Vintage Digital imprint: 737 books
Gimson’s Kings and Queens
Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
‘Totally gripping – a factually accurate version of 1066 And All That’– Boris Johnson
Gimson’s Kings and Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs – from 1066 and William the Conqueror right up to Queen Elizabeth II and the present-day – to tell a tale of bastardy,...
Supermac
The Life of Harold Macmillan
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Great-grandson of a crofter and son-in-law of a Duke, Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) was both complex as a person and influential as a politican. Marked by terrible experiences in the trenches in the First World War and by his work as an MP during the Depression, he was a Tory rebel - an outspoken backbencher,...
Speak for Britain!
A New History of the Labour Party
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Written at a critical juncture in the history of the Labour Party, Speak for Britain! is a thought-provoking and highly original interpretation of the party's evolution, from its trade union origins to its status as a national governing party. It charts Labour's rise to power by re-examining the impact...
Eminent Elizabethans
Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Margaret Thatcher & Mick Jagger
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Margaret Thatcher, Rupert Murdoch, Prince Charles, Mick Jagger - four figures who have illuminated our age.
·Margaret Thatcher – the first female Prime Minister, who dedicated herself with messianic zeal to breaking the mould of post-war British politics
·Rupert Murdoch – the billionaire...
Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler
With an introduction by Nikolaus Wachsmann
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This book is a unique account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps: its author, Margarete Buber-Neumann, was a loyal member of the German Communist party. From 1935 she and her second husband, Heinz Neumann, were political refugees in Moscow. In April 1937 Neumann was arrested...
The Model Occupation
The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
‘A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday Telegraph
What would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people have responded – with resistance or collaboration? In Madeleine Bunting’s pioneering...
1815
The Roads to Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The seventeen months from April 1814 to August 1815 were an extraordinary period in European history; a period which saw two sieges of Paris, a complete revision of Europe's political frontiers, an international Congress set up in Vienna, civil war in Italy and international war in Belgium.Gregor...
The Bomb
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery.
In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard...
The Cradle King
A Life of James VI & I
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
As the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born into her 'bloody nest', James had the most precarious of childhoods. Even before his birth, his life was threatened: it was rumoured that his father, Henry, had tried to make the pregnant Mary miscarry by forcing her to witness the assassination of her supposed...
by Ferdinand Mount
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
How does Jeremiah Mount, the dealer in pornography, come to be the lover of the Duchess of Albemarle and the colleague of the great Samuel Pepys? In Pepys' Diary, Jem Mount plays a shadowy role, but in Jem's own memories Sam looms large. Friends and drinking partners at first, they become vicious...
How We Lived Then
History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned themselves with the individual's experience....
Strands
A Year of Discoveries on the Beach
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Strands describes a year's worth of walking on the ultimate beach: inter-tidal and constantly turning up revelations: mermaid's purses, lugworms, sea potatoes, messages in bottles, buried cars, beached whales and a perfect cup from a Cunard liner.
This is a series of meditations prompted by...
Rosamond Lehmann
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The life of Rosamond Lehmann was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines. Her first novel, the shocking Dusty Answer, became wildly successful launching her career as a novelist and, just as her novels depicted the tempestuous lives of her heroines, Rosamond's personal life...
Pitt the Elder
Man of War
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
This remarkable book opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended for the 1759 invasion of Britain, are chased, caught and defeated by a fleet commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Hawke. In this momentous victory Britain effectively settled...