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Billy the Kid: Beyond the Grave traces the life of this famous desperado through his role in the Lincoln County War, the alleged killing by Sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy's escape, and his life for the next sixty-nine years. In 1948, an old man named William...

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

Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws--comes a reissue of the classic account and investigation. In July 1916, a time when World War I loomed over...

This book investigates the impact of the ever-changing story of William Wallace on Scottish national identity. Freed from the historian's bedrock of empiricism by a lack of corroborative sources, the biography of this short-lived late-medieval patriot...

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...

The rise to power of Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable...

In his brief life, Alexander the Great gained fame as the military genius who conquered the known world. After death, his legend only increased. Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.) precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312289140Author Nega MezlekiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

An engrossing biography that attempts to fathom the motivations of an infamous sixteenth-century Spanish general Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, the third duke of Alba (1507-82), is known to history as "the butcher of Flanders." The general who carried out...

In the 1930s Lady Lucy Houston was one of the richest women in England and a household name, notorious for her virulent criticisms of the government. But politics had been far from her mind when, as young Fanny Radmall, she had set out to conquer the...

For Lewis Carroll, a deacon in the Church of England, faith in Christ and belief in a loving God stood at the core of his being, but little has been written about what the church or faith meant to the celebrated author of the Alice books. With Lewis...

In 334 BC the twenty-two-year-old King Alexander of Macedon led his army across the Bosphorus to challenge the mighty Persian empire. Ten years later his conquests had taken him to the edge of the known world. But, as Asia Minor, Egypt and parts of India...

In 334 BC the twenty-two-year-old King Alexander of Macedon led his army across the Bosphorus to challenge the mighty Persian empire. Ten years later his conquests had taken him to the edge of the known world. But, as Asia Minor, Egypt and parts of India...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757686Author Sylvia Jukes MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692270080Author Emily LodgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Emily LodgePublisher Emily LodgeWeight(grams) 630g

One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of...

What was the experience of war for a child in bombed and ravaged Germany? In this memoir, the voice of innocence is heard.""This is great stuff,"" exclaims Stephen E. Ambrose.""I love this book.""In this gripping account, a boy and his mother are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467880688Author Tony ColesFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 405g

The first full-length biography of Emily Hale, the longtime secret love of the celebrated poet T. S. Eliot. In January 2020, the T. S. Eliot estate finally published the largest and most eagerly awaited cache of new materials written by the...

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A biographical study of Hitler's inner circle offers a new way to understand the horrors of the Nazi regimeWhy did so many Germans take part in the crimes of Nazi Germany? How did they come to support Hitler and follow him almost to the very end? For too...

An English translation of Daniel Cordier’s epic portrait and memoir of the French Resistance during WWII. Daniel Cordier’s fascinating, intimate memoir is a major contribution to our understanding of the fraught and historic relations between General...

Now in paperback, a compelling biography of Lydia Maria Child, one of nineteenth-century America’s most courageous abolitionists. By 1830, Lydia Maria Child had established herself as something almost unheard of in the American nineteenth century: a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639457878Author R Lee MaheeFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Writers Branding LLCPublisher Writers Branding LLCWeight(grams) 318g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837941254Author Richard TeuchmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Vanguard PressPublisher Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers

The Human Tradition in Premodern China is a collection of biographical essays revealing the variety and complexity of human experience in China from the earliest historical times to the dawn of the modern age. China is a vast country with a long...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761873488Author Ellery Sedgwick JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of America

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982189948Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Sea Raven EnterprisesPublisher Sea Raven EnterprisesWeight(grams) 162g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835631447Author James M IrvineFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 676g

This book traces the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), who is rightly revered as one of the greatest of all engineers. His leading role in the transport revolution of the nineteenth century, and especially in the building of the Great Western...

The first book by the great French radical historian Maurice Dommanget (1888–1976) to be translated into English, this book is an engaging, sympathetic telling of the life and works of Sylvain Maréchal (1750–1803), an unjustly forgotten figure of the...

The first modern biography of one of the richest nobles of English history, Henry Vs closest friend and a legend in his own lifetime.Book InformationISBN 9781803997179Author David BrindleyFormat PaperbackImprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History...

During the Conservative Party leadership contest in the summer of 2022, Kemi Badenoch made an immediate impression on the public as a politician with robust views and a strong personality. Although only a junior minister at the time, she was marked out...

From Empire to Revolution is the first biography devoted to an in-depth examination of the life and conflicted career of Sir James Wright (1716–1785). Greg Brooking uses Wright’s life as a means to better understand the complex struggle for power in both...

Sir John Vanbrugh is celebrated today as one of England's finest country house architects. His masterpieces include palatial private homes such as Castle Howard and Blenheim Palace, greatly admired by any enthusiast of English Baroque architecture...

Born into wealth in New Orleans in 1795 and married into misery fifteen years later, the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba led a life ripe for novelization. Intimate Enemies, however, is the spellbinding true account of this resilient woman's life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737246Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 313g