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Animals in the First World War by Neil R. Storey
22.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Shire Library
The burden of the Great War was not shouldered by soldiers alone: the tasks, the camaraderie, the day-to-day life and the devastation were all shared with the animals that accompanied the forces abroad. The horses that took part in the last cavalry charges or hauled heavy guns are the most famous exampl ...Show more
Bletchley Park: The Code-Breakers of Station X by Michael Smith
22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Shire Library
Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The breaking of the Nazi Enigma cyphers by Britain's wartime code-breakers continues to fascinate, with well over 100,000 people visiting the scene of their success ...Show more
British Motorcycles of the 1940s and 50s by Mick Walker
22.99 NZD
Category: Cars & Motorcycles | Series: Shire Library
After VE Day in 1945 the British population returned enthusiastically to the road. But the cost and availability of both vehicles and fuel led to the post-war scene being dominated by motorcycles, most of them ex-military machines, eagerly snapped up for everyday use in an age when a family car remained ...Show more
British Motorcycles of the 1960s and '70s by Mick Walker
22.99 NZD
Category: Cars & Motorcycles | Series: Shire Library
For the first half of the 20th century Great Britain led the world in motorcycle design and production, exporting its products to countries in every section of the globe. However, as the second half of the century began in 1960 this once great industry commenced what was to be a terminal decline. During ...Show more
British Railways in the 1950s and '60s by Greg Morse
22.99 NZD
Category: Rail | Series: Shire Library
As Britain moved from austerity to prosperity in the 1950s and 1960s, it became clear that British Railways needed to modernise its equipment and rationalise its network if it was to hold its own in the face of growing competition from road and air transport. After attempting to maintain pre-war network ...Show more
Classic Candy: America's Favorite Sweets, 1950-80 by Darlene Lacey
22.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Shire Library USA
Whether classics like Hershey's, Mars and M&Ms or trend-setters like PEZ and Atomic Fireballs, candy has a special place in the hearts and memories of most Americans, who to this day consume more than 600 billion pounds of it each year. In this colorful illustrated guide, Darlene Lacey looks at cand ...Show more
Fashion in the Time of the Great Gatsby by Lalonnie Lehman
22.99 NZD
Category: Fashion | Series: Shire Library USA
The Great Gatsby is that rare classic that inescapably defines the age from which it sprang: the Roaring '20s, an era of economic boom, stylish excess and above all an explosion of new and exciting fashions. This book chronicles the sparkling spectacle of Jazz Age fashion as it moves from the corseted w ...Show more
Garden Cities and Suburbs by Sarah Rutherford
22.99 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: Shire Library
Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and having global influence themselves, in fact there were only ever two true, self-contained Garden Cities in England - far more nume ...Show more
Georgian Garden Buildings by Sarah Rutherford
29.99 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Shire Library
"Did Hermitages really house hermits? What was the point of a sham castle or Gothic ruin? Though Georgian garden buildings often seem monuments to rich men's folly and whimsy, in fact they always had a purpose, whether functional or ornamental, and today are valued for their social meaning and their pla ...Show more
Harley-Davidson: A History of the World's Most Famous Motorcycle: A History of the World's Most Famous Motorcycle by Margie Siegal
22.99 NZD
Category: Cars & Motorcycles | Series: Shire Library USA
Harley-Davidson: words that evoke the open American road and the 'Made in America' tradition like no others. The sweeping chopper handlebars, the distinctive throaty 'potato potato' roar of the engine and the unmistakable logo are all emblems recognized the world over. This book expertly ties together t ...Show more
Medical Services in the First World War by Dr Susan Cohen
22.99 NZD
Category: Military | Series: Shire Library
The number of wounded in the First World War was unprecedented, and inadequate military planning presented the medical and voluntary community with huge and daunting challenges. Yet in the face of tremendous adversity both tackled their work with resourcefulness, courage and great humanity. This book is ...Show more
Medieval Wall Paintings by Roger Rosewell
24.99 NZD
Category: Fine Art | Series: Shire Library
The medieval wall paintings that remain in English churches are for the most part shadows of their former selves - the rare fragments of this beautiful art to have survived not only the Reformation but also successive waves of iconoclastic zeal and unsympathetic restoration. The whitewashed walls of mos ...Show more