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The Temple Church in London - History, Architecture, Art by David Park
RRP: €29.74€25.35First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation in the twelfth century to the Second World War. Founded as the main church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in London, the Temple Church is historically and... -
A Champion Cyclist Against the Nazis: The Incredible Life of Gino Bartali by Alberto Toscano 9781526753397
RRP: €23.79€16.99Italy, 1943/. Although allied with Hitler, there were those who refused to accept the fascist policies of racial discrimination and deportation. Among them was Gino Bartali. A champion cyclist, he won the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) three times and... -
Vernon Subutex Two by Virginie Despentes
RRP: €11.89€7.09**Sunday Times Best Books of 2018**"Funny, irreverent and scathing" Guardian"Virginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot" ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Could Have a Body Like MineRock star Alexandre Bleach might be dead, but he... -
Agincourt: My Family, the Battle and the Fight for France by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: €17.84€3.4625 October 2015 was the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt - a hugely resonant event in English (and French) history. Sir Ranulph Fiennes casts new light on this epic event, revealing that three of his own ancestors fought in the battle for... -
A History of Modern Europe by John Merriman 9780393667363
€64.86Students and instructors alike praise A History of Modern Europe for its authoritative coverage from the Renaissance to the present day. Written in Merriman's signature narrative style, the book is brightened with humour and biographical sketches. The... -
The Wars of the Roses by John Ashdown-Hill
RRP: €15.46€10.09The Wars of the Roses call to mind bloody battles, treachery and deceit, and a cast of characters known to us through fact and fiction: Edward IV, Elizabeth Woodville, Richard III, Warwick the Kingmaker, the Princes in the Tower, Henry Tudor. But the... -
All Things Georgian: Tales from the Long Eighteenth Century by Joanne Major 9781526744616
RRP: €29.75€26.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Politics of Memory: The Journey of a Holocaust Historian by Raul Hilberg 9781566634281
RRP: €14.27€10.61This is the poignant memoir of a man who has spent most of his lifetime immersed in the evidence of one of the great horrors in human history. It is both a record of how it affected him and a revelation of the surprising ways in which his monumental work... -
The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Witold Pilecki 9781607720102
RRP: €35.70€24.13In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was happening inside the recently opened Auschwitz concentration camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and reported from inside the camp. His intelligence... -
This is the BBC: Entertaining the Nation, Speaking for Britain, 1922-2022 by Simon J. Potter 9780192898524
RRP: €27.95€24.24In the hundredth year of the British Broadcasting Corporation, historian Simon J. Potter looks back over the hundred year history, asking if the BBC is really the 'voice of Britain', and what comes next for British public broadcasting. 2022 marks the... -
Islam and Nazi Germany's War by David Motadel
RRP: €26.12€21.44Winner of the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, Wiener Holocaust LibraryAn Open Letters Monthly Best History Book of the YearA New York Post "Must-Read"In the most crucial phase of the Second World War, German troops confronted the Allies across lands largely... -
Waffen-SS in Normandy, 1944: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781399091411
RRP: €17.84€13.03In June 1944, Operation OVERLORD, the greatest ever amphibious invasion, initially overwhelmed German Normandy defences. To attempt to stabilise the situation, Hitler deployed his elite Waffen-SS divisions to avert the crisis. This classic Images of War... -
Tiger Battalion 507: Eyewitness Accounts from Hitler's Regiment by Helmut Schneider 9781784384968
RRP: €29.75€21.44_ May the army of millions of dead of all nations bear witness to humanity for the hope that future generations may learn to discard war as the best way to resolve their differences.'_ Helmut Schneider This is the little-known story of Heavy Panzer... -
Knoydart: A History by Denis Rixson
RRP: €13.08€9.09Knoydart - the northern edge of the 'Rough Bounds' is one of the most evocative names in Scotland. This text offers a history of Knoydart from the earliest times to the present day. A remote and desolate peninsula, its name derives from Viking settlers... -
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit by James Hawes
RRP: €18.98€14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615198146Author James HawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint ExperimentPublisher ExperimentWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 23mm -
Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500-700 by Peter Sarris 9780199675357
RRP: €44.02€31.93Drawing upon the latest historical and archaeological research, Dr Peter Sarris provides a panoramic account of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East from the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam. The formation of a new social and... -
The Hungry and the Fat: A bold new satire by the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK by Timur Vermes
RRP: €10.70€7.38By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times."Whizz-bang energy and gleeful imaginative savagery" Sam Leith, Guardian"More than mere satire, it's a book that engages deeply" Alex Preston, Financial Times"An immensely... -
The 2nd Ss Panzer Division Das Reich by Yves Buffetaut 9781612005256
RRP: €23.79€16.99The 2nd SS Division, "Das Reich," was a battlefront mainstay for Nazi Germany throughout WWII-from the invasion of Poland in 1939 to the final surrender in May 1945. In between it was switched back-and-forth between east and west depending on the crisis,... -
Garden Cities by Sarah Rutherford
RRP: €10.70€8.28Garden Cities: the phrase is redolent of Arts and Crafts values and nineteenth-century utopianism. But despite being the culmination of a range of influential movements, and their own influence, in fact there were only ever two true garden cities in... -
Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century - The Art of Sailing Warfare by Sam Willis 9781843833673
RRP: €59.50€50.04Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair. Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea... -
The Land of Boudica: Prehistoric and Roman Norfolk by John Davies 9781905223336
RRP: €23.74€22.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905223336Author John DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Heritage Marketing & Publications LtdPublisher Heritage Marketing & Publications Ltd -
A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500 - c.1100 by Pauline Stafford
RRP: €46.35€41.17Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries. A collaborative history from... -
Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe by Robert Chazan 9780521763042
RRP: €89.25€62.82This book re-evaluates the prevailing notion that Jews in medieval Christian Europe lived under an appalling regime of ecclesiastical limitation, governmental exploitation and expropriation, and unceasing popular violence. Robert Chazan argues that,... -
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone
RRP: €11.89€8.46Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection. Soon after, an... -
Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition, c.900-1200 by Scott G. Bruce 9780521123938
RRP: €36.88€28.32Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism explores the rationales for religious silence in early medieval abbeys and the use of nonverbal forms of communication among monks when rules of silence forbade them from speaking. After examining the... -
The Greco-Persian Wars by Peter Green
RRP: €32.13€25.06This is a reissue, with a new introduction and an update to the bibliography, of the original edition, published in 1970 as The Year of Salamis in England and as Xerxes at Salamis in the U.S. The long and bitter struggle between the great Persian Empire... -
The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 by Jens Gieseke
RRP: €28.50€23.19The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had... -
The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin by Michael Kenny 9780853157977
RRP: €20.23€19.65In the late 1950s Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, among others, came together as part of a promising new political formulation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... -
RAF and the SOE: Special Duty Operations in Europe During World War II by Grehan, John 9781399019781
RRP: €19.03€13.82The Special Operations Executive developed a vast network of agents across Occupied Europe which played a vital role in developing and sustaining Resistance movements that persistently sought to subvert German control of their territories. The... -
Stockport by Morris Garratt 9780752411286
RRP: €17.84€13.74This fascinating collection of over 200 photographs and illustrations comes from a wide variety of sources, both public and private, and many of them have never been previously published. This volume covers Stockport town centre, Vernon Park, Portwood... -
Danebury Hillfort by Barry Cunliffe 9780752429106
RRP: €23.80€18.37An extremely well-preserved example of an Iron Age hillfort, Danebury is typical of many in Wessex but made exceptional by being the most thoroughly excavated and explored hillfort in the whole of Europe. Barry Cunliffe recreates the hillfort's past... -
The Railway that Helped win the Crimean War: The Story of the Grand Crimean Central Railway by Dawson, Anthony 9781526775559
RRP: €29.75€20.97Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers' supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track... -
A Scot's Grey at Waterloo: The Remarkable Story of Sergeant William Clarke by Gareth Glover 9781473894013
RRP: €29.75€20.97William Clarke of Prestonpans, Scotland, joined the 2nd Royal North British Dragoons, the Scots Greys, in 1803/. Clarke had risen to the rank of sergeant by the time the regiment was ordered to Belgium on the news that Napoleon had escaped from Elba... -
Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war England by Jon Lawrence
RRP: €37.47€26.58Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consume. But are they wrong? In Me, Me, Me, Jon Lawrence re-tells the story of England since the Second World War through... -
Diary of a Foreigner in Paris by Curzio Malaparte
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374161Author Curzio MalaparteFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Puritan Rule Under Cromwell by Jane Hayter-Hames 9781398113534
RRP: €27.36€18.54The execution of Charles I left the Puritans free to rule England and put their beliefs into practice. Once Oliver Cromwell conquered Ireland, they began a process of radical change there, confiscating land, awarding it to British Protestants and... -
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age by Robert C. Davis
RRP: €13.08€8.81Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable lives from between 1400 and 1600. They bring to life wily politicians, eccentric scientists, fiery rebels and stolid... -
D-Day To Berlin by Andrew Williams
RRP: €13.08€8.81Nightfall, 6 June 1944. D-Day is over and the Allies have carved a tenuous foothold in 'Fortress Europe'. The future of Europe hangs in the balance as Hitler's formidable SS Panzer troops threaten to drive them back into the sea. D-DAY TO BERLIN is the... -
No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers by Katharine Quarmby 9781851689491
RRP: €17.84€13.03They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to make a better, safer life. They found places to... -
Around Whitby by Des Sythes 9780752410258
RRP: €17.84€13.74Whitby, for its size, must be one of the best visually documented towns in Britain. It has attracted over the years painters, printmakers and, since the middle of the nineteenth century, many well known photographers.This collection of 200 old...