ISBN: 0571249647
Published by Faber & Faber on February 1st 2012
Pages: 336
Len's Summary: Number seven in the Jim Stringer Steam Detective series finds Jim investigating a murder in a British railway pioneer battalion on the Western Front. // Enlisted British Army railwayman Jim Stronger finds himself falsely accused of murder during the 1916 Somme Campaign. Winner of the British Dagger Award for Best Historical Mystery.
The Baghdad Railway Club
The Baghdad Railway Club by Andrew Martin
ISBN: 9780571249619
Published by Faber & Faber on 2012
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780571249619
Published by Faber & Faber on 2012
Pages: 304
Len's Summary: Another Jim Stringer Railway Cop novel finds our hero invalided from the Western front and in Mesopotamia seeking a British traitor.
Admirals: The Naval Commanders who made Britain Great
Admirals: The Naval Commanders who made Britain Great by Andrew Lambert
ISBN: 057123156X
Published by Faber & Faber on September 18th 2008
Pages: 492
ISBN: 057123156X
Published by Faber & Faber on September 18th 2008
Pages: 492
Len's Summary: Embraces three centuries of naval history centering on the biographies of eleven British admirals including Robert Blake, George Anson, Samuel Hood, St. Vincent, John Fisher, Davie Beattie and Andrew Cunningham. Written by a premier British naval historian.
The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism by Casper W. Erichsen, David Olusoga
ISBN: 9780571231423
Published by Faber & Faber on August 1st 2011
Genres: History, Africa, South, General, Europe, Germany, Military, Other, Political Science, Political Process
Pages: 394
ISBN: 9780571231423
Published by Faber & Faber on August 1st 2011
Genres: History, Africa, South, General, Europe, Germany, Military, Other, Political Science, Political Process
Pages: 394
Len's Summary: An indictment of German colonialism in South West Africa (present-day Namibia); the 1905 massacres of Herero and Nama tribesmen.