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In 2005, a group of Afghan actors endeavored to create an unusual dramatic performance--one that would bring theater to a region wounded after years of war with the Taliban and offer hope for healing. "A Night in the Emperor's Garden" is the captivating...

Pure salt water courses through Nick Ardley's veins: he was brought up on a Thames spritsail barge and 'sailed' the high seas on ocean going ships. For many years he's weaved his way through the Thames estuary's tidal creeks and rivers, mostly aboard his...

In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy takes readers inside the life and...

Struggle for Empire explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagne's descendants that shaped the formation of Europe. It examines this pivotal era through the reign of Charlemagne's grandson, Louis the German (826-876), one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648372813Author Samantha BattamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Samantha BattamsPublisher Samantha BattamsWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170670Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170670Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Model Nazi tells the story of Arthur Greiser, the man who initiated the Final Solution in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, Greiser was the territorial leader of the Warthegau, an area of western Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. In an effort to...

For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Gies's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they...

His death certificate bears the number one. On September 11, 2001, Father Mychal Judge rushed to the fires as quickly as those who fought them, losing his own life while tirelessly ministering to New York's bravest. "The Book of Mychal" recounts the...

""Ravished Armenia"" and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian is the real-life tale of a teenage Armenian girl who was caught up in the 1915 Armenian genocide, the first genocide in modern history. Mardiganian (1901-1994) witnessed the murder of her family...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060528485Author Kate BerridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144049Author Michael T. KeeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

John Manners, Marquess of Granby, famously led a cavalry charge during the Seven Years War, losing both hat and wig. A commander of skill and courage, he was cherished by his men and lauded by the British public as an authentic military hero. Granby...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528770729Author John Drelincourt SeymourFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

First published in 1938 "I Knew Hitler" is the missing link in the literary trail which traces the fortunes of Adolf Hitler from Linz to Berlin. There are surprisingly few personal accounts of life with Hitler from inside the inner circle during the...

Journalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize. Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of those who did not have power. In the eyes of the FBI,...

Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols and Genghis Khan's rise from boyhood outcast to world conqueror. McLynn provides the...

Northern sympathizer in the Confederate capital, daring spymaster, postwar politician: Elizabeth Van Lew was one of the most remarkable figures in American history, a woman who defied the conventions of the nineteenth-century South. In Southern Lady,...

David Livingstone was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire; yet his career suffered many set-backs during his own lifetime and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. Were his epic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865347359Author James Stephen PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The evocative and riveting stories of four brothers-Gershom the Zionist, Werner the Communist, Reinhold the nationalist, and Erich the liberal-weave together in The Scholems, a biography of an eminent middle-class Jewish Berlin family and a social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626363267Author Heinz LingeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805055108Author Jean Edward SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Holt PaperbacksPublisher Holt PaperbacksWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Often deemed the founder of British radicalism, John Wilkes (1725-1797) had a shattering impact on the politics of his time. His audacity in challenging government authority was matched by his skill and determination in attaining his objectives: the...

In the winter of 1909, a political bombshell exploded in tsarist Russia. Scandal swept not only the empire but the entire world with the exposure of the secret life of one man. Newspaper headlines introduced him as a "twentieth-century Judas," and since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Albert J. Beveridge Award (AHA) 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780375726583Author Louis S. WarrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684117239Author Mohandas Karamchand GandhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580000Author Jonathan HennesseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

This fascinating and richly detailed new biography of Hitler reinterprets the known facts about the Nazi Fuehrer to construct a convincing, realistic portrait of the man. In place of the hollow shell others have made into an icon of evil, the author sees...

Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, an Irishman who in June 1922 was assassinated on his doorstep in London by Irish republicans, was one of the most controversial British soldiers of the modern age. Before 1914 he did much to secure the Anglo-French...

Much has been written and reported on the broad canvas of the history of County Wexford over the centuries, but Famous Wexfordians seeks to revitalise interest in some of the principal players that have almost faded into obscurity. This book tells the...

Discover the fascinating life of a master of 19th century art and design William Morris was a man of extraordinary diversity and application, turning his attention to the mastery of as many skills in one lifetime as most men would achieve in several. He...

This memoir tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defied the Nazis against impossible odds. Kazik and his fellow Jews smuggled in arms and explosives, performed acts of resistance, held off the Nazi army for almost a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorN. A. M. Rodger is professor of naval history at Exeter University and a fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of The Wooden World and the highly...

This new study of the last pagan Roman emperor provides remarkable insight into the man and his times. The figure of Julian demands the attention of historians. As the last pagan Roman Emperor, he provides a focus for studying the religious...

"Machiavellian"-used to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitiless-is never meant as a compliment. But the man whose name became shorthand for all that is ugly in politics was more engaging and nuanced than his reputation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628725254Author Eve HaasFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm...

Henry V is the best-known military hero in English history: better known than Marlborough or Wellington, or his grandfather, Edward III. He enjoyed more success against the French than any of them, coming tantalisingly close to conquering that vast...

A survey of Feargus O'Connor's career (1795-1855) written for a general and academic audience. O'Connor entered parliament as member for the county of Cork in 1832. In 1837 he established the Northern Star newspaper at Leeds, and became a vehement...