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It should have been an easy victory. After the triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of Sicily, and with Italy finally knocked out of the war, the Allies were quietly confident that Rome would be theirs before Christmas 1943. And yet it didn't happen. Hitler decided not to give ground, and the stage was set for one of the grimmest and most attritional phases of the war. Even though they were short of supplies and support, German forces, even in retreat, made the Allies fight for every bitter yard.

In her late twenties, celebrated poet Jen Hadfield moved to the Shetland archipelago to make her life anew. A scattering of islands at the northernmost point of the United Kingdom, frequently cut off from the mainland by storms, Shetland is a place of Vikings and myths, of ancient languages and old customs, of breathtaking landscapes and violent weather. It has long fascinated travellers seeking the edge of the world. On these islands known for their isolation and drama, Hadfield found something more.

Peter Ratcliffe served in the SAS for 25 years. Blooded in Oman in the 1970s, he also saw action in Northern Ireland, in the Falklands War, and in the Gulf campaign. From his early days in the Paras to his time as Regimental Sergeant-Major in the Gulf, he has lived and fought by the motto 'who dares wins'. Eye of the Storm is his insider's account of that exceptional career.

Brought up in rural North Wales, David Lloyd George attended neither a grand school nor ancient university. He was very much an outsider. And yet he rose through the ranks with charisma, fierce intelligence and fighting spirit to become, as Churchill put it in his tribute, a man who ‘stood, when at his zenith, without a rival’. But his rise was not without its hardships.

Peter Marshall was born in Orkney. His ancestors were farmers and farm labourers on the northern island of Sanday – where, in 1624, one of them was murdered by a witch. In an expansive and enthralling historical account, Marshall looks afresh at a small group of islands that has been treated as a mere footnote, remote and peripheral, and in doing so invites us to think differently about key events of British history.

Germany's Stormtroopers engaged in a vicious siege of violence that propelled the National Socialists to power in the 1930s. Known also as the SA or Brownshirts, these "ordinary" men waged a loosely structured campaign of intimidation and savagery across the nation from the 1920s to the "Night of the Long Knives" in 1934, when Chief of Staff Ernst Röhm and many other SA leaders were assassinated on Hitler's orders.

Hugo Kendal and his wife, Margaret, finally receive a royal pardon and are permitted at last to return to their beloved homeland. Most of the family warmly welcome the couple and the news that they are soon to become three. However, despite the smiles, Hannah Kendal cannot help but dwell on the threat that Hugo might pose to her husband Simon's position as Master of Heron.

The Russian Revolution may be the most misunderstood and misrepresented event in modern history, its history told in a mix of legends and anecdotes. In A People's History of the Russian Revolution, Neil Faulkner sets out to debunk the myths and pry fact from fiction, putting at the heart of the story the Russian people who are the true heroes of this tumultuous tale.

En anderledes danmarkshistorie for børn i 7-8 års alderen. Med humor og tegninger fortælles danskernes historie i istiden, stenalderen, bronzealderen, jernalderen og frem til vikingetiden.

En anderledes danmarkshistorie for børn i 7-8 års alderen. Med humor og tegninger fortælles historien om danskerne i middelalderen.

1530’erne var turbulente og skelsættende for Danmark. I 1534 var den danske trone ubesat, og det medførte en lang række stridigheder mellem dem, der kappedes om tronen. Samtidig forøgedes spændingen mellem den herskende katolske kirke og lutheranerne, der ville reformere kirken. Anført af Skipper Clement gjorde bønderne oprør mod den grove undertrykkelse og urimelige ulighed. Der blev slået hårdt ned på oprøret, og de efterfølgende år blev kun værre for bønderne.

En anderledes danmarkshistorie for børn i 7-8 års alderen. Med humor og tegninger fortælles danskernes historie i 1600- og 1700-tallet, hvor kirken bliver reformeret, enevælden indføres, Norden er i krig, København brænder og stavnsbåndet indføres og ophæves igen.

En gennemgang af Danmarks historie fra 1780 frem til vor tid. Der lægges særlig vægt på bøndernes forhold før og efter stavnsbåndets ophævelse, enevældens ophør i midten af 1800-tallet samt på befolkningens levevilkår gennem de ca. 200 år.