Trevor: 960 books
Doctor Who: Fear of the Dark
50th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
On a moon of the ruined planet Akoshemon, an age-old terror is about to be reborn. Something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation - and rejoices in it. The Fifth Doctor joins a team of archaeologists searching for evidence of the planet's infamous past, and uncovers more than...
Montgomery
Lessons in Leadership from the Soldier's General
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Bernard Law Montgomery was a dedicated battlefield tactician, though a controversial one. In North Africa in 1942, he commanded the Eighth Army to a great triumph against Rommel at El Alamein, which Churchill hailed as the beginning of the end of the war. During the planning stages for the invasion...
by Thomas Macaulay, Hugh Trevor-Roper
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2006
One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his History of England won instantaneous success following...
The Whisky King
The remarkable true story of Canada's most infamous bootlegger and the undercover Mountie on his trail
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
“True-crime writing at its finest.” —Dean Jobb, author of Empire of Deception
A rich and fascinating history of Canada’s first celebrity mobster, Rocco Perri—King of the Bootleggers—and the man who pursued him, Canada’s first undercover Mountie, for readers of Erik Larson, Dean...
by Robin Prior, Trevor Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibility to military and political leaders for its catastrophic outcome. “A magisterial piece of scholarship. . . . It is a model of historical research and should...
by Frederick Trevor Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A balance account of the Civil War, first published in 1911. According to the Forward: "During the early years of the Civil War someone tauntingly asked Mr. Charles Francis Adams, the United States Minister to England, what he thought of the brilliant victories which the confederate armies were then...
National Service
The Best Years of Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 2 million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed forces during the period of National Service, which began after the Second World War and was phased out by 1963. Aged just 18, these individuals, many of whom had never left their hometowns before, were put in uniform to serve their...
The Buddha
The Social-Revolutionary Potential of Buddhism
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
A warm and stimulating book, this text describes the India into which the Buddha was born, recounts what is known of his life and the development of his teachings, and then follows the course of Buddhism through succeeding centuries in India and Sri Lanka. Far from being a recluse concerned only with...
Paganism 101
An Introduction to Paganism by 101 Pagans
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Paganism 101 is an introduction to Paganism written by 101 Pagans. Grouped into three main sections, Who we are, What we believe and What we do, twenty topics fundamental to the understanding of the main Pagan traditions are each introduced by essay and then elaborated upon by other followers...
The King's Own Scottish Borderers
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The King's Own Scottish Borderers is one of only two Scottish regiments never to have been amalgamated until it joined forces with The Royal Scots to form the 1st battalion of The Royal Regiment of Scotland in 2006. It is also unusual in that it lost its Scottish status between 1782 and 1887 when...
Kitchener Enigma
The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Royle revises Kitchener's latterday image to reveal a warm-hearted, tender, and caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him. New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East, and his attachment to the Arab cause, and on the infamous struggle...
The Royal Scots
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
The Royal Scots are Scotland's oldest infantry regiment, with a tradition that stretches back to 1633. This first concise history of the regiment is based largely on the recollections of several generations of Royal Scots - men like Private McBane, who carried his three-year-old son into battle at...
Queen's Own Highlanders
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Created in 1961 as a result of the amalgamation of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and the Seaforth Highlanders, the Queen's Own Highlanders embody the history and traditions of some of Scotland's oldest Highland regiments. Two great Highland families - Cameron of Lochdarroch and Mackenzie of...
The Royal Highland Fusiliers
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
The Royal Highland Fusiliers came into being in 1959 as a result of the amalgamation of two regiments, both of which had strong connections with Glasgow and the west of Scotland: The Royal Scots Fusiliers, founded in 1678 by Charles Erskine, fifth Earl of Mar; and The Highland Light Infantry, or HLI,...