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The King's Cross Story
How King's Cross grew from tile kilns and dust heaps to a vital rail artery, and from decay and dereliction to a site of major redevelopment
The Road to Armageddon
The Lost Generation has held the imagination of those who succeeded them, partly because the idea that modern war could be romantic, generous, and noble died with the casualties of that war. From this remove, it seems almost perverse that Britons, Germans, and Frenchmen of every social class eagerly rushed to the fields of Flanders and to misery and death. In The Road to Armageddon Cecil Eby shows how the widely admired writers of English popular fiction and poetry contributed, at least in England, to a romantic militarism coupled with xenophobia that helped create the climate that made World War I seem almost inevitable. Between the close of the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the opening g...
Pit & Paddock
A look behind the scenes in the pits and paddocks at UK and European circuits in the 60s and 70s.
Love and War
British Naval Officer Warwick Hursey sails a stormy path in this emotional and graphic portrait showing the naval theatre as it plays out during World War II. Receiving rapid wartime advancement from junior officer to commander following his heroic accomplishments in battle, Hursey navigates not only his ship, but the passion he finds in an unexpected source. His lifelong love of Sarah, a woman with a dubious past, fuels this complicated romance.--publisher.
Reading the Past
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Stand in the Trench, Achilles
A study of the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Elizabeth Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
