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I am Spartacus' ranks among the most famous lines in Hollywood, with its image of the man's comrades prepared to die in his place in the Kirk Douglas film. And die they did, not the actors but the real army of Spartacus, crucified in their thousands along the Appian Way that leads to Rome. M. J. Trow has now revised his gripping biography, the first to be written in English, of this legend who has become all things to all men. He was the focus...

James 'Legs' Diamond has come up with another off-the-wall idea, and Peter Maxwell is in his sights. Diamond needs someone to take part in an exchange with a teacher from the private sector, and although Maxwell went to just such a school, he is not keen to take part in the experiment. For once, however, his wiles fail him, and he finds himself ensconced under the eaves in a guest room at Grimond's school in the next county. It is only a day o...

She was tall and terrible, with a great mass of red hair to her hips... and carried a spear to instil terror in all who saw her.' So wrote Dio Cassius, one of a handful of Romans who commented on the queen of the Iceni who defied the most powerful military nation on earth - and nearly won. Whipped by her Roman overlords and with her two daughters raped, Boudicca went on the warpath in 60AD, uniting tribes under her and wreaking vengeance. Toda...

The end of civilization, as Peter Maxwell knows it, is just around the corner. It comes in the form of Fiona Braymarr, the new superhead of Leighford Academy. She is a new broom, sweeping away the cobwebs of educational mediocrity and she sweeps good people along the way. And the odd thing about her? She has no past. And within days of her arrival, two local women have no future, one is found dead in a car showroom, the other is stabbed at the...

First-century Rome. Senator Gaius Lucius Nerva is taken ill at a dinner party and dies a few days later. His heartbroken wife, Flavia, is told it was a natural death. Calidus, Nerva's recently freed slave, suspects otherwise.

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Aktionspreis: Jetzt für nur 0, 99 € Die ganze Inspektor Lestrade Krimi Reihe für unter 4 €Lestrade gegen Sherlock - ein neuer Fall für Inspektor Lestrade Der Tod von Queen Victoria läutet ein neues Zeitalter ein - ein Zeitalter voller Skandale und Gefahren: Ein gerissener Mörder treibt sein Unwesen, eine Bombe unter Big Ben bedroht ganz London und kein anderer als der legendäre Sherlock Holmes scheint von den Toten auferstanden zu sein. Doch i...

Die ganze Inspektor Lestrade Krimi Reihe für unter 4 €Mord in bester Gesellschaft - ein neuer Fall für Inspektor Lestrade Es ist das Jahr 1910. Eine neue Mordserie hält Inspektor Lestrade auf Trab. Ein Mann wird tot im Glockenturm gefunden und dann fällt auch noch sein alter Freund Dr. Watson dem Mörder zum Opfer. Bei seinen Ermittlungen bewegt sich Lestrade wieder in illustrer Gesellschaft: Von Winston Churchill bis zur verführerischen Mata H...

Schwarzhumoriger Krimi mit britischem Charme - Ein Fall für Inspektor LestradeInspektor Lestrade, der verkannte, aber ebenso geniale Zeitgenosse von Sherlock Holmes, verfolgt einen mysteriösen Mörder, der eine Spur von Toten hinterlässt. Der Inspektor nimmt erste Ermittlungen auf und verhört eine illustre Persönlichkeit nach der anderen: Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. Watson und sogar der überhebliche Sherlock Holmes selbst gehören zu de...

MAXWELL'S BACK, AS MURDER COMES TO SLEEPY LEIGHFORD. Are the two things connected? Well, yes and no. Teenage girls are being picked up on the seafront and two of them are found dead. DI Jacquie Carpenter-Maxwell has barely set foot on her old patch before she is up to her jet-lagged neck in somebody else's tragedy. The prime suspect is Bernard Ryan, Deputy Head at Leighford High, and Mad Max is soon riding to the rescue on White Surrey. But ca...

Sir Samuel White Baker is one of those larger-than-life heroes only the Victorians could invent. For too long, the British Empire has been denigrated and equated with arrogance at best and racial bigotry at worst. Samuel Baker transcends that. He was an explorer and naturalist, recording new species on his many travels, a big game hunter with huge expertise across continents, an engineer of skill and ingenuity, a general of ability, an adminis...

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Canute is famous today as the bad king arrogant enough to believe he could stem the tide. This volume peels back the layers of legend and mythmaking to reveal the true history of King Canute and the kingdom he ruled.

Did Spartacus really come close to changing the structure of the Roman world? This book traces the gladiator-slave through his slave hood in Rome and training as a gladiator, to the breakout which began when gladiators hacked at their guards and took to the hills. It was not until the Senate sent Pompey, that Spartacus and his army were defeated.

Who was the real man who inspired the Dracula legend? For many, it was Vlad the Impaler who, as legend would have it, was a 15th-century bloodsucking torturer. In this title, the author peels back the layers of myth and history to reveal the figure who was the real Vlad the Impaler.

Who was the real man who inspired the Dracula legend? For many, it was Vlad the Impaler who, as legend would have it, was a 15th-century bloodsucking torturer. In this title, the author peels back the layers of myth and history to reveal the figure who was the real Vlad the Impaler.

She was tall and terrible, with a great mass of red hair to her hips. She wore a twisted torc and a tunic of many colours ... She carried a spear to instil terror in all who saw her.

A full life exploration of the crash-and-burn bard whose wayward life-style and bad-boy reputation led to his death at 29, stabbed through the eye in a tavern brawl in Deptford in 1593. The book investigates the conspiracy surrounding Marlowe's death, the subject of conjecture for over 400 years.

Reveals the facts of the Cid's life and places his life in the context of the times, looks at how the Cid became the hero of the Reconquista in his own time and in later centuries, examines the way Spain's politicians and ruling elite have used the icon of the Cid, and discusses why the man and his story have fascinated numerous writers.

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