British category: 24621 books
Revolution Against Empire
Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representationRevolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage...
Freedom's Children
The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Freedom's Children is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. Colin Palmer argues that, a hundred years after the abolition of slavery, Jamaica's disgruntled workers challenged the oppressive status quo and forced a morally ossified British colonial...
by Gregg Rosenquist
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Ten All New Early Holmes/Watson Adventures Discovered. Recently, a stash of unpublished stories, written by Doctor John Watson, assistant to the legendary Consulting Detective, Sherlock Holmes, were discovered hidden within the secret corners and shadows of the famous flat at 221b Baker Street. Collected...
by Mike Ashley
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
This book includes more than 1000 monarchs who have at some time ruled all or part of Britain. This includes the host of tribal and Saxon rulers prior to 1066 as well as famous monarchs such as Richard III, Elizabeth I and Charles II and all the rulers of Scotland and Wales. The book gives full details...
A Cool and Lonely Courage
The Untold Story of Sister Spies in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The incredible true story of British special agents Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne, sisters who risked everything to fight for freedom during the Second World War.
When elderly recluse Eileen Nearne died, few suspected that the quiet little old lady was a decorated WWII war hero. Volunteering...
Victorian Yankees at Queen Victoria's Court
American Encounters with Victoria and Albert
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Little seems to have changed since Victoria's day in the instant magnetism of British royalty across the Atlantic; yet for the first generations liberated by revolution, the British Isles and its sovereigns seemed as remote as the Moon. In the young nation, Americans who were little interested in...
The Miracle of Dunkirk
The True Story of Operation Dynamo
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Stranded on the beach with the Nazis closing in, the British army managed one of the most unlikely maneuvers in modern military history
In May of 1940, the remnants of the French and British armies, broken by Hitler’s blitzkrieg, retreated to Dunkirk. Hemmed in by overwhelming Nazi strength,...
The King's Jester
The Life of Dan Leno, Victorian Comic Genius
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2010
Who was Dan Leno? In 1901 everyone in Britain knew who he was. They had seen him live on the music hall stage, listened to his jokes on the new gramophone and watched his funny antics in some of the earliest moving pictures. Even King Edward VII was a fan and the popular press dubbed Dan Leno “The...
The Journey’s End Battalion
The 9th East Surrey in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
R.C. Sherriff, author of Journey’s End, the most famous play of the Great War, saw all his front line service with the 9th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. This intense experience profoundly affected his writing and, through his play, it continues to have a powerful influence on our understanding...
by Bob Carruthers
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This is the definitive military history of the Civil Wars which swept the British Isles from 1642 to 1649.The martial aspects of the wars are covered in detail along with a comprehensive overview of the religious and political dimensions which shaped the armies involved in the conflict. This excellent...
by Dorothy Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
British police detective Luke Thanet tracks a housewife’s killer in the debut novel of an award-winning mystery series “in the P. D. James manner” (Kirkus Reviews).
Luke Thanet is a British police inspector with a soft heart, bad back, and bloodhound’s nose for murder. When a young...
His Finest Hour
A Biography of Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Who was Winston Churchill? Even fifty years after his death, he is one of the most iconic figures in British history. As a young man he was a maverick journalist; his many positions in politics before 1940 marked him as a courageous but foolhardy man.
Yet it is Churchill’s record in war,...
The King and the Catholics
England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
From beloved historian Antonia Fraser comes the dramatic story of how Catholics in the United Kingdom won back their rights after two centuries of official discrimination.
In the summer of 1780, mob violence swept through London. Nearly one thousand people were killed, looting was widespread,...
by David Knight
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
While everyone knows the story of King Arthur, few have heard of King Lucius, a figure who has been consigned to myth and largely forgotten in the annals of British history. Examining the primary sources as well as the archaeological evidence for this second century king, David Knight convincingly...