Thirty new and classic cocktail recipes inspired by the colorful and controversial Winston Churchill. This charming book from the Imperial War Museums features dozens of cocktail recipes, each accompanied by detailed instructions, an ingredients list, and a short description of how the drink is inspired by British former head of state Winston ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423392
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Tracing the development of Singapore in the years 1836-1854, against the background of the First Opium War and the Taiping Rebellion, Chasing the Dragon (Singapore Saga, Vol. 2) continues to vividly portray the lives of the early pioneers of the expanding port city.
The world's greatest silent comedian finds his voice in french Indochina
Fictionalised around real events, ‘Charlot’ is a story about how an embittered Charlie Chaplin abandons his silent Tramp in order to find his own voice in the politically turbulent 1930s.
A German Boxer, a Jewish Assassin and Hitler's Revenge
Herschel Grynszpan is a Jewish alien living in Paris. He receives a postcard from his parents - recently bundled from their Hanover flat, put on a train and dumped, with 12,000 others on the Polish border. Enraged, Herschel buys a gun and kills a minor German official. The repercussions trigger Kristalnacht, the nationwide pogrom against the Jews.
Whether they seek freedom, love, gold, blood, or justice, the vibrant cast of characters of Buscadero head to the frontier-under the vast western skies lies the potential for exhilarating success, crushing failure and stalking danger that alters fates as fast as a bullet flies.
Born to the Badge has been honored as a 2019 Spur Award Finalist! Shunted from his entrepreneurial ambitions to profit from the boomtowns of the frontier, Wyatt Earp returns to law enforcement. In Wichita, Kansas the town leaders become disenchanted with his hardline methods, and so he moves to a place where an iron-rule is needed--Dodge City. ......
From Boer to World War: Australia's Baptism by Fire
There were many fine British officers in command during the Boer War and WW1, but this book is based on the ones who weren’t. Those, arrogant and inept at modern warfare, who sent thousands of Australian soldiers to the slaughter, using them as cannon fodder in a bloodbath of mindless commands, blunders and butchery. With their host of medals ......
This was the climax; the end of a lifetime of bitterness and hate-Rusty Maxwell and Ben Sharp, both grown old, grizzled, and rich; one the owner of a barbed-wire empire, a sea of grass larger than some Eastern states; the other risen to great political power, ruthlessly scheming to break the man with whom he had clashed ever since both had driven ......
Robert Macomber's Honor series of naval fiction follows the life and career of Peter Wake in the U.S. Navy during the tumultuous years from 1863 to 1901. At the Edge of Honor is the first in the series and winner of the Patrick D. Smith Literary Award as Best Historical Novel of Florida. The year is 1863. The Civil War is leaving its bloody ......
