Uniform Press imprint: 2 books
The Christmas Match
Football in No Man's Land 1914
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
After four months of intense fighting, the war in Flanders between German and British soldiers fell silent on Christmas Eve 1914. The soldiers started singing instead of shooting. On Christmas Day they came out of their trenches and met in No Man’s Land. Some chased rabbits. Some played football. This...
The Wager Disaster
Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
This is the astounding story of HMS Wager, driven ashore in foul weather onto the inhospitable coast of Patagonian Chile in 1741. Shipwreck was followed by murder, starvation, mutiny, and the fearful ordeal of 36 survivors out of about 140 men. Some were enslaved, some defected; many drowned. The captain...