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Nursing Through the Years

Nursing Through the Years

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Nursing has always been a challenging but rewarding profession. As part of the core healthcare team, nurses take responsibility for the care they provide to patients, displaying both compassion and discipline in their daily work.… Read more...

‘Sam’ Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Lord Elworthy

‘Sam’ Marshal of the Royal Air Force the Lord Elworthy

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This biography of Sam Elworthy, arguably the most distinguished RAF officer of the post War era, is long overdue. Born in New Zealand, but educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge, Elworthy was called… Read more...

Now the War is Over

Now the War is Over

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How did Britain respond to the momentous events of 1919 and 1920 as it adjusted to peace after four years of war? What were the challenges the British people faced and how did they cope… Read more...

The Soldiers' Peace

The Soldiers' Peace

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Armistice in 1918 presented the British government with an enormous challenge – how could the British army that had been built up on an unprecedented scale during the war be cut back to a peacetime… Read more...

Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II

Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II

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Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of ‘the greatest villain of the fourteenth century’, his dazzling rise as favourite to the king and his disastrous fall. Born in the late 1280s,… Read more...

The Armistice and the Aftermath

The Armistice and the Aftermath

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Armistice Day in 1918 was arguably the most joyous day of the 20th century. As the guns fell silent, crowds celebrated across the Western world. The foremost artists of all nations including Pierre Bonnard in… Read more...

The Women Who Inspired London Art

The Women Who Inspired London Art

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This is the story of women caught up in the tumultuous art scene of the early twentieth century, some famous and others lost to time. By 1910 the patina of the belle époque was wearing… Read more...

The Women Who Inspired London Art

The Women Who Inspired London Art

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This is the story of women caught up in the tumultuous art scene of the early twentieth century, some famous and others lost to time. By 1910 the patina of the belle époque was wearing… Read more...

Flight Craft 15: Supermarine Spitfire MKV

Flight Craft 15: Supermarine Spitfire MKV

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The story of the Supermarine Spitfire has been told across many years and the debate about it is enduring, yet the Spitfire remains a true icon. For aviation enthusiasts, for historians, for modellers, the word… Read more...

Flight Craft 15: Supermarine Spitfire MKV

Flight Craft 15: Supermarine Spitfire MKV

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Introductory Price: £10.19

The story of the Supermarine Spitfire has been told across many years and the debate about it is enduring, yet the Spitfire remains a true icon. For aviation enthusiasts, for historians, for modellers, the word… Read more...

Fight, Dig and Live

Fight, Dig and Live

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The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years. Over 100,000 soldiers of the United Nations forces, including those of the Republic of Korea,… Read more...

The Battle of North Cape

The Battle of North Cape

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Transcribed from a hand-typed manuscript, this is a poignant eye-witness account of the Battle of North Cape, as witnessed by a young signal-boy aboard the British warship HMS Belfast. This crucial battle to protect the… Read more...

24 Hours at Agincourt 25 October 1415

24 Hours at Agincourt 25 October 1415

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Agin Court was an astonishing clash of arms, a pivotal moment in the Hundred Years War and the history of warfare in general. King Henry V's exhausted troops were preparing for certain defeat as they… Read more...

Grunt

Grunt

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This new title from Mary Roach, author of other books such as Gulp, Stiff, Bonk, Spook and Packing for Mars, offers a fresh look at the aspects of war that not many people talk about;… Read more...

X Platoon

X Platoon

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For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon. Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number… Read more...

A Dying Breed

A Dying Breed

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Kabul, Afghanistan. William Carver, a veteran but unpredictable BBC hack, is thrown into the unknown when a bomb goes off killing a local official. Warned off the story from every direction, Carver won't give in… Read more...

Socket Bayonets

Socket Bayonets

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Socket Bayonets is a richly informative title covering the history of the socket bayonet. Graham Priest uses clear and detailed images to explore the role of the bayonet, showing common examples and rarer versions to… Read more...

Over There: America in the Great War

Over There: America in the Great War

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More than 400 photographs detail the American military experience in World War I on the ground, in the air, and at sea, from recruitment to the Armistice. This richly informative new release features the infamous… Read more...

Sniper on the Eastern Front

Sniper on the Eastern Front

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This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia. Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was an Austrian conscript… Read more...

Nachtjagd, Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943

Nachtjagd, Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943

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This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the first three years of the Second World War, consolidating first-hand accounts from German fighter pilots caught up in some of the most dramatic night time conflicts of… Read more...

Dates in History

Completion of the Burma Railway

17th October 1943

The Burma Railway, also known as the Death Railway, is a 415 kilometres railway between Bangkok, Thailand, and Rangoon, Burma, built by the Empire of Japan during World War II, to support its forces in the Burma Campaign. Forced labour was used in its construction. About 180,000 Asian labourers and 60,000 Allied prisoners of war worked on the railway. On 17 October 1943, the two sections of the line met about 18 km south of the Three Pagodas Pass at Konkuita. Most of the POWs were then transported to Japan.

Further Reading

Railway of Hell
(Paperback - 224 pages)
by Reginard Burton

A young captain in the Royal Norfolk Regiment, Reggie Burton was wounded in the closing stages of the disastrous defence of Malaya and Singapore. He vividly, yet calmly and with great dignity, describes the horror of captivity at the hands of the Japanese. After initial confusion, the true nature of… Read more at Pen & Sword...

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