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The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies by Donald Bloxham 9780199677917
$68.25Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent years,... -
The Women's Movement: A Little Welsh History by Daryl Leeworthy 9781786838544
RRP: $23.38$17.55This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women's movement in modern Wales. Its panoramic sweep takes the reader on a journey from the nineteenth-century campaigns in support of democracy and the right to vote, and in opposition to... -
The Rise and Fall of the Orange Order during the Famine by Daragh Curran
RRP: $126.75$87.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828645Author Daragh CurranFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The Letters of John McGahern by Frank Shovlin 9780571387410
RRP: $33.13$24.53'Magnificent.' Irish Times'Much to savour.' The Times'An event in Irish culture.' TLSThe collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.'... -
The Germans by Gordon A. Craig 9780452010857
$28.12They have given mankind unique triumphs in science, literature, philosophy, music, and art. They have also produced Hitler and the Holocaust. They are romantic and conservative, idealistic and practical, proud and insecure, ruthless and good-natured... -
Hertfordshire: A Landscape History by Anne Rowe
RRP: $37.03$33.89Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions-the "champion" countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming London Clay in the south-this volume explains how, in the... -
Thomas Telford: Master Builder of Roads and Canals by Anthony Burton
RRP: $29.23$21.35Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The Colossus of Roads. He was responsible for some of the... -
The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain by Lynda Nead
RRP: $68.25$60.78Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, The Tiger in the Smoke provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Britain... -
Ali Pasha, Lion of Ioannina: The Remarkable Life of the Balkan Napoleon' by Eugenia Russell 9781473877207
RRP: $48.75$35.14At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the life of a petty tyrant in an obscure corner of the Ottoman Empire became the stuff of legend. What propelled this cold-blooded archetype of Oriental despotism, grandly known as the Lion of Ioannina and the... -
South Tyrol: A Minority Conflict of the Twentieth Century by Rolf Steininger
RRP: $85.78$77.22South Tyrol, a region in the heart of the Alps about half the size of Connecticut, brings into sharp focus an important part of twentieth-century history. Tyrol, a province that had been part of Austria for over 500 years and was almost totally... -
Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace by John D. Hosler
RRP: $48.75$40.79The first full account of the medieval struggle for Jerusalem, from the seventh to the thirteenth century The history of Jerusalem is one of conflict, faith, and empire. Few cities have been attacked as often and as savagely. This was no less true in the... -
Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past by Omer Bartov
RRP: $39.00$33.89The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II "A powerful combination of history and personal memoir. . . . A richly contextual, skillfully woven historical study."-Kirkus Reviews (starred... -
The Invisible Shining: The Cult of Matyas Rakosi in Stalinist Hungary, 19451956 by Balazs Apor
RRP: $175.50$161.89This book offers a detailed analysis of the construction, reception, and eventual decline of the cult of the Hungarian Communist Party Secretary, Matyas Rakosi, one of the most striking examples of orchestrated adulation in the Soviet bloc. While his... -
Domesday People - A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166 I - Domesday Book by K. S. B. Keats-Rohan 9780851157221
RRP: $243.75$176.05A major genealogical advance: the first authoritative and complete biographical register of persons occurring in Domesday Book. This is the first of two volumes offering for the first time an authoritative and complete prosopography of post-Conquest... -
The Flying Sikh: The Story of a WW1 Fighter Pilot Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik by Barker, Stephen 9781399083294
RRP: $48.75$34.36The Flying Sikh tells the unique story of the only Sikh airman to fly with the RFC and the RAF during the First World War. It is the remarkable account of one man's struggle to enlist, against discrimination, and then his service as a fighter pilot over... -
A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by David Snape
RRP: $58.40$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113696Author David SnapeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe by Deborah Cadbury 9781541768024
RRP: $37.03$24.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541768024Author Deborah CadburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm *... -
Venice: A New History by Thomas F. Madden
RRP: $40.95$25.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147509802Author Thomas F. MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 213mm... -
Owain Glyndwr by Glanmor Williams 9780708319413
RRP: $5.83$5.25Offers a brief, attractively written account of Owain Glyndwr (1359-1415) and his Rebellion (1400-1415), one of the most exciting and romantic episodes in the history of Wales.About the AuthorSir Glanmor Williams was the author of many books and articles... -
Fergie Confidential: The Duchess of York's True Story by Chris Hutchins 9780993445705
$31.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993445705Author Chris HutchinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Neville Ness House LtdPublisher Neville Ness House Ltd -
Britain's Glorious Aircraft Industry: 100 Years of Success, Setback and Change by J Paul Hodgson
RRP: $58.50$40.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Around Ramsbottom: Britain In Old Photographs by Ramsbottom Heritage Society 9780752403564
RRP: $29.23$22.52THIS fascinating collection of around 200 old photographs of Ramsbottom and the surrounding villages has been drawn from the extensive archives of the Ramsbottom Heritage Society. The book shows the town through a century of change. Although many of the... -
Britain's Railways in the Second World War by Michael Foley 9781526772282
RRP: $48.75$34.36The outbreak of the Second World War had an enormous effect on the railway system in Britain. Keeping the trains running through times of conflict was not such a distant memory for the railway companies and their workers but in this second major war of... -
Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City by Tristram Hunt
RRP: $33.13$23.95'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies... -
The Whispers of War by Julia Kelly 9781409189473
RRP: $17.53$12.09August, 1939, Britain watches the headlines in fear of another devastating war with Germany and three women must choose between friendship or country. Socialite Nora is determined to find her place in the Home Office's Air Raid Precautions Department,... -
The Dissolution of the Monasteries by Joyce Youings 9781032038506
RRP: $56.53$48.93Originally published in 1971 this book begins with the assumption that the Dissolution of the Monasteries was neither an integral nor an essential part of the English reformation. This book pursues the story chronologically and thus helps students... -
Gilbert Szlumper and Leo Amery of the Southern Railway: The Diaries of a General Manager and a Director by John King 9781473835276
RRP: $48.75$21.80Very few diaries of directors and senior managers of the Big Four railways have survived to enter the public domain. There are, however, two notable Southern Railway diarists whose records have been available in archives for some years, but have been... -
Wittgenstein's Vienna by Allan Janik
RRP: $29.23$22.48This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de siecle gaiety and corrosive melancholy)... -
Marriage and Love in England, 1300 - 1840: Modes of Reproduction by Alan MacFarlane 9780631154389
RRP: $42.80$38.45Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 is a history of the intimate lives and aspirations of the English people from medieval to modern times. It is scholarly, provocative, and highly readable. Explores why people married, at what... -
Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England by C. Fox 9780230617049
RRP: $87.73$87.69Elizabethan English culture is saturated with tales and figures from Ovid s Metamorphoses. While most of these narratives interrogate metamorphosis and transformation, many tales - such as those of Philomela, Hecuba, or Orpheus - also highlight... -
Country House Life: A century in photographs by Elizabeth Drury
RRP: $29.23$19.70A collection of over 250 photographs sourced from the archives of the National Trust's historic properties depicting life in Britain's country homes and estates. An intriguing look at the life that was led in the country homes and estates now... -
Cheltenham: A New History by Anthea Jones
$9.85Cheltenham is well known as the most complete Regency town in Britain. It boasts a wonderful ensemble of broad streets, handsome terraces and sweeping crescents, as well as a remarkable number of generously proportioned squares and gardens. Grand... -
The Evolution of Scotland's Towns: Creation, Growth and Fragmentation by Pat Dennison 9781474432979
RRP: $60.45$50.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474432979Author Patricia DennisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Inside the Tudor Home: Daily Life in the Sixteenth Century by Bethan Watts 9781399089272
$51.73Power. Politics. Prosperity. Plague. Tudor England; a country replete with sprawling landscapes, dense forests and twisting urban labyrinths. This is a place of stagnation and of progress; of glorious cultural revolution, where the wheel of fortune is... -
RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War: Thinking the Unthinkable by Nigel Walpole
RRP: $38.98$27.85RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic Republic by a small Anglo/German team of military specialists. Their purpose was to explore the lives of RAF... -
The End of Empire: Cyprus: A Soldier's Story by Martin Bell 9781473848184
RRP: $48.75$34.36Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered the letters he had written home during the... -
An Alternative History of Britain: The English Civil War by Timothy Venning 9781473827820
RRP: $38.98$13.49With hindsight, the victory of Parliamentarian forces over the Royalists in the English Civil War may seem inevitable but this outcome was not a foregone conclusion. Timothy Venning explores many of the turning points and discusses how they might so... -
The Somme Also Including the Coward by Arthur Donald Gristwood 9781612003801
RRP: $17.53$12.58'The million British dead have left no books behind. What they felt as they died hour by hour in the mud, or were choked horribly with gas, or relinquished their reluctant lives on stretchers, no witness tells. But here is a book that almost tells it....... -
Pompeii by Alex Butterworth 9780753820766
$29.00A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life.This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beginning with the earthquake which all but destroyed Pompeii and ending with the volcanic eruption... -
Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's Unwanted Wife by Sarah-Beth Watkins
RRP: $21.43$18.27Anne of Cleves left her homeland in 1539 to marry the king of England. She was not brought up to be a queen, yet out of many possible choices she was the bride Henry VIII chose as his fourth wife. But, from their first meeting the king decided he liked...