This delightfully playful history uses 36 of our most expressive quriky beautiful and sometimes baff..
Anwyn Moyle was born at the end of the First World War in a Welsh mining village. At 16 she went to ..
King George V predicted that his son Edward VIII would destroy himself within a year of succeeding t..
In the first of an extraordinary three-volume account of the war James Holland reveals not only the ..
Doctors nurses medics and stretcher-bearers must venture wherever someone is injured and the cry for..
Fascinating Footnotes From History details one hundred of the quirkiest historical nuggets; eye-stre..
Much has been written about Nicholas II his wife Alexandra and their tragic fate as it has about the..
In the second volume of his acclaimed new history of the Second World War James Holland examines the..
Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm met at a motorcycle club in Bournemouth and when war broke out they..
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British institution and its story during the Second World ..
For over six decades Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire. Beside her for more than twenty of those y..
In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province on a tour that has be..
Despite the struggle to make ends meet during the tough years of warfare in the 1940s and rationing ..
The history of the Guinea Pig Club the band of airmen who were seriously burned in aeroplane fires i..
Berlin September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German ..