.' They reached Berlin by train, and went on to Stralsund. From there they crossed to the island of Rugen, but were arrested before they could find a fishing boat to take them to Sweden. His next prisoner of war camp was Fort Zorndorf, from where escape was virtually impossible. Nevertheless he made several attempts, and one nearly succeeded when, with two others, he almost got out disguise ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/fe715edf/9781473823761.jpg|9781473823761|I Escape : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473823761 : 30 Nov 2014 : Originally published in 1927 as J.L. Hardy's first book, this is the remarkable true story of the Great War's most prolific escape artist. Being a intermittent PoW for three-an ...|new|1|1|17|19.99|0|GBP|J. L. Hardy|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Nov 2014|First World War books 9781473823471|Today's London Underground|20.38|https://wordery.com/todays-london-underground-reiss-oneill-9781473823471|The Underground network in London has always held a fascination for historians and transport enthusiasts, from the early days of the steam operated system in the 1860s. Today's London Underground covers the network as it is today, with features on the different lines across the capital and the modern day rolling stock in use, which serve London. The book covers all aspects of operation in pictures and text, with features on depots, stations, infrastructure and servicing facilities.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/764269c2/9781473823471.jpg|9781473823471|Today's London Underground : Hardback : Pen & Sword Transport : 9781473823471 : 05 Mar 2018 : Good quality colour pictures with interesting and useful historic information|new|1|1|6|30.00|0|GBP|Reiss O'Neill|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|05 Mar 2018|Trains & railways: general interest 9781473823792|From the Marne to Verdun|19.99|https://wordery.com/from-the-marne-to-verdun-charles-delvert-9781473823792|Charles Delvert's diary records his career as a front-line officer in the French army fighting the Germans during the First World War. It is one of the classic accounts of the war in French or indeed in any other language, and it has not been translated into English before. In precise, graphic detail he sets down his wartime experiences and those of his men. He describes the relentless emotional and physical strain of active service and the extraordinary courage and endurance required in battle. His account is essential reading for anyone who is keen to gain a direct insight into the Great War from the French soldier's point of view, and it bears comparison with the best-known English and German memoirs and journals of the Great War.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/b484b66a/9781473823792.jpg|9781473823792|From the Marne to Verdun : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473823792 : 26 Sep 2016 : Classic French officer's personal account of the First World War|new|1|1|22|19.99|0|GBP|Charles Delvert|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|26 Sep 2016|First World War books 9781473827509|Johnny Get Your Gun|19.99|https://wordery.com/johnny-get-your-gun-john-f-tucker-9781473827509|At the age of seventeen-and-a-half, full of idealism and patriotism, John Tucker enlisted as an Infantryman in the London Kensington Regiment and reached France, after training, in August 1915. Against all odds he survived three years of bitter trench warfare, was seriously wounded, and returned to Blighty a few months before Armistice Day. During those years he took part in the Battle of the Somme, the battles of Arras and Cambrai, and the Third Battle of Ypres. Yet though his patriotism remained unflinching, his idealism gave way to the grim realities of day to day survival in the trenches and, as he began to understand what constitutes courage, he grew from boyhood to manhood.The author contrasts the beauties of the French countryside with the ugliness of widespread death and destruction, and paints a picture of French country life hardly less squalid than the soldiers' own lot. But above all, he makes the reader realize what it was like to fight in the war to end all wars.These are the memoirs of one Infantryman, but through his eyes a vivid canvas of the whole war gradually unfolds.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/88170df5/9781473827509.jpg|9781473827509|Johnny Get Your Gun : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827509 : 28 Feb 2015 : A Great War memoir of a young man who fought throughout the whole campaign, seeing action on the Somme, Arras, Cambrai and Third Ypres.Originally published in 1978, ...|new|1|1|21|19.99|0|GBP|John F. Tucker|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|28 Feb 2015|Memoirs 9781473823860|London Transport's Last Buses|13.23|https://wordery.com/london-transports-last-buses-matthew-wharmby-9781473823860|The Olympian was Leyland's answer to the competition that was threatening to take custom away from its second-generation OMO double-deck products. Simpler than the London Transportcentric Titan but, unlike that integral model, able to respond to the market by being offered as a chassis for bodying by the bodybuilder of the customer's choice, the Olympian was an immediate success and soon replaced both the Atlantean and Bristol VRT as the standard double-decker of the NBC. It wasn't until 1984 that London Transport itself dabbled with the model, taking three for evaluation alongside trios of contemporary double-deckers.The resulting L class spawned an order for 260 more in 1986, featuring accessibility advancements developed by LT in concert with the Ogle design consultancy, but the rapid changes engulfing the organisation meant that no more were ordered. During the 1990s company ownerships shifted repeatedly as the ethos of competition gave way to the cold reality of big business, an unstable situation which even saw London's bus operations broken up.The L class was split between three new companies, but the backlog of older vehicles to replace once corporate interests released funding ensured the buses up to a further decade in service. Finally, as low-floor buses swept into the capital at the turn of the century, Olympian operation at last declined, and the final examples operated early in 2006. This profusely illustrated book describes the diversity of liveries, ownerships and deployments that characterised the London Leyland Olympians' two decades of service.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/b45a0f00/9781473823860.jpg|9781473823860|London Transport's Last Buses : Hardback : Pen & Sword Books Ltd : 9781473823860 : 13 Jan 2016 : First full in-depth history of these vehicles in London.|new|1|1|4|19.99|0|GBP|Matthew Wharmby|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|13 Jan 2016|Buses, trams & commercial vehicles: general in ... 9781473827141|Final Wicket|30.00|https://wordery.com/final-wicket-nigel-mccrery-9781473827141|While cricket remains a national game today, at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age, as footballers are today. When the call to arms was made in 1914 and the years of war that followed, it was answered in droves by young men including Test and First Class cricketers. The machine guns and gas of the Western Front and other theatres did not discriminate and many hundreds of these star performers perished alongside their lesser known comrades. The author has researched the lives and deaths of over 200 top class cricketers who made the ultimate sacrifice. He includes not just British players but those from the Empire. The enormity of the horror and wholesale loss of life during The Great War is well demonstrated by these moving biographies.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/6c381bbb/9781473827141.jpg|9781473827141|Final Wicket : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827141 : 30 Jul 2015 : A Powerful combination of Great War and Cricket/cricket players.|new|1|1|26|30.00|0|GBP|Nigel McCrery|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Jul 2015|First World War books 9781473827158|The Battle for Burma - Wild Green Earth|12.99|https://wordery.com/the-battle-for-burma-wild-green-earth-bernard-fergusson-9781473827158|Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson returned to Burma as part of this, as a Brigadier, leading the only Brigade in the new force which entered Burma on foot. It was one of four Brigades which established well-defended strongholds within Japanese-occupied Burma. Fergusson also reflects candidly, and often humorously, on different aspects of the campaign. These include the ingenuity and sheer courage of the US Army Air Force pilots who flew in supplies and evacuated wounded. One glider pilot whom Fergusson saw making a particularly bad landing turned out to be Jackie Coogan, child star of Chaplin's The Kid, and later known as Uncle Fenster of the Addams Family. In apparently light hearted, but often profound sections, he analyses the management of a large and diverse force, up against physical extremes far from normal amenities and command structures; the importance of maintaining morale and of medical management; and, not least, an immediate portrait of Wingate himself, whose death at a crucial stage of the campaign ? and the conflicting or at least confusing orders he left behind ? directly affected Fergusson's men and the fate of the campaign. ?The Wild Green Earth? follows the author's account of the 1943 campaign, Beyond the Chindwin. Both were written with the events, and reactions ? even the smells ? fresh in the author's mind, and vividly but sensitively conveyed. The excitement of the narrative remains today. And the reflections are timeless, fascinating for those with an interest in leadership and motivation as much as for readers of military history.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/4d0890f5/9781473827158.jpg|9781473827158|The Battle for Burma - Wild Green Earth : Paperback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827158 : 30 Nov 2015 : The reflections are timeless, fascinating for those with an interest in leadership and motivation as much as for readers of military history.|new|1|1|77|12.99|0|GBP|Bernard Fergusson|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Nov 2015|Diaries, letters & journals 9781473826991|Fighting Hitler from Dunkirk to D-Day|19.99|https://wordery.com/fighting-hitler-from-dunkirk-to-d-day-neil-barber-9781473826991|Fighting Hitler From Dunkirk to D-Day is the compelling story of a man belonging to a group of which there are now very few survivors. Jeff Haward MM is a pre-war Territorial Army soldier who enlisted merely for something to do in the evenings. Consequently, he fought throughout the entirety of the Second World War. Jeff is a 'Die Hard', the historic name given to men of the famous Middlesex Regiment. He joined the 1/7th Battalion, a machine-gun battalion, equipped with the British Army's iconic Vickers medium machine gun. Following evacuation from Dunkirk, the 1/7th, while refitting and re-equipping, carried out coastal defence duties in preparation for the German invasion. So desperate was the situation that on sentry duty, the one rifle per section had to be handed to the next sentry, along with the only ammunition available - three rounds! In 1941, they were attached to the famous 51st Highland Division. The less than enthusiastic welcome from the Jocks gradually evolved into respect following the Middlesex's performance at El Alamein and the subsequent campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy and North West Europe. Following the Reichswald battle, in March 1945, Jeff was surprised to hear that he had been awarded the Military Medal for bravery and was subsequently awarded the ribbon by none other than Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery. Jeff Haward's experiences, those of a normal soldier, make fascinating reading and throw new light on the use of such Vickers gun battalions during the war.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/23f15ab6/9781473826991.jpg|9781473826991|Fighting Hitler from Dunkirk to D-Day : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473826991 : 07 Apr 2015 : Fighting Hitler From Dunkirk to D-Day is the compelling story of a man belonging to a group of which there are now very few survivors. Jeff Haward ...|new|1|1|1|19.99|0|GBP|Neil Barber|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|07 Apr 2015|Second World War books 9781473823907|Flight Craft 5: Sukhoi Su-15|11.72|https://wordery.com/flight-craft-5-sukhoi-su-15-yefim-gordon-9781473823907|In the late 1950s, the Sukhoi Design Bureau, already an established fighter maker, started work on a successor to its Su-9 and Su-11 single-engined interceptors for the national Air Defence Force. Similar to its predecessors, the new aircraft designated Su-15 had delta wings; unlike the Su-9/Su-11, however, it had twin engines and lateral air intakes freeing up the nose for a powerful fire control radar. First flown in May 1962, the Su-15 officially entered service in 1965 and was built i<

2017, ISBN: 9781473952003

Hardcover

Of all the daring PoW escape stories that have come to light in the last 100 years and immortalized by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape, the story of J.L. Hardy has to be one of… More...

Of all the daring PoW escape stories that have come to light in the last 100 years and immortalized by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape, the story of J.L. Hardy has to be one of the most remarkable. A PoW for three-and-a-half years, Hardy madeno less than twelve escape attempts while imprisoned by the Germans in the First World War, five of which being successful. In early 1915 he attempted to escape from Halle Camp, near Leipzig, by breaking through a brick wall into an adjacent ammunition factory. After five-months work the project proved impracticable. In the summer of 1915 he was transferred to Augustabad Camp, near Neu Brandenburg, and after being there 10 days he managed to slip away from a bathing party outside the camp, together with a Russian officer. After a difficult journey they covered the 50 miles to the Baltic coast. They swam a river, were nearly recaptured once, but eventually reached Stralsund. They nearly managed to get the crew of a Swedish schooner there to give them passage, but were arrested at the last moment. Hardy was returned to Halle and joined an unsuccessful attempt with a group of Russian officers to break down a wall. He then made a solo escape attempt by picking locks and breaking through a skylight before sliding down a rope onto the street. From here he slipped into the rain and darkness. He spoke enough German to make his way by train to Bremen. Here, broken down by cold and hunger, the Germans recaptured him. He was then transferred to Magdeburg, where he escaped with a Belgian officer using 'subterfuge, audacity and good fortune.' They reached Berlin by train, and went on to Stralsund. From there they crossed to the island of Rugen, but were arrested before they could find a fishing boat to take them to Sweden. His next prisoner of war camp was Fort Zorndorf, from where escape was virtually impossible. Nevertheless he made several attempts, and one nearly succeeded when, with two others, he almost got out disguise ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/fe715edf/9781473823761.jpg|9781473823761|I Escape : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473823761 : 30 Nov 2014 : Originally published in 1927 as J.L. Hardy's first book, this is the remarkable true story of the Great War's most prolific escape artist. Being a intermittent PoW for three-an ...|new|1|1|2|19.99|0|GBP|J. L. Hardy|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Nov 2014|First World War books 9781473827165|The Men Behind Monty|16.70|https://wordery.com/the-men-behind-monty-richard-mead-9781473827165|The Men Behind Monty examines the role played by the staff in the victorious campaigns of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, Britain's most successful field commander since the Duke of Wellington. When Monty took command of Eighth Army in August 1942, he inherited the staff of his predecessor. He retained all the key members and most of them stayed with him not only from El Alamein to Tunis, but also in Sicily and Italy. When he took command of 21st Army Group in January 1944, many accompanied him to take up the most prominent positions on the HQ staff and the majority remained until the German surrender in May 1945. This fascinating work focuses not only on the senior officers responsible for the various staff branches, and notably on Monty's outstanding Chief of Staff, Freddie de Guingand, but also on his personal staff, the ADCs and personal liaison officers. The book sheds light on the work of the staff generally, and on their direct contribution to Monty's decisions, his sometimes difficult and controversial relationships with his superiors and allies.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/83f9cbc9/9781473827165.jpg|9781473827165|The Men Behind Monty : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827165 : 30 May 2015 : An Insight in Montgomery's leadership style which covers Monty's campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, Italy (all 8th Army) and NW Europe (Army Group).|new|1|1|2|25.00|0|GBP|Richard Mead|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 May 2015|Second World War books 9781473823914|Flight Craft 6: Il'yushin/Beriyev A-50|12.32|https://wordery.com/flight-craft-6-ilyushinberiyev-a-50-yefim-gordon-9781473823914|Brought out in the late 1970s as a successor to the obsolete Tu-126 airborne early warning aircraft, the A-50 co-developed by the Il'yushin and Beriyev bureaux is one of the most interesting military variants in the field of IL-76 military transport. Differing outwardly from the latter mainly in having a conventional ?saucer? rotodome, the A-50 entered flight testing in 1980; the new Soviet AWACS entered service four years later. The improved A-50M was developed several years after that. The type continues in service with the Russian Air Force today, and the fleet is being upgraded to A-50U standard. This book describes the A-50's thrilling developmental history, taking in its many variants (including the A-50EI export model for India) and gives an extensive overview of the various scale model kits covering the subject currently available on the market.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/8de78821/9781473823914.jpg|9781473823914|Flight Craft 6: Il'yushin/Beriyev A-50 : Paperback : Pen & Sword Aviation : 9781473823914 : 30 Apr 2015 : A brand new addition to the popular Flight Craft series, this time focussing on the A-50, a thrilling aircraft type with an intriguing history. I ...|new|1|1|4|16.99|0|GBP|Yefim Gordon|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Apr 2015|Military aircraft 9781473827158|The Battle for Burma - Wild Green Earth|9.12|https://wordery.com/the-battle-for-burma-wild-green-earth-bernard-fergusson-9781473827158|Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson returned to Burma as part of this, as a Brigadier, leading the only Brigade in the new force which entered Burma on foot. It was one of four Brigades which established well-defended strongholds within Japanese-occupied Burma. Fergusson also reflects candidly, and often humorously, on different aspects of the campaign. These include the ingenuity and sheer courage of the US Army Air Force pilots who flew in supplies and evacuated wounded. One glider pilot whom Fergusson saw making a particularly bad landing turned out to be Jackie Coogan, child star of Chaplin's The Kid, and later known as Uncle Fenster of the Addams Family. In apparently light hearted, but often profound sections, he analyses the management of a large and diverse force, up against physical extremes far from normal amenities and command structures; the importance of maintaining morale and of medical management; and, not least, an immediate portrait of Wingate himself, whose death at a crucial stage of the campaign ? and the conflicting or at least confusing orders he left behind ? directly affected Fergusson's men and the fate of the campaign. ?The Wild Green Earth? follows the author's account of the 1943 campaign, Beyond the Chindwin. Both were written with the events, and reactions ? even the smells ? fresh in the author's mind, and vividly but sensitively conveyed. The excitement of the narrative remains today. And the reflections are timeless, fascinating for those with an interest in leadership and motivation as much as for readers of military history.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/4d0890f5/9781473827158.jpg|9781473827158|The Battle for Burma - Wild Green Earth : Paperback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827158 : 30 Nov 2015 : The reflections are timeless, fascinating for those with an interest in leadership and motivation as much as for readers of military history.|new|1|1|1|12.99|0|GBP|Bernard Fergusson|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Nov 2015|Diaries, letters & journals 9781473827912|Maidstone in the Great War|9.59|https://wordery.com/maidstone-in-the-great-war-stephen-wynn-9781473827912|Maidstone in the Great War tells the remarkable story of this Kent county town's immense contribution to the Great War effort from the outbreak of war in 1914, to the long-awaited Allied victory in 1918. Maidstone has a long and illustrious military history ? it even had its own Civil War battle, dating back to 1648 ? and with the onset of the First World War, its civilians, like thousands of communities up and down the country, sent their men off to fight for their king and country. The town paid a hefty price as it lost nearly 900 of its young men. The harbinger of death catered for all strands of society, from the richest to the poorest, from those who toiled in the fields, to the loftiest of society. The book looks at the war year by year and how it directly and indirectly affected Maidstone. As more and more of its young men were killed and wounded, everyday life, or what passed for everyday life, continued the best that it could. The town's incredible support for the war on the Home Front was apparent from the very beginning. When the Mayor of Maidstone appealed to the town's people to support Lord Kitchener's request for blankets for his New Army, they responded in droves. Convalescing soldiers were tended to as passionately as Belgium refugees were looked after by the town's people; they freely and happily did this while coping with the unsettling reality that one or more of their loved ones may never return from the war. This is a superb account of the people of Maidstone's outstanding determination to see the war through.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/aa563c53/9781473827912.jpg|9781473827912|Maidstone in the Great War : Paperback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827912 : 05 Jun 2017 : The story of Sergeant G.W. Turner who was wounded at the Battle of Mons. The bullet that wounded him went through a photograph of his fiance, Miss Daisy Gibb ...|new|1|1|1|12.99|0|GBP|Stephen Wynn|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|05 Jun 2017|First World War books 9781473827394|Alnwick in the Great War|10.24|https://wordery.com/alnwick-in-the-great-war-craig-armstrong-9781473827394|As a market town and one of the seats of government of the county authority, Alnwick played a key role in the coordination of Northumberland's war effort. With a wide rural hinterland, the town was considerably important in the production and dispersal of food, which was vital to the war effort. As the home of the Duke of Northumberland, the town had a hugely influential role in the overall Northumbrian war effort from civilian affairs to military recruitment. The town shared a proud tradition of military service with the wider region, and this was reflected in the huge numbers of Alnwick men and women who came forward for service in the military or in roles such as nursing. The town was a regional recruitment centre and hosted its own unit of the 1/7th (Territorial) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, as well as other military units. From 1915, Alnwick was also one of the largest infantry training bases in the north of England. Many of the locally raised Pal's Battalions, which were raised in the north, received their training here. For those left behind in Alnwick, the war was a time of worry and hardship, however others saw the business opportunities.This book includes accounts of the struggle that local families faced in coping with rising wartime prices, longer working hours and endless worry, sometimes in the face of accusations of drunkenness or idleness from the authorities and unfair criticism of the rural districts' recruiting record. Despite these hardships, the people of Alnwick provided incredible charitable support right up until the end of the war, in addition to their normal efforts. Several military hospitals were set up in the town and surrounding area, with the training base later becoming a recuperation base for injured soldiers. These momentous efforts are explained throughout this compelling book, which is a testimony to the bravery, self-sacrifice and determination of the people of Alnwick during the Great War.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/bddb3b50/9781473827394.jpg|9781473827394|Alnwick in the Great War : Paperback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827394 : 26 Sep 2016 : Features rare images, many of which have not been seen since the war and fills key areas in the overall account of the experience of the First World War in Nor ...|new|1|1|7|12.99|0|GBP|Craig Armstrong|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|26 Sep 2016|First World War books 9781473823990|German Heavy Artillery Guns|10.24|https://wordery.com/german-heavy-artillery-guns-alexander-ludeke-9781473823990|Covers large calibre artillery guns beyond a diameter of 75 mm, used by the Germans during the Second World War. Whilst artillery was perhaps no longer the dominant force it had been in the trench warfare of the Great War, it was nevertheless essential, both in air defence and against tanks. This volume of the Fact File series presents the most important of the largest German artillery and air defence weapons, as well as railway guns and launchers. A meticulously researched and superbly illustrated book, which provides a compact and competent overview.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/73c6abac/9781473823990.jpg|9781473823990|German Heavy Artillery Guns : Paperback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473823990 : 30 Oct 2014 : A highly accessible overview of German Artillery in WW2 with technical data, facts and pictures as used by German Army.|new|1|1|1|12.99|0|GBP|Alexander Ludeke|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Oct 2014|Second World War books 9781473826984|Rome Seizes the Trident|13.97|https://wordery.com/rome-seizes-the-trident-marc-g-de-santis-9781473826984|Seapower played a greater part in ancient empire building than is often appreciated. The Punic Wars, especially the first, were characterized by massive naval battles. The Romans did not even possess a navy of their own when war broke out between them and the Carthaginians in Sicily in 264 B.C. Prior to that, the Romans had relied upon several South Italian Greek cities to provide ships in the same way as its other allies provided soldiers to serve with the legions. The Romans were nevertheless determined to acquire a navy that could challenge that of Carthage. They used a captured galley as a model, reverse engineered it, and constructed hundreds of copies. The Romans used this new navy to wrench maritime superiority from the Carthaginians, most notably at the Battle of Ecnomus where they prevailed through the use of novel tactics. Although not decisive on its own, Rome's new found naval power was, as Marc De Santis shows, a vital component in their<

2016, ISBN: 9781473952003

Hardcover

Of all the daring PoW escape stories that have come to light in the last 100 years and immortalized by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape, the story of J.L. Hardy has to be one of… More...

Of all the daring PoW escape stories that have come to light in the last 100 years and immortalized by Steve McQueen in the film The Great Escape, the story of J.L. Hardy has to be one of the most remarkable. A PoW for three-and-a-half years, Hardy madeno less than twelve escape attempts while imprisoned by the Germans in the First World War, five of which being successful. In early 1915 he attempted to escape from Halle Camp, near Leipzig, by breaking through a brick wall into an adjacent ammunition factory. After five-months work the project proved impracticable. In the summer of 1915 he was transferred to Augustabad Camp, near Neu Brandenburg, and after being there 10 days he managed to slip away from a bathing party outside the camp, together with a Russian officer. After a difficult journey they covered the 50 miles to the Baltic coast. They swam a river, were nearly recaptured once, but eventually reached Stralsund. They nearly managed to get the crew of a Swedish schooner there to give them passage, but were arrested at the last moment. Hardy was returned to Halle and joined an unsuccessful attempt with a group of Russian officers to break down a wall. He then made a solo escape attempt by picking locks and breaking through a skylight before sliding down a rope onto the street. From here he slipped into the rain and darkness. He spoke enough German to make his way by train to Bremen. Here, broken down by cold and hunger, the Germans recaptured him. He was then transferred to Magdeburg, where he escaped with a Belgian officer using 'subterfuge, audacity and good fortune.' They reached Berlin by train, and went on to Stralsund. From there they crossed to the island of Rugen, but were arrested before they could find a fishing boat to take them to Sweden. His next prisoner of war camp was Fort Zorndorf, from where escape was virtually impossible. Nevertheless he made several attempts, and one nearly succeeded when, with two others, he almost got out disguise ...|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/fe715edf/i-escape-j-l-hardy-9781473823761.jpg|9781473823761|I Escape : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473823761 : 30 Nov 2014 : Originally published in 1927 as J.L. Hardy's first book, this is the remarkable true story of the Great War's most prolific escape artist. Being a intermittent PoW for three-an ...|new|1|1|17|19.99|0|GBP|J. L. Hardy|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Nov 2014|First World War books 9781473827202|A Spy's London|14.99|https://wordery.com/a-spys-london-roy-berkeley-9781473827202|In 'this remarkable book' (as intelligence historian Nigel West describes it in his Foreword), the reader will be struck by the vibrancy of history made real. Author Roy Berkeley has gone behind the facades of ordinary buildings, in the city that West calls 'the espionage capital of the World', to remind us that the history of intelligence has often been made in such mundane places. With his evocative photographs and compelling observations, Berkeley ensures that we will never see the streets of London - or these particular actors on the stage of history - in quite the same way again. The 136 sites are organised into 21 manageable walks. Among the sites: the modest hotel suite where an eager Red Army colonel poured out his secrets to a team of British and American intelligence officers; the royal residence where one of the most slippery Soviet moles was at home for years; the London home where an MP plotting to appease Hitler was arrested on his front steps in 1940.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/522717d8/a-spys-london-roy-berkeley-9781473827202.jpg|9781473827202|A Spy's London : Paperback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827202 : 30 Oct 2014 : A lively and fact-filled book showing 136 sites in Central London which relate to spies and epionage. The book has 136 photographs and 21 easy-to-follow maps.|new|1|1|8|14.99|0|GBP|Roy Berkeley|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Oct 2014|Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides 9781473825598|Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Beyond Europe|19.99|https://wordery.com/early-ships-and-seafaring-water-transport-beyond-europe-sean-mcgrail-9781473825598|In this volume Professor Sean McGrail introduces the reader to a relatively new branch of Archaeology - the study of water transport - how early rafts, boats and ships were built and used. Concepts, such as boatbuilding traditions, ship stability and navigation without instruments, are first described. Archaeological research is then discussed, including sea levels in earlier times, how to distinguish the vestigial remains of a cargo vessel from those of a fighting craft; and the difference between a boat and a ship. Chapters 2 and 3, the heart of the text, deal with the early water transport of the Mediterranean and Atlantic Europe, from the Stone Age to Medieval times. Each chapter includes a description of the region's maritime geography and an exposition of its boat-building traditions. The third element is a discussion of the propulsion, the steering and the navigation of these early vessels. The sparse, often jumbled, remains of excavated vessels have to be interpreted, a process that is assisted by consideration of early descriptions and illustrations. Studies of the way traditional builders of wooden boats ply their trade today are also a great help. Experimental boat archaeology is still at an early stage but, when undertaken rigorously, it can reveal aspects of the vessel's capabilities. Such information is used in this volume to further our understanding of data from boat and ship excavations, and to present as coherent, comprehensive and accurate a picture as is now possible, of early European boatbuilding and use.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/877583d4/early-ships-and-seafaring-water-transport-beyond-europe-sean-mcgrail-9781473825598.jpg|9781473825598|Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport Beyond Europe : Hardback : Pen & Sword Books Ltd : 9781473825598 : 08 Jul 2015 : Written by a leading Professor of maritime archaeology, this is a more detailed and expanded version of his popular 2006 Shire ...|new|1|1|73|19.99|0|GBP|Sean McGrail|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|08 Jul 2015|Maritime history 9781473827509|Johnny Get Your Gun|19.99|https://wordery.com/johnny-get-your-gun-john-f-tucker-9781473827509|At the age of seventeen-and-a-half, full of idealism and patriotism, John Tucker enlisted as an Infantryman in the London Kensington Regiment and reached France, after training, in August 1915. Against all odds he survived three years of bitter trench warfare, was seriously wounded, and returned to Blighty a few months before Armistice Day. During those years he took part in the Battle of the Somme, the battles of Arras and Cambrai, and the Third Battle of Ypres. Yet though his patriotism remained unflinching, his idealism gave way to the grim realities of day to day survival in the trenches and, as he began to understand what constitutes courage, he grew from boyhood to manhood.The author contrasts the beauties of the French countryside with the ugliness of widespread death and destruction, and paints a picture of French country life hardly less squalid than the soldiers' own lot. But above all, he makes the reader realize what it was like to fight in the war to end all wars.These are the memoirs of one Infantryman, but through his eyes a vivid canvas of the whole war gradually unfolds.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/88170df5/johnny-get-your-gun-john-f-tucker-9781473827509.jpg|9781473827509|Johnny Get Your Gun : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827509 : 28 Feb 2015 : A Great War memoir of a young man who fought throughout the whole campaign, seeing action on the Somme, Arras, Cambrai and Third Ypres.Originally published in 1978, ...|new|1|1|21|19.99|0|GBP|John F. Tucker|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|28 Feb 2015|Memoirs 9781473827677|The Road to Russia|12.99|https://wordery.com/the-road-to-russia-bernard-edwards-9781473827677|During the Summer of 1942 Britain and America jointly agreed to supply desperately needed arms to Soviet Russia. The Germans were as determined to halt this potentially war-winning operation as the Allies were that it should succeed. The battleground could not have been more inhospitable than the appalling conditions of the Arctic sea. The British and American merchantmen and their gallant naval escorts suffered grievous losses. The cold was so intense that there were pitifully few survivors from the many vessels sunk in the running battles that raged. The book deals in detail with the fate of the convoys PQ13 and PQ 17, bound from Iceland to North Russia, and the Westbound convoy QP13. Attacked by aircraft and U-boats, PQ13 and PQ17 lost between them a total of thirty ships while QP13, untouched by the enemy, ran into a British minefield off Iceland with the loss of seven ships.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/1160be6c/the-road-to-russia-bernard-edwards-9781473827677.jpg|9781473827677|The Road to Russia : Paperback : Pen & Sword Books Ltd : 9781473827677 : 25 Mar 2015 : A superb piece of maritime history. The Arctic Convoy campaign, immortalised in The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Montserrat, strikes a particular cord with readers. The Ar ...|new|1|1|49|12.99|0|GBP|Bernard Edwards|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|25 Mar 2015|Second World War books 9781473828476|Mercenaries to Conquerors|25.00|https://wordery.com/mercenaries-to-conquerors-paul-brown-9781473828476|When a band of Norman adventurers arrived in southern Italy to fight in the Lombard insurrections against the Byzantine empire in the early 1000s, few would have predicted that within a generation these men would have seized control of Apulia, Calabria and Sicily. How did they make such extraordinary gains and then consolidate their power? Paul Brown, in this thoroughly researched and absorbing study, seeks to answer these questions and throw light onto the Norman conquests across the Mediterranean. Throughout he focuses on the military side of their progress, as they advanced from mercenaries to conquerors, then crusaders. The story of the campaigns they undertook in Italy, Sicily, the Balkans and the Near East reveals their remarkable talent for war. The dominant role played by a succession of Norman leaders is a key theme of the narrative ? a line of ambitious and ruthless soldiers that ran from Robert Guiscard and Bohemond to Roger II and Tancred.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/2edffd6b/mercenaries-to-conquerors-paul-brown-9781473828476.jpg|9781473828476|Mercenaries to Conquerors : Hardback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473828476 : 25 Jul 2016 : New history of the Norman conquests in the Mediterranean|new|1|1|60|25.00|0|GBP|Paul Brown|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|25 Jul 2016|Military history books 9781473827158|The Battle for Burma - Wild Green Earth|12.99|https://wordery.com/the-battle-for-burma-wild-green-earth-bernard-fergusson-9781473827158|Bernard Fergusson was one of Orde Wingate's Column Commanders in the heroic but battered Chindit expedition behind Japanese lines in Burma in 1943. By 1944 Wingate had persuaded Churchill and Roosevelt that a bigger force, on the same unorthodox lines, could make a strategic difference. Aged 32, Fergusson returned to Burma as part of this, as a Brigadier, leading the only Brigade in the new force which entered Burma on foot. It was one of four Brigades which established well-defended strongholds within Japanese-occupied Burma. Fergusson also reflects candidly, and often humorously, on different aspects of the campaign. These include the ingenuity and sheer courage of the US Army Air Force pilots who flew in supplies and evacuated wounded. One glider pilot whom Fergusson saw making a particularly bad landing turned out to be Jackie Coogan, child star of Chaplin's The Kid, and later known as Uncle Fenster of the Addams Family. In apparently light hearted, but often profound sections, he analyses the management of a large and diverse force, up against physical extremes far from normal amenities and command structures; the importance of maintaining morale and of medical management; and, not least, an immediate portrait of Wingate himself, whose death at a crucial stage of the campaign ? and the conflicting or at least confusing orders he left behind ? directly affected Fergusson's men and the fate of the campaign. ?The Wild Green Earth? follows the author's account of the 1943 campaign, Beyond the Chindwin. Both were written with the events, and reactions ? even the smells ? fresh in the author's mind, and vividly but sensitively conveyed. The excitement of the narrative remains today. And the reflections are timeless, fascinating for those with an interest in leadership and motivation as much as for readers of military history.|Books|https://wordery.com/jackets/4d0890f5/the-battle-for-burma-wild-green-earth-bernard-fergusson-9781473827158.jpg|9781473827158|The Battle for Burma - Wild Green Earth : Paperback : Pen & Sword Military : 9781473827158 : 30 Nov 2015 : The reflections are timeless, fascinating for those with an interest in leadership and motivation as much as for readers of military history.|new|1|1|77|12.99|0|GBP|Bernard Fergusson|Pen & Sword Books Ltd|30 Nov 2015|Diaries, letters & journals 9781473828605|Hartlepool in the Great War|10.50|https://wordery.com/hartlepool-in-the-great-war-stephen-wynn-9781473828605|With the outbreak of the First World War, it was not surprising that a number of individuals who were of German decent, and who lived in Hartlepool and its surrounding areas, were rounded up and detained by the British military authorities, in the interests of both national security and for their own personal safety. They were held at the towns Stranton Ice Rink. Their numbers included the ex-German Consul for the Hartlepool's district as well as others who had been local residents of many years standing.The first soldier with connections to Hartlepool to be killed on foreign soil during the war, was Corporal 57561 John Robert Richardson, who was serving with the 54th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, when he was killed in action on 4 October 1914. He is buried at the Bergen Communal Cemetery at Mons.The war came to Hartlepool on the morning of Wednesday, 16 December 1914 in the shape of three vessels of the Imperial German Navy. By the time their attack was over, more than 1,100 artillery shells had landed on the town, killing 9 soldiers, 86 civilians and wounding a further 438. Amongst the dead was 29 year old Private 18/295 Theophilus Jones of the 18th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, making him the first British serviceman<

ISBN: 9781473952003

Contemporary Childhood brings readers up-to-date with the latest developments and keys issues from around the globe and explains how these changes are impacting on practice in early years… More...

Contemporary Childhood brings readers up-to-date with the latest developments and keys issues from around the globe and explains how these changes are impacting on practice in early years and primary classrooms. Key issues in contemporary childhood are explored through three sections on The Child, The Family, and Emerging Trends, with topics including: the "Digital Child" and the rise of new technologies children's security and the impact of poverty, austerity and conflict children's happiness, mental-health, and wellbeing the changing nature of families including LGBT homes, refugees, and asylum seekers the challenges of multi-agency workingThe pace of change in early childhood can be daunting, but this book helps students and practitioners understand the variety of issues affecting children around the world.  Books<

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