The history press ltd (Oltre 35.000 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The story of the breaking of the Lorenz machine more complex and secure than Enigma in the words of the man who broke it.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Bader's war.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Flora MacDonald's flight to Skye with Bonnie Prince Charlie made her into a Scottish heroine, and the subject of legend and song. She later emigrated to America and was caught up in the War of Independence. This biography brings her to life.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Biography of Cellini.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Historys heroic failures, from Scotlands Panamanian colony to the nuclear-powered car.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The developments of this famous aircraft took it from uncompromising beginnings to become the legendary last memorial to a great man - an elegant and, with its pilots, a highly effective, weapon of war.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A compendium of historical facts and figures, perfect for dipping into. Full of information that will make you say, I never knew that.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. An intimate account of a middle-class Victorian family, as told through the diaries of Marion Sambourne, who was born in 1851 and died shortly before World War I. Recording the minutiae of family life, as well as meetings with aquaintances of her husband, Punch cartoonist Linley Sambourne.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A captivating new series to spark the imagination and breathe new life into classic works.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A captivating new series to spark the imagination and breathe new life into classic works.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. It explains why Liverpool looks the way it does today, and how clues in the modern landscape reveal details of its long history. Youll see how the landscape created Liverpool, and how in turn Liverpool recreated the landscape.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This book contains hundreds of strange but true facts and anecdotes about English history.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The developments of this famous aircraft took it from uncompromising beginnings to become the legendary last memorial to a great man - an elegant and, with its pilots, a highly effective, weapon of war.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Cambridge student pranks.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. INCLUDING THE MESSAGE BY MARGARET MURPHY AND LAPTOP BY CATH STAINCLIFFE, BOTH WINNERS OF THE CWA SHORT STORY DAGGER AWARD 2012'Best Eaten Cold and Other Stories showcases a group of highly regarded, award-winning crime writers who all share a special passion for crime, which is reflected in this superb new volume. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The story of Christmas, from its beginnings as a pagan celebration with mistletoe, holly and wreath decorations and the old Saturnalian custom of cross-dressing - continued today with the pantomime's "principal boy". The book also covers the practice of superiors waiting upon those of lower rank during the Christmas season - still seen in the British Army - and the election of a Lord of Misrule which was a popular custom in the 14th century. The author reveals how the Victorians enlarged celebrations into something like the Christmas season of today, with singing, dancing, plum pudding, decorated trees, street carolling, Christmas cards and Santa Claus. The book also covers the history of Christmas through the 20th century, discussing the two world wars, the influence of television and film, the Queen's speech and the increasing commercialization of the season. The many illustrations include famous examples such as Roosevelt and Churchill leaving the White House for Christmas service in 1941 and the Christmas tree at Windsor.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. Presents a story of social upheaval, of the transformation which took place when British high society - that bastion against the forces of the New - gave in to America. This book looks at the striking characters of the time and the extravagant period in which they lived, giving a sense of their follies, dramas, tragedies and longings. …

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Wallis Simpson is known as the woman who stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first or only love. This book is about the women he adored before Wallis dominated his life. There was Rosemary Leveson-Gower, the girl he wanted to marry and who would have been the perfect match for a future king; and the Prince's long-term mistress, Freda Dudley Ward, who exerted a pull almost equal to Wallis over her lover, but abided by the rules of the game and never expected to marry him. Then there was Thelma Furness, his twice-married American lover, who enjoyed a domestic life with him, but realised it could not last forever and demanded nothing more than to be his mistress - and fatefully introduced him to Wallis. In each love affair, Edward behaved like a cross between a little boy lost and a spoilt child craving affection, resorting to emotional blackmail to keep his lovers with him. Each of the three women in this book could have changed the course of history. By examining their lives and impact on the heir to the throne, we question whether he ever really wanted to be king.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. A lighthearted guide to the deeds and misdeeds of all the great names in world history.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, we discover a new Richard: no passive victim, awaiting defeat and death, but a king actively pursuing his own agenda. It also re-examines the aftermath of Bosworth: the treatment of Richard's body; his burial; and the construction of his tomb. And there is the fascinating story of why, and how, Richard III's family tree was traced until a relative was found, alive and well, in Canada. Now, with the discovery of Richard's skeleton at the Greyfrairs Priory in Leicester, England, John Ashdown-Hill explains how his book inspired the dig and completes Richard III's fascinating story, giving details of how Richard died, and how the DNA link to a living relative of the king allowed the royal body to be identified.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A fully illustrated book describing the extraordinary range of food which found its way on to the tables of medieval English society. It covers aspects of hunting, fish breeding, brewing, baking, food hygiene and storage.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. An ancient Scots law says that the head of any dead whale found on the Scottish coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail the property of the queen.The Scots excel at elephant polo, a game usually played in the East. The modern game was co-founded in the 1980s in Scotland, and the Scots are top of the leader board!This book contains hundreds of 'strange but true' facts and anecdotes about Scottish history. Arranged into a miniature history of Scotland, and with bizarre and hilarious true tales for every era, it will delight anyone with an interest in Scottish history.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. History of General Motors.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Matilda of Flanders, queen to William the Conqueror was beautiful, exquisitely small, clever, with a perfect courtesy trained in the rigid school of medieval manners. But within lay a root of darkness - inheritance, perhaps, of Viking ancestors. Twice, at least, in her lifetime the Viking streak broke through, in vengeance on a faithless lover, in fury wreaked on a rival of the marriage bed. The marriage, though fruitful of so many children, was on her side no match of love. But a passionate loyalty to her husband, an equally passionate ambition, together with her own sense of justice, gave her the will and the skill to dissemble her feelings and to make her the praise of Christendom. No Queen ever wielded so much power as she in the long years she ruled Normandy; before her no woman in England was ever crowned or was known as Queen.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. Accounts of ten different medieval outlaws, including William Wallace, Robin Hood and Eustache the Monk, who were driven to lives of crime by political intrigue or legal injustice, translated here from original sources, suitable for both academic and general readership.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Anne Neville was queen to Englands most notorious king, Richard III. This fascinating new biography seeks to tell the story of Annes life in her own right, and uncovers the real wife of Richard III by charting the remarkable twists and turns of her fraught and ultimately tragic life.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. This key title in the acclaimed Battle Zone Normandy series explores the US attack on Omaha Beach at dawn on D-Day 1944 and its aftermath.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. This book examines his life and reign including his mistress Catherine Dolgorouky who later became his second wife, and the lives of his children: Tsar Alexander III; his daughter Grand Duchess Marie; Grand Duke Serge; Grand Duke Pau plus his four illegitimate children by his mistress, one of whom lived in England until her death in 1959.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Confucius.