Endeavour Press: 36 books

“The worst that Death can do to me is to deliver me up for ever to unsatisfied longings for you. Well, that is all that Life has done, that is all that Life can do, for me.”  After gambling with, and losing, money from his employer’s estate and fearing that discovery and a prison sentence...

The Autobiography of a Cad is the hilarious spoof memoir of one Edward Fox-Ingleby, an upper-class rotter and chancer of the first order. He will go to any lengths to get the things he wants: power, money and lashings of the fairer sex. From his earliest year’s on his father's estate...

"A monthly magazine costing sixpence but worth a shilling." For 60 years The Strand Magazine showcased the best writers in England and America. The magazine did not just reflect the age, it shaped it. It was a popular publication for the best in fiction, featuring works...

Lieutenant Michael Carr’s peaceful life in a Cornish village is shattered with the outbreak of the Second World War.  German planes are heard droning across darkening skies.  Towns are set ablaze by incendiary bombs.  And Cornwall, though seemingly safe and secluded, is not exempt...

‘Every student of the seventeenth century in England must desire sooner or later to have his say about its greatest figure.  So says John Buchan in the preface to this magnificent biography, in which he sets out to reshape the way the soldier and statesman is perceived.  Born in 1599,...

The First World War was, for Britain, as much about Imperial conflict, as it was about fighting on the Western front. Hundreds of millions of colonial subjects were forced into the war alongside Britain, and made a huge difference to the strength of the British army. In this fascinating...

The story of Rome's greatest general. As told by one of Britain's greatest story-tellers.  Caesar was the most daring and successful of Roman generals, and one of its finest statesman.  ‘He performed the greatest constructive task ever achieved by human hands," writes John Buchan...

The greatest of all wars. As told by England's greatest poet. 'The Irish Guards In The Great War' is a classic of military history - Rudyard Kipling's memorable account of how one regiment fought from 1914-1918. This e-book edition features an introduction by the leading...

Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle was one of the greatest narrative writers in English history. Most famous for his Sherlock Holmes stories, he was incapable of penning a dull word. Nowhere is that more true than in his 'History of the Great War', now re-published as a series of e-books, with...

"A monthly magazine costing sixpence but worth a shilling."  For 60 years The Strand Magazine showcased the best writers in England and America.  The magazine did not just reflect the age, it shaped it.  It was a popular publication for the best in fiction, featuring works...

The greatest of all wars.  As told by one of England's greatest poets.  'The Irish Guards In The Great War' is a classic of military history - Rudyard Kipling's memorable account of how one regiment fought from 1914-1918. Now Kipling's volumes on the First and Second Battalion are put...

This is the exciting true life story of one of Britain’s most controversial admirals: Admiral Lord Cochrane.  Napoleon called him le loup des mers (“the sea wolf’). One cannot visit a town in Chile (where he is seen as a hero) without crossing at least one street or town square that bears...

A controversial book by a controversial commander. Although many historians have disagreed with Sir John French - and his account of the Great War - over the years there have been few writers who have not been influenced by this frontline history. Sir John French was a nineteenth century...

After plunging Europe into a terrible war, Napoleon died on Elba in 1821.  Five years later his contemporary Sir Walter Scott wrote a brilliant debunking biography that stirred up international controversy for its thundering assault on the Napoleon legend.  It so inflamed the French that...