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  • Battles of a Gunner Officer

    Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, and the Long Road to Germany

    by John Philip Jones ...
    What was it like to serve as an artillery officer during the Second World War? How did he view the battlefield and experience combat? And how did his work with the guns combine with that of the other arms - the infantry, the tanks? Peter Pettit's diary, covering his entire wartime career in the Royal Artillery, edited and with an extensive introduction by John Philip Jones, offers a rare insight ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Burning Tanks and an Empty Desert

    Based on the Unpublished Journal of Major John Sylvanus Macgill, Mb, Chb, Md, Royal Army Medical Corps

    by John Philip Jones ...
    The Successes and Sacrifices of the British Army in 1914 This work is a study of military history from the top down and also from the bottom up. It describes a brigadefour thousand menof the old British Regular Army that fought in the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1914. This army was of the highest quality but was very small. The book describes the strategy and tactics of the fighting, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Fables, Fashions, and Facts About Advertising

    A Study of 28 Enduring Myths

    by John Philip Jones ...
    "The book makes an interesting and substantive contribution to the field of advertising directly, and also to the entire field of marketing communications or promotion. John Philip Jones presents a new and informed perspective that supports and underpins the need for advertising that works rather than emotive rhetoric that obscures its purpose and function."--Philip J. Kitchen, University of Hull, ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Johnny

    The Legend and Tragedy of General Sir Ian Hamilton

    by John Philip Jones ...
    The Gallipoli campaign was launched in April 1915 in an effort to knock Turkey out of the war but the force that was deployed was too small to achieve its aim. Moreover, the commander, General Sir Ian Hamilton was at fault in the way he conducted his campaign. Never happier than when he was in the thick of action, Hamilton was an excellent tactician but, by 1915, and in a situation like Gallipoli, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queen Victoria’S Paladins

    Garnet Wolseley and Frederick Roberts

    by John Philip Jones ...
    QUEEN VICTORIAS PALADINS The unique feature of this book is that it is a dual biography. Garnet Wolseley (18331913) and Frederick Roberts (18321914) were the most important British soldiers during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. They both became field marshals and were both raised to the peerage and entered the House of Lords. Wolseley and Roberts were Queen Victorias paladins. Their ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Keynes's Vision

    Why the Great Depression did not Return

    by John Philip Jones ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the 20th Century, whose doctrines had a huge impact on American prosperity in the years following the Second World War. This new book by John Philip Jones describes the main features of Keynes's work, including the fiscal and monetary policies he recommended, together with a detailed trackin ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Cauldron of War, 1914-1918

    The Experiences of Robert Gardner, Mc Cambridge Classicist and Infantry Officer

    by John Philip Jones ...
    THE CAULDRON OF WAR, 1914-1918 Robert Gardner (1899-1972) was a member of a generation of highly-educated Englishmen who went to war in 1914: a war in which they suffered a horrifying loss of life. Robert Gardner was one of the survivors. Before the war, after taking First-Class Honours in both parts of the Classics Tripos at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, he was awarded the much prized Craven ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Psychology in Social Context

    Issues and Debates

    by Philip John Tyson, Dai Jones, Jonathan Elcock ...
    Psychology in Social Context: Issues and Debates provides a critical perspective on debates and controversies that have divided opinion within psychology both past and present.Explores the history of psychology through examples of classic and contemporary debates that have split the discipline and sparked change, including race and IQ, psychology and gender, ethical issues in psychology, ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

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  • Second to None

    The History of the Coldstream Guards, 1650–2000

    by Julian Paget ...
    An illustrated history of the oldest continuously serving regular regiment in the British Army.Familiar to tourists at Buckingham Palace, the Coldstream Guards are also a fully operational combat unit. The regiment played a key role at Blenheim and Waterloo, fought at Monmouth in the American Revolution, served in both World Wars and is frequently deployed on short notice to the world's trouble ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making Of The British Army

    by Allan Mallinson ...
    Edgehill, 1642: Surveyingthe disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old, feudal way: there has to be system and discipline, and therefore - eventually - a standing professional army.From the 'New Model Army' of Cromwell's distant vision, former soldier Allan Mallinson shows us the people and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Gallipoli 1915

    The Fight for the Dardanelles Strait

    by Peter Doyle ...
    In a campaign part sponsored by First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915 remains one of the most resounding Allied defeats of the First World War, with both the Allied and Ottoman armies suffering in excess of 200,000 casualties.Despite this, many believed it would be a sure-fire success due to the preceding naval campaign, but increased losses at sea prompted ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How the Army Made Britain a Global Power, 1688–1815

    by Jeremy Black ...
    "A majestic study of the British Army's evolution" from the acclaimed historian, commentator, and author of Britain's Naval Route to Greatness (Stanley D.M. Carpenter, Emeritus Professor of Strategy, U.S. Naval War College).Between 1760 and 1815, British troops campaigned from Manila to Montreal, Cape Town to Copenhagen, Washington to Waterloo. The naval dimension of Britain's expansion has been ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus