Staincliffe & Batley Carr in 1892 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Two versions have been published for this area. The maps cover the busy area between Batley & Dewsbury, including Batley Carr, extending north & west to Staincliffe. Features include Pismire Hill, Westborough, Dewsbury Workhouse, Staincliffe Low Mills, Providence Mills, Chapel Fold, Squirrel Hall, Highfield Mill, Christ Church, Hyrstlands, Mount Pleasant, St Andrew`s church, Holy Trinity church, Wheelwright Grammar Schools, Batley Carr Mills, GNR railway with Batley Carr station, LNWR railway with Staincliffe & Batley Carr station, part of north Dewsbury with Springfield & Crackenedge area, Warwick Road Mills, Livingstone Mills, Dewsbury Infirmary, football ground, Queen Street Mills, Alexandra Mill, tramways, etc. Each map has a selection of directory extracts. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Staincliffe & Batley Carr in 1906 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Two versions have been published for this area. The maps cover the busy area between Batley & Dewsbury, including Batley Carr, extending north & west to Staincliffe. Features include Pismire Hill, Westborough, Dewsbury Workhouse, Staincliffe Low Mills, Providence Mills, Chapel Fold, Squirrel Hall, Highfield Mill, Christ Church, Hyrstlands, Mount Pleasant, St Andrew`s church, Holy Trinity church, Wheelwright Grammar Schools, Batley Carr Mills, GNR railway with Batley Carr station, LNWR railway with Staincliffe & Batley Carr station, part of north Dewsbury with Springfield & Crackenedge area, Warwick Road Mills, Livingstone Mills, Dewsbury Infirmary, football ground, Queen Street Mills, Alexandra Mill, tramways, etc. Each map has a selection of directory extracts. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Staines, Chertsey, Ashford, Egham, Feltham, Shepperton, Sunbury, Walton-on-Thames & Weybridge Street Atlas from the Geographers` A-Z Map Company in a paperback format slightly smaller than A5. Map scale is 1:15, 840 (4” to a mile). Coverage

Includes:: Addlestone, Old Windsor & Virginia Water. Current edition of this title was published in 2011. To see other titles in this series of A-Z street atlases of towns & cities please click on the series link. A-Z also publish a series of County Street Atlases
- for a list of titles in that series please search for SI00000917.A-Z street atlases present motorways plus A & B roads highlighted by colouring & shown with route numbers. One way or restricted access streets & car parks are marked, as are in more recently published titles locations of speed cameras. Also shown are selected cycleway routes. Where appropriate, A & B roads are annotated with selected house numbers for easier identification of addresses. Railway lines are shown with stations & level crossings. Colouring indicates different types of buildings: educational, hospitals & healthcare, industrial, leisure & recreational, shopping centres & markets, public buildings, & places of interest. Symbols mark locations of facilities usually indicated on street mapping: post offices, emergency services, public toilets, etc. Also marked are postcode & local authority boundaries. Each page has the lines & coordinates of the British National Grid. The indexes list streets, places & areas, hospitals, industrial estates, blocks of flats on housing estates, railway stations, & selected places o interest; the latter are printed in contrasting colouring to make them easier to find.


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Long listed for the The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2016. An epic story of courage, genius & terrible folly, this is the first history of how the Soviet Union`s scientists became both the glory & the laughing stock of the intellectual world. Simon Ings weaves together what happened when a handful of impoverished & underemployed graduates, professors & entrepreneurs, collectors & charlatans, bound themselves to a failing government to create a world superpower. & he shows how Stalin`s obsessions derailed a great experiment in `rational government`. ...

War-torn, unstable & virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. It succeeded through terror, folly & crime
- but also through courage, imagination & even genius. Stalin believed that science should serve the state & with many disciplines having virtually unlimited funds, by the time of his death in 1953, the Soviet Union boasted the largest & best-funded scientific establishment in history
- at once the glory & the laughing stock of the intellectual world. The human cost of this peculiar marriage between the state & its scientists was horrendous, yet, in Stalin & the Scientists, Simon Ings makes clear what Soviet science has done for us.

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Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, & what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country & its ruler in profound & enduring ways. Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid personality creating a political system, this is a story of a political system shaping a personality. Building & running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. Wholesale collectivization of agriculture, some 120 million peasants, necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, but Stalin did not flinch; the resulting mass starvation & death elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. By 1934, when the situation had stabilized & socialism had been built in the countryside too, the internal praise came for his uncanny success in anticapitalist terms. But Stalin never forgot & never forgave, with bloody consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite. Stalin had revived a great power with a formidable industrialized military. But the Soviet Union was effectively alone, with no allies & enemies perceived everywhere. The quest to find security would bring Soviet Communism into an improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain did not work out as envisioned. The lives of Stalin & Hitler, & the fates of their respective countries, drew ever closer to collision. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin`s desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer`s art. Kotkin`s portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, & the intimate details of decision-making. ...

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017`A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force` Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard` The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age.. . The War & Peace of history: a book you fear you will never finish, but just cannot put down` Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times Well before 1929, Stalin had achieved dictatorial power over the Soviet empire, but now he decided that the largest peasant economy in the world would be transformed into socialist modernity, whatever it took. What it took, & what Stalin managed to force through, transformed the country & its ruler in profound & enduring ways. Rather than a tale of a deformed or paranoid personality creating a political system, this is a story of a political system shaping a personality. Building & running a dictatorship, with power of life or death over hundreds of millions, in conditions of capitalist self-encirclement, made Stalin the person he became. Wholesale collectivization of agriculture, some 120 million peasants, necessitated levels of coercion that were extreme even for Russia, but Stalin did not flinch; the resulting mass starvation & death elicited criticism inside the party even from those Communists committed to the eradication of capitalism. By 1934, when the situation had stabilized & socialism had been built in the countryside too, the internal praise came for his uncanny success in anticapitalist terms. But Stalin never forgot & never forgave, with bloody consequences as he strove to consolidate the state with a brand new elite. Stalin had revived a great power with a formidable industrialized military. But the Soviet Union was effectively alone, with no allies & enemies perceived everywhere. The quest to find security would bring Soviet Communism into an improbable pact with Nazi Germany. But that bargain did not work out as envisioned. The lives of Stalin & Hitler, & the fates of their respective countries, drew ever closer to collision. Stalin: Waiting for Hitler: 1929-1941 is, like its predecessor Stalin: Paradoxes of Power: 1878-1928, nothing less than a history of the world from Stalin`s desk. It is also, like its predecessor, a landmark achievement in the annals of the biographer`s art. Kotkin`s portrait captures the vast structures moving global events, & the intimate details of decision-making. ...

Winner of the British Book Awards History Book of the Year Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize This thrilling biography of Stalin & his entourage during the terrifying decades of his supreme power transforms our understanding of Stalin as Soviet dictator, Marxist leader & Russian tsar. Based on groundbreaking research, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals in captivating detail the fear & betrayal, privilege & debauchery, family life & murderous cruelty of this secret world. Written with extraordinary narrative verve, this magnificent feat of scholarly research has become a classic of modern history writing. Showing how Stalin`s triumphs & crimes were the product of his fanatical Marxism & his gifted but flawed character, this is an intimate portrait of a man as complicated & human as he was brutal & chilling. ...

In January 1928 Stalin, the ruler of the largest country in the world, boarded a train bound for Siberia where he would embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He was about to begin uprooting & collectivization of agriculture & industry across the entire Soviet Union. Millions would die, & many more would suffer. Where did such great, monstrous power come from? The first of three volumes, the product of a decade of intrepid research, this landmark book offers the most convincing explanation yet of Stalin`s power. ...

Antony Beevor’s majestic Stalingrad recalls the epic struggle for the city which Hitler foresaw as the German army’s first step to conquering Russia. Beevor recounts how no-one, least of all the Germans, could foretell the deep well of Soviet resolve that would become the foundation of the Red Army; Russia, the Germans believed, would fall as swiftly as France & Pol&. The ill-prepared Nazi forces were trapped in a bloody war of attrition against the Russian behemoth, which held them in the pit of Stalingrad for nearly two years. Beevor points out that the Russians were by no means ready for the war either, making their stand even more remarkable; Soviet intelligence spent as much time spying on its own forces--in fear of desertion, treachery & incompetence--as they did on the Nazis. Due attention is also given to the points of view of the soldiers & generals of both forces, from the sickening battles to life in the gulags. Many believe Stalingrad to be the turning point of the war. The Nazi war machine proved to be fallible as it spread itself too thin for a cause that was born more from arrogance than practicality. The Germans never recovered, & its weakened defences were no match for the Allied invasion of 1944. We know little of what took place in Stalingrad or its overall significance, leading Beevor to humbly admit that ”[t]he Battle of Stalingrad remains such an ideologically charged & symbolically important subject that the last word will not be heard for many years”. ...