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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714119625Author John H. TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint British Museum PressPublisher British Museum PressWeight(grams) 230g

10, 000 names of the history-makers * 50 lists, from the Roman Govenors of Britain to the Prime Ministers of New Zealand, and from the First Lords of the Admiralty to the Nobel prizewinners * 19 maps, covering periods, movements and events from the Roman...

The author examines a set of relationships which illustrate just how dangerous life was in the court of the Tudor lion, Henry VIII. Wilson tells the interlocking stories of six men (all, curiously, named Thomas) whose ambitions and principles brought...

The authors tell the story of Berlin through political events and through a vast range of extraordinary personalities: politicians, soldiers and businessmen, artists, writes and performers, and the often bizarre Hohenzollern princes who ruled the city...

It reveals life's (often avoidable) daily perils such as the woman who poisoned her dinner guests, then died, having forgotten she'd used the same saucepan just days before to boil arsenic for the purpose of eradicating vermin (1830), and a drunk carter...

In May 2003 journalist Rory McCarthy went to Iraq to cover what was claimed to be the triumphant rebuilding of the country after the American invasion. Two years later he left a place teetering on the brink of civil war, whose inhabitants longed for the...

Vermeer, Goya, Rembrant, Rubens - the Beit art collection was worth millions. For twenty-two years, Sir Alfred and Lady Beit lived peacefully at Russborough, the remote stately home near the Wicklow Mountains that housed their glorious paintings. Then,...

In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lagoon.His account is at once romantic...

Paul Lelaud France 1942-1944 I couldn't see the four fires, but I could smell them, the scent of burning paraffin and wood coming thickly in waves of smoke across the field. My heart started thumping again. Surely if we could smell the fires, others...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601654Author Daniel J. BoorstinFormat HardbackPage Count 5Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 885g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679446385Author Christine Leigh HeyrmanFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780603566646Format PaperbackImprint Dean & SonPublisher Egmont UK Ltd

Ambitious in scale and far-reaching in scope, How Art Made the World is a fresh introduction to the history of art and, through the visual image, the history of humankind. Embarking with the motto 'Everyone is an artist', Nigel Spivey takes us on a quest...

"Excellent...It will be difficult to find a better bird's eye view of the Civil War, with greater accuracy, with more carefully integrated narrative or with better designed maps....Merits a place in every collection of Civil War history." Army...

"The Readers' Companion to U.S. Women's History" is a landmark work, the first major volume to cover women's experience in the United States from the earliest times with a truly inclusive consciousness. Its more than 400 articles are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780356198354Author Young BooksFormat PaperbackImprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education company)Weight(grams) 137g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345323576Author Philip CaputoFormat PaperbackImprint Ballantine BooksPublisher Ballantine BooksWeight(grams) 186g

Following on from "The True Glory: The Royal Navy From 1914-1939", this book explores the history of the Royal Navy from the beginning of World War II, to the present day. It is based entirely on first-hand accounts, and all of the principle theatres of...

"Warpaths" begins with the establishment of New France on the St Lawrence; through the colonists' War of Independence with the six years of fighting which ended with an English defeat at Yorktown; the civil war over the constitution of the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780297784753Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint Weidenfeld & NicolsonPublisher Orion Publishing CoWeight(grams) 895g

This work recreates the late Stuart era, in a narrative that highlights the influence of three women in one of the most momentous events in our history: a palace coup that changed the face of the monarchy and signalled the end of a dynasty. In 1688,...

A study of the evolution of special forces from nineteenth century imperialists to the SAS. Weale examines the record of special forces in war and peace, counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism, explaining what they do, why they do it and whether they...

Melvyn Bragg describes the geology of the Lake District from when it was desert and swamp, and tells of the people who have lived there for 4000 years. The legends, myths and folklore of the farmers and fishermen are included, and the types of people...

Classical scholars and military historians have long held that pitched infantry battle in ancient Greek society evolved as a necessary alternative to the more fundamental but exhausting business of warfare, which was the ravaging and destruction of crops...

In 1939, the RAF was a relatively small and inadequate force for the task it would be called on to perform. By the war's end, it had taken up a place of honour in the armed forces. This is the history of that achievement, the men, the machines, the...

British policy towards European integration has been one of the most divisive issues in British politics since 1945. Based on a detailed evaluation of the newly accessible government records, of the Conservative Party records, private papers and...

A definitive edition of this ground-breaking, classic American industrial and feminist novel. As well as the complete text of the novel, the volume includes a range of primary documents on the themes of work and class, art and industry, social reform and...

'...a lucid and scholarly account of an important and immensely complex subject...Dr. Alpert's command of a broad range of archival material, printed documents and secondary works in six languages is extremely impressive.' - P. Preston, London School of...

From the author of HORRIBLE HISTORIES comes the third volume in Terry Deary's gritty and humorous history series for adults. The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects...Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin...

This title is about the death of the 19th century, the world made by and for liberal middle classes in the name of universal progress and civilization. It is about hopes realized which turned into fears: an era of unparalled peace engendering an era of...

Who was responsible for the design of the Admiral Popov, the circular Russian battleship that wouldn't steer straight? Why did Lord Ansonset out to circumnavigate the world with a crew of Chelsea pensioners? And how did the British cruiser HMS Trinidad...

Consolidating the success of the first volume, the paperback of which is still in print "Daily Telegraph", obituary writer Jay Iliffe has compiled and edited one hundred additional mini-biographies of outstanding aviators of the last century...

London is full of animals. They are hidden in crumbling graveyards, daubed in canal-bank graffiti, perched atop rooftops. But in the hustle-and-bustle at street-level they are all too often overlooked. This quirky guidebook, with its gorgeous...

This is an account of the author and his four friends' journey following the route taken by the British Expeditionary Force, nearly 80 years previously, on its retreat from the German offensive at Mons. The ride took them from the Belgian border, over...

Derek Lundy is a magnificent storyteller and in this book he takes us on an extraordinary journey. His ancestor Benjamin Lundy crossed oceans under sail in the late nineteenth century and over one hundred years later his great-great nephew has re-created...

The story of the last 100 years in the life of the United States, and that of the 20th century. In this century, America became the largest economic and military power, sent men to the moon and opened a branch of McDonalds in Moscow. Over 900...

In 1987 Theo Richmond, an English-born Jew, decided to take a six-month sabbatical to write a book - his first. It took him seven years. It began as a subject that excited his curiosity. It became an obsession. Eventually it took over his life. A blend...

The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War, witnessed the worst single day's loss of British troops between the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the opening campaigns of the First World War in August 1914...

This work describes how, in the period from 1830-1914, journeys to the Mediterranean became part of the British way of life and the British way of death. A revolution in transport enabled the middle classes to follow the aristocracy to the south in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780131337459Author Clifton DanielFormat HardbackPage Count 956Imprint Ecam Publications, IncorporatedPublisher Ecam Publications, IncorporatedWeight(grams)...