Product Description: The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against Continental domination by a single power, the battle for Empire - and a cast pf remarkable characters - Marlborough, Wellington and Montgomery among them...read more

Product Description: On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'for you the war is over', but this couldn't be further from the truth. The British soldiers taken prisoner in 1914-18 - about 12% of the entire army - merely exchanged one barbed-wire battlefield for another...read more

Product Description: Set in Glasgow in the 1930s, Young James Herriot is the fascinating story of Herriot’s formative years at veterinary college, recounting the tales behind his calling to work with animals and his early friendships. With no modern drugs, and a lot of trial-and-error, James sets about learning how to treat the local farm animals and the pets of city folk...read more

Product Description: The fascinating formative veterinary college years of the most famous vet in the world, the author of All Creatures Great and SmallWe had no antibiotics, few drugs. A lot of time was spent pouring things down cows' throats. The whole thing added up to a lot of laughs...read more

Product Description: Fatherhood: An Anthology is an irresistible anthology for Father's Day, that is everything Dad is…witty, charming, erudite, and thoroughly winning. This is a "literary tool-kit for fathers," addressing such issues as: responsibility, fear, and loss--as well as infertility, sports, and the meting out of punishment...read more