Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was thereBy the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However, southern Africa-far from the modern world-brought its own characteristics to the waging of war and so the Second Boer War (1899-1902) contained two notable sieges where the Imperial force was beset and remain...

Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was thereBy the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However, southern Africa-far from the modern world-brought its own characteristics to the waging of war and so the Second Boer War (1899-1902) contained two notable sieges where the Imperial force was beset and remain...

Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was thereBy the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However, southern Africa-far from the modern world-brought its own characteristics to the waging of war and so the Second Boer War (1899-1902) contained two notable sieges where the Imperial force was beset and remain...

Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was thereBy the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However, southern Africa-far from the modern world-brought its own characteristics to the waging of war and so the Second Boer War (1899-1902) contained two notable sieges where the Imperial force was beset and remain...

Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was thereBy the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However, southern Africa-far from the modern world-brought its own characteristics to the waging of war and so the Second Boer War (1899-1902) contained two notable sieges where the Imperial force was beset and remain...

Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was thereBy the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However, southern Africa-far from the modern world-brought its own characteristics to the waging of war and so the Second Boer War (1899-1902) contained two notable sieges where the Imperial force was beset and remain...

Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was thereBy the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However, southern Africa-far from the modern world-brought its own characteristics to the waging of war and so the Second Boer War (1899-1902) contained two notable sieges where the Imperial force was beset and remain...

Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was thereBy the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However, southern Africa-far from the modern world-brought its own characteristics to the waging of war and so the Second Boer War (1899-1902) contained two notable sieges where the Imperial force was beset and remain...

Mafeking-the siege and relief by one who was thereBy the turn of the twentieth century the age of industrial warfare ensured that the time of protracted sieges was all but at an end. However, southern Africa-far from the modern world-brought its own characteristics to the waging of war and so the Second Boer War (1899-1902) contained two notable sieges where the Imperial force was beset and remain...

A view of the campaigns of Wellingtons famous German troopsIn the ranks of the red-coated soldiery of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars there were none more highly regarded by all than the men of the Kings German Legion. These were men-many of them Hanoverians-whose motherlands had been over run by Napoleons French forces in their domination of Europe and the smaller German states in par...

A view of the campaigns of Wellingtons famous German troopsIn the ranks of the red-coated soldiery of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars there were none more highly regarded by all than the men of the Kings German Legion. These were men-many of them Hanoverians-whose motherlands had been over run by Napoleons French forces in their domination of Europe and the smaller German states in par...

A view of the campaigns of Wellingtons famous German troopsIn the ranks of the red-coated soldiery of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars there were none more highly regarded by all than the men of the Kings German Legion. These were men-many of them Hanoverians-whose motherlands had been over run by Napoleons French forces in their domination of Europe and the smaller German states in par...

A view of the campaigns of Wellingtons famous German troopsIn the ranks of the red-coated soldiery of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars there were none more highly regarded by all than the men of the Kings German Legion. These were men-many of them Hanoverians-whose motherlands had been over run by Napoleons French forces in their domination of Europe and the smaller German states in par...

A view of the campaigns of Wellingtons famous German troopsIn the ranks of the red-coated soldiery of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars there were none more highly regarded by all than the men of the Kings German Legion. These were men-many of them Hanoverians-whose motherlands had been over run by Napoleons French forces in their domination of Europe and the smaller German states in par...

A view of the campaigns of Wellingtons famous German troopsIn the ranks of the red-coated soldiery of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars there were none more highly regarded by all than the men of the Kings German Legion. These were men-many of them Hanoverians-whose motherlands had been over run by Napoleons French forces in their domination of Europe and the smaller German states in par...

A view of the campaigns of Wellingtons famous German troopsIn the ranks of the red-coated soldiery of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars there were none more highly regarded by all than the men of the Kings German Legion. These were men-many of them Hanoverians-whose motherlands had been over run by Napoleons French forces in their domination of Europe and the smaller German states in par...

Strange tales from a Russian OccultistThe late nineteenth century saw a rise in the number of people who became interested in the occult and among them were a few who became notable practitioners. Aleister Crowley, for example, became infamous as a member of the Golden Dawn and founder of the religion Thelema, and the author of this book, Russian born, Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, became a pr...

Strange tales from a Russian OccultistThe late nineteenth century saw a rise in the number of people who became interested in the occult and among them were a few who became notable practitioners. Aleister Crowley, for example, became infamous as a member of the Golden Dawn and founder of the religion Thelema, and the author of this book, Russian born, Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, became a pr...

Strange tales from a Russian OccultistThe late nineteenth century saw a rise in the number of people who became interested in the occult and among them were a few who became notable practitioners. Aleister Crowley, for example, became infamous as a member of the Golden Dawn and founder of the religion Thelema, and the author of this book, Russian born, Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, became a pr...

Strange tales from a Russian OccultistThe late nineteenth century saw a rise in the number of people who became interested in the occult and among them were a few who became notable practitioners. Aleister Crowley, for example, became infamous as a member of the Golden Dawn and founder of the religion Thelema, and the author of this book, Russian born, Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, became a pr...

Strange tales from a Russian OccultistThe late nineteenth century saw a rise in the number of people who became interested in the occult and among them were a few who became notable practitioners. Aleister Crowley, for example, became infamous as a member of the Golden Dawn and founder of the religion Thelema, and the author of this book, Russian born, Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, became a pr...

Strange tales from a Russian OccultistThe late nineteenth century saw a rise in the number of people who became interested in the occult and among them were a few who became notable practitioners. Aleister Crowley, for example, became infamous as a member of the Golden Dawn and founder of the religion Thelema, and the author of this book, Russian born, Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, became a pr...

A Russian lady-in-waitings memoirs of the court and revolutionAfter the Russian Revolution and the fall and murder of the ruling Romanov family in 1918, many books were written by those close to the personalities of the time describing the final days of the imperial Russian court. These books were eagerly read when first published and interest in this subject has endured to the present day. This b...

Strange tales from a Russian OccultistThe late nineteenth century saw a rise in the number of people who became interested in the occult and among them were a few who became notable practitioners. Aleister Crowley, for example, became infamous as a member of the Golden Dawn and founder of the religion Thelema, and the author of this book, Russian born, Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, became a pr...

A Russian lady-in-waitings memoirs of the court and revolutionAfter the Russian Revolution and the fall and murder of the ruling Romanov family in 1918, many books were written by those close to the personalities of the time describing the final days of the imperial Russian court. These books were eagerly read when first published and interest in this subject has endured to the present day. This b...

A Russian lady-in-waitings memoirs of the court and revolutionAfter the Russian Revolution and the fall and murder of the ruling Romanov family in 1918, many books were written by those close to the personalities of the time describing the final days of the imperial Russian court. These books were eagerly read when first published and interest in this subject has endured to the present day. This b...

A Russian lady-in-waitings memoirs of the court and revolutionAfter the Russian Revolution and the fall and murder of the ruling Romanov family in 1918, many books were written by those close to the personalities of the time describing the final days of the imperial Russian court. These books were eagerly read when first published and interest in this subject has endured to the present day. This b...

A Russian lady-in-waitings memoirs of the court and revolutionAfter the Russian Revolution and the fall and murder of the ruling Romanov family in 1918, many books were written by those close to the personalities of the time describing the final days of the imperial Russian court. These books were eagerly read when first published and interest in this subject has endured to the present day. This b...

A Russian lady-in-waitings memoirs of the court and revolutionAfter the Russian Revolution and the fall and murder of the ruling Romanov family in 1918, many books were written by those close to the personalities of the time describing the final days of the imperial Russian court. These books were eagerly read when first published and interest in this subject has endured to the present day. This b...

A Russian lady-in-waitings memoirs of the court and revolutionAfter the Russian Revolution and the fall and murder of the ruling Romanov family in 1918, many books were written by those close to the personalities of the time describing the final days of the imperial Russian court. These books were eagerly read when first published and interest in this subject has endured to the present day. This b...

Tales from a Mistress of the GothicMary Shelley is possibly one of the most renowned women authors of all time. She is, of course, the literary creator of the iconic Frankensteins monster and that alone has guaranteed it and her immortality rivalled only by Bram Stokers Dracula in the pantheon of the bizarre. Beyond her most famous literary work, Frankenstein, she possessed an incredible creative ...

Tales from a Mistress of the GothicMary Shelley is possibly one of the most renowned women authors of all time. She is, of course, the literary creator of the iconic Frankensteins monster and that alone has guaranteed it and her immortality rivalled only by Bram Stokers Dracula in the pantheon of the bizarre. Beyond her most famous literary work, Frankenstein, she possessed an incredible creative ...

Tales from a Mistress of the GothicMary Shelley is possibly one of the most renowned women authors of all time. She is, of course, the literary creator of the iconic Frankensteins monster and that alone has guaranteed it and her immortality rivalled only by Bram Stokers Dracula in the pantheon of the bizarre. Beyond her most famous literary work, Frankenstein, she possessed an incredible creative ...

Tales from a Mistress of the GothicMary Shelley is possibly one of the most renowned women authors of all time. She is, of course, the literary creator of the iconic Frankensteins monster and that alone has guaranteed it and her immortality rivalled only by Bram Stokers Dracula in the pantheon of the bizarre. Beyond her most famous literary work, Frankenstein, she possessed an incredible creative ...

Tales from a Mistress of the GothicMary Shelley is possibly one of the most renowned women authors of all time. She is, of course, the literary creator of the iconic Frankensteins monster and that alone has guaranteed it and her immortality rivalled only by Bram Stokers Dracula in the pantheon of the bizarre. Beyond her most famous literary work, Frankenstein, she possessed an incredible creative ...

Tales from a Mistress of the GothicMary Shelley is possibly one of the most renowned women authors of all time. She is, of course, the literary creator of the iconic Frankensteins monster and that alone has guaranteed it and her immortality rivalled only by Bram Stokers Dracula in the pantheon of the bizarre. Beyond her most famous literary work, Frankenstein, she possessed an incredible creative ...

Tales from a Mistress of the GothicMary Shelley is possibly one of the most renowned women authors of all time. She is, of course, the literary creator of the iconic Frankensteins monster and that alone has guaranteed it and her immortality rivalled only by Bram Stokers Dracula in the pantheon of the bizarre. Beyond her most famous literary work, Frankenstein, she possessed an incredible creative ...

Tales from a Mistress of the GothicMary Shelley is possibly one of the most renowned women authors of all time. She is, of course, the literary creator of the iconic Frankensteins monster and that alone has guaranteed it and her immortality rivalled only by Bram Stokers Dracula in the pantheon of the bizarre. Beyond her most famous literary work, Frankenstein, she possessed an incredible creative ...

Tales from a Mistress of the GothicMary Shelley is possibly one of the most renowned women authors of all time. She is, of course, the literary creator of the iconic Frankensteins monster and that alone has guaranteed it and her immortality rivalled only by Bram Stokers Dracula in the pantheon of the bizarre. Beyond her most famous literary work, Frankenstein, she possessed an incredible creative ...

Justice-without jury, without appeal and without mercyThese are stories of the Four Just Men, Edgar Wallaces famous characters known to the wider public principally as a result of the early television series of the same name. The source material is, of course, far removed from its celluloid derivative. Far from being set in the world post WW2, the original stories take place in the colourful perio...

Justice-without jury, without appeal and without mercyThese are stories of the Four Just Men, Edgar Wallaces famous characters known to the wider public principally as a result of the early television series of the same name. The source material is, of course, far removed from its celluloid derivative. Far from being set in the world post WW2, the original stories take place in the colourful perio...

Justice-without jury, without appeal and without mercyThese are stories of the Four Just Men, Edgar Wallaces famous characters known to the wider public principally as a result of the early television series of the same name. The source material is, of course, far removed from its celluloid derivative. Far from being set in the world post WW2, the original stories take place in the colourful perio...

Justice-without jury, without appeal and without mercyThese are stories of the Four Just Men, Edgar Wallaces famous characters known to the wider public principally as a result of the early television series of the same name. The source material is, of course, far removed from its celluloid derivative. Far from being set in the world post WW2, the original stories take place in the colourful perio...

Justice-without jury, without appeal and without mercyThese are stories of the Four Just Men, Edgar Wallaces famous characters known to the wider public principally as a result of the early television series of the same name. The source material is, of course, far removed from its celluloid derivative. Far from being set in the world post WW2, the original stories take place in the colourful perio...