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Ernie O'Malley (1897-1957) was one of the most talented and colourful of modern Irish republicans. An important IRA leader in the 1916-1923 Irish Revolution, this bookish gunman subsequently became a distinguished intellectual, and the author of two...

When six-year-old Michal Glowinski first heard the adults around him speak of the ghetto, he understood only that the word was connected with moving-and conjured up a fantastical image of a many-storied carriage pulled through the streets by some umpteen...

Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia. At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood home in Vienna following the Nazi Anschluss, leaving his...

First appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestseller in its day and one of the most powerful, authoritative texts lending support to the abolitionist...

"A fascinating story of an extraordinary man. Kati Marton's book should be read by anyone wishing to know what could have been done to save Jewish lives if more people had cared."-Elie WieselNew York Times Bestselling Author.A fearless young Swede whose...

Horatio Nelson was one of the most successful leaders Britain has ever produced. A legend in his own lifetime, he has inspired many hundreds of books, but few of these concentrated on him as a naval commander. After that much new material emerged, both...

The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of personal and political ideals: Joan of Arc is the heroine...

In June 1944, the Nazis locked eighteen-year-old Dave Hersch into a railroad boxcar and shipped him from his hometown of Dej, Hungary, to Mauthausen concentration camp, the harshest, cruellest camp in the Reich. After ten months in the granite mines of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615887692Author Sherry RosenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Stephen NasserPublisher Stephen NasserWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027618Author Lytton StracheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 139mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027618Author Lytton StracheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 139mm *...

This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empire-an empire that remained preeminent in Europe for more than a century. The...

In May 1941, Gertrude van Tijn arrived in Lisbon on a mission of mercy from German-occupied Amsterdam. She came with Nazi approval to the capital of neutral Portugal to negotiate the departure from Hitler's Europe of thousands of German and Dutch Jews...

Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, written by a former state official who served in a number of important positions in Selassie's government, tells...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813946818Author Will ViscontiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Virginia PressPublisher University of Virginia PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439121184Author Walter StahrFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 780gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family under close surveillance for a number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and...

Louis XVI was at the center of the French Revolution, one of the major turning points in world history, but he remains relatively little known, often portrayed only as the weak, lazy, and treasonous king dominated by Marie-Antoinette. This new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394722740Author Liang HengFormat PaperbackPage Count 8Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375706974Author Daniel MendelsohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Emily Davies was a central figure in the mid-Victorian women's movement. Formidably intelligent, fiercely determined, and an indefatigable campaigner and organiser, the socially and politically conservative Davies directed the first campaign for female...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385471473Author Le Ly HayslipFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher's intellectual development and as one of the earliest and most sophisticated examples of philosophical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501198663Author Larry LoftisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Gallery BooksPublisher Gallery BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986830846Author Tom BijvoetFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Mokeham Publishing Inc.Publisher Mokeham Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 116g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593715Author Francois Eugene VidocqFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 548g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919628608Author Gerard CairnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Rymour BooksPublisher Rymour Books

In 1999, 30-year-old Nada Bakos moved from her lifelong home in Montana to Washington, DC, to join the CIA. Quickly realizing her affinity for intelligence work, Nada was determined to rise through the ranks of the agency first as an analyst and then as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684422289Author Harlow Giles UngerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Turner Publishing CompanyPublisher Turner Publishing Company

Winner of the Kekoo Naoroji Award for Mountain Literature 2019An engrossing story of passion and exploration that traces the end of empire and the stirring of a new world order.John Auden was a pioneering geologist of the Himalayas. Michael Spender was...

To Jefferson Davis, he was the "Stonewall of the West"; to Robert E. Lee, he was "a meteor shining from a clouded sky"; and to Braxton Bragg, he was an officer "ever alive to a success." He was Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, one of the greatest of all...

Investigates historic strands of conservative thought and responds to the radical changes which many think have transformed the Conservative party into a populist movement upholding English nationalism. All Souls College Oxford was one of the meeting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743288231Author Patricia O'TooleFormat PaperbackPage Count 482Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 702gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among the most active nations when it came to using economic clout to get its own way...

Livia-wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius- wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets aside the portrait of a...

Antonia Augusta was the most powerful and influential Roman woman of her time. The daughter of Mark Antony, wife of Drusus, mother of Claudius, grandmother of Caligula and great-grandmother of Nero, she spent her entire life close to the seat of power...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Royal Society of Literature Award 1996 and Best of the Bestsellers 1998 and Pulitzer Prize Biography Category 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780684874357Author Frank...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Royal Society of Literature Award 1996 and Best of the Bestsellers 1998 and Pulitzer Prize Biography Category 1997.Book InformationISBN 9780684874357Author Frank...

The period between a presidential election and inauguration has no constitutional name or purpose, but in these months, political legacies can be made or broken. In Winter War, Eric Rauchway shows how the transition from Herbert Hoover to FDR in the...