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In one of the earliest memoirs of the young Queen of France, Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan - Marie Antoinette's First Lady-in-Waiting and one of her closest and most faithful attendants - paints a dramatic portrait of the queen's personal and political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032532Author Joseph J. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in April 1889, and shot himself in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945 with Russian soldiers beating at the door, surrounded by the ruins of the country he had vowed to restore to greatness. Adolf Hitler: The Curious and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060585594Author Joann FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Churchill has gone down in history as one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. From the day the Second World War was declared he stood out as the only man wanting to take offensive action. But is this accolade deserved? The first few years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062310774Author Paula ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 227g

George Armstrong Custer. The name evokes instant recognition in almost every American and in people around the world. No figure in the history of the American West has more powerfully moved the human imagination. When originally published in 1988,...

In The Miniaturists Barbara Browning explores her attraction to tininess and the stories of those who share it. Interweaving autobiography with research on unexpected topics and letting her voracious curiosity guide her, Browning offers a series of...

A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and various, but all were marked by his unequivocal sense of justice, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451626216Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 717gDimensions(mm) 276mm *...

Long before the screen placed the face of Mary Pickford before the eyes of millions of Americans, this girl, born August 13, 1860 as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses, had won the right to the title of "America's Sweetheart." Having grown up learning to shoot...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345510785Author Julia FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Thomas Paine's words were like no others in history: they leaped off the page, inspiring readers to change their lives, their governments, their kings, and even their gods. In an age when spoken and written words were the only forms of communication,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800551855Author C E Lucas PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 484Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 640gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952485930Author Clarence B. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 411Imprint Redhawk PublicationsPublisher Redhawk Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692202289Author George DevincenziFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint RockPublisher RockWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Henry Lilley Smith (1788-1859) was born and bred in Southam, Warwickshire. After an apprenticeship to a surgeon-apothecary, he attended Guy's Hospital (where he was a 'surgical dresser' to the distinguished Guy's surgeon Sir Astley Cooper). After a...

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 9780767905091Author Jim DeRogatisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Seeking the Northwest Passage and the fabled link to Russia, Japan, and Cathay, Alexander Mackenzie drove himself and his men relentlessly, by canoe and portage, across the uncharted rivers, valleys, and mountains of North America. Mackenzie's 1789...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956510228Author Michael JanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 155mm...

How should we live? In ancient Greece one man came up with a pleasingly simple answer to this question. The philosopher Epicurus taught his followers that pleasure and contentment were the aims of the good life. For hundreds of years Epicureanism was...

Hugh Glass was left to die. AttackedWhilst hunting in the fur-rich, Native American-held territory of the Upper Missouri River, Hugh Glass was attacked and mauled by a grizzly bear. Hundreds of miles away from help; his fellow hunters were unable to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995532816Author John Michael MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Crooked Scythe PressPublisher Crooked Scythe Press

One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773-1833) led a life marked by controversy. The long-serving Virginia congressman and architect of southern conservatism grabbed headlines with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984012909Author Anatoliy AnshinFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Kodenkan InstitutePublisher Kodenkan InstituteWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999267202Author Reta Evens SimonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint ReaskPublisher ReaskWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493311343Author United LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint United LibraryPublisher United LibraryWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

John Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan's development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel's engrossing and...

Story of a remarkable life and the history of a movement.Book InformationISBN 9780815410157Author Kathryn Cullen-DuPontFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Publisher Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312366247Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm...

"If the story of the Soong family were told as fiction, people would say it was fascinating but too improbable. . . . A dramatic human chronicle . . . engrossing." -The New York Times Book Review In the early twentieth century, few women in China were...

Winner of the 2007 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award! Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628729177Author Soledad Fox MauraFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for George Washington Book Prize 2019.Book InformationISBN 9780804140089Author Stephen FriedFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451645910Author Professor of English Elaine ShowalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

In relating the story of his life on the island of Deshima and in the port of Yokohama during the late 1850s, Dutch merchant C. T. Assendelft de Coningh provides both an unprecedented eyewitness account of daily life in the Japanese treaty ports and a...

Captain James Carlin is a biography of a shadowy nineteenth-century British Confederate, James Carlin (1833-1921), who was among the most successful captains running the U.S. Navy's blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War. Written by his...

A biography of the second Duke of Lennox, the most consequential person in the Jacobean court in Scotland and England Provides an overview of the politics and culture of Scottish and English life in the Stuart period Uses rich archival, manuscript...