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King George's Hangman: Henry Hawley and the Battle of Falkirk 1746 Jonathan D Oates 9781804515693
RRP: €29.75€25.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515693Author Jonathan D OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Training School for Elephants Sophy Roberts 9780857528384
RRP: €20.22€17.18'A modern-day Freya Stark' - Tatler'Roberts' writing is beguiling' - The i'Roberts is a wonderfully lyrical writer' - ObserverFrom the acclaimed author of The Lost Pianos of Siberia, comes a new journey tracing a colonial-era African expedition.In 1879,... -
Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women Hetta Howes 9781399408738
RRP: €29.75€25.29A spectacular, vivid, groundbreaking work of history which takes us into the minds and lives of medieval women. What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives?... -
Ham & Jam: 6th Airborne Division in Normandy - Generating Combat Effectiveness: November 1942 - September 1944 Andrew Wheale 9781804515709
RRP: €35.64€30.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515709Author Andrew WhealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century Paulina Banas 9781617976674
RRP: €71.39€60.68Illustrated publications and the role of market forces in shaping representations of Egypt at a time when European colonial interests in the region were at their peak, with 80 color and black and white illustrationsIn the nineteenth century, following... -
Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE Christopher Ehret 9780691244860
RRP: €20.22€17.18A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in... -
The Naval Government of Newfoundland in the French Wars: 1793-1815 Professor John Morrow 9781350383203
RRP: €34.50€29.32Exploring the professional and political ideas of Newfoundland naval governors during the French Wars, this book traces the evolution of the Naval Governorship and administration of the region, shedding a light on a critical period of its early modern... -
Rome in the Third Century: A Troubled Empire Michael Sage 9781399063128
RRP: €26.18€22.25For its first two centuries the Roman Empire enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence. There were short periods of trouble and instability, but they had no lasting effect. At the end of the second century AD, the situation began to change and by the third... -
Tiger in the Sea: The Ditching of Flying Tiger 923 and the Desperate Struggle for Survival Eric Lindner 9781493071999
RRP: €17.84€15.16September 1962: On a moonless night over the raging Atlantic Ocean, a thousand miles from land, the engines of Flying Tiger flight 923 to Germany burst into flames, one by one.Pilot John Murray didn’t have long before the plane crashed headlong into the... -
The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean Anthony McElligott 9781474227995
RRP: €29.74€25.28The deportation of 1,755 Jews from the islands of Rhodes and Cos in July 1944, shortly after the last deportation from Hungary, was the last transport to leave Greece for Auschwitz and brought to a close the last significant phase of the genocide of... -
Atrocity: A Literary History Bruce Robbins 9781503640559
RRP: €35.69€30.33Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity. Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, atrocity was not always seen as violating a moral norm or inviting... -
Gold: How it Shaped History Alan Ereira 9781036115333
RRP: €29.75€25.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
From Trenton to Yorktown: Turning Points of the Revolutionary War John R. Maass 9781472863751
RRP: €29.75€25.29Published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War, this sweeping narrative details the six turning points that ensured victory. For eight gruelling years, American and British military forces struggled in a bloody war... -
Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria Joseph A. Seeley 9781501777370
RRP: €138.04€117.33Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and... -
Event-Cities 5: Poetics Bernard Tschumi 9780262549370
RRP: €42.84€36.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262549370Author Bernard TschumiFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
White Supremacy: From Eugenics to Great Replacement Gavin Evans 9781915563040
RRP: €15.46€13.14Buffalo, New York, 2022. Ten black people murdered. The killer, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, says he was driven by 'Great Replacement' - the conspiracy theory that a Jewish-led elite is replacing white people with black and brown people. This, and a spate... -
The Lost Cause of the Confederacy and American Civil War Memory Dr David J. Anderson 9781780938059
RRP: €101.15€85.98It is surprising that scholars of Civil War memory have paid relatively little attention to the function of nostalgia within the Lost Cause movement created by white southern political, military, and civilian elites to explain Confederate defeat. This... -
A Student Workbook for Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Young Reader's Edition, Volume 1) Wilfred M. McClay 9781641773119
RRP: €21.41€18.20The Student Workbook is intended to be used with the Teacher's Guide. Both provide chapter summaries which teachers may use in teaching students to read for the main idea. The Student Workbook contains reading questions for each chapter of the LAND OF... -
The Trials of Edward Vaughan: Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century Britain, c.1596–1661 Lloyd Bowen 9781837721771
RRP: €23.79€20.22This book tells a remarkable story. Edward Vaughan was the fifth son of a landed gentleman, and could not have expected much beyond a career in law. However, by fair means and foul (mostly foul), he managed to gain possession of one of the largest... -
London's Theatrical Heritage David C. Ramzan 9781398120426
RRP: €19.03€16.17London theatres have hosted thousands of performances of plays and musicals, from ancient Greek tragedies to modern artistic dance. In this book author David Ramzan takes a look at the history of theatres located throughout the city. London’s first... -
The Great Siege of Malta Marcus Bull 9780241523650
RRP: €35.70€30.35Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic – a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers and Hospitaller Knights on a strategically crucial but near waterless... -
Isle of Wight's Military Heritage Andrew Powell-Thomas 9781398117198
RRP: €19.03€16.17The Isle of Wight has been a popular holiday destination since the Victorian times, with the island known for its mild climate, beautiful scenery and historic connections. It also sits right at the entrance to the important Southampton and Portsmouth... -
Halls for All: A History of Village Halls Louise Beaton 9781398120716
RRP: €20.22€17.18Rural life in England has changed for the better in the past century, thanks in no small part to the 10,000 village and community halls that provide a home for fitness classes, WIs, amateur dramatics, dances, toddler groups, parish councils, the polling... -
Henry VIII and his Rabbis: How Henry VIII Relied on Jewish Law to End His First Marriage – and Why He Failed Jerry Rabow 9781398119901
RRP: €29.75€25.29Why did it take Henry VIII six years of conflict (1527–1533) to end his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn? Henry VIII and His Rabbis tells the vivid story of this tumultuous period in Tudor history, including the first full... -
Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s Matthew Brown 9780817361976
RRP: €35.64€30.30Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s. In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by... -
Becoming Lesbian: A Queer History of Modern France Tamara Chaplin 9780226836553
RRP: €33.32€28.32A landmark analysis of how a marginalized subculture used modern media to transform public attitudes toward sexual desire. In Becoming Lesbian, historian Tamara Chaplin argues that the history of female same-sex intimacy in France is central to... -
The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust Rosie Whitehouse 9781805261629
RRP: €19.03€16.17One summer’s night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches—now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the... -
Great Contemporaries: Churchill Reflects on FDR, Hitler, Kipling, Chaplin, Balfour, and Other Giants of His Age Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350448766
RRP: €89.25€75.86Winston S. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature for “his mastery of historical and biographical description.” Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries, first published in 1937. Written in the decade before Churchill... -
Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads,: 2025 Greg Albo 9780850367935
RRP: €83.30€70.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850367935Author Greg AlboFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
Youtube Sara Green 9798886874495
RRP: €15.46€13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886874495Author Sara GreenFormat HardbackImprint Blastoff! DiscoveryPublisher Blastoff! DiscoveryWeight(grams) 227g -
Utopianism for a Dying Planet: Life after Consumerism Gregory Claeys 9780691236681
RRP: €29.75€25.29How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crisesIn the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound... -
Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying and the Future Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350450257
RRP: €30.93€26.29First published in 1932, Thoughts and Adventures is Churchill’s most philosophical book. It conveys the extraordinary variety and depth of the statesman’s mature thoughts on questions facing modern men and women. Written in what biographers have called... -
The Planning & Preparation for the Battle of Kursk Volume 2 Valeriy Zamulin 9781915070821
RRP: €44.63€37.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070821Author Valeriy ZamulinFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Messiah Mode David Sheen 9781682195123
RRP: €17.84€15.16Journalist David Sheen reports reveals how Netanyahu's inclusion of far-right Jewish Power in the coalition marks a dangerous shift towards realizing Rabbi Meir Kahane's ethnocentric dreams. After Israeli voters made it the third largest party in the... -
Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages Paul Binski 9780520402997
RRP: €49.98€42.48How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has... -
The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe Maren Elisabeth Schwab 9780691237169
RRP: €23.80€20.23A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a... -
Cassino '44 James Holland 9780857505545
RRP: €20.22€17.18There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943.And yet it didn't...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: €20.22€17.18Subtotal: -
Architecture of the Theatre: Volume 1 Grigory Barkhin 9781906257361
RRP: €35.64€30.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906257361Author Grigory BarkhinFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint FontankaPublisher FontankaWeight(grams) 40g -
Panzerwrecks 26: Bulge 2 Lee Archer 9781908032270
RRP: €29.74€25.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032270Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
A Cultural History of Medicine Roger Cooter 9781350451643
RRP: €154.70€131.50How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With...