Historical

A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired...

Recounts the life of Egypt's greatest historian, analyses his work and assesses its impact then and nowBook InformationISBN 9781399502818Author Nasser RabbatFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University...

Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the...

Joshua Chamberlain is arguably the most well-known figure in Maine history and this highly accessible biography provides a brief look at his life. Covering his early years to his time as a student at Bowdoin, the primary emphasis in on Chamberlain's...

Cowboy, army guide, farmer, peace officer, and character in his own right, John P. Meadows arrived in New Mexico from Texas as a young man. During his life in the Southwest, he knew or worked for many well-known characters, including William "Billy the...

Translated by David Short Foreword by Rajendra Chitins Burying the Season is an affectionate, multi-layered account of small town life in central Europe beginning in the early 1930s and ending in the 21st Century. Adapting scenes from Fellini's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939923854Author Eva Stolar MeltzFormat HardbackPage Count 486Imprint McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, USPublisher McDonald & Woodward...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883910108Author John BartimoleFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Frederick FellPublisher Frederick Fell

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884001270Author Frances PenneyFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Shengold Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Shengold Publishers Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 415g

For half a century a box had lain undisturbed, buried under years of accumulated clutter in the back room of a house. The contents of the box: stacks of letters, neatly bundled in chronological order, four years' worth. The letter writer was Clarence...

An indepth look at Joseph Cowen--newspaper magnate, radical activist, and member of parliament for the Liberal party--this compilation brings together ethnic and urban studies, and considers the role of the press in building a radical power base. During...

Immediately after the Holocaust, it seemed inconceivable that a Jewish community would rebuild in Germany. What was once unimaginable has now come to pass: Germany is home to one of Europe's most vibrant Jewish communities, and it has the fastest growing...

"Dancing in Chains is far more than a sensitive biography (though it is surely that); it is also a model of psychologically informed social and cultural history. Olsen recognizes that psychic conflicts often play themselves out on a higher plane,...

Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg A legal historian recounts the influential life of women's rights activist Belva Lockwood, the first woman to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be...

Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century's most surprising...

John C. Breckinridge rose to prominence during one of the most turbulent times in our nation's history. Widely respected, even by his enemies, for his dedication to moderate liberalism, Breckinridge's charisma and integrity led to his election as Vice...

An extensively researched account of the infamous Benedict Arnold, framed in Martin's biography as a hero rather than a traitor Benedict Arnold stands as one of the most vilified figures in American history. Stories of his treason have so come to define...

William Livingston's American Revolution explores how New Jersey's first governor experienced the American Revolution and managed a state government on the war's front lines. A wartime bureaucrat, Livingston played a pivotal role in a pivotal place,...

Gives an anaylsis of the social themes and cultural perspectives of modern American autobiographies. "An excellent reference for students of autobiography, an essential text for students of American autobiography, and the central critical work for...

King of the Lobby tells the story of how one man harnessed delicious food, fine wine, and good conversation to the task of becoming the most influential lobbyist of the Gilded Age. Sam Ward was a colorful character. Scion of an old and honorable family,...

Jane Austen's reputation rests on the six novels she wrote in her short life - enduringly popular novels which have become part of the fabric of English life, and which have reached new audiences through recent dramatisations on screen and stage. This...

Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising tells the story of one woman, whose life encompasses a century of Polish history. Full of tragic and compelling experiences such as life in Siberia, Warsaw before World War II, the German occupation, the Warsaw...

Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780684829531Author Douglas Southall FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Simon & Schuster LtdPublisher Simon & Schuster Ltd

Congress adjourned on 18 May 1852 for Louisa Catherine Adams's funeral, according her an honor never before offered a first lady. But her life and influence merited this extraordinary tribute. She had been first the daughter-in-law and then the wife of a...

Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach chose a life of hardship and freedom in Texas rather than a life of comfort and influence in his native Germany, where he had lived his formative years within a framework of unconstitutional government. In 1845...

Written for young adults, this biography of Frederick Douglass covers the life of the most famous black abolitionist and intellectual of the 19th century. Frederick Douglass: A Biography explores the life of the most famous black abolitionist and...

Lu Hsiu-lien's journey is the story of Taiwan. Through her successive drives for gender equality, human rights, political reform, Taiwan independence, and, currently, environmental protection, Lu has played a key role in Taiwan's evolution from...

In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors assembled recently to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These "flares of memory" invoke lost childhoods,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789698784713Author Syed Zahid HasnainFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Sama Editorial and Publishing ServicesPublisher Sama Editorial and Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788181581099Author Sangeeta KochharFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Natraj PublishersPublisher Natraj PublishersDimensions(mm) 200mm * 190mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939994721Author Annette AlstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

A Partisan of Vilna is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the FPO (United Partisan Organization) resistance movement and joined the Soviet partisans in the forests of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919825243Author Apollon DavidsonFormat HardbackPage Count 391Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 645g

William Martin Murphy (1845-1919) was one of the most successful of Irish entrepreneurs and businessmen. As well as being a good employer, Murphy was an international financier, and a contractor of railways and tramways on three continents as well as in...

Edward Hincks (1792-1866), the Irish Assyriologist and one of the decipherers of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was born in Cork and spent forty years of his life at Killyleagh, Co. Down, where he was the Church of Ireland Rector. He was educated at Middleton...

Senator James G. Douglas, a Dublin business and and a Quaker and Irish nationalist, was active in the Irish White Cross, 1920-22. Appointed by Michael Collins as a member of the committee which prepared drafts for the first Irish constitution in 1922. He...

O'Sullivan's memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation.-Sean O'Faolain, The Listener...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781887563505Author Sandra BrandFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Schreiber PublishingPublisher Schreiber PublishingWeight(grams) 510g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897126202Author Anne MekitoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 348g

William Howard Taft (15 September 1857 - 8 March 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States. He is the only person to have served in both offices. Riding a wave of popular support of President...