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  • The Wooden Horse of Gallipoli

    The Heroic Saga of SS River Clyde, a WW1 Icon, Told Through the Accounts of Those Who Were There

    by Stephen Snelling ...
    Series series Voices from the Past
    The initial Allied landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula began on 25 April 1915. Many of those who went ashore at V Beach near Cape Helles did so from the SS River Clyde. In the first full-length study devoted entirely to River Clyde and the men who sailed in her, the author reveals a remarkable tale of human endeavor told in the words of the men who were there: from the naval captain whose ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • VCs of the First World War: Passchendaele 1917

    by Stephen Snelling ...
    Series series VCs of the First World War
    Of all the costly campaigns fought across the Western Front during the First World War, none strikes a more chilling chord than Passchendaele. Even now, more than ninety years on, the very mention of the name is enough to conjure up apocalyptic images of desolation and misery on a quite bewildering scale – humanity drowning in a sea of mud. Passchendaele has come to serve as a symbol of the folly ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Commando Medic

    Doc Harden VC

    by Stephen Snelling ...
    Eric Harden was the only British army medic to be awarded the nation's highest honour for battlefield bravery during the Second World War and remains the only rank and file member of the Royal Army Medical Corps to be recognised by the award of the Victoria Cross. As a pre-war member of the St John Ambulance, he saw service during the 1940-41 Blitz and later volunteered for the Commandos, under ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli

    by Stephen Snelling ...
    Series series VCs of the First World War
    The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First World War. What had initially been a purely naval enterprise had escalated to become a full-scale Anglo-French invasion, resulting in an eight-month campaign which Churchill hoped would knock Turkey out of the war. For a campaign that promised so much, ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • VCs of the First World War: The Naval VCs

    by Stephen Snelling ...
    Series series VCs of the First World War
    The Naval VCs is a complete record of almost fifty men who won the Victoria Cross while serving in the Royal Navy during the First World War. They include the conflict's youngest and oldest winners in operations ranging from the Atlantic to the coast of Africa and from the Straits of Otranto to the rivers of Mesopotamia. These awards were won aboard all manner of fighting ships, from disguised ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The CEO Playbook for Strategic Transformation

    Four Factors That Will Make or Break Your Organization

    by Scott A. Snell ...
    Narrated by Stephen R. Thorne ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 12 min

    There is no CEO task more significant than leading change in an organization whose old business model needs updating. Large-scale change involves rethinking how to engage customers, partners, and suppliers with new technology and hard decisions about how to reorganize internal operations—plus the challenges of executing the transformation. Too many things can go wrong, from natural organizational ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • How to Use Evidence to End Homelessness

    For Smarter, More Impactful Action

    by Michael Barber, Stephen Aldridge, Andy Burnham, Will Snell, Carol Black, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Pete Mackie, Richard Garside, James Turner, Guillermo Rodriguez-Guzman, Will Moy, Michael Sanders, Vanessa Hirneis, Julia Ellingwood, Derek McGowan, Lezley Marion Cameron, Kenneth Gibb, Mark McGreevy, Rosanne Haggerty, Juha Kahila, Henrique Joaquim, Eleanor Williams, Jo Metcalfe, Matt Peacock, Mike Findlay-Agnew, Lorna Tucker, Sam Freedman, Brian Robson, Jack Shaw, Jonathan Roberts, Ian Rutherford ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Building on the influential Using Evidence to End Homelessness (Bristol University Press, 2020), this practical collection shows how evidence and data can drive smarter action to improve outcomes for people affected by homelessness. Six years on, it captures lessons learned and progress made while charting a path for greater impact. With ... Read more

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  • Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day

    The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay

    by Brian Izzard ...
    This detailed biography brings to life one of the greatest military heroes of WWII—and demonstrates why his contributions were crucial to Allied victory.At the outbreak of the Second World War, Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay masterminded the evacuation of some 330,000 members of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk. He went on to play a crucial role in the invasion of Sicily and the planning ... Read more

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  • Tyneside Irish

    24th, 25th, 26th and 27th (Service) Battalions of Northumberland Fusiliers

    by John Sheen ...
    The Pals battalions were a phenomenon of the Great War, never repeated since. Under Lord Derbys scheme, and in response to Kitcheners famous call for a million volunteers, local communities raised (and initially often paid for) entire battalions for service on the Western Front. Their experience was all too frequently tragic, as men who had known each other all their lives, had worked, volunteered ... Read more

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  • VCs of the First World War: Western Front 1915

    by Peter F. Batchelor, Christopher Matson ...
    Series series VCs of the First World War
    The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found themselves trapped in the murderous stalemate of trench warfare. British troops had suffered badly in the early campaigns and by January 1915 were holding some 30 miles of trench. The year 1915 was to witness some of the bloodiest and bitter battles of the ... Read more

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  • 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment in the Great War

    by John Hartley ...
    The 6th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment, was a prewar Territorial unit. Many of its members held white collar positions employed by the Citys legal, financial and stockbroking practices or worked for the major commercial organizations trading and manufacturing cotton goods. It went overseas in September 1914, taking with it many new recruits who would undertake their basic training whilst the ... Read more

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  • VCs of the First World War: Arras and Messines 1917

    by Gerald Gliddon ...
    Series series VCs of the First World War
    For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretching from the Belgian coast to the Swiss border. The Allied objective after the bloody Battle of the Somme drew to a close in November 1916 was to decisively break through the German 'Hindenburg Line' and engage the numerically inferior German forces in a ... Read more

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