Castles are the most familiar medieval landmark across the Irish countryside. Their often romantic appearance belies their turbulent history and their lore abounds in stories of sieges, betrayals and daring escapes.
"On 10th May 1941, an extraordinary event occurred. In many ways it was the most bizarre and inexplicable episode of the Second World War and it has never been fully explained - until now. On that spring day, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy, took off from Augsberg airfield in a Messerschmitt BF110. ...
Using the same "Museum in a Book" format as the popular "Lewis and Clark on the Trail of Discovery," this biography brings Benjamin Franklin to life through words and such removable documents as portions of "Poor Richard's Almanack" and Franklin's edits to the Declaration of Independence.
Now in book form, this is the intensely moving first-person account of "the Auschwitz Memoirist's extraordinary manuscript" described in Philip Roth's Patrimony: A True Story. This is the true story of a young man born at the wrong time in the wrong place. Lothar Orbach's family proudly traces its German ...
Suitable for those looking to gain insight into the key people, places, events, and cultural touchstones of Ireland, this book offers background of Ireland's earliest inhabitants and the roots of its modern political strife.
This is a vintage whodunit, first in the author's Judge's Tales series, a grisly murder in Edwardian London as social revolution and psychiatry posed new questions for the Law and for the first time the Media were co-opted to run a killer to ground. The author draws on his own experience as a Judge at the Old Bailey.
British luxury rail travel was not just the domain of the Pullman Company. In fact, they were far from the only providers as railway companies in Britain were extremely active from late Victorian times competing for leisure business.
An original and compelling history of the northern European medieval renaissance in art, science and philosophy, which rivalled its Italian counterpart, by the author of The Florentines and The Borgias.[Bokinfo].
The book describes the numerous ways in which people have communicated secretly throughout history, outlining the mechanical processes of covert messaging through such techniques as computer encryption, the da Vinci code, and the Rosetta Stone while sharing additional coverage of how laypeople have used ...
Captain Charles Johnson's colourful accounts of the most roguish and infamous highwaymen in history comes to life in this new publication featuring the original 1734 engravings alongside additional complementary material from the Library's collections.
More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people-black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American-bear responsibility for this crime.
In this timely and fully international book, David Welch has selected fifty images to highlight the continuities and dis-continuities of mass-communication throughout history, be they via images, events, films or by 'propaganda by deed'.
The historic myths of a people/nation usually play an important role in the creation and consolidation of the basic concepts from which the self-image of that nation derives. These concepts include not only images of the nation itself, but also images of other peoples.
Drawing on the archives of the Imperial War Museum, the author presents a lively portrait of life on the Home Front in the First World War. Filled with first-hand accounts taken from diaries, letters and newspaper reports, it reveals the changing life in Britain between 1914 and 1918 in personal detail by the people who actually lived through it.
This book concerns the social life of the English from the ancient Britons through to the 20th century, finding a similarity of behavior across the centuries, from eating and drinking to dress and sport.
