This author is a military historian and a former Royal Marines officer. His extensive writing focuses on military history and, specifically, the Falklands conflict. His expertise stems from his own high-level military command experience, lending a unique perspective to his work.
A combination of Google Earth images showing the modern-day locations of crucial battles and strategic locations alongside specially commissioned maps showing troop movements, tactics and topography.
Verdun and Somme battle are two of the most important events in the history of First World War. This title contains accounts on CD, and includes 30 items of memorabilia that allow the reader to re-live this cataclysmic period of history.
In May 1940, the small British Expeditionary Force was sent to help the Belgians and French hold back the German army. When the Germans invaded, the BEF found themselves in mortal danger thanks to the collapse of the French army on one flank and the Belgian on another. Ill-equipped and under-trained, they nevertheless fought hard for three weeks, conducting a successful fighting withdrawal in the face of a formidable foe. Drawing on previously unpublished and rare material, Julian Thompson recreates the action from the misunderstandings between the British and French generals to the experiences of the ordinary soldier. He describes the fighting inland and takes us onto Dunkirk harbour and the beaches as the Royal Navy raced against time to bring the British soldiers home. A masterly work of military history, Dunkirk: Retreat to Victory is also a tribute to the soldiers whose courage and self belief sustained them through their darkest hours.
From the end of 1941 to 1945, a pivotal but often overlooked conflict was being fought in Burma. 'Forgotten Voices of Burma' draws on the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum to present a remarkable new history told from both the Commonwealth and Japanese sides of this epic campaign.
The Updated Fourth Edition of the Award-Winning Book that Offers Beginning Educators Everything They Need in Order to Survive and Thrive! Designed for new educators, this award-winning book covers the basic strategies, activities, and tools teachers need to know in order to succeed in the classroom. Now it its fourth edition, The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide contains new and updated material on essential topics including: classroom management (how to prevent or minimize disruptions), sustaining professional growth, differentiated instruction, nurturing a growth mindset, and much more. The fourth edition also offers downloadable forms and worksheets, and video instruction on key topics. In addition, this must-have guide: Offers ideas for dealing with homework and instructional concerns from parents and guardians Includes suggestions for helping new professionals maintain a successful work-life balance Contains guidelines to classroom technology and ideas for using digital tools to create engaging lessons Proposes proven strategies for forging positive, supportive relationships with students Presents recommendations for successfully managing the most common discipline problems This must-have guide is filled with the information and tips new teachers need in order to face classroom situations with confidence.
Tells the story of the end of the war in Europe (from before D-Day to the German surrender) as experienced by the participants. The first-person, contemporary, unpublished accounts and the illustrations are taken from the archives of the Imperial War Museum.
The reader can re-live this momentous period of history by examining maps, diaries, letters, sketches, secret memos and reports, posters and labels which up till now have remained exclusively in museums.
Using extraordinary unpublished material from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, Julian Thompson reveals the searing reality of combat in the biggest ground war to be fought by the Allies against the Japanese.Full of vivid accounts that take the reader straight into the heat of battle, this is a long overdue acknowledgement of the campaigns magnificent achievement: a victory which turned the tide of the war in the Far East.
From D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich
The Victory in Europe Experience; from D-Day to the Destruction of the Third Reich
Obsahuje přes 200 fotografií a 17 podrobných bitevních map. Velkorysý formát, reprezentativní provedení knihy vsunuté do obalu. Publikace vznikla ve spolupráci s Imperiálním válečným muzeem v Londýně. Autor – známý britský historik – poctivě, a přitom čtivě popisuje strategický kontext, taktické postupy i temnou každodennost obou bitev. Do knihy je vloženo 30 faksimilií (přesných reprodukcí) unikátních dobových dokumentů, jejichž čtení usnadňuje přiložená brožura českými překlady.
