Carlton Books: 171 books
by Overy, Richard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Published for the first time in digital format, André Deutsch’s ‘A World at War’ series presents a collection of authoritative and concise military histories written by some of the world’s most respected military and social historians. We launch with a series of 12 titles on the First and Second...
by Overy, Richard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Published for the first time in digital format, André Deutsch’s ‘A World at War’ series presents a collection of authoritative and concise military histories written by some of the world’s most respected military and social historians. We launch with a series of 12 titles on the First and Second...
Great Military Blunders
History's worst battlefield decisions from ancient times to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
From ancient times to the Bay of Pigs and the Falklands War, military history has been marked as much by misjudgements and incompetence as by gallantry and glory. Such blunders have sometimes ended in tragedy, sometimes in farce - such as the English troops, supposedly marching on Cadiz in 1625, who...
Great Naval Blunders
History's worst sea battle decisions from ancient times to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2012
Who was responsible for the design of the Admiral Popov, the circular Russian battleship that wouldn't steer straight? Why did Lord Anson set out to circumnavigate the world with a crew of Chelsea pensioners? And how did the British cruiser HMS Trinidad manage to torpedo itself in the Arctic? The answers...
National Service
The Best Years of Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
More than 2 million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed forces during the period of National Service, which began after the Second World War and was phased out by 1963. Aged just 18, these individuals, many of whom had never left their hometowns before, were put in uniform to serve their...
Hurricane
Hurricane pilots tell the story of the fighter that won the battle of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The RAF's Battle of Britain Memorial Flight comprises three main aircraft - the Spitfire, the Lancaster and the Hurricane. The Lancaster played no part in the Battle of Britain and the Spitfire is the aeroplane many people most associate with the RAF during World War II, but the Hurricane is the hero...
by Cawthorne; Nigel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Queen Victoria simply did not believe that lesbianism existed, so it was never outlawed in the 19th century. However, across the Atlantic in the US the suffragette Susan B. Anthony, the artist Natalie Barney and the poet Emily Dickinson were all brushing up the sapphic arts. Over in France, the Napoleonic...
by Harvey Pitcher
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
By the time he was 28, Anton Chekhov had published more than 500 short works of fiction, about half of them comic stories and farces. Since then, it has been well documented that these works, dashed off while he was "chasing two hares at once" - his medical career and his modest literary pursuits - were...
March, Women, March
Voices of the Women's Movement From The First Feminist To Votes For Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
March, Women, March explores the women's movement in Britain, from the Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who was dragged under King George V's horse during the Derby...
by Stephen Arnott, Mike Haskins
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This crazy collection of 3,000 jokes will keep you and your friends entertained for hours on end. Many are original puns that'll have you laughing your socks off and there are brilliant shaggy dog tales and comic quotes in there too. If, as they say, laughter is the best medicine, the hysterically funny...
by Cawthorne; Nigel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Last 2000 years the popes have set the sexual agenda for almost a quarter of the worlds population. But while preaching chastity from on high, ,any have practiced something altogether more dissolute. Yet as the most powerful men on earth and with a direct line to God, it would appear that there...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The headlines of Royal infidelity and divorce that are the bread and butter of todays tabloid press are nothing new. People have always been captivated by the sexual behaviour of Royalty, and as author Nigel Cawthorne reveals, there has been plenty of it. Historically this fascination has not been...
by Maria Perry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Much has been written about Henry VIII and his six wives, but his sisters, Margaret and Mary, had less of the limelight until Maria Perry examined their amazing lives and their influence on European history. In the Tudor age both Margaret and Mary were thought to be more important personalities than...
Afghanistan
A History of Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Griffiths delves into the history, culture, social fabric, internal politics and economy of this intriguing and backward country. He reveals a nation living in the shadow of perpetual conflict: from the early incursions (Persian, Greek, Hun Mongol) through the Russian invasion and subsequent withdrawal,...