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Ten Years at Hitler's Side
The Testimony of Wilhelm Keitel
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
In October 1946, Wilhelm Keitel was executed by hanging after being sentenced to death at the Nuremburg Trials. His road to this point was a long and controversial one, from the heady days of the surrender of France, to the eventual fall of Berlin and his subsequent arrest. There were few men better...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
This new volume in the long-running Images of War series features the actions of the British Army on the Somme. Not only is the book comprised of rare photographs illustrating the actions of the British army fighting on the Somme, but it is accompanied by a powerful text written by Official War Correspondent...
Hitler's Wartime Conversations
His Personal Thoughts as Recorded by Martin Bormann
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
A rare glimpse into the mind of the Nazi leader, as recorded by his personal secretary.
Much of the documentation surrounding Adolf Hitler was lost or deliberately destroyed in the chaos of World War II’s end. Yet some records were preserved for history. After dinner at the Wolf’s Lair, it...
by Catherine Curzon
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This royal historian’s “lively study of the four Georges who sat on the English throne for over a century is a joy” (Jane Austen’s Regency World).
For over one hundred years of turmoil, upheaval, and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped...
Towton: The Battle of Palm Sunday Field
The Battle of Palm Sunday Field
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The battle at Towton in Yorkshire on 29 March 1461 was the largest, longest fought and bloodiest day in English medieval history. In terms of the number of troops involved, the ruthlessness of the fighting, the quantity of casualties and the decisive nature of its outcome, Towton stands out from the...
In Bed with the Georgians
Sex, Scandal and Satire in the 18th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
In Bed with the Georgians provides a fascinating insight into life under the bed-clothes in Georgian England, where the Madams and pimps were able to thrive in the eighteenth century like never before. It looks at high-class seraglios as well as the brothels, jelly-houses and bagnios which flourished...
In Presence of My Foes
From Calais to Colditz via the Polish Underground - The Travels and Travails of a POW
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
This is a wartime escape memoir that ranks with the finest. Seriously wounded and captured at Calais, the Author recovered to escape from his POW camp in a load of rubbish. He was on the run thanks to the Polish Underground for nine months and was recaptured within sight of the Swiss border. Interrogation...
by Stefan Terlezki
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2005
Born in the Ukraine in the 1930's Stefan was taken from his family and sold by the Nazis into slavery in Austria. After many adventures and misadventures, he made his way to the UK, and eventually was elected as Member of Parliament for Cardiff, becoming a close friend of Margaret Thatcher and other...
The Lengthening War
The Great War Diary of Mabel Goode
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This is a strong narrative of the war, easy to read, mixing news with personal feelings and events (often revealing gap between official news and reality).
The diary captures the authors' growing disillusionment with the war, as it gradually encroaches on her life. The diary starts with great excitement,...
Endangered
A Zoo Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Zoo keeper Iris Oakley is sent to a remote farm in Washington State to rescue exotic animals after a drug bust. Instead of pets, she finds smuggled parrots and tortoises destined for sale to unscrupulous or unsuspecting collectors. The zoo’s facilities are full, and she ends up with two macaws shrieking...
Churchill and the Mad Mullah of Somaliland
Betrayal and Redemption 1899-1921
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
In the late nineteenth century, the British Empire commanded the seas and possessed a vast Indian Empire, as well as other extensive dominions in South East Asia, Australasia, America and Africa.
To secure the trade route to the glittering riches of the orient, the port of Berbera in Somaliland...
The Kaiser's Captive
In the Claws of the German Eagle
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Albert Rhys Williams was an American journalist and author. In 1914, Williams travelled to Europe as the special war correspondent for Outlook magazine, tasked with the duty of reporting the events of the Great War.
In these early days of the conflict, Williams had the misfortune to fall into...
Bligh
Master Mariner
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Beyond the Bounty: A biography of the Royal Navy officer from “a master of the maritime narrative” (The Sydney Morning Herald).
The eighteenth century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were...
Burned at the Stake
The Life and Death of Mary Channing
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
A true story of crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England, and the first trial in recorded history to employ forensic evidence.
In 1706, nineteen-year-old Mary Channing was convicted of poisoning her husband and became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. Despite the likely...