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A Secret History of Brands
The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The true—and often shocking—stories behind some of the biggest names in business.
We live our lives immersed in name brand products. What most of us don’t know is that the origins of many of the most well-known and beloved brands in the world are shrouded in controversy, drug use, and...
by Matthew (Matt) Wharmby
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see...
Photographing the Fallen
A War Graves Photographer on the Western Front 1915–1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Ivan Bawtree has left behind a vast array of archives that tell the story of his work as a photographer with the Graves Registration Units on the Western Front from 1915 to 1919. He traveled to numerous parts of Northern France and Flanders most notably the Ypres Salient to photograph and record graves...
SS Einsatzgruppen
Nazi Death Squads, 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing 4 million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Soviet Union. Operational groups of the German Security Service, SD, followed into the Baltic and...
by Susan Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Part of the popular Famous series, Famous Dolls celebrates dolls in film, TV, cartoons, books, comics and comic strips, as well as toys such as Hamble in Playschool. It also explores the world of celebrity dolls including stars such as Shirley Temple and Mae West, pop star dolls including Michael...
Battleships of the United States Navy
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
From 1895 to 1944 the US Navy commissioned some 60 steel-clad battleships; the first being Indiana (BB-1) and the last USS Missouri (BB-63). After an impressive showing in the Spanish-American War and the ‘Great White Fleet’s’ circumnavigation of the world, US battleships played only a minor...
The Gentleman Usher
The Life & Times of George Dempster 1712-1818
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
victor Nekrasov’s masterpiece Front-Line Stalingrad is one of the classic novels to come out of the pitiless fighting on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. His gripping narrative is set against the background of the grim struggle of the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany – among the battered,...
The Welsh at War
Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the 1918 Offensives
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.
These units included the four regular regiments – the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers Welsh Regiment and Welsh...
Welsh Yeomanry at War
A History of the 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan) Battalion The Welsh Regiment
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Soon after the outbreak of the Great War, following many years of part-time soldiering as cavalry troops on home defense duties, the members of various British Yeomanry regiments were asked to volunteer for overseas service. In 1916, officered by well-known members of the landed gentry, two of the...
The Welsh at War
From Mons to Loos & the Gallipoli Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Welsh at War – From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy is the culmination of twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.
These units included the four regular regiments the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales...
The Welsh at War
The Grinding War: The Somme and Arras
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War.
These units included the four regular regiments – the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South Wales Borderers Welsh Regiment and Welsh...
by John Grainger
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
By the early second century BC, Israel had long been under the rule of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. But the policy of deliberate Hellenization and suppression of Jewish religious practices by Antiochus IV, sparked a revolt in 167 BC which was led initially by Judah Maccabee and later by his brothers...
Treaty Cruisers
The First International Warship Building Competition
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2005
The Washington Naval Treaty of 1921 and subsequent treaties in the 1930s effectively established the size and composition of the various navies in World War II. In particular they laid down design parameters and tonnage limitations for each class of warship including battleships, aircraft carriers,...
Air War Malta
June 1940 to November 1942
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2009
This is the story of the historic air defense of Malta by the WRAF against the combined attacking forces of the Italian and German air forces. The island was poorly equipped when Italy declared war on Britain in June 1940 and its only defense against air attack at the outset of war were 34 heavy and...