Kumla Bibliotek

Although it reads as a novel, Sniper Jackson can be justifiably viewed as 'faction' weaving true events around a mythical character. This was a commonplace method of writing at a t ...

Although separated from the modern reader by a full century, the First World War continues to generate controversy and interest as the great event upon which modern history pivoted ...

'A thought-provoking study of what might have been.' British Army Review What would have happened if Hitler invaded England in July 1940, or concentrated on the capture of Moscow i ...

'Macksey's blend of what actually happened and what might have been makes for a piece of writing comparable to Frederick Forsyth at his best.' Jack Higgins'Convincingly described a ...

This provocative alternative history looks at the Second World War from a new angle - what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941. Based on authentic history and ...

'Hitler Triumphant is a thoughtful, well-edited and very well-chosen selection of essays . . . Tsouras has assembled an A-Team of well-known historians and military analysts who ha ...

It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. H ...

When Germany’s leading tank ace meets the Steppe Fox it’s a fight to the death. Faced with overwhelming odds Kampfgruppe von Schroif needs a better tank and fast; but the new Tiger ...

With the scant remains of Richard III lifted recently from such humble soil, Elizabeth Ashworth presents us here with the results of her own excavation. Perhaps no other ruler has ...

Fifteenth Century Florence; arena of intrigue, glamour, wealth, deception and high political drama. The playground of the famed and powerful Medici clan, in which tensions stir, lo ...

In this ‘factional’ novel, lost for more than 70 years, hero John Arnold is a post graduate student at Bonn University in the early 1930s. He is caught up in the insidious rise of ...

Bill Sloan, a former British Army intelligence officer and Shahid Al Sheehi, the son of a Pakistani British immigrant are caught up in a breathtakingly ambitious plan for a small M ...

In February 1945, the US Air Force launched the largest daytime bombing offensive against Berlin, dropping over 2,250 tons of bombs on the German capital.The Reichsbank, Germany’s ...

It is 1861. Tom Wells is in pursuit of a girl from North Carolina. He accepts an offer from his employer to leave the quiet obscurity of his job as an office boy in a London shippi ...

This enthralling piece of work by first-time novelist Robert Southworth explores the avenue history could have run down if Spartacus had survived the slave rebellion in 73BC, an up ...

Set in a period of great social unrest, this novel explores the various rivalries acted out between Royalist and Parliamentarian factions in 17th Century Britain. The real-life his ...

Peenemünde: windswept corner of the Third Reich and birthplace of the space age. Otto Fischer, a severely wounded Luftwaffe officer and former criminal investigator, is summoned to ...

When two of the nuns creating the Bayeux Tapestry fall from the tower of the Priory of St Thomas the Apostle, Abbess Eleanor and her protégé, Therese, are sent to investigate. As t ...

The book covers the story of Britain's search for its identity before and after the arrival of Christianity, leading up to the invention of the seeds of the Brutus myth in the 600s ...

Tre kvinnor. Ett krig. En kod att knäcka. Kontrahenterna-serien är en hyllning till förra seklets kämpande, starka kvinnor.Elisabeth, Signe och Iris påverkas alla av krigets nya sp ...

Du kan köpa nästan vad som helst på nätet numera. Ruthie Collins råkar köpa en italiensk gammal gård. Samtidigt som hon kämpar mot en revirbevakande get och svåra regnskurar bara f ...

Del och hennes man Ollie har flyttat till en underbar liten by i Provence. I flera år har de försökt att få barn men inte lyckats, och flytten till Frankrike är tänkt att bli börja ...

Karen Moen drömmer om att bli lärarinna, men när hennes pappa dör får hon slå de planerna ur hågen och istället hitta försörjning. Hon blir husjungfru hos familjen Winther. Men drö ...

En storslagen och förtrollande roman om livet i överklassfamiljen Winther. Handlingen utspelar sig i Trondheim i slutet av 1800-talet. En ny tid väntar runt hörnet, en arbetarklass ...

Den goda nyheten är att Petter har potential att bli en perfekt pojkvän. Den dåliga nyheten är att han inte existerar, men det vet inte Doris om. Än. När han inte dyker upp till de ...