Amberley imprint: 2705 books
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...
Finest of the Few: The Story of Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot John Simpson
The Story of Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot John Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Written by 43 Squadron's intelligence officer, Hector Bolitho, Finest of the Few revolves around Bolitho's friend, fighter ace John W.C. Simpson, who shot down 13 German aircraft during the Battle of Britain. The book was written in 1941 and was based on John Simpsons Combat Reports, his personal...
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,...
Jake Wardrop's Diary
A Tank Regiment Sergeant's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
The personal story of a British tank sergeant's war, from the fall of France in 1940, through the bloody campaigns against Rommel's forces in North Africa, the hard-fought drive up Italy, D-Day and the battles for France and the low countries, and the invasion of the German heartland itself. George...
by T. E. Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Revolt in the Desert is the extraordinary story of the war in Arabia between 1916 and 1918, written by one of the war's most extraordinary characters, Lawrence of Arabia. It tells of his adventures and life amongst the Arab tribesmen, the daring raids on the Turks, the demolition of railway lines,...
Cecily Neville
Mother of Kings
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to witness the arrival of the future Henry VIII, her great-grandson. Her life spanned most of the fifteenth century. Cecily’s marriage to Richard, Duke of...
Spitfire!
The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The remarkable Battle of Britain experiences of Spitfire pilot Brian Lane, DFC. Brian Lane was only 23 when he when he wrote his dramatic account of life as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain in the summer of 1940. Lane was an 'ace' with six enemy 'kills' to his credit and was awarded the...
We Were Eagles Volume One
The Eighth Air Force at War July 1942 to November 1943
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
On 4 July 1942, American airmen flew in US-built bombers against a German target for the first time. It was a small operation involving six US crews in Boston medium bombers, but was nonetheless a harbinger of things to come. The first heavy bombardment group of B-17s had crossed the Atlantic in June...
by Patricia Southern
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Rome began as a collection of primitive huts on the banks of the Tiber, some considerable time before Romulus founded the great city. Ruled by kings for the first two and a half centuries, the Romans abolished the monarchy and created for their little city state a form of government that was successfully...