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This is the enthralling story of the lives of two remarkable women: women who have been defined by history as Henry VIII's sisters, but who were strong, fierce and sensual characters in their own right. Illuminating and groundbreaking, Sisters to the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847719850Author John DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an auburn-haired beauty in her 20s with a passion she had inherited from her parents, Isabella...

The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of religious and political disputes. In Mark Kishlansky's brilliant account it is...

Prince Louis Napoleon was born with a compelling sense of destiny. The eldest nephew of Bonaparte, he came from exile and ignominy to rule France, first as President then as Emperor for 22 years, from 1848 to 1870. Under his benevolent dictatorship, the...

When Lionel de Rothschild, from the famous banking dynasty, wrote to his mother to thank her 'for my bride', he had just met his cousin Charlotte in Frankfurt. She was sixteen, and beautiful. An arranged family marriage joining two branches of Europe's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786860272Author Bob ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 678g

Set in 1970s Manchester, Once in a House on Fire tells the true story of three sisters and their mother, a close-knit and loving family forced to battle with poverty, abuse and the effects of depression. Beautifully written and deeply inspiring, with a...

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This is a beautiful and informative guidebook and history of Nelson. A captain before he was 21; a household name throughout most of Europe at 39; killed in action just after his 47th birthday; Nelson lived a colourful, crowded and short life. He...

Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle’s army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a doctor and psychiatrist. His experiences as a black man under French colonial...

In the summer of 1945, Eberhard Bethge began the search for traces of his colleague and friend Dietrich Bonhoeffer. From as early as September 1945, Hermann Pünder provided Bethge a first-hand account of Bonhoeffer's final days. Five years on, another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780753560822Author Keren BlankfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint W H AllenPublisher Ebury PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

Rudolf II: The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor offers a fresh perspective on the Habsburg ruler, shedding new light on a reign often coloured by myths of madness. Contrary to popular belief, Rudolf was not a passive recluse but an engaged monarch,...

Frederick Barbarossa, also known as Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor from 1155, was a dominant figure in late 12th-century European history. He is remembered as one of the greatest medieval German emperors; some even regard him as a German hero. He...

When Henry IV seized the throne from his cousin Richard II, people saw it as a hopeful new beginning for England. The first monarch to have English as his mother tongue since the Norman conquest, Henry seemed to embody the ideals of chivalric kingship:...

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At the age of twelve, on hearing that Sir Ross Smith had broken the England-Australia aero record in a Vickers Vimy, Roly Alderson decided that he wanted to fly. Denied a secondary education, orphan Roly was an accomplished engineer by the time he...

The first biography in over a century of Adrian IV , the only English pope in the history of the Catholic Church

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685628604Author Unblind Tibbin M.AFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886932263Author R.E. DanielFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

George Windsor Earl (1813-1865) was one of that great band of young British men who adventured far to the east in the early 19th century to forge careers, make fortunes and help build the empire. At the age of sixteen he sailed for Western Australia to...

Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilotSmall in stature but immense in reputation and talent, there was more to Eric 'Winkle' Brown than met the eye.From shooting down...

Meet one of the most influential men in the United States’ history of emancipation and Black rights. Chronicling Frederick Douglass’s life in an accessible way, this biography engages with history and wrestles with biases, falsehoods, and unknown facts...

THE MEMOIRS AND OTHER KEY WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: THE FIRST AMERICAN.Also includes:The Way of WealthThe Book of VirtuesThe Letters of Silence DogoodThe Declaration of Rights and Grievances of 1765On Civil WarAn Edict by the King of PrussiaRules by...

The enigmatic Robert Barton was a central figure in Irish Revolution. From an Anglo-Irish ascendancy background, he joined the British army in 1915. He was sent to Dublin to guard Republican prisoners after the 1916 Easter Rising. Within two years he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339501Author Mark A. NeelsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

The first comprehensive biography of Philadelphia’s Henry C. Lea (1825–1909): historian, publisher, political activist, and reformer Writing in 1868, the Philadelphia publisher-cum-historian Henry Charles Lea informed a friend, “I am trying to collect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511824Author David JablonskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113870Author Alexander MikaberidzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A lively and provocative account of Bernard Mandeville and the work that scandalised and appalled his contemporaries—and made him one of the most influential thinkers of the eighteenth centuryIn 1714, doctor, philosopher and writer Bernard Mandeville...

THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON BY HIS FRIEND CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN MARSHALL.Also includes:George Washington’s First Inaugural AddressGeorge Wshington Second Inaugural AddressGeorge Washington’s Farewell Address to the People of the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339495Author Mark A. NeelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University...

When Tessa Blackstone moved in to 2 Gower Street, London, she was delighted to discover that a previous tenant had been Millicent Garrett Fawcett, the suffragist leader who dedicated her life to securing women's right to vote. But Tessa could not...

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A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O’Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself...

A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America Ellen O’Hara was a young immigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself...

From the political and social turmoil of early nineteenth century Britain, a young Welsh doctor emerged in Birmingham to play a leading role in the transformation of the town as physician, political activist, medical reformer, and the borough’s first and...

Volume 4: Red Union, Red Paper, Red Train, 1905-1910 gathers for the first time approximately 180 articles, speeches, letters, and interviews from the prime years of American socialist and labor leader Eugene V. Debs. These include materials relating to...