History Press: 2525 books
Keeping Quiet
Paul Nixon: The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
From Gower to Flintoff, Waugh to Vaughan, Cronje to Pietersen, Paul Nixon has shared a dressing room with some of the most evocative names in international and domestic cricket—and often enraged them on the field of play. The wicketkeeper, known as his sport’s most prolific "sledger,"...
1970s London
Discovering the Capital
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Following a sheltered childhood and a sequestered education in Cambridge, and having missed out on the swinging sixties, Alec Forshaw was ready for a dose of the wider world. London in the early 1970s was where the lights shone brightest. In reality, it was still a city struggling to find its post-war...
by Harold Shukman
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Stalin was one of the most rulthless and authoritarian dictators in world history. This concise title presents Lenin's heir from his beginnings for priesthood to General Secretary of the Communist Party.
by Alison Plowden
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
The first volume of Plowden's acclaimed Elizabethan quartet charts the first 25 years of Elizabeth's life Alison Plowden's captivating portrait of the young Elizabeth Tudor, bringing to life her many identities as ruler, woman, and politician, is a triumph of narrative history. Elizabeth I is perhaps...
by Graeme Kent
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Boxing has a long and eventful history and its drama, excitement and humor are covered in this fascinating account of the noble—and sometimes ignoble—art all over the world. It covers the bare-knuckle days when the Duke of Cumberland callously abandoned his protégé Jack Broughton when the latter...
Heroes of Postman's Park
Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Victorian London
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman's Park, London, is a Victorian monument containing 54 ceramic plaques commemorating 62 individuals, each of whom lost their own life while attempting to save another. Every plaque tells a tragic and moving story, but the short narratives do little...
Final Over
The Cricketers of Summer 1914
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
August, 1914 brought an end to the "Golden Age" of English cricket. At least 210 professional cricketers (out of a total of 278 registered) signed up to fight, of whom 34 were killed. Cricket stands as both a statistical, and very human, representation of the price paid in British blood...
Shooting 007
And Other Celluloid Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A veteran of seven Bond films reveals behind-the-scenes stories of the popular film series—with a foreword by Roger Moore, and many previously unpublished photosBeloved cameraman and director of photography Alec Mills, a veteran of seven James Bond movies, tells the inside story of his 20 years...
Hitler's Spy Princess
The Extraordinary Life of Stephanie von Hohenlohe
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Throughout her life, Stephanie von Hohenlohe (1891-1972) was notorious as a secret go-between and even a professional blackmailer. Although she was the illegitimate daughter of a Jewish woman from Prague and a Jewish moneylender, Stephanie always claimed to be of pure Aryan descent. A shameless social...
Guide to Middle Earth
Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
This absorbing insight into the mind behind Middle-earth will introduce or remind readers of the abundance that exists in Tolkien's thought and imagination. Interweaving sections explore The Lord of the Rings and its history; the key themes, concepts and images in Tolkein's work; the people and places...
Jack the Ripper
The Suspects
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
The latest research on the ultimate whodunnit by the world's leading society for Ripper studies The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 remain unsolved and hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. However, many of the suggestions naming the infamous Ripper remain ill-informed...
Ghosts & Gallows
True Stories of Crime and the Paranormal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
A unique compilation of true crime cases with paranormal connections from the mid-18th century to the presentMurder and ghosts go hand-in-hand, and vengeful specters seeking justice or haunting the scene of the crime or their killers have adorned the pages of literature since before Shakespeare. This...
Medical Meddlers, Mediums and Magicians
The Victorian Age of Credulity
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
An exploration of how and why an era underpinned by science and logic was also so rife with quacks and conjurers The Victorians had a thirst for knowledge, which drove them to explore the unchartered corners of the world, plumb the unfathomable depths of science, discover evolution, and create...
by Darren W. Ritson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Featuring eyewitness accounts, a unique history of how Christmas came to be associated with ghosts, spirits and apparitions of all kinds From Charles Dickens' famous A Christmas Carol to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, the festive season has long been closely associated with ghostly tales....