Released Last 30 Days

Since World War I, weapons of war have become increasingly more sophisticated as industrialization and computerization have taken hold in weapons design and manufacture. Tanks & AFVs is a directory of more than 1000 of the finest tanks, jeeps, trucks,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262052658Author Andre RottmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing upon the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and explores why this history has been overlooked. After August 1833, when the British Parliament abolished slavery in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSean Kim Butorac is Assistant Professor of Political Science at North Central College .Book InformationISBN 9781512829068Author Sean ButoracFormat HardbackPage...

Resisting Nazism paints a vivid picture of resistance to far-right extremism across the generations.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962098359Author Alexander M. RigbyFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint TRA PublishingPublisher TRA Publishing

The early sixteenth century saw the rise of two Mediterranean empires-the Christian Habsburgs, based in Spain and Austria, and the Muslim Ottomans, centered in the Balkans and Anatolia-with strikingly similar ambitions. Holy Roman Emperor Charles V...

An inspiring group biography of thirteen intrepid women who challenged the status quo in interwar Britain.What did it mean to be a 'rebel woman' in the interwar years? Historian Sarah Lonsdale traces the struggles, passions and achievements of a set of...

Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.

A fresh look at the legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor from hardscrabble childhood in the Arizona desert, to facing adversity as a female in politics, to her work as the first woman Justice on the US Supreme Court.By being the first woman on the Supreme...

Ian Bradley has been fascinated by spas since regularly taking the waters at Tunbridge Wells as a boy. He has visited, written and broadcast about spas across Europe and sampled the cures that they offer for over forty years. This book distils his...

Now in its third edition, this new volume of the acclaimed The History of Russia offers a wealth of material on events of the last decade and a half.When first published, Charles Ziegler's The History of Russia was acclaimed as a source of information...

Soviet materialities explores how material transforms our understanding of Soviet culture, from the textures of domestic space in 1960s apartment blocks to Gulag labour on the Moscow canal, and from avant-garde literary theory in the 1920s to conceptual...

Affective Dimensions of Political Violence challenges the dominant accounts of political violence, which view it as a is purely rational or structural phenomenon, often dismissing emotions like rage and anger as irrational and therefore apolitical. ...

Dip below the Nile�s surface to the realm of ancient Egypt�s green-faced God of life, death, and rebirth. � Known to the Greeks as Osiris, Wesir is one of ancient Egypt�s most enduring deities, worshipped from at least the Old Kingdom, alongside his...

The full record of diocesan administration under Bishop Hatfield. This edition completes the publication of the surviving medieval episcopal registers from the diocese of Durham. Thomas Hatfield was a member of the inner circle of Edward III, who...

Richard Edgar Peter Brooker, always known as Peter to his family and friends, left school and joined the RAF in 1937. He was posted to 56 Squadron and in 1940 he served for several weeks as personal assistant to Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park, before flying...

Begum Samru (b. circa 1750-d. 1836) was a north Indian woman ruler who used art and architecture to facilitate her social, political, and financial station in early modern India. Rising from the ranks of courtesans in Mughal Delhi to become the commander...

This book explores the life of Muammar al-Qaddafi, the enigmatic Libyan leader, from his birth to his assassination in a drainage ditch outside the city of Sirte in October 2011. The first authoritative biography of Qaddafi, it aims to make sense of his...

From haunted barrows to ruined castles, Britain's landscape is rich with tales of hidden treasure - stories not just of gold, but of ghosts, curses and forbidden knowledge. Treasures on Earth gathers hundreds of these traditions for the first time,...

The four volumes of The Complete Medal of Honor present the full citations of the 3,537 awards granted to 3,517 men (nineteen were double recipients) and one woman between the start of the Civil War in 1861 and the withdrawal of US troops from...

This is an extraordinary account of courage, survival, and sacrifice in the aftermath of one of the Second World War's most daring missions. While the Doolittle Raid on Japan is often celebrated for its audacity and strategic importance, this book...

Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle" is the first English-language intellectual biography of Omeljan Pritsak, the co-founder of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the first professor of Ukrainian...

As the 20th century recedes, how should its history be written? This study offers a comprehensive, integrated history of Europe's early 20th century, seen as the crucible of a new metropolitan modernity. Geoff Eley unites social, cultural-intellectual,...

**Battle Group "Lohse"** - Oberleutnant Heinrich Lohse's memoirs detail his time as a training officer at the 5th Wehrmacht Infantry School in Poznan. When the battle for the city began, he led a reserve battle group and commanded the fortress...

During the Anglo-American War of 1812, British forces launched hundreds of amphibious raids on the United States. The richest parts of the United States were slave-states, and thousands of enslaved African Americans fled to British forces in what was to...

The 1960s in Europe saw the emergence of social protest, newly confident center-left parties, Cold War detente, and frustrations with the pace and direction of European integration. The Federal Republic of Germany experienced these upheavals from a...

In the summer of 1943, Hitler set his sights on a decisive blow that he believed would turn the tide of war on the Eastern Front. That blow would be dealt at Kursk - site of a huge Soviet salient measuring some 120 miles wide and 75 miles deep, and the...

The Kfz. 13/14 represented a significant step forward for the German army in the realm of armoured scout cars following the devastation of First World War. Initially intended for training purposes, despite their limitations, including inadequate...

This groundbreaking exploration of the rich tapestry of lives shaped by the winds of change. For over three centuries, the people of Orkney and Shetland have ventured across the globe, leaving their mark on communities from the Arctic to the Antipodes...

In 1941, when Philip Lazowski was 11 years old, his mother and two younger siblings were murdered by the Nazis, along with most of the Jews from his village in Poland. His mother’s last words to him exhorted Phillip to “be somebody” because “the world...

In this elegant follow-up to the bestselling Brutalist Japan, Paul Tulett brings his distinctive eye to South Korea's post-war architecture, capturing the austere beauty of concrete across cities and decades. Brutalist Korea features more than 220...

As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals of the war and of the subsequent violent breakup of the Habsburg, German, and Ottoman empires magnified...

Celebrate 250 years of important people, places, and events in American history.In honor of America's 250th birthday, America Celebrates takes young readers on an exciting journey through a timeline of influential figures, notable landmarks, and special...

The long-running Decisions Series tackles the Brown Water Navy. At the outset of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott drafted the Anaconda Plan, an ambitious strategy to blockade southern ports and use army forces supported by naval gunboats to secure...

From emergency relief shelters to a cardboard cathedral and exhibition spaces in shipping containers, Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has made his name with his restlessly inventive response to material and situation, as much as with his...

A highly illustrated study of the T-72 main battle tank and variants, detailing its history from the Cold War Soviet Army though to the current War in Ukraine. The T-72 is one of the most recognisable tanks in the world. Produced in large quantities, it...

A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life.A queer scrapbook offers a treasure trove of LGBTIQ+ histories from across Britain and Ireland. Packed with materials, from interviews and newspaper articles to photographs and flyers, the book...

RAF in Camera: 1980s - The Later Years by Keith Wilson provides a visually rich account of the Royal Air Force during the transformative latter half of the 1980s. This continuation of Wilson's earlier work examines the RAF's operational and technological...