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Author: Andrew Powell-Thomas
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2024-06-15
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1398112844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highly illustrated look at the military heritage of the Channel Islands from Viking invaders to the present day.
Author: Robert Bard
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1445640708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The incredible true story of what really happened in occupied Guernsey during the Second World War.
Author: Andrew Powell-Thomas
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2023-05-15
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1398103144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explore Wiltshire's military heritage, from Roman times to the present day, in this illustrated guide.
Author: George Forty
Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Drawing upon first-hand reminiscences and a superb collection of historic photographs from a wide variety of sources - including private collections - the book details the history of wartime years then brings it up to date with a succinct survey of the surviving relics of the Nazi occupation which can still be seen today." "Channel Islands at War, originally published in hardback in 1999 and now reprinted in paperback to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Islands' liberation in 1945, presents a graphic portrait of this fascinating aspect of recent British history. It will undoubtedly be of considerable interest to all those who study World War 2 in general and Northwest Europe in detail, and also be of particular interest to those who specialise in the employment of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, in a very different environment to that of the usual World War 2 battlefields."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Daniel Travers
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-06-28
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1350006955
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What is often held to be Britain's 'finest hour' – the Second World War – was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles. On the margins, the war was endured in profoundly different ways. While D-Day or Dunkirk is embedded in British collective memory, how many Britons can recall that Finns were interned on the Isle of Man, that enemy soldiers developed British infrastructure in Orkney, or that British subjects were sent to concentration camps from Guernsey? Such experiences, tangential to the dominant British war narrative, are commemorated elsewhere in the 'other British Isles'. In this remarkable contribution to British Island Studies, Daniel Travers pursues these histories and their commemoration across numerous local sites of memory: museums, heritage sites and public spaces. He examines the way these island identities assert their own distinctiveness over the British wartime story, and ultimately the way they fit into the ongoing discourse about how the memory of the Second World War has been constructed since 1945.
Author: Kelly Devries
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2024-06-25
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1837650705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The leading academic vehicle for scholarly publication in the field of medieval warfare." Medieval Warfare The articles in volume 22 of the Journal of Medieval Military History range widely, not only in chronology but also in geography and approach. Sven Ekdahl looks at the big picture of the role of Swedish castles in the north; L. J. Andrew Villalon focuses on the very particular and culturally significant rewards given by the Catholic Kings to two noble families to celebrate minor victories on the borders of Granada in the far south. Subjects include fighting at the tactical level (the unexpectedly substantial tradition of mounted archery in England, the Low Countries and France, revealed by Sanders Goevarts), the operational level (Emperor Louis II's logistics in Italy, treated by Elijah T. Wallace), and the strategic level (King John's employment of naval power, analyzed by Adam M. McNeil). Vladimir Aleksic and Damnjan Prlinčevic consider military, political, geographical, demographic, and economic factors to contextualize the military history of the rich mining town of Novo Brdo in Serbia as it faced the rising tide of Ottoman conquest in the last century of the Middle Ages. Three contributions draw on the rich resources of the English royal archives to illuminate the material and technological tools of medieval warfare: individual weapons (most significantly both longbows and short bows) described with exceptional detail in a murder case of 1315 (Clifford J. Rogers); the horses of Henry V in the Agincourt campaign of 1415 (Gary P. Baker); and the military equipment stored at Dover Castle as described in inventories dating from 1320 to 1437 (Dan Spencer).
Author: Andrew Powell-Thomas
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2024-02-15
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1398112860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of Jersey’s most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.
Author: Andrew Powell-Thomas
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2022-10-15
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1445698935
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of Wiltshire’s most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.
Author: Andrew Powell-Thomas
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2023-06-15
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1398111295
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating exploration of the local history of the castles and fortifications of the West Country.
Author: Stephen Wynn
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2019-03-30
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1473865263
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Stories of the residents of Jersey, Guernsey, and other Channel Islands and their service and sacrifice during the First World War. Before the outbreak of the First World War, the Channel Islands were scenic, sunny holiday destinations, where it was possible to briefly escape the hustle and bustle of life. But as soon as the fighting began, worries arose about the threat of a German invasion to the islands, which are much closer to the coast of France than the southern coast of Great Britain. Both men and women alike played their part. Men joined one of the islands’ militia or enlisted in one of the numerous regiments of the British Army, including the ‘Jersey Pals’ and the Royal Irish Fusiliers, Royal Irish Rifles, and Royal Irish Regiment. This book looks at the commitment and achievements of the Channel Islands’ very own Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, formed in December 1916. The Islands’ women volunteered in droves to serve with the British Red Cross’ Voluntary Aid Detachments, not just throughout the Channel Islands, but in mainland Great Britain and further afield in Belgium, France, and beyond. Ultimately, German soldiers didn’t set foot on the islands—except for about two thousand held captive there as prisoners of war. This book tells the story of the people of the Channel Islands and what they did during the First World War—including those who paid the ultimate price. Includes photos
