The Sword and the Centuries

Alfred. HUTTON

Wrens Park

Here is a diverse a collection of contemporary steam photographs as one cold wish for. Over 100 pictures with Keith Strickland's informative text.

Steam Through Five Continents

Strickland, Keith

Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: North West Europe 1944-5

This text includes stories from British soldiers, of life and death at the sharp end. Soldiers from all aspects of the British Army tell of the victories and defeats of fighting for their country.

Marching to the Sound of Gunfire

History

Delaforce, Patrick

Military

The Making of a Railway

Engineering & Transportation

ROLT, L.T.C.

Transportation

In 1998 Rolls-Royce celebrated the 60th anniversary of the opening of its Crewe factory, the home of the company's car production since World War II. This illustrated history celebrates Rolls Royce and Bentley cars and the company that produced them. Motoring writer Malcolm Bobbitt has brought together a varied collection of photos to create this visual account. The text explains the move of the company's car production from Derby to Crewe just after the war and takes the story through the successful 1950s and 1960s. He recalls the near bankruptcy of the company in the 1970s and its subsequent recovery, and finishes with a description of the company and its cars today in light of the 1998 sale to Volkswagen and the acquisition of the Rolls-Royce name by BMW. The author concentrates on the evolution of the characteristic models - the Bentley Mk VI and the R-Types, the Silver Wraith and Silver Dawn, the Silver Cloud and Silver Shadow and Silver Spirit - and he looks at the recent revival of the Bentley marque which recaptures the spirit of the cars' pre-war sporting history. The book also remembers the notable individuals who played a vital part in the creation of these famous vehicles, and it describes the company's organization and its meticulous methods of design, testing and construction.

Rolls Royce and Bentley

Bobbitt, Malcolm

Automotive

Revealing study of sexual behaviour in the Elizabethan age, looked at through the literature and personalities of the period, including Shakespeare, Donne and Marlowe

Sex In Elizabethan England

Alan Haynes

Europe

Buckingham Palace is one of the most familiar buildings in the world, but who knows the real tales hidden behind its ceremonial gates? Who was the witch that once lived in the royal courtyard? How could courtesans once have plied their trade in front of the present royal windows? How dare a prime minister call the palace a monstrous insult to the nation? This text presents a detailed exploration of the ordinary and sometimes extraordinary people who owned or lived on the land now occupied by the Palace, and of the royal occupants who later inhabited it. The book reveals how Buckingham Palace came to be the place it is today, from the time when it probably formed the escape route from a Roman battle nearly 2000 years ago, to the establishment of the first gentleman's house there in the 17th century, and on into a chequered royal history, which includes an ambitious Saxon queen and James I's plan to found an English silk industry in the Palace gardens.

The Strange History of Buckingham Palace

WRIGHT, PATRICIA

Alternate decisions of World War II. Texts by Kenneth Macksey, Bryan Perrett, James Lucas, Stephen Howarth, and others. With 23 illustrations in black and white and 12 maps

The Hitler Options Alternate Decisions of World War II

Kenneth Macksey

Harold Godwinsson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, rose from relative obscurity to ascend the throne, and his death ushered in the Norman Conquest. This full length biography is a valuable resource for those interested in the Saxons or Normans.

Harold the Last Anglo Saxon King

Biographies & Memoirs

Ian W Walker

Historical

The 2nd revised edition on the origins of hill-figures has been newly illustrated and updated to incorporate radical new interpretations arising from the latest discoveries and researches, including the 1996 Cerne Giant conference.

Lost Gods Of Albion The Chalk Hill-Figures Of Britain

Paul Newman

Ancient Civilizations

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