Aurum Press: 240 books
by Trevor Royle
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
The history of the British Army is really the story of its regiments and the men who served in them. From the very beginning they formed the backbone of a singular institution that is itself a reflection of the way the people of Britain view themselves and their collective past. Beginning with the...
Bannockburn
Scotland's Greatest Battle for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
‘ Everyone interested in the battle, for whatever reason, would do well to read this engaging book’ Sunday Times
In Scotland, history and politics often become entangled. For some, the past is a source of inspiration for the future. For others, it becomes a salutary lesson in what mistakes...
Fergie Rises
How Britain's Greatest Football Manager Was Made At Aberdeen
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
When Sir Alex Ferguson retired at the end of the 2013 season, he was the most successful football manager Britain had ever seen, having won twice as many trophies as his nearest rival. But that success had not come easily. Thirty-five years previously he had arrived at the rain-swept training ground...
The Last Post
Music, Remembrance and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th November 1919 the entire British Empire came to a halt to remember the dead of the Great War.
During that first two-minute silence all transport stayed still, all work ceased and millions stood motionless in the streets. The only human sound...
The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau
Husband hunting in the Gilded Age: How American heiresses conquered the aristocracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
In 1895 nine American heiresses travelled across the Atlantic and bagged themselves husbands and titles. Though this phenomena had been happening for many years, 1895 was undoubtedly the most successful one for the unofficial marriage brokers Lady Minnie Paget and Consuelo Yzanga, Duchess of Windsor....
by Alan Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
A century has now gone by, yet the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 is still infamous as arguably the most ill conceived, badly led and pointless campaign of the entire First World War. The brainchild of Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, following Turkey's entry into the war on the...
The Coen Brothers
The iconic filmmakers and their work
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Through in-depth and informative text written by film journalist Ian Nathan, The Coen Brothers Archive re-examines the brothers' most famous work including Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men and True Grit. Plus, some of their cult films,...
Man vs Maths
Understanding the curious mathematics that power our world
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Could we solve queuing with an equation? How do algorithms control our news? What is the secret behind encryption codes?
Mathematics is inescapable. Wherever you go, whatever you do, however you live your life, mathematics plays a role.
From controlling a city’s traffic to finding love,...
South West Coast Path: Padstow to Falmouth
From golden beaches to rugged coves around Britain's southernmost tip
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2019
The South West Coast Path is the longest of Britain’s National Trails, following the spectacular coastline for 630 miles around the southernmost tip of England from Somerset all the way to Dorset.
This volume of the Official National Trail Guide, published in association with Natural England,...
Blueprint for a Battlestar
Serious Scientific Explanations for Sci-Fis Greatest Inventions
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This beautifully illustrated pop science book which answers the enduring questions raised by science fiction, such as “Do hoverboards really exist?†?, “How can you bring a dinosaur back to life?†? and “Can we really travel in time and space?†?
Packed with stunning images, including...
by Heather Couper, Nigel Henbest
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The Secret Life of Space is the definitive guide to understanding the key breakthroughs and discoveries mankind has made to unravel the mysteries of the Cosmos. This engaging and fast-paced narrative debunks the urban myths of astronomy, revealing the true stories behind our biggest breakthroughs....
To The Last Round
The Epic British Stand on the Imjin River, Korea 1951
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2010
NEW PAPERBACK EDITION
‘ Salmon’ s vivid use of recollections and dramatic quotes brings alive an unjustly forgotten conflict’ Time Out
With even World War II now just on the edges of living memory, and with British forces now engaged in a lengthy, brutal and attritional old-fashioned...
Chris Brasher
The Man Who Made the London Marathon
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
One of the most remarkable – and controversial – sporting figures in British history, Chris Brasher piled unique achievement on unique achievement.
It was Chris Brasher who, along with Chris Chataway, paced Roger Bannister to break the 4-minute mile. Then he won his own Olympic Gold Medal...
by Stephen Bungay
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in October, after 12 days of attritional tank...