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The remarkable true story, as seen in the brilliant TV adaptation now showing on Netflix! Murder on the Home Front follows Molly Lefebure as she navigates working for the Home Office's chief forensic pathologist while living in a bomb-stricken London...

Baptist Noel (1798-1873) has been described by the American Evangelical Anglican historian Grayson Carter as a towering figure in nineteenth-century Evangelicalism, but he has been written out of its story because he was a saintly rebel who counted a...

The recorded history of the diving industry has been fundamentally corrupted over the past 150 years. The result is a complete misunderstanding of how it all began. Who invented the diving helmet? Refer to any encyclopaedia or history book and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717506Author Linda DittmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999585327Author Roger FarrowFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Riverside Publishing Solutions LtdPublisher Riverside Publishing Solutions...

"The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist" is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz...

The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784657987Author Wg Cdr Roy Gamblin AFCFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

Since leaving office in 2007, the empire of Tony Blair has grown exponentially. As a businessman he has been unprecedentedly successful for a former public servant, with a large property portfolio and an estimated GBP80 million of earnings accrued in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437735Author Jack LondonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House AustraliaWeight(grams)...

This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806530666Author Peter ZheutlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 310g

In England in the eighth century, in the midst of the so-called Dark Ages, Offa ruled Mercia, one of the strongest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. For over 30 years he was the dominant warlord in the territory south of the Humber and the driving force behind the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784613709Author Richard VeaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

Richard III ruled England for a mere twenty-six months, yet few English monarchs remain as compulsively fascinating, and none has been more persistently vilified. In his absorbing and universally praised account, Charles Ross assesses the king within the...

Suleiman the Magnificent, most glorious of the Ottoman sultans, kept Europe atremble for nearly half a century. In a few years he led his army as far as the gates of Vienna, made himself master of the Mediterranean and established his court in Baghdad...

In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to...

As a Commando helicopter pilot, the author served with 846 Naval Air Squadron in the Falklands War and was decorated for gallantry (DSC). The author re-lives his part in operations, in particular Special Forces intelligence gathering and direct action...

Bad Faith tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government and was responsible for sending thousands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953663118Author James S. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic PublishingWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm)...

March of the emperors.The Historia Augusta is a biographical work roughly following the model of the imperial biographer Suetonius (LCL 31, 38) and covering the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (r. 283-285), with a ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250853561Author Gwen StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Mike Brooke's successful RAF career had taken him from Cold War Canberra pilot to flying instructor at the Central Flying School in the 1970s. For his next step he undertook the demanding training regime at the UK's Empire Test Pilots' School. His goal:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593685Author Alexandre SkirdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 569g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060520830Author Carol Ann LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Hannah More (1745-1833), the daughter of an obscure schoolmaster, began her working life as a teacher at her sisters' school in Bristol. In her thirtieth year she came to London to persuade the actor-manager David Garrick to put on one of her plays. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668002476Author Jeffrey RosenFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600213Author Isak DinesenFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 192mm *...

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807093139Author Rena Kornreich GelissenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

'A riveting detective story ... Revelation follows revelation.' - Benedict Allen, author, explorer and TV presenterJames Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928832485Author Elisabeth LeseurFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute Press

Martina Devlin, an award-winning columnist for the Irish Independent and podcaster for Dublin City of Literature #CityofBooks, has delivered a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of 'Somerville and Ross' fame - authors of The Irish R.M. In...

"When you're in the middle of the adventure, you just have to live it. When you're on an expedition, you put your head down and battle through. Storytelling happens after the finish line. . . . now that time has come [and] Julia can tell her story. The...

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Follow the exciting adventure of D'Artagnan as he desperately tries to fight for a place as one of the King's Musketeers, in this gripping retelling of Alexandre...

The best-loved politician and social reformer of nineteenth century England, Lord Shaftesbury's deep compassion for the poor became legendary. He campaigned tirelessly to limit factory hours, to stop the use of boys as chimney sweeps and children in...

An entertaining history of mathematics as chronicled through fifty short biographies. Mathematics today is the fruit of centuries of brilliant insights by men and women whose personalities and life experiences were often as extraordinary as their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979170065Author Gerry FengeFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Lorian PressPublisher Lorian PressWeight(grams) 378g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512364Author Richard FarrimondFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198458Author Anna PasternakFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 23mm