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Out For Good
The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in Ame
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
With a New Preface Written in 2016 by Adam Nagourney
This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement...
by Martin Easdown
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
A ride on a rollercoaster is the highlight of any trip to an amusement or theme park, and such attractions have been entertaining the public for well over a century. From the first mass-produced rollercoaster, the Switchback Railway, through to the giant wooden coasters of the inter-war period, seaside...
Mercenaries
Putting the World to Rights with Hired Guns
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Mercenaries have been a part warfare for centuries, and though the names have changed, continue to play a part in global military conflicts. In today’s world these "soldiers for hire" are an attractive alternative when Western governments are reluctant to put their militaries at risk for...
Shocking True Story
The Rise and Fall of Confidential, "America's Most Scandalous Scandal Magazine"
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Humphrey Bogart said of Confidential: “Everybody reads it but they say the cook brought it into the house” . . . Tom Wolfe called it “the most scandalous scandal magazine in the history of the world” . . . Time defined it as “a cheesecake of innuendo, detraction, and plain smut . . . dig...
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park
The WW11 Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where one of the war’s most famous – and crucial – achievements was made: the cracking of Germany’ s 'Enigma' code in which its most important military communications...
Spaceport Earth
The Reinvention of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
It’s the 21st-century and everything about the space industry is changing, and leading that charge are private sector companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, which are building a dizzying array of new spacecraft and rockets, not just for government use, but for any...
Gunship Ace: The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot and Mercenary
The Wars of Neall Ellis, Helicopter Pilot and Mercenary
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
A former South African Air Force pilot who saw action throughout the region from the 1970s on, Neall Ellis is the best-known mercenary combat aviator alive. Apart from flying Alouette helicopter gunships in Angola, he has fought in the Balkan War (for Islamic forces), tried to resuscitate Mobutus...
A History of Britain
1945 to Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
A journey through the events of the postwar years that “makes the outcome of Britain’s Brexit referendum much easier to comprehend” (Julian Lewis, member of Parliament).
In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets...
by Michael Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: History
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016
Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and accessibility. Access to History...
Scandal Nation
Key Events that Shook and Shaped Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
We are where we are has become one of the great truisms of the current crisis facing the country. But how did we get here and can an inspection of the roots of our modern failings - of government, state agencies and church - help us to pave a way forward?
Scandal Nation argues the case as it analyses...
India At War
The Subcontinent and the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
World War II was a global catastrophe. Far broader than just the critical struggle between Allies and Axis, its ramifications were felt throughout the world. It was a time of social relocation, reorienting ideas of patriotism and geographical attachment, and forcing the movement of people across oceans...
Edinburgh in the 1950s
Ten Years that Changed a City
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
EDINBURGH in the 1950s was a very different place. After the ravages of war, the International Festival and Military Tattoo was introduced as an antidote to post-war austerity, the new Civic Survey and Plan put forward grandiose recommendations for change, and a new young Queen visited the city. This...
The Big Jump
Lindbergh and the Great Atlantic Air Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a hero
The race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won...
The People’s Songs
The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.
Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – just sometimes – changed the way we feel. Beginning...