Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Admiral of the Fleet, was the second son of Queen Victoria. At 18 he was elected King of Greece, but not allowed to accept the crown. While touring Australia in 1868 he narrowly escaped assassination. His last years were clouded by alcoholism, ill-health, and the suicide of his only son and heir.
Monty's Left Flank: from Normandy to the Relief of Holland with the 49th
In August 1944, the Polar Bears acted as Monty's left flank. Following the battle for Normandy, they played a key role in the capture of Le Havre, campaigned vigorously in Belgium and helped to take Arnhem. In the final weeks of the war they played a humanitarian role by bringing much-needed food supplies to the starving population of Holland.
The Cuban Missile Crisis That Never Was: the Invasion of Cuba and World
The Fires of October: The Cuban Missile Crisis and World War III is a unique military study that chronicles the event that was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. Specifically, it covers the conflict that did not happen - the invasion of Cuba and other planned military actions where the world came close to a nuclear Armageddon.
In 1934 E. O. Spence, the Belle Vue team manager tirelessly forged ahead to make Midget Car Racing the number one motor-racing sport in pre-war Britain.
1642 saw two London English Civil Wars battles at Brentford and Turnham Green. Many fleeing Parliamentarian soldiers jumped into the Thames at Brentford and drowned. London's Lost Battlefields hides the ghosts of bloodshed and rebellion from Boudicca to the devastating but little known Zeppelin attacks of the First World War.
Stories of RAF Fighter Pilots in the Second World War
Into the Swarm tells the sobering and heroic stories of RAF fighters pilots in the most ferocious air battles of the war. Gripping and detailed stories of aerial combat are accompanied by unpublished photographs and letters which add to the rich content provided by the authors whose passion for the subject is apparent within each chapter.
Brian Scovell spent a lifetime reporting for the Daily Sketch and Daily Mail and knows a host of leading players whom he persuaded to play for his wandering side Woodpeckers and various press sides. His hilarious accounts of these matches - mainly on village greens - provide a richly entertaining and unique addition to cricketing literature.
