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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385313483Author William ManchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 992Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780385495417Author Ted GupFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher...

A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465055937Author Adam ZamoyskiFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 160mm * 58mm

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.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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335044983Author Thomas LockleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Hanover Square PressPublisher Hanover Square PressWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

Exploding pressure cookers, a thwarted wife's deadly revenge and transvestites in distress - manning an ambulance in the seventies kept you on your toes.Having survived the rites of passage as a probationer, Les Pringle now has to face up to the reality...

1963 saw Labour's emergence from its 'wilderness years' in Opposition, and the election of Harold Wilson following the unexpected death of Hugh Gaitskell. In the first Wilson government of 1964 Benn was made Postmaster General and became known as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work 2021. Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781524763169Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work 2021. Nominated for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781524763169Author...

A highly entertaining biography of the incredible John Wilkes, champion of liberty and irrepressible libertine. "It is difficult to believe that John Wilkes, a notorious womanizer and scandal-monger, was a genuine hero of civil liberties and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788550789Author Conor McNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510732315Author Tim Pat CooganFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 239mm...

In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thirteen years in Peking's Forbidden City, but with none...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982130428Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 2592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 3651gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781662452437Author Buell Wesley W FrazierFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Poet and musician, artist and hostess, Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society. High-born yet egalitarian, she travelled to France to observe the Revolution, rejected numerous suitors, and lived independently. Her curious ways attracted...

Poet and musician, artist and hostess, Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society. High-born yet egalitarian, she travelled to France to observe the Revolution, rejected numerous suitors, and lived independently. Her curious ways attracted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Plutarch Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780385722049Author Ray MonkFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA...

Improbable Pioneers follows the lives of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford (1766-1839), and Georgina Gordon (1781-1853), from their very different childhoods. In the course of their unlikely marriage they became closely involved with the scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905192083Author Mike GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 49g

Edited with an introduction by Peter Wakelin. Part of the Modern Wales series. Originally published in 1945, Miner's Day tells of the coalmining life of the thirties in south Wales.'Coombes and Alexander each had a passion to show the real life of ...

Born in 1473, Margaret Pole was the daughter of George, duke of Clarence, niece of both Edward IV and Richard III, and the only woman, apart from Anne Boleyn, to hold a peerage title in her own right during the sixteenth century. She was restored by...

Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal society that had lived in seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by British warships. As the legendary Silent Admiral, he was at the...

From a staunchly Republican family, Michael O'Hanrahan's outwardly quiet and serious demeanour concealed a burning desire to see an independent Ireland. He was instrumental in setting up the first branch of the Gaelic League in Carlow. Michael also...

The haunting true stories of over 350 Holocaust survivors in their own words. In the shouted words of a woman bound for Auschwitz to a man about to escape from a cattle car, "If you get out, maybe you can tell the story! Who else will tell it?"Our Crime...

The definitive biography of one of this century's most important-and controversial-figures. Drawing on sources only recently made available, Judith Brown sketches a fresh and surprising portrait of Gandhi within the context of his time, in which the...

May 11th 1941 - Berchtesgaden. The day after Rudolf Hess took off from Augsburg and hadn't yet returned or sent any signal, Adolf Hitler had to say something to justify Hess' so far unexplained disappearance. Not least for the benefit of the German...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783534Author W.E.B. Du BoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312310509Author Evelyne LeverFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The memoirs of Hortense (1646-99) and Marie (1639-1715) Mancini, nieces of the powerful Cardinal Mazarin and members of the court of Louis XIV, represent the earliest examples in France of memoirs published by women under their own names during their...

Queen Isabel of Castile is perhaps best known for her patronage of Christopher Columbus and for the religious zeal that led to the Spanish Inquisition, the waging of holy war, and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims across the Iberian peninsula. In this...

An authoritative new life of one of the most important figures of history Charlemagne-ruler of the vast Frankish kingdom from 768 to his death in 814 and Holy Roman emperor from the year 800-is considered the father of Europe. He founded the first empire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250038357Author Alan ForrestFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Born and raised on a small farm in Pembrokeshire, Wales, John Treasure Jones went to sea when he was fifteen. For the first four years he was indentured as an apprentice, surviving the oceans in a small tramp steamer. Slowly, however, he worked his way...

An Australian Book Review Best Book of the YearOne of France's most famous historians compares two exemplars of political and military leadership to make the unfashionable case that individuals, for better and worse, matter in history.Historians have...

Leon Sciaky whose family were prosperous Jewish grain merchants, descendents of the Sephardic Jewish exodus from Spain in 1492, grew up in the vibrant city of Salonica (now Thessaloniki) in Macedonia in a remarkably polyglot world where Turkish, Arabic,...

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...