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by Stuart Reid
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
In 2006 the title 'Highlanders' finally disappeared from the British Army's list of infantry regiments after nearly 270 years. Throughout this period Scottish Highland units distinguished themselves in battle, but it was in the 19th-century heyday of the British Empire that they acquired an elite...
Missing Believed Killed
The Royal Air Force and the Search for Missing Aircrew 1939-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
During the early years of WW2 it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the remains of R.A.F. aircrew deemed Missing Believed Killed was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (M.R.S.) of the Air Ministry was set up in 1941 to deal with this problem. It collected and collated intelligence...
All the Countries
And the Few We Never Got Round To
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we’ve invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That’s not far off a massive, jaw-dropping 90 per cent. Not too many Britons know that we invaded Iran in the Second World War with the Soviets. You can be fairly sure a lot more...
Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice
Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they...
Dearest Bess
The Life and Times of Lady Elizabeth Foster Afterwards Duchess of Devonshire
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Elizabeth Foster, 'Bess' is one of the larger than life characters that occasionally flits across the pages of history. Born in 1757 as Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, the daughter of the eccentric Frederick Hervey, Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry, she led a privileged life and married John Thomas...
by Stuart Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2004
The 1994 crash of Chinook with top Northern Ireland intelligence experts on board into the Mull of Kintyre has remained the source of intense speculation ever since. The book is not only a full account of the incident and the subsequent on-going controversy over blame, but also attempts to solve the...
by Stuart D.B. Picken
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2010
One of Japan's major religions, Shinto has no doctrines and there are no sacred texts from which religious authority can be derived. It does not have an identifiable historical founder, and it has survived the vicissitudes of history through rituals and symbols rather than through continuity of doctrine....
Saved By An Angel
& Other Strange, True And Untold Tales From The Life Of A Maverick Science Fiction Writer
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2013
Rescued from Certain Death by a Man who Wasn't There! On the trail of a lost civilization in the South American jungles! Spying for a hightech firm in Brussels! Strange reoccurrences of the mystic number seven! Personal encounters with the Mahatmas of the Hierarchy of Risen Masters! Discovering proof...
UnRoman Britain
Exposing the Great Myth of Britannia
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
When we think of Roman Britain we tend to think of a land of togas and richly decorated palaces with Britons happily going about their much improved daily business under the benign gaze of Rome. This image is to a great extent a fiction. In fact, Britons were some of the least enthusiastic members...
Britannia: The Failed State
Ethnic Conflict and the End of Roman Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
At its height a complex and wealthy state, by the end of the 4th and beginning of the 5th centuries Roman Britain was at the point of collapse. It was soon replaced by Anglo-Saxon culture which migrated across the North Sea. This absorbing study explores the tensions and conflicts between the various...
Tales from the San Francisco Giants Dugout
A Collection of the Greatest Giants Stories Ever Told
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The rich tradition of the San Francisco Giants has provided indelible memories for their fans ever since they moved from New York’s Polo Grounds to Seals Stadium in 1958. With three World Series titles in five years, starting in 2010, the San Francisco Giants have established themselves as one of...
Living the Serenity Prayer
True Stories of Acceptance, Courage, and Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
God Encounters
Stories of His Involvement in Life's Greatest Moments
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
This touching collection of true stories shares personal accounts of God’s presence and activity in the lives of ordinary people throughout ordinary days—and how He shows up in extraordinary ways.
God Encounters consists of approximately thirty stories with “life turning points” that...
by Stuart B. MacBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Terrifying serial killer thriller set in the gritty Glasgow of the near future, from the bestselling author of the Logan McRae series. There are worse things than the death penalty… They call them halfheads: convicted criminals, surgically mutilated and lobotomized by the State, then sent out to...