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The Oxford Handbook of Latin Palaeography by Frank T. Coulson 9780197689707
€51.93Latin books are among the most numerous surviving artifacts of the Late Antique, Mediaeval, and Renaissance periods in European history; written in a variety of formats and scripts, they preserve the literary, philosophical, scientific, and religious... -
An Anti-Communist on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of a Russian Officer in the Spanish Blue Division 1941-1942 by Vladimir Kovalevski
RRP: €29.75€20.97Vladimir Kovalevskii's memoirs record in graphic detail a remarkable military career. As a soldier, a committed anti-communist and Russian patriot he saw from the inside a series of conflicts that ravaged Europe in the first half of the twentieth century... -
Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot by Peter Brimacombe
RRP: €7.14€5.28Branded one of the greatest villains of all time, the name Guy Fawkes is synonymous with a spectacular crime that never was - the Gunpowder Plot. But who was this young man, caught up in a world of intrigue, treachery, betrayal, spies, double agents and... -
A People's History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude
RRP: €20.22€13.73On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle... -
The Guide to Mysterious Aberdeen by Geoff Holder 9780752456591
RRP: €17.84€13.74Aberdeen is full of mysteries, marvels and strangeness, and this book is a comprehensive guide to them all. Here you will encounter magic, witchcraft, folklore and superstitions; contemporary urban legends; gargoyles and graveyards; graverobbers and... -
Boat Trains - The English Channel and Ocean Liner Specials: History, Development and Operation by Martyn Pring 9781526761927
RRP: €41.65€28.91In many ways this title featuring the evolution of cross-channel boat trains and the many dedicated services responsible for moving international passengers to and from trans-Atlantic steamers, is an extension of luxury railway travel. But that's not the... -
Hilda of Whitby: A spirituality for now by Ray Simpson
€11.26In the dark and turbulent centuries after the Roman occupation of Britain, and during the Anglo-Saxon colonisation, the light of heaven still shone through the work and witness of the monastic communities, 'villages of God', which dotted the land. One of... -
Salvation and Catastrophe: The Greek-Turkish War, 1919-1922 by Konstantinos Travlos 9781498585095
RRP: €45.22€40.35The Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1923-also known as the Western Front of the Turkish War of Liberation and the Asia Minor Campaign-was one of the key aftershocks of the First World War. Internationally better known for its aftermath, the Compulsory... -
The Story of English by Robert McCrum
RRP: €17.84€11.66The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined to a handful of savage tribes on the shores of north-west Europe; today, in one form or another, it is... -
Foucault, Crime and Power: Problematisations of Crime in the Twentieth Century by Christian Borch
RRP: €59.49€51.77This book presents a Foucauldian problematisation analysis of crime, with a particular focus on the twentieth century. It considers how crime has been conceived as problem and, by scrutinising the responses that have been adapted to deal with crime,... -
The Nazis' Flight from Justice: How Hitler's Followers Attempted to Vanish Without Trace by Richard Dargie 9781789509861
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789509861Author Richard DargieFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Elizabeth I CEO: Strategic Lessons from the Leader Who Built an Empire by Alan Axelrod 9780735203570
€17.24Few leadership titles have been written on the lives of women. Alan Axelrod, noted historian and business management expert, reveals how Elizabeth I overcame daunting obstacles to win intense loyalty and lead England to greatness. The queen's long reign... -
The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages by Terence Scully 9780851154305
RRP: €29.74€20.96The master cook who worked in the noble kitchens of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had to be both practical and knowledgeable. His apprenticeship acquainted him with a range of culinary skills and a wide repertoire of seasonal dishes, but he was... -
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer by Christopher S. Celenza
RRP: €17.79€12.99Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspired the Humanist movement and, subsequently, the Renaissance, but few figures are as complex or as... -
Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman
RRP: €26.18€20.66How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes... -
Haunted Surrey by Ruper Matthews 9780752456348
RRP: €15.46€11.45From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena to first-hand encounters with spectres and spirits, this collection of stories contains new and well-known spooky tales from around the county of Surrey... -
The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred by Susan Irvine
RRP: €35.64€28.16The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy. Condemned to death for treason around 525 ce, the Roman scholar Boethius turned to philosophy to transform... -
Witnesses Of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt
RRP: €22.60€16.20Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. Children were often the victims in this most terrible of European conflicts, falling prey to bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies, mass... -
Tracing Your Trade and Craftsmen Ancestors by Adele Emm 9781473823624
RRP: €17.84€13.03Almost all of us have a tradesman or craftsman - a butcher, baker or candlestick maker - somewhere in our ancestry, and Adele Emm's handbook is the perfect guide to finding out about them - about their lives, their work and the world they lived in. She... -
Medieval Warfare: A Reader by Kelly Robert DeVries 9781442636699
RRP: €47.60€38.58Medieval Warfare: A Reader examines how armed conflict was experienced in the Middle Ages both on the field of battle and at home. This comprehensive collection of more than 130 primary-source materials-some translated here for the first time-traces over... -
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing
RRP: €29.74€18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063143432Author Michael MassingFormat PaperbackPage Count 1008Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 226mm... -
Avignon and Its Papacy, 1309-1417: Popes, Institutions, and Society by Joelle Rollo-Koster 9780810894990
RRP: €35.70€33.34With the arrival of Clement V in 1309, seven popes ruled the Western Church from Avignon until 1378. Joelle Rollo-Koster traces the compelling story of the transplanted papacy in Avignon, the city the popes transformed into their capital. Through an... -
!Brigadistas!: An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War by Miguel Ferguson
RRP: €15.46€13.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679609Author Miguel FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 165g -
Exploring Northumberland History: 2021 by Philip Nixon
€22.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916237605Author Philip NixonFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesWeight(grams) 1200gDimensions(mm)... -
Britain's Cold War Bombers by Tim McLelland 9781781555347
RRP: €22.60€16.67Britain's Cold War Bombers explores the creation and development of the jet bomber, tracing the emergence of the first jet designs (the Valiant and Vulcan) through to the first-generation jets which entered service with the RAF and Fleet Air Arm. Each... -
Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex and the Crisis of Belief by Walter Stephens 9780226772622
RRP: €33.32€33.07On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmannin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of "maleficia" (deeds of harmful magic), including killing 41 infants and two mothers in... -
Alfred the Great by David Horspool
RRP: €13.08€8.63The discovery earlier this year in Winchester of human remains, almost certainly of Alfred the Great or his eldest son, has sparked renewed interest in England's most celebrated monarch. King Alfred's historical achievements, saving his kingdom from... -
Police Stories: Building the French State, 1815-1851 by John Merriman 9780195072532
RRP: €113.05€95.58In the first half of nineteenth century France was characterized by extraordinary regional and linguistic diversity but the state increasingly became a central force in the lives of its citizens. One way that it did so was through its police force,... -
Fallschirm-Panzer-Division 'Hermann G ring : A History of the Luftwaffe's Only Armoured Division, 1933-1945 by Paterson, Lawrence 9781784386108
RRP: €29.75€21.44In the early years of the Third Reich, Hermann Goring, one of the most notorious leaders of the Third Reich, worked to establish his own personal army to rival Himmler's SS and Reichswehr. The result: a private Prussian police force which grew into one... -
Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London by Midge Gillies
RRP: €29.75€19.97There'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... -
The Hidden Mod in Modern Art: London, 1957-1969 by Thomas Crow
RRP: €29.75€25.37An investigation of the outsized influence of the Mod subculture on key figures of the 1960s London art scene Bonding over matters of taste and style, the 'Mods' of late 1950s London recognised in one another shared affinities for Italian-style suits,... -
British Battlecruisers 1939-45 by Angus Konstam
RRP: €15.46€13.10When war broke out in 1939, only three true battlecruisers remained in the Royal Navy including HMS 'Hood', the world's largest and fastest capital ship for much of her life, which would be destroyed in action against the German battleship 'Bismarck'... -
The Murder of Dr Muldoon: A Suspect Priest, A Widow's Fight for Justice by Ken Boyle
€16.99A priest and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin's north inner city in February 1923. Three local women notice the couple's suspicious behaviour and apprehend them. The two are handed over to the... -
Haunted Plymouth by Kevin Hynes 9780752452326
RRP: €17.84€14.10From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of spooky sightings from around the city of Plymouth is guaranteed to make your blood run cold... -
Francis of Assisi: The Life by Augustine Thompson
RRP: €14.27€13.02This elegant and accessible biography of one of Catholicism's most beloved saints was originally published as Part 1 of Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson, O.P. It stands alone as a richly informed portrait of a man whose complex... -
Mountain Republic: A Lake District Parish - Eighteen Men, The Lake Poets and the National Trust by Philippa Harrison
RRP: €14.28€10.04An affectionate but meticulously researched history of one of the most beautiful and best-loved corners of England - Crosthwaite Parish, nestling deep within the mountains and valleys of the Lake District. 'A unique contribution to English history'... -
Blood on the Altar by Tobias Jones
RRP: €13.08€8.71One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the... -
Building Greater Britain: Architecture, Imperialism, and the Edwardian Baroque Revival, 1885 - 1920 by G. A. Bremner
RRP: €59.50€49.56This innovative study reappraises the Edwardian Baroque movement in British architecture, placing it in its wider cultural, political, and imperial contexts The Edwardian Baroque was the closest British architecture ever came to achieving an "imperial"... -
The Story of Bath by Cathryn Spence
RRP: €23.79€18.35This richly illustrated history explores the many challenges and triumphs faced by one of Britain's most fascinating cities. The Story of Bath charts the long history of this important city from its beginnings in the Roman period through to the present... -
Boldness Be My Friend by Richard Pape
RRP: €13.08€8.81'"Escape... escape... escape... by God!"' was his constant exhortation. "Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home."'Shot down over Berlin in 1941,...