A man other than my husband sits on England’s throne today.
What would happen if this king suddenly went mad? What would his queen do? Would she make the same mistakes I did, or would she learn from mine?
Margaret of Anjou, queen of England, cannot give up on her husband-even when he slips into insanity. And as mother to the House of Lancaster’s last hope, she cannot give up on her son-even when England turns against them. This gripping tale of a queen forced to stand strong in the face of overwhelming odds is at its heart a tender tale of love.
Award-winning author Susan Higginbotham will once again ask readers to question everything they know about right and wrong, compassion and hope, duty to one’s country and the desire of one’s own heart. You can download this book to your Kindle for only £2.05 today.
Free now: Red Star Airacobra: Memoirs of a Soviet Fighter Ace 1941-45
Always confirm price before purchase. Many free and reduced books are offered for a limited time only and only in some geographical regions.
Evgeniy Mariinskiy, a Soviet fighter ace and Hero of the Soviet Union, shot down 20 enemy planes in aerial combat over the Eastern Front between 1943 and 1945. He frequently engaged enemy fighters and bombers, shot down many but was himself shot down several times.
This is his extraordinary story. His vivid inside view of the ruthless war in the air on the Eastern Front gives a rare insight into the reality of fighting and tactics of the Red Army Air Force. In his own words, and with a remarkable clarity of recall, Evgeniy Mariinskiy describes what combat was like in the air, face to face with a skilled, deadly and increasingly desperate enemy. The reader can follow his career from an unskilled novice who has just arrived at his regiment through to him becoming an ace, and Hero of the Soviet Union, under the leadership of experienced commanders.
Click here to purchase Red Star Airacobra
‘Kiss boys two times after I have gone’
‘Please teach the boys to say what they mean’
‘Mummy loved orange Club biscuits, jam and jelly and lemon curd’
On her deathbed, Kate Greene’s only concern was for her two little boys, Reef and Finn, and her loving husband, Singe. She knew she’d be leaving them behind very soon.
Over her last few days, Kate created Mum’s List. The couple talked and cried together as she wrote her thoughts and wishes down,
trying to help the man she loved create the best life for their boys after she was gone.
It wasn’t the first time Singe and Kate had faced the spectre of death. Four years earlier, doctors discovered a large lump in baby Reef ‘s abdomen. Kate, pregnant with Finn, was so distressed that she gave birth dangerously early. Both boys pulled through, but afterwards Kate received the diagnosis that every woman dreads . . .
Read this inspiring and moving account on your Kindle for £3.99 today.
Free now: Twenty additional textbooks from CK – 12
Always confirm price before purchase. Many free and reduced books are offered for a limited time only and only in some geographical regions.
CK – 12 has added twenty volumes to the free textbooks available for the Kindle. Subjects include mathematical sciences, chemistry, history and more. The files are quite large and will take significant time to download. Follow the link to the CK – 12 textbooks.
These three might be of interest to you:
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina’s grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children’s lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind’s eye.
Vivid images of her youth in war-torn Leningrad arise unbidden, carrying her back to the terrible fall of 1941, when she was a tour guide at the Hermitage Museum and the 
German army’s approach signaled the beginning of what would be a long, torturous siege on the city. As the people braved starvation, bitter cold, and a relentless German onslaught, Marina joined other staff members in removing the museum’s priceless masterpieces for safekeeping, leaving the frames hanging empty on the walls to symbolize the artworks’ eventual return. As the Luftwaffe’s bombs pounded the proud, stricken city, Marina built a personal Hermitage in her mind—a refuge that would stay buried deep within her, until she needed it once more. . . .This historical fiction is selling for only £1.99 today.
Includes an excerpt from Debra Deans’ The Mirrored World (£8.49 pre-order).
A thrilling puzzle from the ancient world with real historical characters and based on a case in Cicero’s Orations – Roman Blood is a perfect blend of mystery and history by a brilliant storyteller.
On an unseasonably warm spring morning in 80BC, Gordianus the Finder is summoned to the house of Cicero, a young advocate and orator preparing his first important 
case. His client is Umbrian landowner, Sextus Roscius, accused of the unforgivable: the murder of his own father.
Gordianus agrees to investigate the crime – in a society fire with deceit, betrayl and conspiracy, where neither citizen nor slave can be trusted to speak the truth. But even Gordianus is not prepared for the spectacularly dangerous fireworks that attend the resolution of this ugly, delicate case…
The first book in the Gordianus the Finder series by Steven Saylor, you can buy this historical fiction for only £0.85 today.
Free now: Short books from Infinite Ideas about careers, personal health, and history.
Always confirm price before purchase. Many free and reduced books are offered for a limited time only and only in some geographical regions.
Infinite Ideas has added more short books to the free offerings from their catalog. Subjects include career advice, personal health, and history. Follow the link to the
free books from Infinite Ideas.
Three new books being offered are:
Free now: Remembering the Dragon Lady- The U-2 Spy Plane: Memoirs of the Men Who Made the Legend
Always confirm price before purchase. Many free and reduced books are offered for a limited time only and only in some geographical regions.
With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower’s request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project. Modified USAF bombers began overflights of the Soviet Union in 1951, but existing lower flying aircraft in the US inventory were vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire and a number of cross-border flights were shot down.
To meet the challenge and improve the survivability, the Lockheed Corporation received approval for their revolutionary design of a new recon aircraft on December 9, 1954. The company began work under a heavy veil of secrecy with only 81 people, 
including 25 engineers. A test pilot flew the first flight on August 1, 1955, after only eight months of production, a record-breaking result for rollout of a new project, especially one this complex and innovative. A dedicated and inventive group of contractors came together to support the project with partial pressure suits for pilots, high-resolution cameras, and an engine that could carry the aircraft to altitudes of 70,000 feet and higher.
Nicknamed the Dragon Lady, the U-2 has flown over Cuba, Alaska, North and South poles, Vietnam, Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, and Afghanistan. The U-2 is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. More recently it flew over the hurricane ravaged US Gulf Coast to collect imagery of the destruction over a 90,000 square mile area.
Click here to purchase Remembering the Dragon Lady
More than four hundred years ago, seven people – five of them women – were beheaded in the Tower of London. Three had been queens of England. The others were found guilty of treason. Why were such important people put to death?
Alison Weir’s gripping book tells their stories: from the former friend betrayed by a man set on being king, to the young girl killed after just nine days on the throne. Alison Weir is a wonderful storyteller. Through her vivid writing, history comes alive and you can buy this quick read for only £1.39.
Click here to purchase Traitors of the Tower
Me and Mine tells the story of an Irish immigrant family who left rural Ireland in the 1950s in the hope of finding work and a better way of life in England. But home is never far away as aunts ferry over suitcases dripping with blood from the Irish boat train because English meat is ‘dirt’ or smuggle poteen disguised as holy water in Virgin Mary shaped bottles, and gossip is delivered weekly in the form of the local county paper.
Me and Mine is an entertaining and vivid portrait of immigrant life in 1950s England, told through the stories of a truly colourful cast of characters. The book is available for Kindle for £3.99 today.
