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Wellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a great imperial power, a man who dominated British society and politics for 35 years. He was the only one...

The duc de Saint-Simon's memoirs of the last decades of Louis XIV's reign and the regency of Philippe d'Orleans are considered a masterpiece of the genre and one of the glories of French literature. His accounts of the dramatic events he witnessed have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805053944Author Alice EchoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909646995Author Joel T. RosenthalFormat HardbackPage Count 341Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

"An unforgettable portrait of a woman who became one of the most notorious figures of her day and whose scandalous story sheds fascinating light not only on her own tumultuous time but ours as well." - Harold Schechter, author of Hell's Princess: The...

Winston Churchill is one of the dominating figures of the 20th century. In this stimulating and original book, David Dilks presents Churchill, not only as a war leader and international statesman, but also as a private person with a rich variety of...

2015 Internation Latino Book Awards Honorable Mention for Best Biography in English Known for her beauty and angelic voice, Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, la Belle CrEole, was a Cuban-born star of nineteenth-century Parisian society. She befriended...

Winner of the 1990 American Historical Association's James Henry Breasted Prize. A great book for anyone interested in the Heian period of Japan.Book InformationISBN 9780824815905Author Robert BorgenFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint University of...

The career and legacy of an extraordinary African American crusader; Pioneering African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) is widely remembered for her courageous antilynching crusade in the 1890s; the full range of her struggles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473531836Author Kenneth BlackburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Kenneth BlackburnPublisher Kenneth BlackburnWeight(grams) 140g

It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche-the Left Bank of the Seine River-in Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs of A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald was...

A fresh, lively retelling of the life of one of the most infamous characters of the Old West, Doc Holliday, by an imaginative, yet accurate storyteller.Book InformationISBN 9780762760466Author D. J. HerdaFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint The Lyons...

'The name of Roberts became a terror to the mineowners ... such was the dread of this 'lightning attorney general', who seemed to be everywhere at once' - Friedrich EngeIs, The Condition of the Working Classes. W. P Roberts (1806-1871) was a founder...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789431155Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950794904Author C O L BoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Deeds PublishingPublisher Deeds PublishingWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812970715Author Samuel PepysFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 258g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995842007Author Ivy GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Ivy GrahamPublisher Ivy GrahamWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

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Sir Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), a glamorous and well-known figure in Britain for the first four decades of the twentieth century, was the most eligible bachelor and the greatest host of his time. He attained prominence in the art world, high society, and...

Between becoming king of Macedonia in 336 BC and his death in 323, Alexander the Great conquered not only the Greek city states but also Persia and as far east as the Punjab in India, as far south as Egypt. Claude Mosse describes the progress of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439110201Author Marie AranaFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm...

Of all the memoirs of the wild West, Frank Crampton's autobiography of his youth in the mining camps ranks with the very best. Scion of a wealthy New York family, Crampton ran away from home in 1904 at the age of sixteen. Two bindle stiffs picked him up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468316704Author Paddy HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 140mm *...

There are few American families that feature such a collection of characters, both heroic and ignoble, who have made such a mark on history as the Lees. In The Lees of Virginia, Paul Nagel chronicles seven generations of Lees, covering over two hundred...

Gladys Malvern uses her celebrated talent for prose to share the stories of Henry VIII's wives with immense personality and captivating drama. Henry VIII was married to six women during his reign as the King of England. Gladys Malvern characterizes...

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The life of David Collins - judge, historian and governor - reflects the story of the European settlement of Australia. In a remarkable trio of events, Collins was one of the founders of Sydney in 1788, began the first European settlement in Victoria in...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143035138Author Robin FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 139mm *...

This biography reveals Ottoline Morrell, London's leading literary hostess during the first three decades of the 20th century. Augustus John, the Asquiths, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and W.B. Yeats enjoyed her hospitality...

Vignettes of drawing-room politics and gossip from the 'public and private' diary entries of Chips Channon.Book InformationISBN 9780297813804Author Sir Henry ChannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson HistoryPublisher Orion...

The story of a woman whose work inspired one of London's greatest attractions. Born in Strasbourg, the young Marie Tussaud learned her skills from her mother's employer, Philippe Curtius. In 1780 she became tutor to King Louis XVI's sister and for eight...

Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas...

Winston Churchill is probably still the best-known Prime Minister of Great Britain. Born at Blenheim Palace, he joined the army after Harrow, but in 1899 resigned his commission to report on the Boer War. Elected to Parliament in 1900, he served in both...