When That Great Ship Went Down: The Legal and Political Repercussions of the Loss of RMS Titanic    by Markham Pyle
Price: $2.99 USD. 99400 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published by Bapton Books  on January 16, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.
The celebrated history of the aftermath, in the US Congress, the US Supreme Court, and the Parliament of the United Kingdom, of the sinking of the unsinkable ship. Markham Shaw Pyle and GMW Wemyss examine the political pressures and dirty deals that affected the Titanic enquiries, wrote new law, and changed our world.

Titanic: Those in Peril on the Sea    by Steve Orlandella
Price: $2.99 USD. 66300 words. Language: English. Published on January 7, 2013. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.
What really happened? Myths and inaccuracies still blur the real story. “Titanic: Those in Peril on the Sea” is the story of the great ship, her passengers, and crew. This is my attempt to tell the story through the prism of my somewhat skeptical eye. Supporting what is real, debunking what is not.

37: The Year of Portent    by Markham Pyle
Price: $4.99 USD. 81660 words. Language: Commonwealth English. Published by Bapton Books  on December 18, 2012. Nonfiction » History » World.
1937 – from the flooded Ohio to the new Golden Gate Bridge, from bombed Guernica to newly-opened Buchenwald to the Rape of Nanking – was a year of portent. Markham Shaw Pyle and GMW Wemyss, the celebrated historians of the Titanic enquiries and of the coming of the Second World War, here survey that dread year, from Tolkien and Disney to war and terror. This is history in the grand manner.

Panama 1914    by Ken Rossignol
Price: $3.99 USD. 90180 words. Language: English. Published by Kenneth Rossignol / Huggins Point Publishing LLC  on November 19, 2012. Nonfiction » Transportation » Ships & Shipbuilding / History.
PANAMA 1914 IS NOW BOARDING! Join this great voyage through the history of the Panama Canal, which is, one hundred years after its completion, on the eve of a new chapter in its spectacular history. From the early explorers, many seeking a critical water connection between two of the world’s great oceans to the determination of the best engineers of America, the BIG DIG finally opened for ships.

Searching the Shadows: A Layman's Investigation Into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy    by Steven S. Airheart
Price: $4.99 USD. 94510 words. Language: English. Published by Iconoclassic Books  on August 31, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.
Searching the Shadows is Steve Airheart’s presentation about the assassination of John F. Kennedy - a straightforward, factual, insightful, objective and exciting compendium of the myriad facts and red herrings in the case. Updated in 2012 with new material!

Twelve Inventors Who Changed the World    by Kevin Roe
Price: $2.99 USD. 88000 words. Language: English. Published on August 24, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Scientists, Inventors.
This book discusses several virtually unknown but amazing inventors and also provides incredibly impressive but little known histories of some recognized inventors. The entire technology of the world we live in today is quite literally built on the work of these individuals. A study of their achievements and the reasons for their achievements despite huge obstacles is worthwhile for anyone.

An Island in the Autumn    by John Smith
Price: $5.99 USD. 92310 words. Language: English. Published by North Highland Publishing  on May 17, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Australia & New Zealand.
In 1970, after serving nearly twenty years in Nigeria, John Smith returned to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ready for a fresh assignment as a Commomwealth administrator. The ‘powers that be’ assured him that they would find him ‘an island in the autumn’

A Distance Travelled    by Terence Kearey
Price: $4.85 USD. 64500 words. Language: English. Published by Memoirs Publishing  on February 12, 2012. Nonfiction » Biography » Biographical anthologies.
A Distance Travelled is the fourth in a quartet of books by Terence Kearey dealing with aspects of life in Britain through the centuries from a family perspective. Caught up in the greed and restrictive practices of post-war industry, he came near to total collapse. Helped by friends and family he was able to recover, remarry and rebuild his life

The Endless Possibilities of Paper Mache - Imagination vs. Armageddon in the Cold War    by Jo Swanson
You set the price! 73580 words. Language: English. Published on February 2, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.
As an actor & activist in Boston during the early 1980's, Jo Swanson was committed to saving the world. A founding member of the popular movement, Food Not Bombs, Swanson chronicles her numerous and wildly varied attempts to head off the arms race, shut down nuclear power and end US intervention in Central America - with little more than a few good ideas and a handful of like-minded friends.

A Changing World    by Terence Kearey
Price: $4.85 USD. 62020 words. Language: English. Published by Memoirs Publishing  on January 28, 2012. Nonfiction » History » Modern / 20th Century.
A Changing World is the third in a quartet of books by Terence Kearey dealing with aspects of life in Britain through the centuries from the perspective of his own family. It focuses on the years from the 1930s through to the 1960s and covers a period when the country was at times in turbulence and chaos and changing faster that it ever has before or since.