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A bestseller in Germany, Michael Wieck's account of his childhood in Konigsberg recalls a German city obliterated by fire-bombing during the Second World War. As the child of a Jewish mother and Gentile father, Wieck was percecuted first as a ""certified...

Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Many of the creators...

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the throne, and writing the Alexiad, an epic history of her father Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) that is a key historical source for the era of the First...

Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it Strachey cleverly exposes the...

Miles Dempsey, Commander of the British Second Army in the invasion of Europe 1944-45, is almost unknown to the general public. Yet his part in Britains contribution to that campaign was second only to Montgomerys in importance. Dempsey survived two and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9780140280210Author Denise ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award.Book InformationISBN 9780140280210Author Denise ChongFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam...

Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in the Hundred Years War, and to...

Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest statesmen and intellectuals, this work is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho "barbarian" Juan Facundo Quiroga. It is also a complex and passionate investigation of the dialectic of civilization...

Vilified in the West as the Japanese equivalent of Hitler, Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was in fact cut from very different cloth. Lacking the skills and charisma of a statesman, fueled by no apocalyptic visions, Tojo was an unimaginative soldier whose...

Joan has a unique role in Western imagination - she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills to move beyond conventional biography and to capture the essence of "Joan of Arc", both as she lived in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993318313Author Alison Ripley CubittFormat PaperbackImprint Lambert Nagle MediaPublisher Lambert Nagle MediaWeight(grams) 286g

From the preeminent Edison scholar . . . The definitive life of the inventor of the modern age The conventional story is so familiar and reassuring that it has come to read more like American myth than history: With only three months of formal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995006089Author Jr Charles ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Lammi Publishing Inc.Publisher Lammi Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316821155Author Anatoli SudoplatovFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm)...

For nearly 700 years debate has raged over the true nature of William Wallace and his role in Scotland's turbulent history. Was he the Braveheart of Blind Harry's legendary account, the bold, but savage, hero of the Scottish wars? Or, as some...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307456359Author Frederic RaphaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This set of diaries (1841-1864) brings to light the journal notations of James Henry Hammond, a prominent South Carolina planter and slaveholder. They reveal a man whose fortune and intellect combined to make him an important leader, but whose flaws kept...

Born in 1904, Brandt played a major role in the first mass killing programme of the Third Reich, the so called 'euthanasia' programme. As Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation, Karl Brandt became the highest medical authority in the Nazi regime;...

Castletown House, Ireland's largest and earliest Palladian-style house, was built between 1722 and 1729 for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and the wealthiest commoner in Ireland. In 1967, the house was bought by the Hon. Desmond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843810247Author Tim CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Tim CoatesPublisher Tim CoatesWeight(grams) 528gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 170mm * 15mm

Toussaint Louverture's life was one of hardship, triumph, and contradiction. Born into bondage in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti), the richest colony in the Western Hemisphere, he witnessed first-hand the torture of the enslaved population. Yet he...

Uncompromisingly frank, "both brutal and beautifully written" (The Boston Globe), The Cap is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into a soul blackened by the unforgiving cruelty of its surroundings...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984536139Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Elite Minds, IncorporatedPublisher Elite Minds, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 741g

By the time of his death in 323 B.C., Alexander III of Macedonia had built an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Asia Minor and into the Indus valley. Even before his sudden death, Alexander had achieved mythical status...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103730Author Giovanni BoccaccioFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 354g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436361Author Nick HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley PressDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 18mm

This book examines the life and work of the eighteenth-century scientist, philosopher and feminist, Madame du Chatelet.Book InformationISBN 9780907582854Author Esther EhrmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Berg PublishersPublisher Bloomsbury...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805080599Author Karl JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 499g

John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250002648Author Tim NewarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 209mm...

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Although his cousin Sir Francis Drake is more famous, Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) was a more successful seaman and played a pivotal role in the history of England and the emergence of the global slave trade. Born into a family of wealthy pirates,...

Bonnie Prince Charlie is one of the best-known and romantic names in Scottish and British history. As with so many legends, the truth is often obscure and the debate continues to rage over questions of his plans to become Charles III, his wish to make...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743255905Author Jane RobinsFormat HardbackPage Count 396Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 735g

Sir William HamiltonBook InformationISBN 9781845880422Author Brian FothergillFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 610g