NEW EBOOK - English Civil War Sieges: Weapons, Tactics and Strategy

NEW EBOOK -  English Civil War Sieges: Weapons, Tactics and Strategy

By the time of the English Civil War, sieges were becoming the dominant form of warfare. The history books may be filled with battles, charging horsemen and fluttering flags, but for the commanders of the time far more men, weapons and money were devoted to the grinding work of sieges than to the more exciting adventures of marching across the countryside fighting battles.

This book takes an exciting new look at siege warfare in the 17th century. It explains tactics and strategy, looks at weapons and training. The illustrations show the equipment, the text explains how it was used.

The “Warriors of the Word” series is a continuing series of ebooks looking at fighting men from across the centuries, from the ancient world to the present day.


About the Author
Leonard James is an author of military books. He comes from a military family that has fought in every major war since at least the Crimean War, and probably before that. His forebears were mostly cavalrymen, though his father served in the RAF. Leonard has made a particular study of battlefields in Britain, walking over dozens of them to get an eye for ground. He has also handled genuine and replica weapons to better understand the use of pre-modern weapons and the men who wielded them.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/English-Civil-War-Sieges-Strategy-ebook/dp/B00NT3JZSS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414741800&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+civil+war+siege

NEW EBOOK - Ghosts of Brighton

NEW EBOOK -  Ghosts of Brighton

Brighton in Sussex is best known as a seaside holiday town with a magnificent beach, bracing prom and a truly wonderful pier. But there is much more to Brighton than its jovial holiday face.
This book looks at the ghosts that haunt this town. Jordan Godwinstone has interviewed witnesses, visited the haunted properties and investigate the spooky goings on. In this book we meet a phantom Tudor martyr, a handful of poltergeists and a trio of ghostly nuns - among many others.
The “Bretwalda Ghost Files” series seeks to look at some of the best known or best authenticated hauntings the have been reported.


About the Author
Jordan Godwinstowe has been studying ghosts for the past 30 years. He began by investigating ghosts to pass the evenings while away from home on business trips, but more recently has been undertaking journeys specifically to carry out investigations into reputedly haunted buildings. He has a vast archive of photos and witness statements about hauntings and ghosts of many different kinds. Now he brings his extensive expertise to bear on the Bretwalda Ghost Files.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghosts-Brighton-Bretwalda-Ghost-Files-ebook/dp/B00NGWY186/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414569136&sr=1-2&keywords=bretwalda+brighton

Video - Book Launch for "The Discerning Gentleman's Guidebook to Britain's American Colonies"

Video - Book Launch for "The Discerning Gentleman's Guidebook to Britain's American Colonies"

NEW EBOOK - Make your own Teepee: A creative project you can do at home or at school [Kindle Edition]

Who wouldn’t want a Teepee in their garden? I can’t think of anyone.
A tent of many uses. Obviously somewhere for the kids to play {Millie aged 3 moved her kitchen in 10 minutes after she had applied the first paint to the canvas.}
I sit in there in the quiet of the afternoon and write or read in it’s soothing calm, the shape of which, like a spire, inspires me.
My wife takes refuge there when yet another episode of “The Big Bang Theory”, funny though it is, is replayed for the 18th time and I do the same when another recorded, contorted plotline is unfolding on “Coronation Street.”
Making one is also a creative and interesting way to spend family time, then family and friends’ time, in the long hot summers that we all hope for.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Make-your-own-Teepee-creative-ebook/dp/B00NB2C1H4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1414429740&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+teepee

Dr Lee Rotherham: The question is not Brexit, but Brentry

Bretwalda author Lee Rotherham has an article on Conservative Home.

“The purpose of electing a government is for it to govern. It is manifestly clear that no elected British government is now in control of its own house. Far too much governance has been conceded over the years to an unelected bureaucracy in Brussels.”
So writes Sir Bernard Ingham in the foreword to my latest publication for the excellent Freedom Association – Manning the Pumps – and in so doing demonstrating how egregiously he was overlooked for David Cameron’s accolade of “greatest living Yorkshireman”.
What else may Downing Street have missed? On the Europe issue over the past several years, evidently much. UKIP’s rise has been neither unpredicted nor unexpected, while the Conservative Party has developed a reputation for managing expectations over EU integration, rather than forthrightly wedging wooden footwear into the spinning cogs.

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http://www.conservativehome.com/platform/2014/10/dr-lee-rotherham-the-question-is-not-brexit-but-brentry.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Saturday+25th+October+2014&utm_content=Saturday+25th+October+2014+CID_0e9203488a25653fb8649fc7919269e1&utm_source=Daily%20Email&utm_term=The%20question%20is%20not%20Brexit%20but%20Brentry

NEW EBOOK - Ghosts of the Tower of London

NEW EBOOK - Ghosts of the Tower of London

The Tower of London has a sinister reputation - and deservedly so. Executions, murders and disappearances fill its history. Now a new ebook looks at the ghosts, spooks and hauntings that fill these ancient, bloodstained walls.
This book looks at the ghosts that haunt this ancient and forbidding fortress. We meet Anne Boleyn, Lord Dudley, Lady Jane Grey, Sir Walter Raleigh among the famous and a number of anonymous white ladies, grey men and even a phantom bear.
The “Bretwalda Ghost Files” series seeks to look at some of the best known or best authenticated hauntings the have been reported.


About the Author
Jordan Godwinstowe has been studying ghosts for the past 30 years. He began by investigating ghosts to pass the evenings while away from home on business trips, but more recently has been undertaking journeys specifically to carry out investigations into reputedly haunted buildings. He has a vast archive of photos and witness statements about hauntings and ghosts of many different kinds. Now he brings his extensive expertise to bear on the Bretwalda Ghost Files.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghosts-Tower-London-Bretwalda-Ghost-ebook/dp/B00MJ9BK68/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414158761&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+tower+of+london

NEW BOOK - The Battle of Towton

NEW BOOK - The Battle of Towton

A book about the largest battle ever fought on English soil - the Battle of Towton, one of the key turning points in the Wars of the Roses. .
The murderous Wars of the Roses had already seen dukes, earls, lords and thousands of commoners butchered as two branches of the royal family struggled to gain firm control of the crown. The struggle came to a head at Towton, Yorkshire, where Edward Duke of York with 30,000 men faced Henry Duke of Somerset with 35,000. The battle that followed proved to be especially vicious as scores were settled and blood flowed like rivers. The result determined England’s history for a generation.
This book brings an exciting new look to the Wars of the Roses. The course of the campaign is given, but the emphasis is on the Battle itself and the men who fought there. There are detailed analyses of weapons, tactics and strategies, tactical diagrams explain how the troops formed up and moved, and a study of the commanders. The course of the battle is followed with the aid of maps, relating to the ground today. The aftermath of the battle, its effects and importance to the progress of the war are then described.
The “Bretwalda Battles” series has been running with increasing success as printed books and as ebooks for five years.

Contents
Chapter 1 The Wars of the Roses
Chapter 2 Leaders at Towton
Chapter 3 Men, Weapons and Tactics
Chapter 4 The Battle of Towton - First Day
Chapter 5 The Battle of Towton - Second Day
Chapter 6 Aftermath

About the Author
Leonard James is an author of military books. He comes from a military family that has fought in every major war since at least the Crimean War, and probably before that. His forebears were mostly cavalrymen, though his father served in the RAF. Leonard has made a particular study of battlefields in Britain, walking over dozens of them to get an eye for ground. He has also handled genuine and replica weapons to better understand the use of pre-modern weapons and the men who wielded them.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Towton-1461-Bretwalda-Battles/dp/1909698903/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413966108&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+towton

NEW EBOOK - A Spotter's Guide to Sound Government Policies

NEW EBOOK -  A Spotter's Guide to Sound Government Policies

It is alarming to think that people once knew what Conservatism meant and what it stood for, and how much since then doubt has set in.
How radical is the Conservative Party today, compared with what it should be? What proposals would really shake up Whitehall and Brussels, spark up business, and fire up the economy? What policies would really galvanize the nation, break the stale consensus, and engage an electorate today indifferent to politics and distrustful of politicians?
A senior backbencher, a leading policy guerillista, and Margaret Thatcher’s eminent lieutenant here get together to suggest a platform for the next Government. This pocket guide helps the reader to measure the inventiveness of the Conservatives and other parties as they set out their manifesto stall.
This book suggests one hundred ideas to put the party back on track, to reconnect with what average voters beyond the W11 postcode hope for and aspire to, and what they expect Government to do to help.
Not everyone will agree with everything in these pages, nor is the list a complete one. Nor do the authors confine their aspirations to the Conservative Party alone: with the nation’s needs uppermost, they would be delighted to see such proposals adopted across the political divide.

Foreword by Lord Tebbit.


About the Authors
Brian Binley MP is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament for Northampton South since 2005, entering Parliament after a long career in local government in Northamptonshire. He currently sits on the National Board of the Conservative Party.
Dr Lee Rotherham is an author and veteran political campaigner who has advised a number of front benchers. He is also an army reservist who has undertaken three tours of duty. He has twice been a Conservative candidate in general elections, in St Helens South (the ‘butler seat’) in 2001 and in Rotherham in 2005.
The Rt Hon. Norman Tebbit, Baron Tebbit, CH is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1987 and was a Member of Parliament from 1970 to 1992. He gave up his parliamentary seat for Chingford in 1992, and has since sat in the House of Lords as Baron Tebbit of Chingford.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spotters-Guide-Sound-Government-Policies-ebook/dp/B00NA6Y7K0/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413892399&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+guide+government

NEW BOOK - The Road to Freedom: How Britain Can Escape the EU by Gerard Batten MEP

As Britain moves towards exit from the European Union, the author warns of a trap laid by the EU and how to avoid it. “The route to Brexit is a Gordian Knot of a problem that requires an Alexandrian solution,” he writes.
Brexit (British Exit) from the EU is moving up the political agenda, but few have looked at the mechanism by which it might be achieved and the problems involved.
The European Union’s process of ‘ever closer union’ is fashioned like the jaws of a shark. The teeth slant backwards. Once inside the mouth the only route is onwards down the gullet to digestion. Membership of the EU has been deliberately constructed over five decades and six treaties in order to make exit from the EU near impossible. It is a Gordian Knot of a problem that requires an Alexandrian solution.
Article 50 is designed to put the EU in a strong position to pressurise the would-be, leaving nation into accepting their terms of exit. This detrimental dog’s breakfast is hardly likely to be what the electorate have in mind when they vote in a referendum to leave the EU. Once the decision has been made then it is better to deliver the Alexandrian blow rather than endlessly fiddle with the strands.
In this book senior UKIP MEP Gerard Batten shows how the sword should be wielded to cut the Gordian Knot.

Foreword by Professor Tim Congdon

CONTENTS
Foreword
1. Introduction
2. The Article 50 trap
3. The problem of ‘vested rights’
4. The legal basis of unconditional withdrawal
5. Historic precedents
6. The exit plan
7. The transitional period
8. Conclusion
Appendix: ‘GSP Plus’ list of international conventions


About the Author

Gerard Batten was a member of the Anti-Federalist League 1992-1993 and a founder member of the UK Independence Party in 1993. He was the Party’s European Election Organiser in 1994 and the first Party Secretary (1994-1997). He has served on the UKIP National Executive Committee at different times. He has fought eleven different election campaigns for the Party over the years.

He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for London in 2004 and re-elected in 2009 and in 2014. He has written extensively on such subjects as Immigration, the Cost of the European Union, and the European Arrest Warranty and the creation of a European system of criminal law.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Freedom-How-Britain-Escape/dp/1910440027/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413798180&sr=1-1&keywords=road+to+freedom+batten

new ebook - Tuathal Techtmar (Celtic Twilight Book 5)

Widely known as Tuathal Techtmar (the legitimate), the warrior prince Túathal occupies a special place in the murky twilight of early Irish history. He is one of the very earliest figures known by name who may have been a real person with a career not entirely different from that given to him by legend. Even if only half of the legend is true then Tuatha was a toweringly important figure in the history of Ireland.
According to legend, Tuatha was a royal prince who was driven into exile in Britain who came back with an army to make himself High King of Ireland. As High King, Tuatha instituted reforms and changes to the law that survived for centuries.
Historians have long dismissed Tuatha as a purely legendary figure, but in this ebook historian Roddy O’Farrell argues that he was a very real man indeed. Even if not everything recorded about him is literally factual there is no reason to deny that Tuatha existed. And in a very real sense, Tuatha created Ireland.


About the Author
Roddy O’Farrell’s grandfather was born on a farm in County Kerry back in the days when all of Ireland formed a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Like many of his generation poverty and oppression forced him to take the ship across the seas in search of a better life. Roddy learned about his Irish ancestry as a boy and became fascinated by the long, heroic and often tragic history of Ireland. He has made a special study of the island’s story.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuathal-Techtmar-Celtic-Twilight-Book-ebook/dp/B00MQTR9UM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413541159&sr=1-1&keywords=tuathal

Have You Ever Wondered How Ghosts Work?: Scientific Theories of the Paranormal

 

Just as UFOs have become synonymous with alien visitors, similarly it is often assumed that ghosts, if they are real, must be the spirits of the deceased. There are, however, several paranormal theories to explain ghosts that would be equally paradigm shattering to mainstream science if they could be scientifically verified and proven to be real, and not just the product of overactive imaginations.

This ebook explores those theories, analysing how they might work and what lies behind them.


Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Crisis Ghosts
Chapter 2 Mind Parasites
Chapter 3 Stone Tape Theory
Chapter 4 Time-Slips
Chapter 5 Back To The Future
Conclusion
About The Author




About The Author


Richard Thomas is a writer of non-fiction books, magazine articles and newspaper columns. He has written articles on a wide range of subjects for the South Wales Evening Post, Alien Worlds, UFO Matrix, Mindscape, Paranormal Magazine and many other publications. Visit his website www.richardthomas.com.

Get your ebook copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Have-Ever-Wondered-Ghosts-Work-ebook/dp/B00MR92QEA/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1412957728&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+how+ghosts