Gateway to the World: The Port of New York in Colour Photographs
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The port of New York has been a centre for trade since the eighteenth century, when it was involved...
When the Office Went to War: War Letters from Men of the Great Western Railway
Clare Horrie and Kathryn Phelps
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During the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway's Audit Office sent...
Britain's Jet Age: From the Meteor to the Sea Vixen: Volume 1
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The Jet Age began in Britain in May 1941 when the Gloster E.28/39, the first British jet aircraft,...
Supermarine Walrus
Roger Wallsgrove and James Kightly
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The Supermarine Walrus was a British single-engine amphibious biplane reconnaissance aircraft...
The Last Fighting Tommy
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On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living...
The Parisian
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As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian...
The Middle East Historical Fiction
David Jones in the Great War
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David Jones's In Parenthesis is the greatest poem to emerge from the First World War, and indeed one...
War is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature
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Canada did not fight in the Vietnam War, but the conflict seized the Canadian imagination with an...
Parade's End: Some Do Not...; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up -; The Last Post
Julian Barnes and Ford Madox Ford
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Booker Prize-winner Julian Barnes introduces Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece Parade's End - now a...
Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide
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Following its bestselling edition of "Bradshaw's Handbook 1863", "Old House" brings you this...