Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years - the secret location of the fabled Ark of the Covenant.
A fascinating narrative excursion into a bizarre episode in 19th century Ethiopian and British imperial history, featuring a remote African despot and his monstrous European-built gun.
Hace quinientos años, el 24 de febrero de 1525, los arcabuces de la infantería española barrieron a la flor y nata de la caballería francesa en la batalla de Pavía, vanas sus armaduras, inútil su arrojo, cautivo su rey, ante la negra pólvora y la disciplina de los bregados soldados de Carlos V.
A dramatic blow-by-blow account of the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English fleet - a tale of daring and disaster on the high seas by one of our best narrative historians.
THE WORLD'S GREATEST TEST PILOT TELLS HIS STORY 'When you read through his life story, it makes James Bond seem like a bit of a slacker'Kirsty Young, Desert Island Discs'The greatest test pilot who ever lived.
A vivid blend of history and travel and a sweeping story of collaboration and resistance, fear and heroism, pacifism and sacrifice all set against the backdrop of the Pyrenees.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SECRET LIFE OF JOHN LE CARR 'A fine and serious biography which, on page after page, has made me laugh out loud' Sunday Telegraph'It is a long time since I have enjoyed a book as much as this one' Robert Harris, Sunday Times'It is impossible to praise Sisman's biography too highly' A.
'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' ObserverIn February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.
The Avro Shackleton was a formidable machine with its Griffon engines producing the characteristic grumble that gave the aircraft one of its nicknames, the Growler.
The River Rhine and its delta in Holland, protecting Germany's vital industrial area of the Ruhr, helped dictate the course of events in three land campaigns of the Second World War.
The D-Day landings of June 6th 1944 did not bring immediate victory, that first foothold on French soil was won at enormous cost and for the next two months a fierce battle raged for control of the key town of Caen.
Highlighted by the prisoner-of-war escapes that earned them the name "e;The Houdini Club,"e; here is the elite combat odyssey of World War II's "e;Darby's Rangers"e; as never told before-drawing on previously unknown sources and former Army Ranger Mir Bahmanyar's exclusive, uncensored interviews with the greatest generation of Rangers themselves.
Der letzte Trumpf von Großadmiral DönitzDie Unterseeboote vom Typ XXIDie U-Boote des Typs XXI waren eine Klasse deutscher diesel-elektrischer Unterseeboote, die während des Zweiten Weltkriegs entworfen wurden.
Memoiren, Romane, Filme und Propagandaschriften haben den Ruf der Fremdenlegion als Sammelbecken von Kriminellen und Aussteigern, als sadistisch-militaristische Hölle oder als exotische Lebenswelt romantischer Helden verbreitet.
Yamato - Das größte jemals gebaute SchlachtschiffDie Yamato war das führende Schiff ihrer Klasse von Schlachtschiffen, die kurz vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg für die Kaiserlich Japanische Marine (IJN) gebaut wurden.
The Sunday Times-bestselling author of Dresden returns with a monumental biography of the city that defined the twentieth century - BerlinThroughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world.
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1918, the world faced the deadliest pandemic in human history.
