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Raze Paris to the ground. Burn the bridges. Destroy all industry.These were just a few of the crazed orders issued by Hitler in the closing months of the Second World War, as the Allies rolled inexorably towards Berlin.This ‘scorched earth’ policy might...

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers...

The Illustrated Guide to American Fascism is a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of fascism in the United States leading up to and following the rise of Donald Trump, as well as a stark warning...

The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681378497Author Jonathan SchellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783935751315Author Nicholas J. ConardFormat HardbackPage Count 330Imprint Kerns VerlagPublisher Kerns Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085916Author Denis J. B. ShawFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356409743Author Dr Abbas PannakalFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335018281Author Daphne Palmer GeanacopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mills & BoonPublisher Harlequin (UK)Weight(grams) 222g

An edition and translation, with introduction and extended commentary, of all the royal charters granted to Jersey. Examines the process by which the charters were negotiated and the pressures operating on the parties to each grant, including the crown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510315Author Jose Daniel Fernandez DugarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why is blindness so frightening? In this fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511346Author Lesley WhitesideFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919654287Author Nicky BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Nicky Browne BooksPublisher Nicky Browne Books

This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and...

This edited collection examines Mass-Observation as an innovative research organization, a social-movement, and an archival project. It features essays that highlight the research of contemporary scholars and focuses on the thematic interdisciplinary use...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511322Author Megan McAuleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511360Author Terence DooleyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111058399Author Erich PerniceFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 540g

During the war hundreds of German panzer commanders and gunners accomplished the feat of personally destroying at least 20 enemy tanks. In this book they are for the first time all gathered together, with their individual stories examined in detail using...

The period covered by this volume, roughly 800-1400, considers genocidal massacres and actions within the context of the pre-modern state, a time when the term “genocide” did not yet exist. In considering rhetoric, discrimination, and political and legal...

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COIN - counterinsurgency - is a major element in international relations - both historical and 'IR theory' - and in military history. It was a vital component in the Cold War and decolonisation. COIN is now widely contrasted with 'Big War' theory in the...

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For far too long the male protagonists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement have dominated accounts of this revolution in British art. This book aims to redress the balance in showing just how engaged and central women were to the endeavour – as the subjects...

Military commanders matter. They win or lose battles, determine the outcomes of wars and often shape the history of nations. But they are also human individuals. This study of thirty-four British commanders, from Boudica to Bomber Harris, reflects on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710648Author David H StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft,...

A vivid look at the wartime experiences of a Jewish woman in the Confederate South Emma Mordecai lived an unusual life. She was Jewish when Jews comprised less than 1 percent of the population of the Old South, and unmarried in a culture that offered...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784274542Author Keith SomervilleFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pelagic PublishingPublisher Pelagic Publishing

Over 60 years on from its inception, the celebrated Fun Palace civic project – developed in the 1960s by the radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price – continues to capture the architectural imagination. Despite the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811773713Author Don TroianiFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063398269Author Martin Luther KingImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Aesthetic practices shape and are shaped by spatial formations. The essays of this volume survey configurations of spaces as macro, micro and meso, and study from a transregional perspective the ways they are created, described, negotiated and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788564243Author Ruth OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Ruby Tuesday Books LtdPublisher Ruby Tuesday Books LtdWeight(grams) 135g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888571286Author H M StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Oxbow BooksPublisher Oxbow Books

A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of the most significant and well-known actions in the Vietnam War. Operation Apache Snow was the result of a...

**AWARDED THE GERMAN NON-FICTION PRIZE 2022**‘Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book strikes a balance between the forensic analysis of individual behaviour and a new understanding of how the toxic political culture of a defeated monarchy helped to disrupt...