Bøger af Douglas Boyd

The courageous life of Lore Schindler, an orphaned Jewish girl who grew up in WWII France.

The remarkable stories of some of the bravest and most dangerous women who ever lived

Popular author Douglas Boyd provides a rich background to the multitude of plagues and pandemics that have beleaguered the history of humankind, highlighting their many commonalities in origin and commutation, and forewarns of what the future could bring.

A unique look at the extraordinary lives of the royal child brides of the Angevin Empire.

Trained by his NKVD - a predecessor of the KGB - officers of the Polish UB, the Czech StB, the Hungarian AVO, Romania's Securitate, Bulgaria's KDS, Albania's Sigurimi and the Stasi of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) spied on and ruthlessly repressed their fellow citizens on the Soviet model.

Challenges the Western Front bias of First World War history - a must-have for any First World War historian.

In a frightening foretaste of future warfare, the Kremlin launched a cyberattack on neighbouring Estonia in 2007 that crashed every computer and silenced every mobile phone, bringing the country to a complete halt.

In this timely publication, Douglas Boyd shows how this still-flying banner of revolution changed the world.

The Solitary Spy is a unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually escaped one step ahead of the KGB.

When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the Crusades to punish his treacherous brother John and the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham.