NEW EBOOK - The Battle of Bailen, 1808

NEW EBOOK - The Battle of Bailen, 1808

The Battle of Bailen set Europe alight. For years the magnificent, tough and superbly equipped armies of Napoleon Bonaparte had marched unchecked across Europe. But at Bailen a French army was fought to a standstill and forced to surrender by a small Spanish force led by an inexperienced commander.

The blow to French prestige was immense. All across Europe commanders began wondering if they too could beat the armies of the Emperor Napoleon.

In Spain the battle had a catastrophic impact on the French campaign of conquest. The French armies fell back to defensive positions while Spanish men flocked to the colours or took to the hills as guerrilas. Bailen was one of the truly decisive battles of history.

The Battle of Bailen was fought as part of the Peninsular War that pitched Britain’s Duke of Wellington against Napoleon’s French Marshals.

Written by a military author of great experience, this book explains the way battles were fought two centuries ago and explains the course of the action in an accessible but authoritative style.

This lavishly illustrated ebook is a must for anyone interested in the Peninsular War. It includes profiles of the commanders, analysis of tactics and weapons and an outline of the Peninsular War as well as following the course of the siege.

This book forms part of the Bretwalda Battles series which features numerous battles.

Contents
Chapter 1 - The Peninsular War
Chapter 2 - The Commanders
Chapter 3 - Weapons, Soldiers and Tactics
Chapter 4 - The French Army
Chapter 5 - The Spanish Army
Chapter 6 - The Battle
Epilogue - After the Battle


About the Author
Oliver Hayes is a military historian who has written extensively for books and magazines on different aspects of the military. He is now writing a series of books on the Peninsular War for Bretwalda Books.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Bailen-Bretwalda-Battles-Oliver-ebook/dp/B00HXK43M6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402391596&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+bailen

NEW EBOOK - The Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (Bretwalda Battles)

NEW EBOOK -  The Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo (Bretwalda Battles)

The Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo was a savage affair, fought as part of the Peninsular War that pitched Britain’s Duke of Wellington against Napoleon’s French Marshals.

The fortress city of Ciudad Rodgrio blocked the route that Wellington wished to use to march his combined British-Portuguese Army into Spain and start the liberation of that country from French occupation. If his invasion was to succeed he needed to take the city - but it’s defences were among the strongest and most modern in Europe.

As Wellington settled down to the slow business of siege warfare he learned that a French relief army was on its way. If he was to take the city he would have to do so quickly - and that meant a storm. The scene was set for one of the classic siege operations of the Napoleonic Wars.

Written by a military author of great experience, this book explains the way battles were fought two centuries ago and explains the course of the action in an accessible but authoritative style.

This lavishly illustrated ebook is a must for anyone interested in the Peninsular War. It includes profiles of the commanders, analysis of tactics and weapons and an outline of the Peninsular War as well as following the course of the siege.

This book forms part of the Bretwalda Battles series which features numerous battles.

Contents
Chapter 1 - The Peninsular War
Chapter 2 - The Commanders
Chapter 3 - Weapons, Soldiers and Tactics
Chapter 4 - The French Army
Chapter 5 - The British Army
Chapter 6 - The Portuguese Army
Chapter 7 - The Siege
Epilogue - After the Battle


About the Author
Oliver Hayes is a military historian who has written extensively for books and magazines on different aspects of the military. He is now writing a series of books on the Peninsular War for Bretwalda Books.

GET YOUR COPY HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Siege-Ciudad-Rodrigo-Bretwalda-Battles-ebook/dp/B00HXJG2Y4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402300875&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+ciudad

Binnal of America blogpost by Bretwalda author Richard Thomas

Binnal of America blogpost by Bretwalda author Richard Thomas

The Betty Hill Star Map

On the night of 19/20 September, 1961, on their way home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire from a short break in Canada, something happened to Betty and Barney Hill that began a new controversy in UFO research that continues even today. While modern polls show that as many as four million Americans could believe they might have been abducted by aliens, back in 1966 when the first book detailing the Hill case The Interrupted Journey was first published, the New England couple’s claims of alien contact were almost unheard of. There had been the famous Contactees of the 1950s, men and women who claimed they had been visited by the human looking occupants of flying saucers with warnings about nuclear war and environmental concerns. But the experiences of the Hills were completely different, reporting beings that were obviously not human, and had no such messages.
Instead under hypothesis the Hill’s told of how they were kidnapped and experimented on by short humanoid beings aboard a “cigar shaped ” craft that had pursued the couple that September night as they traveled home on Route 3 between Lancaster and Concord. The alien abduction phenomenon was born.
There are two major explanations often given to explain the Hills’ recollections under hypnosis. The first offered by some...

Read the whole thing HERE

http://www.binnallofamerica.com/2014/05/28/betty-hill-star-map/

NEW BOOK - Titanic, the Rescue Mission

NEW BOOK - Titanic, the Rescue Mission

While the RMS Titanic was sinking more than a dozen ships were racing to the rescue. This is the story of the rescue mission, including the search for bodies that followed.
The story of the tragic sinking of RMS Titanic is well known, but less well known today are the frantic efforts made by more than a dozen ships to get to her to rescue her passengers and crew. Although the Cunard liner “Carpathia” was first on the scene, she was joined by three other ships within a couple of hours, and others were on their way.
We read about the Russian cook preparing vast gallons of vegetable soup for survivors, the rescue ship that nearly hit an iceberg itself and the confusion over the radio waves as messages were sent, lost or misinterpreted. Above all we read of the gallant efforts of hundreds of seamen desperate to obey the rules of the sea and go to the rescue.
Oliver Hayes has gone back to contemporary newspaper reports, personal letters and the official inquiries held on both sides of the Atlantic to research this book. The result is a meticulously researched volume detailing the exciting story of the rescue mission to save the Titanic.
The original painting “Carpathia to the Rescue” featured in the book is available as a print signed by the artist.


CONTENTS
11pm
Midnight
1am
2am
3am
5am
7am
Following Days
The Search for Bodies

About the Author
Oliver Hayes is an experienced writer of history with a large number of books and magazine articles to his name. He previously worked in local newspapers, but is now concentrating on writing books.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Titanic-Rescue-Mission-Oliver-Hayes/dp/1909698636/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1402036568&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+titanic

AUTHOR WEBSITE - Andrew May

AUTHOR WEBSITE - Andrew May

One of Bretwalda's authors now has his own website. Find it HERE.

The site includes Books, Articles, Fiction and a compelling Blog.

 Andrew writes:
"My thirty-year career as a professional scientist spanned academia, the civil service and private industry. I obtained an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University (Trinity College) in 1976, and a PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics from Manchester University three years later. I did two years postdoctoral research at the university of Groningen (where I worked in the same department as Seth Shostak, now of the SETI Institute) and another two years at Oxford University, where I was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College.

"During the 1990s I worked in the scientific civil service, including a three-year tour of duty in the Ministry of Defence building in Whitehall... where I had an office close to Nick Pope, who was known at the time as “"Britain's answer to Fox Mulder”"!
"For the first ten years of the 21st century I worked for a private Science & Technology company, much of the time based in the Weymouth and South Dorset area. Since taking voluntary redundancy at the end of 2010, I've subsisted on occasional consultancy work supplemented by freelance writing in fields as diverse as science, military history, Forteana, popular culture and New Age beliefs."

http://www.andrew-may.com/index.htm

NEW EBOOK - A Most Faithful Attendent: The Life of Giovanni Battista Falcieri

NEW EBOOK - A Most Faithful Attendent: The Life of Giovanni Battista Falcieri

Tita Falcieri is connected to our most popular historical subjects – notably Byron, Shelley and Disraeli. But never before has his life story been published. This book serves as an important addition to libraries on similar subjects. As a book on genealogy and historical research it is a useful tool to those researching their famous and not so famous ancestors. To those with an interest in biography it is a dramatic tale of romance, danger and political intrigue in a bygone time.

About the Author
:
Originally from Kent, Claudia has made this book her life’s work since discovering her infamous ancestor some 20 years ago. Since then the story has taken her as far as Italy and into some of our most celebrated historical archives. As well as an active writer Claudia runs her own business as a fashion designer and photoshoot stylist from her home in Lincolnshire and writes on a diverse range of fashion and business related subjects. Her ancestor however, continues to be a source of interest and continued research. ‘New information is coming up all the time and I don’t think this story is over quite yet’, she comments.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Most-Faithful-Attendent-Giovanni-Battista-ebook/dp/B00IQ7LIEG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1401884657&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+most+faithful

FIRST EBOOK SALE FOR JUNE - Singing to the Goldfish

FIRST EBOOK SALE FOR JUNE -  Singing to the Goldfish

After a teenage encounter with a clairvoyant reading her tarot cards Beverley Pettifar ran off to marry a dashing, handsome army sergeant major, only to be ostracised by her family. The eloping couple then embarked on a colourful odyssey around the world, seeing the British Empire in its dying days and collecting recipes for the dishes of Empire. And to eventual healing of the family rift.

Born in London shortly before the outbreak of World War 2, at 16, Beverley Pettifar shed the shackles of her (mainly) convent-school education and at 17, after visiting a clairvoyant, ran off to marry George, a Sergeant-Major in the Royal Fusiliers, before moving to a flat in the Tower of London.

This is their story: hilarious and tragic in turn - covering much travelling, many countries - and for Bev. several ‘careers’ - ending in London, after six years with an American University.

Still married to George and now living in Surrey, Bev has 5 grand-children and one great-grandson.

Get your Kindle copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Singing-Goldfish-Bev-Pettifar-ebook/dp/B00EUBQVK8/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1401696495&sr=8-1&keywords=singing+to+the+goldfish