2007, ISBN: 9781841146003

London: Ted Smart Publications, 1993. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Ted Smart Publications, London, 1993. Book condition: very good, inscription to front paste down. Dust jacket condition: … Mehr…

London: Ted Smart Publications, 1993. Hardback. Very Good/Good. Ted Smart Publications, London, 1993. Book condition: very good, inscription to front paste down. Dust jacket condition: good. Unclipped. A little shelf wear around the edges. Breath-taking aerial photographs along the Thames offer a unique view of the river's journey, providing fascinating and unusual views of the towns, bridges, locks, houses, mansions, monuments, memorials, copses, woods and islands that line its route. The entertaining yet informative text describes the places that are photographed, their history, local folklore, and anecdotes as well as the role of the Thames in the surrounding landscape., Ted Smart Publications, 1993, Blackwood, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" X 8.75. H/B 209 pages, condition is very good, the spine of the DJ is sun faded. country to the south of Scotland's capital is one of the most attractive to visitors to the North. Few parts of the British Isles can boast of such a high concentration of attractions - beautiful 800 year old abbeys, historic houses, and 'the Scott Country' immortalised by Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford and James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd. The Borders between the Cheviots and Edinburgh contains the Tweed Valley, the home of some of the most famous names in tweeds and knitwear. There is a fine network of uncrowded roads and excellent accommodation making the area an ideal starting point for a visit to Scotland. Dawn MacLeod, who lives in the region and knows it well, provides a very readable and informative account for the tourist and armchair traveller alike. Beginning with an account of Berwick-Upon-Tweed, the author goes on to discuss the abbeys, their towns, and the other principal cen­tres. Open houses and grounds, castles and towers, and the countryside and villages are all discussed. Over thirty photographs contribute to a portrait which will encourage newcomers to the Borders to seek out and savour the attractions of the area for themselves., Blackwood, 1983, Perth, Scotland: Melven Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7.5" x 10. h/b 192 pages, condition is very good, the DJ has been price clipped. Illustrated by 135 fine photographs here is a tour of some of the beauties and fine historical towns with which Fife is so richly endowed. Fife today retains, even when most traditional counties have disappeared because of regionalisation, its strongly felt individuality as the District of Fife. hard fought for when it would have been lost to the - neighbouring regions of Tayside and Lothian, recalling a former status as one of the original seven provinces of Scotland in the 10th century. It was in Fife that in the middle ages the Earls of Fife were first among the nobility of Scotland. Its cathedral at St. Andrews was by far the largest in the land - well over 106 yards long. It was in Fife that higher education first flourished in Scotland with the founding of St. Andrews University in 1411. The first favourite of the Scottish monarchs for almost two centuries was the Palace of Falkland built with renaissance grandeur without parallel in the British Isles, where royalty lived with a suDreme disregard for all the class distinction so beloved in later times, and fitting subject for the front cover. Fife also sports the oldest tennis court, built for James V at Falkland Palace in 1539. And as for that other game, synonymous with Fife, golf had already become an obsession at St. Andrews by 1552. Honest tradesmen, staid University professors and even godly church elders tended in large numbers to be madly bewitched by the game. Starting from Queensferry and its connections with St. Margaret we pass through Culross, the Rip van Winkle town where time has virtually stood still for 300 years. With its cobbled streets, crow stepped gables and painted ceilings, it has an ancient character that is all its own, though other neighbouring burghs have reminders of it. And then to Wemyss. with its Pictish relics and on to the East Neuk. This is a much visited corner of Fife with picturesque fishing towns where witches have been a sore trial and weird superstitions a part of the normal way of life for ages. Even to this day, if you are a fisherman, there are some encounters that you will avoid like the plague if you value your life. There is a chapter on Anstruther, and from Crail it is on to St. Andrews with its air of cloister, golf and gown. Inland on another journey, we meet the last of Scotland's thatchers gathering his reeds by the River Tay. In his old age he gifted the tools of his trade to the local folk museum and another of Scotland's ancient crafts died with him. The tale ends in Newburgh, set on the remote, wooded shores of the Tay in the most historic sector of all, where Christianity first flowered over 1400 years ago., Melven Press, 1982, United Kingdom: David & Charles, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" X 8.75. h/b 212 pages, condition is very good. Corsica, the 'mountain in the sea', is the French island that lies between Italy and Sardinia. One of the most sparsely populated islands in the Mediterranean, its wild, austere beauty attracts tourists, naturalists and winter-sports enthusiasts. Dr Thompson's portrait of the island sets its troubled history and traditional way of life in the context of its varied geography. Once the pawn of a medieval city-state, 'and now a department of France, Corsica has suffered much from emigration. The present-day economy ranges from modern tourist development and up-to-date farming on the eastern plains to a decaying agricultural tradition in the mountainous interior. The economic problems of the island are caused both by the rugged environment and by the Corsican tradition, with its own language, its religious fervour and its history of vendetta. Food and drink, recreation, the layout of the towns, and travelling through Corsica are just a few of the topics explored. For anyone who dreams of an unusual holiday, or who just loves islands, a vivid picture emerges., David & Charles, 1971, UK: Military Book Club, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In Siege: A Novel of the Eastern Front, 1942, author Russ Schneider takes us to the immediate scene of two Russian towns, Cholm and Velikiye Luki, the last holdouts for a small garrison of Germans surrounded by the vast Red Army during World War II. In Cholm, under the command of General Scherer, the garrison lasted 105 days against a besieging Russian force that outnumbered it ten to one. The Russians had tanks and artillery, while the Germans had neither, and most of the battle was fought in Arctic conditions in the winter of 1941-42. Unprepared for the savage climate, the German army at Cholm and elsewhere was nearly destroyed. The struggle for this obscure town was an epic story ranking with any of history's more well-known accounts of desperate military stands. Six months later, nearby Velikiye Luki was surrounded with Scherer again in overall command. This time, however, Scherer and part of his force were outside the city; he spent the next two months trying to break through to the remainder of his men trapped inside Velikiye Luki, only to be turned back time and again. In the end he was only able to listen helplessly to radio reports from the doomed men as they were gradually wiped out in a battle even more violent than the one at Cholm. Part of Siege is told from Scherer's point of view, as he struggles to grow through the tactical and personal hazards of command, but the novel centers around a group of ordinary enlisted men caught up in these events, with all the confusion, horror, and exhaustion that they experienced going from one hopeless situation to another. Private Kordts is a private and mysterious soldier, always struggling to keep his impudent and anti-authoritarian attitude to himself. He is regarded somewhat suspiciously by his superiors, in particular by his new platoon leader, Sergeant Schrader, who has distanced himself from almost all his men after seeing a previous platoon under his command wiped out in a few minutes. Like Kordts, Private Freitag is a Cholm veteran transferred to Schrader's platoon, a teenager possessed by the urge to prove himself as a man, yet who also finds himself drawn toward Kordts's terse humor and disdainful outlook. The Russo-German War has long had a peculiar fascination for students of military and world history, and the battles that form the basis of Siege have an intense dramatic quality. With his expert knowledge of the war on the Eastern Front, Russ Schneider conveys as very few other writers can the scale of combat that had no precedent in savagery and cruelty in this compelling and riveting account of the men of this fated garrison who could only hope to live to tell it themselves., Military Book Club, 2003, Somerset, UK: Halsgrove, 2007. 144 Pages with Colour Photos. The 1ft 111/2ins gauge Ffestiniog Railway is a line of immense historic significance. Originally built to transport slate from the quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog to the harbour at Porthmadog it was both hugely successful and renowned worldwide for innovation. By 1950, however, it was a scene of dereliction – until enthusiasts gained control. Today it is a major tourist attraction and most would agree is the leading preserved narrow gauge railway in Britain – while continuing with its record of innovation including the construction of new locomotives. The Ffestiniog Railway holds major gala events and is visited by many locomotives from other railways. All of this variety and colour is captured within the pages of this magnificent book, continuing over 140 full-colour images. Not the least of its glories is the peerless landscape through which the route runs, from the top of a mile-long sea wall, through the hills of Snowdonia and skirting the rooftops of houses as it approaches the slate town of Blaenau. This is contrasted with glimpses behind the scenes in the line’s workshops. The Ffestiniog Railway is now in the midst of a task arguably more massive than its own revival as it leads the reconstruction of a long-defunct neighbour, the Welsh Highland Railway. A section of the book examines this huge project, bringing the Ffestiniog Railway story bang-up-to-date. Cliff Thomas worked for several years as Heritage Railways’ News Editor for the former magazine Railway World, and in early 2001 he joined the team of contributors to The Railway Magazine for which he reports on standard and narrow gauge steam news and is a feature writer. He has also written on the current narrow gauge scene for Narrow Gauge World since issue 1 of that title and is the editor of the NGmodelling section of that title. His photographic and written work has also appeared on a freelance basis in a wide range of other magazines and publications. Cliff has been an Executive Committee member and Director of the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway for many years and is the founding Chairman of the Greensand Railway Museum Trust . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good., Halsgrove, 2007<

2007, ISBN: 9781841146003

Blackwood, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" X 8.75. H/B 209 pages, condition is very good, the spine of the DJ is sun faded. country to the south of Scotland's capita… Mehr…

Blackwood, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" X 8.75. H/B 209 pages, condition is very good, the spine of the DJ is sun faded. country to the south of Scotland's capital is one of the most attractive to visitors to the North. Few parts of the British Isles can boast of such a high concentration of attractions - beautiful 800 year old abbeys, historic houses, and 'the Scott Country' immortalised by Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford and James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd. The Borders between the Cheviots and Edinburgh contains the Tweed Valley, the home of some of the most famous names in tweeds and knitwear. There is a fine network of uncrowded roads and excellent accommodation making the area an ideal starting point for a visit to Scotland. Dawn MacLeod, who lives in the region and knows it well, provides a very readable and informative account for the tourist and armchair traveller alike. Beginning with an account of Berwick-Upon-Tweed, the author goes on to discuss the abbeys, their towns, and the other principal cen­tres. Open houses and grounds, castles and towers, and the countryside and villages are all discussed. Over thirty photographs contribute to a portrait which will encourage newcomers to the Borders to seek out and savour the attractions of the area for themselves., Blackwood, 1983, Perth, Scotland: Melven Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7.5" x 10. h/b 192 pages, condition is very good, the DJ has been price clipped. Illustrated by 135 fine photographs here is a tour of some of the beauties and fine historical towns with which Fife is so richly endowed. Fife today retains, even when most traditional counties have disappeared because of regionalisation, its strongly felt individuality as the District of Fife. hard fought for when it would have been lost to the - neighbouring regions of Tayside and Lothian, recalling a former status as one of the original seven provinces of Scotland in the 10th century. It was in Fife that in the middle ages the Earls of Fife were first among the nobility of Scotland. Its cathedral at St. Andrews was by far the largest in the land - well over 106 yards long. It was in Fife that higher education first flourished in Scotland with the founding of St. Andrews University in 1411. The first favourite of the Scottish monarchs for almost two centuries was the Palace of Falkland built with renaissance grandeur without parallel in the British Isles, where royalty lived with a suDreme disregard for all the class distinction so beloved in later times, and fitting subject for the front cover. Fife also sports the oldest tennis court, built for James V at Falkland Palace in 1539. And as for that other game, synonymous with Fife, golf had already become an obsession at St. Andrews by 1552. Honest tradesmen, staid University professors and even godly church elders tended in large numbers to be madly bewitched by the game. Starting from Queensferry and its connections with St. Margaret we pass through Culross, the Rip van Winkle town where time has virtually stood still for 300 years. With its cobbled streets, crow stepped gables and painted ceilings, it has an ancient character that is all its own, though other neighbouring burghs have reminders of it. And then to Wemyss. with its Pictish relics and on to the East Neuk. This is a much visited corner of Fife with picturesque fishing towns where witches have been a sore trial and weird superstitions a part of the normal way of life for ages. Even to this day, if you are a fisherman, there are some encounters that you will avoid like the plague if you value your life. There is a chapter on Anstruther, and from Crail it is on to St. Andrews with its air of cloister, golf and gown. Inland on another journey, we meet the last of Scotland's thatchers gathering his reeds by the River Tay. In his old age he gifted the tools of his trade to the local folk museum and another of Scotland's ancient crafts died with him. The tale ends in Newburgh, set on the remote, wooded shores of the Tay in the most historic sector of all, where Christianity first flowered over 1400 years ago., Melven Press, 1982, UK: Military Book Club, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. In Siege: A Novel of the Eastern Front, 1942, author Russ Schneider takes us to the immediate scene of two Russian towns, Cholm and Velikiye Luki, the last holdouts for a small garrison of Germans surrounded by the vast Red Army during World War II. In Cholm, under the command of General Scherer, the garrison lasted 105 days against a besieging Russian force that outnumbered it ten to one. The Russians had tanks and artillery, while the Germans had neither, and most of the battle was fought in Arctic conditions in the winter of 1941-42. Unprepared for the savage climate, the German army at Cholm and elsewhere was nearly destroyed. The struggle for this obscure town was an epic story ranking with any of history's more well-known accounts of desperate military stands. Six months later, nearby Velikiye Luki was surrounded with Scherer again in overall command. This time, however, Scherer and part of his force were outside the city; he spent the next two months trying to break through to the remainder of his men trapped inside Velikiye Luki, only to be turned back time and again. In the end he was only able to listen helplessly to radio reports from the doomed men as they were gradually wiped out in a battle even more violent than the one at Cholm. Part of Siege is told from Scherer's point of view, as he struggles to grow through the tactical and personal hazards of command, but the novel centers around a group of ordinary enlisted men caught up in these events, with all the confusion, horror, and exhaustion that they experienced going from one hopeless situation to another. Private Kordts is a private and mysterious soldier, always struggling to keep his impudent and anti-authoritarian attitude to himself. He is regarded somewhat suspiciously by his superiors, in particular by his new platoon leader, Sergeant Schrader, who has distanced himself from almost all his men after seeing a previous platoon under his command wiped out in a few minutes. Like Kordts, Private Freitag is a Cholm veteran transferred to Schrader's platoon, a teenager possessed by the urge to prove himself as a man, yet who also finds himself drawn toward Kordts's terse humor and disdainful outlook. The Russo-German War has long had a peculiar fascination for students of military and world history, and the battles that form the basis of Siege have an intense dramatic quality. With his expert knowledge of the war on the Eastern Front, Russ Schneider conveys as very few other writers can the scale of combat that had no precedent in savagery and cruelty in this compelling and riveting account of the men of this fated garrison who could only hope to live to tell it themselves., Military Book Club, 2003, United Kingdom: David & Charles, 1971. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.5" X 8.75. h/b 212 pages, condition is very good. Corsica, the 'mountain in the sea', is the French island that lies between Italy and Sardinia. One of the most sparsely populated islands in the Mediterranean, its wild, austere beauty attracts tourists, naturalists and winter-sports enthusiasts. Dr Thompson's portrait of the island sets its troubled history and traditional way of life in the context of its varied geography. Once the pawn of a medieval city-state, 'and now a department of France, Corsica has suffered much from emigration. The present-day economy ranges from modern tourist development and up-to-date farming on the eastern plains to a decaying agricultural tradition in the mountainous interior. The economic problems of the island are caused both by the rugged environment and by the Corsican tradition, with its own language, its religious fervour and its history of vendetta. Food and drink, recreation, the layout of the towns, and travelling through Corsica are just a few of the topics explored. For anyone who dreams of an unusual holiday, or who just loves islands, a vivid picture emerges., David & Charles, 1971, Somerset, UK: Halsgrove, 2007. 144 Pages with Colour Photos. The 1ft 111/2ins gauge Ffestiniog Railway is a line of immense historic significance. Originally built to transport slate from the quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog to the harbour at Porthmadog it was both hugely successful and renowned worldwide for innovation. By 1950, however, it was a scene of dereliction – until enthusiasts gained control. Today it is a major tourist attraction and most would agree is the leading preserved narrow gauge railway in Britain – while continuing with its record of innovation including the construction of new locomotives. The Ffestiniog Railway holds major gala events and is visited by many locomotives from other railways. All of this variety and colour is captured within the pages of this magnificent book, continuing over 140 full-colour images. Not the least of its glories is the peerless landscape through which the route runs, from the top of a mile-long sea wall, through the hills of Snowdonia and skirting the rooftops of houses as it approaches the slate town of Blaenau. This is contrasted with glimpses behind the scenes in the line’s workshops. The Ffestiniog Railway is now in the midst of a task arguably more massive than its own revival as it leads the reconstruction of a long-defunct neighbour, the Welsh Highland Railway. A section of the book examines this huge project, bringing the Ffestiniog Railway story bang-up-to-date. Cliff Thomas worked for several years as Heritage Railways’ News Editor for the former magazine Railway World, and in early 2001 he joined the team of contributors to The Railway Magazine for which he reports on standard and narrow gauge steam news and is a feature writer. He has also written on the current narrow gauge scene for Narrow Gauge World since issue 1 of that title and is the editor of the NGmodelling section of that title. His photographic and written work has also appeared on a freelance basis in a wide range of other magazines and publications. Cliff has been an Executive Committee member and Director of the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway for many years and is the founding Chairman of the Greensand Railway Museum Trust . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good., Halsgrove, 2007<

2007, ISBN: 9781841146003

Somerset, UK: Halsgrove, 2007. 144 Pages with Colour Photos. The 1ft 111/2ins gauge Ffestiniog Railway is a line of immense historic significance. Originally built to transport slate from… Mehr…

Somerset, UK: Halsgrove, 2007. 144 Pages with Colour Photos. The 1ft 111/2ins gauge Ffestiniog Railway is a line of immense historic significance. Originally built to transport slate from the quarries around Blaenau Ffestiniog to the harbour at Porthmadog it was both hugely successful and renowned worldwide for innovation. By 1950, however, it was a scene of dereliction – until enthusiasts gained control. Today it is a major tourist attraction and most would agree is the leading preserved narrow gauge railway in Britain – while continuing with its record of innovation including the construction of new locomotives. The Ffestiniog Railway holds major gala events and is visited by many locomotives from other railways. All of this variety and colour is captured within the pages of this magnificent book, continuing over 140 full-colour images. Not the least of its glories is the peerless landscape through which the route runs, from the top of a mile-long sea wall, through the hills of Snowdonia and skirting the rooftops of houses as it approaches the slate town of Blaenau. This is contrasted with glimpses behind the scenes in the line’s workshops. The Ffestiniog Railway is now in the midst of a task arguably more massive than its own revival as it leads the reconstruction of a long-defunct neighbour, the Welsh Highland Railway. A section of the book examines this huge project, bringing the Ffestiniog Railway story bang-up-to-date. Cliff Thomas worked for several years as Heritage Railways’ News Editor for the former magazine Railway World, and in early 2001 he joined the team of contributors to The Railway Magazine for which he reports on standard and narrow gauge steam news and is a feature writer. He has also written on the current narrow gauge scene for Narrow Gauge World since issue 1 of that title and is the editor of the NGmodelling section of that title. His photographic and written work has also appeared on a freelance basis in a wide range of other magazines and publications. Cliff has been an Executive Committee member and Director of the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway for many years and is the founding Chairman of the Greensand Railway Museum Trust . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good., Halsgrove, 2007<