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Her Finest Hour
The Heroic Life of Diana Rowden, Wartime Secret Agent
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Diana Rowden was a woman of the finest character. As an agent with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), she was dropped into France alongside Noor Inayat Khan and worked in the Resistance stronghold of the Franche-Comté department. Hunted at every turn by the Gestapo, Diana worked tirelessly for...
by Samuel Pepys
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
On 30 April 1665, the diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the first rumours that the bubonic plague was spreading through London: 'Great fears of the sickness here in the City - God preserve us all!' Thought to have come by ship from Amsterdam, which had been ravaged by the disease for two years, the Plague...
RAF Tempsford
Churchill's Most Secret Airfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Designed by illusionist Jasper Maskelyne, RAF Tempsford was constructed to give overflying enemy aircraft the impression it was disused. Nothing could be further from the truth - just after dusk on moonlit nights either side of the full moon, planes from the 138 and 161 Squadrons would take off on...
by Henry Buckton
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Somerset's contribution to the Second World War was extremely varied. Wherever you go in the county, you are never far away from a reminder of those wartime years. Weston-super-Mare and Bath experienced the worst of the bombing, but there are many other stories to tell. In this book, old images show...
by Henry Buckton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
During the Second World War Devon was reputedly the most militarized county in the country. This was particularly so just before D-Day when every town and village was bursting with American troops preparing to take part in the liberation of occupied Europe. But the story of Devon at War begins long...
Antony & Cleopatra
The Doomed Love Affair That United Ancient Rome & Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
The doomed love affair that united Ancient Rome & Egypt. The immortal lovers of novels, plays and films, Antony and Cleopatra were reviled by contemporary Romans, but history has transformed them into tragic heroes. Somewhere between their vilification by Augustus and the judgement of a later...
by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German espionage. During the Second World War, the Security Service,...
by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
PO Box 500, London W2 the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous secret services hid: MI5. Drawing on previously secret sources, this book lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German and Soviet espionage. It tells the sensational stories of...
Anne Neville
Richard III's Tragic Queen
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Shakespeare's enduring image of Richard III's queen is one of bitterness and sorrow. Anne curses the killer of her husband and father, before succumbing to his marriage proposal, bringing to herself a terrible legacy of grief and suffering an untimely death. Was Anne a passive victim? Did she really...
The Princes in the Tower
Did Richard III Murder His Nephews, Edward V & Richard of York?
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In the summer of 1483 two boys were taken into the Tower of London and were never seen again. They were no ordinary boys. One was the new King of England; the other was his brother, the Duke of York, and heir presumptive to the throne. Shortly afterwards, their uncle, Richard, Duke of Gloucester,...
Anne Boleyn
In Her Own Words & the Words of Those Who Knew Her
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
The complete letters, dispatches and chronicles that tell the real story of Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, caused comment wherever she went. Through the chronicles, letters and dispatches written by both Anne and her contemporaries, it is possible to see her life and thoughts...
The Boleyn Women
The Tudor Femmes Fatals Who Changed English History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
EIGHT GENERATIONS OF BOLEYN WOMEN FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO 1603 The Boleyn family appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth century, moving from peasant to princess in only a few generations. The women of the family brought about its advancement, beginning with the heiresses Alice Bracton...
Elfrida
The First Crowned Queen of England
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Contrary to popular belief, Anglo- Saxon England had queens, with the tenth-century Elfrida being the most powerful and notorious of them all. She was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England, sharing her husband King Edgar's imperial coronation at Bath in 973. The couple made a love match,...
by Elizabeth Norton
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Henry VIII had the most controversial love life of the Tudor period, and he remains Britain’s most famous king because of it. His pursuit of a male heir for his throne led him to cast aside five consecutive wives and bring about the reformation of the Catholic Church, changing the face of British...