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A Telegraph, Spectator, Prospect, and Times Best Book of the Year “This is a story not just about Pétain but about war and resistance, the moral compromises of leadership, and the meaning of France itself.”―Margaret MacMillan “This is a finely tuned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503870499Author Ann HeinrichsFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Child's World, Inc. StridePublisher Child's World, Inc. StrideWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503870253Author Ann HeinrichsFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Child's World, Inc. StridePublisher Child's World, Inc. StrideWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503870307Author Ann HeinrichsFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Child's World, Inc. StridePublisher Child's World, Inc. StrideWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009502122Author Patricia Eunji KimFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

A leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, with enormous consequences for our society today.Every premodern society, from Sumeria to China to...

Engaging the writing of the fifteenth-century Confucian theorist and chancellor of the Imperial Academy, Qiu Jun, these essays enlarge our grasp of both Confucianism and the Chinese state, exploring what educated Chinese imagined as best practice in...

Why is Roman law so boring? In this book, Zachary Herz argues that the bureaucratic, positivistic world of Roman law is not a distraction from the violent autocracy of the Roman empire, but an imagined escape. Lawyers, bureaucrats, and even emperors used...

Un o brif seiliau hunaniaeth genedlaethol y Cymry yn ystod y cyfnod modern cynnar oedd eu hanes – roedd eu dealltwriaeth o’u gorffennol yn cynnig iddynt amlinelliad o’r hyn a oedd yn eu diffinio. Mae’r gyfrol hon yn archwilio naratifau hanes yn ôl...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800963399Author Garrett M. GraffFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint MonorayPublisher Octopus Publishing Group

Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity, yet the role of the home as the setting of religious practice for all faiths has been largely overlooked. In contrast, this study offers the first examination of domestic...

The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations traces the beginning of Late Antiquity from a new angle. Shifting the focus away from the Christianization of people or the transformation of institutions,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998365401Author Craig BairdFormat HardbackImprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

China's war against Japan was, at its heart, a struggle for food. As the Nationalists, Chinese Communist Party, and Japanese vied for a dwindling pool of sustenance, grain emerged as the lynchpin of their strategies for a long-term war effort. In the...

Agricola was the great Flavian warrior governor of Britain tasked by the emperor Vespasian with conquering the far north of its main island for the first time. Initially campaigning in Wales and then the north of modern England to secure his rear, he...

This is the history of Britain’s munitions industry in the First World War. It begins with the shortages caused by an expanding army required to fight in trenches, then shows how the country was organised, with the expansion of private companies and the...

For much of its history Katowice in southern Poland was just a village in the Silesian Highlands. It only became a city in the second half of the nineteenth century, when it developed into an important Prussian industrial centre. However, it is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593685532Author Timothy W. RybackFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335g

For many centuries horse-riding peoples populated the steppes to the north of today’s Almaty and the green hills to the south, but the city itself – formerly known as ‘Alma-Ata’ – is not even 180 years old. Its initial development was closely linked to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682475850Author Sam J TangrediFormat HardbackImprint US Naval Institute PressPublisher US Naval Institute Press

Legend has it that the end of France's empire in sub-Saharan Africa was a peaceful affair. This book tells a very different story, exposing the shocking violence of a secret war. Its theater was Cameroon in the 1950s and '60s, where a mass movement for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593536469Author Mathelinda NabugodiFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 506g

The story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt.This is the true story of a rivalry between a pair of improbable...

The story of how an Italian American housewife and community organizer battled a Brooklyn Mafia boss and political activist for the hearts and minds of a white working class in revolt.This is the true story of a rivalry between a pair of improbable...

Between 11 October 1944 and 8 April 1945, wireless operator/air gunner Roy Andrews flew thirty-five missions with the RAF’s 215 Squadron, based in Bengal, India. His missions, some over fourteen hours long, included bombing, strafing, and Air-Sea Rescue...

A compelling analysis of the different ways in which Karl Marx investigates the political and social phenomenon of power.As a political militant, as a journalist, as a critic of capitalism and as a revolutionary theorist, Marx continually confronts the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798337200910Author Daniel P MannixFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

Urban planning was an essential instrument of the National Socialist dictatorship. It served to legitimize rule and demonstrate strength, accompanied rearmament and war, conveyed the socio-political program, was a medium of competition with other states,...

An adventurous, dazzling and original continent-sized history that brings South America’s epic past and fascinating present to life'An unputdownable delight' JON LEE ANDERSON'A magnificent contribution to the Latin American canon' MARIE ARANA'Erudite,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538769508Author Lindsey StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Legacy LitPublisher Legacy Lit

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159357Author Nicole BeauchampFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159494Author Christopher BalzanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467150309Author Bill BleyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467159234Author Gerry MatlockFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915972873Author Nigel JepsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint YouCaxton PublicationsPublisher YouCaxton Publications

Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and metropolitan gentlemen in early seventeenth-century England, this book argues that colonization did not just operate on the peripheries of the political realm, and confronts the entangled...

First published in 1974, Northern Ireland is a collection of documents which constitutes an illuminating description and analysis of the complex religious, political, social, and economic factors that underlie the Irish conflict. The author goes back to...

First published in 1976, Interwar Britain presents a highly readable and up-to-date account of a crucial period in modern British history. The major economic and social issues, ranging from economic growth and policy to social welfare and housing, are...

Paradox is no new feature of Polish political life. A Slavnation, fiercely Catholic, yet looking towards the non-Slavonic, largely non-Catholic west; a people whose sense of nationhood is uniquely strong, yet who have spent much of their history under...

On a cold, moonlit night in January 1944, Anne-Marie Walters, just 20 years old, parachuted into southwest France to work with the Resistance in preparation for the long-awaited Allied invasion. The daughter of a British father and a French mother, she...