Surprise Warfare: Subversive, Airborne and Amphibious Operations

Merglen, Albert

Allen

Written shortly after World War II, this book is a loving tribute to the pre-war steam trains that were, even then, rushing towards their final days. This is not a reference book but a sympathetic attempt to recall what the old British railway systems and their trains were like. "Surely it was always summer when we made our first railway journeys! Only from later boyhood do we remember what fog was like at Liverpool Street, with the little North London engines puffing high-up and unseen, in and out of Broad Street next door, and with the Westinghouse pumps of the Great Eastern panting so furiously amid the Plutonian murk close at hand..." Illustrated with black and white photos as well as color frontispiece. Covers trains of London, Scotland, Ireland, carriages and racing day. 196 pages with index.

The Trains We Loved

Cuthbert Hamilton Ellis

Science for the Citizen

HOGBEN, LANCELOT

The Frozen City

ARSCOTT, David et al

Literature & Fiction

<p>This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on the Western Front inevitable? Using an extensive range of unpublished diaries, letters, memoirs and Cabinet and War Office files, Professor Travers explains how and why the ideas, tactics and strategies emerged. He emphasises the influence of pre-war social and military attitudes, and examines the early life and career of Sir Douglas Haig. The author's analysis of the preparations for the Battles of the Somme and Passchendaele provide new interpretations of the role of Haig and his GHQ, and he explains the reasons for the unexpected British withdrawal in March 1918. An appendix supplies short biographies of senior British officers. In general, historians of the First World War are in two hostile camps: those who see the futility of lions led by donkeys on the one hand and on the other the apologists for Haig and the conduct of the war. Professor Travers' immensely readable book provides a bridge between the two.</p>

The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front and Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918

History

Travers, Tim.

Military

<p>At NORAD headquarters, Colorado...The radar-detected target races toward Los Angeles at five times the speed of sound. Then it vanashes without a trace.On Flight 902...Panic reigns as the stricken airliner, with 112 aboard, careens toward a treacherous landing on an ice floe in the North Atlantic. The crew, including co-pilot Karen Dempsey, believes they've been shot down by Russian MIGs. But it isn't the Russians who are responsible.Someone is forcing the U.S. and the Soviet Union toward the final nuculear showdown.Who?Why?Can they be stopped?</p>

Flight 902 Is Down

Fishman, Hal and Barry Schiff

Veronica

Veronica Lake

At a club like Hobo, there's no such thing as an impossible fantasy. It's the nightspot where the beautiful people hang out: people like Tony Blake, our host and guide, people like Fontaine Khaled, jet-setting beauty with a weakness for men, and people like Alexandra, Fontaine's nubile stepdaughter.

The Stud

Romance

COLLINS, JACKIE

Contemporary

Heart Attack: You Don't Have to Die

Christiaan Neethling Barnard

Philosophy (Made Simple Books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Popkin, Richard H. and Avrum Stroll

Philosophy

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