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by David Phelps
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Hereford has a darker side to its history, filled with strange—and sometimes unlikely—true tales. Was King Arthur a Hereford man? Why was its patron saint murdered by his would-be father-in-law? Why did another of its saints become the only saint to die excommunicated? Was a Bishop of Hereford...
The King's Henchman
Stuart Spymaster and Architect of the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
'Brilliant.' Gillian Tindall 'A moving love story between a commoner and a royal, as well as a breathtakingly fresh window into the courts of Charles I and Charles II, and the foundation of London's West End.' Fiona Mountain Charles II's succession to the throne came at a time of national turbulence:...
Three Victories and a Defeat
The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
In the eighteenth century, Britain became a world superpower through a series of sensational military strikes. Traditionally, the Royal Navy has been seen as Britain's key weapon, but in Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms argues that Britain's true strength lay with the German aristocrats...
by Hugh Dunthorne
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
England's response to the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568–1648) has been studied hitherto mainly in terms of government policy, yet the Dutch struggle with Habsburg Spain affected a much wider community than just the English political elite. It attracted attention across Britain and drew not just...
Boy
One Child's Fight to Survive in the Brutal British Care System
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
“My parents had to try for eighteen months to conceive me, but my father was adamant he wanted one last child. After eighteen months of trying, my mother eventually conceived and nine months later I was born. My birth was a difficult one. It was like I was never meant to be in this world.”
Boy...
Bloodiest Year
British Soldiers in Northern Ireland, in their Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Ken Wharton's latest book on the Northern Ireland Troubles is, as always, written from the perspective of the British soldier. Here he chronicles the worst year of The Troubles - 1972 - a year in which 172 soldiers died as a direct consequence of the insanity that would grip Ulster for almost 30 years....
by Nick Holland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Guy Fawkes, born in York in 1570, is one of the key figures in British history, taking a central role in a plot that would have destroyed the ruling class and changed the nation forever. Today protesters wear his mask, families burn his effigy, and he is an instantly recognizable name and face. But...
by David Bates
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Fifteen years in the making, a landmark reinterpretation of the life of a pivotal figure in British and European history In this magisterial addition to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates combines biography and a multidisciplinary approach to examine the life of a major figure in British and...
by Annie Bullen
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
An intriguing miscellany of such need-to-know information as the name Henry VIII jousted under (Sir Loyal Heart), the type of pet owned by both Katherine of Aragon and Elizabeth I (monkeys), and the item ladies of the court commonly used as leg-warmers when traveling (spaniels) The five Tudor...
by Colonel John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The one and only major naval engagement of the First World War stands alone in the history of Warfare afloat. It is a curious battle to study as a German tactical victory, but rather a British strategic victory. Colonel Buchan wrote his volume study of the battle from an enviable position as a high...
Our First Revolution
The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history—the late-seventeenth-century...
Summary and Analysis of Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
Based on the Book by Julia Baird
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Victoria: The Queen tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Julia Baird’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and gives you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
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by Stephen Halliday
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This book is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange, and entertaining facts and trivia about the history of the British criminal justice system. Armed with this fascinating tome, the reader will have such knowledge of the days when noses, hands, and heads were cut off, heretics...
by Caryl Philips, Simon Schama
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Simon Schama’s extraordinary novel in a new stage adaptation by Caryl Philips.
As the American War of Independence reaches its climax, a plantation slave and a British Naval Officer embark on an epic journey in search of freedom. Divided by barriers of race but united in their ambitions for...