British Military Medals traces the history of medals & gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day & it features an expert account of their design & production. Campaign & gallantry medals are a key to understanding
- & exploring
- British & Imperial military history & to uncovering the careers & exploits of individual soldiers. For over 200 years these awards have marked the wars campaigns & battles fought by British & Imperial forces across the world. In this accessible & wide-ranging account Peter Duckers provides a fascinating insight into the origins & long tradition of these awards. His work is a guide for collectors & for local & family historians who want to learn how to use medals to discover the history of military units & the experiences of individuals who served in them. Medals are a link with the men & women who were actually present in some of the famous
- & not so famous
- actions in British military history. They convey the excitement of a direct connection with the past. In a series of succinct & well-organized chapters the author explains how medals originated to whom they were awarded & how the practice of giving medals has developed over the centuries. From the earliest medals of Elizabethan times up to those awarded in the present day medals have much to tell us about the life histories of their recipients & the armed forces in which they served.



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Includes: insights into the lives of the current royal family Britains heritage told through the colourful lives of its
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Packed with the stunning photography of Chris Manley this new photographic guide is the perfect guide to Britain's moths & ...

After VE Day in 1945 the British population returned enthusiastically to the road. But the cost & availability of both vehicles & fuel led to the post-war scene being dominated by motorcycles most of them ex-military machines eagerly snapped up for everyday use in an age when a family car remained just a dream for many. The British industry meanwhile was exhorted to export or die & until well into the 1950s the majority of new British bikes were sold abroad. During this period the industry
- the largest & most important in the world
- continued to develop new & exciting machines. Mick Walker tells the story of the British post-war motorcycle during this golden age of the industry. With the help of archive photographs & advertising material this book conjures up a lost age of the British bike of journeys to work by popping two-strokes & trips to the seaside in the family motorcycle combination.

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This is a selection of attractive pictures for children to colour based on the powerful & sophisticated civilization of the ancient Aztecs. The Aztecs established a great empire in central Mexico about 600 years ago before the arrival of the Spanish under Hernan Cortes in 1519. They were a warlike people who exacted tribute from other people yet they also built great cities & temples & made beautiful objects of stone metal gems & feathers. ...

Nobody working in healthcare can afford to be without the latest edition of the British National Formulary. Compiled with the advice of clinical experts & continually updated to reflect the latest evidence from all credible sources worldwide this essential reference provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing dispensing administering & monitoring medicines. Not only does the BNF include the widely accepted framework for the drug management of common diseases it also

Includes:: details of medicines prescribed in the UK with special reference to their uses cautions contraindications side-effects dosage & relative costs. This allows treatment to be tailored to the individual needs of each patient. The BNF is updated in print every six months by an expert team of pharmacists with guidance & validation from a network of leading clinicians overseen by a Joint Formulary Committee with representatives from all spheres of clinical practice. The BNF reflects current best practice as well as legal & professional guidelines relating to the use of medicines. As a result it is used widely as a touchstone reference & cited in Parliaments & courts as a source of authority.

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Nobody working in healthcare can afford to be without the latest edition of the British National Formulary. Compiled with the advice of clinical experts & continually updated to reflect the latest evidence from all credible sources worldwide this essential reference provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing dispensing administering & monitoring medicines. Not only does the BNF include the widely accepted framework for the drug management of common diseases it also

Includes:: details of medicines prescribed in the UK with special reference to their uses cautions contraindications side-effects dosage & relative costs. This allows treatment to be tailored to the individual needs of each patient. The BNF is updated in print every six months by an expert team of pharmacists with guidance & validation from a network of leading clinicians overseen by a Joint Formulary Committee with representatives from all spheres of clinical practice. The BNF reflects current best practice as well as legal & professional guidelines relating to the use of medicines. As a result it is used widely as a touchstone reference & cited in Parliaments & courts as a source of authority.

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Winner of the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal 2010. Nicholas Black examines the role of the Naval Staff of the Admiralty in the 1914-18 war reassessing both the calibre of the Staff & the function & structure of the Staff. He challenges historians such as Arthur Marder & naval figures such as Captains Herbert Richmond & Kenneth Dewar who were influential in creating the largely bad press that the Staff has received subsequently showing that their influence has at times been both unhealthy & misinformed. The way in which the Staff developed during the war from a small overstretched & often manipulated body to a much more highly specialised & successful one is also examined reassessing the roles of key individuals such as Jellicoe & Geddes & suggesting that the structure of the Staff has been misunderstood & that it was a rather more sophisticated body than historians have traditionally appreciated. Black also looks at how the Staff performed in various major naval issues of the war: the role of the Grand Fleet the war against the U-boat the Dardanelles Operation & the implementation of the economic blockade against Germany. Overall the book complements & at times challenges both operational histories of the war & biographies of the leading individuals involved. NICHOLAS BLACK is Head of History at Dulwich College. ...

In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory & by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the thick of the action. How this was achieved by a nation nearing exhaustion after five years of conflict is a story of epic proportions in which ingenuity diplomacy & dogged persistence all played a part. As much a political as a technical triumph the BPF was uniquely complex in its make-up: its C-in-C was responsible to the Admiralty for the general direction of his Fleet; took operational orders from the American Admiral Nimitz; answered to the Government of Australia for the construction & maintenance of a vast base infrastructure & to other Commonwealth Governments for the ships & men that formed his fully-integrated multi-national fleet. This ground-breaking new work by David Hobbs describes the background creation & expansion of the BPF from its first tentative strikes through operations off the coast of Japan to its impact on the immediate post-war period including the opinions of USN liaison officers attached to the British flagships. The book is the first to demonstrate the real scope & scale of the BPFs impressive achievement. ...

*1 000 colour photographs help students learn the words in context *3 500 words in topic areas such as Food Housing Clothes for everyday life as well as Computers Jobs Sports & Animals. * Conversation Activities on each page for practice in class. * Writing Activities help students learn vocabulary in an enjoyable way & help them use words in full sentences *3 Audio CDs with all the words pronounced ...