The greatest conquest in historyGenghis Khan left an empire more than twice the size of Alexander's: his successors went on to conquer and govern an area stretching from Korea to the River Danube. How did a band of nomadic herdsmen achieve so much, so fast?Despite these stunning achievements, many writers dismiss the Mongols as just ferocious barbarians. This bestselling book sets the record straight. The epic starts in 1206 - when Genghis became master of 'all the people w...

The story of one of the most astonishing episodes of espionage and deception of World War Two.This is the tale of two men: Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6, and double agent Henri Dericourt, who was planted with the rival wartime secret service – SOE – at Dansey's instructions. From there began a terrifying trail of destruction.After making contact with Dansey in 1942, Dericourt was recruited to SOE as the man desperately needed to organize top-secret flights in and out of...

An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust.Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews escaped into a grim network of tunnels, living for fourteen months with the city's waste, the sudden floods, the fumes and the damp, the rats, the darkness, and the despair.Their only support was a lone sewer worker, an ex-c...

The Doncaster Rovers Miscellany is jam-packed with facts, stats, trivia, stories and legends. Featured here are loads of stories about the club from its inception in 1879 to the present day. Here you will find player feats, individual records and plenty of weird and wonderful tales, quotes ranging from the profound to the downright bizarre and cult heroes from yesteryear – a book no true Rovers fan should be without.

While growing up in Jamaica, Robert Marshall spent his days at the racetrack with his father where he learned to play with luck. Unfamiliar with the intricacies of the game, Marshall won by receiving tips from others—until someone showed him the Daily Racing Form. From that point on, Marshall realized that horse betting was a skill, and more than just what he saw on paper. In a guide tailored to anyone who wants to win while playing the horses, Marshall breaks down the betting process whil...

Little Brown Boy's inspirational message makes it a perfect gift for brown boys around the world. The simplicity of its message touches the heart of children and speaks to the inner boy in every adult male that reads it. This book is an affirmation for young boys to dream big without limitation. Through playful, and vivid illustrations, Little Brown Boy motivates young readers to learn and be proud of their own cultural heritage and gifts and how they fit into the world as they grow, explo...

Brilliantly observed and superbly characterised, The Haunted Major recounts the epic golfing match between the outrageously pompous Major and the reigning Open Champion, Jim Lindsay. The prize? The chance to propose to the captivating (and extremely wealthy) Mrs Gunter. Despite being 'the finest sportsman living', the Major despises golf, has never played it and considers a week's practice in secret in his hotel bedroom at St Andrews quite enough to whip the upstart. But events ta...

Scottish football authors David Stuart and Robert Marshall cross the border to salute the contributions and successes of their fellow countrymen and women who have displayed their skills in the English football leagues from the end of the Second World War to the present day. They take a celebratory look at great Scots Law, Mackay, Bremner, Dalglish, Gemmill, Strachan, McAllister and other who have played their part in era-defining teams crafted by the likes of Bill Nicholson, Don Revie, Br...

The largest military mobilization in Israeli history since the Six Day War has begun. Bethlehem will soon be under siege. Bashira, a young Palestinian Christian nurse seeks to hold her family, and those in her charge, together amidst the increasing pressures exerted by the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces].Mike Olson, a young but trusted American TV broadcast journalist, has been given special access to the IDF command headquarters. As Operation Defensive Shield unfolds, Mike becomes im...

Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories of "de-lousing" an entire regiment, the precise arrangements of the urine trenches and his eyewitness accounts of the battles of Neuve Chapelle and Ypres and a contemporary comment on the Gallipoli campaign. He describes how the enemy rains shells on the ambulances and the retrievals of the wounded from the trenches at night. This was also a time of gre...

They call him the Silent Death, because he kills without sound and leaves none capable of speaking in his wake…When the empire's deadliest fae murderer catches her wielding forbidden magic, twenty-year-old Emelin believes her hour has come. Instead, her inhumanly beautiful captor spares her life, but carries her off on his velvet wings into the one place from which no human ever returns:The heart of the Fae Isles. The treacherous Crimson Court, where the Mo...

"There's no taming a fae like the Silent Death..."Emelin has escaped the Crimson Court and saved Creon from the Mother's chains. But her newfound allies bring dangers of their own. Thrown into a world of old feuds and thorny grudges, she needs all her ingenuity to keep the Silent Death safe from his friends-turned-enemies.The political games of the Alliance are the easy part…Haunted by shadows of his past and magic he never wanted to wield, Creon is...