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Helmut and Charlotte Jacobitz were born in Berlin during the mid-1920s. They experienced depression ..

In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on what he called 'The last great polar journey' - the crossi..

The Auxiliary Territorial Service was formed in 1938 as Britain faced the threat of war. This is the..

6 June 1944 is one of the most memorable dates of the Second World War. It marked the beginning of t..

The battle took place at Kerreri, 11km north of Omdurman in the Sudan. Kitchener commanded a force o..

The story of Pamela Jackson, nee Mitford, is a fascinating one. As the only Mitford sister who did n..

This book is more than a biography of kings and queens; it is an encyclopaedic work on every aspect ..

1217: England has been invaded. Much of the country is in the iron grip of Louis of France and his c..

For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human..

Oxfordshire Murders brings together twenty-five murderous tales, some of which were little known out..

In 1952 Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne. In the sixty years of her reign so far, there have b..

An irreverent, vibrant, satirical, and largely untrue history of Ireland. Irish history started whe..

The development of forensic pathology in Britain is told here through the lives of five outstanding ..

In this first book of two volumes, this superb novel, as spell-binding as any tale of high adventure..