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by Geoff Holder
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
The Jacobites and the Supernatural offers a whole new perspective on the well-known Jacobite period and also allows the reader to explore the battlefields and other sites of the period in a completely new way. Here are tales of witchcraft, spirits, psychic powers, portents, prodigies, magical talismans...
Sampans, Banyans and Rambutans
A Childhood in Singapore and Malaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Growing up as a child in Singapore and Malaya in the 1960s was an idyllic experience. Thousands of children of naval personnel will have the same fond memories of the time spent there, as Derek has. Who could forget the constant hot weather or the strange smells that you only seemed to find in the...
Richard III - The Young King To Be
The Young King to be
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Richard III is a paradox - the most hated of English kings, yet the most beloved, a deeply pious man, yet materialistic to the point of obsession, puritan, yet the father of at least two illegitimate children. This new biography concentrates on the much neglected early part of Richards life - from...
Margaret Beaufort
Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim to the crown of England to her son, Henry VII,...
The Arch of Constantine
Inspired by the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Right next to the Colosseum in Rome stands the Arch of Constantine. Completed AD 312 - 315, it was built to celebrate ten years of the Emperor Constantine's reign and his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. The arch is undoubtedly the most impressive civic monument surviving from this period....
The Mongols: From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
From Genghis Khan to Tamerlane
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In the space of 200 hundred years, the Mongols built the greatest empire that the world had ever known and then lost it again. At its greatest extent, the lands they held dwarfed those under the control of Rome at its prime whilst the conquests of its founder, Genghis Khan, outshone those of even...
The Great War
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
The Great War - An Illustrated History looks at the causes of the war and the actual events themselves. Naturally, much of it covers the war on the Western Front but there are also sections about other theatres of war - the Middle East, Gallipoli, the war in Africa, etc. The war at sea and in the...
Robin Hood: The English Outlaw Unmasked
The English Outlaw Unmasked
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Everyone has heard of Robin Hood, the brilliant archer who robbed the rich to give to the poor and who always triumphed over the forces of evil, but the man behind the legend is as mysterious as King Arthur. There were outlaws who lived in the royal forests preying on unwary travelers, and Robin Hoods...
by Sharon Bennett Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
These are the stories of women, famous, infamous and unknown, who shaped the course of medieval history. The lives and actions of medieval women were restricted by the men who ruled the homes, countries and world they lived in. It was men who fought wars, made laws and dictated religious doctrine....
Henry III
The Son of Magna Carta
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Henry III became King of England within days of his ninth birthday. His father, King John, had overseen a disastrous period in English history and the boy king inherited a country embroiled in a bitter, entrenched war with itself. With barons inviting a French prince to take the crown, the young Henry...
Jack the Ripper
The Definitive Casebook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The case of Jack the Ripper and his savage serial killing and horrendous mutilation of five women in the East End of Victorian London is the greatest of all unsolved murder mysteries. For over 100 years the long line of candidates for the bloodstained laurels of Jack the Ripper has been paraded before...
Jack the Ripper
Case Closed
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
Finally solves the mystery of the Victorian serial killer who murdered and mutilated up to 11 women in London in 1888. The most famous serial killer in history. A sadistic stalker of seedy Victorian backstreets. A master criminal. The man who got away with murder - over and over again. But while literally...
Scramble
The Dramatic Story of a Young Fighter Pilot's Experiences During the Battle of Britain and the Siege of Malta
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
This is a fighter pilot’s memoir of four tumultuous years, 1938–1942, when he was first trained, then fought and survived in not one but two of the biggest aerial campaigns of the war, the Battle of Britain and the equally epic, but lesser known, Siege of Malta. When the Germans were blitzing...
by Jem Duducu
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
America's many presidents, both famous and obscure, have been as varied as the history of the country they have ruled. Over two centuries the presidential seat has been occupied by soldiers and school teachers, judges and journalists, haberdashers, Hollywood actors, professors, postmasters and even,...