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The Eighteenth Century was an era when brave mariners took their ships beyond the horizon in search of an unknown world. Those chosen to lead these expeditions were exceptional navigators, men who had shown brilliance as they ascended the ranks in the...

In the annals of the Second World War, a resounding figure emerged, etching his legacy through audacious feats and indomitable spirit. Major Charles Carpenter, a name forever intertwined with valor and innovation, garnered international...

The second volume of Michel Leiris's hugely influential four-volume autobiographical essay, available to English-language readers in a brilliant and sensitive translation by Lydia Davis One of the most versatile and beloved French intellectuals of the...

Texas Jack: America's First Cowboy Star is a biography of John B. "Texas Jack" Omohundro, the first well-known cowboy in America. A Confederate scout and spy from Virginia, Jack left for Texas within weeks of Lee's surrender at Appomattox. In Texas, he...

The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient, silent, and chaste, but Frances displayed none of these qualities. Her...

A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder's diary provides an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060954833Author Kuki GallmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845402488Author Trevor HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585429387Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083003405Author Sophie PoldermansFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Sww PressPublisher Sww PressWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 6mm * 152mm

Two sisters. A broken childhood. A heartbreaking journey.The extraordinary true story of surviving the unimaginable ... In 1945, seven-year-old Barbie and her sister Eva were trapped, terrified, in wartorn Germany. With their father missing, and hundreds...

Helmut and Charlotte Jacobitz were born in Berlin during the mid-1920s. They experienced depression and inflation, and witnessed violence as fascists and communists vied for control of Germany. When the Nazis prevailed, they survived the 12 years of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911379119Author Philip HoyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint The Waywiser PressPublisher The Waywiser Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873976401Author David John DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint ChristieBooksPublisher ChristieBooksDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 40mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944383087Author William FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint High Lonesome BooksPublisher High Lonesome BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805050875Author Etty HillesumFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062430519Author Jason FagoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

In the early morning of 7 September 1838, Grace Darling, the daughter of the keeper of the Longstone Light on the Farne Isles, rowed with her father to rescue survivors from the wrecked steamer Forfarshire. Her heroism caused a sensation. She was asked...

This is a biography of the first Prime Minister of the 20th Century during the height of the British Empire.Book InformationISBN 9781904950547Author Eric MidwinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Haus PublishingPublisher Haus PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760559489Author Juliet RiedenFormat PaperbackImprint Macmillan AustraliaPublisher Pan Macmillan AustraliaWeight(grams) 444gDimensions(mm) 155mm * 233mm *...

Thomas Howard became the third duke of Norfolk during the reign of Henry VIII and was intimately involved in many of the most controversial episodes of that era. By some accounts, Norfolk became known as the greatest soldier and aristocrat alive under...

Robert Emmet (1778-1803) was one of the most romantic of all Irish revolutionaries. He was the youngest son of Ireland's state physician and was educated privately at Trinity College Dublin. Like many young people in the early 1790s, he was caught up in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613822913Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Simon & BrownPublisher Simon & BrownWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809062393Author Steven HackelFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 295g

Two sisters.One extraordinary true story.Germany, 1945. Trapped between advancing armies, stranded hundreds of miles from their mother, and with their father missing in action, sisters Barbie and Eva were confronted with an impossible choice.Should they...

Two sisters.One extraordinary true story.Germany, 1945. Trapped between advancing armies, stranded hundreds of miles from their mother, and with their father missing in action, sisters Barbie and Eva were confronted with an impossible choice.Should they...

In this well-structured, fluent and lively account, Paula Bartley uses new archival material to assess whether Pankhurst should be seen as a heroine or a tyrant, a conservative or a progressive.Emmeline Pankhurst was the most prominent campaigner for the...

From the preeminent Edison scholar . . . The definitive life of the inventor of the modern age The conventional story is so familiar and reassuring that it has come to read more like American myth than history: With only three months of formal...

Biography of the most famous Prime Minister of the 20th CenturyBook InformationISBN 9781904950639Author Chris WrigleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Haus PublishingPublisher Haus PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 25mm * 15mm * 2mm

James IV is the best-known of all the late medieval Scottish rulers. Widely praised by his contemporaries, he combined the qualities of successful medieval monarch with a wide interest in the arts and sciences, while remaining acutely conscious of the...

The thrilling and previously untold true story of Suzanne Spaak, who abandoned her life of opulence to save the Jewish children of Occupied Paris during the Second World War.Suzanne Spaak was born into an affluent Belgian Catholic family and married into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335016713Author Thomas LockleyFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 522g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528911498Author Tom WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

'Carefully researched and excellently written . . . a wonderful account of the special relationship between Ireland and the USA.' BERTIE AHERN'Anybody with an interest in Irish-American politics and personalities will want to read The Green and White...

My name is Tommy Turnbull. I've been a coalminer all my life. My father was a miner, so was my grandfather, my uncles, my cousins and my brother. Wherever there's a pit, you can bet there'll be a Turnbull somewhere down there.About the AuthorJoseph...

Stories and yarns about my favourite bits of Down Under Paul Hogan's ancestors were a couple of Irish blow-ins who arrived in the colony of New South Wales by boat, with a little assistance from the judges of the Old Bailey. Blow-ins from everywhere have...

The book describes how Lisa Meitner, of Jewish heritage, found herself working as a physicist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin when the Nazis came to power in 1933; how she was hounded out of the country and forced to relocate to Sweden; how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679761280Author Caleb CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

A full life and times biography of Suleyman, the longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Suleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure during his lifetime. His domain extended from Hungary to...

In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885,...