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Fight the Good Fight
Voices of Faith from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The Second World War challenged many of the concepts that had provided stability and unity in the world. As totalitarian regimes in Europe and Asia attempted to impose their world view on their neighbours, a struggle for what Winston Churchill described as `Christian civilisation’ took place on...
Tirpitz
The First Voyage
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
The photos in this book are taken from an unpublished album belonged to a member of the crew of famous German Battleship Tirpitz. It is a little known fact that before the start of World War Two the ship went on a shakedown voyage into the Atlantic, traveling north into Arctic waters and south into...
Constantius II
Usurpers, Eunuchs and the Antichrist
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
The reign of Constantius II has been overshadowed by that of his titanic father, Constantine the Great, and his cousin and successor, the pagan Julian. However, as Peter Crawford shows, Constantius deserves to be remembered as a very capable ruler in dangerous, tumultuous times.
When Constantine I...
In the Shadow of Nelson
The Life of Admiral Lord Collingwood
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood may have been 10 years older than Horatio Nelson but he was Nelson's close friend from the outset. They served together for over 30 years and only at Trafalgar, was Nelson his superior officer.
The relationship is all the stranger as their temperaments...
by David Markham
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Napoleon's incredible career went through a number of distinct periods. Much has been written about his rise to power, his time as leader of France, his ultimate defeat at Waterloo and his exile on St. Helena. But the short critical period of his fall from power, the few months in 1815 between Waterloo...
The Knights Hospitaller
A Military History of the Knights of St John
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order. Their fervour and discipline made them an elite component of...
by Matthew Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
King Richard III remains one of the most infamous and recognizable monarchs in English or British history, despite only sitting on the throne for two years and fifty-eight days. His hold on the popular imagination is largely due to the fictional portrayal of him by William Shakespeare which, combined...
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors
A Guide to Research Methods for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Tracing Your Pre-Victorian Ancestors is the ideal handbook for family historians whose research has reached back to the early nineteenth century and are finding it difficult to go further. John Wintrip guides readers through all the steps they can take in order to delve even more deeply into the past.
Carrying...
Tracing Your Nonconformist Ancestors
A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
We all have Nonconformist ancestors. In the mid-nineteenth century almost half of the English population were Nonconformists. And there were very few villages where there was not at least one Nonconformist chapel. Local and family historians need to be aware of the diversity of Nonconformity, and...
by Timothy Venning
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Continuing his exploration of the alternative paths that British history might so easily have taken, Timothy Venning turns his attention to the Hundred Years War between England and France. Could the English have won in the long term, or, conversely, have been decisively defeated sooner?
Among...
Compacts and Cosmetics
Beauty from Victorian Times to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
A delightfully illustrated history of makeup and the beauty business.
Cosmetics go all the way back to ancient times. In this book, an expert in vintage accessories tells the story of beauty products from the nineteenth century to the present, revealing how both makeup and the women who wear...
The Real Falstaff
Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years’ War
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
‘That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swolen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree-ox with the pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years... wherein...
Detailed Story of Creation
Debunking the Myth of Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Title: A Detailed Story of Creation (Debunking the myth of Evolution)
This write-up is a sermon explaining how God brought the earth into her present form in details. It reveals How Jesus Christ is indeed the Creator of Heaven and the Earth. It also explains why Darwin is wrong and God is right.
Questions...
British Battles of the Crimean Wars 1854-1856
Despatches from the Front
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The Crimean War was the most destructive armed conflict of the Victorian era. It is remembered for the unreasoning courage of the Charge of the Light Brigade, for the precise volleys of the Thin Red Line and the impossible assaults upon Sevastopol's Redan. It also demonstrated the inefficiency and...