Historical Books

The Evacuee Experience:A Clapham Evacuee’s Story(1940-1945)In this interesting and touching memoir, Michael Roberts gives an intimate firsthand account of being a child evacuee during the second world war.To a little boy of 6 the world seemed a very dark place when he and his brothers were put in a train to who knew where, leaving their parents behind for 5 years.Mick was taken in by a woman in Clapham, Bedford, who to him looked like a witch. He received no warmth or kindness and tried to run away, but was brought back to face a hard time.There were howerver lighter times where the teachers at the village school were kind and he made many friends with the children. Clapham was a village he would never forget and this is his story......

In 1928, Winston Churchill was at the height of his career. Chancellor of the Exchequer and a powerful and popular orator, leadership of the Conservative Party seemed within his grasp. A year later, however, all had changed. The Conservatives were defeated, and when a National Government was formed in 1931, Churchill was not asked to join it. Though he was a lone figure from this point, his acute political sense, foresight, and courage were undiminished. Fed with secret inside information by a group of brave men, Churchill consistently warned of the Nazi danger, even before the rise of Hitler. The government fought him at every turn, even refusing him the right to broadcast. But he never gave up. It was as a direct result of his brave perseverance that the British public came to realize the truth of his warnings—a bond formed that would be so vital in the years to come...

From the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, Nixon was a polarizing figure in American politics, admired for his intelligence, savvy, and strategic skill, and reviled for his shady manner and cutthroat tactics. In deft, masterful prose, Black separates the good in Nixon—his foreign initiatives, some of his domestic policies, and his firm political hand—from the sinister, with his questionable methods and the collection of excesses and offenses associated with the Watergate scandal. Black argues that the hounding of Nixon from office was partly political retribution from a lifetime of enemies and Nixon’s misplaced loyalty to unworthy subordinates, and not clearly the consequence of crimes in which he participated...

The story of Michel Thomas reads like a thriller in which adventure and heartbreak combine to produce a unique form of wisdom. Boldly escaping Vienna after the Anschluss, having refused to make accommodations for being Jewish, he arrived stateless in France one week before Kristallnacht. But rather than let this most precarious of positions defeat him, Thomas began to fight what was to become a fantastic and ultimately heroic personal war against the forces of barbarism that engulfed his world. Arrested by Vichy France, Thomas was starved for two years in a concentration camp at the foot of the Pyrénées and forced into slave labor in a coal mine in Provence. He avoided being sent to Auschwitz by hiding within the confines of a deportation camp for six weeks as its infuriated masters took increasingly dramatic action to capture him at all costs -- and ultimately to no avail. He then joined the secret army of the Resistance and during one mission was captured and interrogated by Klau..

Filled with splendid photos by Harold Barkley, this book contains profiles of 74 great players, action photos, statistics on players and teams. It is treat for any fan...

My grandfather, John Arthur Henry Baker, was born in Swinbridge, Devon. A horseman by trade, he enlisted in the Royal Marines at the age of 18. His regiment served in the Dardanelles Campaign of World War One. After his death I discovered his handwritten account of his war. This is his war in his words...

Colonel Charles E. McGee fought in World War II, in Ko-rea, and in Vietnam. He holds the record for the highest three-war total of fighter com-bat missions of any pilot in U.S. Air Force history. His military service began as one of the Tuskegee Airmen in the 332nd, famed pioneers who fought racial prejudices to fly and fight for their country in World War II, from North Africa, through Italy, into Germany, and finally in the heart of America itself...

In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story.From the Trade Paperback edition...

This unforgettable story chronicles the author's courageous and extraordinary encounter with a horrific chapter in our world's history, even as it tells a tale of stunning bravery, of breathtaking escapes, and of mind-numbing risk in the face of certain death. "Astonishing. Unforgettable."--Publisher's Weekly...

Brave, humane, and generous. still he was only a brave, humane, and generous rebel; curse on his virtues, they've undone this country.Member of British Parliament Lord North, upon hearing of General Richard Montgomery's death in battle against the British At 3 a.m. on December 31, 1775, a band of desperate men stumbled through a raging Canadian blizzard toward Quebec.  The doggedness of this ragtag militia--consisting largely of men whose short-term enlistments were to expire within the next 24 hours was due to the exhortations of their leader.  Arriving at Quebec before dawn, the troop stormed two unmanned barriers, only to be met by a British ambush at the third.  Amid a withering hale of cannon grapeshot, the patriot leader, at the forefront of the assault, crumpled to the ground.  General Richard Montgomery was dead at the age of 37. Montgomery who captured St. John and Montreal in the same fortnight in 1775; who, upon his death, was eulogized in British Parliament by Burke, Ch..