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In Titanic's Shadow - David L. Williams - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

East Sussex Under Attack - Chris Butler - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Road From Sarajevo - Ben Barry - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tales of Lancasters and Other Aircraft - George Culling - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Polaris - Keith Hall - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Guide to the Crew of Titanic - Gunter Babler - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Tales of Lancasters and Other Aircraft - George Culling - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Forgotten Irish - Damian Shiels - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Cruise America - Peter Rushton - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Oceanic - Mark Chirnside - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Operation Barbarossa - Colonel David M. Glantz - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Companion to the British Army 1939-45 - George Forty - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Slaughter at Halbe - Tony Tissier - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Ode to Bully Beef - Rosie Serdiville - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Station 43 - Ian Valentine - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Zeppelin Blitz - Neil Storey - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The World War II Story - Chris Mcnab - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Kennet and Avon Navigation: A History - Warren Berry - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Kennet and Avon Navigation: A History - Warren Berry - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Kennet and Avon navigation was built to link Bristol and Bath with London, via Reading and the river Thames. The canal section took some 16 years to construct and was finally completed in 1810, although piecemeal trading was already taking place on completed parts long before that date. It was considered a major feat of Georgian engineering, incorporating many attractive stone and iron bridges, a 500-yard brick-lined tunnel, purpose built pumping stations incorporating both steam- and water-powered pumps, and two magnificent aqueducts that carried the canal over the Avon valley. But the most spectacular structure on the navigation was the 16-lock flight that climbs straight up the side of Caen Hill, and makes a striking visual impression. This chronological and thematic narrative assesses the financial, technical and political difficulties that had to be overcome before the two river navigations were linked. This important waterway enabled extensive trade activity across southern England. Later chapters show and an overview is given of what it was like to live and work on the navigation; why the Kennet and Avon eventually declined as a trading concern; how it was saved from total closure and eventually restored. It has become the biggest success story of canal restoration in recent times. Inland waterways and their associated heritage are fashionable subjects, and this well-written, widely researched, and fully illustrated history for general readers and enthusiasts alike is to be welcomed.

DKK 183.00
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Hanged at Durham - Steve Fielding - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Hanged at Durham - Steve Fielding - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

For decades the high walls of Durham gaol have contained some of the countrys most infamous criminals. Until hanging was abolished in the 1960s it was also the main centre of execution for convicted killers from all over the north east. The history of execution within the walls of Durham Gaol began with the hanging of two labourers side by side in 1869, by the notorious hangman William Calcraft. Over the next ninety years a total of seventy-seven people took the short walk to the gallows - including poisoner Mary Cotton, who for over a century was the worst mass murderer in Great Britain, Gatesheads copycat Jack the Ripper, William Waddell, army deserter Brian Chandler, nineteen-year-old Edward Anderson, who murdered his blind uncle, a Teeside dock worker hanged on Christmas Eve, Carlisle muderer John Vickers, the first man hanged under the 1957 Homocide Act, and a South African sailor who preferred death to ten years in prison. Infamous executionors also played a part in the gaols history - Calcraft, who preferred slow strangulation, Marwood, the pioneer of the ''long drop'', bungling Bartholomew Binns, the Billingtons, the Pierrepoint family, and Doncaster hangman Stephen Wade. Steve Fielding''s highly readable new book features each of the seventy-five cases in one volume for the first time and is fully illustrated with photographs, news cuttings and engravings. It is bound to appeal to anyone interested in the darker side of County Durhams history.

DKK 168.00
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The Rose, the Bastard and the Saint King - Andrew Boardman - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Rose, the Bastard and the Saint King - Andrew Boardman - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘A.W. Boardman’s latest book is another triumph of careful research, insight and feel for his subject. It’’s also very readable. For me, this is the best book currently available on the period.’ – John Simpson, BBC News The Siege of London on 12–14 May 1471 is a largely forgotten episode in the Wars of the Roses, but its implications were so far-reaching that the fate of the Lancastrian dynasty was sealed forever. Edward IV’s gamble to reclaim the throne for the House of York was a triumph against the odds, yet even after winning two crucial battles against the Lancastrians, his position was far from assured. He might have been confident of total victory if not for Thomas Neville, the Bastard of Fauconberg, who, along with thousands of ordinary people, stormed London in a desperate attempt to free Henry VI from captivity. In The Rose, the Bastard and the Saint King , the first ever full-length study of the siege of London and its aftermath, A.W. Boardman uses contemporary evidence to uncover the truth behind the rebellion of 1471 and the death of the last Lancastrian King of England. He also reveals answers to long-awaited questions such as where the battles for London took place? Who was the Bastard of Fauconberg? Why did Henry VI continue to be revered as a saint long after his death? And was the future Richard III actually responsible for Henry’s murder?

DKK 221.00
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A Dangerous Game - Luise Urban - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The First Battle of Newbury 1643 - John Barratt - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The First Battle of Newbury 1643 - John Barratt - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Late summer 1643 saw the Royalists in the English Civil War at the height of their military success. After three months of almost unbroken victories, the king''s forces had gained control of much of the north and west of England, whilst Prince Rupert''s seemingly invincible cavalry raided out from Oxford to the outskirts of London, Parliament''s stronghold. In July the wave of Royalist successes climaxed with the storming of Bristol. It seemed that one more success might be sufficient to topple the Parliamentarian leadership and lead to peace. In a move to consolidate their position prior to a final advance on London, in August the Royalists laid siege to Gloucester. However, an anticipated easy success met with stern resistance until the garrison was eventually relieved by Parliament''s principal remaining field army, under the Earl of Essex. But Essex, now deep in hostile territory, faced the difficult task of getting back safely to London. A race with the king''s forces ensued, culminating in Essex''s road being barred at Newbury. Cut off from his base, Essex had to stand and fight in a battle whose loss would mean the destruction of his army and in all probability total defeat for the Parliamentarian cause. On September 20 1643 some 30,000 men met outside Newbury in one of the largest battles of the English Civil War. John Barratt''s history, the first detailed study of the battle of Newbury for over a century, reveals a new interpretation of the battle and discovers the real reason why the Royalists lost.

DKK 183.00
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The Final Over - Christopher Sandford - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Final Over - Christopher Sandford - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Shortlisted for the 2015 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award. Shortlisted for the Cross British Sports Book of the Year 2015 (Cricket category). August 1914 brought an end to the ‘Golden Age’ of English cricket. At least 210 professional cricketers (out of a total of 278 registered) signed up to fight, of whom thirty-four were killed. However, that period and those men were far more than merely statistics: here we follow in intimate detail not only the cricketers of that fateful last summer before the war, but also the simple pleasures and daily struggles of their family lives and the whole fabric of English social life as it existed on the eve of that cataclysm: the First World War. With unprecedented access to personal and war diaries, and other papers, Sandford expertly recounts the stories of such greats as Hon. Lionel Tennyson, as he moves virtually overnight from the round of Chelsea and Mayfair parties into the front line at the Marne; the violin-playing bowler Colin Blythe, who asked to be moved up to a front-line unit at Passchendaele, following the death in action of his brother, with tragic consequences; and the widely popular Hampshire amateur player Robert Jesson, whose sometimes comic, frequently horrific and always enthralling experiences of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign are vividly brought to life. The Final Over is undoubtedly a gripping, moving and fully human account of this most poignant summer of the twentieth century, both on and off the field of play.

DKK 225.00
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