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Qualifying as a doctor in 1815 at the tender age of nineteen, John Polidori was employed less than a year later by the poet, Lord Byron, as his travelling physician. The precocious medic was seemingly destined for a bright future that would enable him to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768202239Author Leslie Gordon GoffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint LMH PublishingPublisher LMH PublishingWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888422005Author Ruth Hill BarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Earnshaw Books LimitedPublisher Earnshaw Books LimitedWeight(grams) 333g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060006914Author Iain McCalmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 249g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611453331Author Michael FossFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Alan Scott Haft provides the first-hand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602064195Author Alfred Russell WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)...

For more than a century, Americans have been captivated by the legend of General George Armstrong Custer. But the various truths of Custer's life and last stand prove elusive. Why are we so taken with the myth and the so-called mystery behind the man? In...

This book offers a fascinating insight into this key historical figure and her fight against the Romans. The ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse. The surviving literary works that do exist are biased towards the Roman point of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250013637Author Philip EadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 349Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888228140Author James McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Proverse Hong KongPublisher Proverse Hong KongWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

Life at Fonthill.Book InformationISBN 9781845880699Author William BeckfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher Nonsuch PublishingWeight(grams) 530gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 8mm

Roman Emperor Constantine is one of the most momentous figures in the history of Christianity, a ruler whose conversion turned the cult of Jesus into a world religion. Classical scholar Baker tells of the changing Roman world in which Constantine rose to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939919120Author Nancy Sprowell GeiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Merry Dissonance PressPublisher Merry Dissonance Press

Chronicling as it does the breakdown of George IV's marriage to his loathed cousin Caroline, and his futile attempt to divorce her and deprive her of her royal rights and status, A Queen on Trial throws up fascinating parallels with Diana and Charles'...

This book re-examines one of the most intense controversies of the Holocaust: the role of Rezs Kasztner in facilitating the murder of most of Nazi-occupied Hungary's Jews in 1944. Because he was acting head of the Jewish rescue operation in Hungary, some...

`My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.' For half a century from its publication in 1901 Up from Slavery was the best known book written by an African American. The life of ex-slave...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876046043Author Harmon Hartzell BroFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint ARE PressPublisher ARE PressWeight(grams) 1g

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...

An inside look at President Richard Nixon's administration and epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate downfall, by the man who was at his side for a decade as his aide and White House Deputy.From Richard Nixon's...

The hero of the War of 1812, the conqueror of Mexico City in the Mexican-American War, and Abraham Lincoln's top soldier during the first six months of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott was a seminal force in the early expansion and consolidation of...

Eusebius' Life of Constantine is the most important single record of Constantine, the emperor who turned the Roman Empire from prosecuting the Church to supporting it, with huge and lasting consequences for Europe and Christianity. The only English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789675062865Author Sukran VahideFormat PaperbackPage Count 529Imprint Islamic Book TrustPublisher Islamic Book Trust

The Chronicle of the Bourbon Duke Louis II is translated here into English for the first time. It gives a striking picture of the Hundred Years' War, providing vivid first-hand descriptions of military life of the late 14th century. This record of the...

A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired...

Living in Palestine as the wife of the British Attorney-General, Helen Bentwich was immersed in the politics and society of the early years of the British Mandate. Despite her connections she remained in some ways an outsider - a critical observer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772033311Author Elle Andra-WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143112389Author Craig NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 391gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307451071Author David JaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlich's widely acclaimed Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385501293Author Cathleen MedwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890961940Author Billy Jaynes ChandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Texas A & M University PressPublisher Texas A & M University...

"The life of Shibue Io and her family, a kind of Japanese Buddenbrooks, may be unknown in the West, but her rich and engaging story marks the intersection of a remarkable woman with a fascinating time in history."-Arthur Golden, author of...

The life of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata was the stuff that legends are made of. Born and raised in a tiny village in the small south-central state of Morelos, he led an uprising in 1911 - one strand of the larger Mexican Revolution - against...

The Marquess of Queensberry is as famous for his role in the downfall of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. The trial and two-year imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, lover of Queensberry's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982111397Author Edward Wilson-LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395745151Author Ina R FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Houghton Mifflin Juvenile BooksPublisher Houghton MifflinDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm...

The entry of the United States into the First World War in late 1911 found Herbert Hoover at a crossroads. Three years earlier, he had been a successful mining engineer in London. Then, as the war intensified in Europe, Hoover founded and led the...

Scholar, philosopher and political sage, Confucius lived at a turbulent time in his country's history, the so-called 'Spring and Autumn Period' of the sixth century BC, during which China was wracked by warfare between rival feudal states. Against this...