Hoppa till innehållet

E-böcker / Memoarer & Biografier


Omslagsbild för 7 Leadership Lessons of the American Revolution
E-bok

7 Leadership Lessons of the American Revolution

This book is about leadership. It tells the dramatic story of seven defining leadership moments from the American Revolution. On these pages you learn about real people facing hi ...


Omslagsbild för Fighting Fox Company
E-bok

Fighting Fox Company

Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division has become one of the most famous small units in U.S. history, thanks to Stephen Ambrose’s supe ...


Omslagsbild för A Few Lawless Vagabonds
E-bok

A Few Lawless Vagabonds

A Few Lawless Vagabondsis an account of the three-way relationship between Ethan Allen, the Republic of Vermont (1777–1791) and the British in Canada during the American Revolution ...


Omslagsbild för BAC SI
E-bok

BAC SI

During the Vietnam War, U.S. Army Special Forces A-Teams were deployed to isolated outposts or "camps” in the remote areas of South Vietnam. Their job was to recruit, train, and h ...


Omslagsbild för Jump Commander
E-bok

Jump Commander

A selection of the Military Book ClubCol. Mark James Alexander was the only airborne officer to lead three different battalions into combat in World War II, successively commanding ...


Omslagsbild för What’s Tha Playing at Nah?
E-bok

What’s Tha Playing at Nah?

Welcome to What's Tha Playing At Nah?, the fourth volume of Martyn Johnson's acclaimed series of stories about policing during the 1960s and 1970s. Whether 'on the beat' or 'as CID ...


Omslagsbild för The Lengthening War
E-bok

The Lengthening War

The First World War was an event so important, so catalytic, so transformative that it still hangs in the public memory and still compels the Historian’s pen. It was a conflict whi ...


Omslagsbild för King Arthur: The Mystery Unravelled
E-bok

King Arthur: The Mystery Unravelled

This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller.The book brings new information to light by exa ...


Omslagsbild för Accused
E-bok

Accused

The image of the witch - crook-nosed, unpleasant of disposition and with a penchant for harming her neighbours - is well established in the popular imagination. For hundreds of yea ...


Omslagsbild för Marie Antoinette's Confidante
E-bok

Marie Antoinette's Confidante

Marie Antoinette has always fascinated readers worldwide. Yet perhaps no one knew her better than one of her closest confidantes, Marie Thrse, the Princess de Lamballe. The Princes ...


Omslagsbild för Voices in Flight: Path Finder Force
E-bok

Voices in Flight: Path Finder Force

Charged with the formidable task of locating and marking German targets for attack by the main force of Bomber Command, the Path Finder Force - 8 (PFF) Group and those in 5 Group - ...


Omslagsbild för Bicycles, Bloomers and Great War Rationing Recipes
E-bok

Bicycles, Bloomers and Great War Rationing Recipes

Dorothy Peel was the Nigella Lawson or Delia Smith of her day during the late Victorian to post-war period. In this book, Vicky Straker explores the social history and cultural bac ...


Omslagsbild för Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
E-bok

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery

This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanise the Lijssenthoek M ...


Omslagsbild för Augustus at War
E-bok

Augustus at War

A new and penetrating assessment of Augustus as ancient Rome's military commander-in-chief by an author rapidly establishing himself as one of the leading historians of the period. ...


Omslagsbild för The Roman Emperor Aurelian
E-bok

The Roman Emperor Aurelian

Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world.T ...


Omslagsbild för Bill Lancaster: The Final Verdict
E-bok

Bill Lancaster: The Final Verdict

Captain William Lancaster was the subject of public attention and controversy during his life as a record-breaking flyer, because of his love affair with Jessie ‘Chubbie’ Miller (d ...


Omslagsbild för This Bloody Place
E-bok

This Bloody Place

Captain Albert Mure, a company commander in the 5th Battalion The Royal Scots, spent forty-three days in Gallipoli - far longer than many men who fought there would survive. In tho ...


Omslagsbild för An Infamous Mistress
E-bok

An Infamous Mistress

Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner during the French Revolution and the reputed mother of the Prince of Wales' child, notorious courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott lived an a ...


Omslagsbild för The Somme
E-bok

The Somme

The offensive on the Somme took place between July and November 1916 and is perhaps the most iconic battle of the Great War. It was there that Kitchener’s famous ‘Pals’ Battalions ...


Omslagsbild för British Nannies and the Great War
E-bok

British Nannies and the Great War

In 1912, Norland children’s nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to t ...


Omslagsbild för The Great War Illustrated - The Home Front
E-bok

The Great War Illustrated - The Home Front

Many books have looked at the effect of the war on the Home Front, but this is the first book to take a glimpse at the Home Front photographically from an international point of vi ...


Omslagsbild för Call to Arms - Over By Christmas
E-bok

Call to Arms - Over By Christmas

For many years the Home Front was the Cinderella of the Great War. However, in recent years it has been acknowledged for the essential part it played in the successful prosecution ...


Omslagsbild för After Stalingrad
E-bok

After Stalingrad

The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. But most of these accou ...


Omslagsbild för Lighter Than Air
E-bok

Lighter Than Air

Neville Florian Usborne entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1897. In the years between him joining up and the outbreak of the First World War, he engaged in a huge number of enter ...


Omslagsbild för Camel Combat Ace
E-bok

Camel Combat Ace

This work follows the First World War career of Captain (later wing commander) Edwin Swale, CBE DFC and bar, who served with 210 Squadron RAF, piloting Sopwith Camel scouts between ...