Frank Carlson Library

For most people, climbing a ladder to clear the gutters is a challenge. Jack Williams and his colleagues in the specialist signals unit supporting the SAS in Northern Ireland had to climb towers and maintain vital communications - often in full view and under fire from terrorists. This is the gripping insider story of the tension, fear and comradeship of these specialists, who needed more than just a head for heights. Written in a racy popular style...

Falkland Islanders were the first British people to come under enemy occupation since the Channel Islanders during the Second World War. This book tells how islanders' warnings were ignored in London, how their slim defenses gave way to a massive invasion, and how they survived occupation. While some established a cautiously pragmatic modus vivendi with the occupiers, some Islanders opted for active resistance, using banned radios to transmit intelligence...

The small village of Rennes-le-Chateau has been the center of an enigma ever since a century ago a local village priest, Berenger Sauniere, spent millions of dollars on decorating the church and surrounding buildings. For decades – despite claims to the contrary by some authors – no-one has been able to explain where Sauniere got the money to pay for the extravagant building works, which have attracted millions of visitors to this small hilltop...

Growing up in the shadows of the giant B-52 Stratofortresses that thundered away from the nearby Barksdale Air Force Base, Brandon Friedman dreamed of becoming a warrior and defending his country. But dreams of heroism and the realities of war can look very different, and when Brandon joined the army as a second lieutenant in peacetime, he had no way of knowing how his world was about to change. This is Brandon Friedmans story of coming of age in...

El sultán del Imperio Otomano la solicitaba a su lado en los banquetes. Napoleón la hizo camarera de Josefina. Sus amigos fueron Talleyrand, Madame de Staël, Chateaubriand, Lafayette, y el duque de Wellington, con la que jugaba de pequeña. Fue testigo de primera mano de la desaparición de la monarquía francesa, la ola de la Revolución y el Terror, y el surgimiento y la caída precipitada de Napoleón. Vivió como emigrante durante dos años...

A brief biography of the world's most famous playwright, using only historically correct information.

"A fast-paced, dynamic account of the race to cross the Atlantic, and the larger-than-life personalities of the aviators who captured the world's attention In 1919, a prize of $25,000 was offered to the first aviator to cross the Atlantic in either direction between France and America. Although it was one of the most coveted prizes in the world, it sat unclaimed (not without efforts) for eight long years, until the spring of 1927. It was then, during...

La fascinante historia de la evolución de la Corona de Castilla del siglo X al XVIII. Desde Alfonso VI y la conquista de Toledo, los Trastámara y la caída del reino de Granada hasta el Siglo de Oro y esplendor de la Monarquía Hispánica y su expansión europea, americana y asiática. Una historia política y cultural de Castilla desde una perspectiva historiográfica novedosa. La Corona de Castilla tuvo durante la época medieval y moderna una...

Stefan and Marion Hess's happy childhood was shattered in 1944. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, the six-year-old twins and their parents were deported to a place their mother called "a dying hell"-the infamous concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Inseparable is the vivid account of one family's struggle to survive the Holocaust. When caught in childish mischief, Stefan and Marion ran from SS soldiers, making a game of seeing who could get closest...