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John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) was one of the prominent figure of American politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. The son of a slaveholding South Carolina family, he served in the federal government in various capacities, as senator from his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970456Author Ann BlackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 377Imprint Random House TradeWeight(grams) 132g

This volume brings together all the travel diaries of Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986), principal interpreter of Britten's works. Pears accompanied Britten on many of his trips and the record of their tour of the Far East in 1955 is of special interest. Here...

In 1801, a 45-year-old Revolutionary War veteran and politician, slovenly, genial, brilliant, and persuasive, became the fourth chief justice of the United States, a post he would hold for a record thirty-four years. Before John Marshall joined the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492722232Author William De LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 12mm

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...

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)...

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...

Whatever we may think of Alexander--whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath--most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career. When he used religion astutely, he and his army...

A model biography, superbly researched and written . . . sure to (become) the last word on this stage of Washington's career for many years to come (History).Book InformationISBN 9780195019155Author Louis R. HarlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780720612226Author Sarah M. HallFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Peter Owen PublishersPublisher Peter Owen Publishers

This publication looks at the mysterious events surrounding the death of Rameses III, something that has puzzled historians, archaeologists, and Egyptologists. Now archaeologist Susan Redford investigates the circumstances of the ancient pharoah's death...

'Abd al-Rahman b. 'Amr al-Awza'i (c.707-774) was Umayyad Syria's most influential jurist, part of a generation of scholars who began establishing the first formal structures for the preservation and dissemination of religious knowledge. Following the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451607635Author Jehanne WakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Larina tells the story not only of her twenty years in the Gulag but of her life as a daughter and a wife among the founding fathers of the Soviet Union.About the AuthorStephen F. Cohen (1938-2020) was professor emeritus of Russian studies at Princeton...

Five years after her return home from Auschwitz, Piera Sonnino found the courage to tell the story of the extermination of her parents, three brothers, and two sisters by the Nazis. Discovered in Italy and never before published in English, this poignant...

A thrilling tale of passion, courage and determination. Michael Collins became a hero: a soldier, a freedom-fighter, a ghost: Ireland's Rebel Son. In life, in death, a legend. Raised on songs and stories of Irish heroes and the struggle for Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966491302Author Silvano SilvanoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 210g

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...

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...

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. ...

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

The discovery of a cache of thousands of letters and dozens of diaries brings to light the untold story of Mrs. Tennant and her glittering social world Gertrude Tennant's life was remarkable for its length (1819-1918), but even more so for the influence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250016256Author Suzanne Fagence CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams)...

Scattered Ghosts is the poignant, powerful story of an all but disappeared world, told through the extraordinary experiences of a single family ruptured by great forces and occasionally brought together by cherry strudel. When two Hungarian Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989526548Author Anna Nessy PerlbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Golden Alley PressPublisher Golden Alley PressWeight(grams) 249g

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547521985Author David V HerlihyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 205mm * 134mm *...

This well-researched biography of the life-and controversial death-of Robert LeRoy Parker, a.k.a. Butch Cassidy, is a journey across the late-nineteenth-century American West as we follow Cassidy's exploits in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, where he made...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060760410Author Catherine ClintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 415Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Memphis/Shelby County Public Library "Same Book Same Time" County-Wide Reading Pick of 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780440235507Author Homer HickamFormat...

"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 9780060532185Author MS Irmgard A HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Albert: Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, social and cultural visionary in his own right, was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld but defined the culture and direction of 19th century Britain - a superpower at the zenith of its influence -...

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...

The early chroniclers of Britain presented the island as the promised land of the Roman goddess Diana. Later, when the story of Arthur was transformed by Christian mythology, a new literary concept of the island was promoted: the promised land of the...

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...