This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.
Tie-in book to major BBC1 series to be screened during the Autumn. Interest in WW2 continues to grow. New light on the infamous German response to the Great Escape and the ever popular and legendary Colditz Castle.
Contemporary biography of the Scots poet Robert Fergusson who died tragically young at 24 in 1774 and who was to inspire Robert Burns. Illustrated and indexed with samples of his work.
He was a respected cabinetmaker and councillor by day - but Deacon William Brodie changed into a sinister, thieving monster when darkness fell on the old city of Edinburgh.
British POWs of WWII have been extensively interviewed for this dramatic account of life in German captivity. While prisoners' primary goal was to stay alive in these camps, there were several escape attempts. The great escape, the escape from Colditz, and lesser known operations are all covered here. In departure from most POW books, German guards were also extensively interviewed.
Overwhelmed by the German Blitzkreig, the British Expeditionary Force faced annihilation. Miraculously, and thanks to decisive generalship, over 300,000 troops got back to our island fortress to fight another day. There was much more to the Dunkirk story than evacuating the beaches in the little ships and boats.