Book by Owen, David Lloyd, Lloyd Owen, D. L.

The Long Range Desert Group 1940-45: Providence Their Guide

History

Owen, David Lloyd

Military

Combined Books

In a campaign known for many special warfare units, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) became one of the greatest legends of the North African Campaign in World War II. This classic insider's account has been updated and supplemented with rare photographs from the LRDG collection in the Imperial War Museum.

The Long Range Desert Group 1940-1945: Providence Their Guide

Africa

Pen and Sword Military

Great book detailing the SAS In WWII

The Desert My Dwelling Place (Special Forces Library)

Arms & Armour

Explaining the urgency of taking water and wastewater seriously in an age where good management and political will are chronically scarce, this book presents a moral, economic, and sustainable case for financing the work needed worldwide in the coming decades to ensure safe water for all. Arguing that water should not be free, it explores how the human right to water is about empowering people to make reasoned choices about their destiny, and how mismanagement and political expediency have contributed to global inequality. Written by a leading water consultant, this record uncovers the realities of a common future that lie behind the rhetoric.

The Sound of Thirst: Why Urban Water for All Is Essential, Achievable and Affordable

Business & Money

Real Estate

Parthian Books

Two hundred years ago, Wales was an all but forgotten corner of England. Travelling across its remote uplands between scattered settlements was often a challenge, as was entering a land close to home where few people outside its towns spoke English. It was rarely visited without good reason.&nbsp;A Wilder Wales&nbsp;introduces readers to the sheer breadth of experiences these travellers had, through extracts from 35 books, journals, and periodicals, written between 1609 and 1831. These accounts, ranging from jobbing writers, to a Duke's progress, include antiquarians, historians, and seekers of sublime scenery from the Wye Valley to the 'British Alps' of Mid and North Wales.&nbsp;A Wilder Wales&nbsp;highlights the astonishing transformation from a poor rural backwater to the crucible of the industrial revolution and how others saw the land and its people. These accounts describe the early days of mining, in Parys Mountain (Anglesey) and Ceredigion, as well as early coal mines in Pembrokeshire, and then cover the birth of metal refineries in Swansea, Merthyr, and across the Valleys. As well as describing the towns, countryside, and mountains, religion, customs, politics, and eating and drinking are discussed, along with a more open-minded consideration about Welsh language and culture than would emerge in later accounts.

A Wilder Wales: Traveller's Tales 1610-1831

Europe