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  • Hospital Ships & Troop Transport of the First World War

    by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    The biggest shipping loss of both world wars was the hospital ship Britannic, at almost 50,000 tons. Supposedly safe to travel the seas, many hospital ships were lost in both wars. From the smallest of motor launches through steam yachts and converted ocean liners, Campbell McCutcheon tells the story of the First World War hospital ships. Many succumbed to accidents, mines or German submarines but ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Home Guard Manual 1941

    by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    Two weeks before Dunkirk, Anthony Eden, Minister of War, announced to the nation on BBC radio his concept of a Local Defence Volunteer force. It was a grim time! The Germans were routing the French and British in Belgium and France, Norway was lost, and within two weeks, the cream of Britain's fighting forces would be weaponless and kit-less, seeking rescue from the beaches of Dunkirk. Eden's ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • St Kilda A Journey to the End of the World

    by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    Using a unique series of images, many taken on the island of Hirta, the route is traced through the Western Isles and takes in Coll, Tiree, Skye, North and South Uist and St Kilda itself. The album itself was found in a Bristol antiques fair and the author collected another 40 or so period images and brochures to trace the route from Glasgow's Anderston Quay down the Clyde to Village Bay in St ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Port of Southampton in the 60s & 70s

    by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    The Port of Southampton saw many changes in the 1960s and 1970s. These two decades saw the decline of the liner trade, a major strike that all but killed the British shipping industry, the rapid growth of containerization, and the early shoots of Britain's cruise ship phenomenon. Using a unique collection of images, none previously published before, and all taken by one man on his frequent visits ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Port of Tilbury in the 60s and 70s

    by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    The 1960s saw a gradual movement of shipping from central London and the quays, wharves and docks of the upper River Thames down river to Tilbury and Harwich. There was a managed closure of the dock system west of Tilbury and between the early 1970s and 1980s, the Surrey Commercial, India & Millwall Docks and the Royal Docks all closed down. Down river, Tilbury was booming still, with expansion to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Titanic Amberley Histories

    by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    On the night of 14/15 April 1912, the Titanic, on her maiden voyage, sailed into history. Ramming an iceberg at speed, many of those aboard drowned or froze to death when she sank, with only a mere 700 passengers and crew rescued by the Cunard liner Carpathia. Fifteen hundred died in one of the worst peacetime maritime accidents in a collision that was totally avoidable. Too few lifeboats had been ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Port of Southampton

    by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    'Port of Southampton' is the story of the Hampshire port from Roman times to the present day, illustrated by a colelction of images showing everything from seaman's strikes to shipwrecks, the Titanic and Queen Mary, as well as the other famous ocean liners that have called at the port since the 1840s. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Elders & Fyffes

    A Photographic History

    by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    Ubiquitous in ever supermarket and corner shop, it is hard to imagine a world without bananas. But it was once so! Britain’s love affair with the humble banana is as much the story of Elders & Fyffes, a company set up to import the golden fruit into the United Kingdom. Originally, British imports were of the small Cavendish banana from the Canaries but the British Government was keen to see some ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Ships of Scapa Flow

    by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    The islands surrounding Scapa Flow made one of Britain's best natural harbours, while the location at the north of Scotland protected the approaches to the North Sea and Atlantic. The naval base was important during both wars but what makes Scapa Flow famous is its wrecks, the remains of a German fleet, which once numbered some 74 vessels, most of which were scuttled in 1919, as well as the war ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Bradshaw's Guide Bradshaw at the Seaside

    Britain's Victorian Resorts

    by John Christopher, Campbell McCutcheon ...
    Series series Bradshaw's Guide
    Bradshaw’s Guide of 1863 was the staple book on what’s what and where’s where for the mid-Victorians and it gives the modern reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century railway travellers. The guide introduced the notion of seaside holidays to the general public and thanks to the railways it became possible for a town or city dweller to catch a train for a day-trip to the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Blitzkrieg

    The Second World War in Colour

    Edited by Campbell McCutcheon ...
    Colour photography was a rare thing in the 1930s. Various systems of colour photography had been tried, including Dufaycolour and Kodachrome but the processes were time consuming and difficult to process. The Germans had developed Agfacolor, which was state of the art for the time and easily processed with basic chemicals and equipment in rudimentary darkrooms close to the front. Sending ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • 1915 The First World War in Photographs

    Setbacks & Failures

    by John Christopher, Campbell McCutcheon ...
    Series series The First World War in Photographs
    1915, the second year of the Great War, was to see the failure of the Dardanelles landings and the sinking of the Lusitania, shown below, with the loss of 1,198 people, as well as the first bombing of mainland Britain by Zeppelin and the entry of Italy into the war. Huge battles would be fought at sea and on land, while the fledgling air forces of the fighting powers clashed in the clouds. 1915 ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD