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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752419787Author Edmund YorkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

Beggars, Cheats and Forgers is made up of new research into a neglected area of British history: the stories of historical scams, cheats and forgeries. Former Director of Technology at the National Archives, David Thomas has delved into the archives to...

'The war invisibly regulated our lives', commented a Salisbury resident when recalling the calamity, now known as the Great War. Much of life in the city - with its ancient cathedral, the finest spire in England, medieval New Town built on 'chequers' and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780752400105Author Patrick LoobeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd

"A nation that forgets its past has no future." Winston Churchill When Britain Went To War everyone in the country was involved, whether they were in the military or civilians whose jobs were vital to the war effort. Additionally, every woman in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841147406Author Iain McGowanFormat HardbackImprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

Thematic in presentation, but contained within a chronological framework, this book gives a wide survey of Essex history from earliest times to the 20th century, with greater depth and detail allotted to topics of special interest, including the county’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663896Author Colin WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd

In 1991, while one war was being waged against Iraq, another was being fought amongst the American generals leading the operation. "The Generals' War" offers unvarnished portraits of the top military commanders, challenges the performances of...

This is the fascinating story of the Admiralty's Department of Miscellaneous Weapon Development, the so-called 'Wheezers and Dodgers', and the many ingenious weapons and devices it invented, improved or perfected.The author was one of a group of officers...

Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin. The sex...

* Almost 1400 years after the Prophet Muhammad first articulated God's law - the sharia - its earthly interpreters are still arguing over what it means. Hardliners reduce it to amputations, veiling, holy war and stonings. Others say that it is humanity's...

No fiction writer of the modern period has captured the world of wooden walls, broadsides and the press gang in quite the same way as the late Patrick O'Brian. The twenty books in the O'Brian canon, featuring the lives and adventures of Captain Jack...

Devised by Tony Holmes in 1994, The Aircraft of the Aces is indisputably the most successful aviation series in Osprey's 30-year history. The globally acclaimed artwork of Iain Wyllie has appeared on the cover of each book, and these specially...

Through history armies of occupation and civil power have been repeatedly faced with the challenges of insurgency. US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has highlighted this form of conflict in the modern world. Armies, sometimes reluctantly, have had...

IRELAND'S FORGOTTEN LEGACY In 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. Those that did were scarred for the rest of their lives. Many of these survivors found...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842040430Author James A. MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Lomond BooksPublisher Lomond Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566403160Author William WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 88Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications...

New edition for the 2013 Specification. Unlock your full potential with these revision guides which focus on the key content and skills you need to know. With My Revision Notes for WJEC GCSE History Route A you can: - Take control of your revision: plan...

This volume in 'Conway's Compass Series' integrates an original narrative with quotations from documents and eyewitnesses, and reproductions of contemporary illustrations or photographs to provide an authoritative account of the campaign, battle and...

Examines the persistent rumours that many US servicemen and possibly others of various nationalities were never released at the end of the Vietnam War and still languish in jails in Indo-China. The book claims that the American and Australian governments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764913334Author Jay PridmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Pomegranate Communications Inc,USPublisher Pomegranate Communications...

Take a look at the mad Tudor monarchs and their suffering subjects - who just couldn't help losing their heads. Discover who invited Queen Lizzie to visit his brand new toilet and what you get when you sew the front of a chicken to the back of a pig...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954785956Author David RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Bryngold Books LtdPublisher Bryngold Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750911405Author Ted GoslingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Sutton Publishing LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780745150536Author Neil GrnatFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Cherrytree BooksPublisher Evans Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 178g

Ronald Koorm has given talks and lectures on the codebreaking outstations for several years - this is the last piece of the amazing Bletchley jigsaw. Full of extraordinary stories: who built the first electronic digital computer? Tommy Flowers - but not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670025626Author Susan SouthardFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 623g

A collection of essays published as a tribute to Sir Isaiah Berlin on his 82nd birthday. The essays concentrate on themes close to Berlin's heart: the history of ideas, Russian thought and literature, the Enlightenment and Romanticism, liberalism and the...

The story of English culture over a thousand years can be told as the story of changing ideas about the weather. Writers and artists across the centuries, looking up at the same skies and walking in the same brisk air, have felt very different things. In...

This book, published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Maritime Museum to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, centres on Samuel Pepys (1633 1703), the famous diarist and the greatest administrator of the Stuart Age...

From John Brown's raid to Reconstruction, Eyewitness to the Civil War presents a clear, comprehensive discussion that addresses every military, political, and social aspect of this crucial period. In-depth descriptions of campaigns and battles in all...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904474968Author Andrew GuyattFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Middleton PressPublisher Middleton Press

In a dazzling series of some 270 specially posed photographs, the authors recreate the fighting men of the High Middle Ages set in their 15th century environment. Noblemen and armoured knights, officers and halbardiers, artillery and handgunners, archers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908973627Author Fiona MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company LtdWeight(grams) 300g

Step inside an elegant Victorian townhouse with this fascinating picture book. Each page shows a different area of the house, including the library, the butler's pantry, the school room and the conservatory. With information on Victorian times, contents...

Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. But the City of Light was also a violent place. Criminals eagerly took advantage of the inventive nature of the age-the first getaway car, increasingly dangerous weapons, more...

Memories of May 68 charts the emergence of the conventional representation of the French events of 1968 and argues that the dominance of this narrative, despite its limitations, stems from the convenience that such a consensus provides for those that...

Within a seven-hour period in early December 1941, the Japanese armed forces moved against Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Wake Island, Hong Kong and - the most formidable objective of all - the Malaya Peninsular and its 'Gibraltar of the East', the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898937272Author Philip RidenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Merton Priory Press LtdPublisher Merton Priory Press Ltd