Diary of a somebody

Matthew, Christopher

Hutchinson and Co. [Publishers] ltd

Family Matters

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

A.A. Milne's childhood rhymes are rewritten for sixty-year-olds covering such topics as middle-age-spread, pensions, inflation, traffic jams, and cell phones.

Now We Are Sixty

Biographies & Memoirs

Viking Adult

Continues the author's zany tribute to A. A. Milne's Now We Are Six in a second collection of hilarious reworkings of Milne's classic verses.

Now We Are Sixty (And a Bit)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

John Murray Pubs Ltd

Christopher Matthew follows up the astounding success of Now We Are Sixty with another collection of A. A. Milne inspired poems for a new generation. These days we feel almost as young at fifty as we did at thirty—give or take the odd twinge. However, we are also becoming increasingly aware that the cradle is a lot further off than the grave. Is this the moment to start shaking things up a bit? The last chance to realize those long-cherished dreams? To chuck in the humdrum job and strike out? To set the pulse racing, perhaps, with a view earthwards from a hang-glider, or over the handlebars of a Harley Davidson? Already well known as the bard of the over-sixties, Christopher Matthew now reverses through time to take a hard look at the hopes and fears of those who are still in the prime of life - just. The result is a brilliant collection of verses - inspired once again by A. A. Milne—mostly comic, some subversive, some touching—that should hit the spot for those who have reached their half centuries, or soon will, or can remember what it was like when they did.

When We Were Fifty

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

The Perfect Hero

Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)

In A Different World, Christopher Matthew sets out to tell of the glorious past and elegant present of some fifty hotels that he considers to be among the very greatest in the world. This is not a guidebook. It is a personal tour, an evocation by a distinguished travel writer of some of the last outposts of the kind of grandeur thought to have vanished in the 1920s. Profusely illustrated.

A Different World: Stories of Great Hotels

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Paddington Press

A Storm of Spears: Understanding the Greek Hoplite at War

The backbone of classical Greek armies was the phalanx of heavily armored spearmen, or hoplites. These were the soldiers that defied the might of Persia at Marathon, Thermopylae, and Plataea and, more often, fought each other in the countless battles of the Greek city-states. For around two centuries they were the dominant soldiers of the Classical world, in great demand as mercenaries throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East. Yet, despite the battle descriptions of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, etc, and copious evidence of Greek art and archaeology, there are still many aspects of hoplite warfare that are little understood or the subject of fierce academic debate.\nChristopher Matthew's groundbreaking reassessment combines rigorous analysis of the literary and archaeological evidence with the new disciplines of reconstructive archaeology, reenactment, and ballistic science. He focuses meticulously on the details of the equipment, tactics, and capabilities of the individual hoplites. In so doing he challenges some long-established assumptions. For example, despite a couple of centuries of study of the hoplites portrayed in Greek vase paintings, Matthew manages to glean from them some startlingly fresh insights into how hoplites wielded their spears. These findings are supported by practical testing with his own replica hoplite panoply and the experiences of a group of dedicated reenactors. He also tackles such questions as the protective properties of hoplite shields and armor and the much-vexed debate on the exact nature of the 'othismos', the climax of phalanx-on-phalanx clashes.\nThis is an innovative and refreshing reassessment of one of the most important kinds of troops in ancient warfare, sure to make a genuine contribution to the state of knowledge.

History

Ancient Civilizations

Pen and Sword Military

The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. For nearly 200 years, from the rise of the Macedonians as a military power in the mid-fourth century BC, to their defeat at the hands of the Romans at Pydna in 168BC, the pike-wielding heavy infantryman (the phalangite) formed the basis of nearly every Hellenistic army to deploy on battlefields stretching from Italy to India. And yet, despite this dominance, and the vast literature dedicated to detailing the history of the Hellenistic world, there remains fierce debate among modern scholars about how infantry combat in this age was actually conducted. Christopher Matthews critically examines phalanx combat by using techniques such as physical re-creation, experimental archaeology, and ballistics testing, and then comparing the findings of this testing to the ancient literary, artistic and archaeological evidence, as well as modern theories. The result is the most comprehensive and up-to-date study of what heavy infantry combat was like in the age of Alexander the Great and his Successors.

An Invincible Beast: Understanding the Hellenistic Pike Phalanx in Action

A Bus Pass Named Desire

Little,Brown

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