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Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America by John Loughery
RRP: $50.68$43.86Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John's College (now Fordham University), builder of Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of... -
The Interesting Bits Justin Pollard 9781848541009
RRP: $21.43$14.63Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano... -
A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between Ute Lotz-Heumann (University of Arizona, USA) 9780815373537
RRP: $77.98$68.89A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History not only provides instructors with primary sources of a manageable length and translated into English, it also offers students a concise explanation of their context and meaning.By covering different areas of... -
A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative by Menachem Klein 9780231139045
$122.21In 2003, after two years of negotiations, a group of prominent Israelis and Palestinians signed a model peace treaty. The document, popularly called the Geneva Initiative, contained detailed provisions resolving all outstanding issues between Israel and... -
Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714 by Kevin Sharpe
RRP: $92.63$80.42In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political,... -
The Life of Cicero: Lessons for Today from the Greatest Orator of the Roman Republic by Philip Kay-Bujak 9781399097413
$51.93Cicero was Rome's greatest orator and one of the key statesmen of the late Roman Republic. He championed traditional Republican values against populist demagogues like Julius Caesar during a tumultuous period of civil war and unrest. During his term as... -
Muslims and Crusaders: Christianity's Wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382, from the Islamic Sources Niall Christie (Langara College, Canada) 9781138543119
RRP: $54.58$53.80Muslims and Crusaders combines chronological narrative, discussion of important areas of scholarly enquiry and evidence from Islamic primary sources to give a well-rounded survey of Christianity's wars in the Middle East, 1095-1382. Revised, expanded and... -
Mitsubishi Babs Vol. 2 by Giuseppe Picarella 9788367227162
RRP: $78.00$72.77Mitsubishi Babs Vol. II - The world's first high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft completes the history of Japan's revolutionary high-speed strategic reconnaissance aircraft design. This second volume describes the Imperial Japanese Navy's flawed... -
Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250 by Martha Carlin
RRP: $60.45$54.54Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters... -
Dead Men by Richard J. Pierce, Jr.
RRP: $17.53$12.32'Fascinating.' Telegraph Birdie Bowers is a woman with a dead man's name. Her parents had been fascinated by Henry 'Birdie' Bowers, one of Captain Scott's companions on his ill-fated polar expedition. A hundred years after the death of Bowers and... -
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire by Thomas H. Reilly
RRP: $54.58$47.07Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this dramatic upheaval from earlier rebellions were the... -
England's First Castle: The Story of a 1000-Year-Old Mystery by Terry Wardle 9780752447971
RRP: $29.23$22.85In early September 1051, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that 'the French had built a castle', the first Norman castle in England. Yet for centuries the circumstances behind the construction of this castle and its actual location have remained a... -
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven 9780735222199
RRP: $78.00$51.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735222199Author Dominic LievenFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 799gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 43mm -
Rhiwbina by Colonel Edward Graham 9780752432991
RRP: $25.33$19.25A history of Rhiwbina.Book InformationISBN 9780752432991Author Ken GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 242mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Great War Britain Tyneside: Remembering 1914-18 by Jo Bath
RRP: $25.33$19.25First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Tyneside offers an intimate portrayal of the area and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. A beautifully... -
Rommel and the Secret War in North Africa: Secret Intelligence in the North African Campaign 1941-43 by Janusz Piekalkiewicz 9780887403408
RRP: $54.58$36.31In this new book, Janusz Piekalkiewicz chronicles the British Secret Inteligence Service (SIS) and the "Ultra" secret, and its effect on the campaign in North Africa during the Secon World War. On the German side, Rommel also knew the use of intercepted... -
Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 by Janet Afary
RRP: $185.25$149.49In 1906, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the tales of the Middle Eastern trickster Nasreddin to construct a progressive anti-colonial discourse with a strong emphasis on social, political and religious reform. Using folklore, visual... -
Winchester Curiosities by David Hilliam
RRP: $31.18$24.24Winchester, ancient capital of Wessex, is a crucial part of Britain's heritage. In his latest book, David Hilliam condenses the city's long and fascinating history into a collection of memorable 'curiosities' that are still to be seen today. Visitors -... -
Two Thousand Years in Exeter by W G Hoskins
RRP: $39.00$29.78Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain: people have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years. The High Street has been in continuous use as a thoroughfare throughout that long period. For centuries Exeter was one of the largest... -
Eurydice and the Birth of Macedonian Power by Elizabeth Donnelly Carney
RRP: $48.73$43.91Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White
$62.50During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his... -
Farmers or Hunter-gatherers?: The Dark Emu Debate by Keryn Walshe 9780522877854
RRP: $58.40$36.35Australians' understanding of Aboriginal society prior to the British invasion from 1788 has been transformed since the publication of Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu in 2014. It argued that classical Aboriginal society was more sophisticated than Australians... -
D-Day: The British Beach Landings by John Sadler
RRP: $21.43$14.55D-Day, the Allied invasion of Europe, began on the night of 5-6 June 1944. At 07.00 hours on the 6th, Britain's First Corps and XXX Corps came ashore on Sword and Gold beaches, to withering fire from the entrenched German forces. Within the initial and... -
The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest by Barry Gough 9781771620390
$43.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620390Author Barry GoughFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 538g -
Greatest Sea Survival Stories Ever Told by Tom McCarthy
RRP: $29.23$22.48Being aboard a sinking ship is perhaps the most terrifying experience a human being can endure. Imagine those last peaceful moments as the vessel beneath you slides quickly into the dark waters that only moments before you had so confidently glided... -
Stays and Body Image in London: The Staymaking Trade, 1680-1810 by Lynn Sorge-English
RRP: $105.28$92.10This book fills a significant gap in the literature on eighteenth-century social and cultural history. Starting with their production and trade, Sorge-English looks at the intricacies of the staymaker's craft, the role of gender in the design and... -
Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. 9780674030381
$87.17Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or... -
Crowdfunding the Revolution: The First Dáil Loan and the Battle for Irish Independence by Patrick O'Sullivan Greene
RRP: $39.00$32.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916137585Author Patrick O'Sullivan GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Immortal: A Military History of Iran and Its Armed Forces by Steven R. Ward 9781626160323
RRP: $46.80$42.08Immortal is the only single-volume English-language survey of Iran's military history. CIA analyst Steven R. Ward shows that Iran's soldiers, from the famed "Immortals" of ancient Persia to today's Revolutionary Guard, have demonstrated through the... -
The Ardennes 1944-1945 Volume II: Hitlers Winter Offensive Revisited by Christer Bergstrom 9789188441768
RRP: $193.05$119.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188441768Author Christer BergstromFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Vaktel ForlagPublisher Vaktel ForlagWeight(grams) 1095g -
Sean McLoughlin: Ireland's Forgotten Revolutionary by Charlie McGuire 9780850367058
RRP: $31.10$28.59This biography rescues from obscurity those in the Irish revolutionary movement who, like Sean McLoughlin, not only envisaged, but fought for, an Ireland very different to the impoverished capitalist neo-colony that would come into being after 1922.Book... -
The Civil Wars of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston: Volume 1: Virginia to Mississippi, 1861-1863 by Richard M. McMurry 9781611215922
RRP: $50.68$42.80Joseph Eggleston Johnston was one of the original five full generals of the Confederacy. He graduated West Point in the same 1829 class as Robert E. Lee and served in the War with Mexico, the Seminole Wars in Florida, and in Texas and Kansas. By 1860 he... -
Atisa Dipamkara: The Illuminator of the Awakened Mind by James Apple 9781611806472
RRP: $44.85$29.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806472Author James AppleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Alchemy of Happiness by Al-Ghazzali 9781616405021
$17.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616405021Author Al-GhazzaliFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
The Boys in the Boat (Movie Tie-In): Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown 9780593512302
RRP: $37.05$24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593512302Author Daniel James BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
US Landing Craft of World War II, Vol. 1: The LCP(L), LCP(R), LCV, LCVP, LCS(L), LCM and LCI by David Doyle 9780764358616
RRP: $37.03$25.00No less than Dwight Eisenhower described Andrew Jackson Higgins as "the man who won the war for us," referring to the landing craft he perfected. Those craft, the WWII LCP(L), LCP(R), LCV, LCVP, and LCM, are presented in this volume (the first of two on... -
The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643-1663 by Kirsteen M. Mackenzie
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book provides the first major analysis of the covenanted interest from an integrated three kingdoms perspective. It examines the reaction of the covenanted interest to the actions and policies of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, drawing particular... -
Is the International Legal Order Unraveling? by David L. Sloss 9780197652800
RRP: $234.00$211.24This book grows out of the work of a study group convened by the American Branch of the International Law Association. The group had a mandate to examine threats to the rules-based international order and possible responses. The several chapters in the... -
The Battle for North Africa: El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II by Glyn Harper
RRP: $44.83$39.80In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most of Europe, and pushed into North Africa. As the Allies scrambled to counter the Axis armies, the British Eighth Army confronted the... -
Around Yarmouth, Totland and Freshwater by Anthony Mitchell
RRP: $29.23$22.85Within these covers are over 200 high-quality images from the fascinating past of Yarmouth, Totland, Freshwater and the whole of the western end of the Isle of Wight. This area is world-famous because of its unique geographical and topographical features...