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For 50 years after the Second World War the nations of the earth stood on the edge of nuclear warfare, with few doubting that should the Cold War turn hot, neither side could emerge victorious. Pat Ware describes the background to the Cold War, the...

Taking you through the year day by day, The Leeds Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events or facts from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on the religious and political history of England as a...

Richard III is probably the House of York's best-known figure, but the other members of the family are just as intriguing as the king who fell on Bosworth Field. These include his father, the Duke of York, who held a claim to the throne that would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908973818Author David ArscottFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

This intriguing book contains over 200 old pictures and a wealth of superbly presented facts, anecdotes and opinions on the way North Glasgow was. North Woodside, Maryhill, Lambhill, Ruchill, Possilpark, and Springburn are all examined in great detail...

Here is all of Scotland's exciting and eventful past in one colourful, concise and comic picture storybook in which every page is packed with famous Scottish characters and incidents.About the AuthorRichard Brassey is the author and illustrator of a host...

A biography of Henry VIII's fifth wife, beheaded for playing Henry at his own game - adultery. At seven o'clock on the morning of 13 February 1542, Catherine Howard stepped out into the cold of the great courtyard of the Tower of London. Slowly she was...

The history of the Scottish monarchy is a long tale of triumph over adversity, characterised by the personal achievements of remarkable rulers who transformed their fragile kingdom into the master of northern Britain. The Kings and Queens of Scotland...

2 Para's performance during Operation MARKET GARDEN is legendary but, as this book amply demonstrates, it was the culmination of three year's battle experience. A major factor behind the Battalion's successes was the leadership of its Commanding Officer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637584415Author Master Sergeant Trevor D BrewerFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Permuted PressPublisher Permuted PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907771760Author Steve BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Maritime BooksPublisher MCI Media Ltd

New in paperback, "The Oxford Children's Encyclopedia of History" is a major reference book for children of 8 and over, giving a fascinating insight into over 12,000 years of human history. Some 120 major entries carefully explain the key issues. Each...

Over 200 stunning archive photographs, most of which have never been published before, illustrate this mesmerising guide to Victorian London seen through the eyes of Charles Dickens. Setting Dickens against the city that was the backdrop and inspiration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845742638Author H. BiddulphFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Naval & Military Press LtdPublisher Naval & Military Press Ltd

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...

H.J. Hewitt's classic study looks beyond the succession of campaigns, marches, raids, sieges and pitched battles that punctuated the long reign of Edward III. He focuses instead on the organization of war - how Edward's armies were raised and trained,...

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 9780954446178Author Kenna RudolphFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788809214842Author Marco CianchiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Giunti EditorePublisher Giunti Editore

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout...

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...

'A lively, evocative account of the life and death of the world's most notorious wall. In capturing the essence of the old Cold War he may just have helped us to understand a bit more about the new one' The Times 'Checkpoint Charlie is a fascinating 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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

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Immortalised by 'Dad's Army' - this is the true story of the men who manned the British frontline.Book InformationISBN 9780752449463Author David CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press...

In April and May 1945 the city of Berlin was the site of the final destructive act of the Second World War in Europe. The German capital became a battleground. After three weeks of ruthless fighting against a desperate, sometimes suicidal, defence, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993181313Author Mike LepinePage Count 128Imprint Upfront Entertainment LimitedPublisher Upfront Entertainment Limited

David Greville-Heygate was one of the few men who served in both the army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but it was in the sky that he really earned his stripes. Stalking the skies flying photo-reconnaissance missions with No. 16...

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)...

1995 was the first summer of peace in Northern Ireland - except for the small market town of Portadown. There, in defiance of the wishes of the Catholic residents of the Garvaghy Road, the local lodge of the Protestant Orange Order insisted on their...

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

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...