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This striking biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II is the most penetrating study to date of his development and personality, as well as an important contribution to our understanding of the crucial period in history that bears his name, `Wilhelmine Germany'. ...

In this New York Times bestseller, the White House chief usher for nearly three decades offers a behind-the-scenes look at America's first families. J. B. West, chief usher of the White House, directed the operations and maintenance of 1600 Pennsylvania...

"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 ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2016.Book InformationISBN 9781476728742Author David McCulloughFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon...

Harry S. Truman is remembered today as an icon of the plain-speaking president, 'Give 'em Hell Harry', the chief executive who put 'The Buck Stops Here' on his desk. But Alonzo L Hamby shows that there was more to Truman than the pugnacious fighter so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984674503Author Douglas T ShinsatoFormat PaperbackImprint Experience, Inc.Publisher Experience, Inc.Weight(grams) 472g

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) would have been an extraordinary person in any age. But for a woman of the twelfth century her achievements were so exceptional that posterity has found it hard to take her measure. Barbara Newman, a premier Hildegard...

The classical distinctions between "strategy," "operations," and "tactics" in warfare derive from two basic sources--Carl von Clausewitz and Antoine-Henri de Jomini, both veterans of the Napoleonic wars who translated their experiences into books...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061367434Author David StarkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060927622Author Carlo D'EsteFormat PaperbackPage Count 992Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553384574Author John F. RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favorite soldier and Germany's top commando in World War II, is one of the most famous men in the history of special forces. His extraordinary wartime career was one of high risk and adventure, and here he tells the full story. ...

The dazzling splendors of the court of Napoleon I (1769-1821) reflected the grandeur and ambitions of the greatest empire of the day. This luxurious volume re-creates the ambiance and captures the spirit that prevailed in the French court during the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643130781Author Emma SouthonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 30mm

The Elephant Man is a 138-page softcover book whose first edition inspired the movie and the Tony Award-winning play by the same name. This fascinating story, which has touched the hearts of readers throughout the world for over a century, is now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806135359Author Joseph G. RosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressDimensions(mm)...

The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250756008Author Tom ClavinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 188mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642935677Author Laura LoomerFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 776gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 164mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986204Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

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...

In this gripping memoir, originally published in 1957, the Dutch author, codename 'Zip', recounts her extraordinary journey. A young fighter for the resistance during World War II, Zip is captured and held prisoner as part of the 'Night and Fog' unit,...

Maud Gonne is part of Irish history: her founding of the Daughters of Ireland, in 1900, was the key that effectively opened the door of twentieth-century politics to Irish women. Still remembered in Ireland for the inspiring public speeches she made on...

"In a very real sense, Ruairi O Bradaigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people like Gerry Adams and...

John Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan's development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel's engrossing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595728531Author Hermann VinkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Star Bright BooksPublisher Star Bright BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

"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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328745675Author Danny OrbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

Czar Ivan IV (1530-1584), the first Russian ruler to take the title czar, is known as one of the worst tyrants in history, but few people among the general public know how he got such an infamous reputation. Relying on extensive research based heavily on...

Sir Julien Cahn was possibly the most successful eccentric in 1930's Britain. A complex man with diverse interests, Cahn's visions influenced cricket, business, politics and medicine. Having built the largest mass-market furniture empire in England,...

Published for the first time, this illuminating and poignant correspondence offers a rare insight into the workings of the Cabinet War Rooms towards the end of the Second World War, and documents the rich wartime experiences of a woman with exclusive...

In the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world's greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she lived in a city as turbulent and troubled as Baghdad or...

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...

On February 1st, 2021 tanks appeared on the streets of Burmese cities and the people of Burma are once again involved in a seemingly endless struggle for justice and democracy waged against a brutal military regime. Journeys on the Edge traces the growth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250161505Author Kevin R C GutzmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 376g

"It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the "right people". The world has given us money enough to enable us to do what we think is right. We thank it for that and ask no more of it, but to be allowed to serve...

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...