In the 17 years since "The Daily Telegraph started to take I its obituaries seriously by allotting them a special section in the paper, it has published around 1,000 obituaries of soldiers, as well as almost equal numbers of sailors and airmen. The 100 to be found hem, which have never before been collected in book form, were chosen to show the widest range of military experience. They include those who performed astonishing acts of bravery, such as the New Zealander Charles Upham, who won the Victoria Cross twice in North Africa, the commando leader "Mad Jack" Churchill and Drum Major Buss, the bugler who rallied the Glosters at the Imjin river in Korea. Among the senior figures am General Mazek, who commanded the Polish 2nd Corps in Normandy, the rigorous Field Marshal Lord Carver and General Sir Walter Walker, who won three DSOs and remained an unflinchingly outspoken critic ...

The most comprehensive examination ever undertaken of the Russian imperial family' s final months in captivity Tsar Nicholas II and his family continue to fascinate the world, and the controversy surrounding their fate still rages, even after recent DNA tests on the imperial remains. In this new book, two noted historians offer readers the most detailed account yet of the imperial family' s last months and their murder by the Bolsheviks. Analyzing more than 500 previously unpublished documents, and including many previously unseen photos, the authors reconstruct the daily life of the prisoners in the Ipatiev House, shattering the decades-old depiction of hardened, brutal guards who delighted in deliberate torment. They offer new interpretations, fresh evidence, and careful examination of the murder, the disposal of the bodies, and the quest to identify the remains, based on their years of extensive research. Greg King (Seattle, WA) is the author of five ...

The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land-and the sinister consequences It was an SS mission led by two complex individuals-one who was using the Nazis to pursue his own ends, and one so committed to Nazism that afterward he conducted racial experiments using the skulls of prisoners at Auschwitz. "Himmler's Crusade" relates the 1938 Nazi expedition through British India to the sacred mountains of Tibet in search of the remnants of the Aryan people, the lost master race. Based on a wide range of previously unused sources, this intriguing book reveals the mission-a pet project of Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler--to be the result of both a bizarre historical fantasy and a strategy to provoke insurgency in British India. Providing rare glimpses into Himmler's SS stronghold, this riveting tale sheds new light on the occult component of the racial theories that obsessed Himmler and his fellow Nazis.

Originally published in 1863-64 in five volumes, with an Appendix and Index in 1871. For each parish of Ayrshire, a short description of the etymology, extent, history (civil and ecclesiastical), and antiquities, is followed by notes on the principal families of the parish. This volume contains the Parishes of Ayr, Newton-on-Ayr, Auchinleck, Coylton, and Craigie.

This volume contains the Parishes of Old Cumnock, New Cumnock, Dalrymple, Dundonald, Galston, Mauchline, Monktoun, Muirkirk, Ochiltree, Riccarton, St. Quivox, Sorn, Stair, Symington, and Torbolton.

This volume incorporates material from the 1871 Appendix, and includes the Parishes of Ballantrae, Colmonell, Dailly, Girvan, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Maybole, and Straiton.