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  • Knights

    Chivalry and Violence

    by Rosie Serdiville, John Sadler ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    "A really informative book . . . It whets the appetite to learn more" of the medieval warriors, their training, armor, weapons, and chivalry ( Army Rumour Service).Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularized in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and honorably and be loyal to their lord ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Castles

    Fortresses of Power

    by Rosie Serdiville, John Sadler ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    The authors of Knights: Chivalry and Violence let readers inside the walls of the medieval period's most iconic structure.In ancient and medieval times, the castle was the ultimate symbol of power, dominating its surroundings and marking the landscape with its imposing size and impregnable design. This concise and entertaining short history explores the life of the castle, one that often involved ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fighter Aces

    Knights of the Skies

    by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    A readable and entertaining introduction to aerial combat in the series that "would be excellent for someone with an early interest in military history" ( Army Rumour Service).Just over a decade after the first successful powered flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. Though the infantry in their muddy trenches might see aerial combat as glorious ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alexander the Great

    Conqueror, Commander, King

    by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    An overview of Alexander's life—from his early military exploits to the creation of his empire and the legacy left after his premature death.Alexander was perhaps the greatest conquering general in history. In a dozen years, Alexander took the whole of Asia Minor and Egypt, destroyed the once mighty Persian Empire, and pushed his army eastwards as far as the Indus. No one in history has equaled ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ode to Bully Beef

    WWII Poetry They Didn't Let You Read

    by Rosie Serdiville, John Sadler ...
    The Second World War (1939–45) was not greeted with the same lavish outpouring of patriotic fervour that had attended August 1914. Any rags of glory had long since been drowned in the mud of Flanders. The Great War had been heralded as 'the war to end all wars'; veterans were promised 'a land fit for heroes'. Both of these vain boasts soon began to sound hollow as depression, unemployment, poverty ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Siege of Newcastle 1644

    by Rosie Serdiville, John Sadler ...
    In the autumn of 1644 was fought one of the most sustained and desperate sieges of the First Civil War when Scottish Covenanter forces under the Earl of Leven finally stormed Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the King's greatest bastion in the north-east and the key to his power there. The city had been resolutely defended throughout the year by the Marquis of Newcastle, who had defied both the Covenanters and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tommies

    The British Army in the Trenches

    by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    Series series Casemate Short History
    "Everything you need to know to get you started on the subject of the men of the British Army who found themselves in the trenches in WWI. Superb." — Books MonthlyBritish soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the nickname is particularly associated with the British infantryman in the trenches of World War I.In August 1914, a small professional force of British soldiers crossed the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tommy Rot

    WWI Poetry They Didn't Let You Read

    by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    The Great War 1914−1918 was dubbed the 'war to end all wars' and introduced the full flowering of industrial warfare to the world. The huge enthusiasm which had greeted the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 soon gave way to a grim resignation and, as the Western Front became a long, agonising battle of dire attrition, revulsion. Never before had Britain's sons and daughters poured out their ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cromwell's Convicts

    The Death March from Dunbar 1650

    by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    Cromwell's Convicts not only describes the Battle of Dunbar but concentrates on the grim fate of the soldiers taken prisoner after the battle.On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar – a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour – but the aftermath, the forced march of 5,000 prisoners from the battlefield to Durham, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caesar's Greatest Victory

    The Battle of Alesia, Gaul 52 BC

    by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    "A good account of one of the most decisive battles of the ancient world. Who knows how world history would have proceeded had Caesar been defeated?" ( New York Journal of Books).Julius Caesar's campaign of 52 BC frequently hung in the balance. Celtic chieftain Vercingetorix was a far more formidable opponent than any he'd encountered in Gaul. The Romans were caught totally off-guard, and it ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • As Good as Any Man

    Scotland's Black Tommy

    by Morag Miller, Roy Laycock, John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    When the harrowing Great War diaries of one of Britain's first black soldiers were unearthed in a dusty Scottish attic nearly 100 years after they were written, they posed a bit of a mystery. The diary entries – ranging from May 1917 to March 1918 – were written by one Arthur Roberts while he served initially with the King's Own Scottish Borderers before being transferred to Royal Scots Fusiliers ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Little Book of Newcastle

    by John Sadler, Rosie Serdiville ...
    Series series Little Book of
    The Little Book of Newcastle is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts (plus some authentically bizarre bits of historic trivia). John ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus