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by Stephen Jakobi
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Four turn-of-the-century fiends whose “crimes, even by today’s standards, are still shocking—because they were committed by women” (Yorkshire Magazine).
Their names may not be as familiar as such notorious female serial killers as Aileen Wuornos, Myra Hindley, Martha Beck, or Belle...
Barry, Its Railway and Port
Before and After Woodham's Scrapyard
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Many railway historians and enthusiasts only know about the railways in the Barry area, because of Woodham Brothers scrap yard, where so many locomotives were rescued for preservation.
However, there is a wider story to be told of the development and history of the railway and docks and John...
Railways and Industry in the Western Valley
Aberbeeg to Brynmawr and Ebbw Vale
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This is the second in a new series on the South Wales Valleys by John Hodge, author of the South Wales Main Line series and North and West series, each of four volumes. The South Wales Valleys were famous for coal mining, iron and steel, tinplate works and the railways that served both industries,...
by David Carter
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Carlisle were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record...
An Anthology of Ancient Mesopotamian Texts
When the Gods were Human
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Learn about the ancient civilizations of Iraq and Syria, through the stories they told.
This book gathers the best stories of ancient Near Eastern literature surrounding the Mesopotamian gods, men, and kings. It takes the reader on a journey back to the birth of literature in Mesopotamia—which...
In Love and War
The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
The manner of their meeting was unprecedented. During the lawless mayhem that followed the capture of Badajoz by Wellington, a 14 year old Spanish girl sought the protection of Captain Harry Smith. They fell in love and married shortly after. From then on their lives and careers were inextricably...
by John Hall Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
After two years' extensive research the author has written a thorough account of the political and military background to the German invasion of Crete and the bitter fighting that followed the first airborne assault on an island in history. The book tells of confused negotiations between the British...
Fire Over the Rock
The Great Siege of Gibraltar, 1779–1783
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
**“**This book does a wonderful job in describing a portion of [the Rock of Gibraltar’s] history during the Napoleonic Wars” (The Past in Review).
The great siege of Gibraltar was the longest recorded in the annals of the British army. Between 1779 and 1783, a small British force defended...
Redcoats Against Napoleon
The 30th Regiment During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2009
Military histories of the struggle against the French armies of the Revolution and Napoleon often focus on the exploits of elite units and famous individuals, ignoring the essential contribution made by the ordinary soldiers – the bulk of the British army. Carole Divall, in this graphic and painstakingly...
Light Dragoons
The Making of a Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Although only formed in December 1992, The Light Dragoons look back to a history that began in the days of the first Jacobite rebellion. In 1922 a reduction in the Army’s strength saw the amalgamation of four regiments of Hussars into the 13th/18th Hussars and the 15th/19th Hussars. Now they too...
Salamanca 1812
Wellington’s Year of Victories
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
1812 was the year in which the Peninsular War swung in the favor of the combined forces of the British, the Spanish and the Portuguese. This was the result of a series of victories over the French gained by the allied armies under Wellington, and this is the subject of Peter Edwards’s compelling...
Marching with Wellington
With the Enniskillings through the Peninsula to waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2003
Compiled from hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, this book tells of the dangers and rigors of life as experienced by the Infantry during the Napoleonic Wars. A superbly researched work by an expert historian, it captures the atmosphere of the era with total immediacy made possible only because the writers were actually there.
Impossible Victories
Ten Unlikely Battlefield Successes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Victory on the battlefield is sometimes achieved against the odds – victory snatched from the jaws of apparently inevitable defeat. A daring counter attack, an unexpected manoeuvre, a stubborn refusal to be beaten and the impossible victory is won. In the ten dramatic episodes in this book, military...
by Ian Fletcher, Natalia Ishchenko
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
On 20 September 1854 the combined British and French armies confronted the Russians at the river Alma in the critical opening encounter of the Crimean War. This was the first major battle the British had fought on European soil since Waterloo almost 40 years before.
In this compelling and meticulously...