John Sadler: 27 books
Second Baron’s War
Simon de Montfort and the Battles of Lewes and Evesham
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
For two years in the mid-thirteenth century England was torn by a bloody civil war between the king and his nobles. For a short time, the country came close to unseating the monarchy, and the outcome changed the course of English history. Yet this critical episode receives far less attention than...
Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field
The Battle of Palm Sunday Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The battle at Towton in Yorkshire on 29 March 1461 was the largest, longest fought and bloodiest day in English medieval history. In terms of the number of troops involved, the ruthlessness of the fighting, the quantity of casualties and the decisive nature of its outcome, Towton stands out from the...
Glencoe
The Infamous Massacre, 1692
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
A startling new history of the Campbell massacre of the McDonald Clan, one the most emotive episodes in Scottish history. In the early hours of 13 February 1692, English Redcoats under the command of Campbell of Glenlyon, who for the past week had been peacefully quartered on the inhabitants of Glencoe,...
by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
The Little Book of Newcastle is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic, or simply strange information which no one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters, and...
Bannockburn
Battle For Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 was one of the decisive battles of British history. The bitter hostility between England and Scotland which had continued since 1296, the contrasting characters of the opposing commanders Edward II and Robert the Bruce, the strategy of the campaign and the tactics...
The Virtuous Psychiatrist
Character Ethics in Psychiatric Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
The context for this interdisciplinary work by a philosopher and a clinician is the psychiatric care provided to those with severe mental disorders. Such a setting makes distinctive moral demands on the very character of the practitioner, it is shown, calling for special virtues and greater virtue...
Blood Divide
A novel of Flodden Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Flodden , September 1513. Across a boggy valley, two armies confront each other. The Scots, backed by European allies, have superior numbers and the latest cannon to challenge a depleted English force. The English are furious and humiliated that they are not fighting alongside King Henry against their...
by John Sadler, Rosie Serdville
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In the autumn of 1644 was fought one of the most sustained and desperate sieges of the First Civil War when Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven finally stormed Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the King’s greatest bastion in the north-east and the key to his power there. The city had been resolutely...
Spy of the Century
Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
‘The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to his death like a figure of high tragedy.’ The New York Times ‘A story like that is truer than history.’ István Szabó ‘The army was shocked to the core. All knew...
Operation Agreement
Jewish Commandos and the Raid on Tobruk
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The Special Interrogation Group (SIG) was the most exceptional of Special Forces. Created to raid behind enemy lines posing as German troops, the SIG was largely made up of German Jews who were all too aware of the dangers they faced – capture meant either death or deportation to a concentration...
by John Sadler, Rosie Serdville
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The Battle of Flodden in 1513 was the largest battle ever to take place between England and Scotland. James IV himself led an army of 30,000 men over the border into England, ostensibly in revenge for the murder of a Scotsman, but in reality to assist their ally the French by diverting the forces...
Tommy Rot
WWI Poetry They Didn't Let You Read
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
A poem: "General Shute." The General inspecting the trenches, exclaimed with a horrified shout, 'I refuse to command a Division, Which leaves its excreta about.', But nobody took any notice, No one was prepared to refute, That the presence of shit was congenial, compared to the presence...
The Red Rose and the White
The Wars of the Roses, 1453-1487
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
If Richard III had not charged to his death at Bosworth, how different might the history of Britain have been?
Beginning in 1453 and ending in 1487, The Red Rose and the White provides a gripping overview of the bitter dynastic struggle for supremacy that raged between the houses of York and...
Border Fury
England and Scotland at War 1296-1568
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Border Fury provides a fascinating account of the period of Anglo-Scottish Border conflict from the Edwardian invasions of 1296 until the Union of the Crowns under James VI of Scotland, James I of England in 1603.
It looks at developments in the art of war during the period, the key transition...
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