Product Description: Birmingham, the cradle of the industrial revolution and the world’s first manufacturing town, is an important focus for many family historians who will find that their trail leads through it. Rural migrants, Quakers, Jews, Irish, Italians, and more recently people from the Caribbean, South-Asia and China have all made Birmingham their home...read more

Product Description: Get a different view of World War Two. These 100 maps not only capture the broad sweep of events such as D-Day, but also the details, including a two-man X-Craft attack on the battleship Tirpitz. Together they give a fascinating overview of military strategy—the planning, the reconnaissance, the guesses as to enemy dispositions—as well as the debriefings and analyses that followed each battle...read more

Product Description: Provides details on fighter aircraft that have been designed and used since 1945 with profiles on the Italian Aermacchi M-346, American Lockhead F-117 Night Hawk, and the British Hawker Hunter F.Mk 1.

Product Description: Swords and other weapons with handles, or hilt weapons, were originally designed for use in melee, or confused fighting, where combatants were little more than an arm’s length apart. Wars are now often fought over much larger distances with much more elaborate methods, but for thousands of years swords, knives, daggers, machetes, axes, and other blades were the weapons of choice in any conflict...read more

Product Description: Two famed German panzer units, both of which saw extensive action on the Eastern front during WWII, are examined in fascinating detail. Ninth of a nine-book series.

Product Description: Fourth in a nine-book series, examining the tactics and strategies made by German officers in the second World War.

Product Description: The story of this elite German division which was for most of its life commanded by the charismatic Julius ‘Papa’ Ringel. It saw action in many theaters including the Balkans, Crete, the Eastern Front and finally Italy where it distinguished itself during the battles for the Gustav and Gothic defense line...read more

Product Description: This book provides both the evidence and the guidance to enable doctors to improve their assessment and management of the psychological and behavioural aspects of the most common problems presenting in general medical care. It summarises the recent research evidence and provides common sense guidance on how psychological and psychiatric aspects of illness can be addressed within the medical consultation...read more

Product Description: Initially Hitler's personal bodyguard-a 120-man SS guard that formed a cordon around him at the Nuremberg rallies, it became the Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler in 1933 under SS-Obengruppenführer Sepp Dietrich. It took a leading role in internal affairs but also took on a military role during the war, as a motorized regiment during the invasion in Poland, the Low Countries, and France; a brigade during the conquest of the Balkans; a motorized division during Operation "Barbarossa"; and an SS-Panzergrenadier Division during 1942...read more

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