Athelstan: The Making of England
9 best books like Athelstan: The Making of England (Tom Holland): Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Æthelstan: The First King of England, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland, The History of the Kings of Britain, 1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, The New Spaniards, The Saxon and Norman Kings, The Cockroach
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall
| Author | Spike Milligan |
| ISBN | 0140035206 |
Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.
'At Victoria station the R.T.O. gave me a travel warrant, a white feather and a picture of Hitler marked "This is your enemy". I searched every compartment, but he wasn't on...
| Author | Sarah Foot |
| ISBN | 0300125356 |
The powerful and innovative King Æthelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful fifteen years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unprecedented political connections across...
McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland
| Author | Pete McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0312311338 |
The #1 Irish Bestseller
Despite the many exotic places Pete McCarthy has visited, he finds that nowhere else can match the particular magic of Ireland, his mother's homeland. In McCarthy's Bar, his journey begins in Cork and continues along the west coast to Donegal in the north. Traveling...
| Author | Geoffrey of Monmouth |
| ISBN | 0140441700 |
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous...
1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War
| Author | Charles Emmerson |
| ISBN | 1610392566 |
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features—last...
| Author | Asser |
| ISBN | 0140444092 |
This is a great book to get hold of if you are interested in the Anglo-Saxons or early medieval history. It's packed full of source material - enough to get the curious going, not just Asser's life of Alfred which fascinatingly stops well before Alfred's death (did Asser just die unbeknown to us before...
| Author | John Hooper |
| ISBN | 0141016094 |
A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.
The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary...
The Saxon and Norman Kings
| Author | Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke |
| ISBN | 0631231315 |
Going back to my potentially never ending programme of deciding whether to read & retain or read & release books from my shelves I returned to Christopher Brooke's The Saxon and Norman Kings. The first few chapters are thematic, followed by some covering broader periods of time before the source...
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.
Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...
