The first full biography for more than forty years of Hollywood legend, Carole Lombard

An inspirational memoir from John Tye, who started life given up for adoption and went on to beco...

A fascinating exploration of the world's worst mass extinction - and how it shaped all subsequent...

The Age of Emperors 28BC-476AD

Tithe Surveys for Historians

Salmons & Sons was founded in 1830 by Joseph Salmons and quickly became famous for its high-quali...

An account of the famous Fox sisters and the colourful Victorian spiritualist scene

Many books have been written which study the actions of the French or British armies during the N...

A chronological account of the campaigns on the Eastern Front

The rise and fall of the Romans 753-27 BC

A history of Churchill and Malta

Barbarossa to Berlin Vol 2

Adolphe Valette

A history of Chester

Wherever the Firing Line Extends

A history of Kennet & Avon canal navigation

The Roman Empire almost disintegrated in the 3rd Century AD, under the onslaught of barbarians an...

The Scarlet Ribbon follows James Quinn, a young Irish surgeon battling prejudice, suspicion and p...

THE LITTLE BOOK OF YOUGHAL is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining fact...

A history of Lancaster

Of all the Allied generals in the Middle East and Europe in the Second World War, Bernard Montgom...

The Siege of Derry

This chronological account of the campaigns on the Eastern Front, following the German advance fr...

Capability Brown

The first book to reveal the true story of how the Beatles broke the American music market to bec...

The first book on a British effort to save lives, as important as the well known kindertransport,...

A History of Captain Connie Mackey, Defender of the Strand.

Fully authorised by The Film and Television Charity and by Buckingham Palace, this book will cele...

Climb Mount Everest with Howard Somervell, who was alongside George Mallory in the first attempt ...

The life, times and extraordinary history of the Windrush: the vessel that created modern Britain

The fascinating physics behind everyday life - how to brew the perfect coffee, how to finally rid...

Whitney Straight made his own way in life.Born in New York with a silver spoon in his mouth, he w...

How much could the victims of the Holocaust have known of what awaited them? How much should they...

In 1860, Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote that 'The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by e...

At the heart of a tangle of Nazis, French Resistance fighters and organised crime groups, discove...

Railway history, stories and fascinating facts behind Britain's much-loved, iconic steam locomotives

Mother to Anne Boleyn and grandmother of Elizabeth I, this fresh appraisal places Elizabeth Boley...

This semi-encyclopedic field guide to the witches, charmers, wisefolk, conjurors, necromancers an...

The first book to explore in detail how intelligence agencies the world over have used sex as a w...

Tales from the Tower of London

A comprehensive account of the Royal Artillery at Normandy: unparalleled level of information dra...

The Battle of Loos saw a change in Allied strategy, which up until then had been a series of smal...

Founded fifteen centuries ago by the legendary Gaelic king Fergus Mór mac Eirc, Dál Riada was a m...

Much is known about the achievements of George Stephenson and of his infamous creation, the Rocke...

A personal, inside look at the madness behind the making of The Wicker Man - from its inception, ...

The story of the female codebreakers who have been airbrushed from the official records told for ...

The Dark Little History of Somerset

Red Duchess