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Princess Diana
The Tragic Fate of the Nation’s Sweetheart
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Princess Diana in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Following her marriage to Prince Charles in 1981, she became a member of the...
Dead Men Risen
An Epic Story of War and Heroism in Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Dead Men Risen, winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Books, is the epic story of a beleaguered British battle group fighting desperately to prevent the Taliban from seizing Afghanistan's Helmand province just as the U.S. Marines arrive to take over.
Bestselling author Toby Harnden describes...
by John Buchan, Wilkie Collins, Edgar Allan Poe
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Core blimey, mate! It’s British Mystery Multipacks Volume 11, a crackling cornucopia of classic cozy mysteries from across the pond:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, and its sequel The Mystery of Marie Roget
Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective genre with these...
Culloden
Great Battles
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite retreat from Derby several months before. But for...
The British Isles
A History of Four Nations
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Hugh Kearney's classic account of the history of the British Isles from pre-Roman times to the present is distinguished by its treatment of English history as part of a wider 'history of four nations'. Not only focusing on England, it attempts to deal with the histories of Wales, Ireland and Scotland...
Heligoland
The True Story of German Bight and the Island that Britain Forgot
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
In 1956, sea area Heligoland became German Bight. But why did the North Sea island, which for nearly a century had demonstrated its loyalty to Britain, lose its identity? How had this once peaceful haven become, as Admiral Jacky Fisher exclaimed "a dagger pointed at England’s heart"? Behind...
Heligoland
Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, thirty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an...
by Christina Surdhar
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This is the history of York as you have never encountered it before. Travel back to a time when Erik Bloodaxe was resident monarch, or when William the Conqueror was in the middle of his relentless ‘Harrying of the North’. There are no tea rooms or hanging baskets in this York, but the severed...
by Don Jordan, Michael Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Set in an age of intrigue and espionage, this is the story of the greatest manhunt in British history: the quest for retribution upon the traitors who brought about the death of Charles I.
When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to seek out retribution, producing...
Behind The Lions
Playing Rugby for the British & Irish Lions
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
For 125 years the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a unique emblem in world sport. They represent the best of the best from the four Home Nations, coming together every four years under a united badge to take on the rugby greats of the Southern Hemisphere. Lions tours embody a revered legacy...
by Vivienne Jahnke
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1.3, University of Leipzig, language: English, abstract: This thesis focuses on presenting reasons for either including or excluding Katherine Mansfield in the New Zealand canon of literature...
Rogue Banking
A History of Financial Fraud in Interwar Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Since the turn of the millennium, the British media has been awash with stories of bankers and financiers caught engaging in acts of corporate wrongdoing and financial skullduggery. But just how different are these crimes to those committed in the past? And, is the threat of financial fraud greater...
by Alasdair Scott Sutherland
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
The Spaghetti Tree, charts how Britains gastronomic revival was largely shaped and coloured by the extraordinary influence of two Italian men. Mario Cassandro and Franco Lagattolla opened their famed La Trattoria Terrazza in Londons Soho in 1959. It was to be the start of a restaurant revolution which...
Freedom Burning
Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority over other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave...