Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, Britain was shaken by war and peace. This title paints a portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.

As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive the narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in Chingford; the self-absorbed civil servant Henry St John perfects the

Covering various subjects including history, cathedrals, sports, records, modern Britain, royalty, people, places, deeds, discoveries and disasters, this work features a range of questions from multiple choice and odd ones out to picture quizzes illustrated with line drawings to test your knowledge of the famous faces and facades of Britain.

An outstandingly written, action-packed memoir of a decorated British soldier's experience of fighting Taliban forces in Afghanistan in summer 2006.

In a fascinating time-travelling experiment Lion Television, with the BBC, follow a team of historians who will spend a year recreating farm life in 1885. This book follows the team as they try to run a farm using only materials and resources that would have been available to them in the Victorian era.

Newly-discovered diaries that take us back to the trenches and present the war as it really was.

Presents the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's railways, stimulating economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. This title reveals that the global expansion of the railways was key to the spread of modernity and the making of the modern world.

Formed by men not eligible for active service - too old, too young, in reserved occupations vital to the war effort - who were expected to resist a German invasion with any resources they had to hand, the Home Guard is the embodiment of plucky British resolve against the odds. This book intends to evoke this spirit.

Their job is to put themselves in the heart of danger - to run into battle to rescue the wounded and to risk their own lives to try and save the dying. This book presents the story of those brave men and women who go to war armed with bandages not bombs, scalpels not swords, and put saving life above taking life.

The dramatic story of Scotland and how it shaped Great Britain - by one of the most charismatic of the new television historians.

This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.

Published to tie-in with the new series of the fascinating BBC Radio 4 programme, In Our Time guides us through the most significant moments in our history.

Explains what life was like in the most immediate way, through taking readers, to the middle ages, and showing various things from the horrors of leprosy and war to the ridiculous excesses of roasted larks and haute couture.

The story of life after the Great War ended for a generation determined not be dominated by the past

Presents the history of the Arabs in the modern world. This book covers the Arab world from North Africa through the Arabian Peninsula. It covers themes including the conflict between national independence and foreign domination, the Arab-Israeli struggle and the peace process, and Abdel Nasser and the rise of Arab Nationalism.

Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. It is a modern state, driven by contemporary technology. This book presents the story of the Saudis in their own words.

An oral history taken from Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive. This title features soldiers from both sides tell their stories of this epic conflict.

Brian May's painstaking reproduction of exquisite stereo photographs from the dawn of photography transports the reader back in time to the lost world of an Oxfordshire village in 1850s England.

In November 1942, two nights after tha Battle of El Alamein, a young British army officer was captured by German forces. As the Nazis deliberated about what to do with him and his peers, Richard Carver had particular reason to be afraid: unknown to anyone else, he was the stepson of Lt-Gen Bernard Montgomery, who had just inflicted the first serious land defeat on the Third Reich. This ...

Drawing on material from the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, this title presents an intimate insight into life on the front line of the war of the Somme: from the day-to-day struggle of extraordinary circumstances to the white heat of battle and the constant threat of injury or death. It features contributions from soldiers of both sides.