The years immediately after the Second World War were known as the decade of disappearing Irish – the peak period of emigration since the Great Famine.
The first comprehensive history one of the most successful British campaigns of the First World War
This compelling account of Henry VIII is by no means yet another history of the 'old monster' and his reign. For Henry VIII was not only a bad man, but also a bad ruler who failed to achieve his aims and blighted the reigns of his two immediate successors.
A brutally honest yet entertaining account of the trials and tribulations of National Service in the 1950s
A nostalgic look at Christmas during wartime, based on the memories of wartime veterans and their families, and including accounts of Christmas under fire, Christmas in POW camps and Christmas on the home front
The dramatic story of the Newton brothers, SOE agents in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War
The fight to get off the beach and then the seemingly interminable struggle through the bocage - from hedgerow to hedgerow, as the German line fell back... Læs mere