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  • Convert or Die
    Will Roberts
    In the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic Church organised many Crusades. Most were to the Holy Land, where the Crusaders’ swords were pitted against the Saracens’ scimitars.However, one crusade much closer to home is not so well-known, in which Christians fought against fellow Christians.This was the Albigensian Crusade, also known as the Cathar Crusade, initiated by Pope Innocen...
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    20,82 €

  • John Hughes
    Will Roberts
    Two hundred years ago, John Hughes, one of Wales’ least-known entrepreneurs, founded what is now the vast, steel-producing city of Donetsk in Ukraine. Having made his fortune with various investments and patents, in Wales and later in London, he was headhunted by the Russians, whose iron and steel industry was significantly behind the rest of Europe He set sail from Wales in 18...
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    12,32 €

  • Saragarhi
    Will Roberts
    1897. India’s North-West Frontier. The British had been relatively successful in subduing the Afghan tribes in this volatile region, but the normally independent Afridis and Orakzai, Pashtun tribes had joined forces, and their army of twenty-five thousand posed a severe threat. Saragarhi, a small outpost situated between two more prominent forts in the Samana Mountain region, w...
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    13,49 €

  • Assassins Thugs and Vandals
    Will Roberts
    I had the idea of this compilation several years ago when I was researching the Knights Templar. During this research, I came across a reference to the Assassins, a secretive Islamic sect, whose name was derived from ’hashashin’, or ’smokers of hashish’. I thought that other words we use during an everyday conversation might have just as exciting origins. This proved to be the ...
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    17,15 €

  • Legendary Creatures of Greek Mythology
    Will Roberts
    Our journey through Ancient Greece, takes us from the steaming swamps of Nemea where Hercules slayed the Hydra, to the Caucasian Mountains, where an enormous eagle would eat the liver of Prometheus, then on to Cape Verde where Perseus would remove the awful head of Medusa, the Gorgon, then to the edge of the ancient world, to Colchis, where Jason would encounter the Colchian Dr...
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    37,35 €

  • Hephaistos
    Will Roberts
    Hephaistos (Hephaestus) is mentioned in several of my earlier works, including Five Years on Pelion, Ten Years at Troy, and Theseus. However, Hephaistos always seems to be in the background when reading ancient works such as those by Homer or Hesiod.He is probably one of the least known of the ancient Greek gods, but whenever the gods required a sword, armour, or a shield, they...
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    9,43 €

  • Theseus Bellerophon and Pegasus and The Sacred Band of Thebes
    Will Roberts
    TheseusTheseus is most celebrated for killing the Minotaur, but his heroic deeds number many more than this. The six labours of Theseus, where he slew bandits, brigands and wild animals, en route from Troizen to Athens, are another. There are many other adventures to be told about Theseus, not to mention his trip to the Underworld with his friend Pirithous. Bellerophon and the ...
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    22,28 €

  • Diomedes
    Will Roberts
    Diomedes was one of ancient Greece’s fiercest warriors and played a significant part in the fall of Troy, probably more so than Achilles, who was absent for most of the time after falling out with Agamemnon over Briseis. Before the battle for Troy, he had avenged his father, who had, with the Seven Against Thebes, failed to take the city. Diomedes, along with the Epigoni, the s...
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    16,88 €

  • Atalanta, Daedalus and Icarus, Diomedes
    Will Roberts
    AtalantaAbandoned on a mountainside as a baby by her father, Atalanta was reared by a bear and later by two hunters, before becoming the best tracker in Greece as well as an excellent archer, wrestler, and athlete. She also participated in the Calydonian Boar Hunt, and according to some accounts, sailed with Jason in the Quest for the Golden Fleece.Daedalus and IcarusThe classi...
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    23,48 €

  • The Blacksmiths Sons
    Will Roberts
    Welsh Longbowmen played a significant part in the One Hundred Year War. Their contribution to the English victories at Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt has been well documented.There are three parts to The Blacksmiths Sons, which covers the period from 1360 to 1429.The first part tells the story of two sons of a blacksmith from Caldicot in Gwent, South Wales, Gethin and John, recr...
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    28,92 €

  • The Slaughter of the Bards
    Will Roberts
    After suppressing a minor rebellion in Wales in 1277, Edward invited the Welsh nobles and their Bards to Montgomery Castle for a banquet and a festival of music and song. When the Welsh Bards refused to sing to celebrate his victory but instead sang of Welsh victories, he burned them at the stake. He then dispatched his men to the four corners of Wales to seek out and burn all ...
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    10,08 €

  • Escape From The Warrior Hulk
    Will Roberts
    While many nations have practised the use of decommissioned ships as prison ships or prison hulks over the years, it was widespread in Great Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when, after the defeat in The American War of Independence and subsequently the loss of a colony for the deportation of felons, penitentiaries became full to overflowing. The intention wa...
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    10,08 €

  • Blaenavon. Of Iron and Steel
    Will Roberts
    The removal of phosphorus from iron was hugely important in iron and steel making, and Sydney Gilchrist Thomas and Percy Gilchrist achieved something that many had failed to accomplish over more than twenty years.As those who are familiar with my work will know, I have a passion for rugby and steelmaking, and where possible, I try to include both in my novels. As it happens Bla...
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    12,64 €

  • Massacre at Abergavenny Castle
    Will Roberts
    On Christmas day at Abergavenny Castle in 1175, The Baron of Abergavenny, William de Braose committed one of the most heinous acts in Welsh history.In a period where treachery, deceit and slaughter were commonplace, this must rival any of the monstrous deeds that were carried out during these extremely violent times.William de Braose invited Seisyll ap Dynfwal, his son Geoffrey...
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    13,78 €

  • Last Orders
    Will Roberts
    Adam Evans was working in Burma when an aeroplane that had been shot down during the Second World War was discovered when clearing the jungle. Adam then meets an Englishman, who served in the British Army during the Burmese campaign. The Captain, as the locals call him, fought at the historical battle for Kohima, across the Burmese border in India. He, and one of his subordinat...
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    24,76 €

  • Captain Morgan Welsh Buccaneer Knight
    Will Roberts
    Sir Henry Morgan was a real, larger-than-life character who wreaked havoc on the Spanish during the Golden Age of Piracy.Harri Morgan was from the eminent Morgan family of Monmouthshire, who as a young boy left home to seek his fortune. How he came to arrive in the Caribbean is unclear, but he would unquestionably leave his mark on the world. He made his fortune, but while achi...
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    18,84 €

  • The Great Siege of Malta
    Will Roberts
    The Great Siege of Malta was one of the most ferocious encounters of the sixteenth century. The seemingly unstoppable forces of Sultan Sulieman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire besieged the island of Malta, home of the Knights of Saint John, otherwise known as the Knights Hospittalers, for almost four months.Despite being hugely outnumbered and under almost continuous bomb...
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    18,29 €

  • Greek Templar Gold
    Will Roberts
    Acre, 1291, The city is besieged by Mamluks and about to fall. Two Knights Templar ships containing a vast amount of treasure and an ornate box containing the Holy Grail, manage to escape the siege and sail to Cyprus. But what became of the treasure and ornate box? Seven hundred years later, after discovering two gold coins on the seabed off a remote and uninhabited Greek islan...
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    22,88 €

  • Séance Cannery Row
    Chris Herren / Will Roberts
    In Séance Cannery Row, we navigate the intriguing journey of spiritualism right from its roots, studying the techniques utilized for spirit communication and highlighting the interesting personalities who played instrumental roles in the growth of this movement. From the line between belief and potential fraud, to the global spread of this mystical belief system, this book offe...
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    50,15 €

  • Warrior Women Volume 2
    Will Roberts
    Twenty more stories from Will Roberts of courageous women who led men into battle, including:Ching Shih, a prostitute from the Guandong province of China, became the leader of the Red Fleet of pirate ships. With more than one thousand, the largest fleet of pirate ships the world has seen and accumulated vast wealth on a remarkable journey.Queen Tomyris of the Massagetae, a trib...
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    26,74 €

  • Ani Warrior Princess
    Will Roberts
    The myths and legends surrounding the Amazons, the warrior women made famous by the poets of ancient Greece, especially by Homer in the Iliad, are fascinating. Stories of a warrior tribe of women, who lived in a lesbian society, removed one of their breasts to make the use of a bow easier and fought the likes of Hercules, Theseus and Achilles, have largely been rejected as folk...
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    10,54 €

  • Warrior Women
    Will Roberts
    This compilation would not be complete without including Boudica of the Britons, also including from the same era are two others who resisted the Romans who were determined to impose the ways of Rome on the country and culture: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra and Mavia of the Tanukhids, (Saracens, who led a similar revolt against the Romans, one hundred years after Zenobia. From Asia...
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    55,19 €

  • Krugers Gold and the Boer War
    Will Roberts
    The war between Great Britain and two small South African Boer (Afrikaner) Republics-the South African Republic (Transvaal) and the Orange Free State- occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. It was inevitable that the British would achieve victory because of the vast resources of its Empire, but the Boers introduced them to tactics and warfare that shook them to the core...
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    22,12 €

  • One for the Road
    Will Roberts
    In 1949, Joe 'Woodbine' Watts mysteriously disappeared. Joe had been involved in a jewellery robbery in London and was being pursued by two groups of people - but why? He was only the getaway driver! Adam Evans, Joe's nephew, was working in South Korea almost fifty years later and, by chance, discovered the fate of his uncle Joe. ...
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  • One for the Road
    Will Roberts
    In 1949, Joe 'Woodbine' Watts mysteriously disappeared. Joe had been involved in a jewellery robbery in London and was being pursued by two groups of people - but why? He was only the getaway driver! Adam Evans, Joe's nephew, was working in South Korea almost fifty years later and, by chance, discovered the fate of his uncle Joe. ...
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    17,91 €

  • The Constraints-Led Approach
    Daniel Newcombe / Ian Renshaw / Keith Davids / Will Roberts
    The Constraints Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and Practice Design provides students and practitioners with the theoretical knowledge required to implement constraints-led approaches in coaching and skill acquisition settings. ...
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    268,33 €

  • The Constraints-Led Approach
    Daniel Newcombe / Ian Renshaw / Keith Davids / Will Roberts
    The Constraints Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and Practice Design provides students and practitioners with the theoretical knowledge required to implement constraints-led approaches in coaching and skill acquisition settings. ...
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    83,01 €

  • Killers or Victims
    Will T. Roberts / Will TRoberts
    These eight stories portray horrific and serious consequences that evolved as a result of obsessive love, lust, jealousy, greed, and infatuation.'The Frustrated Mountaineer''The Troubled Preacher''The Ugly Tennis Player''The Lovesick Nurse''The Jealous Expatriate''The Gorgeous Receptionist''The Marketing Manager Who Loved West African Women''The Hooked Store Manager' ...
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    26,79 €

  • Killers or Victims
    Will T. Roberts / Will TRoberts
    These eight stories portray horrific and serious consequences that evolved as a result of obsessive love, lust, jealousy, greed, and infatuation.'The Frustrated Mountaineer''The Troubled Preacher''The Ugly Tennis Player''The Lovesick Nurse''The Jealous Expatriate''The Gorgeous Receptionist''The Marketing Manager Who Loved West African Women''The Hooked Store Manager' ...
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    43,26 €