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'Endlessly fascinating. Cram's story sizzles with adventure.' Giles Milton, Sunday Times A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of Alastair Cram, brilliantly told by the...

Take a look into history through specially comsisioned photographs and compare how the past stands up against the world today.Book InformationISBN 9781445107912Author James NixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Franklin Watts LtdPublisher Hachette...

'Kings and Things' was first published in 1937 as a light-hearted romp through British History to be read by parents to their children 'in the Story Hour which so often precedes the tragic necessity of "going to bed."' H E Marshall, best known...

Fighting Men of London explores the lives of seven former professional boxers who fought in the capital between the 1930s and 1960s. Set around a series of interviews, it resurrects a golden age of the sport when boxing was as popular as football and...

Diana Mitford is one of the surprise discoveries of the phenomenally successful collection of Mitford letters published for Christmas 2007. Like her five literary sisters, Diana Mitford has written widely not only on her own fascinating, controversial...

The essays in this volume have been collected with a view toward introducing students of the Middle East to key ideologies in the region and the relationship between them and the two major forms of political power-regimes and movements.Book...

* An intriguing discussion of Canada's involvement, at home and aboard, in the First World War.Book InformationISBN 9780773525467Author Briton C. BuschFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University...

'Gloriana', 'Faerie Queene', 'Queen Bess' are just some of the names given to Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. But the name for which she is perhaps best remembered and which best explains why Elizabeth was the last of the Tudor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947782504Author Cameron McNeishFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Lomond BooksPublisher Lomond Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853066481Author David SellmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Countryside BooksPublisher Countryside BooksWeight(grams) 252g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905638628Author John MalamFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904449294Author Richard BougaardtFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Chaucer PressPublisher Chaucer Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911096566Author E.R. HootonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

For four years the German U-boats of U-Flottille Flandern would become a serious threat to the omnipotence of the Royal Navy and its fleet. By the end of the war they had managed to sink a total of 2,554 Allied ships, totaling 2.5 million tons of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904048244Author Andrew M. ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kamera BooksPublisher Kamera BooksWeight(grams) 60g

'An extraordinary family tale of survival' Sunday Times Human and curious . . . an admirable family memoir of migration' Guardian Jonathan Dean's great-grandfather, David Schapira, lived a life of epic achievement and epic suffering. Forced to flee...

An exciting series that covers selected topics from the Higher Level options in the IB History syllabus. This coursebook covers Higher Level option 5, Topic 2, Unification and Consolidation of Germany and Italy 1815-90. The text is divided into clear...

An exciting new series that covers the three prescribed subjects for Paper 1 of the IB 20th Century World History syllabus. This coursebook covers Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 2, The Arab-Israeli Conflict 1945-79, in the 20th Century World History...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879757670Author John QuigleyFormat HardbackPage Count 433Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus BooksWeight(grams) 155g

Chris Pascoe is fascinated by the English Civil War. He also likes beer. So when the thought came to him to set out on a pub crawl around the sites of the English Civil War, it was an idea too good to ignore. Helped (or should that be hindered) by his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889117976Author Douglas L. BlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 509Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's UniversityWeight(grams) 824g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889117907Author Douglas L. BlandFormat HardbackPage Count 374Imprint Queen's UniversityPublisher Queen's UniversityWeight(grams) 706g

"Over There" is a richly illustrated social history of Americans' involvement in World War I. Frank Freidel incorporates numerous quotations from regimental histories and from diaries, letters, and memoirs of soldiers involved in the conflict...

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Dickie Arbiter was the Press Officer for Buckingham Palace for 12 years. Previously a royal correspondent for a tabloid newspaper, Dickie was a poacher turned gamekeeper, moving to the palace in 1988. At the forefront of royal engagements, Dickie was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807118054Author William C. DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 687Imprint Louisiana State University PressPublisher Louisiana State University Press

From portrayals of African women's bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during...

The Mexico Reader is a vivid introduction to muchos Mexicos-the many Mexicos, or the many varied histories and cultures that comprise contemporary Mexico. Unparalleled in scope and written for the traveler, student, and expert alike, the collection...

The past two centuries have marked the age of the city in Scotland. Powered by industrial growth and driven by social change, much of the nation has been transformed from the rural to the urban. But the stories of our cities began long before this. From...

Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ramon Pane. The friar's assignment was to live among the "Indians" whom Columbus had "discovered" on the island of Hispaniola (today...

Many theories have been offered to explain the disintegration of the Soviet Union, yet none sufficiently explain the speed and profundity of the empire's collapse. In this powerful polemic, Wisla Suraska disputes popular interpretations of the...

The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations...

In 1994 the Zapatista rebellion brought international attention to the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. Neil Harvey combines ten years of field work in Chiapas with extensive historical and political research to provide a comprehensive history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904537403Author Helen ReidFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Redcliffe Press LtdPublisher Redcliffe Press Ltd

Nelson was a young African boy with a reputation for trouble-making. Who would have thought he would one day lead his people to freedom? Nelson grew up at a time when black Africans suffered terrible injustice. He was determined to change this - even if...

Since 1989 an indigenous political movement-the Coalition of Workers, Peasants, and Students of the Isthmus (COCEI)-has governed the southern Mexican city of Juchitan. In Decentering the Regime, Jeffrey W. Rubin examines this Zapotec Indian movement and...

Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on Latin American StudiesThis study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region...

In 1888 a group of armed and masked Democrats stole a ballot box from a small town in Conway County, Arkansas. The box contained most of the county's black Republican votes, thereby assuring defeat for candidate John Clayton in a close race for the U.S...

Late in the morning of 27 May 1941, the German battleship Bismarck was sunk by an overwhelming British armada in a fierce battle that lasted ninety minutes. Admiral Gunther Lutjens, Captain Ernst Lindemann and 2,206 men of her crew were lost, only 115...