The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries & North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, & events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations & shows how they reverberated around the world. As well as discussing better-known battles such as Gallipoli, Verdun & the Somme, Jeffery examines Dublin, for the Easter Rising, East Africa, the Italian front, Central Asia & Russia, where the killing of Rasputin exposed the internal political weakness of the country`s empire. &, in charting a wide range of wartime experience, he studies the `intelligence war`, naval engagements at Jutland & elsewhere, as well as the political consequences that ensued from the momentous US presidential election. Using an extraordinary range of military, social & cultural sources, & relating the individual experiences on the ground to wider developments, these are the stories lost to history, the conflicts that spread beyond the sphere of Europe & the moments that transformed the war. ...

The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries & North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, & events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent historian Keith Jeffery uses twelve moments from a range of locations & shows how they reverberated around the world. As well as discussing better-known battles such as Gallipoli, Verdun & the Somme, Jeffery examines Dublin, for the Easter Rising, East Africa, the Italian front, Central Asia & Russia, where the killing of Rasputin exposed the internal political weakness of the country`s empire. &, in charting a wide range of wartime experience, he studies the `intelligence war`, naval engagements at Jutland & elsewhere, as well as the political consequences that ensued from the momentous United States presidential election. Using an extraordinary range of military, social & cultural sources, & relating the individual experiences on the ground to wider developments, these are the stories lost to history, the conflicts that spread beyond the sphere of Europe & the moments that transformed the war. ...

The 1916 Easter Rising & its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government`s execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks & troublemakers into national heroes. Those who avoided the British firing squads of May 1916 went on to plan a new
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- struggle for Ireland`s independence, shaping their country`s destiny for the century to come. But what sort of country did they create? & to what extent does post-1916 Ireland measure up to the hopes & aspirations of ` Mac Donagh & Mac Bride / & Connolly & Pearse`? Best-selling historian Tim Pat Coogan offers a strongly personal perspective on the Irish century that followed the Rising
- charting a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption & institutional & clerical abuse, as it is by the sacrifices & nation-building achievements of the Republic`s founding fathers.


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100 years since the Russian Revolution: the 20th century`s greatest Russian writers respond ` This is the last of you, old world
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Produced in association with Imperial War Museums, 1918: How the First World War Was Won gives a detailed account of the final year of the war. It examines each battle in turn, from the German Spring Offensives on the Western Front, through the Battle of Amiens that heralded the start of the Hundred Days campaign, to the Battle of Megiddo at the start of the final British-led offensive. Major General Julian Thompson`s authoritative text is illustrated with contemporary photographs & full-colour maps. It tells the story of the US entry in to the war, the tactical command of Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch, & the final push that gave the Allies total victory. ...

A sailor’s dream, attractive & well proportioned, a beauty. This classic 1930s yacht model sits on a beautifully molded antique finished st&, supported by two brass feet. Clean & crisp sails, bronze portholes & lots of nice details. Available in two sizes. The vessel is complete with elaborate fittings, rigging, sails & other features to create a beautiful & detailed model of the original ship. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

A sailor’s dream, attractive & well proportioned, a beauty. This classic 1930s yacht model sits on a beautifully molded antique finished st&, supported by two brass feet. Clean & crisp sails, bronze portholes & lots of nice details. Available in two sizes. The vessel is complete with elaborate fittings, rigging, sails & other features to create a beautiful & detailed model of the original ship. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

A desktop airplane model, hand cast aluminum plane & stand crafted to a high perfection. 1930s travel nostalgia. Legendary airlines ruled the 1930s skies. Pan Am, Trans World, Imperial Airways. When the DC-3 was introduced, travel was changed beyond recognition. It instantly became an iconic presence, & models filled the desks & windows of travel agents nationwide. A new global travel era was born. If we do not have this item in stock we will order it for you from our supplier. Delivery generally takes 3 weeks within the UK. For overseas delivery queries please email sales@stanfords.co.uk ...

In this masterly new work, acclaimed historian Giles Mac Donogh explores the moment when Hitler gambled everything. Until 1938, Hitler could be dismissed as a ruthless but efficient dictator, a problem to Germany alone; after 1938 he was clearly a threat to the entire world. In that year The Third Reich came of age & the Fuhrer showed his hand
- bringing Germany into line with Nazi ideology & revealing long-held plans to take back those parts of Europe lost to ` Greater Germany` after the First World War. The sequence of events began in January with the purging of the army, & escalated with the merger with Austria
- the Anschluss, & the first persecutions of Viennese Jewry. In the following months Hitler moulded the nation to his will. Elections brought him a 99 per cent approval rating. Mac Donogh gives a full account of the nationalist opposition that failed to topple Hitler in September 1938. By the end of the year the brutal reality of the Nazi regime was revealed by Joseph Goebbels in Kristallnacht, a nationwide assault on Germany`s native Jewish population. Mac Donogh`s access to many new sources gives insights into what life was like under the eye of the regime, revealing the role of the Anglican Church after the Anschluss, saving those Jews who were willing to convert, & also the Kendrick Affair
- the still-secret details of the Austrian double agent who brought down the whole MI6 operation in Austria & Germany, just as the Chamberlain government began negotiations with Hitler at Munich. A remarkable & revealing account of Hitler`s opening moves to war.


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The Season of 1939 brought all those `in Society` to London. The young debutante daughters of the upper classes were presented to the King & Queen to mark their acceptance into the new adult world of their parents. They sparkled their way through a succession of balls & parties & sporting events. The Season brought together influential people not only from Society but also from Government at the various events of the social calendar. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain chaperoned his debutante niece to weekend house parties; Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, lunched with the Headmaster of Eton; Cabinet Ministers encountered foreign Ambassadors at balls in the houses of the great hostesses. As the hot summer drew on, the newspapers filled with ever more ominous reports of the relentless progress towards war. There was nothing to do but wait
- & dance. The last season of peace was nearly over.
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