50 surprising lives of significant figures, obsessives, movers and shakers of the car world and motoring history
A warm-hearted, reflective, musical odyssey through the record labels, bands and music which shaped our lives.
Renowned photographer Richard Blanshard’s candid collection of star-studded photographs from the Cannes Film Festival, taken over two decades
**The human story of mountains, long before modern mountaineers battled to be ‘first’ upon their summits**
The history of the development of women in policing written by a group of leading police historians
Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, over nine days 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 – about a third of them wounded – were captured. The... Læs mere
Rodney Castleden explores the purpose of great prehistoric projects like Avebury and Stonehenge and the nature of the society which built them
This book probes the mysteries surrounding Simnel, raises new questions about his identity and charts the history of the rebellion ending at the battle of Stoke
This crash course on late medieval literature reveals what Richard III read and what his reading says about the society of his day
This fully illustrated guide has information on the flora and fauna en route, places to stay, eat and drink, the local history of towns along the way and a number of maps.
The pithy photographic scrapbook of General Bernard Montgomery's ADC
The first book to reveal the full extent of King Edward VIII’s looting of jewellery, artworks, furniture and priceless heirlooms from the Royal Collection, and the historic crown conventions he exploited to do it