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Filled with larger-than-life characters, and revelations of the vision and technology it took to dominate the skies before and during, World War II, here is a gripping piece of aviation history.Pan Am at War chronicles the airline's historic role in...

Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the primary...

In After Caliban, Erica Moiah James examines the rise of global Caribbean artists in the 1990s and their production of a decolonized art history for the Caribbean. She draws on AimE CEsaire's rewriting of Shakespeare's The Tempest, in which Caliban...

Framing the U.S. consulate as a central point of analysis, Baghdad Dispatches highlights the experiences of refugees, prisoners of war, and foreign nationals stranded in Ottoman Baghdad.Jameel Haque examines the history of Ottoman Baghdad during the...

Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the primary...

Marking the sixtieth anniversary of the premiere of Zulu, starring Stanley Baker and Michael Caine, this volume brings together contributions from leading military historians to analyse changing depictions of the British Army and its role in nineteenth-...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068336300Author Hugh GaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Gretton BooksPublisher Gretton Books

Against the backdrop of major geopolitical developments, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine and intensifying great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific, this book undertakes a comprehensive reassessment of the United States' first Cold War strategy...

Tunisia's Andalusians tells the captivating story of those Andalusians, descendants of Muslims expelled from Spain in the seventeenth century, who sought refuge in Tunisia. Rather than simply replicating Iberian traditions, Andalusian culture in Tunisia...

The passion play at Oberammergau in Bavaria is one of the oldest theatrical spectacles in the world, with a history of regular performance that dates back to 1634. By the dawn of the twentieth century, each season drew hundreds of thousands of spectators...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887441443Author Rich CrossFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Twenty-five years of a Scottish parliament presents the opportunity to take stock of a new Scotland, to be seen in the context of wider social, political and cultural changes occurring over the previous fifty years. The book draws upon a wealth of...

This book analyses the Scottish kirk's use of public shame to persecute the kingdom's Catholic minority. In early modern Scotland, where the national church mandated that a specially constructed stool of repentance be placed directly in front of every...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249203Author Gareth RoddyFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Sweet potatoes were among the American crops Christopher Columbus brought back to Europe-where they were thought to be an aphrodisiac. In China, this versatile root became a staple that fueled rapid population growth. Introduced to Japan to stave off...

Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies' man with a wicked sense of humor, a staunch opponent of slavery, and an unabashed elitist. Gouverneur Morris, who has been described as "the most...

In this book, contributors go in-depth to analyze the 'crime of aggression', 'crimes against humanity' and their applicability in the context of the invasion of Ukraine. The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine brings the principles of Nuremberg to the...

Fort Worth from World War II to 1960 reviews Fort Worth's history during the challenging times of World War II, the postwar adjustment period, and the first full decade of the Cold War. Harold Rich tells the story in broad strokes with foci on local...

The Welsh at War trilogy is the culmination of over twelve years of painstaking research by the author into the Welsh men and infantry units who fought in the Great War. These units included the four regular regiments – the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, South...

This book examines the uniforms and equipment of the backbone of the French army, the Line Infantry, at the height of its glory. The crushing defeat of the Prussian army at the twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt in 1806 was arguably the most impressive...

From clandestine operations with the French and Belgian resistance, through assisting evaders after the ill-fated Arnhem operation, acting as Montgomery's eyes during the Ardennes counteroffensive, spearheading Canadian and Polish armoured formations...

Of all the Allied strategic defensive campaigns in the first half of World War II, the fight to defend Malaya and Singapore provided perhaps the best chance to use special forces to wider effect. In December 1941 the issue in the East during World War II...

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In the first consideration of widows in early Christianity, Rebekah Yurong Zhao explores the social-economic situation of widows, their means of support, and their contributions to the church. Through literary analysis of three different genres of early...

This book examines the active political life of Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (1566-1614), a poet and mystic who renounced her noble birthright for an ascetic, spiritual life.Historian Freddy Cristobal Dominguez draws on Luisa's autobiographical writings,...

How reforms to girlhood education in the Progressive Era cemented inequalities of gender, race, and class in urban school systems. In Home Work, historian Ruby Oram tells the story of how middle-class, white women reformers lobbied the state to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915249210Author Gareth RoddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987944561Author John P. KaminskiFormat HardbackPage Count 94Imprint Cntr for Study of the American ConstitutPublisher Cntr for Study of the American...

A cultural and culinary history of modern Egypt through the nation's beloved tomato. By the end of the twentieth century, the tomato-indigenous to the Americas-had become Egypt's top horticultural crop and a staple of Egyptian cuisine. The tomato...

Remarkable Renaissance Books tells the story of eighteen extraordinary early printed volumes, from the very first titles printed in the fifteenth century to the groundbreaking scientific texts of the Enlightenment. Including Gutenberg's watershed...

Brings together geographies and methodologies often kept apart by the difficulties of researching such a broad-ranging topic as the war Shots in the Dark offers cutting-edge scholarship across different subfields in World War II history, revealing new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915143112Author Philip DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Atlantic Publishing, Croxley GreenPublisher Atlantic Publishing, Croxley Green

In 2003, Army Cavalry Officer, 2nd Lieutenant Ross Berkoff, led his Scout Platoon from the 10th Mountain Division on more than 10,000 miles of reconnaissance missions over a nine-month period across the dangerous southern provinces of Kandahar and...

Presbyterian Church missionaries and the theology of race, enslavement, and Native American removal In Southern Shepherds, Savage Wolves, Otis Westbrook Pickett Sr. examines Presbyterian missionaries' attempts to live up to their understood calling from...

Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Over the last 150 years, activists...

Russia is intent on attacking beyond Ukraine. Can Europe defend itself? While Ukraine holds back Russia's onslaught, Moscow has been working hard at rebuilding its army for the next invasion. But for the past 30 years, Britain and Europe have been...

This book re-writes the origins of the progressive 1960s. It argues that 94 leading British intellectuals, nearly all humanists, were inspired by H.G. Wells to amend the ethical laws of the nation under a banner of "The Open Conspiracy". Using a wealth...

The official account of the Royal Artillery's activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment, integrating newly published research with a detailed account of their activities, logistics and...