Aces High serves to remind us that, if not an entirely scrupulous politician, nor a perfect husband, Alan Clark really was a superb military historian. There has evolved something of a myth about the war in the air between 1914-1918. The myth goes that, while in the filth and gore of the trenches below any idealism and chivalry quickly sputtered and died, in the purer air above the last noble heroes battled in one-to-one dogfights like knights of old. It is a myth that Clark shoots down in flames, with characteristic iconoclasm. One of the great RFC aces was Mick Mannock, famed for his encounter with a training instructor, out in a formation of six, with five of his very green-horned pupils. Mannock first shot down the instructor and then ruthlessly pursued each of the novices and shot them down one by one. This wasn't chivalry, it was war, and although more elegant to watch, it was every bit as lethal as Passchendaele.

Aces High: War in the Air Over the Western Front, 1914-18

History

Clark, Alan.

Military

HarperCollins Distribution Services

On the outbreak of war in 1914, the armies of the western front soon became bogged down in the mud at Flanders. But on the wide plains and forests of Eastern Europe the three great Empires - Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary - grappled in a series of battles involving millions of men and hundreds of miles of front. Shortly after the outbreak of war the Russian "steamroller" had lurched into Prussia only to be hurled back amind the marshes of Tannenberg. For the next three years the fighting swung indeterminately back and forth. This work describes the campaigns which provoked the downfall of three great empires and left the world changed forever.

Suicide of the Empires: The Battles on the Eastern Front, 1914-18 (Library of the 20th Century)

American Heritage Press

Alan Clark's acclaimed Diaries end a month before his death in 1999. After the first volume (30 weeks on the SUNDAY TIMES bestseller list), THE TIMES wrote: 'The best diarists, from Pepys and Boswell, to 'Chips' Channon and Harold Nicolson, have been the souls of indiscretion. But none so indiscreet as Mr Clark. For its Pooterish self-assessment, for Mr Toad's enthusiasm for new things, for Byron's caddishness, for its deadly candour, it is one of the great works in the genre.'
This third volume begins in 1991 with Alan Clark contemplating quitting as MP. Life at Saltwood Castle, his home in Kent, hangs heavy; then comes the Scott inquiry and the Matrix Churchill affair, the publishing of the first volume of the Diaries, which leads 'the coven', a family of former girlfriends, to sell their story to the NEWS OF THE WORLD. 
The diaries follow his ongoing efforts to return to Westminster. As ever there is much, much more: his long-suffering wife Jane, his family, an affair that threatens his marriage, and, not least, the country life. This volume closes with the tragedy of his final months when he is diagnosed with a brain tumour, but he keeps his diary until he can no longer focus on the page.

The Last Diaries in and Out of the Wilderness : )

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Weidenfeld

Alan Clark, historian and politician, has been a long-time diarist, recording his life socially and politically over many years. This volume covers the period from the death of his father, Lord (Kenneth) Clark, to the moment when he became subject to the Privy Council oath in February of 1991. Thus the diaries cover two full Parliaments serving under Margaret Thatcher until her ousting in a coup (which Clark observed closely from the inside) and then under John Major. Cabinet colleagues, royalty, ambassadors, civil servants and foreign dignitaries all have their conceits illuminated. And a succession of pretty girls cross the stage, and the delights and pain which they cause the author are recorded. Clark notes what he observes, what he hears, what he believes and he admits his own ambitions and foibles. Alan Clark was MP for Plymouth (Sutton) 1974-1992.

Diaries

Historical

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, A very good, clean and sound copy in black cloth boards, gilt title on spine with a very good dust jacket. Barbarossa: the Russian-German conflict 1941-1945. The classic account of the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen. XXII, 522 p.: ill..

Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45

Europe

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Britain's most controversial historian and diarist on 75 years of the Conservative Party and its, in his view, failure to staunch the decline of Britain as a nation-state.

The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State, 1922-1997

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Aces High. The War in the Air Over the Western Front 1914-1918

Barnes&Noble

Physical description: 191 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subject: World War, 1914-1918 - Aerial operations - Air campaigns - air fighting - air warfare - Western Front 1914-1918, Theatre of operations - France and the Low Countries 1939-1940 - First World War - aerial operations, air warfare, air fighting - aerial operations over the western front, first world war - Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts - The Air War - General Descriptions. Genre: Illustrated.

Aces high;: The war in the air over the Western Front 1914-18

It was one of the most dramatic battles of the Second World War--a truly epic story. For both Allies and Axis powers, Crete offered immense strategic importance for controlling the Mediterranean, with great naval harbors, level areas for airfields, and mountain anti-aircraft positions. How did it happen, then, that in 1941, German paratroopers--outnumbered 5 to 1 and with only a single airstrip for supply and reinforcement--spectacularly overcame thousands of British troops and an even larger contingent from Greece, to hold Crete till war's end? Even more shocking, all the action took place in a mere five days. An expert historian vividly explains British strategic blunders and tactical failures, along with the brazen efforts of the Germans.

The Fall of Crete

Cassell

The scandalous personal accounts by a former cabinet minister recount his innermost ambitions while relating his insecurities, endeavors, and egotism, and revealing his sometimes unsettling observations of fellow cabinet members.

Mrs. Thatcher's Minister: The Private Diaries of Alan Clark

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

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