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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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474492072Author Said AljoumaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Scotland’s history is dramatic, violent and bloody. Being England’s northern neighbour has never been easy. Scotland’s queens have had to deal with war, murder, imprisonment, political rivalries and open betrayal. They have loved and lost, raised kings...

This is an original interpretation of domestic patriotism and limitations of wartime mobilization in rural and urban communities of the British Home Front at a local level from 1914-1918. It is a critical examination of the wartime role of the local...

This cornucopia of medieval food and drink will fascinate all of those interested in the story of England’s cuisine through the ages as well as those interested in the history of the Middle Ages.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529932492Author Emily HauserFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint DoubledayPublisher Transworld Publishers Ltd

As auction prices continue to climb and the super-rich continue to use works of great beauty of investment vehicles, it is impossible not to speculate about the fates of the hundreds of antiques, jewels and paintings that have gone missing over the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733646706Author Peter FitzSimonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint Hachette AustraliaPublisher Hachette AustraliaWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350338258Author Luigi AlonziFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035015139Author Joel BuddFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

Travel back in time to the ancient Kingdom of Benin and Benin City and find out all about Benin life and culture. Like modern travel guides, the books in this series highlight must-see features and explain local culture. Each highlighted destination...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350351141Author Ruth BalintFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

The story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonate At the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career landscape. Domestic labor and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035022847Author Sir Max HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Pan BooksPublisher Pan Macmillan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399811750Author Amitav AcharyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Basic BooksPublisher John Murray Press

The epic story of the past, present, and future of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for the world.Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755647729Author Malissa TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint I. B. Tauris & CompanyPublisher I. B. Tauris & CompanyWeight(grams) 454g

Today, wrist watches are part practical, part fashion and part wearable tech. This was just as true at the beginning of the 1970s, with the invention of the digital watch. Initially they were incredibly expensive, first seen on the wrists of James Bond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350278660Author Dr. Tim SatterthwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Bloomsbury Visual ArtsPublisher Bloomsbury Visual ArtsWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781472861771Author Thomas AndersonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Osprey Publishing (UK)Publisher Osprey Publishing (UK)Weight(grams) 454g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350346390Author Tim MC InerneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

American troops invaded North Africa in November 1942, but did not face serious resistance until the following February, when they finally tangled with Rommel’s Afrika Korps—and the Germans gave the inexperienced Americans a nasty drubbing at Kasserine...

Explore the past and discover life in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes with this time travel guidebook

The story of one of the most influential labor leaders of the twentieth century reveals powerful lessons that still resonate At the dawn of the twentieth century, Black girls and women faced a harsh career landscape. Domestic labor and...

The Leibstandarte, which started out as Hitler’s personal bodyguard, was considered the elite within the elite of the SS. Even before the war broke out in September 1939, the Leibstandarte had started to expand and take on more and more military duties...

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland explores the interaction of human populations with land, waters, forests and wildlife. This volume takes...

This accessible study examines the Holocaust’s “forgotten victims” – Jews and other victims who suicided from 1939 to 1945. Using diaries, survivor memoirs, and survivor interviews, the manuscript places suicide victims and their experiences into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486751031Author Eduard SprangerFormat HardbackPage Count 12Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 290g

A unique and brilliantly readable history of the rise and fall of private life in the West.

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This is the first book in a monumental history of one of the most elite units in the German military in WWII. This book covers the “GD” from its inception as a “Wach”-Regiment in 1921 through its evolution into an infantry regiment. Covered are the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350349575Author Daut DautiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

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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...