A "marvelous, authoritative, and entertaining" history of the storied castle in central London, and the people who populated it ( Publishers Weekly )."A riveting, pacy, and vivid chronicle of the Tower's turbulent past." —Alison Weir, New York Times– bestselling author of The Lady ElizabethCastle, royal palace, prison, torture c...

In November 1939, the Nazis used the so-called Venlo Incident as a pretext for invading the Netherlands. Following orders from Himmler, two British intelligence officers, Sigismund Payne Best and Richard Stevens, were captured from the Café Backus in the town of Venlo.Best had been trying to contact German officers plotting against Hitler. The Netherlands had been an ideal ground for operations, because of its proximity to Germany and the fact that Dutch Intelligence was badly fund...

No building has been more intimately involved in the story of Britain than the Tower of London - a mighty, brooding stronghold in the very heart of the capital. Castle, prison, torture chamber, execution site, zoo, mint, treasure house, armoury, observatory: the Tower has been all these things and more, standing at the epicentre of dramatic, bloody and frequently cruel events for almost a thousand years.Setting this dramatic story firmly in the context of national - and internation...

Paragon of youthful beauty, romantic symbol of a lost England, and precociously gifted poet, Rupert Chawner Brooke died in a hospital ship off the Aegean island of Skyros in April 1915, aged just 27. All England mourned his passing.But behind the glow of myth lies a darker reality. At the height of his promise a disappointment in love triggered a mental and physical collapse that brought his inner complexities to the surface. Letters reveal a man who was sexually ambivalent, misogy...

There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of Cabaret. But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every room wired for sound, staffed by women agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from th...

1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia that was expressed in a rash of 'invasion scare' literature.Then when shots rang out in Sara-jevo on 28 June, they set in train a tumble of diplomatic dominos that led to Britain declaring war on Germany.Nigel Jones depicts ev...

Sex, surveillance and the most sinister Nazi of them all in wartime BerlinThere is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of Cabaret. But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying centre with every...

1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without…Nigel Jones depicts every facet of a year that changed Britain for ever. From gun-running in Ulster, to an attack by suffragettes on a Velasquez painting in the National Gallery; from the opening of London's first nightclub, to the embarking for Belgium of the British Expeditionary Force, he traces the events of a momentous year from its benign domestic beginnings to its descent into the nigh...

Nigel has worked hard to earn the position as rep for the Galactic Cage Fighter Association. He even sacrificed his personal life putting his fighters first. Now, everything he has worked for is being threatened and he could lose it all, including the female he can't live without.Amelia Anne Jones was nothing if not persistent. That persistence got her through school and helped her get the jobs she sought. It even got her hot sexy nights with men way out of her league. By men she r...

There were over forty plots to assassinate Hitler— This is the "compelling, fast-paced account" of the one that came closest to succeeding ( Publishers Weekly).The July Plot of 1944 was masterminded by Count Claus von Stauffenberg, a member of the German General Staff, who had been rushed back from Africa after losing his left eye and right hand. For his injuries, he had been decorated as a war hero. However, he'd never been a supporter of Nazi ideology—an...

Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle was one of the greatest narrative writers in English history. Most famous for his Sherlock Holmes stories, he was incapable of penning a dull word. Nowhere is that more true than in his 'History of the Great War', now re-published as a series of e-books, with an introduction by the leading historian of the First World War, Nigel Jones. The first volume of his magisterial history of the war deals with the events of 1914, and covers the British ...

Salonul Kitty a fost un renumit bordel exclusivist din Berlin, care oferea servicii clienților VIP din înalta societate atât în perioada Republicii de la Weimar, cât și după ascensiunea lui Hitler la putere.Cu puțin timp înainte de izbucnirea celui de-Al Doilea Război Mondial, a fost transformat de serviciile secrete naziste într-un „post de ascultare” sofisticat, destinat spionării vizitatorilor VIP, atât străini, cât și indigeni, cu ajutorul unor microfoane ascunse și al unor „am...