Grehan: 35 books
The Zulu War
The War Despatches Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The events at Rorke's Drift, the iconic defence of a mission station by a small force of British and colonial troops, were immortalised in the 1964 film Zulu. In January 1879, a small garrison of just over 150 British and colonial troops successfully defended the mission against a force of 3,000 to...
by John Grehan, Martin Mace
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Despatches in this volume include that on the Battle of Britain, and air fighting 1940-1941, by Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C.T. Dowding, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command, Air Operations by Fighter Command between November 1940 and the end of December 1941, the anti-aircraft defence...
The Charge of the Light Brigade
History's Most Famous Cavalry Charge Told Through Eye Witness Accounts, Newspaper Reports, Memoirs and Diaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The most notorious, and most contentious, cavalry charge in history still remains an enigma. Though numerous books have been written about the charge, all claiming to ‘reveal the truth’ or to understand ‘the reason why’; exactly what happened at Balaklava on 25 October 1854 continues to be...
RAF and the SOE
Special Duty Operations in Europe During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining Resistance movements that persistently sought to subvert German control of their territories. The culmination of their efforts was seen when the Allied...
The Lines of Torres Vedras
The Cornerstone of Wellington's Strategy in the Peninsular War 1809-12
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
In 1809 French armies controlled almost every province of Spain and only Wellington's small force in Portugal stood between Napoleon and the conquest of Iberia.
The French invaded Portugal in the summer of 1810 but found their way blocked by the most extensive field fortifications the world...
Panbiogeography
Tracking the History of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
Biogeography is a diverse subject, traditionally focusing on the distribution of plants and animals at different taxonomic levels, past and present. Modern biogeography also puts emphasis on the ecological character of the world vegetation types, and on the evolving relationship between humans and...
New Media Dramaturgy
Performance, Media and New-Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
This book illuminates the shift in approaches to the uses of theatre and performance technology in the past twenty-five years and develops an account of new media dramaturgy (NMD), an approach to theatre informed by what the technology itself seems to want to say. Born of the synthesis of new media...