Spend Christmas with your favourite warriors
- the Mac Egans! Three tales of warriors Vikings & passion! In the Bleak Midwinter
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When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire he supposedly replied 'to the strongest'. There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals & governors for control of these territories. Most of these Diadochi (Successors) were consummate professionals who had learnt the art of war under Alexander or even his father Philip. Few died a peaceful death & the last survivors of this tough breed were still leading their armies against each other well into their seventies. Colourful characters epic battles treacheryand subterfuge make this a period with great appeal to anyone interested in ancient history & ancient warfare in particular. The wars shaped the map from the Balkans to India for the next couple of centuries. This first volume introduces the key personalities
- characters such as Antigonos ' Monopthalmus' (the One-eyed) & his son ' Demetrius ' Poliorcetes' (the Besieger) Seleucus ' Nicator' ('the Victorious') & Ptolemy ' Soter' ('the Saviour')
- & gives a narrative of the causes & course of these wars from the death of Alexander to the Battle of Corupedium (281 BC) when the last two original Diadochi faced each other one final time.

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The Earth Chronicles series in six voumes deals with the history & prehistory of Earth & humankind. Each book in the series based upon information written on clay tablets by the ancient civilizations of the Near East records the fantastic & real battles that occurred between the original creator gods over control of planet Earth. Asserting the premise that mythology is not fanciful but the repository of ancient memories The Earth Chronicles series suggests that the Bible ought to be read literally as a historic/scientific document & that ancient civilizations--older & greater than assumed--were the product of knowledge brought to Earth by the Anunnaki Those Who from Heaven to Earth Came." The 12th Planet the first book of the series presents ancient evidence for the existence of an additional planet in the Solar System: the home planet of the Anunnaki. In confirmation of this evidence recent data from unmanned spacecraft has led astronomers to actively search for what is being called " Planet X." The subsequent volume The Stairway to Heaven traces mans unending search for immortality to a spaceport in the Sinai Peninsula & to the Giza pyramids which had served as landing beacons for it--refuting the notion that these pyramids were built by human pharaohs. Recently records by an eye-witness to a forgery of an inscription by the pharaoh Khufu inside the Great Pyramid corroborated the books conclusions. In The Wars of Gods & Men the third volume of his series Zacharia Sitchin recounts events closer to our times concluding that the Sinai spaceport was destroyed 4 000 years ago with nuclear weapons. Photographs of Earth from space clearly show evidence of such an explosion. The Wars of Gods & Men in addition embraces Canaanite Hittite & Hindu sources to include in these investigations the incidents of The Great Flood the Tower of Babel & the upheaval of Sodom & Gomorrah. Sitchins unique reexamination of ancient mysteries explains these past cataclysmic events in the history of humanity opening insights into our future." ...

THE WARS OF THE ROSES is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history
- wars between the houses of
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About the series The Access to History series is the most popular & trusted series for advanced level history students offering:
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The dramatic & little-known story of how in the summer of 1920 Lenin came within a hairs breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement & spreading Bolshevism to western Europe. In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess following a brutal civil war & the best way of ensuring its survival appeared to be to export the revolution to Germany itself economically ruined by defeat in World War I & racked by internal political dissension. Between Russia & Germany lay Poland a nation that had only just recovered its independence after more than a century of foreign oppression. But it was economically & militarily weak & its misguided offensive to liberate the Ukraine in the spring of 1920 laid it open to attack. Egged on by Trotsky Lenin launched a massive westward advance under the flamboyant Marshal Tukhachevsky. All that Great Britain & France had fought for over four years now seemed at risk. By the middle of August the Russians were only a few kilometres from Warsaw & Berlin was less than a weeks march away. Then occurred the Miracle of the Vistula: the Polish army led by Jozef Pilsudski regrouped & achieved one of the most decisive victories in military history. As a result the Versailles peace settlement survived & Lenin was forced to settle for Communism in one country. The battle for Warsaw bought Europe nearly two decades of peace & communism remained a mainly Russian phenomenon subsuming many of the autocratic & Byzantine characteristics of Russias tsarist tradition. ...

This remarkable Journal written shortly after the event describes not only the author's own experiences of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising but the wider picture. With the Soviet Army's arrival imminent the Polish Underground fighters decided to wage open warfare against the hated Nazi occupiers. This courageous decision was taken despite the Poles' chronic shortage of arms ammunition & medical support. They fully expected the Soviets to relieve them gratefully for hastening the defeat of the Germans. With cruel & calculated cynicism the Soviets halted their offensive & let the uneven match be settled without their involvement. The outcome was inevitable
- Warsaw was largely destroyed the Polish men women & children fighters crushed & the Nazis weakened. The Soviets then moved in. This journal is a unique record of the bitter fighting when neither side were prepared to give quarter.
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This latest volume maintains the impressive standards of scholarship & research from the field of warship history. This edition features a range of diverse articles including the story of the devastating Typhoon that hit the Japanese ' Fourth Fleet' in the mid-1930s the Semi-Dreadnoughts of Danton Class an overview of the Ocean Patrol Vessel type a medical history of two Jutland battlecruisers & the self-destruction & salvage of the French Fleet at Toulon in 1942. Contributors include Philippe Caresse Matthew Seligmann Hans Lengerer Conrad Waters Jon Wise Stephen Mc Laughlin Enrico Cernushi & Vincent P. O' Hara. ...

Covers a vast range of warships from ancient times to present day destroyers aircraft carriers & stealth corvettes. This title features action-packed comic strips that recount epic sea battles. It also features massive cutaway illustrations that reveal the inner workings of warship engines & weaponry. ...

The Washington Treaty of 1922 designed to head off a potentially dangerous arms race between the major naval powers agreed to legally binding limits on the numbers & sizes of the principal warship types. In doing so it introduced a new constraint into naval architecture & sponsored many ingenious attempts to maximise the power of ships built within those restrictions. It effectively banned the construction of new battleships for a decade but threw greater emphasis on large cruisers.rn This much is broadly understood by anyone with an interest in warships but both the wider context of the treaty & the detail ramifications of its provisions are little understood. The approach of this book is novel in combining coverage of the political & strategic background of the treaty
- & the subsequent London Treaty of 1930
- with analysis of exactly how the navies of Britain the USA Japan France & Italy responded in terms of the types of warships they built & the precise characteristics of those designs. This was not just a matter of capital ships & cruisers but also influenced the development of super-destroyers & large submarines.rn Now for the first time warship enthusiasts & historians can understand fully the rationale behind much of inter-war naval procurement. The Washington Treaty was a watershed & this book provides an important insight into its full significance.

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