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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...

An engrossing biography that attempts to fathom the motivations of an infamous sixteenth-century Spanish general Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, the third duke of Alba (1507-82), is known to history as "the butcher of Flanders." The general who carried out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Sydney Taylor Book Award (Teen) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780809026852Author Sid JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632690050Author Diny HoogendoornFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Kathleen KattusPublisher Kathleen KattusWeight(grams) 413gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

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...

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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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471350613Author Ruth EliasFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing Company

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692471876Author David Yeager AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint David Yeager AlexanderPublisher David Yeager AlexanderWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451617535Author Denise KiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 152mm * 28mm

Charles Carroll of Carrollton is most often remembered as the sole Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In this study of the Carrolls in Ireland and America, that act vindicates a family's determination to triumph without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Autobiography/Memoir) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781607720027Author Stefan W. WaydenfeldFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Aquila...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061143175Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi is an iconic figure, and the best-known prisoner of conscience alive today. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, at great personal cost she has steadfastly opposed Burma's...

In 1911, Roger Casement was knighted by King George V for his humanitarian work. Five years later, he was hanged for treason. The Trial of Roger Casement traces the astonishing downfall of an Irishman once feted for his compassion but later condemned...

This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the great events and thinkers of his time. A medieval historian...

The preeminent figure of early New England, John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. More than anyone else, he shaped the culture of New England and his effort to create a Puritan "City on a Hill" has had a lasting...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809083152Author David WaldstricherFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.

The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance to his birth in shaping his destiny. Before that point,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945430848Author Antoni LenkiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint Winged Hussar PublishingPublisher Winged Hussar PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438464626Author Konstantin Ivanovich GlobachevFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New...

In the conventional story of Rome's collapse, violent "barbarians" destroy "civilisation". Yet from a different point of view, those stale generalities become a history shockingly alive and relevant. Alaric grew up near the border that separated Gothic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493056367Author Janina HeschelesFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitler was able to come to power. His career was marked by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385333856Author Joe KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

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...

Roger Day sets the historical background of the Peninsula War with admirable clarity and shows how and why the British Army owes so much to this remarkable man who died so tragically at Corunna at the age of only 48, after conducting the remarkable...

One of the glorious triumvirate of World War II and founder of the strong Anglo-American friendship that is still apparent today, Winston Churchill stands out in history as a man who led his country through one of its most difficult times, with all of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394543413Author Nancy DoughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

From humble beginnings with the threat of the workhouse looming, Emily Soldene rose to become a star of the London stage and a formidable impresario with her own opera company. The darling of theatreland, she later reinvented herself as a journalist and...

The Great Recession of 2008 restored John Maynard Keynes to prominence. After decades when the Keynesian revolution seemed to have been forgotten, the great British theorist was suddenly everywhere. The New York Times asked, "What would Keynes have...

Troy: one of the most captivating and mysterious stories of antiquity...But was Troy an actual place or just a legend of Homer's epic? It took the most unlikely of people, Heinrich Schliemann - a grocer's-apprentice turned self-made archaeologist,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623545161Author Phyllis Biffle ElmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Imagine Publishing, IncPublisher Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780925168887Author Donald R. WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country BooksWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008986176Author Thomas FeldmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 717g

Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes of the early years of her marriage to Charles Lindbergh, their pioneering flying adventures, and the tragic kidnapping of their first child. "A story of happiness, daring and sorrow...This book is an awakening of a gallant,...

Jews created the first comic book, the first graphic novel, the first comic book convention, the first comic book specialty store, and they helped create the underground comics (or "Comix") movement of the late '60s and early '70s. Many of the creators...