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A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky: The Diary of Frances Peter by Frances Dallam Peter 9780813153735
RRP: £18.00£16.60Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because of... -
The Quest for Robert Louis Stevenson by John Cairney 9780946487875
RRP: £16.99£12.47This guide follows a trail of places associated with Robert Louis Stevenson. John Cairney, perhaps best known for writing and starring in "The Robert Burns Story", is one of the few people to have visited all the places on the RLS trail.About the... -
Custer's Road to Disaster: The Path To Little Bighorn by Kevin Sullivan 9780762784417
RRP: £12.99£10.15The death of George Armstrong Custer ended the life of one of the most flamboyant, brave, careless, and fascinating characters to ever wear a United States military uniform. His dramatic rise during the Civil War to the brevet rank of brigadier general... -
Betsy Bonaparte by Helen J Burn 9780984213504
RRP: £30.00£27.72Over the past 130 years, Elizabeth "Betsy" Patterson Bonaparte has inspired countless books, movies, articles, and fictionalized accounts. None captures the full measure of her fascinating life. The product of thirty years of study, Helen Jean Burn's... -
Crazy Horse: The Life Behind the Legend Mike Sajna 9780471417002
RRP: £18.99£12.75"A treat . . . Insightful . . . Refreshing . . . A must-have . . .Not only is Sajna's work a valuable historical resource, it makesfor a compelling read as well."-American History "There has to be someone left to tell the tale." Little did the... -
Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age H. Paul Jeffers 9780471391029
RRP: £27.99£18.59Praise for H. Paul Jeffers An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of GroverCleveland "A well-written and timely book that reminds us of GroverCleveland?s courage, commitment, and honesty at a time when thesequalities seem so lacking in so much... -
Martin Luther by Michael A. Mullett 9780415734059
RRP: £135.00£117.28An engaging and comprehensive new edition of this established biography provides students with an understanding of the European Reformation through the life of its key mover, Martin Luther. Working chronologically through Luther's life, Michael A. Mullet... -
Nero by David Shotter 9780415319416
RRP: £135.00£117.28The reign of Nero is often judged to be the embodiment of the extravagance and the corruption that have, for many, come to symbolise ancient Rome. David Shotter provides a reassessment of this view in this accessible introduction to Nero, emperor of Rome... -
Christina of Markyate by Samuel Fanous 9780415308588
RRP: £135.00£117.68Samuel 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... -
Frederick Douglass William S. McFeely (University of Georgia) 9780393354423
RRP: £15.99£13.82Born into but escaped from slavery, Frederick Douglass-orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America-was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass... -
Frederick Douglass by William S. McFeely 9780393313765
RRP: £25.00£21.32Former slave, orator, journalist, autobiographer; revolutionary on behalf of a just America, Frederick Douglass was a towering figure, at once consummately charismatic and flawed. His Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) galvanized the... -
Nights in White Castle: A Memoir Steve Rushin 9780316419390
RRP: £13.99£4.81It begins in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a 13-year-old kid staging his own author photo that he hopes will someday grace the cover of a book jacket. And it ends at a desk in the legendary Time & Life building, with that same boy-now in his early 20s and... -
Jefferson's Shadow: The Story of His Science by Keith Stewart Thomson 9780300184037
RRP: £20.00£17.38In the voluminous literature on Thomas Jefferson, little has been written about his passionate interest in science. This new and original study of Jefferson presents him as a consummate intellectual whose view of science was central to both his public... -
The Diary of Joseph Farington: Index Volume by Joseph Farington 9780300075779
RRP: £85.00£82.30Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a professional landscape and topographical artist. Through his extensive involvement in the affairs of the Royal Academy and his wide circle of friends he was extraordinarily well-informed about the affairs of his day... -
Jacob Green's Revolution: Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age by S. Scott Rohrer 9780271064215
RRP: £74.95£64.98Part biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green's Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey's revolutionary drama-Jacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, a conservative Anglican... -
Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper by Robert G. Barrows 9780253337740
RRP: £21.99£19.19Albion Fellows Bacon Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper Robert G. Barrows Examines the career of a leading Progressive Era reformer. Born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1865, Albion Fellows was reared in the nearby hamlet of McCutchanville and graduated from... -
J.R.R. Tolkien: The man who created The Lord of the Rings by Michael Coren 9780230768383
£10.47J.R.R. Tolkien was an orphan, a scholar, a soldier, a professor; and the author of what is considered by many to be the finest book of the 20th Century - The Lord of the Rings. In this carefully researched and engagingly written biography, you'll come to... -
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise W. Knight 9780226447001
RRP: £20.00£19.80Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher. In this book we observe a powerful mind... -
Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum Neil Harris 9780226317526
RRP: £30.00£29.25This carefully researched study of America's greatest showman, huckster, and impresario is both an inclusive analysis of the historical and cultural forces that were the conditions of P. T. Barnum's success, and, as befits its subject, a richly... -
Big Bosses: A Working Girl's Memoir of Jazz Age America by Althea McDowell Altemus 9780226423623
RRP: £15.00£13.05Sharp, resourceful, and with a style all her own, Althea Altemus embodied the spirit of the independent working woman of the Jazz Age. In her memoir, Big Bosses, she vividly recounts her life as a secretary for prominent (but thinly disguised) employers... -
China's American Daughter: Ida Pruitt, 1888-1985 by Marjorie King 9789629962210
£29.56Ida Pruitt, born of American missionaries and raised in a rural Chinese village at the end of the nineteenth century, witnessed almost a century of China's revolutionary upheavals. She was the first Director of Social Service at the Peking Union Medical... -
The Illuminated Life of the Great Yolmowa Benjamin Bogin 9781932476668
RRP: £45.00£30.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932476668Author Benjamin BoginFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Serindia Publications, IncPublisher Serindia Publications, IncWeight(grams) 1367g -
Shouldering Antigua and Barbuda: The Life of V.C. Bird Paget PH Henry 9781906190347
RRP: £11.99£8.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190347Author Paget HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 231Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 398g -
I Was a Soldier: Survival Against the Odds Necola Hall 9781906190897
RRP: £11.99£8.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190897Author Necola HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 277g -
John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning William Poole (Fellow, New College, Oxford) 9781851243198
RRP: £25.00£20.92John Aubrey (1626-97) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. Immersed in the intellectual fervour of the era, he is best remembered today for his Brief Lives, a collection of... -
Inside the Arab Nationalist Struggle: Memoirs of an Iraqi Statesman by Mohammed Fadhel Jamali 9781850437628
£66.39On 14 July 1958, with the fall of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, a chapter of Iraq's history ended. In the wake of this revolution - a revolution that eventually brought to power the Ba'ath party of Saddam Hussein - the ancien regime of Iraq found... -
Pioneer Merchant Trader: The Life and Times of Otto Markus by Eve A. Pollecoft 9781848859371
£54.87The Scramble for Africa in the 1880s showed European interest in Africa at its most intense and today evokes a picture of the great European powers engaged in a frantic struggle for supremacy and for control of Africa and its resources. Eve Pollecoff... -
An Uncommon Journey: From Vienna to Shanghai to America - A Brother and Sister's Escape from the Nazis by Deborah Strobin 9781569804520
RRP: £23.99£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569804520Author Deborah StrobinFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books IncWeight(grams) 516g -
William T. Sherman: A Biography by Robert P. Broadwater 9781440800603
£39.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781440800603Author Robert P. BroadwaterFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint Greenwood Publishing Group IncPublisher Greenwood Publishing Group Inc -
Hrant Dink: An Armenian Voice of the Voiceless in Turkey by Tuba Candar 9781412862554
RRP: £135.00£117.68This is the biography of Hrant Dink, a Turkish-Armenian journalist and political activist. He worked for the democratic rights of all Turkish citizens, including the right to speak freely about the genocide of Anatolia's Armenians in 1915. As a result of... -
In Search of Nixon: A Psychohistorical Inquiry by Bruce Mazlish 9781412855648
RRP: £43.99£38.44Who was the real Richard Nixon and why did he behave the way he did? In this innovative work, a distinguished historian, trained in psychoanalysis, unravels the riddle of Nixon's singularly opaque political personality. Neither a political biography, nor... -
Thomas Jefferson: America's Philosopher-King by Max Lerner 9781412852760
RRP: £43.99£38.44Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention. To Lerner, Jefferson came closest in the American context to... -
Lest We Forget: How Three Sisters Braved the Partition by Indira Varma 9789357768559
RRP: £23.99£23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357768559Author Indira VarmaFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Westland Publications LimitedPublisher Westland Publications Limited -
Pioneer Aviators: ...and the Planes They Flew Frank Hitchens 9781837914050
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837914050Author Frank HitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Acorn Books LtdPublisher Andrews UK Limited -
The Prison Guard by Shemal Samuelson 9781804396513
RRP: £6.99£6.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804396513Author Shemal SamuelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers -
The Last Leaf: Voices of History's Last-Known Survivors by Stuart Lutz 9781616141622
RRP: £19.99£15.42This unique oral history book records the stories told to the author personally by people who witnessed many of history's most famous events. Among many others, the author interviewed: the final three Civil War widows (one Union and two Confederate), the... -
The Annotated Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. 9781493075980
RRP: £19.99£14.68A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana’s classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the... -
Mark and Livy: The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman Who Almost Tamed Him by Resa Willis 9781138177833
RRP: £135.00£117.68Olivia Langdon Clemens was not only the love of Mark Twain's life and the mother of his children, she was also his editor, muse, critic and trusted advisor. She read his letters and speeches. He relied on her judgment on his writing, and readily admitted... -
Gilbert Imlay: Citizen of the World Wil Verhoeven 9781138111639
RRP: £49.99£43.90A biography of the American Gilbert Imlay (c 1754 - c 1828), revolutionary war veteran - and infamous lover of Mary Wollstonecraft. It also highlights how Imlay unwittingly acted as an intermediary between figures of greater significance, whose ideas,... -
Incredible Elfego Baca: Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West by Howard Bryan 9780940666344
RRP: £23.99£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940666344Author Howard BryanFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Clear Light PublishersPublisher Clear Light PublishersWeight(grams) 325g