Arcturus Publishing: 479 books
Ghosts
An Exploration of the Spirit World, From Apparitions to Haunted Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Ghosts, spirits, and the science of contacting the dead through séances have long held people's attention. The book includes a vast store of material on all these topics. Other topics include famous haunted sites, from historical sites to Hollywood; out-of-body experiences (and how to have them); famous ghost hunters throughout the ages, and masses of spine-tingling case studies and stories.
Ghosts and the Spirit World
True cases of hauntings and visitations from the earliest records to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Can ghostly arms really appear out of walls? How do you explain the sudden appearance of a shadowy figure in a doorway? Do guardian angels really exist? Throughout history, ghostly visitations have exerted a powerful grip on the public imagination, but the present-day accounts in Ghosts and the Spirit...
The Crimes of Jack the Ripper
The Whitechapel Murders Re-Examined
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
More than a century after he stalked the streets of London's East End, Jack the Ripper continues to exert a macabre fascination on the popular imagination. After scrupulously re-examining official documents of the time, investigative journalist Paul Roland strips away decades of myth and misconceptions...
Crop Circles
Signs, Wonders and Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
Each summer all over the world, gigantic and magnificent works of art are sculpted in fields of wheat, barley and other crops. Usually formed under the veil of darkness, in the few short hours between sunset and sunrise, they become visible as the mists of early morning evaporate under the rays of the...
The Daredevil Book for Cats
What Cats Really Think!
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Have you ever tried working out what goes on in the mind of a cat? Cats are an enigma within a mystery wrapped up in a glossy coat and curled up by the fire. But The Daredevil Book for Cats is here to spill the beans. Companion volume to The Daredevil Book for Dogs, and no more sensible (that's a promise).
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Kings & Queens of England is an entertaining account of the larger-than-life characters that have ruled England through the ages. Divided into easy-reference chapters based on the ruling dynasties of England, it follows the fascinating history of monarchs from the first Saxon kings to the Windsors of...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
When Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939, nothing like it had ever been seen before. Heralded by the insidious whine of Stuka dive-bombers, seven divisions of Panzers rolled across the border supported by motorized infantry. While tanks were punching gaping holes through Polish lines and racing...
Victory in Europe: D-Day to the fall of Berlin
D-Day to the Fall of Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
By midnight on 6 June 1944, the future of Europe hung in the balance. Allied troops occupied beachheads as Hitler's troops threatened to drive them back into the sea. Karen Farrington presents this remarkable story of the final Allied liberation and the push through to Berlin, the beating heart of the Third Reich.
A Short History of World War II
The Greatest Conflict in Human History
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
World War II was the greatest conflict in human history, involving over 100 million people serving in the forces of the Axis and the Allies and resulting in 50 to 70 million deaths. This book covers war in Europe, war in the Pacific and war across a number of other fronts between 1939 and 1945. - Features...
The Private Life of Victoria
Queen, Empress, Mother of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Now the second-longest-reigning monarch after Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria ruled at the height of Britain's power on the world stage and was a symbol of stability at home and abroad. Against this background of pomp and power, she was a passionate woman who led an often turbulent private life. Victoria...
Turning the Tide: Decisive Battles of the Second World War
Decisive Battles of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
The Second World War was the final global conflict of the twentieth century. It involved more combatants, and a wider range of battlefield terrain than any other conflict in history, from the frozen plains of Russia to the baking Libyan desert, and from the atolls of the Pacific to the skies over Britain....
Stalin
The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar [Fully Illustrated]
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, the young Stalin studied to become a priest whilst secretly reading the works of Karl Marx. Politics was to become his religion and between 1902 and 1913 he was arrested for revolutionary activities and exiled to Siberia eight times, escaping on seven...
Victory in the Pacific: Pearl Harbour to the Fall of Okinawa
Pearl Harbour to the Fall of Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
On 7 December 1941, the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbour. Simultaneously, the Japanese army launched all-out assaults on Malaya, Hong Kong and the Philippines. The Japanese sphere of influence spread at a phenomenal rate. As nations of Asia collapsed one by one, and the British and US troops in the...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Vietnam was the longest war in American history. US ground troops and their Australian, New Zealand and Korean allies were committed there for eight long years. In all, the American commitment in Southeast Asia lasted 15 years. During that time over 46,000 US servicemen died in battle. The Australian...