E-böcker / Samhälle & politik
![Omslagsbild för The Roman Emperor Aurelian](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126503/1126503_202102151431.jpg?height=160)
The Roman Emperor Aurelian
Aurelian saved the Roman Empire from foreign invasion and collapse, earning him the title Restorer of the World from a grateful Senate. This is his story as restorer of the world.T ...
![Omslagsbild för Churchill's Greatest Fear](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126511/1126511_202102151658.jpg?height=160)
Churchill's Greatest Fear
The Battle of the Atlantic (Churchill's term) was arguably the pivotal campaign of the Second World War – it was certainly the longest starting with the sinking of RMS Athenia on 3 ...
![Omslagsbild för Bill Lancaster: The Final Verdict](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126516/1126516_202102151504.jpg?height=160)
Bill Lancaster: The Final Verdict
Captain William Lancaster was the subject of public attention and controversy during his life as a record-breaking flyer, because of his love affair with Jessie ‘Chubbie’ Miller (d ...
![Omslagsbild för Yorkshire Women at War](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126517/1126517_202102161417.jpg?height=160)
Yorkshire Women at War
In Yorkshire, 2015 marks the centenary of the founding of the first Land Girl Hostel, near Boroughbridge, by Lady Margery Lawson Tancred. Yorkshire Women at War deals with the Wome ...
![Omslagsbild för An Invincible Beast](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126522/1126522_202102151719.jpg?height=160)
An Invincible Beast
The Hellenistic pike-phalanx was a true military innovation, transforming the face of warfare in the ancient world. For nearly 200 years, from the rise of the Macedonians as a mili ...
![Omslagsbild för Luftwaffe over Finland](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126523/1126523_202102152132.jpg?height=160)
Luftwaffe over Finland
This superb illustrated series book charts the rise and fall of the German Air Force from 1939 to 1945. Each volume makes use of over a hundred rare photographs, many of them taken ...
![Omslagsbild för Sailors on the Rocks](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126530/1126530_202102151726.jpg?height=160)
Sailors on the Rocks
For three hundred years or more the Royal Navy really did “Rule the Waves”, in the sense that during the numerous wars with our overseas enemies, British fleets and individual ship ...
![Omslagsbild för Fortress Islands Malta](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126531/1126531_202102151728.jpg?height=160)
Fortress Islands Malta
The introduction of Italy into the Second World War on 10 June 1940 signalled the start of the siege of Malta, and for the next two and a half years the Axis powers did all they co ...
![Omslagsbild för Airwar over the Atlantic](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126532/1126532_202102151734.jpg?height=160)
Airwar over the Atlantic
Late in 1938, the German Navy Supreme Command commissioned a report into the combat effectiveness of its airborne divisions. As a result of its findings, the German High Command in ...
![Omslagsbild för An Infamous Mistress](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126534/1126534_202102151432.jpg?height=160)
An Infamous Mistress
Divorced wife, infamous mistress, prisoner during the French Revolution and the reputed mother of the Prince of Wales' child, notorious courtesan Grace Dalrymple Elliott lived an a ...
![Omslagsbild för Nachtjagd, Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126537/1126537_202102161419.jpg?height=160)
Nachtjagd, Defenders of the Reich 1940-1943
This new volume from Martin Bowman examines the first three years of the Second World War, consolidating first-hand accounts from German fighter pilots caught up in some of the mos ...
![Omslagsbild för Gloster Javelin](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126538/1126538_202102151448.jpg?height=160)
Gloster Javelin
The RAF’s only delta-winged fighter – the Gloster Javelin was also Britain’s first true All-Weather Fighter. Based in the UK and in Germany, the RAF’s Javelin squadrons formed the ...
![Omslagsbild för Wayward Women](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126540/1126540_202102151432.jpg?height=160)
Wayward Women
We most often think of the Victorian female offender in her most archetypal and stereotypical roles; the polite lady shoplifter, stowing all manner of valuables beneath her volumin ...
![Omslagsbild för Voices From Jutland](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126541/1126541_202102151733.jpg?height=160)
Voices From Jutland
Jutland was the only major fleet engagement to take place during the First World War, and indeed the only time in history in which columns of great dreadnought battleships fought e ...
![Omslagsbild för Apache Over Libya](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126544/1126544_202102151543.jpg?height=160)
Apache Over Libya
In May 2011 after a Mediterranean exercise to prove the Apaches ability to work ship-borne, HMS Ocean and her embarked Apache attack helicopters from 656 Squadron, Army Air Corps w ...
![Omslagsbild för British Nannies and the Great War](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126550/1126550_202102151708.jpg?height=160)
British Nannies and the Great War
In 1912, Norland children’s nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to t ...
![Omslagsbild för German Army on the Eastern Front - The Retreat 1943-1945](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126551/1126551_202102151706.jpg?height=160)
German Army on the Eastern Front - The Retreat 1943-1945
After the defeat at Stalingrad in January 1943, the German Army’s front lines were slowly smashed to pieces by the growing might of the Soviet Army. Yet these soldiers continued to ...
![Omslagsbild för Cold War Jet Combat](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126555/1126555_202102151633.jpg?height=160)
Cold War Jet Combat
Recounted here are nine of the earliest wars involving jet aircraft. From the Korean War and beyond, it comprises a wealth of gripping insight. Many of the jet-to-jet dogfights tha ...
![Omslagsbild för British Aircraft of the Second World War](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126561/1126561_202102151744.jpg?height=160)
British Aircraft of the Second World War
This unique book, now republished, was the first of its kind to be published on British aircraft of the Second World War. Aviation enthusiasts and aero-modellers can see British ai ...
![Omslagsbild för Angel Meadow](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126564/1126564_202102151705.jpg?height=160)
Angel Meadow
'It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfe ...
![Omslagsbild för Women of the 1960s](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126567/1126567_202102151637.jpg?height=160)
Women of the 1960s
This book gives a new perspective on the life of women in the 1960s, contrary to the widely accepted vision of a Swinging Sixties full of Sex, Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll. It was certa ...
![Omslagsbild för Victorian Convicts](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126569/1126569_202102151716.jpg?height=160)
Victorian Convicts
What was life like in the Victorian underworld – who were the criminals, what crimes did they commit, how did they come to a criminal career, and what happened to them after they w ...
![Omslagsbild för In Pursuit of the Essex](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126570/1126570_202102151716.jpg?height=160)
In Pursuit of the Essex
On 26 October 1812, during the war between Britain and the United States, the frigate USS Essex set sail on the most remarkable voyage in the early history of the US navy. After ro ...
![Omslagsbild för Nuremberg: The Blackest Night in RAF History](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126571/1126571_202102151458.jpg?height=160)
Nuremberg: The Blackest Night in RAF History
This is a brand-new, updated history of the Nuremburg Raid, taking advantage of new stores of information that have come to light in recent years. In his usual, highly-praised styl ...
![Omslagsbild för Lighter Than Air](https://images.axiellmedia.com/cover/1126578/1126578_202102151415.jpg?height=160)
Lighter Than Air
Neville Florian Usborne entered the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1897. In the years between him joining up and the outbreak of the First World War, he engaged in a huge number of enter ...