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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380719082Author Kenneth C DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorSir Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983) is widely considered one of the most influential writers on the history of architecture in the 20th century. He is best known for...

Professor Hay provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. He shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the period, and not as a static...

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The English Civil Wars explores the period of turmoil in British history from 1637 and the latter part of the reign of Charles I, to the restoration with Charles II in 1660. The religious and political crises surrounding the Civil Wars, and the key...

A powerful and frightening account - based on fresh research and eye-witness accounts - of the great Terror that swept France after the Revolution of 1789. From early 1793 to the summer of 1794, the young French Republic was subject to a reign of...

In this, the second edition of A Social History of England, Francois Bedarida has added a new final chapter on the last fifteen years.The book now traces the evolution of English society from the height of the British Empire to the dawn of the single...

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better.Track the facts with Jack and Annie!When Jack and Annie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471468844Author Peter A. HuchthausenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

A title in Guido Knopp's series on Germany's Nazi past. Hitler's Children provides a comprehensive history of the young generation under Nazism, accompanied by much hitherto unpublished material and dozens of eye-witness accounts.About the AuthorDr Guido...

The haunting songs of the First World War still have a powerful emotional impact. These are the funny, bitter, sad and romantic words the soldiers actually sang on the march, in the dug-outs and trenches. Amidst the appalling carnage of the battlefield,...

Mankind likes to consider itself civilized. Sadly, this civilization is only skin-deep and man's inhumanity to man, both in war and peace, has always been a cause for shame. But how should traitors, criminals and society's enemies be dealt with? This...

Today's troubled juvenile court system has its roots in Progressive-era Chicago, a city one observer described as "first in violence" and "deepest in dirt." Examining the vision and methods of the original proponents of the Cook County Juvenile Court,...

Designed specifically for the Modern World History for OCR specification 1937, this series concentrates on improving students' grades by helping them understand what the key issues are, how their history fits together, and what they need to do with their...

For those who lived through wartime Christmases, the celebrations during those years had an especially poignant flavour. This unique anthology recreates those times of heartache and brief moments of pleasurable escape and happiness.Share with wartime...

Located at the heart of Europe between east and west, Czechoslovakia was the pivot of twentieth-century European history. Created in 1918 out of the ruins of an empire, it remained a beacon of democracy in a continent darkened by fascism and communism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180631Author Christopher WinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

Once the symbol of a robust steel industry and blue-collar economy, Youngstown, Ohio, and its famous Jeannette Blast Furnace have become key icons in the tragic tale of American deindustrialization. Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo examine the inevitable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845891152Author Terence SackettFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint The Francis Frith CollectionPublisher The Francis Frith Collection

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752417806Author Prof. Anne CurryFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

The Renaissance presents the panorama of Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, exploring such themes as:the origins and causes of humanismRenaissance monarchiesthe Reformationgeographical explorationscienceartistic movements.The book includes...

This open university reader is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of material from primary sources, illustrating the relationship between cultural change and religious belief in sixteenth-century Europe. It contains more than eighty extracts...

In one concise volume, Hagen Schulze brilliantly conveys the full sweep of German history, from the days of the Romans to the fall of the Berlin Wall. A story two thousand years in the making, it rings with battle, murmurs with intrigue, and hums with...

What is a Mark of the Beast waistcoat? Why did John Milton hate bishops? How does a Monsignor tear his postage stamps? And what does a congregation do when the Vicar announces that he is God?These and a hundred similar questions are answered by this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908177254Author Victoria EnglandFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both symbolically and in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnus Magnusson's indispensable study of this great period presents a rounded and fascinating picture of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780715617441Author Richard HodgesFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Bristol Classical PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 301g

Explores the life and work of Dali.Book InformationISBN 9781844512942Author Elizabeth KeevillFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Flame Tree PublishingPublisher Flame Tree Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142003756Author Peter IronsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 297gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 130mm *...

By the author of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", this work portrays life in the American West from 1840 to the turn of the century. It interweaves stories of native Americans, ranchers and settlers, profiling figures such as Geronimo, Billy the Kid and...

A crisply written, succinct and authoritative summary of the history of Scotland this book is superbly illustrated with over 150 photographs, paintings and drawings. This little book covers the whole span of life in Scotland from the Stone Age to...

In 1938 the British Government's Code and Cypher School moved to Bletchley Park and laid the foundation for Britain's best kept secret: an organisation that would be instrumental to shortening the war and turning it in the Allies' favour. From this quiet...

Ever wanted to be an adventurer like Bear Grylls?Get ready to take off and embark on some of the most epic flights in history.Soar over the Atlantic, travel around the entire world in a hot air balloon, and shoot off into space with the Apollo 11 mission...

During the Second World War aeronautical technology gathered rapid pace. By 1945, bombers had not only greatly increased in engine power and range, but the bombs which they carried rose from 250lbs to 10 tons; the navigator's pencil and rubber of 1939...

In Victorian London, the age of consent was just thirteen. Unwitting girls were regularly enticed, tricked and sold into prostitution. If not marked out for a gentleman in a city brothel, they were legally trafficked to Brussels, Paris and beyond. All...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448433721Author Jon BullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902947648Author Martin OliverFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Miles Kelly Publishing LtdPublisher Miles Kelly Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 117g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250237095Author Bill O'ReillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

From 1943 to 1945, the Allied bombing offensive escalated to unprecedented levels. "Special Op: Bomber" is an action-packed account of this battle in the skies over Europe, from the perspective of the men who undertook the highly dangerous job of flying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916622340Author Steven ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Amazon Publishing AgencyPublisher Amazon Publishing AgencyWeight(grams)...