Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: walter reid

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  • THE MEANING OF COMPANY ACCOUNTS
    WALTER REID / D R MYDDELTON
    The Meaning of Company Accounts first appeared in 1971 and quickly achieved recognition among managers, financial and non-financial alike. It is now seen as the standard text in the subject. It aims to help anyone using company accounts to gain a firm grasp of what they mean and how they relate to business activities. Throughout the book, ideas are developed in a logical, str...

    $1,560.00

  • NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN
    WALTER REID
    Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler’s credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed ‘peace in our time’. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals the nuances of a complex and sensitive man who was a true radical and a man of passion, especially in all that concerned the welfare of h...

    $279.00

  • SUPREME SACRIFICE
    WALTER REID / PAUL BIRCH / GORDON MASTERTON
    A unique book that follows the story of World War I through the lives and deaths of seventy-two soldiers in one small Scottish village.   The war memorial in the Scottish village of Bridge of Weir lists seventy-two men who died during the First World War. Their deaths occurred in almost every theater of the war. They were awarded very few medals, and their military careers were...

    $229.00

  • KEEPING THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN
    WALTER REID
    An in-depth look at what truly happened when the Great Britain gave India its independence, from the author of Five Days from Defeat.   When India became independent in 1947, the general view, which has prevailed until now, is that Britain had been steadily working for an amicable transfer of power for decades. In this book, Walter Reid argues that nothing could be further from...

    $229.00

  • EMPIRE OF SAND
    WALTER REID
    "A story of how empires rattle along until their sheer scale makes them nonsensical . . . [Reid's] very capable prose just begs to be read" ( The Scotsman).   At the end of the First World War, Britain, and to a much lesser extent France, created the modern Middle East. The possessions of the former Ottoman Empire were carved up with scant regard for the wishes of those who liv...

    $229.00

  • CHURCHILL, 1940–1945
    WALTER REID
    This "magnificent" account of Churchill's battles with allies "is a meticulously researched history, but it is also a very moving human story" ( The Herald).   In April 1945, Churchill said to Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, "There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!" When he became Prime Minister on May 10...

    $229.00

  • FIVE DAYS FROM DEFEAT
    WALTER REID
    A historian explores “with forensic precision” the dramatic turning point that changed the course of the Great War (The Scotsman).   On March 21, 1918, Germany initiated one of the most ferocious offensives of the First World War. During the so-called Kaiserschlacht, German troops advanced on Allied positions in a series of attacks that caused massive casualties, separated Brit...

    $229.00