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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781421836805Author Lothar PircFormat PaperbackPage Count 714Imprint 1st World PublishingPublisher 1st World PublishingWeight(grams) 812gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw ...

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In 1969, whilst a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained, and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle...

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In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of her first London season, Ellen was beautiful, rich and accomplished and about to experience the world of dances, opera visits and dinner parties which...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802145413Author David LawdayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

The dramatic true-life story of George Hogg, a young Oxford graduate who is caught up in the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and the Chinese Civil war, and who leads a group of Chinese children hundreds of miles across 15,000-foot mountains to safety...

Throughout his long and turbulent career as an Indian leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfill his religious aspirations through politics, and to reconcile politics with his private religious discipline. The Gandhi...

J. M. Barrie has long been a controversial figure; as D. H. Lawrence observed in 1921, 'Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die'. The five nervous breakdowns, two suicides, one attempted suicide and numerous deaths that are associated with...

J. M. Barrie has long been a controversial figure; as D. H. Lawrence observed in 1921, 'Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die'. The five nervous breakdowns, two suicides, one attempted suicide and numerous deaths that are associated with...

The best one volume biography of Madison's life, Ketcham's biography not only traces Madison's career, it gives readers a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers...

Mrs Duberly's journal is one of the most vivid eye-witness accounts we have of the Crimean War. Fanny Duberly, then aged 25, accompanied her husband to the Crimea in 1854, and remained there until the end of the fighting, the only officer's wife to...

This is the first full-length study of Seaforth. Drawing on an extensive archival research in Scotland, England and Barbados, Finlay McKichan links important themes in Scottish and imperial history to show how far the principles and policies developed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316956390Author Wu/NigkunFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Little, Brown and CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376578Author Ji XianlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

The image of St George - the mounted, medieval knight slaying a dragon - seems so familiar to us all that it is tempting to assume this figure is easily understood. He is, in fact, one of the most significant and complex mythic figures in Christian...

"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have...

"Anyone who survived the exterminations camps must have an untypical story to tell. The typical camp story of the millions ended in death ... We, the few who survived the war and the majority who perished in the camps, did not use and would not have...

The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron and accused slave torturer, has haunted New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. Her macabre tale is frequently retold, and her French Quarter mansion has been referred to as ""the most...

The President who 'freed' the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South's bid to create a separate Confederacy. The teller of ribald stories, and the author of the most sublime speeches in the English language. A clever,...

In the nineteenth century it was criminally easy to bump off unwanted relatives. A Household Thrown into Chaos Plumstead village, 2 November 1833. Wealthy landlord, George Bodle is taken violently ill. He dies within hours. When his wife, daughter and...

Regarded as ancient Greece's greatest orator, Demosthenes lived through and helped shape one of the most eventful epochs in antiquity. His political career spanned three decades, during which time Greece fell victim to Macedonian control, first under...

1.5 million Polish civilians - arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939 - were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet...

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On 24 May 1497 Girolamo Savonarola was led out to a scaffold in the middle of the Piazza della Signoria. Crowds gathered around and watched as he was publically humiliated before being hanged and burned. But what did this man do that warranted such a...

Audacious, brilliant, chameleon. All these words could be used to describe the man that became Britain's greatest spy, a man known by several names and who came from many places, depending on who was asking and when. Was he from Poland? Or was he the son...

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'Uproarious.' The Times'Terrifically entertaining.' Evening Standard'Irresistible.' Daily Mail'Gripping.' Sunday Telegraph'A scintillating gem: a cracking page-turner, historically illuminating, culturally fascinating, and a book which effortlessly...

Sir Edgar Speyer was a conspicuous figure in the financial, cultural, social and political life of Edwardian London. Head of the syndicate which financed the construction of the deep 'tube lines' and 'King of the Underground', he was also a connoisseur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476797717Author John LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

The private correspondence of Rome's most prolific public figure.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903529140Author John HumphriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Glyndwr PublishingPublisher Glyndwr Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671447489Author Joanna StrattonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 462g

This book is an illustrated biography of the legendary Luftwaffe fighter pilot Werner Moelders in more than 480 rare photographs, documents and commentaries. Who was this once much-admired and honored man? Why did the German people show such a great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for George Washington Book Prize (History) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780143035282Author Gordon S. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher...

The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America-its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more...

Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is recognized as one of the most important novelists, poets, and playwrights of postwar German literature. As befitting such a versatile writer, her War Diary is not a day-by-day journal but a series of...

They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar Germany, while Serge, a Jewish boy in France, was hiding in a cupboard when his father was arrested and sent to Auschwitz. They met on the Paris...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060750565Author Eve LaplanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc