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“steven j corvi”

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  • Haig's Generals

    Edited by Ian F. W. Beckett, Steven J. Corvi ...
    An in-depth study of Douglas Haig's army commanders on the Western Front during the First World War. Assesses their careers and characters, looks critically at their performance in command and examines their relationship with their subordinates and with Haig himself. Chapters are devoted to Allenby, Byng, Birdwood, Gough, Horne, Monro, Plumer, Rawlinson and Smith-Dorrien. Offers a fascinating ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plantagenet Queens & Consorts

    Family, Duty and Power

    by Dr Steven J. Corvi ...
    What unacknowledged theme can be found across 250 years of English history? What thread runs throughout the Plantagenet Royal House, including as it does the ‘cadet’ houses of Lancaster and York, to the beginning of the Modern Period in 1485? It is the influence on events of the royal women; in particular, the queens. Without children, there is no dynasty, no ‘house’. Plantagenet Queens and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Victoria's Generals

    Edited by Steven J. Corvi, Ian F. W. Beckett ...
    The senior British generals of the Victorian era - men like Wolseley, Roberts, Gordon and Kitchener - were heroes of their time. As soldiers, administrators and battlefield commanders they represented the empire at the height of its power. But they were a disparate, sometimes fractious group of men. They exhibited many of the failings as well as the strengths of the British army of the late ... Read more

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  • The British Field Marshals, 1736-1997

    A Biographical Dictionary

    by T. A. Heathcote, Charles Guthrie ...
    Whether any advantage or benefit will be drawn from the suspension or effective abolition of the rank of Field Marshal is debatable. What is certain, however, is that Dr. Tony Heathcotes idea of compiling a definitive biographical dictionary of holders of this illustrious rank since its introduction by George II in 1736, is opportune and inspired.Those readers who anticipate a dry recitation of ... Read more

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  • Kitchener's Army

    The Raising of the New Armies, 1914–1916

    by Peter Simkins ...
    Numbering over five million men, Britain's army in the First World War was the biggest in the country's history. Remarkably, nearly half those men who served in it were volunteers. 2,466,719 men enlisted between August 1914 and December 1915, many in response to the appeals of the Field-Marshal Lord Kitchener. How did Britain succeed in creating a mass army, almost from scratch, in the middle of a ... Read more

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  • Hell in Flanders Fields

    Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres

    by George H. Cassar ...
    On 22 April 1915, the men of the 1st Canadian Division faced chlorine gas, a new lethal weapon against which they had no defence. In defiance of a particularly horrible death, or, at the very least, severe lung injury, these untested Canadians fought almost continuously for four days, often hand-to-hand, as they clung stubbornly against overwhelming odds to a vital part of the Allied line after ... Read more

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  • The Journeys End Battalion

    The 9th East Surrey in the Great War

    by Michael Lucas ...
    The history of the Great British regiment's World War I service that inspired an award-winning play.R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey's End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his frontline service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Victory

    The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign

    by Andrew Stewart ...
    "Exciting . . . a comprehensive account of an overlooked campaign in which an outnumbered imperial army destroyed Mussolini's dream of a new Roman Empire." —Ashley Jackson, author of ChurchillSurprisingly neglected in accounts of Allied wartime triumphs, this is the story of the British and Commonwealth forces who, against all odds, completed a stunning and important victory in East Africa against ... Read more

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  • Mud, Blood and Poppycock

    Britain and the Great War

    by Gordon Corrigan ...
    The true story of how Britain won the First World War.The popular view of the First World War remains that of BLACKADDER: incompetent generals sending brave soldiers to their deaths. Alan Clark quoted a German general's remark that the British soldiers were 'lions led by donkeys'. But he made it up.Indeed, many established 'facts' about 1914-18 turn out to be myths woven in the 1960s by young ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Great Boer War

    by Byron Farwell ...
    The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by " a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars" ( Kirkus Reviews).The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as the Great Anglo-Boer War, was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British ... Read more

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  • Passchendaele

    A New History

    by Nick Lloyd ...
    'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard Dannatt'Sweeps aside mythology and provides a rational explanation and cool description of what took place' Max Hastings, Sunday Times_________________________________Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never found. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Chief

    Douglas Haig and the British Army

    by Gary Sheffield ...
    ‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday‘A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well qualified to make it … a balanced portrait’ Sunday Times‘Solid scholarship and admirable advocacy’ Sunday ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD