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  • Churchill's Last Wartime Secret

    The 1943 German Raid Airbrushed from History

    by Adrian Searle ...
    It’s been a State secret for more than 70 years: The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened – but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during World War Two (the Channel Islands excepted), on active military service.Churchill’s Last Wartime Secret reveals the remarkable story of a mid-war seaborne enemy raid on an Isle of Wight ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Infamous Sophie Dawes

    New Light on the Queen of Chantilly

    by Adrian Searle ...
    A biography of the British woman who left behind life in a brothel to become a baroness in a French chateau, and perhaps a killer.She was the daughter of an alcoholic Isle of Wight smuggler. Much of her childhood was spent in the island's workhouse. Yet Sophie Dawes threw off the shackles of her downbeat formative years to become one of the most talked-about personalities in post-revolutionary ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quintinshill Conspiracy

    The Shocking True Story Behind Britain's Worst Rail Disaster

    It was the railway's Titanic. A horrific crash involving five trains in which 230 died and 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network.The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915. Amongst the dead and injured were women and children but most of the casualties were ... Read more

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  • The Spy Beside the Sea

    The Extraordinary Wartime Story of Dorothy O'Grady

    by Adrian Searle ...
    Dorothy O'Grady is uniquely placed in the annals of espionage. She was the first Briton condemned to death under the Treachery Act of 1940 after she was frequently spotted on the outskirts of Sandown (a prohibited area on the Isle of Wight), insisting time and again that her dog had strayed. Had her appeal not saved her from the gallows, she would have been the only woman of any nationality to ... Read more

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  • The Silkworm

    Series Book 2 - A Cormoran Strike Novel
    Private investigator Cormoran Strike must track down a missing writer -- and a sinister killer bent on destruction -- in this "wonderfully entertaining" mystery (Harlan Coben, New York Times Book Review) that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike.When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Gangs of Birmingham

    From the Sloggers to the Peaky Blinders

    In the early 1870s, the boomtown of Birmingham erupted in a series of vicious gang wars. Mobs of youths armed with stones, knives and belt buckles fought pitched battles in a struggle for territorial supremacy. Known as "sloggers", they drew their numbers from the workshops and factories that made guns, nails and jewellery, and lived cheek-by-jowl in overcrowded, insanitary slums.Author Philip ... Read more

    $5.95 USD

  • Michael Collins

    ?Michael Collins is one of the most famous figures in Irish history. He became the most wanted man in the British Empire, a minister in the first Irish government and Commander-in-Chief of the army. This is an action-packed biography of a great Irish hero. ... Read more

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  • Prisoner 1082: Escape from Crumlin Road Prison, Europe's Alcatraz

    On St Stephen's Day 1960 Dónal Donnelly made his dramatic escape from the prison known as 'Europe's Alcatraz'. Three years earlier, the teenage Dónal had been convicted of membership of the IRA in the first year of 'Operation Harvest'. He was sentenced to ten years. Here he reflects on why he came to be on top of a prison wall risking his life. This is the story of a man who overcame the hurdles ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Fellow, Long Fellow. A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera

    A Joint Biography of Irish politicians Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera

    by T. Ryle Dwyer ...
    Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera were the two most charismatic leaders of the Irish revolution. This joint biography looks first at their very different upbringings and early careers. Both fought in the 1916 Easter Rising , although it is almost certain they did not meet during that tumultuous week. Their first encounter came when Collins had been released from jail after the rising but de ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michael Collins

    A Biography

    When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.'In August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true – Collins was shot and killed by a fellow Irishman in a shocking political assassination.So ended the life of the greatest of all Irish nationalists, but ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Black and Tans

    A history of the infamous British temporary policemen sent to Ireland during the Irish War of Independence in the early 1920s.They could arrest and imprison anyone at any time. They murdered civilians. They wore a strange mixture of dark green tunics, khaki trousers, black belts, and odd headgear, including civilian felt hats. The Irish named them after a famous pack of wild dogs on County ... Read more

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  • Shoot Straight, You Bastards!

    The Truth Behind the Killing of 'Breaker' Morant

    A fascinating insight into Breaker Morant and the question of morality and human life. The question of "The Breaker's" innocence is still being fiercely debated more than a century after Lieutenant Harry Morant and Lieutenant Peter Handcock were shot on a lonely veldt outside Pretoria at dawn on 27 February, 1902, by a British military firing squad. Shoot Straight, You Bastards! is a universal ... Read more

    $18.09 USD