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A fascinating exploration of southern Yorkshire's historic churches. Explores a cross-section of historical churches throughout the county.

Buses in Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Merseyside is packed with quality photographs and information about this fascinating part of England.

A celebration of Wakefield's rich heritage and identity - its special events, achievements, people, industry and landmarks.

Explore the Yorkshire Dales in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to the area's history, people and places.

Explore the rich history of the North East London town of Walthamstow in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

Explore the remarkable military heritage of the Thames Estuary from Roman times through to present day.

A photographic historic record of the modern Great Western Railway mainline, and the variety it offers.

This fascinating picture of this important legacy from the prehistory of Britain will be of interest to all those who have seen and visited these mysterious structures around England, Scotland and Wales.

Secret Staines-upon-Thames and Laleham explores the lesser-known history of the town of Staines-upon-Thames and next-door Laleham through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.

Commercial aviation author Charles Woodley explores an illustrated history of this popular, now defunct, airline.

With parallels to today, a significant new account of the Roman empire as a place of migration, diversity and commerce, as well as its traditional image as a military power.

Exploring terrific, previously unpublished photographs documenting the history of railways in Sussex.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the end of the railway's independence, this new history celebrates one of the most popular pre-Grouping railways.

A fascinating portrait of Newcastle upon Tyne presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.

Fully illustrated description of Chatham's well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.

This book will interest anyone keen to know more about Dorset's remarkable local military history through time.

A fascinating exploration of Suffolk's historic churches. Will be of interest to all those who live in or are visiting this attractive county in England.

A fascinating exploration of the local history of the castles and fortifications of the West Country.

A fascinating exploration of Oxfordshire's churches that will be of interest to local historians, residents and visitors alike.

The first book to look at the lives of Anna of Cleves' siblings, particularly her powerful brother Wilhelm V and her elder sister Sybylla, and their interactions with the Holy Roman Empire, England, and France, which had a significant impact on the Reformation.

Highly illustrated throughout, this book explores the fascinating history of the first of the V8 Bristol cars.

A terrific selection of previously unpublished photographs documenting the local bus scene in East Yorkshire.

A fascinating portrait of Bath presented through a remarkable collection of lovely historical postcards.

Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had withstood the Nazis, but even it was battered and bruised and close to defeat. Then, on 22 June 1941 - in the most momentous decision of the war - the Nazi dictator turned East and flung his victorious armies into the vastness of the Soviet Union. Having signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Hitler back in 1939, Stalin was taken completely by surprise by the German attack. Hitler's Wehrmacht - buoyed by years of untrammelled success and led by some of the greatest commanders Nazi Germany had to offer - crashed across the border and sent the Red Army reeling. The German plan was simple and its scale staggering; over three million men, armed with over three thousand panzers, the same number of aircraft, more than seven thousand guns and carried by over six hundred thousand vehicles and even more horses, would be joined by over half a million soldiers from allied countries, and together they would destroy the largest army in the world while advancing a thousand miles to the very borders of Asiatic Russia. There they would halt and what remained of the Soviet Union and the communist faith that spawned it would wither and die. In the newly conquered lebensraum, Hitler and the Nazis would then commence the biggest mass human extermination programme in history. Barbarossa was huge, but it was fought by men; and on the German side in particular, it would be fought by junior officers and simple soldiers as the Wehrmacht tried to win the war once and for all.

The story of Brunel's most famous ship and the people who knew her, using new archive sources

Radio Hitler follows the life of Deutschlandsender, the Nazi equivalent of BBC Radio 4, and its sister stations that transmitted to Germany and the world at large. Using first-hand interviews, archives, diaries, letters and memoirs, this book examines what Nazi radio was and what it stood for. Detailed here is the vast 'fake news' effort, which bombarded audiences in the Middle East, Africa, the United States and Great Britain. A light is also shone on the home service stations that, with their monumental announcements including Stalingrad, the assassination attempt on Hitler and the invasion of France, provided the soundtrack to everyday life in Nazi Germany. Details of entertainment shows and programmes designed to lift morale on the Home Front are abundant and offer a fresh insight into the psyche of the nation. The book also looks at Nazi attempts to develop television throughout Germany and in occupied France. A rich cast of characters is featured throughout, including Ernst Himmler, brother of Heinrich, who worked as technical chief at Deutschlandsender, and Lord HawHaw, the infamous British mouthpiece of the Nazi propaganda machine. Nathan Morley had unlimited access to former Reich radio studios and transmitter sites in Hamburg, Berlin, and Vienna, as well as to a vast archive of recordings and transcripts. The result is a fascinating and revealing portrait of propaganda, communication and media in Nazi Germany.

George and Robert Stephenson are well known names in the canon of railway history. Henry Booth (who designed Rocket's boiler) was the world's first railway manager and was instrumental in the adoption of Greenwich Mean Time. Timothy Hackworth, the Methodist engine-wright from Shildon, established his own engineering firm, which built one of the first locomotives to run in Russia. Although his locomotive Novelty was a failure, John Ericsson found fame as the designer of the USS Monitor. This book seeks to explore the social history of the Rainhill Trials, who these engineers were and the times they lived and worked in.

The Wirral Peninsula in north-west England experienced the tragedies and hardships of war at first hand during the two world wars. Many residents lost their lives in the conflicts both in active combat throughout the world and as a result of the Wirral being a target in itself, particularly around the docks and Birkenhead and Wallasey in the Second World War. Both wars had a devastating effect on local communities through the loss of life, the destruction of familiar places through intensive aerial bombing that in large areas destroyed or damaged virtually all of the buildings, the evacuation of children and the hardships experienced at home. Many served on ships keeping the vital routes from the docks open, the anti-aircraft batteries defending the docks in the Mersey, or on the RAF airfields on the Wirral. In this book, historian and author Mike Royden has captured the tribulations of the times, telling the stories of many local men, women and children during these trying periods. Wirral at War pays tribute to the people of this region who served, died and lived through the two world wars, and how they managed to endure in the face of the horrors of conflict.