History Press: 2525 books
Man Who Sank Titanic
The Troubled Life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
With previously unpublished research and family photographs, this book by Hichens' granddaughter sets the record straight about the Titanic quartermaster who steered into an iceberg and kept control of a lifeboat Robert Hichens has gone down in history as the man who was given the famous order to...
by Lyndsy Spence, Joseph Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
A look at how the perennially popular Mitford girls would cope with modern life, with rare and unpublished images courtesy of the Mary Evans Picture Library, and extracts from archived interviews previously unused Nancy Mitford was the ultimate tease, and her talent for mockery reformed the publishing...
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
A repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange, and entertaining facts and trivia about the one certainty in all our lives—deathWithin this volume are some horrible, unfortunate, and downright ludicrous ends. Readers will find out what body parts of the departed great and famous are...
The Double Act
A History of British Comedy Duos
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The double act has been at the heart of British entertainment for over 150 years, yet there has never been a book detailing how this form of comedy continues to develop. From music hall turns such as Flanagan & Allen, to variety acts who managed to make the transformation to television such as...
Sunflowers and Snipers
Saving Children in the Balkan War
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Credited with saving 300 lives through evacuation and many more through medical aid during her time in the Balkans, Sally Becker's story is both uplifting and a warning of the true nature and price of warIn May 1993, Sally Becker went to Bosnia to help victims of war, delivering medical aid and evacuating...
Exodus Burma
The British Escape through the Jungles of Death 1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Until a few weeks before the fall of Rangoon, the British had not dreamed the Japanese would invade Burma. So in early 1942, British soldiers trained for desert warfare fought a Japanese Army trained and equipped for the jungle. Those who survived this fierce fighting faced malaria, air attack, and...
by Peter A. Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Since Tudor times Richard III has been painted as the "black legend," the murderous uncle—however, the truth is much more complicated and interesting
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Richard III is accused of murdering his nephews, the "Princes in the Tower," in order to usurp the throne...
Anne Neville
Queen to Richard III
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Anne Neville was queen to England’s most notorious king, Richard III. She was immortalized by Shakespeare for the remarkable nature of her marriage, a union which brought together a sorrowing widow with her husband’s murderer. Anne’s misfortune did not end there. In addition to killing her first...
Slaughter at Halbe
The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
Operation 'Berlin', the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April 1945 by Marshals Zhukov and Koniev, isolated the German 9th Army and tens of thousands of refugees in the Spreewald 'pocket', south-east of Berlin. Stalin ordered its encirclement and destruction and his subordinates, eager to win the race...
With Our Backs to Berlin
The German Army in Retreat 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
In the final months of the Second World War in 1945, the German Army was in full retreat on both its Western and Eastern Fronts. British and American troops were poised to cross the River Rhine in the west, while in the East the vast Soviet war machine was steam-rolling the soldiers of the Third Reich...
Shackleton's Dream
Fuchs, Hillary and the Crossing of Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The dramatic true story of the crossing of AntarcticaIn 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on what he called "the last great polar journey"—the . His expedition ended in disaster, with the Endurance crushed and the frozen corpses of three explorers left on the Antarctic plateau. Forty...
Ragged London
The Life of London's Poor
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Ragged London describes life in the rookeries of London, where forty people would live together in one room. Although life was a constant struggle against famine, disease and violence, the people enjoyed a closeness that was more than the result of overcrowding. Their lives were lived entirely within...
by Robert Blake
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Winston Churchill is probably still the best-known Prime Minister of Great Britain. Born at Blenheim Palace, he joined the army after Harrow, but in 1899 resigned his commission to report on the Boer War. Elected to Parliament in 1900, he served in both Conservative and Liberal governments, and became...
Poland Alone
Britain, SOE and the Collapse of the Polish Resistance,1944
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Poland was the "tripwire" that brought Britain into the Second World War, but neither Britain, nor Poland's older ally, France, had the material means to prevent Poland being overrun. The broadcast, "Poland is no longer alone" had a distinctly hollow ring. During the next four...