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Janina Beauman was thirteen-years-old when Hitler's decree forced her family into the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. The young, bright and lively girl suddenly found herself in a cramped flat hiding with other Jewish families. At first even curfews and the...

Gabby Harnett is believed by many to be the greatest catcher of all time. This work chronicles Hartnett's life from his early years in Millville, Massachusetts, through his twenty-year career with the Chicago Cubs as player and manager, his time in...

The strangely named First Aid Nursing Yeomanry traces its origins to the Great War. As a mark of their outstanding service they remained in being between the Wars. However, it is for their service during the Second World War that they are best known...

Starting with William Blake's lost painting The Ancient Britons, this book shows how the visionary artist and poet reworked the Matter of Britain - the corpus of legends presenting an alternative history of Britain - into his own mythology. He thus adds...

In 1939, on the eve of Hitler's invasion of Poland, seven-year-old Edith Milton (then Edith Cohn) and her sister Ruth left Germany by way of the Kindertransport, the program which gave some 10,000 Jewish children refuge in England. The two were given...

"Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense." -Wall Street JournalA riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the...

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...

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"An exciting account by one of the last great chiefs." Los Angeles TimesIn his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life to Frank B. Linderman, the well-known western writer who...

Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. When it appeared in New York in 1825, it was the longest African American autobiography published up to that time. Because Grimes wrote and published his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061253171Author Professor Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955655463Author Roy DuttonFormat HardbackImprint Infodial LtdPublisher Infodial LtdWeight(grams) 667g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803023373Author Ron EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint FeedARead.comPublisher FeedARead.comWeight(grams) 575gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

Sophus Lie (1842-1899) is without doubt one of Norway's greatest scientific talents. His mathematical works have made him famous around the world no less than Niels Henrik Abel. The terms Lie groups and Lie algebra are today part of the standard...

Bassam Abu Sharif was one of the most notorious and dangerous terrorists in the sixties and seventies, acting as "minister of propaganda" for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and as a recruiter for terrorists (including Carlos the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618773442Author MR Joshua Wolf ShenkFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *...

'Every generalisation that we settled forty years ago, is abandoned' As a journalist, historian and novelist born into a family that included two past presidents of the United States, Henry Adams was constantly focused on the American experiment. An...

In the Line of Fire is the personal memoir of Antony Thomas, a documentary filmmaker whose work has won international acclaim and many prestigious awards. From the full range of documentaries made over a fifty-two-year career, the author focuses on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390961399Author Smita MishraFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Vitasta Publishing Pvt.LtdWeight(grams)...

For centuries, human history has been shaped by politics, power, and war - but what about love?Mark Antony's love for Cleopatra led to war between Rome and Egypt; Emperor Xuanzang of Tang relinquished the Mandate of Heaven for Yang Guifei; and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931044660Author Adam GorightlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Paraview PressPublisher Paraview PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 157mm...

An "intriguing and accessible" (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. "We really...

In this lively and engaging new biography, Harry Kelsey shatters the familiar image of Sir Francis Drake. The Drake of legend was a pious, brave, and just seaman who initiated the move to make England a great naval power and whose acts of pirac against...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911190226Author Tudor TimesFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Tudor TimesPublisher Tudor TimesWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

This is the first complete, single-volume biography of Joseph Chamberlain, the Birmingham industrialist who by the beginning of the twentieth century had effectively become the ""first minister of the British Empire"". Marsh dissects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848717893Author Sinclair FergusonFormat HardbackPage Count 824Imprint Banner of TruthPublisher Banner of TruthWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416584582Author Ian KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 654gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

By the author who inspired Wes Anderson's 2014 film, The Grand Budapest HotelWritten as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna-its seeming permanence, its...

His promising education was aborted; his close-knit family splintered. When the Gestapo came for Orbach's mother on Christmas Eve 1942, they escaped with false papers; his mother found sanctuary with a family of Communists and Orbach - under the assumed...

The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possible-Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin-are the focus of this biographical account of the rise of socialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bertram Wolfe, a political scientist and historian...

L.T.C. Rolt's fame was born from his unique ability to produce works of literature from subject matter seemingly ill suited to such treatment - engineering, canals, railways, steam engines, agricultural machinery, vintage cars - such as in his classic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316185387Author Marcus LuttrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

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In The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the "most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country." That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslaved in Arkansas and Texas made his accomplishments all...

During his travels as a missionary, David Livingstone beheld many previously unknown wonders of the African interior. He put Victoria Falls and Lake Ngami on the map, and was the first white man to cross the African continent. Diaries, reports and...

An examination of WASP culture through the lives of some of its most prominent figures. Envied and lampooned, misunderstood and yet distinctly American, WASPs are as much a culture, socioeconomic and ethnic designation, and state of mind.From politics...

One of Britain's most famous and longest serving rulers, Queen Victoria saw widespread change across her empire. During her sixty-three-year reign, in which she became one of the most powerful and influential people in the world, Victoria met everyone...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114277Author Stacy A. CorderyFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 212mm *...

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 ...