Andrews UK

and Other EssaysThis highly readable new collection of thirty pieces by Michael Oakeshott, almost all of which are previously unpublished, covers every decade of his intellectual career, and adds significantly to his contributions to the philosophy of historical understanding and political philosophy, as well as to the philosophy of education and...

A fascinating look at the events of the Paris Peace Conference at the end of the First World War written by a man who was there: journalist Emile Joseph Dillon. The conference ran for just over a year, and resulted in the signing of various treaties, including the Treaty of Versailles, and the creation of the League of Nations, the precursor to the...

Volume I.-1/6th BattalionCompiled at the instigation of the &'Old Comrades Association&' of the 1/6th Battalion of the West Yorkshire regiment, this is a typical no-nonsense history of a down-to-earth unit that saw active service, suffered heavy casualties, and rendered sterling service in some of the very worst fighting seen on the western front...

The History of the Durham Light Infantry 1939-1945The Durham Light Infantry is not only one of the British army's proudest and most distinguised units - it is also one of the best recorded. This book is one among several published by the Naval and Military Press chronicling the DLI's many battle exploits, and it tells the regiment's...

The Meaning of GaiaGAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which...

With Notes and Additions: also Memoranda Relative to the Lines Thrown up to Cover Lisbon in 1810The classic, immensely detailed description of the many sieges of the long drawn-out war that was Britain's major land contribution to the defeat of Napoleon. Sir John Jones was an officer of the Royal Engineers with Wellington in Portugal and Spain...