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Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882-1906 by Carla King 9781906359928
RRP: €53.55€52.42Michael Davitt is known as the 'Father of the Land League'. His story of suffering and self-sacrifice, childhood eviction and exile, youthful radicalism, harsh imprisonment and eventual triumph over adversity ensures his memory in the pages of history... -
Microcosm: A Portrait of a Central European City by Norman Davies
RRP: €23.80€17.48The story of Central Europe is anything but simple. As the region located between East and West, it has always been endowed with a rich variety of migrants, and has repeatedly been the scene of nomadic invasions, mixed settlements and military conquests... -
The Lawn Road Flats - Spies, Writers and Artists by David Burke 9781783274703
RRP: €23.79€20.67The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London... -
The Everyday Life of the Clans of the Scottish Highlands by Michael Steven Newton 9780971385825
RRP: €14.27€10.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971385825Author Michael Steven NewtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Michael NewtonPublisher Michael NewtonWeight(grams) 152g -
March Past: The Memoir of a Commando Leader, From Lofoten to Dieppe and D-Day by Lord Lovat 9781399068581
RRP: €29.75€21.44At the outbreak of war in 1940, Simon Frazer, the 15th Lord Lovat and a former Guards officer, was mobilized from the reserve list to join the Lovat Scouts, the British Army's first sniper unit that had been formed by his father during the Boer War. The... -
Polish Winged Hussar 1556-1775 by Richard Brzezinski 9781841766508
€13.98This book examines the origins and development of the Polish Winged Hussars. Using many years' painstaking research drawn from unpublished Polish sources, the author provides a rounded view of the training, tactics, appearance and experiences of these... -
Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera by Michael Nelson
€19.18Queen Victoria fell in love with the Riviera when she discovered it on her first visit to Menton in 1882 and her enchantment with this 'paradise of nature' endured for almost twenty years. Victoria's visits helped to transform the French Riviera by... -
Tavistock: A History by Gerry Woodcock
RRP: €21.41€16.23Tavistock has cast its spell over generations of visitors. Attractively set between two significant natural barriers, the River Tamar to the west and Dartmoor to the east, residents and visitors today would still recognise the truth of what one impressed... -
The Oxford History of the Crusades by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith
RRP: €27.95€20.68Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades, from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today. Reflecting the recent... -
The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832 by Frank O'Gorman
€50.41This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the... -
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume III by John H. Gill
€24.48With this third volume John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important action was taking... -
Edda by Snorri Sturluson
RRP: €10.70€7.79The only English translation to include the complete work - a must-have for all students of early Norse literature.Over a period of twenty years, Snorri Sturluson, scholar, courtier and poet, compiled the prose EDDA as a textbook for young poets who... -
Luftwaffe Blitz: The Inside Story November 1940-May 1941 by Chris Goss 9780859791571
RRP: €13.03€9.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791571Author Chris GossFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Pictorial History of Paisley by David Rowland 9781840334357
RRP: €26.12€22.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334357Author David RowlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 274mm... -
The Templars by Malcolm Barber
RRP: €23.79€17.28The Templars were members of a monastic order established in 1099 after the success of the First Crusade. Enjoying the support of both the Church and the laity and vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, these 'fighting monks' were the vital defenders... -
The Bloody White Baron by James Palmer
RRP: €15.46€10.19Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of... -
Portmahomack: Monastery of the Picts by Martin Carver
RRP: €39.26€32.39This book deals with a key archaeology of one of the prime Pictish settlements in north east Scotland. This updated 2nd edition continues and develops the interpretation of a prime Pictish settlement site in north east Scotland, with new chapters... -
Learn Polish: A Comprehensive Guide to Learning Polish for Beginners, Including Grammar, Short Stories and 1000 Popular Phrases by Simple Language Learning 9781647486952
RRP: €35.69€25.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647486952Author Simple Language LearningFormat HardbackPage Count 490Imprint Bravex PublicationsPublisher Bravex PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith 9781399409872
RRP: €17.84€14.08An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet... -
RAF Bomber Command Losses: v. 9: Roll of Honour, 1939-1947 by W R Chorley
RRP: €23.79€18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857801958Author W. R ChorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 2mm -
Operation Epsom by Tim Saunders
RRP: €13.08€10.82Operation EPSOM was Montgomerys third attempt to take the city of Caen, which was a key British D-Day objective. This book takes us through the actions in vivid detail. Delayed by a storm, the attack, designed to envelop Caen from the west, eventually... -
Andalucia: A Cultural History by John Gill 9781904955443
RRP: €17.85€16.24A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andaluca has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilisations for more than ten thousand years. This book traces its... -
'kill All The Gentlemen': Class struggle and change in the English countryside by Martin Empson 9781910885697
RRP: €17.84€11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910885697Author Martin EmpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks Publications -
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain by G.J.Barker- Benfield 9780226037141
RRP: €57.12€55.20G. J. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. His account focuses on the rise of new moral and spiritual values and the struggle to redefine the group identities of... -
Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: The Life of King Henry Viii's Sister by Beth-Sarah Watkins 9781785356766
RRP: €11.89€10.22Margaret Tudor was Henry VIII's older sister and became the Queen of Scotland after her marriage to James IV in 1503. Her life was troubled and fraught with tension. She was continually caught between her country of birth and the country she ruled. After... -
Percy Maylam's The Kent Hooden Horse by Richard Maylam 9780752449975
RRP: €17.84€13.74In 1909, Canterbury antiquarian Percy Maylam published his research and remarkable photographs of the fascinating Kent tradition of the hooden horse. He caught the custom in its last traditional phase, but his work inspired a revival after the Second... -
Franco and the Condor Legion: The Spanish Civil War in the Air by Michael Alpert 9781788311182
RRP: €41.65€37.31The Spanish Civil War was fought on land and at sea but also in an age of great interest in air warfare and the rapid development of warplanes. The war in Spain came a turning point in the development of military aircraft and was the arena in which new... -
The Battle of Normandy 1944 by Robin Neillands
RRP: €13.08€8.81A fresh and incisive examination of one of the Second World War's crucial campaigns, the battle for Normandy in the months after D-Day.What happened to the Allied armies in Normandy in the months after D-Day, 1944? Why, after the initial success of the... -
The Turks: The Central Asian Civilization That Bridged the East and the West for Over Two Millennia - volume 1 by Erol I Yorulmazoglu 9781736695401
RRP: €28.55€21.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736695401Author Erol I YorulmazogluFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Erol I. YorulmazogluPublisher Erol I. YorulmazogluWeight(grams)... -
The History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: v.5: Cold War, Crisis and Conflict: The CPGB 1951-68 by John Callaghan 9780853159582
RRP: €21.42€20.73This is Volume Five of a comprehensive history of the British Communist Party in the twentieth century, and covers the period from 1951 to 1968. The cold war was at its most intense during this period, and it was also the time of the dramas of 1956 -... -
Spitfire Down: Fighter Boys Who Failed to Return by Sarkar, Dilip S 9781399089470
RRP: €29.75€20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Spike Island's Republican Prisoners, 1921 by Tom O'Neill, MA
RRP: €26.18€19.56In 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the fort on Spike Island in County Cork was the largest British-military-run prison for Republican prisoners and internees in the Martial Law area, housing almost 1,400 men from Munster and south Leinster... -
Conclave 1559: Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559 by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: €13.08€9.97Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman 'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrecy... -
Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy by Tessa Dunlop 9781035402465
RRP: €17.84€11.66'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal BiographerShe was 'sugar pink' innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins... -
Bloody British History: Leeds by Richard Smyth 9780752487373
RRP: €11.89€8.98Phantom in the library! The bizarre true story of a Victorian haunting revealed! King cholera! The day that death came to the Dock family! Exploding mummies! The weirdest events of the blitz examined! A Yorkshire tragedy: Fifteenth-century murder at... -
The First Afghan War 1839-42: Invasion, catastrophe and retreat by Richard Macrory
RRP: €19.03€15.86In 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another step in Britain's Great Game - Afghanistan... -
You’Re Nicked: Investigating British Television Police Series by Ben Lamb 9781526171955
RRP: €23.80€21.23You're nicked is the first comprehensive study of television police series in the UK. It reveals how British television's most popular genre has developed stylistically, politically and philosophically from 1955 to the present.Each chapter focuses on a... -
Homage to Caledonia by Daniel Gray 9781913025366
RRP: €15.46€11.02Shortlisted for the History Book of the Year category of the 2009 Saltire Literary Awards The Spanish Civil War was a call to arms for 2,300 British volunteers, of which over 500 were from Scotland. The first book of its kind, Homage to Caledonia... -
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930: A Source Book by Deborah Brunton
RRP: €23.79€17.28During the nineteenth century, the provision of medical care underwent a radical transformation. In 1800, the body was still understood in terms of humours and fluids, and treatment was provided by a wide range of individuals, some of whom had little or... -
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By by Lorraine Daston
RRP: €45.22€34.55A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of...