Aces High is the vivid chronicle of aerial warfare over the Western Front in World War One and the personalities that characterised the era.These were the airmen who became legends in their own lifetimes: Albert Ball, Manfred von Richthofen (also known as the Red Baron), Mick Mannock, René Fonck and Georges Guynemer. The key to maintaining military superiority was by perfecting the aeroplane, which meant many of these pilots were flying dangerous, untested machines.

On 26 September 1915 twelve British battalions - a strength of almost 10,000 men - were ordered to attack German positions at Loos in north-east France. In the three-and-a-half hours of the actual battle, they sustained 8,246 casualties. The Germans suffered no casualties at all.The Donkeys is a study of the Western Front on 1915, a brilliant exposé of a key stage of the Great War, when the opposing armies were locked in trench warfare. Alan Clark scrutinizes the major bat...

The first volume of the 20th century's most phenomenally successful diaries, published alongside first paperback of THE LAST DIARIES.INTO POLITICS begins in 1973 with Clark's selection as Tory candidate for Nancy Astor's old seat in Plymouth (rival candidates included future Conservative luminaries Michael Howard and Norman Fowler). Alan Clark describes his election to the Commons in the 1974 general election; his years as a backbencher coincide with Edward Heath a...

You can make more sales with less effort,once you understand customer relationship management and how to use it.Do you know the difference between an internal and an external customer?Can you tell your KPI’s from your CSF’s?Are you getting easy repeat orders from ALL your existing customers?If you answered no to any or all the questions above, then this book is for you.“This is probably t...

Included in the Walter Scott Academy Recommends list 2019A love that was never meant to be.Prince Albert Victor, grandson of Queen Victoria, is heir presumptive to the British throne. Kind-hearted and eager to please, he wants nothing more than to live up to his family’s expectations.But when he meets his new tutor, Jem Stephen, a handsome and renowned intellectual, he must choose between a forbidden love and his duties to the crown...

This book analyses community-based approaches to developing and regenerating tourism destinations in the developing world, addressing this central issue in sustainable tourism practices.It reviews a variety of systems useful for analysing and understanding management issues to offer new insight into the skills and resources that are needed for implementation, ongoing monitoring and review of community-based tourism. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores alternat...

Rocket Phonics reading books are fully decodable phonics books allowing children to practise their phonic skills in context, developing emerging reading skills.Zak is fed up of cutting wood and wants lessons in tricks. Alex says no, so Zak sneaks into the tricks tent for some fun. In the end, Zak learns an important lesson, but not the one he hoped for!Reading age: 4-5 years

Travellers today face many challenges from risk and safety issues. Focusing in particular on risk and safety issues faced by visitors to holy sites, this book looks at the unique challenges raised, where annual religious festivals are commemorated with mass gatherings lasting for days and large crowds require detailed disaster management plans. Beginning with a general section on risk management, covering areas such as disaster management, terrorism, crime and security, the book then delve...

First published in 1995. Notions of ‘inclusive schools’ and ‘schooling for diversity’ are rapidly gaining currency across the developed world as alternatives to traditional approaches to special needs education. This book explores the advances in our understanding of how schools can change and develop in order to include a wider range of students. By bringing together some of the foremost international writers and researchers in the field, it makes available to policy makers, practitioners...

The gripping story of the only military commander in American history to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a shot during WWII and led no troops into battle—his brilliance was purely strategic and diplomatic, and incredibly effective. He was responsible for the building, supplying, and, in part, the deployment of over eight million soldiers. In 1947, as Secretary o...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 311 thru 315 brings together five imaginative stories from Alan E. Nourse, Robert Silverberg, Arthur C. Clarke, Miriam Allen DeFord, and Donald A. Wollheim. Strange discoveries challenge what we think we know, unexpected threats emerge, and encounters with the unknown rarely unfold according to plan.Peacemaker by Alan E. Nourse explores a future where the pursuit of peace carries complications of its own, and the solution to confl...

On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the Western Front soon became bogged down in the mud of Flanders and it is these events that many people associate most strongly with the First World War – but its origins and the strategy which governed all but its closing months lay in the East.In the wide plains and forests of the Eastern Europe the three great Empires – Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary – grappled in a series of titanic but little known battles involving millions of m...