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Each title in this series tells the story of a man or woman whose dedication to their chosen cause led to changes that affect all our lives today. Each includes a vivid description of the world in which the famous person lived. This book describes how...

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...

Written while the author was held as a hostage by the Afghan leader Mahomed Akber Khan, this book is an account of the tragedy and destruction which overtook the British army during the First Afghan War. It provides details of the harrowing conditions...

Over the course of his career, American explorer William Clark (1770-1838) wrote at least forty-five letters to his older brother Jonathan, including six that were written during the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition. This book publishes many of these...

'We recognised the place from the newsreels. There was a large desk covered with dust. An ornamental chandelier hung low from the ceiling. From here Hitler had plotted. Here had been Goering, Himmler, Hess, Goebbels, Ribbentrop - Outside were the remains...

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...

London, 15 September 1940. The air battle over Britain on that day saw two of the most advanced fighter planes, the British Supermarine Spitfire and the German Messerschmitt Bf 109, battle for supremacy of the skies. The Decisive Duel tells the stories...

Part travelogue, part historical study, part critique, this compelling study raises questions about the nature of scholarship, and about the complex issues of how-and in particular where-the treasures of Antiquity are best preserved and displayed.Book...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903204474Format HardbackImprint True North Books Ltd.Publisher True North Books Ltd.

'Superbly written and gripping' Daily Express The thrilling true account of Hitler's first defeat. In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low Countries were all under occupation after a series of...

*After finally achieving what eluded even his grandfather Ghengis Khan - the conquest of China - and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Khan turned his sights to Japan, which he attacked with an immense armada in 1274. Vastly outnumbered and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859837283Author Philip NixonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Breedon Books Publishing Co LtdPublisher Breedon Books Publishing Co Ltd

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...

In THE WAR LORDS, Field Marshal Lord Carver has assembled an engrossing series of short, detailed biographies of forty-three of the dominant military commanders of the twentieth century century, American, British, German and French: Field-Marshal the...

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...

'SO ENTERTAINING' The Times 'A FASCINATING ACCOUNT' The Sunday Times'GLORIOUSLY GOSSIPY' Red Magazine 'IRRESISTIBLE AND WITTY' Woman & HomeQueen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being British society hostesses...

Discover the Anglo-Saxons introduces young readers to key figures, aspects and themes of Anglo-Saxon Britain. The books feature an appealingly graphic, young, colourful approach, with one large image per spread plus fact and feature boxes, timelines,...

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 a punt past...

DK Eyewitness Medieval Life is a unique and compelling introduction to the people and culture of the Middle Ages. Superb colour photographs of artefacts, costumes, furniture, and buildings, bring daily life in Medieval Europe vividly to life. Help your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992667764Author Michael S FryerFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Perissos GroupPublisher Perissos GroupWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954904135Author Christina ScullFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Sir John Soane's MuseumPublisher Sir John Soane's Museum

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753461532Author Serge SchmemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Macmillan Children's BooksPublisher Pan MacmillanWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm)...

Looking at the past and present of Jarrow through the use of pictures and informative captions.Book InformationISBN 9780752415888Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher Pavilion Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764900044Author Brian HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications...

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.Book InformationISBN 9780500201015Author John SteerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson LtdWeight(grams) 430g

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...

Chelmsford was founded over 1,000 years ago and with its position in the middle of Essex, it soon became an important market and trading town, as well as a centre for local administration - a role which it retains to this day. The construction of both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783822813881Author Ulrich BischoffFormat PaperbackImprint Taschen GmbHPublisher Taschen GmbH

'Keeps up the suspense to the end.' The Times Literary Supplement'An extraordinary, and largely forgotten wartime story -- brought back to life in this Boys' Own account.' The Daily MailHigh in the Tuscan hills above Florence, an elaborate medieval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953954322Author Edward JamesFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Shoreham and District Historical SocietyPublisher Shoreham and District Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951123607Author Ruth Vincent-KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint R. Vincent-KempPublisher R. Vincent-Kemp

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781862142404Author Brian KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Atlantic Europe Publishing Co LtdPublisher Atlantic Europe Publishing Co Ltd

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...

This study covers the six-month Battle of the Somme, and includes much information that will be new to readers, and argues a new final judgement of the battle. An historian and illustrator for the Army with more than 20 years' experience in the ranks of...