At the start of the American Civil War, neither side had warships on either side of the Mississippi River and in the first few months of the war, both sides scrambled to gather a flotilla,...
This new work adds to the theoretical understanding and discussion of possible solutions to various conceptual and practical problems that arise within the field of medical negligence - an area...
From The Death of Nancy Sykes (1897) to The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) and beyond, cinematic adaptations of British literature participate in a complex and fascinating history....
A postwar tragicomedy of manners, an Edwardian romance, and a historical drama are collected in this volume of works by the award-winning novelist. Ribbon marker.
The science of the future of the physical universe has been transformed since the discovery of the accelerating universe in 1998. Overall science paints a picture of a future of futility and...
Scared of the Dark? It's Really Scared of You is a picture book that playfully unpacks a common childhood fear. You may be afraid of the dark... But did you know that the dark is actually...
Part two of this series details the uniforms and equipment of the troops of the Third Republic who fought out the last five months of the war before the final catastrophic defeat.
With the need for large-scale amphibious landings to decide the outcome of World War II the US Navy developed several types of specialized unit to reconnoitre potential landing areas, degrade the...
Although the Crusader was built first and foremost as a Navy interceptor, as has often been the tradition with US fighters, a photo-reconnaissance variant was also produced aby Vought. The...
Germany's nightfighter force was virtually non-existent at the start of the war, mainly due to Reichmashall Herman Goring's boast that bombs would never fall on Germany. Aby mid 1940 the...
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written aby the youngest of the famous Bront sisters. Anne Bront wrote these two fantastically successful novels just...
An illustrated study of the Soviet Navy s most powerful surface combatants of the Cold War. Will appeal to all those interested in the Soviet armed forces and Cold War technology."
After the huge advances made in the early months of the Pacific war, it was in remote New Guinea where the advance of Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force (IJNAF) A6M Zero-sen fighters was first...
The kanon text on the identification of the northern hemisphere's gulls, this book covers the plumage variation through age and subspecies of all 80 species in the region. With exhaustive...
"Jon Scieszka, the groundbreaking storyteller and master of wit, brings us a smart and hilarious adventure. AstroNuts doesn't just break new ground-it breaks outer space Brilliant." --...
Birds of Western Africa (Helm, 2001) was the first single-volume guide to cover all the species of this region, which comprises 23 countries from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and...
Now in its fifteenth edition, this volume is an important, revised and updated ceremonial manual, published to guide and assist in celebrating the traditional liturgy today.Today as the traditional...
Helps you to discover what equipment a GI carried with him during World War II: what he had strapped around his body, what it contained, and what those items were used for. This book offers a...
In 1917 Poland was recognised as a state by Russia, but the Bolshevik coup threatened this. The Polish leader Marshal Pilsudski hurried to build an army around Polish World War I veterans, and in...
The M4 Sherman tank was the mainstay of the Western allies between 1942 and 1945. Fast and modern it was a big success and was transported as far afield as Russia and North Africa. The American...
It's an unforgettable field trip! In this follow-up to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to School..., Henry is late to a museum where his class is spending the day. But he has a plan:...