Librairie

Railway Posters

de Lorna Frost

Railway posters have a huge appeal to the modern audience, but just what is it that appeals to us? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament...

Beswick Pottery

de Val Baynton

Beswick is typical of the numerous small scale ceramic factories founded towards the end of the Victorian era and manufacturing through the first two thirds of the 20th century. Like many of these companies...

Breweriana: American Beer Collectibles

de Kevin Kious

Though beer is one of the oldest beverages around, beer can collecting--particularly in the United States--really picked up steam in the 1930s when beer in cans first appeared. Since then, beer can collecting...

Mail-Order Homes: Sears Homes and Other Kit Houses

de Rebecca Hunter

At the turn of the last century, the American middle class was expanding rapidly as homesteaders moved west and as trains took travellers across the country, where they established themselves in the depot towns...

Sister Crazy

de Emma Richler

The sprawling Weiss family--as recalled by Jemima, the middle child in Emma Richler’s amazing debut--live an almost idyllic existence. The feeling among the siblings is so palpable that we cannot help but...

British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War

de Peter Doyle

For the British army, the cap badge is the most easily identifiable of insignia. It represents a distillation of the pride of the regiment, its various battle honours and symbols born proudly on the metallic...

Traditional Building Materials

de Matthew Slocombe

Steel and glass now dominate modern British cities, but the country can still boast millions of older houses constructed of more traditional building materials. Many date from the period before easy nationwide...

Classic Video Games: The Golden Age 1971-1984

de Brian Eddy

In the early 1970s, video arcade games sprung to life with the advent of Pong and other coin-operated games. Within just a few short years, if you had a quarter, you could go to the video arcade and play Space...

Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions

de Carol Hayes

For almost two thousand years, the pottery made by the Indians of America’s Southwest has remained a vital art. Today, more than twenty Pueblos and tribes make pottery within the tradition, each with a distinctive...

Transatlantic Liners

de J Layton

Prior to air travel there was only one way to cross the Atlantic: by ship. By the late nineteenth century, steam ships dominated the transatlantic passenger trade, growing exponentially in size as maritime technology...

Napoleon Bonaparte

de Gregory Barnes & Peter Dennis

Napoleon Bonaparte is renowned as one of the great military commanders in history, and the central figure in so many of the events of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Throughout the first decade...

Panther: Germany's quest for combat dominance

de Mike Green

The German Panther tank was almost certainly the most elegant design of WWII. It embodied a balance of firepower, armor protection, and mobility unmatched by any other tank of the period. Yet, it was not the...

Archibald Wavell

de Jon Diamond & Peter Dennis

Archibald Wavell remains one of the great Allied commanders of the early phases of World War II. In fact, between June 1940 and June 1941, he was the only British theatre commander actively engaging Axis forces....

America's Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG

de Jr., Gaillard R. Peck

This book is the story of a group of military pioneers who were intent on using their experience and knowledge to develop a new training paradigm for fighter pilots. As a Vietnam veteran and Phantom F-4 pilot,...

Home Before the Leaves Fall: A New History of the German Invasion of 1914

de Ian Senior

The German invasion of France and Belgium in August 1914 came within an ace of defeating the French armies, capturing Paris, and ending the First World War before the autumn leaves had fallen. But the German...

My Journey as a Combat Medic: From Desert Storm to Operation Enduring Freedom

de Patrick Thibeault

My Journey as a Combat Medic is a no-holds-barred look at the modern medic in the US Army, allowing us a glimpse at the training as a soldier and as a specialist, as well as deployment and front line duties...

Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior

de Montgomery J. Granger

Synopsis:

"Hard as it is to believe, one of the most significant stories of the post-9/11 age is also one of the least known-life at Gitmo, the detention facility for many of the world's worst terrorists. Few...

Fourplay: A Novel

de Jane Moore

At age thirty-three, Josephine Miles is forced to come up with a brand-new life when her husband leaves her for "the cliche"--his very young, very pretty secretary. Suddenly she's single and back in the dating...

The Juice of the Poppy

de Anthony Dickenson

Synopsis:

Electronics expert Steve Dalton owns a medical equipment agency in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His business takes him all over the world.

Last year, a chance alliance with Cecil Liu, a shrewd Chinese...

Playback: A Novel

Marlowe #7

de Raymond Chandler

Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law...