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The Man Who Took the Rap
This is the first biography of Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, a key figure in the early development of airpower, whose significant and varied achievements have been overlooked because of his subsequent involvement in the fall of Singapore. It highlights Brooke-Popham’s role in developing the first modern military logistic system, the creation of the Royal Air Force Staff College and the organizational arrangements that underpinned Fighter Command’s success in the Battle of Britain. Peter Dye challenges longstanding views about performance as Commander-in-Chief Far East and, based on new evidence, offers a more nuanced narrative that sheds light on British and Allied preparations for the Pacific War, inter-service relations and the reasons for the disastrous loss of air and naval superiority that followed the Japanese attack. “The Man Who Took the Rap” highlights the misguided attempts at deterrence, in the absence of a coordinated information campaign, and the unprecedented security lapse that betrayed the parlous state of the Allied defenses.
A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars
Hutchinson, John. A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars, with Brief Biographical Notices. [London]: The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, 1902. xiv, 284 pp. Reprinted 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002041361. ISBN 1-58477-323-5. Cloth. $80. * Brief biographies of nearly one thousand distinguished Templars admitted between 1501 to 1901, such as Sir William Blackstone, Joseph Chitty, Henry Fielding, Sir William Jones, Lord Kenyon and Sir John Skene. A handy volume for the scholar of English law.
St. Helena, 1502-1938
A history of St Helena, which is an account of Britain's most remote and second oldest colony. Once the hub of South Atlantic trade routes and the vital ocean oasis for homeward-bound East Indiamen, its history, punctuated by Napoleon's brief exile, is a saga of fortitudes, follies and frustrations.
1914 and Other Poems
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Alan Brooke—Churchill's Right-Hand Critic
This new biography of Churchill’s top WWII advisor is “an excellent book for anyone interested in military leadership” (The NYMAS Review). Voted the greatest Briton of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill has long been credited with almost single-handedly leading his country to victory in World War II. But without Alan Brooke, a skilled tactician, at his side the outcome might well have been disastrous. Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, more often than not served as a brake on some of Churchill’s more impetuous ideas. However, while Brooke’s diaries reveal his fury with some of Churchill’s decisions, they also reveal his respect and admiration for the wartime prime...
100 Favorite English and Irish Poems
Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English, among them Edmund Spenser, Christina Rossetti, John Milton, Robert Burns, and William Blake.
Wings Over Kabul
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Song of the Brook
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