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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949859249Author Andrey TerekhovFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Russell EnterprisesPublisher Russell EnterprisesWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm)...

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 9781035805549Author Beth HindleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

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...

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 *...

Life at Fonthill.Book InformationISBN 9781845880699Author William BeckfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher Nonsuch PublishingWeight(grams) 530gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 8mm

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...

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

Churchill has gone down in history as one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. From the day the Second World War was declared he stood out as the only man wanting to take offensive action. But is this accolade deserved? The first few years...

Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances, and writers after his presumed death in a Bolivian village. In an exhaustive...

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

Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography, exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life...

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...

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 *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589639485Author W P CrozierFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Fredonia Books (NL)Publisher Fredonia Books (NL)Weight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 191mm *...

Recounts the life of Egypt's greatest historian, analyses his work and assesses its impact then and now Offers the most complete, probing and layered biography of al-Maqrizi Interprets al-Maqrizi's historical output as a long-term scholarly project...

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...

Why is Caesar a giant? Because he effectively created the Roman Empire, and thus made possible the European civilization that grew out of it. As the People's champion against a corrupt and murderous oligarchy, he began transformation of the Roman...

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

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The Roman Empire was a spectacular polity of unprecedented scale which stretched from Scotland to Sudan and from Portugal to Persia. It survived for over 500 years in the west and 1,480 years in the east. Ruling it was a task of frightening complexity;...

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)...

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...

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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...

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 *...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307590619Author George W. BushFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 799gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Reveals the Scottish Highlands as a dynamic and intellectual region in the century before Culloden Challenges the assumption that the Highlands comprised a vacuum, sealed off from the rest of Scotland and the world beyond prior to the eighteenth...

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...

Impeccably aristocratic and eccentric in a uniquely English tradition, Aubrey Herbert was at first sight an incongruous champion of Albanian nationalism, to say the least. Tall, slender and slightly stooped, with a moustache and heavily lidded eyes,...

Pagans' advocate.A professing pagan in an aggressively Christian empire, a friend of the emperor Julian and acquaintance of St. Basil, a potent spokesman for private and political causes-Libanius can tell us much about the tumultuous world of the...

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...