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An up-to-date and comprehensive guide to the history of the 'Arthurian' phenomenon - the imaginary and historical world of the great British warlord and one of the huge historical mysteries of early and medieval Britain. The Arthurian story, based on...

About 10 years ago a chance encounter led Bandy to be entrusted with a treasure trove of wartime notes, photos, paintings and ephemera that coalesced themselves into the memoirs of a WW2 RAF Nursing Orderley, LAC Harold Scrafield. A story unfolded...

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During the Polish campaign, SS combat units were seconded to various formations of the Heer. Still considered more parade troops than frontline soldiers, they did not prove a decisive factor in the fighting, but the campaign was important for their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755642465Author Toby BromigeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint I. B. Tauris & CompanyPublisher I. B. Tauris & CompanyWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350227811Author Louise HerenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

New paperback edition - 95% of Lithuania's more than 200,000 Jews were exterminated during the Holocaust. Why did this small Baltic state prove to be the most efficient killing field of all?

An important commemorative collection to mark the eightieth anniversary of VE Day, to ensure the world never forgets.At the outbreak of the Second World War, the British empire covered one quarter of the earth's land surface and included one fifth of the...

On June 22, 1941, Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the turning points of World War II. Within six months, the invasion bogged down on the outskirts of Moscow, and the Eastern Front proved to be the decisive theater in the...

This book charts the extraordinary rise of the Neville family to their leading position on the local and national stage. The most powerful and most famous member of this family was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, a man remembered by history as The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035015122Author Joel BuddFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

In the fifth century, Attila the Hun terrorised both the Eastern and Western Roman Empires; his were the first of the Devil's horsemen. After his death his empire quickly disintegrated - but then came the Magyars, fighting the early Holy Roman Empire,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349014326Author Virginia NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Virago Press LtdPublisher Little, Brown Book Group

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The conference volume should raise the awareness for the promotion of national minorities among agents, institutions as well as to an interested public. It sheds light on state policies regarding national minorities with a multilateral,...

No stranger to operating in conflict-torn countries, Richard Villar, a former SAS Medical Officer and current war surgeon, volunteered to provide medical support in Central Gaza during the 2024 invasion. In Gaza Medic, he offers a gripping and harrowing...

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For the first time, here is the true story of the Second World War top secret British invention of the Dome Trainer by Lieutenant Commander Henry Stephens, Royal Navy, from 1939. After naval service in the First World War, including serving on HMS...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486751123Author P DirrFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 721g

In 1943 a women's orchestra was formed at one of the most brutal death camps ever created on the order of German SS officers. Some forty-seven or so young girls who had been sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau from various countries, played in this hotch-potch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952636332Author Emily Rook-KoepselFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian Studies

The fascinating story of how private life was won, and how it might just as easily be lost . . .Private life is in mortal danger, following decades in which it has been relinquished and ransacked. It is threatened by a three-headed monster: state and...

Early medieval stone sculptures survive across Europe: at waysides, in architectural settings and in churches and graveyards, and provide an exceptional source for understanding the aesthetics and beliefs of early medieval communities. England is no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908531926Author Ghayth ArmanaziFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111002927Author Karl HummelFormat HardbackPage Count 123Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 254g

The true story of Cicero, Rome's greatest criminal lawyer, and his times.In its final decades, a crime wave engulfed the Roman Republic. An epidemic of extortions, murders, and acts of insurrection tested the court system's capacity to maintain order. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350418325Author Elke SeibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Visual ArtsPublisher Bloomsbury Visual ArtsWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783110794052Author Nikolaos M. PanagiotakesFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

This is the first book in a series that describes in detail the establishment and combat history of the 17th SS Panzer-Grenadier-Division “Gotz von Berlichingen”. By order of Adolf Hitler, this division was established in October 1943 in France and...

The essays in this volume consider the triptych of memory, ritual, and identity in ancient Greece and Rome. The issue of identity has recently dominated the arena of public discourse with renewed urgency, and in antiquity as in the current day,...

Stories of the bravery and loyalty behind the animal recipients of the Dickin and PDSA Gold Medals, from national treasure Martin Clunes In 1942, a downed RAF bomber's crew placed their hopes for survival on Winkie, a blue chequered homing pigeon. Winkie...

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"...we were bad-ass motherfuckers in the baddest place in the universe. I understood how inane that macho-thinking was but as I soared high above the jungle with the cool air in my face I was as caught up in it as the rest of them.” One of the most...

From the start of the war on the Eastern Front, Hitler’s Ostheer, his Eastern Army, and its associated forces would wage a vernichtungskrieg, or war of annihilation, in the East. Never before had such a wide-reaching campaign been fought. The...

Now in B-format paperback, A Brief History of Nakedness traces our preoccupation with nudity in religion, politics and popular culture. Rather than study the history of the fine-art nude, for example, this book explores new territory – revealing the ways...

Criminals, drifters, beggars, the homeless, immigrants, prostitutes, tramping artisans, street entertainers, abandoned children, navvies, and families fallen on hard times a whole underclass of people on the margins of society passed through Victorian...

As the terrible conditions experienced by the British, Australian, Dutch, and American PoWs in the building of railway linking Buma and Thailand became known, as well as the appalling atrocities the men suffered at the hands of the Japanese, it was clear...

The Real Charles Dickens is an insightful look into the world of the life and work of the great 19th-century writer. Dickens led one of the most colourful and interesting lives of any author and this book delves into his difficult early life, his...