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Wellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a great imperial power, a man who dominated British society and politics for 35 years. He was the only one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806828Author Malaika wa AzaniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611450248Author Tivadar SorosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805053944Author Alice EchoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316387897Author Nancy GoldstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm...

The Chronicle of the Bourbon Duke Louis II is translated here into English for the first time. It gives a striking picture of the Hundred Years' War, providing vivid first-hand descriptions of military life of the late 14th century. This record of the...

2015 Internation Latino Book Awards Honorable Mention for Best Biography in English Known for her beauty and angelic voice, Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, la Belle CrEole, was a Cuban-born star of nineteenth-century Parisian society. She befriended...

Winner of the 1990 American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize. A great book for anyone interested in the Heian period of Japan.Book InformationISBN 9780824815905Author Robert BorgenFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint University of...

The career and legacy of an extraordinary African American crusader; Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473531836Author Kenneth BlackburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Kenneth BlackburnPublisher Kenneth BlackburnWeight(grams) 140g

Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.About the...

It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche-the Left Bank of the Seine River-in Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs of A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald was...

Biographies of two 17th-century female criminals, both celebrated in their day. These are the first editions published since the 17th century.About the Author0Book InformationISBN 9780367875879Author Elizabeth SpearingFormat PaperbackPage Count...

The life, career and medieval biography of Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd 1095-1137. The reign of the North Welsh king Gruffudd ap Cynan [1075-1135] marked the culmination of a century of rapid social and political change. A product of three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789431155Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

Out of the pages of European history comes a story as colorful and torrid as any modern fiction-the never-been-told-before-told account of the lives of the grand duchess of Courland and her daughters Wilhelmina and Dorothea. By Influence and Desire is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950794904Author C O L BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Deeds PublishingPublisher Deeds PublishingWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995842007Author Ivy GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Ivy GrahamPublisher Ivy GrahamWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804171557Author Julie KavanaghFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996225403Author Tinsa Maw-NaingFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Y.M.V. HanPublisher Y.M.V. HanWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956638038Author Dieudonne GnammankouFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Books of Africa LtdPublisher Books of Africa LtdWeight(grams) 648gDimensions(mm)...

Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), a glamorous and well-known figure in Britain for the first four decades of the twentieth century, was the most eligible bachelor and the greatest host of his time. He attained prominence in the art world, high society, and...

How should we live? In ancient Greece one man came up with a pleasingly simple answer to this question. The philosopher Epicurus taught his followers that pleasure and contentment were the aims of the good life. For hundreds of years Epicureanism was...

'The love affair that the Gestapo could not extinguish' - DAILY MAIL 'A deeply affecting narrative' - SUNDAY TIMES 'The prose ensures that the lovers continue to resonate in the mind' - THE TIMES ______________________ In 1966, the young Aude...

'The love affair that the Gestapo could not extinguish' - DAILY MAIL 'A deeply affecting narrative' - SUNDAY TIMES 'The prose ensures that the lovers continue to resonate in the mind' - THE TIMES ______________________ In 1966, the young Aude...

Of all the memoirs of the wild West, Frank Crampton's autobiography of his youth in the mining camps ranks with the very best. Scion of a wealthy New York family, Crampton ran away from home in 1904 at the age of sixteen. Two bindle stiffs picked him up...

There are few American families that feature such a collection of characters, both heroic and ignoble, who have made such a mark on history as the Lees. In The Lees of Virginia, Paul Nagel chronicles seven generations of Lees, covering over two hundred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250074553Author Lloyd HandwerkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561649853Author Frank A. CassellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield

""Ravished Armenia"" and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901-1994) witnessed the murder of her family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060528164Author David M FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 313g

Gladys Malvern uses her celebrated talent for prose to share the stories of Henry VIII's wives with immense personality and captivating drama. Henry VIII was married to six women during his reign as the King of England. Gladys Malvern characterizes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980334845Author Christos PetrakisFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Shimmering Pioneer BooksPublisher Shimmering Pioneer BooksWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061537165Author Germaine GreerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser present a vivid interdisciplinary study devoted to the life, work and extant vita of Christina of Markyate, which draws on research from a wide range of disciplines. This fascinating and comprehensive collection surveys...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862435448Author Rhiannon IfansFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

The story of Anne Boleyn goes to the root of all history; what makes an individual or event memorable to later generations? Anne is an exceptional case for her life was a double helix intertwining extraordinary human drama with profound historical crisis...