|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Assassins
Bernard Lewis
Orion
ISBN : 9781842124512
The word 'Assassin' was brought back from Syria by the Crusaders, and in time acquired the meaning of murderer. Originally it was applied to the members of a Muslim religious sect - a branch of the Ismailis, and the followers of a leader known as ...
ePub
|
Fatal Colours
George Goodwin
Orion
ISBN : 9780297860716
Palm Sunday, 1461: the battle of Towton and its immediate aftermath was the day that the greatest proportion of living Englishmen ever died in one day and in one place. However, the brutal reality of the most desperate day in medieval history is ...
ePub
|
Total War
Michael Jones
John Murray
ISBN : 9781848542297
Following on from The Retreat, Total War traces the fighting from the battle for Kursk in 1943 to the bloody battle for Berlin. Using powerful eye-witness accounts he tells a story of vicious brutality on both sides.
ePub
|
Mafia Brotherhoods
John Dickie
Sceptre
ISBN : 9780340963920
BLOOD BROTHERHOODS is the enthralling new history of Italian organised crime by the author of the international bestseller COSA NOSTRA. Mafia. Camorra. 'Ndrangheta. The Sicilian mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is far from being Italy's only dangerous ...
ePub
|
|
|
Trespassers on the Roof of the World
Peter Hopkirk
John Murray
ISBN : 9780719564499
No other land has captured man's imagination quite like Tibet. Hidden away behind the highest mountains on earth, and ruled over by a mysterious God-king, it was for centuries a land forbidden to all outsiders. In this remarkable and ultimately ...
ePub
|