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Why is Nelson a hero? Because he was a captain before he was 21, a man who shaped the course of history from the decks of his ships, hailed as a saviour of the nation, a hero killed in action at the moment of his greatest victory at the Battle of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609806828Author Malaika wa AzaniaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

This fierce memoir is both an elegy and an indictment. Marcel Liebman's account of his childhood in Brussels under the Nazi occupation explores the emergence of his class consciousness against a background of resistance and collaboration. He documents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832753Author Jeffry D. WertFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 505g

It soon became clear that her marriage would have both its passions and its betrayals. Yet Emilie stayed with Oskar through his growing involvement with the Nazis, working for counterintelligence with him. She first, then he later, came to realize the...

Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chinese history and culture is illuminated. Over the course of two years, Ida Pruitt-a bicultural social worker,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547834382Author Susan BordoFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 134mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619450004Author Kenneth D AckermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Viral History Press LLCPublisher Viral History Press LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439191576Author Thomas PennFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679645603Author Robert K. MassieFormat HardbackPage Count 1136Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1208gDimensions(mm)...

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was one of the most remarkable women of her day. From early childhood she experienced religious visions, and at the age of eight she entered a cloistered religious life in the Benedictine monastery of Disibondenberg...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891640957Author William De LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Toyo PressPublisher Toyo PressWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 191mm * 12mm

Out of the pages of European history comes a story as colorful and torrid as any modern fiction-the never-been-told-before-told account of the lives of the grand duchess of Courland and her daughters Wilhelmina and Dorothea. By Influence and Desire is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143038542Author Peter HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *...

An engaging and comprehensive new edition of this established biography provides students with an understanding of the European Reformation through the life of its key mover, Martin Luther. Working chronologically through Luther's life, Michael A. Mullet...

This book is an introduction to the remarkable life of Charles Plomer Hopkins. Charles Plomer Hopkins, a Victorian church organist, called by circumstance to a seamenis chaplaincy on the Indian sub-continent, eventually achieved an unlikely apotheosis in...

In George Washington Williams, John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States. Awarded the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865341852Author Helen L AiryFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 141mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853034230Author Alexandre BlumsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561649853Author Frank A. CassellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619492592Author Peter AbelardFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Andrew Mango's revealing portrait of Ataturk throws light on matters of great importance today-resurgent nationalism, religious fundamentalism, and the reality of democracy.Book InformationISBN 9781585673346Author Andrew MangoFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Zilliacus lived through turbulent years. He was an enemy of fascism from the 1930s, and after the Second World War worked against Cold War hysteria through meetings and contascts with Stalin, Khrushchev, Tito and Castro. Ernest Bevin hated the critical...

The diaries of Dr Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi offer a unique insight to the peculiarities of colonialism that have shaped Palestinian history. Elected mayor of Jerusalem - his city of birth - in 1935, the physician played a leading role in the Palestinian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988567405Author Mark KlempnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Night Stand BooksPublisher Night Stand BooksWeight(grams) 332g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560252498Author Linda AshcroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Thunder's Mouth PressPublisher Thunder's Mouth Press

A naive English farmer's wife travels alone to Poznan, Poland, to visit the Zachodni Institute; an archive that holds records of the wartime Polish Resistance. It is the start of an adventure into history, and all that had been hidden since the Nuremberg...

Few lives shed more light on the complex relationship between Jews and Christians during and after the Holocaust that that of teenage Polish Jew, Oswald Rufeisen. Fluent in German, Rufeisen became a translator for the Nazi gendamerie, using his position...

Although generations of readers of the Little House books are familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder's early life up through her first years of marriage to Almanzo Wilder, few know about her adult years. Going beyond previous studies, ""Becoming Laura...

With Freedom's Lawmakers, Eric Foner has assembled the first comprehensive directory of the over 1,500 African Americans who held political office in the South during the Reconstruction era. He has compiled an impressive amount of information about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385311298Author Antonia FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint 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 9789609384438Author Theodora IoannidouFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Ioannidou TheodoraPublisher Ioannidou TheodoraWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982164683Author Selma Van de PerreFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

Recent years have found much of Africa to be a land of turmoil and revolution. Distress in the Sudan and countries such as Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Liberia have made Africa the site of a variety of atrocities from displacement to torture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062251459Author Les StandifordFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Spartacus (109?-71 BCE), the slave who rebelled against Rome, has been a source of endless fascination: the subject of myth-making in his own time, and of movie-making in ours. Hard facts about the man have always yielded to romanticized tales and...

"A chilling study of the man who masterminded the Holocaust Heydrich was inhumanely cruel, ruthless, devious, shameless, a sixteen hour a day workaholic who was feared and loathed even by his closest colleagues.' The Daily Telegraph An impressive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156826761Author John PearsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826252Author Jackie Ui ChionnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 367g