Wide-ranging, stimulating reassessment of the changing role of women in modern warfare, focuses on the parts women played in…

Kniha 9781399040181 Paras in Action…

This book examines the forgotten scandals of yesterday, featuring silent and silver screen stars like Jean Harlow, Mae West,…

The first book ever devoted solely to torture as practiced in Britain and its empire.…

Reveals the incompetence of the internal police enquiry into Metropolitan and City of London Police corruption.…

\nFirst of a new series with The National Archives.\n…

Sophia, Electress of Hanover, united the Houses of Stuart and Hanover and was mother to a dynasty. Once the exiled Winter…

Superbly researched and no-holds-barred account of a vicious criminal family.…

• Rok vydání 2019

The untold story of a daring and successful WW2 SOE operation - involves Ian Fleming, Brigadier Colin Gubbins and a cast of…

\nBroadmoor Women tells the stories of seven women treated in Broadmoor Hospital: an asylum for criminal lunatics.\n…

An unusual perspective on the first Blitz, being seen from the German point of view.…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nA fresh and modern reevaluation of this fascinating princess.\n…

\nAn astonishing examination of previously celebrated spies.\n…

\nOffers a concise overview of the lives of 46 trailblazing women in STEM.\n…

• Rok vydání 2020

Its discovery in 2020 revealed some fascinating details. This new biography mines its depths for insights into one of the…

\nThe first detailed A-Z of herbs, and their medicinal, magical and culinary properties. All three areas of study, in one…

\nUnlike other books on cross-dressing, this is the only one which does not concentrate on fashion, lesbians or transmen,…

\nThe life of William Davenant -Shakespeare\'s godson and potential biological son -reads as entertainingly as his plays.\n…

\nThis book brings into focus the life of Ada, Countess of Lovelace; it explores how she became credited as being the…

A vivid first-hand account of a SOE agent's missions in Nazi occupied France.…

A fascinating insight into one of the world's most beloved children's authors…

\nWritten by an acknowledged and world-renowned authority in the field, this is an unrivalled insider information on Soviet…

\nExplores the history of Europe and the earliest legends about magic and religion.\n…

\nThe lives and loves of some of the most extraordinary women in Georgian Britain.\n…

\nWomen\'s history at its best, shining a light on lives often overlooked.\n…

No-holds barred history of Scotland Yard\'s elite Murder Squad. Gripping accounts of police investigations into notorious…

\nThe story of Winston Churchill\'s role as Secretary of State for the Home Office.\n…

\nJames Chuter Ede (1882-1965) longest serving Home Secretary.\n…

\nThe remarkable story of the fourteen spies who, in the eyes of Nigel West, had the biggest impact on the events of the…

\nExplore fifteen campaigns that changed the lives of twenty-first-century women and beyond.\n…

\nExplores the Women’s Social and Political Union’s window smashing Great Militant Protest in great detail.\n…

\nThis highly topical book looks at how assassinations and attempted assassinations since the death of JFK, and even the…

\nThe story of the Earl of Warwick\'s wife Anne Beauchamp and their daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville.\n…

\nMadge Addy was a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, her story…

\nThis book is the first full length biography of Elizabeth Heyrick and it sets her life in the context of the British…

\nFind out about the children\'s games produced as wartime propaganda.\n…

A unique blend of material culture and memoirs including interviews with wartime women, including Bletchley veterans and…