Historical

A memoir of one of America's first adventurers, a young boy who acted as a link between the Jamestown colonists and the Patawomecks and Powhatans. "Being in displeasure of my friends, and desirous to see other countries, after three months sail we come...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985273705Author Jude JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Open Books PressPublisher Open Books PressWeight(grams) 179g

When Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a civil war,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802776167Author David MacfarlaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Walker & CoPublisher Walker & Co

Vodka pioneer Pyotr Smirnov is one the most fascinating salesmen and entrepeneurs the world has ever known, and his life as recreated by Linda Himelstein, set against the Russia of Tolstoy and tsars, is a stirring chronicle of ambition and innovation...

In this study Brian Bosworth looks at the critical period between 329 and 325 BC, when Alexander the Great was active in Central Asia and what is now Pakistan. He documents Alexander's relations with the peoples he conquered, and addresses the question...

In the well-entrenched critical view of the Jacobean period, James I is credited with the flowering of culture in the early years of the seventeenth century. His queen, Anna of Denmark, is seen as a shadowy figure at best, a capricious and shallow one at...

Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the 1950s. Like his Nobel-winning colleagues, he might have benefitted from them greatly, had he not died aged...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976582113Author Magda HerzbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint 1st World Library IncorporatedPublisher 1st World Library IncorporatedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611450248Author Tivadar SorosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

This compelling and often traumatic book is the memoir of one of the most important figures in modern Russian history. Is is an incredible account of of an intellectual's turbulent journey through 20th Century Russia. Likhachev recounts the fortunes of...

"A Partisan of Vilna" is the memoir of Rachel Margolis, the sole survivor of her family, who escaped from the Vilna Ghetto with other members of the resistance movement, the FPO (United Partisan Organization), and joined the Soviet partisans in the...

Beyond the legend of the creation of the American flag, we know very little about the facts of Betsy Ross' life. Perhaps with one snip of her scissors she convinced the nation's future first president that five-pointed stars suited better than six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485640Author Sarah VowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439254523Author Frederick RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648934486Author History TitansFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Creek Ridge PublishingPublisher Creek Ridge PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

**Edward Hay (c.1761-1826) was born into a Wexford, Catholic, landed family.** His generation spanned the era from political exclusion, due to the Penal Laws, to mass mobilisation, most associated with Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Assoication. Hay's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374528881Author Jennifer UglowFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. In...

On July 18, 1863, the African American soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry led a courageous but ill-fated charge on Fort Wagner, a key bastion guarding Charleston harbor. Confederate defenders killed, wounded, or made prisoners of half...

The reign of Louis XVI, which ended with the guillotining of Louis and his wife, Marie Antoinette, in 1793, is a dramatic and crucial part of French history. This book presents the first complete and authoritative biography of Louis XVI, a poignant tale...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409693Author John SedgwickFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History The Irish are celebrated at home and abroad as explorers, freedom fighters and great writers and artists, but for every Tom Crean, Bernardo O'Higgins or James Joyce, there is a Hugh Gough, Antoine Walsh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060084776Author Drew HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 312g

Seven years after the death of his mother, Malka, Stanley A. Goldman traveled to Israel to visit her best friend during the Holocaust. The best friend's daughter showed Goldman a pamphlet she had acquired from the Israeli Holocaust Museum that documented...

Dr. Benjamin Rush was the Founding Father of an America that other Founding Fathers forgot or ignored--an America of women, African-Americans, Jews, Quakers, Roman Catholics, indentured workers, and the poor. Ninety percent of the people lived in that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759657083Author Josie Levy MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 240g

Thirsty is the history of Los Angeles and its fraught relationship with water. As a city on the make since the early twentieth century, Los Angeles' resources fought hard to keep up with its unchecked growth. The city's water chief William Mulholland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648038689Author Christine HoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Tale PublishingPublisher Tale PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897959589Author Alan WinningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SerifPublisher Serif

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743255417Author Sam R WatkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

When David Lindsay started researching old records for details of the life of his ancestor, Richard More, what he found illuminated more than just More's own life. The tale that emerged painted a clear and satisfying picture of the way the first comers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985749231Author V'Leonica RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint CD-eBooksPublisher CD-eBooksWeight(grams) 1175gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 26mm

The Life of John Maynard Keynes traces the life and career of the famous English economist and evaluates his contribution to modern economic policy making.Book InformationISBN 9780393300246Author Roy Forbes HarrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint WW...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884995057Author George HoeperFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Word Dancer PressPublisher Quill Driver Books, U.S.Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

'The love affair that the Gestapo could not extinguish' - DAILY MAIL 'A deeply affecting narrative' - SUNDAY TIMES 'The prose ensures that the lovers continue to resonate in the mind' - THE TIMES ______________________ In 1966, the young Aude...

'The love affair that the Gestapo could not extinguish' - DAILY MAIL 'A deeply affecting narrative' - SUNDAY TIMES 'The prose ensures that the lovers continue to resonate in the mind' - THE TIMES ______________________ In 1966, the young Aude...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806502946Author John WoolmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924720Author Stephen B OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

David Livingstone (1813-1873) was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire. Yet his career suffered many setbacks during his own lifetime, and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal. Were his...