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A 1950s Childhood - From Tin Baths to Bread and Dripping by Paul Feeney
Category: History | Series: History Press Ser.
Do you remember Pathé News? Taking the train to the seaside? The purple stains of iodine on the knees of boys in short trousers? Knitted bathing costumes? Then the chances are you were born in or around 1950. To the young people of today, the 1950s seem like another age. But for those born around then, ...Show more
A 1960s Childhood - From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania by Paul Feeney
Category: History | Series: History Press Ser.
Do you remember Beatlemania? Radio Caroline? Mods and Rockers? The very first miniskirts? Then the chances are you were born in the or around 1960. To the young people of today, the 1960s seems like another age. But for those who grew up in this decade, school life, 'mod' fashions and sixties pop music ...Show more
Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations by Mike Holgate
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: History Press Ser.
Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies and murders which either influenced the works of the world's most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved in her long and brilliant career. Discover the truth behi ...Show more
An End of War: Fatal Final Days to VE Day by Ken Tout
Category: Military | Series: History Press Ser.
After D-Day in 1944 many British troops believed the war would be over by Christmas. The German Army in Normandyhad been destroyed, but by Christmas the Allies were still fighting through Holland, whilst the Germans had reorganised and were fighting back. Ken Tout, using his own experiences on the ...Show more
Fromelles 1916 by COBB Paul
Category: Military | Series: History Press Ser.
At Fromelles in July 1916 two divisions - one British and one Australian - within a few weeks of arriving in France - went into action for the first time. Their task was to prevent the Germans from moving troops to the Somme where a major British offensive was in progress, but the attack on 19/20 July w ...Show more
Harry H. Corbett - The Front Legs of the Cow by Susannah Corbett
Category: Biography | Series: History Press Ser.
Harry H. Corbett rose from the slums of Manchester to become one of the best-known television stars of the 20th century. Widely respected as a stage actor, he became a leading light in Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop until his life was changed by the television comedy Steptoe and Son. Overnight he be ...Show more
Nancy Wake by Russell Braddon
Category: Military | Series: History Press Ser.
Nancy Wake is one of the true heroines of the Second World War. Born in New Zealand, she was living in Marseille and was married to Frenchman Henri Fiocca when the Germans invaded. Nancy immediately became active in the Resistance movement, smuggling messages and food to underground groups in Southern F ...Show more
Poisonous Seed by Linda Stratmann
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: History Press Ser.
The first in a new Victorian murder mystery series set in London, featuring a clever and determined young female sleuth When a customer of William Doughty's chemist shop dies of strychnine poisoning after drinking medicine he dispensed, William is blamed, and the family faces ruin. William's daughter, 1 ...Show more
Queen Elizabeth: A Photographic Journey by Rachelle Cross & Chris Frame
Category: Photography | Series: History Press Ser.
Queen Elizabeth: A Photographic Journey, the latest book from expert authors Chris Frame and Rachelle Cross, allows the reader to travel aboard Cunard's newest ship, the second largest ship to carry the Cunard colours. The ultimate in luxury cruising awaits aboard Queen Elizabeth.
Queen Victoria's Children by VAN DER KISTE John
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: History Press Ser.
Queen Victoria's children
Royal Bastards by Roger Powell
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: History Press Ser.
This book includes sex, power, mystery and blood - gripping, untold stories about the British monarchy and their unofficial offspring. Since 1066 when William the Conqueror (alias William the Bastard) took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were ...Show more
SS France - Norway by William H. Miller Jr.
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: History Press Ser.
Completed in the early 1960s, the France was the last of the great French Line passenger ships on the celebrated run to and from New York. She was not only the national flagship, but the longest liner yet built, and a ship with fantastic interiors, superb service, and the most exquisite food. Highly suc ...Show more