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In his time his revolutionary ideas appealed to women and he was surrounded by more than a generation of clever and forceful women. One who could say that 'life is not really a gladiators' show; it is rather a vast mothers' meeting!' could not fail to...

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...

What made six ordinary men instigate the terrifying criminal Nazi regime throughout German society and beyond with such enthusiasm and diligence?Supported by recently discovered files from all over the world, and interviews with former Nazi members and...

The rags to riches story of Silicon Valley's original disruptor.American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford - from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861529230Author John Munro MackenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 167Imprint AcairPublisher AcairDimensions(mm) 215mm * 137mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643130781Author Emma SouthonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 30mm

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Richard Crosbie (1756-1824) is rightly celebrated as Ireland's first aeronaut. Inspired by balloon experiments in France, he constructed a hydrogen balloon with the aim of flying across the Irish Sea. A crowd of 20,000 people witnessed his first flight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471760825Author Karl F. FridayFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

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Stalin's Loyal Executioner, drawn from still-classified Soviet archives, chronicles the meteoric and bloody career of Nikolai Ezhov, NKVD leader and security chief, revealing the tragic scope of communist terrorism under Joseph Stalin.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789527065280Author Martin Van CreveldFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Castalia HousePublisher Castalia HouseWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312681142Author Michael O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 143mm * 27mm

"These are not just nine Irish lives but nine extraordinary lives, their struggles universal, their causes never more important than today. As the saying goes, the best stories belong to those who can tell them. And these are well told, by some of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786713158Author Haing NgorFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648513001Author Ken MetholdFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Aia PublishingPublisher Aia PublishingWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609493028Author Christopher PagliucoFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 222mm *...

Frank Little was a union organiser before becoming active in the Industrial Workers of the World international labour union in 1906. The IWW - better known as the Wobblies' - contended that workers should be united as a class, the wage system should be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190612726Author Catherine FletcherFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 165mm * 33mm

A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder's diary provides an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312427344Author Caroline WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Charlotte Charke's father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth-century's great actor/playwrights - the toast of the British aristocracy, a favourite of the king. When his high spirited, often rebellious daughter, Charlotte, revealed a fondness for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806139074Author Julia Dyson HejdukFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams)...

Named "Man of the Millennium" in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions in Europe's history: a printing press with mechanical movable type. This development sparked the printing revolution,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802143600Author Petr GinzFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

A revelatory new biography of Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his ethical and spiritual life "Kidd's biography may well be the best treatment of Jefferson's religious and moral life available, and certainly it is among the few to take those two subjects...

Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615452074Author Larry FlinchpaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint J. L. Flinchpaugh Publishing CompanyPublisher J. L. Flinchpaugh Publishing...

An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640231Author Christof FriedrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams)...

They say that behind every great man is a hard-working woman. Behind the titanic that was Florence Nightingale, there was a lesser-known sister, Frances Parthenope. While Florence achieved iconic fame for her work with wounded soldiers in the Crimea,...

The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill--is a towering figure in our culture. But for over a century, no one knew who the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525533283Author Joel Richard PaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

In this book you will meet some remarkable characters, among them: * an arms smuggler in Paraguay * an actor who drank 93 half-pints of ale a day * an Irishman who died riding across the Rio Cobre for a bet * a woman who drank too much gin before losing...

The story of John O'Connor Power is the story of Ireland's struggle for nationhood itself. Born into poverty in Ballinasloe in 1846, O'Connor Power spent much of his childhood in the workhouse. From here he rose rapidly through the ranks of the Fenian...

This is the complete biography of the first African American fighter pilot, Georgia native Eugene J. Bullard (1895-1961). An accomplished professional boxer, musician, club manager, and impresario of Parisian nightlife between the World Wars, Bullard...

Lady Arbella Stuart, claimant to the English throne, has traditionally been portrayed as either a hero or fool for marrying against King James's edict and attempting to flee from France. This is Stuart's story as she tells it in more than one hundred...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805052497Author Barry MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 696Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501167652Author Primo LeviFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm...

Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while...