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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978801813Author Andrew R. MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 438Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952223679Author Alexander C R HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Cato InstitutePublisher Cato Institute

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944424855Author Timothy SandefurFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Cato InstitutePublisher Cato Institute

Lives Lived and Lost stands at the intersection of biography, autobiography, memory and history. It narrates a mother's and daughter's separate perspectives of their experiences before, during and after World War II. The book is also an ethnography of...

This groundbreaking book focuses on Alfred Dreyfus the man, with emphasis placed on his own writings, including his recently published prison workbooks and his letters to his wife Lucie. Through close reading of these documents, a much more sensitive,...

The sequel to Shimon Redlich's widely acclaimed "Together and Apart in Brzezany", in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust, "Life in Transit" tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936068333Author Mietek WeintraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Devora Publishing CompanyPublisher Devora Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 371g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933823508Author Shahroukh FirouzFormat HardbackPage Count 928Imprint Mage PublishersPublisher Mage PublishersWeight(grams) 1000g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832199Author Mary MaclaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend PublishingWeight(grams) 367g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910760161Author Longjia DingFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint ACA Publishing LimitedPublisher ACA Publishing Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910760109Author Meng XiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint ACA Publishing LimitedPublisher ACA Publishing Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018484Author Edward WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759618Author Frances Clay WelwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 390g

This highly literate account by the son of President Zachary Taylor follows the author's Confederate commands in all three major theatres of the war, and provides a unique view of the Reconstruction period. Taylor possessed literary art that approached...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877276118Author Dom Felice VaggioliFormat PaperbackPage Count 271Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 550g

The memoirs of Sir Ian Scott are an important contribution to our understanding of Britain's history from before the Second World War until the late 1960s. Setting down his recollections of a long and distinguished career spent mainly in the Indian Civil...

Relates the events following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, focusing on the author's own three week internment if a forced labour camp.Book InformationISBN 9781858660141Author Erno SzepFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Central...

A memoir of life in East London and of 43 years spent in garment factories across the East End. This memoir begins as Alfred Gardner prepares to leave school, ten years after the end of the Second World War. At fourteen, schoolboy Alf becomes interested...

In 1912, Rash Behari Bose made his dramatic entrance into India's anti-colonial freedom movement when he orchestrated a bomb attack against the British Viceroy during a public procession in Delhi. Forced to flee his homeland, Bose settled in Japan,...

Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await...At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one thing about her great-grandmother, Anna: she was a homesteader on the North Dakota prairies in the early 1900s before her husband committed her to an asylum...

This vivid and moving memoir describes the survival of a Jewish child in the hell of Nazi occupied Poland. Rubin Katz was born in Ostrowiec Swietokrzyskie, Poland, in 1931. This town, located in the picturesque countryside of central Poland 42 miles...

This book is a memoir of growing up during World War II in the south of England. The “Peace” that follows is a record of a turbulent but exciting life. A lengthy worldwide adventure drawing to a close after six years of living in south west France.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528980593Author Gabriele ReinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 458g

From Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold rush in 1849. America's Manifest destiny comes to life in the skilled hands of bestselling author Robert Morgan. Thomas Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596874565Author John a Kerner M DFormat HardbackImprint iBooksPublisher iBooksWeight(grams) 581g

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...

As thoroughly examined as the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln have been, virtually no attention has been paid to the life of the Union cavalryman who killed John Wilkes Booth, an odd character named Boston Corbett. Corbett became an...

The Lives of Talleyrand is a study of the character and actions of the man who so profoundly influenced the destiny of the French Revolution and helped to shape the contours of all Europe as well. The requisite historical background is of course given,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826405Author Ciara BoylanFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 368g

A puzzle to his friends and family in his lifetime, RLS still remains something of an enigma, even to Stevenson enthusiasts. Years of restless wandering led him to tropical Samoa, where he found not only well-being, but a release of the passionate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804670637Author Frank WardFormat HardbackPage Count 764Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 1144g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373145Author Colum KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the British Empire hand-picked teachers from across the Commonwealth to teach the thousands of Boer children living in concentration camps. Highly...

Conrad Kain is a titan amongst climbers in Canada and is well-known in mountaineering circles all over the world. His letters to Amelie Malek-a life-long friend-offer a candid view into the deepest thoughts of the Austrian mountain guide, and are a...

Focusing on German society immediately following the First World War, this vivid historical narrative explains how fake news and political uproar influenced Hitler and put him on the path toward dictatorial power. How did an obscure agitator on the...

The 44th U.S. President, Barack Obama, has fulfilled the dream of "inclusiveness" for American society by moving contemporary society closer towards universal equality for all. Dr Thomas E Carney has written a powerful and incisive volume on...

Calvin Coolidge was one of America's most unusual presidents. Selected as vice president by rebellious convention delegates and thrust unexpectedly into the presidency on the death of his predecessor, he nonetheless imprinted his authority on both party...

The public perception of the First Lady has evolved through the years and the press and scholars are beginning to take note of the essential role presidents' wives have played in the Administration and in the nation as a whole. Their participation in the...

On February 24, 1838, Maine Congressman Jonathan Cilley was killed in Maryland by another Congressman from Kentucky in one of the last duels to take place in the United States. At the time, dueling was not illegal, but still Cilley's death was a shock to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Autobiography/Memoir) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781607720027Author Stefan W. WaydenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Aquila...