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  • Fishing Industry

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of the Past
    Working with prestigious archives of contemporary photographs, the authors chart the history of Britain's fishing heritage with 120 rarely seen photographs. Fishermen were hardy individuals with a precarious existence dictated by the changing rhythm of the wind and the waves. While at sea, their womenfolk cleaned, salted, pressed and bulked the fish. The fishermen of the East Coast are the last of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Can Jane Eyre Be Happy?

    More Puzzles in Classic Fiction

    by Jon Sutherland ...
    'Wonderful...concise, witty, effortlessly learned.' Sunday TimesHow does Magwitch swim to shore with a great iron on his leg? Where does Fanny Hill keep her contraceptives? Whose side is Hawkeye on? And how does Clarissa Dalloway get home so quickly?In this new edition sequel to the enormously successful Is Heathcliff a Murderer?, John Sutherland plays literary detective and investigates 32 ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Churchill's Pirates

    The Royal Naval Patrol Service in World War II

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    The Royal Naval Patrol Service, or Harry Tates Navy as it was commonly known, was a unique service with its own rules and regulations. The officers and seamen were mainly ex-fishermen who had manned trawlers in Icelandic waters. The service was armed mostly with obsolete weaponry and suffered heavy casualties in the early stages of the war. The service was not confined to the seas around Britain ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Berlin Airlift

    The Salvation of a City

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    In June 1948, Joseph Stalin halted all road and rail traffic in to and out of the Allied sector of Berlin and cut off all electricity to the city. The only route into Berlin was by means of three twenty-mile-wide air corridors across the Soviet zone of Germany. Thus the wartime allies of Britain, France and the USA realized that the only option open to them was to supply the beleaguered West ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fallschirmjager

    Elite German Paratroops in World War II

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    A rare collection of personal photographs following Nazi Germany's airborne soldiers on their missions through the Balkans, Crete, and Russia.The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album that belonged to a member of the elite German Paratroopers. First Sgt Wilhelm Plieschen served with Fallschirmjager Machine Gun Battalion 7, which suffered very heavy losses in the invasion of Crete ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blitzkrieg Poland

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    "These photographs are taken from three unpublished albums featuring the German invasion of Poland in 1939. One set was taken by an SS officer, another by a regular officer and a third by a soldier attached to a medical unit. Included are German units on the move, tanks, artillery and aircraft.There are several shots of recently knocked out Polish vehicles, captured Polish troops and civilians. ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • U-Boats at War in World War I and II

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    A photographic history of German submarines in the world wars, including unseen images from the personal collections of captains and crew.U-boats were the scourge of the seas for Allied shipping during both world wars, almost bringing Britain to the brink of starvation on several occasions. This book contains unseen photographs taken by German submarine crew and captains during each war.The World ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Malta GC

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    The Siege of Malta during World War II was one of the greatest dramas of the conflict. Bereft of vital defending aircraft, guns and ammunition this small island endured a succession of air raids from the Italian and German air forces. Valetta was virtually destroyed, the inhabitants took to living in the hills and caves as their houses lay in ruins. Food was scarce and the islands only salvation ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Farming Industry

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of the Past
    Drawing on prestigious archives of photographs, this pictorial charts the history of Britain's farming heritage with 120 rarely seen photographs.Nearly eleven thousand years ago humans moved away from hunting and gathering and began to raise livestock and plant crops. Our nostalgia for the way the countryside once was is an enduring passion. Photography emerged at a crucial time when farming tasks ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blitzkrieg Russia

    by Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    Series series Images of War
    The photographs are taken from five unpublished albums focussing on the German invasion of Russia in 1941 Operation Barbarossa. Two of the albums contain shots taken by German infantrymen and include shots of combat, vehicles, knocked-out tanks and prisoners of war. Two of the other albums feature flak and artillery units in the invasion. These include shots of artillery and flak units in action, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Brontesaurus The Brontesaurus

    An A–Z of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë (and Branwell)

    by Jon Sutherland, John Crace ...
    Did Charlotte Brontë take opium? Did the Reverend Brontë carry a loaded pistol? What, precisely, does 'wuthering' mean?Distinguished literary critic John Sutherland takes an idiosyncratic look at the world of the Brontës, from the bumps on Charlotte's head to the nefarious origins of Mr Rochester's fortune, by way of astral telephony, letterwriting dogs, an exploding peat bog, and much, much more ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Love, Sex, Death and Words

    Surprising Tales From a Year in Literature

    by Jon Sutherland, Stephen Fender ...
    Love, sex, death, boredom, ecstasy, existential angst, political upheaval - the history of literature offers a rich and varied exploration of the human condition across the centuries. In this absorbing companion to literature's rich past, arranged by days of the year, acclaimed critics and friends Stephen Fender and John Sutherland turn up the most inspiring, enlightening, surprising or curious ... Read more

    $9.29 CAD