PRESS RELEASE - Battle of Bannockburn

“The Battle of Bannockburn 1314”

New Scottish Book Released Today

A gripping new book about the Battle of Bannockburn, written by historian Leonard James, has been released today by Bretwalda Books as a printed book and ebook.

A book about the historic Battle of Bannockburn, the great triumph by Robert Bruce of Edward II of England that won independence for Scotland. The book is being released to mark the 700th anniversary of the battle and to coincide with the Scottish referendum on independence.

With most of Scotland in his hands, Robert Bruce looked set to become undisputed King of Scotland - only the castle at Stirling still held out. But then King Edward II of England came north with perhaps the largest army ever fielded in Scotland by the English. Proud Edward and his army advanced like some unstoppable monster, destroying everything in their path. But Robert Bruce was waiting for them at Bannockburn. The resulting battle would change history.

This book brings an exciting new look to the Wars of Scottish Independence. 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.

Author Leonard James says “I was delighted to write this book as I have long had an interest in medieval warfare. By walking the battlefield I was able to gain a unique insight into the course of the action, while handling replica weapons and armour has allowed me to gain new respect for the men who fought here.”

 

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.

Attached photos show:

1) The Book cover

2) Scottish Lowland spearman

3) English knight

4) The battlefield looking toward Stirling Castle

About the Book

Title:               The Battle of Bannockburn 1314

Author            Leonard James

ISBN                print               978-1-909698-89-5

                        ebook              978-1-910440-20-9

Publisher       Bretwalda Books

Price               £4.99

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Bannockburn-1314-Bretwalda-Battles/dp/190969889X/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421652092&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+bannockburn

PRESS RELEASE - “The Battle of Towton 1461” - New North Yorkshire Book Released Today

“The Battle of Towton 1461” -

New North Yorkshire Book Released Today

A gripping new book about the Battle of Towton, written by historian Leonard James, has been released today by Bretwalda Books as a printed book and ebook.

The Battle of Towton, fought in 1461, was the largest battle ever fought in Britain and a key turning point 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.

Author Leonad James says “I was delighted to write this book as I have long had an interest in the Wars of the Roses, and know Yorkshire well. By walking the battlefield  I was able to gain a unique insight into the course of the action, while handling replica weapons and armour has allowed me to gain new respect for the men who fought here in Yorkshire.”

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.

Attached photos show:

1) The Book cover

2) A War of the Roses knight

3) A War of the Roses archer

4) The Dacre Cross monument on the battlefield

5) The battle in a Victorian engraving.

Additional photos and artworks available on request.

About the Book

Title:               The Battle of Towton 1461

Author            Leonard James

ISBN                print               978-1-909698-90-1

                        ebook              978-1-910440-21-6

Publisher       Bretwalda Books

Price               £4.99

 

NEW BOOK - Henry VIII - Tudor Serial Killer: His Victims and Their Stories

Henry VIII was a self-centered, psychopath, without conscious or remorse, who did exactly the right thing at the right time for the wrong reasons?
This book by a leading politician looks at the series of political killings carried out by arguably  Britain’s most ruthless and blood-soaked monarch: Henry VIII.
By studying the reasons for the judicial murders of figures such as Thomas More, Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell and a host of other victims, this book seeks to show why it was the Henry indulged in show trials and summary executions in a way that neither his predecessor nor successors did.
Was Henry VIII just a run of the mill ruthless tyrant who disposed of anyone who opposed him, or was there more to it? Was he a psychopath? This book looks at the evidence that he had a psychopathic personality from the outset but which became more marked with his advancing years and ill health. Did Henry’s VIII serious jousting accident in 1536 cause brain damage that lowered his inhibitions and give full reign to an increasingly paranoid and psychopathic personality?
Henry’s break with Rome was in the author’s view inevitable and beneficial, but examines to what extent was his penchant for killing was the result of purely realpolitik considerations or because of his psychopathic personality and declining heath?
This book traces Henry’s career as a killer, explaining what drove him to resort to such actions and whether England became a better or worse place for having had a serial killer as monarch.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Was Henry VIII a psychopath?
Chapter 2 Henry’s Health: Illnesses, Conditions and Injuries
Chapter 3 Like Father Like Son: Judicial Murder
Chapter 4 The Destruction of the Old Nobility: the de la Poles and the Duke of Buckingham
Chapter 5 The Break with Rome
Chapter 6 Bishop John Fisher and Sir Thomas More
Chapter 7 Adultery, Incest and Treason: The Boleyn Case
Chapter 8 Torture and Execution
Chapter 9 Ideological Victims: Martyrs and Heretics
Chapter 10 Casualties of the Suppression of the Monasteries
Chapter 11 Rebellion: The Pilgrimage of Grace
Chapter 12 More Nobility Destroyed: the Poles, the Courtneys, and the Nevilles
Chapter 13 More Treason
Chapter 14 Thomas Cromwell and Others
Chapter 15 Catherine Howard and Others
Chapter 16 Killed With Kindness: Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle
Chapter 17 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Chapter 18 The Ones That Got Away – Almost
Chapter 19 Henry VIII: The Verdict
Chapter 20 Grave Secrets
Appendix I - Henry VIII’s Main Victims in Chronological Order
Appendix II - The Tombs of English Monarchs Already Disturbed
Glossary


About the Author
Gerard Batten is a Member of the European Parliament for London for the UK Independence Party. He was first elected in 2004, re-elected in 2009, and elected for a third term in May 2014.
He was a founder member of the UK Independence Party in 1993, and has served as a Party spokesman on Defence and Security, Immigration, and Home Affairs.
He has written articles and booklets on a wide range of political subjects and has two other books published by Bretwalda Press: Inglorious Revolution (2013), and The Road to Freedom (2014)
Inglorious Revolution was co-authored with Pavel Stroilov and charts how the English Constitution was subverted by Britain’s membership of the European Union.
The Road to Freedom lays out the case for Britain’s unconditional and unilateral withdrawal from the European Union.
This, his latest book, is his first foray into a purely historical subject and was written as light relief from the world of politics (or so he thought at the time of starting it).

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Henry-VIII-Serial-Victims-Stories/dp/1909698954/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421486638&sr=1-2&keywords=bretwalda+henry+serial

NEW BOOK - Conspiracy History: A History of the World for Conspiracy Theorists

NEW BOOK - Conspiracy History: A History of the World for Conspiracy Theorists

Preface by Nick Redfern

JFK, the Bilderberg Group and the New World Order – conspiracy theories abound on today’s internet, but they are nothing new. Taking a long-term view reveals century after century of covert conspiracies, murder plots and political intrigues. The history of the world is riddled with hidden agendas, scheming politicians and secretive organisations.

Did the U.S. government fake the 9/11 terror attacks? Was the British establishment behind the death of Diana, Princess of Wales? Conspiracy theories like these may be a modern phenomenon, but the basic idea – that world events are controlled by cynically duplicitous schemers – is as old as history. When the heir to the English throne died in 1120, they said it was an accident – but it was an accident from which certain people benefited a great deal. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, it was in response to blatant Polish aggression... which just happened to be the work of Nazi soldiers dressed in Polish uniforms. As Niccolò Machiavelli said 500 years ago, “the end justifies the means”. History is often dismissed as a dull subject, but it leaps into all-too-contemporary life when seen through the eyes of a Conspiracy Theorist! This fast-paced account tells you everything you need to know about the convenient accidents, false flag operations and hidden agendas that have shaped the course of history.

CONTENTS

Preface by Nick Redfern

Chapter 1: A brief introduction to conspiracy theories

Chapter 2: False flag incidents

Chapter 3: They acted alone - or did they?

Chapter 4: Hidden agendas

Chapter 5: Convenient deaths

Chapter 6: Secret identities

Chapter 7: The Illuminati and others

Chapter 8: Rewriting history

Chapter 9: Chronology of Conspiracy

About the Author
Andrew May is a former defence scientist with an MA from Cambridge University and a PhD from Manchester University. His thirty year career spanned academia, the civil service and the defence industry. He has worked on advanced technology research in Farnborough, strategic planning in Whitehall and operational analysis for a large defence company. He is now based in the South-West of England where he works as a freelance writer and consultant.


Get your paperback copy HERE
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conspiracy-History-World-Theorists/dp/1909698873/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421429985&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+conspiracy

NEW EBOOK - Alexander's Macedonians: Weapons, Tactics and Strategy (Warriors of the World Book 3)

NEW EBOOK - Alexander's Macedonians: Weapons, Tactics and Strategy (Warriors of the World Book 3)

Alexander the Great conquered the known world in a whirlwind of military campaigning that lasted just 13 years. Alexander’s genius helped, but he would have got nowhere if it had not been for his formidable army with its immaculate training, revolutionary tactics and novel weapons.
This book takes an exciting new look at warfare during the time of Alexander the Great and his successors. It explains tactics and strategy, looks at weapons and training. The illustrations show the equipment, the text explains how it was used. This book explains the background to the battles and victories of Alexander, showing how those victories were won.
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.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexanders-Macedonians-Weapons-Strategy-Warriors-ebook/dp/B00NT0DQ36/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421305715&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+macedonians

NEW EBOOK - Bigfoot in Indiana

NEW EBOOK - Bigfoot in Indiana

The gigantic upright ape known as Bigfoot or Sasquatch is not usually associated with Indiana with its spreading farm fields and large towns, but there have been a surprisingly large number of sightings in that prairie state.

Take this example, among many others:
In August 2007 a farmer was sitting on his porch when he heard noises coming from his apple orchard. He went to investigate and found himself face to face with a Bigfoot at a range of just 30 feet. The Bigfoot was about 7 feet tall, covered in black fur and had a head sitting on its broad shoulders with not much sign of a neck. The legs were thick and the arms muscular. It looked as if it had been interrupted while reaching up into a tree - presumably to pick apples. The Bigfoot gave a growl and ran forwards toward the man for two or three strides. Then it stopped again before turning and fleeing.

In this book cryptid expert Larry Jaffer reviews the evidence for this mysterious beast and comes to some surprising conclusions.

He also looks at the highly controversial cases that link Bigfoot to UFOs. These joint sightings are routinely ignored, denounced or argued over by Bigfoot researchers who seek to prove that the Bigfoot is a real flesh and blood animal just like a bear or a cougar. While Larry Jaffer also holds this view, he believes the problem cannot be ignored and uses the results of his own investigations into a number of UFO sightings to come up with what he believes is a credible solution to the controversial problem.

Cryptids are animals, or plants, which are believed by some people to exist, but which have not been accepted as real by the wider scientific community. These cryptids are animals which have been seen, and sometimes photographed, but for which no definitive evidence has been given. This series of Cryptid Casebooks explores the world of the cryptids.


CONTENTS
Introduction - The Cryptid Casebook
Chapter 1 - Bigfoot
Chapter 2 - Evidence for Bigfoot in Indiana
Chapter 3 - The Science of Bigfoot in Indiana
Chapter 4 - Conclusions about Bigfoot in Indiana
Appendix - A note on nomenclature



About the Author
Larry Jaffer has long had an interest in the fortean mysteries that surround us. He grew up ion the Surrey when the Surrey Puma hit the headlines, and went out in search of that elusive beast - without success. Since then he has researched a myriad of other cryptids, including Sasquatch, the sea serpent, the Beast of Bodmin and others. He has also investigated UFO sightings and tracked down numerous ghosts and poltergeists. He has a voluminous archive of witness interviews, photos and other data to back up his writings on the subjects of the unusual, paranormal and downright odd.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bigfoot-Indiana-Cryptid-Casebook-Book-ebook/dp/B00NS2T1AW/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421133157&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+bigfoot+indiana

NEW EBOOK - Nittaewo - the Ape-Man of Sri Lanka

NEW EBOOK - Nittaewo - the Ape-Man of Sri Lanka

In 1984 a Dutch scientist walking through forests in Sri Lanka saw a pair of short human-like creatures covered all over in dense fur - the Nittaewo. But does the animal really exist?

Since at least 300bc visitors to Sri Lanka have been reporting sightings of an “ape-man”, a creature that looks like an ape but which walks upright like a human. The descriptions of the beast have been consistent - 4 feet tall, muscular shoulders, body hair and a human voice. But scientists have dismissed the creature as a fantasy based on folklore and myth. A lack of hard evidence undermined the case for the Nittaewo. Then in 2004 startling new evidence came to light and the case for the Ape-Man of Sri Lanka has had to be seriously reviewed.

In this book cryptid expert Larry Jaffer reviews the evidence for this mysterious beast and comes to some surprising conclusions.

Cryptids are animals, or plants, which are believed by some people to exist, but which have not been accepted as real by the wider scientific community. These cryptids are animals which have been seen, and sometimes photographed, but for which no definitive evidence has beenfound. This series of Cryptid Casebooks explores the world of the cryptids.



CONTENTS
Introduction - The Cryptid Casebook
Chapter 1 - Evidence for the Nittaewo
Chapter 2 - Supporting Evidence from Flores
Chapter 3 - Conclusions about Nittaewo
Appendix - A note on nomenclature
Appendix B - Credits




About the Author
Larry Jaffer has long had an interest in the fortean mysteries that surround us. He grew up in the Surrey when the Surrey Puma hit the headlines, and went out in search of that elusive beast - without success. Since then he has researched a myriad of other cryptids, including Sasquatch, the sea serpent, the Beast of Bodmin and others. He has also investigated UFO sightings and tracked down numerous ghosts and poltergeists. He has a voluminous archive of witness interviews, photos and other data to back up his writings on the subjects of the unusual, paranormal and downright odd.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nittaewo-Ape-Man-Lanka-Cryptid-Casebook-ebook/dp/B00NQXRORA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421069919&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+nittaewo