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Country House Life: A century in photographs by Elizabeth Drury
RRP: €17.84€12.02A 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... -
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery
RRP: €53.55€42.03Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays... -
The Battle of Quatre Bras 1815 by Mike Robinson 9780752457604
RRP: €41.65€32.39Major Richard Llewellyn, who fought at Quatre Bras, wrote in 1837 that, 'Had it not been so closely followed by the... victory of Waterloo, perhaps the gallant exploits and unexampled bravery that marked that day would... have excited even more... -
Cheltenham: A New History by Anthea Jones
€6.01Cheltenham 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 Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal 9780226728124
RRP: €29.75€28.96The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the "cortigiana onesta" - the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered... -
The Evolution of Scotland's Towns: Creation, Growth and Fragmentation by Pat Dennison 9781474432979
RRP: €36.89€31.00Apologies 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
€31.57Power. 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: €23.79€16.99RAF 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: €29.75€20.97Martin 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: €23.79€8.23With 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: €10.70€7.68'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
€17.70A 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: €13.08€11.15Anne 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... -
Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth by Dennis Marks
RRP: €14.28€11.57In this revealing 'psycho-geography', Dennis Marks makes a journey through the eastern borderlands of Europe to learn about the elusive writer Joseph Roth and the world in which he lived. The result is a riveting and involving documentary that reunites... -
Memoirs of a Bush War Operator: Further Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond by A.J. Balaam 9781913118587
RRP: €20.17€14.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118587Author A.J. BalaamFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Edward J. Watts
RRP: €31.52€27.12As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200... -
Relics of the Reich: The Buildings The Nazis Left Behind by Colin Philpott
RRP: €17.84€13.03Relics of the Reich is the story of what happened to the buildings the Nazis left behind. Hitler's Reich may have been defeated in 1945 but many buildings, military installations and other sites remained. At the end of the War, some were obliterated by... -
Victoire: A True Story of Espionage, Resistance and Survival in World War Two by Roland Philipps
RRP: €13.08€9.25'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.Occupied Paris,... -
Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt
RRP: €19.03€13.82Originally published in weekly instalments, Nine Suitcases is the Hungarian writer Bela Zsolt's harrowing memoir of his experiences in the ghetto of Nagyvarad and as a forced labourer in the Ukraine. Written with exceptional freshness and a devastating... -
Palermo, City of Kings: The Heart of Sicily by Jeremy Dummett
€52.51Palermo - the capital of Sicily - is a destination with a difference. The city is a treasure trove of original monuments and works of art, combined with architecture of grand proportions. Yet it also has a grittier side, shown by the continuing influence... -
Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
RRP: €20.22€14.61Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey... -
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds - The Loch Ness Mystery: Band 06/Orange by Sarah Rice
RRP: €7.44€6.85Discover the mystery of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster - from its origins and sightings to the latest scientific research - in this non-fiction report. Discover the mystery of Scotland's Loch Ness Monster - from its origins and sightings to the... -
Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands by Omer Bartov
RRP: €34.50€30.18Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires... -
Religion and the People of Western Europe 1789-1990 by Hugh McLeod 9780192892836
€53.26From the end of the eighteenth century, throughout western Europe, the official clergy, champions of privilege and tradition, were challenged by religious dissenters and minorities. Chapel confronted church in Britain and Scandinavia; Catholics struggled... -
Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume II: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806 by Joachim Whaley 9780199688838
RRP: €66.64€53.40Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806. Over two volumes, Joachim Whaley rejects the notion that... -
Haunted Rotherham by Richard Bramall 9780752461175
RRP: €17.84€13.74This fascinating book contains a terrifying collection of true-life tales from in and around Rotherham. Featuring stories such as the Lunatic of Ulley Reservoir and the Old Hag of Hellaby Hall, this pulse-raising compilation of unexplained phenomena,... -
Sunderland at War 1939-45 by Craig Armstrong 9781473891258
RRP: €17.84€13.03Sunderland was a key shipbuilding and repair facility with a long history of providing vessels for the British Merchant Navy. As well as its shipbuilding industry, the town also possessed other important industries such as paint manufacturing and... -
Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece by Devin E. Naar 9781503600089
RRP: €26.17€22.79Touted as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans," the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912... -
Empire and Emancipation: Scottish and Irish Catholics at the Atlantic Fringe, 1780-1850 by S. Karly Kehoe 9781487541088
RRP: €27.36€22.84Empire and Emancipation explores how the agency of Scottish and Irish Catholics redefined understandings of Britishness and British imperial identity in colonial landscapes. In highlighting the relationship of Scottish and Irish Catholics with the... -
The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George's Life by Ffion Hague 9780007219506
RRP: €15.46€11.54'Men's lives are a perpetual conflict. The life that I have mapped out will be so especially - as lawyer and politician. Woman's function is to pour oil on the wounds - to heal the bruises of spirit...and to stimulate to renewed exertion.' ... -
East Belfast: Ireland in Old Photographs by Keith Haines 9781845887780
RRP: €20.22€15.40Local history of East Belfast.Book InformationISBN 9781845887780Author Keith HainesFormat PaperbackImprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Bridport and West Bay: The buildings of the flax and hemp industry by Mike Williams 9781873592861
RRP: €20.22€18.61Bridport is an industrial market town on the west Dorset coast which has played a pivotal role in the region's hemp and flax industry for over 700 years. The industrial heritage of this town is not widely known outside the area and very little has been... -
Casanova by Ian Kelly
RRP: €15.46€10.23Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording... -
The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters by Christian Ingrao
RRP: €13.08€11.21The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the... -
Dialogue on the Infinity of Love by Tullia D'Aragona 9780226136394
RRP: €24.99€24.17First published in Venice in 1547, this work casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love. Tullia d'Aragona argued that the only moral form of love between a woman and a man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the... -
The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook, 315-1791 by Jacob R. Marcus
RRP: €29.75€28.17To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their contemporaries. First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which... -
The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Peter De Bolla
RRP: €29.74€25.79The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects two competing descriptions of the viewer or... -
Tudor Textiles by Eleri Lynn
RRP: €32.73€27.24A detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion, and taste At the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony. Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were... -
The 2000s: Britain in Pictures by PA Photos 9781906672577
RRP: €17.84€12.14This title offers a beautifully produced tribute to the 2000s, featuring images straight from the archives of the "Press Association". This illuminating collection offers fascinating images that depict both major historical events and smaller, but no... -
The Russian Revolution, 1917 by Rex A. Wade
RRP: €30.93€26.17Rex A. Wade presents an essential overview of the Russian Revolution from its beginning in February 1917, through the numerous political crises under Kerensky, to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. This thoroughly revised...