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  • Ypres

    Great Battles

    Series series Great Battles
    In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own particular palette of values and imagery. It is now at the heart of First World War battlefield tourism, with much of it's economy devoted to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Postcards from the Western Front

    Pilgrims, Veterans, and Tourists after the Great War

    by Mark Connelly ...
    Series Book 17 - Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies
    Visitors to the battlefields of France and Belgium expressed pain and anguish, pride and nostalgia, and wonder and surprise at what they saw. Postcards from the Western Front chronicles the many ways in which these sites were perceived and commemorated by British people, both during the First World War and in the twenty years following the Armistice.Mark Connelly’s definitive and engaging study of ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The British Army and the First World War

    Series series Armies of the Great War
    This is a major new history of the British army during the Great War written by three leading military historians. Ian Beckett, Timothy Bowman and Mark Connelly survey operations on the Western Front and throughout the rest of the world as well as the army's social history, pre-war and wartime planning and strategy, the maintenance of discipline and morale and the lasting legacy of the First World ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Celluloid War Memorials

    The British Instructional Films Company and the Memory of the Great War

    by Mark Connelly ...
    Series series Exeter Studies in Film History
    The films made by the British Instructional Films (BIF) company in the decade following the end of the First World War helped to shape the way in which that war was remembered. This is both a work of cinema history and a study of the public’s memory of WW1.By the early twenties, the British film industry was struggling to cope with the power of Hollywood and government help was needed to guarantee ... Read more

    $123.69 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Dead Ringers

    Highlights from Series 1, 2 & 3 of the BBC TV show

    Series Audiobook 12 - Dead Ringers

    Unabridged

    6 hours 25 min

    The award-winning series Dead Ringers is back with highlights from its television series. A huge hit on BBC Radio 4, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Kevin Connelly, Mark Perry and Phil Cornwell star once again in the best impression comedy on TV.This collection brings together some of the best episodes from BBC1’s first, second and third series.Enter a surreal universe where David Dickinson goes looking ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • We Can Take It!

    by Mark Connelly ...
    `We Can Take It!' shows that the British remember the war in a peculiar way, thanks to a mix of particular images and evidence. Our memory has been shaped by material which is completely removed from historical reality. These images (including complete inventions) have combined to make a new history. The vision is mostly cosy and suits the way in which the Britons conceive of themselves: dogged, ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Saul Bellow

    A Literary Companion

    by Mark Connelly ...
    Series Book 14 - McFarland Literary Companions
    A three-time National Book Award for Fiction winner, Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is one of the most highly regarded American authors to emerge since World War II. His 60-year career produced 14 novels and novellas, two volumes of nonfiction, short story collections, plays and a book of collected letters.His 1953 breakthrough novel The Adventures of Augie March was followed by Seize the Day (1956), ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Response to Prostitution in the Progressive Era

    During the opening decades of the twentieth century, highly visible red-light districts occupied entire sections of many American cities. Prostitution, still euphemistically referred to as the “social evil,” became one of the dominant social issues of the progressive era.Mark Thomas Connelly places the response to prostitution during those years within its complete social and cultural context. He ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • George Orwell

    A Literary Companion

    by Mark Connelly ...
    Series Book 18 - McFarland Literary Companions
    George Orwell (1903-1950) is one of the most influential authors in the English language. His landmark novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have been translated into many foreign languages and inspired numerous stage and film adaptations. His well-known essays "A Hanging" and "Shooting an Elephant" are widely anthologized and often taught in college composition classes. The ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Dead Ringers: Series 8-14 plus Specials

    The BBC Radio 4 Impressions Show

    Series Audiobook 2 - Dead Ringers

    Unabridged

    15 hours 27 min

    Seven more series of the popular BBC Radio 4 impressions show - plus a selection of unbroadcast materialSince the turn of the millennium, Dead Ringers has been giving us its skewed, hilarious take on the famous and the infamous. The show has won a British Comedy Award, a Sony Gold Award, and a Press Guild Award for Radio Programme of the Year - and won a legion of fans with its merciless parodies, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Quality ESL Programs

    An Administrator's Guide

    This book is the first and only comprehensive guide for administrators building ESL programs. The guide provides insight into the development, administration, and evaluation of programs for ESOL students. It stresses the importance of facilitating policy decisions and creating a solid infrastructure for quality programming. The variety of integrated perspectives presented enables administrators to ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    The Third Battle of Ypres

    Passchendaele In Perspective explores the context and real nature of the participants experience, evaluates British and German High Command, the aerial and maritime dimensions of the battle, the politicians and manpower debates on the home front and it looks at the tactics employed, the weapons and equipment used, the experience of the British; German and indeed French soldiers. It looks ... Read more

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