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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.About the AuthorWritten by Paul PerryBook InformationISBN 9780752415888Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher Pavilion...

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.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...

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...

'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...

In the first comprehensive investigation of the role of landlords in shaping the urban landscapes of today, Jared Day explores the unique case of New York City from the close of the nineteenth century through the World War II era. During this period,...

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,...

A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that unappreciated mainstay of civilisation: the hangman. With barbed wit, Charles Duff not only writes of hanging, but also of electrocution, decapitation and gassing; of innocent men executed and of...

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The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland, was...

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...

A controversial examination of the Jewish "success story" in American that questions notions of identity, assimilation, and ethnicity.About the AuthorArthur Hertzberg, professor of Jewish Studies at New York University, is the author of numerous books,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752417967Author Fiona WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

Everyday life in British history is brought vividly to your nostrils, through scratch-and-sniff panels of typical smells of the period. Informative, amusing text and artwork, poems and puzzles combine with these pungent panels to give children a true...

Recruited from the Pathan tribes that live in the no-mans land between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Khyber Rifles fought for the British Raj against their own kith and kin.Jules Stewart tells the story of Colonel Sir Robert Warburton, the man who raised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874454496Author Van WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint York Archaeological TrustPublisher York Archaeological Trust

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...

From the bestselling historian and acclaimed broadcaster 'A rich social history ... Paxman's book could hardly be more colourful, and I enjoyed each page enormously' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMES ...

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