Military History

This book explores the challenges small states face in navigating the complexities of modern warfare, particularly within the ambiguous Grey Zones where the boundaries between peace and conflict blur.

This book explores the challenges small states face in navigating the complexities of modern warfare, particularly within the ambiguous Grey Zones where the boundaries between peace and conflict blur.

The Link in the Chain chronicles the survival of a young Dutch Jewish family through the Nazi occupation of Holland from 1940 to 1945. But it is also a love story. Just days before the Germans invaded, 19-year-old Judic de Vries married Bram Wynberg, the love of her life. Together they spent the next four years in hiding, making countless life-and-death decisions, separated from their families and even their own children. In spite of devastating losses, Judic and Bram rebuilt a life in Holland and then started over again in Canada. This memoir reveals their courage and hopes, and Judic's determination to connect us to all that was taken.

The never-told-before history of WWI's home front, when a party truce opened up 29 by-elections to a hotchpotch of failing politicians, idealists, single-issue fanatics, and chancers. Foreword by John Curtice.

On three hot days in early July of 1863, America stood at a crossroads. Two armies faced each other in a battle that might determine the course of the nation. Would the country that was founded with such high ideals in 1776 continue, or would it be divided, and another country be established alongside it? Much was riding on the decisions made by the Southern high command as they attempted to defeat the Union Army and threaten Washington, D.C.This book takes the reader through the command decisions, the troop movements, and the combat action of the battle. In addition to the narrative of the battle, there are biographical sketches which tell about many of the leaders who were engaged in this struggle, offering a human side to the conflict. This war has often been described by scholars as the first modern war in history due to the advancements in weapons and ammunition. Many of those technologies are described and the implications of those advancements on the soldiers involved.Gettysburg is remembered as a pivotal battle in the Civil War, a war that pitted brother against brother, friend against friend, neighbor against neighbor.

A detailed oral history of children's lives in Second World War Britain, based on interviews with over a hundred people who lived through it

The partition of India in 1947 was an outstanding event in world history. Originally published in 1970, after more than twenty years had passed, this title brought together the evidence and put into perspective the course of events which had led to the transfer of power in India from Britain to two successor states rather than to one.

A Guide to Commercial Radio Journalism (1999) covers every aspect of the profession, from journalistic practice to media law, and gives looks at the techniques of editing and using equipment and on the basic skills of writing, reporting and producing. There is also a whole chapter dedicated to advice on court reporting.

A Director's Method for Film and Television (1992) presents the 'cinematic language' approach to directing for film and television directors. It shows how the viewer perceives the nuances of the various pictures used to tell the story, and how movement within the frame creates drama and development.

Telecommunications: A Systems Approach (1976) presents two extended case studies, of public telephone and television systems, describes techniques within practical telecommunications systems, and takes into account users' needs and their economic constraints.

Television in the Making (1956) looks at television in its infancy, with essays by the leaders of the medium at the time, people who were forging new paths as they imagined and actioned the possibilities of television.

Teachers & Television (1987) examines the use of television in education. With television being the most powerful medium of mass communication, with tremendous potential as an educational tool, to what extent are teachers considering educational television as a component of the curriculum?

Media Use in the Information Age (1989) analyses new technologies, their impact on mass communications, and their effects on the users of these new systems. It looks at technologies such as videotex, and their successes and failures around the world, and examines the early adoptions of technologies such as home computers.

Telecommunications in Developing Countries (1990) stresses the importance of modern, micro electronics-based telecommunications for developing economies in providing a basic communications infrastructure for economic and industrial development and the springboard for new information technology activities.