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  • Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina

    The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon

    by Quentin Russell, Eugenia Russell ...
    A fascinating biography of Ottoman Greece and Albania's notorious despot—a major player in the power struggles of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe.At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Yanina and ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mediterranean Naval Battles That Changed the World

    by Quentin Russell ...
    This epic naval history examines seven pivotal Mediterranean conflicts, from the Battle of Salamis in the fifth century BC to the Siege of Malta during WWII.This book tells the story of the Mediterranean as a theater of war at sea. Historian Quentin Russell covers seven major battles or campaigns, each of which changed the balance of power and shape the course of history. Chronicling each battle ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Watford at War 1939–45

    by Eugenia Russell, Quentin Russell ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in World War Two
    On the eve of the Second World War, Watford was a growing center for light industry with close connections to London. These two facts would play an important role in how the ensuing conflict impacted on the lives of the people of the town and its neighbors in South-west Hertfordshire. This book puts into context local experiences by exploring how the dangers and sacrifices of war became everyday ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Watford and South West Herts in the Great War

    by Eugenia Russell, Quentin Russell ...
    Series series Your Towns & Cities in the Great War
    This book highlights the importance of Watford as a regional centre within South West Herts during the years of the Great War as well as the cohesion of the local area and the impact events and initiatives had on the entire region. The organization and presence of the Army are discussed before focusing on different aspects of civilian life such as the contribution of civilians to the war effort, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Struggle and Suffrage in Watford

    Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality

    by Eugenia Russell, Quentin Russell ...
    A study of the many changes in women's lives in an English town over the course of a century.This book shines a light on women's lives in and around the English town of Watford, in the home and at work, in traditional rural employment or in dressmaking, textiles, and the silk industry. The lives of local women are put into the context of the national movement to address inequality and injustice, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Zeppelin Nights

    London in the First World War

    by Jerry White ...
    ‘Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best… White creates a vivid picture of a city changed forever by war’ The Times2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. In those four decisive years, London was irrevocably changed. Soldiers passed through the capital on their way to the front and wounded men were brought back to be treated in London’s hospitals. At night, London plunged ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Thomas MacDonagh

    16Lives

    by Dr. Shane Kenna ...
    Series series 16Lives
    Born in Cloughjordan in Co. Tipperary, MacDonagh was a poet and playwright, an educator and political activist. Appointed to the IRB Military Council he became a member of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic and was a signatory of the 1916 Easter proclamation. During the Rising MacDonagh was commandant of the 2nd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and occupied the ... Read more

    $10.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Princess Mary

    The First Modern Princess

    by Elisabeth Basford ...
    Princess Diana is seen as the first member of the British royal family to tear up the rulebook, and the Duchess of Cambridge is modernising the monarchy in strides. But before them was another who paved the way.Princess Mary was born in 1897. Despite her Victorian beginnings, she strove to make a princess's life meaningful, using her position to help those less fortunate and defying gender ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Empires of the Sea

    The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of theWorld

    by Roger Crowley ...
    In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterranean and the center of the world.In Empires of the Sea,acclaimed historian Roger Crowley has written his most ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spider Woman

    A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Court

    by Lady Hale ...
    Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story.As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country but it was an unconventional ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

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  • Medieval Sieges & Siegecraft

    by Geoffrey Hindley ...
    Here Geoffrey Hindley serves us the history of military sieges from every angle, tracing the development of fortifications and equipment (offensive and defensive), penning vivid portraits of the weapons involved, exploring the psychology of laying siege, and even describing the role played by women and camp followers in battle. He shows siege tactics in action through real-life case studies of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • For God and Ulster (History of the Ulster Volunteer Force)

    by John McCoist ...
    History of the Ulster Volunteer Force from its birth to defend Ulster against home rule, its major part in the battles of France in world war one, it's reincarnation into the fierce and ruthless paramilitary machine during the troubles that took on the Irish Republican terrorists on all fronts and what it's role is today. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD