Location: United Kingdom
Member Since:
Feb. 10, 2015
Richard M Jones
Books
The Burton Agnes Disaster
by Richard M Jones
Price:
$2.85 USD.
Words: 10,430.
Language:
English.
Published: April 14, 2015
by
Mereo Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography
On an autumn day in 1947, a truck laden with German prisoners-of-war and their English guards approached a level crossing in a sleepy Yorkshire village. At the same moment, an express train was thundering towards the crossing. For some reason the soldier behind the wheel of the truck did not stop. The scene was set for a terrible tragedy.
The Great Gale of 1871
by Richard M Jones
Price:
$2.85 USD.
Words: 22,020.
Language:
English.
Published: February 10, 2015
by
Mereo Books.
Categories:
Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Great Britain
On 10th February 1871 a storm of fatal severity swept into the calm coastal port of Bridlington Bay. With it rode dozens of helpless ships and it fell to local lifeboat crews to brave the raging sea in attempts to save the drowning crews. Many of those heroic souls never returned to shore. The Great Gale of 1871 tells the events of that fateful day