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Health & Fitness
An overview of deadly diseases from throughout world history spanning from prehistoric civilizations to the twenty-first century. All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travelers spreading the... See More
Biography & True Accounts
Eleanor of Aquitaine was the only person ever to sit on the thrones of both France and England. In this account of the turbulent adventures of the extraordinary mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John, author Douglas... See More
Biography & True Accounts
Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority... See More
Historical Fiction
Supernatural possession and naked greed It's 1992, and Jay French is a young, beautiful English flautist whose body is sought by the spirit of her ancestress Eleanor of Aquitaine, the only woman to sit on the thrones of... See More
Biography & True Accounts
A unique look at the lives of two daughters that highlights the dichotomy of lives of royal women, as both daughters and mothers of kings, who also knew both prison and power. The names of few medieval monarchs and their... See More
Biography & True Accounts
When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the Crusades to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham. In reality... See More
Biography & True Accounts
Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. - espionage is not just a boys' game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern... See More
Biography & True Accounts
After watching a D-Day film, do you wonder why no French units took part in the invasion of their own German-occupied country? General Charles De Gaulle commanded 400,000 Free French soldiers, but US President Roosevelt... See More
Biography & True Accounts
The toll that both Nazi occupation and Allied liberation took on this northern French region during World War II, told through eyewitness accounts. Famous for Calvados apple brandy and Camembert cheese, Normandy is a... See More
Biography & True Accounts
After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin installed secret police services in all the satellite countries of Central and... See More
History
On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects crashed onto residential... See More
History
The October Revolution happened in November 1917. Later Soviet propaganda pretended for several decades that it was 'the will of the people', but in reality the brutal rebellion, which killed millions and raised the... See More
History
D-Day, 6 June 1944; a day that has gone down in history as one of the most crucial steps towards Allied victory of the Second World War. But what is known of the thousands of young Frenchmen and women who were formed into... See More
History
Winston Churchill called it 'the unknown war'. Unlike the long stalemate of the Western Front, the conflict 1914-18 between the Russian Empire and the Central Powers was a war of movement spanning a continent - from the... See More
What did it mean when Vladimir Putin stepped down from president to prime minister of Russia in 2008 and bounced to the top again in 2013? The Putin-Medvedev clique of mega-rich ex-KGB men and lawyers call their state... See More
Biography & True Accounts
The key to getting on with our closest Continental neighbours is to know the truth about what they endured during the German Occupation in the Second World War. Forget the films and television dramas about the Resistance... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
World-famous violinist Irving Bradley is used to paying for the best in life. So when his old violin teacher is killed in a hit-and-run accident, he ignores the police and hires Ken Scott -- the father he was brought up to... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
1974, France. Raoul Duvalier is a captain in the Foreign Legion. A fit, tough and confident soldier. The legion's motto is Legio Patria Nostra: The Legion is Our Country. And yet although they fight and die for... See More
History
What attracts men from 136 different nations to embrace the harsh military code of an army that requires them to lay down their lives for a country not their own, if ordered to do so by politicians whose language many of... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A mysterious debt of honour saves TV news reporter Jon King from almost certain death at the hands of an Islamic terrorist group - a debt owed to his father, a captain in the French Foreign Legion named Koenig. Raised as an... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Peter Bergman is trapped in a Gulag that no longer officially exists... Fifteen years after he took off his uniform for the last time, Peter Bergman has gone from being a member of the Foreign Legion to a No Release... See More
'A fascinating analysis of both children and instruments' GUARDIAN This unique book offers a simple and practical method of selecting the right instrument for the individual child. Starting with the physical and emotional... See More