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This book is a collection of essays by well known First World War contributors such as Dr Stephen Bull, Ian Drury, Thomas A. Hoff, Martin Pegler and Ian Sumner. World War I stands as a watershed in the evolution of modern warfare, with the development of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789627290032Format HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Souvenir Press LtdPublisher Souvenir Press LtdWeight(grams) 680g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860195815Format HardbackImprint Brockhampton PressPublisher Caxton Publishing

When you hold the high ground on the battlefield you should win but the German Tenth Army was heavily outnumbered and, in truth, did well to hold out for four long months of vigourous fighting with the British and American forces before the Allied force...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902724478Format PaperbackImprint UWIC PressPublisher Cardiff Met Press

How a group of regenerate hoodlums became seamen and braved both the elements and Nazi U-Boats. Not forgetting how the whole operation was nearly scuttled...In 1941 the British people had their backs to the wall in their lone fight against the might of...

Madison Square Garden...the Garden...that marvellous New York arena that has seen Pavarotti, Sinatra and Streisand, Elvis, Elton John and The Rolling Stones all hold centre stage; an arena that has hosted the very best in ice hockey and basketball,...

The term battleaxe has been used since 1910 when it implied a closely defined type: elderly, resentful, vociferous and certainly no beauty. Here Christine Hamilton presents a banquet of belligerent British belles who, for one reason or another, exude the...

The Way We Lived Then is a fascinating anthology of memoirs chronicling British life in the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The wealth of material from people of all classes provides an enthralling and detailed portrait...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860190681Format HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Brockhampton PressPublisher Caxton PublishingWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781445439686Format HardbackImprint Parragon Book Service LtdPublisher Parragon

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781445439648Format HardbackImprint Parragon Book Service LtdPublisher Parragon Book Service LtdWeight(grams) 228g

This work contains rings of seahorses that seem to rotate on the page, and butterflies that transform right before your eyes into two warriors with their horses. These dazzling and often playful artistic creations manipulate perspective so cleverly that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788180900334Author Deo SharmaFormat HardbackPage Count 1336Imprint Bharatiya Kala PrakashanPublisher Bharatiya Kala PrakashanWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848375659Author Nigel CawthorneFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781860195761Format HardbackImprint Brockhampton PressPublisher Caxton Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862815417Author David RossFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Appletree Press LtdPublisher Appletree Press LtdWeight(grams) 125g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843590460Author Oliver GarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint National TrustPublisher National TrustWeight(grams) 170g

Comprehensive second editions of History for the IB Diploma Paper 2, revised for first teaching in 2015. This coursebook covers Paper 2, World History Topic 8: Independence Movements (1800-2000) of the History for the IB Diploma syllabus for first...

Between 1946 and 1966a surge of violence in Colombia left 200,000 dead in one of the worst conflicts the western hemisphere has ever experienced. the first seven years of this little-studied period of terror, known as la Violencia, is the subject of...

Victoria was just 18 years old when she was crowned Queen in 1837 - a tiny figure, with a will of iron. Never was there so queenly a queen. She made Britain great and the people loved her for it. In 1861 tragedy struck, when her husband Albert died. Dumb...

Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europe's more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don...

Covers a world of magic, mystery and monumental buildings - the Pyramids, the temples, the Valley of the Kings - and introduces this ancient people, from god-kings to the working family, their astonishing feats of engineering and the beliefs that drove...

A collection of walks around the battlefield sites of the South of England. In all 12 walks are presented, each including sketch maps, notes on transport connections and suggestions for further exploration. Famous myths, mysteries and legends associated...

An illustrated, introductory history of the indigenous North American people, aiming to give a sense of the cultural richness of native American traditions. Josephy delivers an authoritative account of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited...

Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick...

Do you know your Kings and Queens of England by heart? Can you tell your Ethelred from your Ethelbert? Your Marcia from your Matilda? Well, passionate educator Mr Gwynne is back - and this time he is taking on the entirety of British history - so you...

Both as a portrait of a truly evil man, and a careful, exhaustively-researched investigation of that man's terrible achievements, "The Architect of Genocide" shows the reader who Heinrich Himmler was, from his unlikeable boyhood to the perfect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855018655Author Chris ChantFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Tiger BooksPublisher Tiger Books InternationalWeight(grams) 114g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841140049Author John BartonFormat PaperbackImprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove

'Writing about Queen Victoria has been one of the most joyous experiences of my life. I have read thousands (literally) of letters never before published, and grown used to her as to a friend. Maddening? Egomaniac? Hysterical? A bad mother? Some have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781853323270Author Cliff LausonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Hayward Gallery PublishingPublisher Hayward Gallery Publishing

A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today. Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953940004Author Jacqueline Anne HiscockFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Weight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948695230Author Robert MorkotFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The Rubicon PressPublisher Stacey InternationalWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948462153Author William AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion Books

In this thoughtful and provocative study, M.I. Finley challenges the prevailing traditions of researching and writing about ancient civilizations. He questions, for example, the special status accorded to classic texts, exposes the false assumptions...

With a light-hearted approach, local author and journalist, Richard Whitmore, takes a trip down the garden and records for future generations the history of privies in Hertfordshire, and what it was like to use them in all weathers. This work is fully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788847604155Author R. P. GiandomenicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Weight(grams) 197g

Travelogue, adventure yarn, political intrigue and tragedy, The Last Resort is a love story about the author and his homeland, Zimbabwe...For many years, Lyn and Ros Rogers were the owners of Drifters, a famous game farm and backpacker lodge in the...