Concise, accessible, authoritative guide to Kent's family and local history sources
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Published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the lifting of the ban on gay service men and women in the Armed Forces
A prominent insider's view of British naval shipbuilding in World War 2.
The Author Who Outsold Dickens
- 208pages
- 8 heures de lecture
A new biography of an unjustly neglected Victorian novelist, with original research drawing on his unpublished correspondence, and his work as both a journalist and a novelist.
Major & Mrs Holt's Definitive Battlefield Guide Somme: 100th Anniversary
- 304pages
- 11 heures de lecture
New full colour, excellent value guide from the unrivalled Battlefield touring experts. The book will help you discover how to find an ancestor's resting place or memorial. Many current battlefield guides refer to it as 'The Bible'.
A superb narrative of a forgotten campaign. Contains vivid first-hand eyewitness accounts. Published to coincide with the anniversaries of the Treaty signings of 1920.
The Great Famine
- 160pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Bridging the gap to bring Irish history to the British market, across a range of titles that are so deeply connected to British history as a whole.
The United Irishmen, Rebellion and the Act of Union, 1798-1803
- 184pages
- 7 heures de lecture
In collaboration with History Ireland, the leading Irish history magazine publisher based in Dublin, this is the second title in P&S;'s new series 'Irish Perspectives' - bridging the gap to bring Irish history to the British market.
In this chilling history of the bodysnatching trade, the stories of Britain's lesser known Resurrection Men are told.
Hitler's Wartime Conversations
- 480pages
- 17 heures de lecture
After dinner at the Wolfs Lair it was Hitlers custom to retire to his private quarters where Hitler and his entourage often listened to gramophone records of Beethoven symphonies, selections from Wagner while Hitler would hold forth with lengthy and rambling monologues touching on a wide variety of subjects. Hitler was invariably joined by Keitel and his two secretaries, also present was Martin Bormann who decided to commission a recording of Hitlers words for posterity.