The History Press: 2510 books
by Doreen McBride
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
DID YOU KNOW?Van Morrison wrote ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ on a piano in DerrygonnellyPaddy Monaghan, from Ederney, Fermanagh, befriended Mohammad Ali and became known as Paddy-AliSt Molaise brought soil containing blood from early Christian martyrs from the Colosseum in Rome and placed it on Devonian...
Bringing Uncle Albert Home
A Soldier's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Private Albert Turley was just an ordinary British soldier of the First World War. He died on the Somme for King and Country. He didn't win any medals for gallantry and has no known grave. Like thousands more soldiers whose names fill local war memorials the length of the country, he left neither...
Survivor of the Long March
Five Years as a POW 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen's Royal Regiment, was ill prepared when his convoy took a wrong turn near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. "The day I was captured, I had a rifle but no ammunition." He lost his freedom that...
Starkeye & Co
Life at a Grammar School in the 1940s
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Blitz survivor, ex-evacuee, veteran of five primary schools, and denizen of a typical London suburb, Berwick Coates won a scholarship to a grammar school in 1940. All he knew about was German aircraft recognition, cricket, and Hollywood films. During the following years, he had to deal with new surroundings,...
Patron Saint of Prostitutes
Josephine Butler and a Victorian Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The charismatic campaigner who fought Victorian exploitation of vulnerable women, and the state organization of prostitutionThe "steel rape" of women is a scandal that is almost forgotten today. In Victorian England, police forces were granted powers to force any woman they suspected of...
by Denis Rigden
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
During the Second World War, Britain's top secret Special Operations Executive plotted to assassinate Hitler. A small department of SOE known as Section X had the tantalisingly complext task of investigating how, when and where their plan could be executed. The section also plotted the killing of...
by Kieran McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The Little Book of Cork is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Cork. Here you will find out about Cork's agriculture and industry, its proud sporting heritage, its musical traditions, and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women. Through quaint...
Edward Seymour: Lord Protector
Tudor King in All but Name
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
On the accession of the boy king, Edward VI in 1547, his uncle Edward Seymour became Lord Protector, Duke of Somerset and, overnight, the most powerful man in England. Foremost amongst the group of ambitious men who sought to govern, Seymour's usurpation of power set him on a course that ended on...
by Paul Crampton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Jessie Vine’s memoir begins in the last few days of peace in 1939. As the Morrison shelter is installed in the back garden of their Rochester home, Jessie, with her young daughter Joy, eagerly awaits her husband Tom’s homecoming, as his ship returns to Chatham Dockyard. And then, when war seems...
Called Up Sent Down
The Bevin Boy's War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
At the outbreak of war, the government short-sightedly allowed thousands of miners to enlist in the armed services. By 1943 the war effort was in danger of grinding to a halt because of a lack of coal. In answer, Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin sought service volunteers, and compulsorily sent 20,000...
Ulster, Ireland and the Somme
War Memorials and Battlefield Pilgrimages
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Ulster, Ireland and the Somme tells the story of the relationship between Ulster, Ireland, and the Somme area of northern France, which has now endured for nearly a century. The 1916 Battle of the Somme is a key event in Irish memory of the Great War, and thousands of people from both Northern Ireland...
President Mary McAleese
Building Bridges - Selected Speeches and Statements
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
From 1997 to 2011, Mary McAleese has served as President of Ireland, and become one of the most popular presidents Ireland has ever has known. Representing Ireland on the world stage through the highs of the Celtic Tiger and the lows of recent years, she has sounded a voice that is trusted and respected...
From Airbus to Zeppelin
Facts, Figures and Quotes from the World of Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
With riveting facts, figures, quotes, and statistics from the high-flying world of aviation, From Airbus to Zeppelin has it all. D is for Desert Island Discs: just what would Dambuster Guy Gibson have liked on marooned on his desert island? E is for Everest: did you know that two Scotsmen were the...
Daggers Drawn
The Real Heroes of the SAS & SBS
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
The story of the SAS's finest moments in World War II, updated with new, previously unpublished SAS stories and interviewsThirty vivid stories, supported by an updated selection of rare archive and action photographs, explore the larger-than-life escapades of the Special Air Service in World War II....