The Sweethearts In The War

Neil Hanson

LYNN. HANSON RUSSELL (NEIL.)

Team Tornado

John Nichol

John Peters

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin Books, Ltd.

This text covers the events, matches and personalities from Garry Schofield's era and also the famous names of the past. The book draws on writing covering the whole history of rugby league, from its roots in the split "broken time" payments that drove rugby league and rugby union into perpetually warring camps entrenched on either side of the north-south divide, to the present day, when modern rugby league is finding interest in many corners of the world.

Garry Schofield's Rugby League Masterpieces

Garry Schofield

Sidgwick Jackson Ltd

THE DREADFUL JUDGEMENT The True Story of the Great Fire of London 1666

DOUBLEDAY

The Confident Hope Of A Miracle: The True History Of The Spanish Armada: The Real History of the Spanish Armada

The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The Real History of the Spanish Armada

History

Europe

'Continual destruction in the foretop, the pox above board, the plague between decks, hell in the forecastle and the devil at the helm.' It is the summer of 1588, and the fate and future of England hangs in the balance. Obsessed by the dream of reclaiming England for the Catholic Church, Philip II of Spain has assembled a h

The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True Story of the Spanish Armada

CORGI BOOKS (TWLD)

The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada

The Confident Hope of a Miracle is a gripping account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada–the defining international event of the Elizabethan age. In 1588, determined to reclaim England for the Catholic Church, King Philip II of Spain launched a fleet of huge castle-crowned galleons that stretched for miles across the ocean. A battle-hardened Spanish Army waited in Holland, ready to crush England’s barely trained conscripts, many armed only with scythes, stakes or longbows. All that stood between Spain and victory was the English Navy. But English ships, tactics, weapons and crews were much superior to those of the Armada, and the pious and ascetic Philip’s “confident hope of a miracle” to give him victory was not fulfilled. The story of the Spanish Armada is one of the great epics, with a cast of characters as rich and varied as any in history, with results that shaped Europe for centuries to come. Neil Hanson, the acclaimed author of The Great Fire of London and The Custom of the Sea, brings the story to vivid life, tracing the origins of the conflict from the Old World to the New, delineating the Armada campaign in rousing prose, and illuminating the lives of kings and popes, spymasters and assassins, military commanders and common sailors, and the ordinary men and women caught up in this great event when the fate of nations hung in the balance. Hanson also depicts the terrible fate that befell the seamen of both sides long after the decisive battles were over, and he takes a fresh, hard look at Elizabeth I, shaking the pedestal of “England’s greatest ever monarch.” The Confident Hope of a Miracle is authentic and original history written with the pace and drama of a novel.

KNOPF

The hilarious and delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s arrived as the new landlords of the most remote, bleak and lonely pub—The Tan Hill Inn—in the most remote, bleak and lonely of the Yorkshire Dales. This remarkable story takes us back to deepest Yorkshire and showcases life at a different pace, peppered with a host of fascinating characters.

The Inn at the Top: Life at the Highest Inn in Great Britain

Memoirs

Michael O"Mara

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