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'Many times I heard people say that you'll have no friends if you're a policeman. How wrong they were. If you were right with them, they were right with you.' PC Martyn Johnson is back on the beat with more hilarious and heart-warming stories from the...

Supremely successful at the beginning of his life; lonely, bankrupt and virtually ignored at its end, Rembrandt produced some of the most powerful and psychologically penetrating works in the whole of world art.Poverty, illness, the deaths of his wife,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862438654Author Dafydd MeirionFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Builth Wells History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of the town of Builth Wells in Powys. Authors Mal Morrison and Rob Warlow guide us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous landmarks used to look and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789602260906Author John O. E. ClarkFormat PaperbackImprint Efstathiadis GroupPublisher Efstathiadis GroupWeight(grams) 170g

What effect did the two world wars have on the relations between women and men? Drawing on broad comparative material-from government policy to popular media, poetry and fiction, and personal letters-this book examines the redefinition of gender that...

Bomber Command flight engineer Peter Baxter completed thirty-four operations during the Second World War. Following his first tour with No. 12 Squadron he became the Engineer Leader for the newly formed No. 153 Squadron. During his 400 hours in the air,...

'Highlanders have long been among the most feared soldiers in the world and Tim Newark's book admirably tells their stirring tale. A great read!' Bernard CornwellOn the fields of Waterloo, the deserts of Sudan, the Plains of Abraham and the mountains of...

Ross Kemp has encountered conflict and warfare the world over, broadcasting from some of the most volatile military hot-zones. From meeting the world's deadliest gangsters, to perhaps his hardest assignment of all; embedded with the British Army in...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908211767Author Patrick PotterFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Carpet Bombing CulturePublisher Carpet Bombing Culture

With bumpy pages that toddlers will love to explore, the Find and Feel books aid speech development, learning through repetition and hand-eye co-ordination. SNAP, SNAP says green crocodile, showing off his scaly smile. ...

In 1918, David Lloyd George's post-war government passed the Representation of the People Act, and for the first time women were included in the political process. Women now accounted for nearly 50 per cent of the electorate, but universal suffrage was a...

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'Deeply researched and well-written' - Financial TimesIn the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting array of social, commercial and political...

From images of jubilant mothers offering the Nazi salute, to Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels, women in Hitler's Germany and their role as supporters and guarantors of the Third Reich continue to exert a particular fascination. This account moves away from...

Kingsdown was built as Bristol's first planned suburb in the 18th century. At the time it was well know locally as the site of an important Civil War fortification and appreciated as an airy, green space just beyond the crowded medieval city. The land...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860936268Author Peter JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

A treasure-trove of previously unpublished letters and first hand accounts from British 'tommies' of life and death in the trenches during the First World War. This is the story of the men who held the front line in France and Flanders. It is a graphic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955891670Author Olga WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Splendid Books LimitedPublisher Splendid Books Limited

William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known generals in the Civil War. His March to the Sea, which resulted in a devastated swath of the South from Atlanta to Savannah, cemented his place...

Comparative studies on the age of Sutton Hoo (5c - 8c) with English and European focus, plus summary of the latest site excavations. `The Sutton Hoo `princely' burials play a pivotal role in any modern discussion of Germanic kingship.'EARLY MEDIEVAL...

IWM's exceptional collection is one of the most important representations of twentieth century British art in the world, comprising many great works from the British government war art schemes of the First and Second World Wars. However less widely known...

This absorbing account of Catholic and anti-Catholic plots and machinations at the English, French, and exiled Scottish courts in the latter part of the sixteenth century is a sequel to John Bossy's highly acclaimed Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair...

This remarkable account tells the story of how, in its first two years, the First World War reduced Europe's mightiest empires to rubble, and cracked the foundations of the world. On a summer day in 1914, a nineteen-year-old Serbian nationalist gunned...

The twentieth century has seen both the greatest triumph of Jewish history and its greatest tragedy: the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust. A People Apart is the first study to examine the role played by the...

As the last days of peace ebbed away in 1939 and the outbreak of the Second World War appeared inevitable, a massive exodus took place in Britain: nearly two million civilians, most of them children, were taken from the cities, industrial towns and ports...

Ring-headed crosses of impressive height and intricate design were first erected in Iona and Ireland from the eighth century onwards. This book deals with these but also shows how they were the culmination of a long period of development during the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809001330Author John F. KassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 274g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711033238Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 20mm

Villas, Sanctuaries and Settlement in the Romano-British Countryside had its genesis in a conference held at the British Museum in 2009 and brings together a range of papers on buildings that have been categorised as 'villas', mainly in Roman Britain,...

The perfect follow-up for readers of Dunkirk, Hidden Britain, Finest Hour and other gripping, personal accounts of life during the Second World War.In late summer 1940, Hitler told his army to prepare to invade England. The nation waited, breathless with...

Richard III is accused of murdering his nephews (the 'Princes in the Tower') in order to usurp the throne of England. Since Tudor times he has been painted as the 'black legend,' the murderous uncle. However, the truth is much more complicated and...

Love it or loathe it, the British press is a remarkable institution. Sometimes referred to as the fourth estate and accused of wielding power without responsibility, it has often been a channel for the dissemination of information that those at the top...

This is the first comprehensive history of the two decisive centuries which followed the defeat of Owain Glyndwr in 1415. The fifteenth century was a time of resilience and recovery from the Rebellion, and one which saw the emergence of ruling gentry...

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen. But this is not just his story; it is the story of...

At the outbreak of war in 1939, ordinary people were quickly forced to adapt to the realities of a nation under dire threat. But it soon became known as the Phoney War, a time when official incompetence reigned supreme. Theatres and cinemas were closed...

'I never saw any regiment in such order,' said Wellington before the Battle of Waterloo, 'it was the most complete and handsome military body I ever looked at.' The object of the Duke's admiration was the 23rd Regiment of Foot - the famous Royal Welch...

The Ace Place" series combines historical information with jokes, riddles and various activities. This title looks at the history of toilets from castle garderobes to communal toilets in monasteries."The Ace Place" series combines historical information...

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