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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...

The authoritative biography of British explorer Sir Francis Drake, from the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Long considered one of the great heroes of British history, Sir Francis Drake was a brilliant navigator, intrepid explorer, and fearsome...

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...

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

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 9780307451071Author David JaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684117239Author Mohandas Karamchand GandhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

`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...

A New York Times Bestseller, a 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and a Washington Post Book World, Publisher's Weekly, and Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book of the Year "Superb. . . . The best short biography of Franklin ever...

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...

Accident of Fate is a first-hand account of persecution, rescue, and resistance in the Axis-occupied former Yugoslavia. At the age of thirteen, Imre Rochlitz fled to Yugoslavia from his childhood home in Vienna following the Nazi Anschluss, leaving his...

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

Army scout, frontiersman, and hero of the American West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was also a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published The Story of the Wild West, a collection of biographies of four well-known American...

Pirro Ligorio (1510-1583), an Italian architect and antiquarian who designed the Casino of Pius IV and large portions of the gardens of the Villa d'Este, has long been a notoriously elusive subject because of his daunting erudition and because his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312430054Author Veronica BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

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

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

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 9780806502946Author John WoolmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Kensington Publishing CorporationPublisher Kensington Publishing...

John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312584184Author Paul SpicerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Cooper paints a meticulous and absorbing portrait of McKay's restless artistic, intellectual, and political odyssey... The definitive biography on McKay. - Choice Although recognised today as one of the genuine pioneers of black literature in this...

Struggle for Empire explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagne's descendants that shaped the formation of Europe. It examines this pivotal era through the reign of Charlemagne's grandson, Louis the German (826-876), one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414325477Author Nonna BannisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

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...

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)...

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...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400096411Author Kitty KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 732gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425245453Author Joshua KendallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire, and the impact of ideas.His Macaulay is...

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 9781250017185Author Consuela Vanderbilt BalsanFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 408g

This book covers the period of time during which the Cayman Islands were transformed from an obscure group of three British islands in the Caribbean to the fifth largest financial centre in the world. The transition was the brainchild of the country's...

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'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595094288Author Elaine WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 219mm * 158mm * 18mm

The Period of Fortification, 1880-1898The burst of capitalistic expansion that accompanied German unification came to an abrupt end with the crash of 1873, which opened a period of economic depression. Volume III describes the continuation of Bismarck's...