The Medium's Path: Embracing the Spirit's WhisperWhat if the experiences you cannot explain are the very things that shape who you become?From an early age, Nick Lloyd experienced things he couldn't understand. Experiences that frightened him, fascinated him and left him with questions that would remain unanswered for years.As he grew older, those questions never went away.Instead, they became the beginning of a remarkable journey into

Fifty years after Franco’s death, and almost ninety since the Civil War began, the scars of violence still run deep in Spain.Nick Lloyd traces this legacy through a series of road trips. Travelling through Catalonia and Aragón, among the last Republican strongholds, he visits battle sites, museums, memorials and more. Speaking with historians, local guides and descendants of International Brigaders, he discovers how places and objects offer clues to a painful past. A Barcelona plaq...

The definitive history of the African and Middle Eastern theatres of the First World War, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Passchendaele and The Eastern FrontIn the third and final volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, Nick Lloyd tells the story of the brutal but oft-forgotten struggles in Africa and the Middle East. As the Ottomans threw in their lot with the Germans in one of the most con...

In little over three weeks of intensive fighting, which not only witnessed the first British use of poison gas, but also the debut of New Army divisions filled with citizen volunteers, British forces at Loos managed to drive up to two miles into the German positions. However, they were unable to capitalise on their initial gains. After suffering nearly 60,000 casualties (three times the number suffered by their opponents) and being driven from the German lines in disorder,...

** The latest volume in the World War One trilogy, The Eastern Front, is out now **A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and narration . . . Lloyd is well on the way to writing a definitive history of the First World War' Lawrence James, The Times'This w...

On 13 April 1919, a fateful event took place which was to define the last decades of the British Raj in India. At 5:10pm on that day, Brigadier-General 'Rex' Dyer led a small party of soldiers through the centre of Amritsar into a walled garden known as the Jallianwala Bagh. He had been informed that an illegal political meeting was taking place and had come to disperse it. On entering the garden, Dyer's men immediately lined up in formation. Dyer then gave the order to open fire on the hu...

An unmissable book that explores the brutal, heroic and extraordinary final days of the First World WarOn the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in November 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent.The Armistice, which brought the Great War to an end, marked a seminal moment in European and World history. Yet the story of how the war ended remains little-known. In this compelling and ground-breaking study, Nick Lloyd examines the last...

'A timely re-appraisal . . . a masterpiece' General Lord Richard Dannatt'Sweeps aside mythology and provides a rational explanation and cool description of what took place' Max Hastings, Sunday Times_________________________________Between July and November 1917, in a small corner of Belgium, more than 500,000 men were killed or maimed, gassed or drowned - and many of the bodies were never found. The Ypres offensive represen...

'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook*, Sunday Times*'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial Times‘A masterwork . . . This is the history of the Eastern Front I’ve waited all my life to read’ Simon Sebag MontefioreThe definitive history of the Eastern Front in the First Wor...

In the third volume of his landmark First World War trilogy, bestselling historian Professor Nick Lloyd tells the story for the first time of the struggle in Africa and the Middle East: a conflict fought in deserts and mountains between the (often squabbling) Germans and Turks, and men from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and their troops from around the empire.Although the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign is well known, writing has focused almost entirely on fighting that took place o...

Brought to you by Penguin.In the annals of military history, the Western Front stands as an enduring symbol of the folly and futility of war.However, The Western Front, by bestselling military historian Nick Lloyd, reveals that the story is not, as so many assume, one of pointlessness and stupidity. Rather, it is an epic triumph against the odds. With a cast of hundreds and a huge canvas of places and events, Lloyd tells the whole tale, revealing w...

Sprache und Kultur sind ein fester Bestandteil jeder Spotlight Audio CD. Diesen Monat legen wir unseren Schwerpunkt auf Weihnachten. Hören Sie zu wie Anne und David über Bräuche und Kommerz diskutieren, begleiten Sie Steven über den Nürnberger Christkindlmarkt und testen Sie Ihr Wissen in unserem Weihnachts-Quiz. Begleiten Sie unsere Korrespondentin Rosmarin Findley auf Ihrer Reise nach Neuseeland. Neben den dort typischen Akzenten, bekommen Sie einen Eindruck über das Reisen auf See und d...