The History Press: 2510 books
Downfall of the Crusader Kingdom
The Battle of Hattin and the Loss of Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
The Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart is well known but the build-up to it less so. Downfall of the Crusader Kingdom is a story of intrigue, plot and counter-plot, and the abuse of power culminating in the most decisive battle of the medieval epoch, the Battle of Hattin in 1187. Hattin is one...
by Neil Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Re-fight some of the bloodiest battles of the ancient and medieval worlds! Seasoned wargamer and author Neil Thomas brings historical perspective to the hobby with a description and interpretation of significant military developments from 3,000BC to AD1500. Wargaming is the simulation of accurate...
D-Day
The First 72 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
The Allied invasion of occupied France began with the delivery of three airborne and six infantry divisions onto a 60-mile stretch of the Normandy coast. Accomplishing this involved over 1,200 transport aircraft, 450 gliders, 325 assorted warships and over 4,000 landing vessels. Operation Overlord,...
Grand Fleet 1914–19
The Royal Navy in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
World War I was the first real time in 100 years that the reputation of the British Royal Navy was put on the line in defense of the country. This book tells of the creation and development of the Grand Fleet under the drive of the energetic and charismatic admiral of the fleet, "Jacky"...
Hitler's Foreign Executioners
Europe's Dirty Secret
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
How and why more than one million non-Germans joined Hitler's "war of annihilation" Revealing for the first time Heinrich Himmler's master plan for Europe, this book discusses his dream of an SS empire with no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ambitious plan...
Kremlin Conspiracy
1,000 Years of Russian Expansionism
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
A timely book detailing more than 1,000 years of Russian expansionism, utilizing previous unpublished first person accountsPeople call Putin's power strategy the new Cold War. Author Douglas Boyd argues that it is the same one as before, fought with potent new weapons: the energy resources on which...
Injustice
State Trials from Socrates to Nuremberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2006
To a lawyer, injustice is the unfair conduct of a trial. Consequently, a trial can be considered 'fair' even though an innocent man has been convicted, and vice versa. To the person on the street a fair trial is one which results in the guilty being convicted and the innocent acquitted. In this fascinating...
Portsmouth's World War Two Heroes
Stories of the Fallen Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Based on research into 2,549 servicemen and women from Portsmouth who were killed during World War II, this book uncovers stories that have never been told before: a naval bomb disposal Petty Officer awarded the George Cross; a 16-year-old Para; a Battle of Britain hero; men killed in battleships,...
Defending Essex
The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Defending Essex describes the various elements of the county’s military heritage and places them in their historical, archaeological, and social context. From the castles and strong houses of the medieval and Tudor monarchs and statesmen to the pseudo-fortresses of the Victorian militia and rifle...
Defending London
The Military Landscape from Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
London's military structures and the history behind them, from early times to the presentDescribing the various elements of London's military heritage, this book places them in their historical, archaeological, and social context. It covers the castles and strong houses of the medieval and Tudor...
To Walk in the Dark
Military Intelligence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
During the bloody years of the First English Civil War, as the battles of Edgehill, Newbury, and Naseby raged, another war was being fought. Its combatants fought with cunning and deceit, a hidden conflict that nevertheless would steer the course of history. The story of the spies and intelligence-gatherers...
Mons Myth
A Reassessment of the Battle
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Conventional histories of the battles of Mons and Le Cateau describe how, although the British were massively outnumbered, precise and rapid British rifle fire mowed down rows of German troops. The staggering German casualties made these battles British victories, and set the stage for the Battle...
Child's War
Growing Up on the Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, it came as no surprise to the children of Germany: the Nazis had been preparing them for a war ever since they had come to power in 1933. To British children it was an altogether different matter. Children all over Britain were deeply affected...
Evacuees
Evacuation in Wartime Britain 1939-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005
As the last days of peace ebbed away in 1939 and the outbreak of the Second World War appeared inevitable, a massive exodus took place in Britain: nearly two million civilians, most of them children, were taken from the cities, industrial towns and ports to the relative safety of the British countryside....