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Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker
Category: Military
"Hell's Gorge" traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of ...Show more
Monte Cassino - The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II by Matthew Parker
Category: Military
Monte Cassino is the true story of one of the bitterest and bloodiest of the Allied struggles against the Nazi army. Long neglected by historians, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the carnag ...Show more
One Fine Day: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker
Category: History | Series: Dilly's Story Ser.
'Marvellous...escapes the inane, balance-sheet view of Empire and sees its full complexity' Sathnam Sanghera, bestselling author of EmpirelandThe story of the British Empire at its maximum territorial extent, including a wider range of voices of the colonised than have ever been recorded before29th Sept ...Show more
Willoughbyland Englands Lost Colony by Matthew Parker
Category: History
At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland. When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series of adventu ...Show more
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