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Caribbean Winter
ISBN: PB: 9781909930681, Signal Books, October 2018
176 pp., 21.5x16 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1927, Paul Morand – a French diplomat and noted European author – made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience o...
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Duleep Singh's Statue East Anglia's Lost Maharajah
ISBN: PB: 9781909930667, Signal Books, August 2018
256 pp., 21x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! At the age of five Duleep Singh became the last Maharajah of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. He was still a child when the British annexed the Punjab in 1849 and forced him to sign a punitive treaty. He was made to give up his...
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Eleanor Crosses The Story of King Edward I's Lost Queen and her Architectural Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9781909930650, Signal Books, May 2018
196 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The Eleanor Crosses" begins in November 1290 with the untimely death in a Lincolnshire village of Queen Eleanor of Castile, beloved consort of King Edward I of England. A sombre journey of more than 200 miles must follow, to t...
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Northern Conquest Vikings in Britain and Ireland
ISBN: PB: 9781904955344, Signal Books, February 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Most historical accounts examine the Viking Age in one part rather than the whole region of the British Isles and Ireland. Very few pay attention to the continued contact between England and Scandinavia in the post-Norman Conqu...
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River Effra South London's Secret Spine
ISBN: PB: 9781909930421, Signal Books, November 2016
146 pp., 21.9x16.5 cm, 8 colour illus.
For sale in CIS only! London was once a city awash with watercourses. Most of these streams and small rivers have long since disappeared underground and their void has been filled by myth, legend and an enduring yet uncertain fascination. The River...
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Camisard Uprising War and Religion in the Cevennes
ISBN: PB: 9781909930209, Signal Books, December 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Protestant numbers in France fell from ten per cent of the population in 1598, when Henri IV gave protection by the Edict of Nantes, to a persecuted two per cent in 1700 following its revocation in 1685 by Louis XIV. The destru...
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Tripoli A History
ISBN: PB: 9781909930193, Signal Books, February 2015
288 pp., 20.5x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! It has been called a "Noble Possession", abused as "A Nest of Corsairs" and extolled as "The Pearl of the Mediterranean". This city of Tripoli, one of the oldest on both the Mediterranean and the fringes of the Sahara, and neve...
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Into the Kazakh Steppe John Castle's Mission to Khan Abulkhayir (1736)
ISBN: PB: 9781909930087, Signal Books, December 2014
208 pp., 21.8x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! The adventurer and artist John Castle, of mixed British and Prussian descent, was one of several foreigners commissioned by the Russian Empire to take part in the Orenburg Expedition which started in 1734. Its aims were to secu...
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Frontline Madrid Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War
ISBN: PB: 9781909930094, Signal Books, November 2014
208 pp., 21.7x13.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned...
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Fortune Hunter A German Prince in Regency England
ISBN: PB: 9781909930032, Signal Books, August 2014
256 pp., 21.6x14.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off,...
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