Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith LoweRequirements: .ePUB reader, 30.3 MBOverview: A look at how our monuments to World War II shape the way we think about the war by an award-winning historian. Keith Lowe, an award-winning author of books on WWII, saw […]
Prisoners of the North by Pierre BertonRequirements: .ePUB reader, 9.3 MBOverview: Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to chronicle the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters. Canada’s master storyteller returns to the North to bring history to life. Prisoners of the North tells the extraordinary stories of five inspiring and controversial characters […]
The Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon’s Forgotten Soldiers 1809-1814 by Denis SmithRequirements: .PDF reader, 25 MBOverview: After their surrender at the Battle of Bailen, 12,000 French prisoners of war were exiled to the bleak island of Cabrera in the Mediterranean, eight miles from Majorca, with only the clothes on their backs, no shelter, insufficient fresh water, […]
Prisoner 1082: Escape from Crumlin Road Prison, Europe’s Alcatraz by Donal DonnellyRequirements: .ePUB reader, 3.9MB Overview: On St Stephen’s Day 1960 Dónal Donnelly made his dramatic escape from the prison known as ‘Europe’s Alcatraz’. Three years earlier, the teenage Dónal had been convicted of membership of the IRA in the first year of ‘Operation Harvest’. […]
The Prisoner of Zenda & Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony HopeRequirements: .MP3 reader, 158MBOverview: BBC Radio adaptations of Anthony Hope’s famous swashbuckling adventure novel and its sequel. Anthony Hope’s swashbuckling historical novel The Prisoner of Zenda was first published in 1894 and was an instant hit, spawning an 1898 sequel, Rupert of Hentzau, and launching […]