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Victoria Crosses on the Western Front - Battles of the Scarpe 1918 and Drocourt-Queant Line: 26 August - 2 September 1918 by Paul Oldfield
RRP: €23.79€16.99In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the... -
We Just Got On With It: Changes Before, During and After the Second World War in Northern Ireland by Doreen McBride
RRP: €20.22€15.40'But we will do what we have always done - just get on with it.'The contributions of Northern Ireland to allied efforts in the Second World War are widely celebrated, acknowledged by both Sir Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt as vital to their... -
Beating the Nazi Invader: Hitler's Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940 by Neil R Storey
RRP: €29.75€20.97Beating the Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and 'Fifth Columnist' saboteurs in Britain and the extensive top secret counter-measures taken before and during the real threat of invasion in 1940. ... -
Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London by Midge Gillies 9781529339734
RRP: €13.08€8.81There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus.From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into an intoxicating thoroughfare, with the power to... -
Haunted Wiltshire by Keith Wills 9780752493114
RRP: €15.46€11.45The dark side of Wiltshire's ancient history has left its mark on the county's inns, hotels, stately homes and burial barrows. A hideous dwarf is said to haunt Lacock Abbey; a spooky white cat stalks walkers on the ancient Ridgeway; the Lady in White... -
Tank Warfare on the Eastern Front, 1941-1942: Schwerpunkt by Robert Forczyk 9781526781543
RRP: €17.84€13.03The German panzer armies that swept into the Soviet Union in 1941 were an undefeated force that had honed their skill in combined arms warfare to a fine edge. The Germans focused their panzers and tactical air support at points on the battlefield defined... -
Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle by Tom Quinn
RRP: €11.89€8.46For more than 300 years, Kensington Palace has played host to a colourful cast of kings, queens and assorted aristocratic hangers-on. A stone's throw from the bustling streets of central London, this grand building has served as the stage for some of the... -
Edwardian Fashion by Daniel Milford-Cottam
RRP: €10.70€8.28Fashion in the Edwardian period underwent some quite revolutionary changes. The delicately coloured, flower-and-lace-trimmed trailing gowns and elaborate hairstyles worn by tightly corseted fashionable ladies in the early years of Edward VII's reign... -
The Scottish Enlightenment: An Anthology by Alexander Broadie
RRP: €21.42€15.01The Scottish Enlightenment is one of the great achievements of European culture. In philosophy, law, economics, politics, linguistics and the physical sciences, Scots were key players in changing the way the world was viewed. And this explosion of... -
Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870-1920 by Neil Faulkner
RRP: €29.75€24.89A panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920 "An epic account of the British Empire's activities in Africa and the Middle East. . . . An important, indeed tremendous,... -
Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City by Felix Ringel 9781789208054
RRP: €33.26€26.87How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to... -
Cambridge: The Hidden History by David Taylor 9780752419145
RRP: €32.73€24.13By combining the results of archaeological excavation carried out over the last thirty years with important discoveries in previous centuries, Alison Taylor is able to piece together the history of Cambridge through prehistoric, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and... -
Cornwall in Prehistory by Toni-Maree Rowe
RRP: €21.41€16.23Prehistory is a universal term used by archaeologists to describe a sizable portion of time in the past, essentially, from the beginning of human evolution to the arrival of the Romans in Britain. In Cornwall this distant past is always present, the... -
Haunted Stockton by Robert Woodhouse 9780752457635
RRP: €15.46€11.45From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of stories contains both new and well-known spooky tales from around Stockton. Drawing on... -
The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History by Robert Darnton 9780393307528
RRP: €26.78€22.81At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" -this section includes... -
The Etruscans by Graeme Barker 9780631220381
RRP: €43.97€39.16The Etruscans were the creators of one of the most highly developed cultures of the pre-Roman Mediterranean.About the AuthorGraeme Barker is Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeological Studies at the University of Leicester. He was... -
Tirpitz: Hunting the Beast by John Sweetman
RRP: €15.46€11.45The German battleships Bismarck and Tirpitz had brutally short careers. The Bismarck was sunk by the Home Fleet on her first operational sortie in May 1941. But the Tirpitz, hiding in Norwegian fjords, remained a menace to Allied convoys and tied down... -
British Pan-Arab Policy, 1915-1922 by Isaiah Friedman 9781138507784
RRP: €52.35€46.22In this myth-shattering study Isaiah Friedman provides a new perspective on events in the Middle East during World War I and its aftermath. He shows that British officials in Cairo mistakenly assumed that the Arabs would rebel against Turkey and welcome... -
Reimagining Culture by Sharon Macdonald
RRP: €45.21€39.72Since the 1960s, policies to 'revive' minority cultures and languages have flourished. But what does it mean to have a 'cultural identity'? And are minorities as deeply attached to their languages and traditions as revival policies suppose? This book... -
Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto - A Young Girl's Story by Janina Bauman
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with... -
Tudor and Stuart Britain: 1485-1714 by Roger Lockyer
RRP: €52.35€50.29Tudor and Stuart Britain charts the political, religious, economic and social history of Britain from the start of Henry VII's reign in 1485 to the death of Queen Anne in 1714, providing students and lecturers with a detailed chronological narrative of... -
The Dream of the Earth: Preface by Terry Tempest Williams & Foreword by Brian Swimme by Thomas Berry
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619025325Author Thomas BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany by Doris L. Bergen 9781108487702
RRP: €35.70€30.12During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton
RRP: €47.60€33.78What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When... -
The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy - Gifts, Violence, Performance, and the Sacred by Andrew Cowell
RRP: €95.20€87.20A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages (10th-12th centuries) among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally... -
In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution by Sophie Wahnich
€16.17For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies. But recent decades have brought a marked change in... -
Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851-1951 by Martin Daunton 9780198732099
RRP: €71.40€60.58Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951. In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power in... -
The America Ground, Hastings by Steve Peak
RRP: €15.46€11.45The America Ground: 81/2 acres of Hastings town centre that in the early nineteenth century was an open section of beach, apparently beyond the borough boundary and with no obvious owner. Free from the rules of local authority and taxes, this almost... -
Edexcel GCE History AS Unit 2 C2 Britain c.1860-1930: The Changing Position of Women & Suffrage Question by Rosemary Rees
€32.20This book is all you need to inspire students' success.It is written by experienced examiners and teachers and is tailored to the new Edexcel specification. It features an active, engaging approach that brings History alive in the classroom! Exam tips,... -
From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism by Bruce F. Pauley 9780807847138
RRP: €65.45€61.33According to Simon Wiesenthal, nearly half of the crimes associated with the Holocaust were committed by Austrians, who comprised just 8.5 percent of the population of Hitler's Greater German Reich. Bruce Pauley's book explains this phenomenon by... -
Bletchley Park: The Code-breakers of Station X by Michael Smith
RRP: €9.51€7.44Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The breaking of the Nazi Enigma cyphers by Britain's wartime code-breakers continues to fascinate, with well over... -
The British and the Sikhs: Discovery, Warfare and Friendship C1700-1900. Military and Social Interaction in Imperial India by Gurinder Singh Mann 9781911628248
RRP: €20.17€18.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628248Author Gurinder Singh MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Restoration: 1666: A Year in Britain by Alexander Larman
RRP: €23.80€18.23In an England inhabited by Pepys, Evelyn, Dryden, Hobbes and the young Isaac Newton, Charles II is king, and the nation is beginning to relax a little after the tough, joyless years of Cromwell's Protectorate. In RESTORATION, Alex Larman paints a... -
Royal Naval Submarines 1901 to 2008 by Maurice Cocker 9781526791900
€22.66Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Scotland'S Transnational Heritage: Legacies of Empire and Slavery by Emma Bond
RRP: €29.74€24.15Outlines the legacies of Empire in Scotland and offers practical methods for diversifying the stories we tell about them Emphasises Scotland's role as a transnational agent in networks of empire and colonialism Outlines new historical examples of how... -
Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire by Alan Lester
RRP: €32.12€27.61Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an... -
King Arthur in Irish Pseudo-Historical Tradition: An Introduction to Mac Erca by Dane Pestano 9780957000261
RRP: €14.86€13.52Were the legends of King Arthur influenced by the Irish tales of the hero Mac Erca? After four years of research and the translation of ancient Irish manuscripts, the forgotten story of the Irish Arthur can now be introduced and revealed for the first... -
A Pocket History of Scotland by Tony Potter
RRP: €8.32€6.10From prehistoric times to the present day this comprehensive history presents the story of Scotland in bite-size chunks. With full colour illustrations throughout this is an attractive and practical guide to Scotland's colourful history. ... -
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown
RRP: €19.03€14.55The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of... -
Warburton's War: The Life of Maverick Ace Adrian Warburton, DSO, DFC, DFC (USA) by Chris Goss 9780907579434
RRP: €9.51€6.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579434Author Chris GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing