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Stoker's work on inter-war Baltic Navies, and their relationship with the great powers is not only a first in English, but also very good. He provides a great deal of information on Polish, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, efforts to produce naval power, at least capable of fending off the Soviets in the 1920s-30s. This book also covers the machinations of British and French arms dealers, who often pushed substandard, shoddy, or just plain peculiar weapons into the Baltic market. Based on research in many countries, this would be an excellent addition on the shelf of a naval, diplomatic, military, or Baltic historian.

Britain, France, And The Financing Of The First World War is a scholarly study by Martin Horn (Associate Professor in the Department of History, McMaster University) of the flow of money during the First World War. Professor McMaster demonstrates how the financial ability to arm and feed vast armies was crucial to the Allied victory, and that Britain and France fought not only to win and survive, but to bolster and preserve financial strength on an international scale. A meticulously researched and persuasively presented study, Britain, France, And The Financing Of The First World War is a seminal study and a welcome addition to academic library collections.

In this original book, Mark Baimbridge, of the University of Bradford, and Philip Whyman, of the University of Central Lancashire, study the economic relationship between Britain and the EU. Part 1 includes a cost-benefit analysis of our EU membership, beyond anything that any government has ever dared to do. Parts 2 and 3 examine Economic and Monetary Union in theory and practice. Part 4 explores alternative futures for Britain, including an independent Britain, with alternative economic policies to promote our national economic development.

Their cost-benefit analysis concludes, "EU membership and the momentum towards deeper political and economic integration have consistently undermined UK national interests." From 1973 to 2000, our total cumulated trade deficit with the EU was £90.6 billion, while our trade with the rest of the world was £70.9 billion in surplus. This widening trade gap cost us more than a million manufacturing jobs. The Common Agricultural Policy raises the average family's food bill by £36 a week. We also lose out on the Common Fisheries Policy and the EU budget.

The authors argue that EMU's effects on us would be `overwhelmingly negative'. The conditions for joining would undermine the economy, while burdening British taxpayers. They sum up, "Economic growth would be stymied, unemployment would rise dramatically and the disaster of UK participation in the ERM would be repeated, but this time there would be no easy escape!"

EU supporters say that any autonomy is impossible under globalisation, so that we may as well give up our sovereignty to the EU. But when we left the Exchange Rate Mechanism (the rehearsal for EMU) in 1992, we were able to devalue the pound by 20%, so the economy grew and unemployment fell.

Now, however, the growing integration of the EU threatens what autonomy we still have. The EU Constitution would bind us more tightly, imposing EMU on us whether we like it or not. The authors propose instead that we could choose, as an independent sovereign nation, the economic strategy that we want, so we could rebuild industry to serve the interests of the people, not the minority `political and business elites'.

This is the most excellent book with regard to the Royal Navy`s ships at the second World War. Readers are able to understand about ships of the Royal Navy easily. And they can see many rare photographs of ships. If this book had contained drawings of ships, Many readers could regard it as the ultimate book for the Royal Navy.

I absolutely adore this book! It is so thorough and will give you the most generic yet magnificent facts on whatever you need to know about the Grand Tour. You can definately use this if you're a history buff! It's easy to understand and fascinating...

This is a splendid book by one of the most brilliant minds in not only modern history but in intercultural studies.

The Collector Club books been around for years. This is the recent update of the best British Antique Funiture Price guide and references you could find. Updated and some added. If you value art and don't have this book. Then you are missing a great resources of information.

This excellent encyclopedic work examines how artists at home & in the field dealt with the subject or war for more than 200 years, and how these images were perceived by the public in Britain. He traces the medium of the paintings and descibes how they were produced, covers the artists and the campaigns they covered and explains why some wars were illustrated more than others. He describes and lists the works of hundreds of war artists. a valuable reference work for any collector of prints. London 1992, Greenhill, First UK ed w/dj, 12 x 8 1/2, 352 pp, 16 pages of color reproductions, and 220 B&W images of battle paintings. Appendice lists over 800 surviving oil battle paintings with details.

from Norman times to the time of the Dreadnought. The book focuses totally on the development of the British Battle fleet, following it from war to war, helped along by colour plates, photographs and line-drawings of ships and their designs. Fred T. Jane knows his ships and this book was FIRST published in 1912. For people interested in the creation of the British Battle Fleets and the pre-World War One status of the navies, this is the book for them.

If you like this book, also try ; The Great Admirals:Command at Sea 1587-1945 edited by Jack Sweetman.

This book takes a look at the origins, duties, and equipment of the common soldier of the British Cavalry during the Napoleonic Wars. It is well-written and informative, looking at all aspects of the soldier's career. Most cavalrymen were young when they were recruited (men over the age of 25 were often deemed unsuitable) but could look forward to rigorous training and dangerous service anywhere from the West Indies to France.

The book contains numerous useful details, including a list of all the cavalry regiments, with their titles and the dates of their founding, and, for some, their disbandment. The weapons and uniforms of the soldiers are also discussed in detail, along with battle tactics and individual fighting styles. The book is closed with descriptions of several typical battles involving British Cavalry.

The ten color plates, by the excellent artist Richard Hook, are an invaluable source by themselves and colorful depict the cavalryman's weapons, as well as his battle tactics, training, and camp life.

The British Cavalry of the 18th and early 19th Centuries is often a bit overlooked, due to the attention given to their comrades on foot. This title reveals the essential roles they played, and how the infantry could not have been so successful without them. Overall, this book is an exciting and informative guide to the hard life of the British Cavalryman 1792-1815, from the clothes on his back to the sword on his hip.