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  • Climbing Days

    Serier serie Canons
    When Dorothy Pilley first set hand on the rope in the 1910s, women climbers were seen as a dangerous liability, their achievements ignored, unrecorded or disbelieved. Undeterred, Dorothy proved herself on the vertiginous slopes of Wales, Scotland and the Lake District before tackling the rock faces of the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Rockies, Mount Fuji and the Himalayas. Her tireless championing of ... Læs mere

    108,24 kr.

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  • Conquistadors of the Useless

    From the Alps to Annapurna

    af Lionel Terray ...
    'I have given my whole life to the mountains. Born at the foot of the Alps, I have been a ski champion, a professional guide, an amateur of the greatest climbs in the Alps and a member of eight expeditions to the Andes and the Himalayas. If the word has any meaning at all, I am a mountaineer.' So Terray begins Conquistadors of the Useless- not with arrogance, but with typical commitment. One of ... Læs mere

    44,91 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Adventures Of A Motorcycle Despatch Rider During The First World War [Illustrated Edition]

    Includes the First World War Illustrations Pack – 73 battle plans and diagrams and 198 photos"A young British soldier who went to war on two wheels"When the Great War broke out, the author of this book decided to leave his university studies and join the struggle. What attracted him immediately was the potential to combine his military service with his love of motorcycles and so it was that he ... Læs mere

    6,34 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • A Motorcycle Courier In the Great War (Illustrated)

    W.H.L. Watson was a British Army, motorcycle despatch rider in the World War I. He saw active service during the key battles of 1914 and early 1915. Watson and his colleagues formed part of the Royal Engineers Signal Service and these riders were originally volunteers, some of whom supplied their own machines. This amazing account details the experiences of these brave young men and provides a ... Læs mere

    23,97 kr.

  • Bullets & Billets (WWI Centenary Series)

    Serier serie WWI Centenary Series
    "Down South, in the Valley of the Somme, far from the spots recorded in this book, I began to write this story. In billets it was. I strolled across the old farmyard and into the wood beyond. Sitting by a gurgling little stream, I began, with the aid of a notebook and a pencil, to record the joys and sorrows of my first six months in France. I do not claim any unique quality for these experiences. ... Læs mere

    81,25 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • A Passionate Prodigality

    Fragments of Autobiography

    af Guy Chapman ...
    This classic WWI memoir by a decorated infantryman and historian presents a vivid account of life in the trenches on the Western Front.During World War One, Major Guy Chapman, OBE MC, served in the Royal Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. Joining soon after war was declared, Chapman was stationed in France and fought in the Battle of Arras.When Chapman's memoir, A ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Conquistadors of the Useless

    af Lionel Terray ...
    National Geographic Adventure's "100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time""The finest mountaineering narrative ever written." — David Roberts, author of Mountain of My FearConquistadors of the Useless captures the energy of an optimistic world that was shaking off the restraints of war and austerity in the mid-twentieth century. Lionel Terray, with his passion for climbing, epitomized much of that ... Læs mere

    149,61 kr.

  • A Woman's Diary of the War: (Annotated)

    One of the most powerful descriptions of the scourge of the First World War by a woman who was on the front lines and ultimately gave her life for the cause.Scottish-born English novelist, Sarah Broom Macnaughtan (1864 – 1916) spent much of her life in the service of others in need. She worked for the Red Cross to aid soldiers and civilians in the Balkans, the Boer War, and WWI. She was a ... Læs mere

    23,97 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front

    Step into the heart of wartime Europe with Arnold Bennett's gripping account, Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front. This powerful narrative provides an unflinching look at the realities faced by soldiers and prisoners during World War I.Bennett's vivid descriptions transport you to the Western Front, where the harsh truths of war unfold. Witness the German prisoners performing grim duties ... Læs mere

    7,94 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • A Woman’s Experiences in the Great War

    af Louise Mack ...
    August 1914. The German Army invades Belgium: it's the beginning of the First World War. Military operations in the little country involve one hundred thousands Belgian soldiers and seven hundred thousands German ones. Plus a woman. Louise Mack sailed to Belgium to write some articles for the "Daily Mail" from behind the front line, but soon she took part to dramatic events such as the siege of ... Læs mere

    48,03 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Mountaineering Holiday

    An Outstanding Alpine Climbing Season, 1939

    af Frank Smythe ...
    Serier Bog 6 - Frank Smythe: The Pioneering Mountaineer
    In Mountaineering Holiday, Frank Smythe records 'an outstanding Alpine climbing season' - his 1939 summer holiday. Writing in his typically engaging style of keen observation, entertaining anecdote and remarkable knack for description, Smythe takes the reader with him on his trip into the Alps. Arriving unfit and out of practice, he gets stuck behind slower climbers and spends rainy days confined ... Læs mere

    26,91 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Wet Flanders Plain

    The Wet Flanders Plain was first published in 1929 - also the year of, inter alia, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Graves's Goodbye to All That, and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Henry Williamson's book stands alongside those works as a classic of the Great War.In 1928 Williamson revisited the battlefields of Flanders and Northern France in the company of a fellow veteran. He wanted ... Læs mere

    98,75 kr.