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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262018708Author Craig DworkinFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946418350Author John Howard ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hobnob PressPublisher Hobnob Press

True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American, spied for Stalin during the 1930s and '40s. Then, a pawn in Stalin's sinister master strategy,...

The weaponry of the Romans was both instrument and reflection of the phenomenal success of the army and state as whole. Changes in form and usage indicate not only technological advances, but the huge number and variety of enemies and fighting techniques...

Buried in 899 AD as the king of the English at his capital city of Winchester, Alfred the Great's bones were thought to have ultimately been moved to an unmarked grave. His remains had been completely lost to us for centuries until researchers at the...

The world of the first half of the sixteenth century was exceptionally dynamic. Voyages of discovery made the world larger; science and technology were revolutionized; Christian thought underwent a powerful renewal; the population and economy grew. And...

'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German...

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The Extreme Right in Western Europe is a concise introduction to one of the most persistent facets of late twentieth-century history, politics and society.The legacy of the Nazi era and the increasingly unacceptable face of extremism all militated...

For most people Bismarck is the man of "blood and iron"; he coined the phrase himself and he lived up to it. But he was much more; he had an itellectual ascendancy over all the politicians of his day, and his superiority was acknowledged not only by his...

No crime in the twentieth century has so deeply shocked mankind as the Holocaust. And none has so stubbornly resisted every attempt to explain it. More than six million people were murdered, and countless more endured horrific suffering. Guido Knopp's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859372913Author Dennis NeedhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd.Dimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm...

This celebrated account of the decline of the ancient world describes the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the emergence of the new medieval European order.Book InformationISBN 9780582483095Author A.H.M. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment and searching for work, and their reactions and...

Over sixty female agents were sent out by Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. These women - as well as others from clandestine Allied organisations - were flown out and parachuted or landed into occupied Europe...

It was going to be the greatest amphibious operation of all time claimed Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, the naval commander of the Allied invasion of Normandy. He did not exaggerate, for the Allied fleet consisted of over 5,000 craft and had by the end...

'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'Jon Swain, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time'Like Auschwitz, like Stalin's purges, the mass murders of the Khmer Rouge are one of those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841023083Author G. H. BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Plymouth PressPublisher University of Plymouth Press

Was there such a person as Homer? Who were the key figures in the first democracy of the Western World? Who is the father of tragedy? Who is the father of history?Of all the world's ancient civilisations, it is perhaps the Ancient Greece that has the...

A guide to the most important church and chapel buildings in Wales, from the early middle ages onwards. It includes an introduction that provides a clear overview, based on research, of the religious history of Wales and the way that history can be seen...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904153047Author Ian MarchantFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Watling St LtdPublisher Flame Tree PublishingWeight(grams) 300g

This fourth volume in the History of Wales deals comprehensively with the events between the civil war and the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. The central theme is the development of powerful social forces which took an impoverished and sleepy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904153115Author Natasha NarayanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Watling St LtdPublisher Flame Tree PublishingWeight(grams) 300g

In 1970 the 'cold war' was still cold, Northern Ireland's troubles were escalating, the UK's relations with the EEC were unclear, and corporatist approaches to the economy precariously persisted. By 1990 Communism was crumbling world-wide, Thatcher's...

The Spanish Civil War was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the modern era. This book covers:* its background with the fall of the monarchy and the Second Republic* Franco and Fascism* the conflict itself* the role of foreign powers* the legacy of the...

Olympia is part of the volume entitled "treasures of the Greek Museums" which introduces the reader to the priceless works of art housed in the museums of Greece. The texts, written by experts, furnish details of the historical and cultural context ...

Local history of Balsall Heath and HighgateBook InformationISBN 9780750929172Author Alan HemmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 172mm * 10mm

Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and political transformation on the lives of Italians. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845240998Author Dilys GaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf

Never before have the diaries and letters of young people from all sides of World War Two been woven together to provide an account of what it was like to grow up amidst the daily struggles and horrors of this devastating war. We Were Young...

Remarkable Romans tells you everything you want to know about the Ancient Romans, from vast empires and fearsome armies to chariot racing and the Colosseum. Remarkable Romans is part of a great new collectible series called It's all about... It is packed...

The covert, clandestine operations of the Special Air Service (SAS) regiment, from the jungles of Malaya, Borneo and Brunei to the deserts and mountains of the Middle East and Afghanistan have always been the focus of intense fascination, stoked by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841146119Author David WestonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Look out for more Pitkin Guides on the very best of British history, heritage and travel, specially other titles in the Pitkin History of Britain series. Suitable for Key Stages 3 and 4 of the National Curriculum. More titles in the History of Britain...

Traditionally, in British society, the milkman has been a family friend, a sex symbol and a cheerful chappie. He has been the eyes and ears of the community, and his genetic legacy has supposedly passed into the lineage of housewives.This collection of...

In late 1967 as part of the Tet offensive, U.S. commanders hoped to lure the North Vietnamese Army into exposing large numbers of soldiers to their overwhelming air power. But in January 1968, a U.S. Marine Corps force found themselves surrounded by the...

Why do jellies wobble? Why don't the oceans overflow? Why do racing cars have fat tyres? How do widgets in beer cans work? How many bones does a giraffe have in that long neck? I've been told that dogs only see in black and white. Is that true? How do we...

Who were the men who commanded the British Army in the numerous small wars of the Victorian Empire? Today, many are all but forgotten, save the likes of Cardigan, Kitchener, Baden-Powell and Gordon of Khartoum. Yet they were a disparate and fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848517004Author Rosemary ScaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press