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The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Jews in Budapest between 1944 and 1945. He is recognised by the Israeli state as one of the Righteous among the Nations. This book examines both Wallenberg’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528988117Author Tony StreetFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781547612185Author Steve WatkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury YAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156806Author John J DunphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155939Author Josh MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356998629Author Rasheed KidwaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India

In the midst of a contentious atmosphere of the interwar period, the far-eastern province of Subcarpathian Rus’ attracted the personal curiosity and professional attention of Russian ethnographer and theoretician Petr Bogatyrev and Czech...

What role does religion play in migration processes? What is the reason behind migration of religious minorities? Is religious affiliation a deciding factor in choosing emigration? Some of these questions have been the focus of The Untold Journey of the...

This text is a comprehensive collection of more than 100 carefully edited documents (speeches, treaties, statements, and articles), making the great events of the era come alive through the words and phrases of those who were actively involved. Coverage...

This volume is the fourth in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the middle classes and suburbia, the changing role of women...

This volume is the third ina in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the middle classes and suburbia, the changing role of...

Manhattan Masters shows the most beautiful Dutch Masters from the Golden Age in The Frick Collection, New York. The book elaborates the creation of The Frick Collection, brought together during America’s Gilded Age in the last quarter of the 19th century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803277080Author Professor Martin BiddleFormat HardbackPage Count 590Imprint ArchaeopressPublisher ArchaeopressWeight(grams) 726g

A rare first-person account of the women's movement A comprehensive, indexed memoir about the Second Wave women’s movement by the cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Muriel Fox offers rare, firsthand stories of 29 women and one man,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164255Author Eric SternerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 426g

"The stories and testimonies in this book are not only photographs. They are beautiful, brutal, present, and personal – photographic adjectives, filled with content that is deeper and more relevant than most news photography can ever hope to be. But,...

Written with “a cinematic sense of urgency and realism” (Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author), this is the first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the secret ten-day parlay in Morocco where FDR, Churchill, and their...

'This is a fascinating book which re-examines events that liberated and thus shaped the future of Europe.' Lord Soames, Winston Churchill's grandson 'An engrossing delight . . . Dannatt and Packwood have produced an account of Churchill's D-Day worthy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593863183Author Hampton SidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Random House Large PrintPublisher Diversified PublishingWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398838598Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119953547Author Samuel MateerFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Despite having become marginalized on the map of contemporary art since the wars of the 1990s, the regions of former Yugoslavia continue to be a hub of creative activity. Especially noteworthy is the strong presence of women artists, scholars, and...

From genocidal campaigns to careful neutrality to valiant lifesaving efforts, every country’s experience of the Holocaust was different during and immediately following World War II. This book profiles 50 nations and territories from around the globe,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197786352Author Ann ShukmanFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 635g

Until relatively recently, scholars of Egyptian history understood the modern period to begin with the movement of European people and ideas to Egypt's northern shores precipitated by Napoleon's invasion in 1798. From this perspective, modern Egyptian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398838611Author Miyamoto MusashiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

A history of one of America's earliest canals and its impact on the people of the South Carolina LowcountryCompleted in 1800, the Santee Canal provided the first inland navigation route from the Upcountry of the South Carolina Piedmont to the port of...

Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of...

This volume is the fifth of a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the middle classes and suburbia, the changing role of women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156950Author Nick WynneFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

From women’s suffrage to Civil Rights for African Americans, to the environment, and the gay and lesbian liberation movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the...

The ancient Greek world consisted of approximately 1,000 autonomous polities scattered across the Mediterranean basin and was remarkable for both its diversity and its uniformity. As Greeks dispersed throughout the Mediterranean, the different...

This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early...

This book tells the story of how the "servile arts" turned into the "mechanical arts," which in turn developed into a kind of philosophical apparatus that made modern science possible. Why did the scientific revolution take place in the West and not in...

'A Scout is a Friend to all' An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys is the original blueprint and 'self-instructor' of the Boy Scout...

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Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and...

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