Des Reiches Soldaten by Willrich, Wolfgang

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century

In keeping with the infrequent and in the past ignored magazine of a Renaissance-era executioner, the famous historian Joel F. Harrington’s The devoted Executioner takes us deep contained in the alien international and considering Meister Frantz Schmidt of Nuremberg, who, in the course of forty-five years as a certified executioner, in my view positioned to dying 394 members and tortured, flogged, or disfigured many enormous quantities extra.

Famous Phonies: Legends, Fakes, and Frauds Who Changed History (The Changed History Series, Book 1)

Fakes, frauds, and phonies. feels like a ebook packed with criminals and delinquents, doesn’t it? good, it’s now not. a number of the largest names in background are available among those pages—and the sunshine isn’t flattering. (We’re taking a look at you, George “I mustn't ever inform a lie” Washington.

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s

"Superb" NICK COHEN, writer of What's Left?

"Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times

"Like his past histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an awfully entire paintings. Turner writes brilliantly, making a compelling narrative of the last decade, weaving contrasting components including a usual storyteller's aplomb. .. attractive and unique" IRVINE WELSH, day-by-day Telegraph

"Ravenously inquisitive, darkly comical and coolly undeceived. .. Turner is a grasp of the telling detail" CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday

When Margaret Thatcher was once ousted from Downing road in November 1990 after 11 years of sour social and fiscal clash, many was hoping that the last decade to come back will be extra 'caring'; others was hoping that the extra radical rules of her revolution may well also be overturned. throughout politics and tradition there has been an obvious longing for whatever the Iron woman had famously brushed aside: society.

The 'New Britain' to emerge will be a contradiction: economically unequal yet culturally classless. when Westminster agonised over sleaze and the ERM, the rustic open air grew to become the playground of the Ladette. It used to be additionally a interval that may see outdated ethical certainties swept apart, and as soon as venerable associations descend into farce - undefined, in terms of the Royal relatives, through tragedy.

Opening with a conflict within the Gulf and finishing with the assaults of eleven September 2001, A Classless Society is going looking for the last decade whilst glossy Britain got here of age. What it unearths is a country anxiously grappling with new applied sciences, tentatively embracing new existence, and, peculiarly, forging a brand new experience of what it skill to be British.

"Deserves to turn into a classic" EDWINA CURRIE

"Rich and encyclopaedic" ROGER LEWIS, day-by-day Mail

"Excellent" D. J. TAYLOR, self reliant

Arms & Armour. Pictoral Archive from XIX Sources

Over 750 precise, high quality illustrations from infrequent 19th-century resources: fits of armor, chain mail, swords, helmets, knives, crossbows and different implements, in addition to scenes of conflict, infantrymen, horses, artillery and extra. particularly compatible for initiatives requiring a medieval or out of date taste, those illustrations will fill a myriad of wishes for battle-related picture paintings.