Pen: 3888 books
Tales from the Big House: Temple Newsam
The Hampton Court of the North, 1,000 years of its history and people
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Situated only 4 miles southeast of the bustling cosmopolitan city of Leeds lies a jewel in the crown of British stately homes. Set in 1,200 acres of rolling parkland and woods is Temple Newsam House, once described as the Hampton Court of the North.
The estate has survived almost 900 years...
The Real Tenko
Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The author of Children of the Camps delves into the harrowing true stories behind the TV drama: the fate of women held in Japanese captivity during WWII.
This book details the treatment of Allied servicewomen, female civilians, and local women by the Japanese occupation forces, including the...
Children of the Camps
Japan's Last Forgotten Victims
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The author of *Guarding Hitler*tells the truly heart-rending stories of Caucasian and Eurasian children held captive inside Japanese internment camps.
The Japanese treatment of Allied children was as harsh and murderous as that of their parents and military POWs, but this whole episode has been...
by John Randle
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.
John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only...
Not Ordinary Men
The Story of the Battle of Kohima
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Having driven the British and Indian Forces out of Burma in 1942, General Mutaguchi, Commanding the 15th Japanese Army, was obsessed by the conquest of India. In 1944 the British 14th Army, under its commander General Slim, drew back to the Imphal Plain, before Mutaguchi’s impending offensive.
To...
The Final Betrayal
MacArthur and the Tragedy of Japanese POW's
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
This book examines the period between the unconditional surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945 and the arrival of Allied liberation forces in Japanese-occupied territories after 2 September 1945. The delay handed the Japanese a golden opportunity to set their house in order before Allied war crimes...
Ramillies 1706
Year of Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
On Sunday 23 May 1706, near the village of Ramillies in modern Belgium, the Anglo-Dutch army commanded by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, inflicted a devastating defeat on the French army of the Duke de Villeroi. Marlborough's triumph on that day ranks alongside Blenheim as one of the great...
by James Moore
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
In the Tudor age the murder rate was five times higher than it is today. Now, in this unique true crime guide, the Tudor Murder Files reveals just how bloody and brutal this fascinating era really was.
From the dark days of Henry VIII to the turbulent times of Shakespeare, James Moore’s new book...
by P J Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to prominence during the Peloponnesian War (429-404 BC) between Sparta and Athens. Flamboyant, charismatic (and wealthy), this close associate of Socrates persuaded the Athenians...
Tracing your Huguenot Ancestors
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, many thousands of Protestants fled religious persecution in France and the Low Countries. They became one of the most influential immigrant communities in the countries where they settled, and many families in modern-day Britain will find a Huguenot...
RV Chuckles and Chuckholes
The Confessions of Happy Campers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Darlene Millers book, RV Chuckles and Chuckholes- The Confessions of Happy Campers, is full of amusing anecdotes, jokes, adventures and pot-hole experiences while traveling in a RV (recreational vehicle) throughout the USA and Canada. It includes stories about sleeping in a real bed when visiting...
by Martyn Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Welcome to What's Tha Playing At Nah?, the fourth volume of Martyn Johnson's acclaimed series of stories about policing during the 1960s and 1970s. Whether 'on the beat' or 'as CID', once again Martyn enthralls, surprises and shocks his readers with tales set in an almost forgotten era: a veritable...
by Mallory James
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
“A scholarly guide to etiquette as entertaining and amusing as a work of fiction” (Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine).
Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have gotten a partner in a ballroom? What would you have done...
Forgotten Songs and Stories of the Sea
A Treasury of Voices from our Maritime Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Stirring tales of heroism at sea have been ingrained in the annals of maritime history since time immemorial. Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World, Queen Elizabeth I’s defeat of the Spanish Armada, and Horatio Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar are just some of Britain’s most memorable...