The History Press: 2510 books
Heroines of SOE
Britain's Secret Women in France
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2010
Female spies are often the stuff of legend and myth. Here, for the first time, Beryl Escott tells the true story of the incredible 40 women who worked for Britain's Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. These women came from a variety of backgrounds, from Gillian Gerson a Chilean...
SOE
The Scientific Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
The history of the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War has been the subject of many books over the past fifty years. Previously secret material has steadily been released but until now there has been no detailed account of the development of equipment and techniques upon which...
She Wolves
The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
A history of the "bad girls" of England’s medieval royal dynasties, this book covers the queens who earned themselves the reputation of being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biographies—Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France,...
Henry III
The Great King England Never Knew It Had
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Henry III (1207-1272) reigned for 56 years, the longest-serving English monarch until the modern era. Admired for his building projects like Westminster Abbey, he is dismissed by scholars as weak and inept. This biography shows that he was in fact a more than capable ruler. Crowned as a boy, scarred...
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Germany's Last Emperor
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 1999
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, this biography examines the complex personality of Germany's last emperor. Born in 1859, the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, Prince Wilhelm was torn between two cultures - that of the Prussian Junker and that of the English liberal gentleman.
by Ralph Griffiths, Roger Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Tudor monarchs have consistently attracted more popular and scholarly attention than any other royal dynasty in British history. The peculiar origins of the Tudor family and the improbable saga of their rise and fall and rise again in the centuries before the Battle of Bosworth have, however, received...
by Gareth Glover, Andrew Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
From bullet-pierced armor, skeletons of horses, medals, coins, and teeth of deceased soldiers—a rich trove of Waterloo treasure survives 200 years onObjects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can come closer to the reality experienced...
Wrong Man
The Shooting of Stephen Waldorf and the Hunt for David Martin
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
David Ralph Martin was a cross-dressing criminal who carried out a string of sophisticated offenses in the 1970s and 1980s. A prolific burglar, car thief, fraudster, and gunman, he possessed a deep loathing of anyone in authority. In addition, he was a master of disguise and a veritable Houdini when...
The Gangs of St. Louis
Men of Respect
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
St. Louis was a city under siege during Prohibition. Seven different criminal gangs violently vied for control of the town’s illegal enterprises. Although their names (the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Russo Gang, Egan’s Rats, the Hogan Gang, the Cuckoo Gang and the Shelton Gang) are familiar...
Berlin Ghetto
Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
With a foreword by Elie Wiesel, the first book to tell the complete story of Herbert Baum and the Jewish antifascist resistance in Nazi Berlin This fascinating book tells the story of a group of young Jewish people who had lives filled with intellectual exploration, intense friendships and romances,...
Emperor Francis Joseph
Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
In 1848, 28-year-old Francis Joseph became King of Hungary and Emperor of Austria. He would reign for almost 68 years, the longest of any modern European monarch. Focusing on the life of Emperor Francis Joseph and his family, this book examines their personal relationships against the turbulent background of the 19th century.
Pizarro
Conqueror of the Inca
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2005
Francisco Pizarro is possibly one of the best known but least understood figures of world history. In 1530, at the age of fifty-four, he set out on his successful and bloody conquest of Peru, thus changing the future of a continent and its peoples forever. It was a long way from his humble beginnings...
Dogfight
True Stories of Dramatic Air Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
From World War I, where we get a rare insight into the fighter operations over the fields of France, to the incredible Battle of Britain aeronautics, when the bravery of RAF fighter pilots saw off the might of the Luftwaffe, this exciting history places the reader in the cockpit during some of the...
by Terence Zuber
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Based on recently discovered material in German archives, this book fundamentally changes our understanding of German military planning before World War I On the basis of newly discovered or long-neglected documents in German military archives, this book gives the first description of Schlieffen’s...