Souvenir Press imprint: 97 books

by Elaine Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

The Descent of Woman is a pioneering work, the first to argue for the equal role of women in human evolution. On its first publication in 1972 it sparked an international debate and became a rallying-point for feminism, changing the terminology of anthropologists forever. Starting with her demolition...
by Neville Cardus
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Fifty years of the essays, newspaper articles and press reports from Neville Cardus, the great cricket writer. Sir Neville Cardus urges that the game itself is more important than winning, players should fully express themselves in the game and he writes about those players who delight the senses:...

The Van Gogh File

The Myth and the Man

by Ken Wilkie
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012

Incorporating recent discoveries about Vincent Van Gogh's life and work, including the only photograph of him as an adult, this updated biography investigates the creativity, successes, and frustrations of one of the world's most famous painters. With evidence accumulated from Van Gogh's European...
by Brian Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011

This is Brian Epstein's own account of his extraordinary life and, inevitably, it is the story of the Beatles, the greatest pop group of the twentieth-century. What was the secret of Brian Epstein's management of the Beatles, how did he guide a group from Liverpool to shake the world of popular music?...

The Sound of the City

The Rise of Rock and Roll

by Charlie Gillett
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

Charlie Gillett, a British journalist, loves the music, and his passion is evident throughout The Sound of the City. Yet the greatest strength of the book is the way Gillett tracks the resistance of the music industry to early rock-and-roll, which was followed (needless to say) by a frantic rush to...
by Belinda Harley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011

Goofy was a ragamuffin and an enchanting rogue: the unwanted dog on the Greek island of Paxos who simply adopted Belinda Harley and laid his heart at her feet. Before she knew it, she was moving heaven and earth to save him from his fate and was introducing him to high life in London. Against all odds, Goofy conquered his new world.Then, Belinda faced the toughest decision of all...

Caen

Anvil of Victory

by Alexander McKee
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Today it is almost forgotten that the D-Day landings of 6 June 1944 did not bring a single, isolate victory. As this masterly book reminds us, that first foothold on enemy shores was won at enormous cost, and for two months afterwards a fierce battle raged for the control of Caen. Using the personal...

Marathon

The Story of Civilisations on Collision Course

by Alan Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

At Marathon an army of Greek city states, including Sparta and Athens, met the Persian army of Darius. This was the key battle of Western civilisation for Athens were defending not only their independence but their radical new political form, democracy. Alan Lloyd details the course of Athenian democracy,...

The Devil's Tinderbox

Dresden, 1945

by Alexander McKee
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Controversy still rages about the Allied decision to bomb the beautiful and historic city of Dresden on February 13th 1945. By then the war was virtually won and Dresden was peopled mainly by civilians and refugees, most of them women and children. The firestorm created by the bombing of the city...

The Spitfire Log

Sixtieth Anniversity Tribune

by Peter Haining
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011

Of all the airplanes that defended Britain during World War Two, none inspired as much affection as the Spitfire, the plane that became a symbol of courage and determination during the Battle of Britain. Today, over sixty years later, it is still one of the world's most loved planes. This splendidly...

Growling Over The Oceans

The Royal Air Force Avro Shackleton, the Men, the Missions 1951-1991

by Deborah Lake
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012

The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames, the Growler. This book contains stories from the men for whom the aircraft became a way of life. Combining memories and anecdotes from crew members...

Cardus on Cricket

A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus

by Neville Cardus
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Included are the imaginative reconstruction of the 1882 England and Australia test match to Cardus's descriptions of village cricket, accounts of the great players that Cardus watched play (from Donald Bradman and Harold Larwood to Wally Hammond) to examples of his 'Shastbury' writings. Chosen and...

Pompeii's Secrets

The Taras Report on Its Last Days

by Alan Lloyd
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Combining fictional characterisation and factual research Alan Lloyd asks who were these people who lived in Pompeii and what were their lives like in those last days before the disaster? Alan Lloyd, an acclaimed historian and novelist, breathes life into the ghosts that haunt the empty streets, quiet...

The Monocled Mutineer

The First World War's Best Kept Secret: The Etaples Mutiny

by John Fairley, William Allison
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015

The best-selling book behind the BBC Drama 'The Monocled Mutineer', starring Paul McGann as the 'ringleader' of the Étaples Mutiny, Percy Toplis, with a new introduction by John Fairley. In 1917, British, New Zealand and Australian troops stationed at the Étaples Training Camp in northern France...
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