Where Power Stops

Great Train Robbery Confidential

IN 1981, Detective Inspector Satchwell was the officer in charge of the case against Train Robber Tom Wisbey and twenty others. The case involved massive

Battle for Kharkov 1941 - 1943

The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet they were

Brief History: The Dynasties of China

By focusing on the key colourful characters of the eight major dynasties, Bamber Gascoigne brings to life 3500 years of Chinese civilisation. His unique bird's-eye

John Henry Newman

'In another world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.', From An

Shortest Way Home

With soaring prose that celebrates a resurgent American Midwest, Shortest Way Home narrates the heroic transformation of a 'dying city' ( Newsweek ) into noth...

Let Me Tell You a Story

The spellbinding true story of a little girl's miraculous escape from the Nazis during the Second World War.

Coromandel

Coromandel. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula

Shooting Victoria

The extraordinary stories of the eight men who attempted to assassinate Queen Victoria combine to create a compellingly original portrait of the entire Victorian era.

Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic

There was a time when to read accounts of the Plague in Wittenburg by Martin Luther or the Great Plague of 1665 by Samuel Pepys

The Jamestown Brides

Ordinary Heroes

In 1982, 8,000 miles from home, in a harsh environment and without the newest and most sophisticated equipment, the numerically inferior British Task Force defeated

Action Likely in Pacific

A story of espionage that could have changed the course of history and saved thousands of American and British lives - and millions of Asian

The Price of Freedom

By hiding the fugitives in the trunk of a diplomat's car, Volker G. Heinz helps more than sixty East German citizens flee to the West.

Christmas Customs and Traditions, Their History and Significance

Reprints the 1912 study of the origins, evolution, and meaning of Christmas rituals and practices of many nations, including caroling, Christmas drama, the manger, the

Where in the world is Osama bin Laden?

Spurlock is a jittery father-to-be with a simple question: If Osama bin Laden is behind 9/11 and all the ensuing worldwide chaos, then why can't

Invisible Emperor

Few historical figures are as well-known as Napoleon Bonaparte, and yet the Emperor's ten-month exile on the small island of Elba is virtually unexplored. Now,

The Second Nuclear Age

The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons - a luxury

1915 The First World War in Photographs: Setbacks & Failures

The Western Front was in stalemate, with the troops entrenched and little in the way of advance or retreat to counter the thousands of lives

The Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers is a collection of political essays, three United States Founding Fathers intelligently and forcefully advocate the ratification of what became thi...

The Death of a Hero

When David Wilkinson bought a picturesque cottage alongside the Kennet and Avon Canal in Berkshire, he was astonished to learn that the writer Richard Aldington,

A Safe Haven

Pe 14 mai 1948, sub conducerea președintelui Harry S. Truman, Statele Unite au devenit prima națiune care a recunoscut Statul Israel -- la doar câteva

No God but Gain

'From 1501 to 1867 more than 12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas in chains, and many millions died as a result of the

GREAT HARRY'S NAVY

The Communist Manifesto

A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of communism. So opens the political pamphlet The Communist Manifesto by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich

WATERLOO: THE BATTLE THAT BROUGHT DOWN NAPOLEON

A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The battle on

Theresa May

Only the second woman to hold office at 10 Downing Street, Theresa May inherits the most difficult political mandate of recent times: to negotiate Britain’s

Arena of Ambition

Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in

Went the Day Well?

Drawing from the diaries, letters, reports and stories from participants and witnesses, the author describes in detail an hour-by hour account of the Battle of

Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence

Essential work by a noted naval historian discusses all of the conflict's major sea battles, including those between England and America's French allies. Richly enhanced

Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Povestea captivantă din interiorul alegerilor prezidențiale din 2008, scrisă de doi dintre cei mai buni reporteri politici din țară. 'Este una dintre cele mai bune

The Sugar King of Havana

'Fascinating...A richly detailed portrait.' -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Julio Lobo was the wealthiest man

A Very Private Celebrity

For ten years, Hugh Purcell has been tracking John Freeman, trying to get face to face with this enigma. Now that he has died, the

Waterloo General

At the Battle of Waterloo Sir William Ponsonby, a man who the Duke of Wellington stated had rendered very brilliant and important services and was

The Shaping of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century France

Evreia franceză din secolul al XIX-lea era o comunitate care se lupta să facă față provocărilor emancipării și modernității. Această luptă, având originile în întemeiere...

Thomas Cromwell : The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister

The son of a brewer, Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540) rose to become Earl of Essex, Vice-Regent and High Chamberlain of England, Keeper of the Privy Seal

The grail chronicles

The Grail Chronicles

Ireland and the Monarchy

Kitchener

The words 'Britons Wants You' and 'Your Country Needs You' are echoes from the First World War - a time very different from today but

Modern Women

Modern Women este o celebrare a unora dintre femeile influente și impresionante care au schimbat lumea prin viața, prin munca și prin acțiunile lor. De

A Great and Glorious Adventure

The glory and tragedy of the Hundred Years War is revealed in a new historical narrative, bringing Henry V, the Black Prince, and Joan of

The Dignity of Chartism

Throughout her essays, Thompson strikes a delicate balance between on-the-ground accounts of local uprisings, snappy portraits of high-profile Chartist figures as well a...

Retreat

O privire asupra evacuării forțelor britanice și aliate din Dunkerque și alte porturi în timpul prăbușirii Franței în urma invaziei germane din mai 1940. A

The Art of Resistance

An unforgettable World War II memoir set in Nazi-occupied France and filled with romance and adventure: a former Eastern European Jew remembers his flight from

Pearls Before Poppies

'In February 1918, when the First World War was still being bitterly fought, prominent society member Lady Northcliffe conceived an idea to help raise funds

Islamism

A political, social, and cultural battle is boiling over in the Middle East at the moment. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe

A Path in the Mighty Waters

'This book tells the story of how people experienced the eighteenth-century crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, exploring the transformative journey undertaken by the thousan...

Pebble Island

This is the story of the SAS raid on Pebble Island during the Falklands War. In atrocious weather, 48 men of 22 SAS Regiment were

Death at Dawn

His ships delivered a crushing blow to the Nazi German squadron then occupying Narvik, the famous Arctic iron-ore port. Only moments later, a salvo of

If It Moves, Salute It!

A series of encounters help to influence his progress from raw recruit to reluctant adulthood, encompassing his journey through the hazards of training to a

ZERO SIX BRAVO

bestsellerul nr. 1 din Sunday Times. Aceasta este povestea adevărată și nespusă a celei mai disperate bătălii purtate de forțele speciale britanice și aliate prinse

To War With Wellington: From The Peninsula To Waterloo

Using first-hand accounts written by generals, cavalrymen and foot-soldiers of the Duke of Wellington's army, Peter Snow conjures up the horror of the early 19th

Codename Suzette

My Friend the Mercenary

He wanted a war. And, for his sins, he got one. James Brabazon was an ambitious young war reporter when he entered the chaos of

Fandango at the Wall

It's a history that has involved periods of great friendship with robust trade and loose immigration policies. But the US-Mexican relationship has also been beset

Two Old French Satires on the power of the Keys

These thirteenth-century French comic texts, L'Escommeniement au lecheor and Le Pardon de foutre, are two of the earliest satires on the Church's power to 'loosen

Blood Ransom

For the first time in history, the navies of every superpower on the planet have united against a common enemy-a couple thousand ragtag underfed men

Monitors of the Royal Navy

Monitor warships mounted the biggest guns ever deployed by the Royal Navy, and played an undeniably important part in Allied efforts during World War I

Into the Dark

In July 2005 Reg embarks on a seemingly impossible quest to discover the fate of his aircraft. Undeterred by the skepticism of family, friends and

Zero Night

A remarkable story told in full for the first time: a rip-roaring adventure story of WWII derring-do, all the more thrilling for being true. Oflag

Speaking With the Spirits of the Old Southwest

DISCOVER THE CHILLING TRUE STORIES OF THE SPIRITS WHO HAUNT THE OTHERWORLDLY LANDSCAPE OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST Out in the Arizona desert, among the crumbling