Arcturus imprint: 479 books
A Short History of World War II
The Greatest Conflict in Human History
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
World War II was the greatest conflict in human history, involving over 100 million people serving in the forces of the Axis and the Allies and resulting in 50 to 70 million deaths. This book covers war in Europe, war in the Pacific and war across a number of other fronts between 1939 and 1945. - Features...
The Private Life of Victoria
Queen, Empress, Mother of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Now the second-longest-reigning monarch after Elizabeth II, Queen Victoria ruled at the height of Britain's power on the world stage and was a symbol of stability at home and abroad. Against this background of pomp and power, she was a passionate woman who led an often turbulent private life. Victoria...
Turning the Tide: Decisive Battles of the Second World War
Decisive Battles of the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
The Second World War was the final global conflict of the twentieth century. It involved more combatants, and a wider range of battlefield terrain than any other conflict in history, from the frozen plains of Russia to the baking Libyan desert, and from the atolls of the Pacific to the skies over Britain....
Stalin
The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar [Fully Illustrated]
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, the young Stalin studied to become a priest whilst secretly reading the works of Karl Marx. Politics was to become his religion and between 1902 and 1913 he was arrested for revolutionary activities and exiled to Siberia eight times, escaping on seven...
Victory in the Pacific: Pearl Harbour to the Fall of Okinawa
Pearl Harbour to the Fall of Okinawa
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
On 7 December 1941, the Japanese navy attacked Pearl Harbour. Simultaneously, the Japanese army launched all-out assaults on Malaya, Hong Kong and the Philippines. The Japanese sphere of influence spread at a phenomenal rate. As nations of Asia collapsed one by one, and the British and US troops in the...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Vietnam was the longest war in American history. US ground troops and their Australian, New Zealand and Korean allies were committed there for eight long years. In all, the American commitment in Southeast Asia lasted 15 years. During that time over 46,000 US servicemen died in battle. The Australian...
Fighting them on the Beaches
The D-Day Landings - June 6, 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2002
Fighting Them on the Beaches tells the story of one of the largest and most meticulously organized seaborne invasions in the history of warfare - the Allied Landings of June 6, 1944: D-Day. As the parachutists and glider troops of the US and British airborne divisions went in on the night of June 5,...
No More Hangovers
The revolutionary Allen Carr’s Easyway method in pocket form
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2009
READ THIS BOOK, FOLLOW ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS AND LEARN TO ESCAPE THE MISERY OF DRINKING TOO MUCH ALCOHOL.
Allen Carr's Easyway method has helped millions of people to quit smoking and other drugs, as well as to stop over-spending and over-eating. In No More Hangovers Allen turns his commonsense...
by Allen Carr
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
READ ALLEN CARR'S EASY WAY TO CONTROL ALCOHOL AND BECOME A HAPPY NON-DRINKER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
Allen Carr established himself as the world's greatest authority on helping people stop smoking, and his internationally best-selling Easy Way to Stop Smoking has been published in over 40...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The air war waged by the Luftwaffe agaon the RAF in the summer and autumn of 1940 was the key event of the World War II. If it had been lost, Hitler would have added the British Isles to his portfolio of subject nations. It was Churchill who coined the phrase 'Battle of Britain' to underscore the peril...
by Rupert Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
The great spectacles of ancient Rome have become proverbial for their cruelty, bloodlust and glory. In the arena, the games were savage and brutal. Gladiators fought each other to the death, wild animals were put to fight each other and criminals were executed by barbaric means. Military victories were...
The Book of Five Rings
The Strategy of the Samurai
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
'When you attain the Way of strategy, there will not be one thing you cannot see.'
Miyamoto Musashi, Book of Five Rings
Shortly before his death in 1645, undefeated swordsman and wandering samurai Miyamoto Musashi retreated to a cave to live as a hermit. There he wrote five scrolls describing...
by Jo Durden-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2005
The life of Siddhartha Buddha (which means Awakened One) is that of one who awakened from the sleep of ignorance and saw conditions as they really were. Through his example every one of us can do the same awaken from the sleep of non-awareness and understand the experience or sufferings of birth, sickness,...
by Rupert Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Beginning with the strategic situation in 1943, this compelling tale recounts the circumstances that led to this decisive battle that was a key turning point of the Second World War on the Eastern Front. Considered by both the Germans and the Soviets to be a highly unpromising place to fight a battle,...