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Royal Poxes & Potions
Royal Doctors and Their Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
In this book, acclaimed biographer Raymond Lamont-Brown casts light on a previously overlooked aspect of the monarchy. From the instigation of the royal doctor in medieval times, to the present day, the tales of secrets, murder, medical incompetence, and revolutionary operations revealed in this book...
The Life & Times of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague
"I Am the Law"
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Frank Hague served as the mayor of Jersey City for much of the early twentieth century. While some believed him a thief, others viewed him as a modern-day Robin Hood. He could put food on your table or triple your taxes, give you a job or end your career. It was with this same ease and power that he...
by Paul Richey
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
"The first and finest story of a fighter pilot in World War Two." Thus Group Captain Peter Townsend described Paul Richey's classic account of his part in the desperate battles over France in May of 1940. Fighter Pilot grew out of a journal which the then 23-year-old Flying Officer Richey...
Sting of the Scorpion
The Inside Story of the Long Range Desert Group
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Long Range Desert Group was Britain's original Special Force in the Western Desert long before the SAS burst onto the scene. Sting of the Scorpion is the exclusive, authorised, inside story of the tough LRDG raiders of the Second World War, drawn from the unpublished records of the famous force....
by Dr. Tom Mack
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Situated along the Georgia border, Augusta is known for its golf, beautiful private gardens and southern culture. But its history is also brimming with strange stories yet to be told. A beleaguered German princess gave the city its name. A "haunted pillar" survived a tornado that destroyed the area...
Other Schindlers
Why Some People Chose to Save Jews in the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
The inspiring stories of courageous non-Jews who risked their own lives to save Jews from the Holocaust Thanks to Thomas Keneally’s book Schindler’s Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler’s List, people have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst of Hitler’s extermination of the...
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler's Invasion of Russia 1941
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
From a world expert on Hitler's war in Russia, this book on the operation that changed the course of World War II includes updated information on casualty numbers and opposing forces Here, David Glantz challenges the time-honored explanation that poor weather, bad terrain, and Hitler's faulty strategic...
Monarchs, Murders & Mistresses
A Calendar of Royal Days
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Which ill-prepared monarch was on the English throne at the turn of the last millennium? How many English monarchs have been crowned on St. George’s Day? When, how, and why did England "lose" 11 days? The answers to these questions and many more present a royal event for each day of the...
Royal Bastards
Illegitimate Children of the British Royal Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Since 1066 when William the Conqueror took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowledged at court and founded dynasties of their own; several of today's dukedoms are descended from them. Others were only acknowledged grudgingly or not...
Red Roses
Blanche of Gaunt to Margaret Beaufort
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
The Wars of the Roses were not just fought by men on the battlefield. There were daughters, wives, mistresses, mothers and queens whose lives and influences helped shape the most dramatic of English conflicts. This book traces the women's stories on the Lancastrian side, from the children of Blanche,...
by Andrew Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Viet Cong campaign that shook the United StatesBy January 31, 1968, the U.S. had been fighting the Vietnam War for more than 10 years, but the American people never thought they wouldn't win. The Tet Offensive changed all that. Over seven bloody months the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet...
by Dr. Chris Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
The story of the crushing defeat that sent shockwaves around the British Empire during World War IISingapore had always been seen as an impenetrable fortress that would protect the British Empire's stake in the Far East—a legacy of the days of global dominion. The British Army were aware of the...
Dublin King
The True Story of Edward, Earl of Warwick, Lambert Simnel and the 'Princes in the Tower'
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
A year after Richard III's death, a boy appeared claiming to be his heir and the rightful King of England. In 1487, in a unique ceremony, this boy was crowned in Dublin Cathedral, despite the Tudor government insisting that his real name was Lambert Simnel and that he was a mere pretender to the throne....
Royal Marriage Secrets
Consorts & Concubines, Bigamists & Bastards
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
From royal babies to royal marriages, not all are what they seem—this book exposes the hidden skeletons of England's most famous rulersWere the "Princes in the Tower" illegitimate? Did Henry VIII really have six wives? How virginal was "the Virgin Queen?" Was James, Duke of Monmouth,...