Mainstream Publishing: 404 books
Shadows
Inside Northern Ireland's Special Branch
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
In the early hours of 30 April 2003, twelve armed and uniformed officers accompanied by four plain-clothes detectives burst into Alan Barker's house. They stayed for hours, turning over rooms, seizing documents, impounding computers, files and anything else that interested them. The family were treated...
Milestones in Murder
Defining Moments in Ulster's Terror War
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Beginning with the death of legendary IRA figure Sean South of Garryowen on New Year's Day 1957, the book describes the background to what we have now come to call 'the troubles' and paints vivid portraits of the major players whose actions sparked the violence that erupted on the streets of Belfast...
Reds
Liverpool Football Club - The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In Reds, a unique and exhaustively researched history of Liverpool Football Club, John Williams explores the origins and divisive politics of football in the city of Liverpool and profiles the key men behind the emergence of the club and its early successes.
The first great Liverpool manager,...
Inside Bob Paisley's Liverpool
Kennedy's Way
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Many years have now passed since the greatest period of European dominance by any English football club came to an end. Between 1977 and 1984, Liverpool won the European Cup an unprecedented four times and established themselves as the number-one team in Europe. It was during the successful European...
Hidden History
The Secret Origins of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Hidden History uniquely exposes those responsible for the First World War. It reveals how accounts of the war’s origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of very rich and powerful men in London responsible for the most heinous crime perpetrated on humanity....
War Report
The War Correspondent's View of Battle from the Crimea to the Falklands
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Whenever man has gone to war in modern times there has been no shortage of men and women to write about his exploits. They were known as war correspondents, a type of journalists whom General Wolseley called 'the newly invented curse to armies'. This study of the war correspondent's view of war traces...
Cut-Throat
The Vicious World of Rod McLean - Mercenary, Gun-Runner and International Drug Baron
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Fact is often stranger than fiction, and when Rod McLean, an escaped drug baron and alleged MI6 agent, was mysteriously found dead in a London flat after two months on the run, even Hollywood couldn't have scripted it better.
McLean had only served seven years of his twenty-eight-year sentence...
by Lord James Douglas-Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Rudolf Hess's flight to Britain in May 1941 stands out as one of the most intriguing and bizarre episodes of the Second World War. In The Truth About Rudolf Hess, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton explodes many of the myths which still surround the affair. He traces the developments which persuaded Hess...
Squaddie
A Soldier's Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
From the harsh realities of basic training to post-war chaos in Iraq and knife-edge tension in Northern Ireland, Squaddie takes us to a place not advertised in army recruitment brochures. It exposes the grim reality of everyday soldiering for the 'grunts on the ground'.
After the tragic death...
The Billy Boy
The Life and Death of LVF Leader Billy Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
A cult figure among loyalists, despised and feared by nationalists, Billy 'King Rat' Wright is reputed to have been involved in a number of sectarian murders before he himself was shot dead by republican gunmen inside the Maze
Prison in 1997.
Wright became involved with loyalist paramilitaries...
Since I Was a Princess
The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
In Once I Was a Princess, Jacqueline Pascarl related the gripping story of her abusive childhood and her subsequent teen marriage to a prince. What should have been a fairy tale with a happy ending deteriorated into a nightmare of deceit and betrayal - ending in the kidnapping of her two small children...
Abducted
The Fourteen-Year Fight to Find My Children
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
At seventeen, Jacqueline Pascarl married a royal prince and embarked on what she believed would be a fairy-tale existence. But it soon became a nightmare. After years of abuse at the hands of her husband, Jacqueline escaped with her children, hoping to leave her past behind. But what followed would...
Man, Interrupted
Welcome to the Bizarre World of OCD, Where Once More is Never Enough
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
James Bailey's form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was as bizarre as it was unbearable. He was obsessed by a fear of drugs and their effects, believing himself to be in constant danger of becoming insanely high through people spiking his food, or even by just touching a photograph of a marijuana...
Please Don't Go
Big John's Journey Back to Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In July 2009, former Celtic and Wales soccer star John Hartson was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which had also spread to his lungs and brain. But before his treatment even began, John came to the brink of death after contracting pneumonia, ceasing to breathe and undergoing emergency brain surgery....