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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...

'Once we passed the checkpoint at the border, it hit me. I was like, Holy Shit, this is it, I'm entering a combat zone. Cool!'At twenty-six Colby Buzzell, unemployed and living at home, decided to join the US Army. Within months he was in Iraq, a machine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628728040Author Andrei MakineFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624071655Author Lindie KoortsFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint TafelbergPublisher TafelbergWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 26mm

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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...

Louis Auchincloss's warm and knowing biography introduces us to the man behind the many myths of Theodore Roosevelt. From his early involvement in the politics of New York City and then New York State, we trace his celebrated military career and finally...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594633973Author Sarah WildmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)Publisher Penguin Putnam...

Madame du Deffand (1696-1780) was a minor French aristocrat who, bored by her marriage, threw herself into scandalous relationships with leading noblemen, including the French Regent. She later re-invented herself as a highly successful salonniere, her...

Cleopatra of Egypt is one of history's most famous rulers, but who was responsible for founding the Ptolemaic dynasty from which she came, how, and when? For the answers we go back 300 years before Cleopatra's time, to Ptolemy of Macedonia. He was a...

The three Richards who ruled England in the Middle Ages were among the most controversial and celebrated of its rulers. Richard I ('Coeur de Lion', 1189-99) was a great crusading hero; Richard II (1377-99) was an authoritarian aesthete deposed by his...

In an era and an area notable for badmen and gunslingers, John Wesley Hardin was perhaps the most notorious. Considered by many of his contemporaries to be also illiterate, he nevertheless left for publication after his death in 1895 this autobiography,...

A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisionsThe first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, a period of political action without equal in...

Read the story of Joseph Nasi, Duke of Naxos, Lord of Tiberias, a heroic leader who profoundly affected the history of sixteenth-century Jews of Eastern Europe. A biography based on meticulous research, a study of human character and the effect of a hero...

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...

The naval historian Eliot Morison sailed on Columbus' route to the New World before beginning to write about his life. The result of this expedition is this biography of Christopher Columbus.Book InformationISBN 9780316584784Author Samuel MorisonFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062262066Author Thomas AsbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780624063056Author Edwin CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 445g

'Abd al-Mu'min (c.1094-1163) did not establish the first caliphate in the Islamic West, but his encompassed more territory than any that had preceded it. As leader of the Almohads, a politico-religious movement grounded in an uncompromising belief in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434496478Author John WoolmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880510025Author Charles M. RobinsonFormat PaperbackImprint State House PressPublisher State House Press

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 *...

Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has there been such a book as this: The joyful but ultimately heartbreaking journal of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris, now being published for the first time, 63 years after her death in a Nazi concentration...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385471794Author Peter WydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 131mm...

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...

Beautiful and talented, versatile and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. Yet, this enduring character was also an active and lifelong feminist. This biography examines Elizabeth's historical identity and provides...

As Andrew C. Isenberg shows in Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction created by Earp himself, whose life was characterized not by an unflinching devotion to law and order but by inconstancy, defiance of authority, and...

Patrick Pearse, teacher, poet, and one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising has long been a central figure in Irish history. The book provides a radically new interpretation of Patrick Pearse's work in education, and examines how his work as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Plutarch Award 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781101872062Author Volker UllrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA...

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 9781938859472Author Andrea JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Tattered Cover PressPublisher Tattered Cover PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was a phenomenal Victorian best-seller defining a nation's sense of self, its triumphant rise to a powerfully homogenous nation built on a global empire and its claim to be the modern nation, marking the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802138378Author J Christopher HeroldFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

This new biography of Stalin offers an accessible and up-to-date representation of one of the twentieth-century's defining figures, as well as new insights, analysis and illumination to deepen our understanding of his actions, intentions and the nature...

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...

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...

China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness. Yet Huizong would be known to...

Elenaor is young, high-spirited, supremely intelligent, heiress to the vast Duchy of Aquitaine - at a time when a woman's value was measured in terms of wealth. Her vivid leadership inspired and dazzled those about her. And yet, born to rule, she was...