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Class 52 Westerns The Twilight Years
The Amberley Railway Archive Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
The seventy-four Class 52 diesel-hydraulics were built between 1961 and 1964 for British Railways’ Western Region as high-powered locomotives to haul inter-city services. Given two-word names that began with ‘Western’, they inevitably became known as the Westerns. Although the Westerns could...
by Amberley Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
By the time of the First World War, nursing had become vital. The quality of medical care available to British soldiers had improved immeasurably since the days of Florence Nightingale. This classic diary, written by an anonymous nurse, is an essential account of the Great War from an unusual female...
The Complete Puccini
The Story of the World's Most Popular Operatic Composer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
La Boheme, Tosca, Turandot, Madama Butterfly - Puccini's operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. 'Nessun dorma' and other Puccini arias have achieved great levels of fame and recognition. Puccini was a contradictory character - apparently cavalier in his approach...
Too Few, Too Far - The True Story of A Royal Marine Commando
The True Story of a Royal Marine Commando
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Seen through the eyes of Section Commander George Thomsen, this inspiring first-hand account, tells of the tension-packed lead up, and the heroic stand, by a tiny band of brothers on one of the most inhospitable islands on the planet South Georgia.
They fought alone besieged, isolated, and...
The Kings & Queens of England
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This is the history of the men and women who occupied the highest position in English, and later British, society. From Richard III’s infamous life and death, to Henry VIII’s wives, Charles I’s execution and Queen Victoria’s exceptionally long reign, their dramatic story unfolds within the...
Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703
Everyday Life in London 1650-1703
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Samuel Pepyss London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw...
Doctor Barnardo
Champion of Victorian Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Born in Dublin in 1845, Thomas John Barnardo was a workaholic Irishman whose non-stop efforts in the cause of children’s welfare landed him in an early grave at the age of sixty. However, in his own area of work it’s fair to say he changed Britain forever, as much as any one man can. Much of modern...
Satan: A Biography
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The Devil, like the poor, is always with us. Evil has been personified in every religion and culture, and Christianity in particular developed a highly graphic view of him from its earliest period. Sometimes grotesque, sometimes beautiful, sometimes threatening, sometimes seductively helpful, sometimes...
by Andrew Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family is a cause célèbre of 20th century history. Andrew Cooks re-investigation of the story finally solves one of the greatest mysteries of world history. The author draws upon new forensic evidence and newly discovered British...
Mary Boleyn: The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
The True Story of Henry VIII's Favourite Mistress
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Mary Boleyn, the infamous other Boleyn girl, began her court career as the mistress of the king of France. François I of France would later call her The Great Prostitute and the slur stuck.
The bête-noir of her family, Mary was married off to a minor courtier but it was not long before she caught...
Catherine Howard
The Queen Whose Adulteries Made a Fool of Henry VIII
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
At seven oclock on the morning of 13 February 1542, Catherine Howard stepped out into the cold of the great courtyard of the Tower of London. Slowly she was escorted across the yard and carefully helped up the steps of the wooden scaffold. Only a small group of sightseers had gathered to watch the...
by David Loades
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2011
The story of Henry VIII and his six wives has passed from history into legend taught in the cradle as a cautionary tale and remembered in adulthood as an object lesson in the dangers of marrying into royalty. The true story behind the legend, however, remains obscure to most people, whose knowledge...
by David Loades
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Means to be God, and do as pleases himself Martin Luther observed. It was a shrewd comment, not merely on the divorce in which the King was then embroiled, but upon his whole career. Henry VIII was self righteous, and convinced that he enjoyed a special relationship with the Almighty, which gave him...
by David Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Not many people would claim to be saints, or alternatively, consider themselves entirely without redeeming qualities. Some are unquestionably worse than others, but few have been held in greater infamy than Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of Gloucester and, later still, King Richard III. Richards...