The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for the New World (Hagger Nicholas)(Paperback)

The Secret Founding of America: The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for the New World (Hagger Nicholas)(Paperback)

The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years earlier in 1607. The Secret Founding of America

Brotherhood (Knight Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

A classic and highly controversial expose of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with a new introduction by Martin Short, author of 'Inside the

Operation Crossbow: The Untold Story of the Search for Hitler's Secret Weapons (Williams Allan)(Paperback)

Told for the first time, the real story behind the top secret World War Two operations Crossbow and Bodyline. How the top secret Aerial Reconnaissance unit at Medmenham in Buckinghamshire found and destroyed the V-1 and V-2 sites at Peenemunde. The story of the photographic intelligence work

American Covenant: A History of Civil Religion from the Puritans to the Present (Gorski Philip)(Paperback)

The long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American storyWas America founded as a Christian nation or a secular democracy? Neither, argues Philip Gorski in American Covenant. What the founders envisioned was a prophetic republic that would weave together the ethical vision

Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order (Sharman J. C.)(Paperback)

How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world orderWhat accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the first global system, and the dominance of the West? The conventional answer asserts that superior technology, tactics, and institutions forged by Darwinian

A Brief History of Britain 1066 - 1485 (Vincent Nicholas)(Paperback)

From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Normandy, killed King Harold and seized the throne of England, England's language, culture, politics and law were transformed. Over the next four hundred

Brief History of the Freemasons (Ridley Jasper)(Paperback / softback)

Ridley separates myth from truth about the Freemasons and describes the development of the secret society from its origins amongst the masons working on the great cathedrals of the Middle

The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus (Posnanski Joe)(Paperback)

From 'one of the best sportswriters in America' (The Washington Times)--the New York Times bestselling story of the friendship and rivalry between golf legends Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, whose sparring matches defined the sport for more than a decade.The first time they met, at an exhibition

Quest for C - Mansfield Cumming and the Founding of the Secret Service (Judd Alan)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating and unique history of the launch of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service through the unusual life of its founder, Mansfield

The Battle for Singapore: The True Story of the Greatest Catastrophe of World War II (Thompson Peter)(Paperback)

The true story of the 'the greatest defeat and largest capitulation' in British military history. The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the

The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America (Davis William C.)(Paperback)

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Nicholas Lynn H.)(Paperback)

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The real story behind the major motion picture The Monuments Men. The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this

The Lost Colony of the Templars: Verrazano's Secret Mission to America (Sora Steven)(Paperback)

Reveals the existence of a Templar colony in the New World and how the explorer Verrazano, also a member of a secret society, attempted to reestablish contact with it - Explores Columbus's connection to Henry Sinclair's maps of the New World - Examines the secret alliance of Catholic Sulpicians and

Churchill's Wizards - The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 (Rankin Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit

The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Shorto Russell)(Paperback)

In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. 'Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard

Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA (Prados John)(Paperback)

From its founding in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency has been discovered in the midst of some of the most crucial-and most embarrassing--episodes in United States relations with the world. Richard Nixon's 1969 presidential order that declared CIA covert operations

Constitution of the United States of America with the Declaration of Independence (Founding Fathers The American)(Paperback / softback)

'The Constitution of the United States of America,' inscribed and illustrated by master calligrapher Fink, brings to life the issues underlying the triumphs of this abiding document. Fink has gone back to his original black-and-white art and painted it anew, creating a full-color

Island at the Center of the World - The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America (Shorto Russell)(Paperback / softback)

A richly nuanced portrait of the unknown history of New York

Spies in the Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence During World War II (Downing Taylor)(Paperback)

SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took aerial photographs over Occupied Europe during the most dangerous days of the Second World War, and of

Passchendaele - The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 (MacDonald Lyn)(Paperback / softback)

The third battle of Ypres, culminating in a desperate struggle for the ridge and little village of Passchendaele, was one of the most appalling campaigns in the First World War. A million Tommies, Canadians and Anzacs assembled at the Ypres Salient in the summer of 1917, mostly raw young troops

Persian Fire - The First World Empire, Battle for the West (Holland Tom)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in

The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook (Ferguson Niall)(Paperback)

The instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks. 'Captivating and compelling.' --The New York Times 'Niall Ferguson has again written a

Jutland: The Unfinished Battle (Jellicoe Nicholas)(Paperback)

New and completely revised edition, in paperback for the first

The Last Battle: When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe (Harding Stephen)(Paperback)

The incredible story of the unlikeliest battle of World War II, when a small group of American soldiers joined forces with German soldiers to fight off fanatical SS troopsMay, 1945. Hitler is dead, the Third Reich is little more than smoking rubble, and no GI wants to be the last man killed in