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Published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of Belfast's charter, Belfast 400 presents a new history of one of the world's most fascinating and most misunderstood cities. The misunderstanding, and the fascination, arise from the same contradictions...

The Second World War saw the formation and employment of a large number of specialist units in all the many theatres. The most celebrated Special Forces were the units such as the SAS, Long Range Desert Group and the American OSS but this book looks at...

The minutes, hours, and days after President John F. Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, provided no ready answers about what was going on, what would happen next, or what any of it meant. For millions of Americans transfixed by the incomparable...

Modernism is a broad term, used generally to convey a faith in progress and a healthy scepticism for received ideas and traditional values. More specifically, the Modernist tendency has often been associated with the main developments in art over the...

Confronting the contemporary poststructuralist debate from the perspective of cultural of cultural historiography, this book presents an historical study of race and ethnicity. Specifically, it provides an account, both theoretical and applied, of the...

Amongst the many thousands of lives tragically cut short in the First World War were hundreds of young men who had athletic and sporting promise. This book studies fourteen professional sportsmen who gave their lives in that most vicious of conflicts. It...

Wells Cathedral has an ancient and fascinating history stretching back to Roman times. This indispensible guide will show you all you need to know as you visit the Cathedral inside, with a saunter around the outside too.About the AuthorMelvyn Matthews is...

On the brink of the First World War, Scotland was regarded throughout the British Isles as 'the workshop of the Empire'. Not only were Clyde-built ships known the world over, Scotland produced half of Britain's total production of railway equipment, and...

HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: OXFORD takes readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Oxford, exposing all of its most scurrilous secrets. With the frightful full-colour map tourists can plot their path to the past - take...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948667855Author Richard TamesFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Historical Publications LtdPublisher Historical Publications Ltd

Concentrates on the main military actions described from the point of view of the British armies under Wellington and his Portuguese allies.Book InformationISBN 9780850526608Author Ian RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pen & Sword Books...

Looking at the past and present of Jarrow through the use of pictures and informative captions.About the AuthorWritten by Paul PerryBook InformationISBN 9780752415888Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher Pavilion...

Ideal topic books to use as a complete course or as supplementary resources providing in-depth focus on major themes and events.Book InformationISBN 9780582223752Author Josh BroomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Pearson Education LimitedPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohn Steer (1928 - 20 February 2012) was Professor of the History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London, from 1979 to his retirement in 1984...

'Hansen has done a fine job of rescuing from obscurity these few, morally hazy individuals, making decisions at the messy end of a cataclysmic war.' BEN MACINTYRE, The Times In the last months of the war, Hitler ordered the poisoning, blocking, ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345466686Author Dan SchillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press

Ezra Pound referred to 1922 as Year One of a new era. It was the year in which a skinny, shabby Irishman and a natty, quietly sinister American entered the cultural landscape, hell-bent on exploding everything that realistic fiction and Georgian poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907771814Author Ben WarlowFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Maritime BooksPublisher MCI Media Ltd

Medieval England presents a broad panorama of the political and cultural development of English society from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Wars of the Roses. It is a story of change, progress, setback and consolidation, with England emerging as a...

In AD 410 the Roman world suffered an unprecedented catastrophe. For the first time in 800 years a barbarian army, led by the Visigoth king Alaric, sacked the ancient city of Rome. Alaric carried off Rome's most valuable treasures, but died unexpectedly...

Since their foundation during the Second World War, the Parachute Regiment has acquired a formidable reputation as tough, fearless soldiers. "The Red Devils" have played a key role in many of the battles of the past sixty years - the capture of Sicily,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841451121Author John WarwickerFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Cerberus Publishing LtdPublisher Cerberus Publishing Ltd

Home Again tells twelve moving tales of homecoming, centred around VE Day. With a foreword by Forces Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn. Produced in partnership with The Royal British Legion for the 75th...

The dead are rising! Up out of the mouldering pages of history comes the chat show that digs the dirt on some of history's most famous, infamous and downright incredible men and women. What was the secret of Cleopatra's irresistible personality? Why...

This book traces the achievements of the pilots flying the iconic Spitfire in Northwest Europe, and examines how the steady technological improvements that were made throughout the Spitfire’s service life improved its capabilities in the air. Based at...

Colin Albert Perry was born in Camberwell, London on 12 February 1922. In 1940, having left school in 1936 with no qualifications, he was passed medically fit for RAF flying crew but was rejected as not being up to educational standard. This is almost...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852606046Author Philip J BirtlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Patrick Stephens LtdPublisher Haynes Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

A new series of Horrible Histories sticker activity books, crammed with quick quizzes, foul facts and putrid pictures, the explosive Horrible Histories Sticker Activity Book: Awful Egyptians covers all things horrible in ancient...

This engaging and educational book for children age 9 and over describes the events and key players leading up to, during, and after World War 2. Put together in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum in London, Eyewitness World War II has sold more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783822885741Author Renate UlmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbH

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897784990Author Keith McGinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Neil Wilson PublishingPublisher Neil Wilson Publishing

Scandalously it's been business as usual in parliament despite Tony Blair's promise of a new dawn over Britain in 1997. Conmen, secret home loans, walks on the wild side, liars, ridiculously expensive wallpaper and a jailed peer-cum-celebrated author...

One of the most popular of the south European epic heroes-a counterpart of the French Roland or Spain's El Cid-Prince Marko has not been well known in America. The historical Marko headed a small kingdom in Macedonia in the fourteenth century. A vassal...

Secret Societies in one form or another have existed throughout the history of human culture. But what is their appeal? What is it that makes so-called respectable people indulge in peculiar ceremonies, dressed in fanciful costumes uttering...

Over the postwar period, the scope of industrial policy has expanded markedly. Governments in virtually all advanced industrial countries have extended the visible hand of the state in assisting specific industries or individual companies. Although...

Was Hitler A Riddle? is the first comparative study of how British, French, and American diplomats serving in Germany assessed Hitler and the Nazi movement. These assessments provided the governments in London, Paris, and Washington with ample...

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How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples...

Embark on an entertaining journey across millennia and continents, and learn about absolutely everything including the creation of planet Earth, the age of dinosaurs, the rise of humans, the miserable medieval times, globalisation, wars, revolutions,...