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Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II. Before World War II the world’s navies envisioned the submarine as a tool to hunt and kill cruisers and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511377Author Niamh HowlinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

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Brought to you by Penguin.There 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...

Englandspiel Nordpol, or Operation North Pole, was a successful Second World War counterintelligence operation conducted by Germany's military intelligence (the Abwehr) between 1942 and 1944. On the night of 6-7 November 1941 two SOE agents, Huub Lauwers...

The stories of the Black men and women who combated racial prejudice in Washington, DC, with sports and music In the Nation's Capital, music and sports have played a central role in the lives of African Americans, often serving as a barometer of social...

This book focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian writer of the Greek language in the second century CE, and his engagement with contemporary debates regarding the form and register of language best suited to Greek literature in the Roman Empire. Many...

The paradoxes of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Middle East revealed through the accounts of three working class European travelers to Egypt This book tells the stories of two French women and a French African man, travelers connected to the...

Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational connections across the built heritage of the world’s most dispersed and culturally diverse region. A...

From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing enormous amounts of booty and tens of thousands of captives, hauling them back to the slave markets in their...

In the 16th century warships engaged at close range, sometimes with yards touching, and small arms fire and hand-to-hand combat were at least as important as the "great guns." As time went on, the big guns became more decisive and increased in...

This fully illustrated study explores the formidable Athenian army, rivalled only by the Spartan army in terms of battlefield prowess and influence. In 508 BC, the reforms of Kleisthenes established the ten tribes of Athens, inaugurating a system of...

Not Just Green, Not Just White brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the rich intersections between race and environment. Together these contributors demonstrate that the field of environmental history, with its core questions and...

A highly illustrated history of the Cold War operations of the submarines of the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1990. The Cold War was a period of intense activity for submarines of the Royal Navy, with many hair-raising incidents involving Soviet vessels...

After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants were hired to work for newly formed government agencies to get the new republic quickly on its feet. But...

What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal miners known as zama zamas venture in an illicit—often...

Across American history, the question of whose lives are long and healthy and whose lives are short and sick has always been shaped by the social and economic order. From the dispossession of Indigenous people and the horrors of slavery to infectious...

This book reveals central texts of Augustan poetry-Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Horace's Odes-to be environmental poetry. In contrast to readings that assume forms of nature poetry are mere Romantic projections, that suggest Roman authors did not...

This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s. The eleven authors represent a...

Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements together with personal...

In the Victorian and Edwardian eras British explorers sought to become respected geographers and popular public figures, downplaying or reframing their reliance on others for survival. Far from being solitary heroes, these explorers were in reality...

Discover British history as you have never seen it before in this unique and funny history book for adults, brought to you from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories series.Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on...

A broadly researched cultural history, Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexico. Though other scholars have focused on the...

The story of the true savior of Little Round Top at Gettysburg—a 26-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, who paid with his life to defend that hill. Citizen-soldier Strong Vincent was many things: Harvard graduate, lawyer, political speaker, descendent of...

A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today’s abolition feminist struggles. This new edition of an award-winning book features a foreword from acclaimed...

Illustrated throughout, this book explains the composition and qualities of the Soviet tank force that fought Germany’s mighty Panzers at the biggest tank battle in history. In the summer of 1943, Hitler’s army had rebuilt its Panzer forces after defeat...

The long 19th century, approximately 1750 to 1918, was one of significant existential change for peoples across the globe. The beginning of this period saw the expansion of empires, and shortly thereafter, the Euro-American Enlightenment brought about...

After seventy-five years of independence, the history of Pakistan remains centered on the state, its ideology and the two-nation theory. Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan seeks to shift that focus away from histories of an imagined nation, to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886871456Author Paige V PolinskyFormat HardbackImprint Blastoff! DiscoveryPublisher Blastoff! DiscoveryWeight(grams) 227g

This is the definitive history of the Fort McKay Metis Nation. It traces the evolution of the community from the mid nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, paying special attention to genealogy, land-use, land-tenure, and responses to mass oil...

Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529935851Author Emmanuel CarrèreImprint Vintage DigitalPublisher Random House (Digital)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861592418Author Jessica Harrison-HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512098Author Punyaphan KlykoomFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906257385Author Marc QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint FontankaPublisher Fontanka

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187424Author Jolyon ConnellFormat PaperbackImprint Connell GuidesPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD

The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced and the narrative threads that connected them to their own past and homelands were forever severed. Many have been left with only...

The Western understanding of the West as the democratic “Free World” and the East as totalitarian and repressive continues to impact how scholars evaluate efforts to commemorate the Holocaust in East and West.This book discusses the emergence and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783112607992Author Karl Julius BelochFormat HardbackPage Count 438Imprint de GruyterPublisher de GruyterWeight(grams) 880g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906257408Author Grigory BarkhinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint FontankaPublisher FontankaWeight(grams) 40g