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Garibaldi in South America: An Exploration by Richard Bourne 9781787383135
RRP: €29.75€26.22For over twelve years in the first half of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, lived, learned and fought in South America. He was tortured, escaped death on countless occasions, and met his Brazilian wife, Anita,... -
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire by Dominique Kirchner Reill 9780674244245
RRP: €36.83€29.54Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation.The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of... -
Who Beat the All Blacks? by Alun Gibbard 9781912631421
RRP: €11.89€10.42A new edition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest rugby moments ever. Against all expectations, on 31 October 1972 Carwyn James' Llanelli beat New Zealand 9-3. The day's events are recalled by those who were there. First edition... -
A Brief History of the British Monarchy by Jeremy Black
RRP: €20.22€13.73The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through to the longest serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II - and looks forward to the reign of King Charles III.Much more than a... -
The Language of Whisky by David McNicoll 9781733568210
RRP: €16.66€16.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733568210Author David McNicollFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Wheatfield PressPublisher Wheatfield PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk by Joshua Levine
RRP: €20.22€14.61The subject of the new major film by Christopher NolanIt could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British Army was successfully evacuated, and 'Dunkirk spirit' became... -
German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Natasha Loges
RRP: €29.74€25.79A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these... -
Roman Southwark - Settlement and Economy by Carrie Cowan 9781901992786
RRP: €33.26€32.07This report presents an overview of Roman urban development in London south of the Thames. The establishment of the Roman bridge and the first approach roads and landing places, made Southwark an ideal location for the development of facilities for... -
Italian Soft-Skinned Vehicles of the Second World War Volume 1: Motorcycles, Cars, Trucks, Artillery Tractors 1935-1945 by Daniele Guglielmi 9781804513279
RRP: €29.75€28.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513279Author Daniele GuglielmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Hitler's Invasion of East Anglia, 1940: An Historical Cover Up? by Martin W. Bowman 9781526705488
RRP: €29.75€21.44Did a German invasion or invasions take place along the shores of East Anglia in 1940? Though Operation 'Sealion', the intended invasion of southern England, never materialised, Hitler openly confided that 'even a small invasion might go a long way', and... -
Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London: Prostitution and Control in the Metropolis, 1730-1830 by Tony Henderson 9780582264212
RRP: €85.67€82.23This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes, and also shedding light on London society as a whole,... -
Titanic Style: Dress and Fashion on the Voyage by Grace Evans
RRP: €17.84€11.14One Hundred Years after the Sinking of the Titanic, the Sophistication of Her Passengers Lives On.Titanic Style explores the world of fashion and dress at the time of RMS Titanic's famous voyage. With stunning images and enlightening historical analysis,... -
Berlin Calling: A Story of Anarchy, Music, The Wall, and the Birth of the New Berlin by Paul Hockenos 9781620971956
RRP: €23.79€16.14Berlin Calling is a gripping account of the 1989 'peaceful revolution' in East Germany that upended communism and the tumultuous years of artistic ferment, political improvisation, and pirate utopias that followed. It's the story of a newly undivided... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Great Britain by Warlord Games
RRP: €29.75€23.65With this latest supplement for Bolt Action, players can now build an army for Great Britain and the Commonwealth. From early campaigns in Europe to the deserts of North Africa and the jungles of the Far East, British forces faced the Axis threat. The... -
The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad by Louis Cullen 9780197265628
€105.24The book presents 125 letters carried aboard a ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, captured at sea in 1757, in the midst of the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Most of the letters lay unopened for 250 years until they were rediscovered in the UK National... -
The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times by Robert Cooper
RRP: €17.84€11.66History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic... -
The Way It Was: Life in Elizabeth’s Britain, 1952-1979 by Matthew Engel 9781786496690
RRP: €15.46€10.19Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.' Simon Heffer, 'Books of the Year' , Daily Telegraph'A joyous new book on post-war Britain.' Daily... -
Australia'S War 1914-18 by Joan Beaumont
RRP: €29.74€25.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863734615Author Joan BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g -
The Italian Blitz 1940-43: Bomber Command's war against Mussolini's cities, docks and factories by Richard Worrall
RRP: €17.84€13.98Between June 1940 and August 1943, RAF Bomber Command undertook a little-known strategic bombing campaign in Europe. The target was Mussolini's Italy. This air campaign was a key part of the strategic policy of Britain from 1940 to 1943, which aimed at... -
Dangerous Days on the Victorian Railways: Feuds, Frauds, Robberies and Riots by Terry Deary
RRP: €11.89€4.86The Victorians risked more than just delays when boarding a steam train . . .Victorian inventors certainly didn't lack steam, but while they squabbled over who deserved the title of 'The Father of the Locomotive' and enjoyed their fame and fortune,... -
Sallust's Bellum Catilinae by J. T. Ramsey
RRP: €38.66€31.95In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.E.) recounts the dramatic events of the year 63 B.C.E. when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, after two electoral defeats, made himself the leader of a... -
The Placenames of Scotland by Iain Taylor
RRP: €15.46€10.19Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland's capital city? Are the 'drum' and 'chapel' still to be found in Drumchapel? And which 'king' had a 'seat' in Kingseat in Perthshire? The answers... -
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
RRP: €17.84€13.24Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' - Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times 'An excellent, rich and amusing read' - The Times, Book of the WeekFor centuries much of Europe was in... -
On Exile by Francesco Filelfo 9780674066366
RRP: €35.64€28.63Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation,... -
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft
RRP: €23.80€17.01In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender... -
Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History by Matthew Carr
RRP: €29.75€26.22Savage Frontier traces the routes over the mountains taken by monks, soldiers, poets, pilgrims and refugees, examining the lives and events that have shaped the Pyrenees across the centuries. Its cast of characters includes Napoleon, Hannibal and... -
Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition: Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy by Robert Alexander 9780521039765
RRP: €36.88€34.13This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition during the Bourbon Restoration and early July Monarchy. Robert Alexander argues that political change was achieved by legal grassroots organization and persuasion - rather than by the... -
Aspects of International Socialism, 1871-1914: Essays by Georges Haupt by Georges Haupt 9780521180672
RRP: €36.88€24.92Prior to his death in 1978 Georges Haupt enjoyed a considerable reputation as a scholar of European socialism, but much of his best work was scattered in small periodicals. This 1986 volume brings together in translation a selection of some of his most... -
Blank by Fedja Stukan 9781716412417
RRP: €19.04€17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716412417Author Fedja StukanFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm -
Master Pongo: A Gorilla Conquers Europe by Mustafa Haikal 9780271082165
RRP: €29.69€26.17In the summer of 1876, Berlin anxiously awaited the arrival of what was billed as "the most gigantic ape known to zoology." Described by European explorers only a few decades earlier, gorillas had rarely been seen outside of Africa, and emerging theories... -
Queen Margaret Tudor: The story of a courageous but forgotten monarch by Stuart McCabe 9781861516145
€15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861516145Author Stuart McCabeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo Books -
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by George C. Kuhl 9780887404450
RRP: €33.31€21.44This is true story of the second raid on Schweinfurt, Germany by the Eighth Air Force 1st and 3rd Bombardment Divisions on 14 October 1943. On this day, the Eighth Air Force lost air superiority to the German Luftwaffe in a continuous air battle that... -
French Invasions of Britain and Ireland, 1797 1798: The Revolutionaries and Spies who Sought to Topple the Government of King George by Paul L Dawson 9781399068086
RRP: €33.32€23.35Not since 1066 - at least in popular myth - has an enemy force set foot on British soil. The Declaration of War with Revolutionary France in 1793 changed all that. In Ireland, the desire for home rule led Irish republicans to seek support from France and... -
Churchill: A Drinking Life: Champagne, Cognac, and Cocktails by Gin Sander
RRP: €20.22€14.61"An intoxicating read. You'll want to consume it twice." -A.J. Baime, New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental President and Dewey Defeats TrumanA fun little book packed with historic Churchill information, drinking companions, locations, and... -
Paris. Portrait of a City by Jean-Claude Gautrand 9783836502931
€67.01A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It was on the banks of the Seine that Niepce and Daguerre officially gave birth to this new art that has flourished ever since, developing a... -
Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s by Prof. Ben Campkin
RRP: €29.74€24.32Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure - a queer infrastructure - connecting different generations and locations, facilitating the movement of resources, across and beyond the city. Queer Premises offers evidence for how... -
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries by Ralph Griffiths 9780198731412
€41.33This book encompasses the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and also considers the relationships between the different parts of the British Isles. Six chapters examine key themes in turn: society and population, economic life, religion,... -
The Common Stream by Rowland Parker 9781780600758
RRP: €15.46€10.23This is the story of a village in East Anglia, astride its common stream, a saga of continuity and change which stretches back across a landscape of two thousand years. It took Rowland Parker thirteen years of detective work to piece this jigsaw... -
Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK by Ian Bone 9780954417772
RRP: €11.89€9.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954417772Author Ian BoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Naked Guides LtdPublisher Tangent BooksDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 10mm -
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando 9780226538525
RRP: €31.54€26.76Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo,...