Historical

A greatly romanticised era of history, the Tudor period kick-started one of the most significant shifts in British culture ever to occur. When the notorious Henry VIII began his hunt for a male heir it led to momentous changes: the British Crown breaking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993356667Author Chris HutchinsFormat HardbackImprint Neville Ness House LtdPublisher Neville Ness House Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565336Author Anne De CourcyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956384751Author George PoganyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Takeaway (Publishing)Publisher Takeaway (Publishing)Weight(grams) 291g

The story of Jim Larkin and the lockout of Dublin workers in 1913 led by William Martin Murphy, told in graphic novel form. On August 26th 1913, the trams of Dublin stopped. The Great Dublin Lockout had begun. Over the next four months, James Larkin...

Georg Elser was just a working-class citizen living in Munich, Germany. He was employed as a carpenter and had spent some time working in a watch factory. That all changed when he took it upon himself, without telling his family or friends, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420494Author Saul FriedlanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

On February 18, 1938, Joseph P. Kennedy was sworn in as US Ambassador to the Court of St. James. To say his appointment to the most prestigious and strategic diplomatic post in the world shocked the Establishment was an understatement - known for his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995673656Author Barry HopewellFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint HopewellPublisher HopewellWeight(grams) 140g

At the beginning of June 1895, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the Paris correspondent of the Austrian Neue Freie Presse, made a momentous decision - he would bring about the creation of a state for the Jews. In his attempt to realise this dream, he became...

At the beginning of June 1895, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), the Paris correspondent of the Austrian Neue Freie Presse, made a momentous decision - he would bring about the creation of a state for the Jews. In his attempt to realise this dream, he became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986830891Author Tom BijvoetFormat PaperbackImprint Mokeham Publishing Inc.Publisher Mokeham Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198959Author Keiji NakazawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385333856Author Joe KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Robert S. McNamara is one of modern America's most controversial figures. His opinions, policies, and actions have led to a firestorm of debate, ignited most recently by Errol Morris's Academy Award-winning film, The Fog of War. In the companion book,...

Tommy Atkins is the English soldier, who joking broke the cavalry of France at Minden, who singing marched with the Great Duke to the Danube, who grumbling shattered Napoleon's dreams at Waterloo, who sweating in his red coat tramped back and forth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416570929Author Charles RappleyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934156Author Colum KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell

The colorful figures of the western American frontier, the Indian fighters, the mountain men, the outlaws, and the lawmen, have been romanticized for more than a hundred years by writers who found it easier to invent history than the research it...

The sequel to Lord Berners' First Childhood, A Distant Prospect is a poignant and witty account of Eton, early adolescence and a boy's awakening to the spell of Wagner, ballet and musical composition. Not only witty and amusing, but contains things to...

Lord Derby was the first British statesman to become prime minister three times. He remains the longest serving party leader in modern British politics, heading the Conservative party for twenty-two years from 1846 to 1868. He abolished slavery in the...

William Randolph Hearst was one of the most colourful and important figures of turn-of-the-century America, a man who changed the face of American journalism and whose influence extends to the present day. Now, in Original Edition, Ben Procter gives us...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781431421497Author Jonathan AncerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd

"She burst across the revolutionary sky like a blazing meteor, dazzling all in her path," Trotsky wrote. For the poet Boris Pasternak, she was Lara, the heroine of his novel Doctor Zhivago.Commissar, revolutionary fighter, espionage agent, journalist,...

This book is fascinating on many levels. It is a glimpse, through her own words, into the life of a woman, Gwen, born in the nineteenth century into a life of privilege. Much of her early adult life was lived in expatriate communities in Egypt, Hong Kong...

Eirene White's The Ladies of Gregynog tells the story of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, inheritors of great wealth at the end of the nineteenth century, and unique among their wealthy contemporaries in the early twentieth century. The two sisters...

Elizabeth Chudleigh was one of the eighteenth century's most colourful characters. Born into impoverished gentility, her beauty, wit and vitality soon earned her a place at the centre of court life. When she married the Duke of Kingston in 1769 she had...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178300Author Ronald BlytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special...

"I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer," John Muir wrote. "Civilization and fever and all the morbidness that has been hooted at me has not dimmed my glacial eye, and I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. My own special...

Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account of a remarkable woman thrust into the center of taming the American South-surviving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898752892Author Aisin-Gioro Pu YiFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

It was a mild May morning in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862, the second year of the Civil War, when a twenty-three-year-old slave named Robert Smalls did the unthinkable and boldly seized a Confederate steamer. With his wife and two young children...

A man who advanced human knowledge on many fronts, Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943) pursued dramatic adventure with scientific purpose. Jeannette Mirsky has here drawn from Stein's books and articles as well as from his letters and unpublished archival...

Why is King Arthur a giant? Because his story has had such strong influences on our understanding of the history of Europe and the English-speaking world. Because the debate about Arthur as a historical figure has been central to understanding the fall...

Working simultaneously on two levels, Saladin represents the best kind of biography-a portrait of a man who is said to have made an age, and the most complete account we have to date of an age that made the man. Unlike biographies that focus on Saladin's...

From Agincourt to Waterloo, from Dunkirk to the Gulf War, and everywhere in between, one man has served in all these battles. This is the story of Britain at war from the perspective of that man. It is the autobiography of the British soldier. In a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984536153Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 458Imprint Elite Minds, IncorporatedPublisher Elite Minds, IncorporatedWeight(grams) 609g

On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire, and the impact of ideas.His Macaulay is...

James Kirker, "Indian fighter," is among the most infamous characters of the American West. In his exhaustively researched biography, Ralph Adam Smith explores the controversy surrounding the life of this frontier figure. Kirker emigrated from...