This is the biography of one of the RAF's airmen that Winston Churchill referred to as The Few'.
An in-depth look at criminals from all parts of the country, who, for whatever reason, ended their lives in Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
The first time many of these stories have been told outside of the world's press. The book is separated into sections - people, aircraft and several different types of shipwreck.
From the Riviera, to the Rhine and on to the Colmar pocket, all three operations are covered in this volume by Jean Paul Pallud, and each show the action and locations in our unique then and now style.
Updates this infamous case to concentrate on the 2002 Court of Appeal hearing where Hanratty's guilt was proclaimed based upon supposedly conclusive DNA evidence.
In this long-overdue second biography, the author shows how Portal was one of the men most directly... Læs mere
A new and unique insight is now offered into the mind of Putin, one which has not previously been advanced.
This book looks at Shrewsbury itself, the lines that radiate from there, and the trains that ran on them, in the late twentieth and the early part of the twenty-first century.
There are many books which tackle the political developments in Ireland during the nineteenth century. The aim of this book is to show what life was like during the reign of Queen Victoria for those who lived in the towns and countryside during a period of momentous change
The first full history of the Royal Navy's longest-running commitment. Will be of particular interest to former personnel, as well as to naval historians.
Of all the appalling acts of Nazi Germany, Nordhausen represents the pinnacle of warped depravity. Forced labour on an industrial scale and a litany of the most barbaric war crimes make for harrowing yet compelling reading.
The longest and most harrowing siege of the war on the Eastern Front, Leningrad is the epitome of endurance and fortitude in a battle of both arms and ideology.