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Sea Devils
Pioneer Submarines
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
A detailed history of the submarine, from the first man-powered submersibles to the deep sea exploration and military crafts of todayPioneer submariners built astonishing contraptions which made perilous voyages or sank like stones. Some were driven by muscle-power or steam engines with chimneys....
by Sheila Hardy, Terry Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
During renovation work on a hunting lodge in 1996, a carpenter uncovered a plank of wood revealing a chilling penciled message: “A fearful murder was committed the first day of this month (October 1887) at Cretingham. A curate cut the vicar's throat at 12 o'clock at night.” The discovery brought...
Rome's Greatest Defeat
Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008
Over four days at the beginning of September AD 9, half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest and annihilated. Three legions, three cavalry units and six auxiliary regiments—some 25,000 men—were wiped out. It dealt a body blow to the empire's imperial pretensions and was Rome's...
D-Day Diary
Life on the Front Line in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Eyewitness accounts of the experiences of those who participated in D-Day, including sailors, soldiers, airmen, and civilians from both sidesHistorian Carol Harris collects together remarkable tales of bravery, survival, and sacrifice from what was one of the war's most dramatic and pivotal episodes, and...
by Ian Arthurson
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2009
Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York & Norfolk, the younger of the two sons of Edward IV imprisoned in the Tower of London by Richard III, and whose true fate is unknown to this day. He led two attempts to claim the crown, but was captured...
To Rule Britannia
The Claudian Invasion of Britain, AD 43
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
A new approach to the question of where the Roman landings actually took place and the tactics involved In ad 43 the Romans landed an invasion force on the shores of Britain, heralding the beginning of recorded British history and laying the cultural foundations of their current national identity....
Captain Cook's Merchant Ships
Free Love, Three Brothers, Mary, Friendship, Endeavour, Adventure, Resolution and Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
The first book to tell the full story of Cook's merchant ships in their historical context While the story of Endeavour is widely written about, Captain Cook sailed in or with eight ships that began their lives as merchant ships. This detailed illustrated history tells the story of these ships and...
by Eveline Cruickshanks
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
The regal courts of the English Stuart Kings, from James I (1603-1625) to the ill-fated James II (1685-1689), were magnificent affairs. In a country otherwise given to increasingly austere Puritan ways of living, the royal court shone with a brilliance usually associated with the courts of the Catholic...
by Penny Legg
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Southampton has one of the darkest and most dreadful histories on record. The city has been assaulted by the Romans, Vikings, Normans, and the King’s men, razed to the ground by the French and bombed almost to extinction by the Nazis. Inside the walls, violence, terror, and destruction raged, from...
by Marilyn Yurdan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Taking you through the year day by day, The Oxford Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of Britain as a whole. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive...
Hitler's Vikings
The History of the Scandinavian Waffen-SS: The Legions, the SS-Wiking and the SS-Nordland
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The first book to cover all the Scandinavians who served in Hitler's feared Waffen-SS right until the end in Berlin Based in part on interviews with surviving veterans, this history details the battles the Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish men of the Waffen-SS fought, and what inspired them...
Worth the Detour
A History of the Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2007
Where would we be without guidebooks? All over the world travellers check out the sights of their chosen destination with their noses glued to a guidebook, and rely on them for every aspect of their visit - ordering meals, understanding the locals or avoiding wandering into the red-light district....
Bloody Belfast
An Oral History of the British Army's War Against the IRA
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfast’s streets. Wharton’s work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers who experienced the violence in...
Written in Blood
A Cultural History of the British Vampire
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A modern guide to vampires, where every page is truly written in bloodVampires, those chilling supernatural creatures of the night—do they really exist? The British Isles has a remarkable association with the realms of the undead, from the 19th-century world of Croglin Grange, Varney the Vampire,...