After a career in HM Forces, PETER REESE is now a full-time author of military history. His books on aviation include the acclaimed biography The Flying Cowboy: The Story of Samuel Cody, Britain’s First Airman (The History Press)
18 كتب إلكترونية بواسطة Peter Reese
Peter Reese: Transforming the Skies
Following the Armistice of 1918, the British Air Industry and the newly founded RAF held a low place in national priorities. The RAF was rapidly run down, with the infant airlines being given the lea …
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Peter Reese: Flodden
In the breadth of bitter-sweet Scottish history there is no more poignant, not more important, battle than Flodden. Before Scotland's disastrous defeat at the hands of the English under the Earl …
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Peter Reese: Homecoming Heroes
It is a sad and shaming but indisputable fact that the reception according to British soldiers on returning to civilian life has for centuries been little short of disgraceful, and even in this more …
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Peter Reese: Bannockburn
“An admirably vivid account of the Scots’ greatest victory over the English”: the 14th century Battle of Bannockburn (The Scotsman, UK).Scotland, 1314. On a marsh-fringed plain sout …
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Peter Reese: Cromwell’s Masterstroke
The victory at Dunbar of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army over the Scots under David Leslie merits a major place in the long succession of Anglo-Scottish battles. The Scots had brought Cromwell’s inv …
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Peter Reese: Homecoming Heroes
It is a sad and shaming but indisputable fact that the reception according to British soldiers on returning to civilian life has for centuries been little short of disgraceful, and even in this more …
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€6.41
Peter Reese: Cromwell’s Masterstroke
The author of Bannockburn recounts the New Model Army’s upset victory in 17th-century Scotland that cemented Oliver Cromwell’s military reputation. The victory at Dunbar of Oliver …
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Peter Reese: Wallace
‘I have brought you to the ring, now hop if you can.’Wallace’s famous injunction before the battle of Falkirk is still remembered today. The first section of this major new biography deals with the h …
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Peter Reese: Target London
London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during the First World War, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, yet rarely has …
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Peter Reese: Life of General George Monck
General George Monck is famous for the key role he played in the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. His actions changed the course of British history, but his statesmanship in the dangerous time be …
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Peter Reese: In Turbulent Skies
In 1945 confidence in British aviation was sky-high. Yet decades later, the industry had not lived up to its potential. What happened? The years that followed the war saw the Brabazon Committee issue …
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Peter Reese: Men Who Gave Us Wings
Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far behind in the race to develop the aeroplane before the First World War? Despite their initial advantage, they were ove …
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Peter Reese: Men Who Gave Us Wings
Why did the British, then the leading nation in science and technology, fall far behind in the race to develop the aeroplane before the First World War? Despite their initial advantage, they were ove …
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€6.36
Peter Reese: Target London
London was a target for Zeppelins and bombers during the First World War, for bombers, V1s and rockets in the Second, and for Cold War missiles and for terrorists in more recent times, yet rarely has …
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€6.43
Peter Reese: Life of General George Monck
General George Monck is famous for the key role he played in the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. His actions changed the course of British history, but his statesmanship in the dangerous time be …
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€6.43
Peter Reese: Sir Henry Royce
It’s hard to imagine a history of British engineering without Rolls-Royce: there would be no Silver Ghost, no Merlin for the Spitfire, no Alcock and Brown. Rolls-Royce is one of the most recognisable …
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Arthur L. Caplan & James J. McCartney: Replacement Parts
In Replacement Parts, internationally recognized bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan and coeditors James J. Mc Cartney and Daniel P. Reid assemble seminal writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and …
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Ronald McNair Scott: Robert the Bruce, King of Scots
“A heroic biography of one of Scotland's legendary leaders, by a British novelist and former literary critic for the London Sunday Times” (Kirkus). Robert the Bruce had himself …
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