2011
Great British Railway Journeys
Foreword Michael Portillo Introduction Charlie Bunce Cottonopolis and the Railways: from Liverpool to Scarborough The Holiday Line: from Swindon to Penzance Bringing Beer Down South: from Buxton to London Opening Up Victorian Britain: from Preston to Edinburgh The Mail Train: from Ledbury to Holyhead The Taming of the Highlands: from Ayr to Skye Railways Made …
Dante in Love
Why This Book Has Been Written Rome Dante’s Florence, 1260-74 Gemma Donati and Beatrice Portinari Dante’s Education A New Constitution for Florence and the Sicilian Vespers Late Teens – The Dream A Poet’s Apprenticeship The Warrior Who Fought at Campaldino Death of Beatrice The Consolation of Philosophy The Dark Wood Dante and the Painted Word. …
Ribbon of Wildness
Introduction The Reiver March The Laich March The Heartland March The Moine March The Northland March Conclusion Appendices Munros and Corbetts on the Watersheds Key Areas with Conservation and Biodiversity Objectives Agencies and Organisations with an Active Conservation or Biodiversity Role Land Classificiation and Capability for Agriculture on the Watershed
Nachkriegskinder
Der Krieg war aus und überall Die gut getarnte Vergangenheit Vatertöchter Söhne im Schatten Ermittler in eigener Schatte Die DDR-Variante Nachkrieg und Kinderdresseur Woher kommt Orientierung?
Britain’s Lost Railways
Introduction Early Railways Major Terminal Stations Major Stations Urban and Suburban Stations Country Stations Standard Designs Modern Stations Light Railways Goods Warehouses and Goods Sheds Signal Boxes Railway Works, Engine Sheds and Engine Handling Viaducts and Bridges The Railway Environment
Scott-land
Introduction Arrival The Man Scott’s Edinburgh Ossian Reputation Monument Royal Mile Nation The Borders Scott Country Scott’s Minstrelsy Rhymer Last and Latest Minstrel Toponymy The Heights of Parnassus ‘Laying a Trap for Jeffrey’ ‘Some satrical flings at Scott’ Tourism Heritage Waverley ‘The Author of Waverley‘ A Digression on Secret Identities Putting a Country in a …
Great Commanders of the Modern World
Introduction Helmuth von Moltke Garnet Wolseley Erich Ludendorff Ferdinand Foch Phillipe Pétain Edmund Allenby John Pershing Kemal Atatürk Basil Liddell Hart Carl Gustaf Mannerheim Gerd von Rundstedt Erich von Manstein Heinz Guderian Erwin Rommel Bernard Montgomery Georgi Zhukov Ivan Konev Dwight D. Eisenhower George S. Patton Tomoyuki Yamashita Douglas Macarthur William Slim Gerard Templer Moshe …
Mao’s Great Famine
Preface Chronology Map Part One: The Pursuit of Utopia Two Rivals The Bidding Starts Purging the Ranks Bugle Call Launching Sputniks Let the Shelling Begin The People’s Communes Steel Fever Part Two: Through the Valley of Death Warning Signs Shopping Spree Dizzy with Success The End of Truth Repression The Sino-Soviet Rift Capitalist Grain Finding …
Unbroken
Part I The One-Boy Insurgency Run Like Mad The Torrance Tornado Plundering Germany Into War Part II The Flying Coffin “This Is It, Boys” “Only the Laundry Knew How Scared I Was” Five Hundred and Ninety-four Holes The Stinking Six “Nobody’s Going to Live Through This” Part III Downed Missing at Sea Thirst Sharks and …
Realism
Notes from the author Preface to 2006 version of the play