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In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thirteen years in Peking's Forbidden City, but with none...

When Charles Frederick Ball was killed at Gallipoli in 1915 The Irish Times called him 'one of the best known botanists and horticulturists in Ireland'. Fred Ball (to friends and family) trained in horticulture at Kew Gardens in the UK, moved to Dublin...

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...

During a short but incredible life, Lola Montez transformed herself from middle-class British daughter to notorious adventurer, attracting admirers and scandal wherever she went. This highly entertaining biography uncovers the real story of one of the...

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...

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...

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...

We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it's easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861519740Author Stephen JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books

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 9780624063056Author Edwin CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Tafelberg Publishers LtdPublisher Tafelberg Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 445g

Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the...

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

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...

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...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809062393Author Steven W HackelFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 142mm * 25mm

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...

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...

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 9780471078647Author Martin GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 430g

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 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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990467519Author Anthony ValerioFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Anthony ValerioPublisher Anthony ValerioWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

An acerbic, witty, wry, bittersweet, and exquisitely penned memoir, Jani Confidential tells how Jani Allan became a world-famous columnist and reveals much of life behind the scenes at the Sunday Times. Those who remember the "Just Jani" column will be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812862515Author Sarah BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Stein & Day,U.S.Publisher Stein & Day,U.S.Weight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A greatly romanticised era of history, the Tudor period kick-started one of the most significant shifts in British culture ever to occur. When the notorious Henry VIII began his hunt for a male heir it led to momentous changes: the British Crown breaking...

While an exile from Constantinople, the twelfth-century Byzantine functionary and canonist John Zonaras culled earlier chronicles and histories to compose an account of events from creation to the reign of Alexius Comnenus. For topics where his sources...

This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian,...

Following the extraordinary career of a Second World War bomber pilot, Flying Among Heroes brings together adventure and human daring with the harsh realities of being a member of the wartime Royal Air Force. Tom Cooke, like hundreds of other young men...

The partition of Ireland in 1921, and the birth of Northern Ireland as a political entity, was the work of one man above all. Edward Carson, born in Dublin in 1854, was a brilliant lawyer whose cross-questioning of Oscar Wilde at his libel trial brought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995369184Author Barbara MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Barbara Miller BooksPublisher Barbara Miller BooksWeight(grams) 290g

The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential German-American...