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Their Name Liveth for Evermore: Carshalton's First World War Roll of Honour by Andrew Arnold 9780752489919
RRP: €17.84€13.74Carshalton in Surrey was deeply affected by the First World War: over 1,900 local men enlisted to fight. Of those men, 243 lost their lives and are commemorated on the war memorial. As we find ourselves commemorating the centenary of the war, it is more... -
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and around Frome by David Lassman 9781526706041
RRP: €15.46€10.82The Somerset town of Frome might top national polls as a great place to live and enjoy a reputation as the epitome of cool, with Hollywood A-listers regularly spotted on its street and global rock-stars playing its venues, but the place hasn't always... -
Armies of the Italian Wars of Unification 1848-70 (2) by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: €14.27€10.03In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers such as Garibaldi, an... -
Sten: The Legendary World War II British Submachine Gun by Luc Guillou
RRP: €27.36€23.49The legendary British, World War II STEN submachine gun is featured in this concise, illustrated book. Famous for its use by British elite forces, as well as the French underground during WWII, variants of the STEN were manufactured and used by many... -
Shipping on the Thames and the Port of London During the 1940s 1980s: A Pictorial History by Batten, Malcolm 9781399018401
RRP: €35.70€24.93During the 1970s and 1980s the Port of London, and shipping on the River Thames was in a state of transition. New methods of cargo handling, in particular the introduction of containers and Roll-on, Roll-off vehicle ferries called for new investment and... -
Gin by Moses Jenkins
RRP: €10.70€8.18Gin is a drink deeply rooted in British culture. From 'Dutch Courage' to 'Gin Soaked', our language is full of expressions which reflect our gin drinking heritage. In the early eighteenth century, Britain was gripped by the Gin Craze, when the drink was... -
Bader's Spitfire Wing: Tangmere 1941 by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: €29.75€20.97On 30 August 1940, at the height of the Battle of Britain, the pilots of RAF Fighter Command's No.12 Group were requested to reinforce 11 Group and intercept a Luftwaffe raid on an aircraft factory at Hatfield. The events that day led the swashbuckling,... -
Blair Inc.: The Money, The Power, The Scandals by David Hencke 9781784189983
€11.41Since leaving office in 2007, the empire of Tony Blair has grown exponentially. As a businessman he has been unprecedentedly successful for a former public servant, with a large property portfolio and an estimated GBP80 million of earnings accrued in... -
Race and Riots in Thatcher's Britain by Simon Peplow 9781526151681
RRP: €29.75€25.93This powerful and original book locates the anti-police violence that spread across England in 1980-1 within a longer struggle against racism and disadvantage faced by black Britons, which had seen a growth in more militant forms of resistance since the... -
The Little Book of Cambridgeshire by Caroline Clifford
RRP: €11.89€8.98The Little Book of Cambridgeshire is a compendium full of information which will make you say, 'I never knew that!' Contained within is a plethora of entertaining stories about the county and its famous - and occasionally infamous - men and women, its... -
The Angry Brigade: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN'S FIRST URBAN GUERILLA GROUP by Gordon Carr
RRP: €28.55€18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860498Author Gordon CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 259Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 391g -
When the Hangman Came to Galway: A Gruesome True Story of Murder in Victorian Ireland by Dean Ruxton 9780717180851
RRP: €20.22€14.61The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover and a reluctant hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885 James Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the lives of over 100 criminals in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Tortured by... -
The Lives of Thomas Becket by Michael Staunton
RRP: €23.79€21.21This collection tells the story of Thomas Becket's turbulent life, violent death and extraordinary posthumous acclaim in the words of his contemporaries. The only modern collection from the twelfth-century Lives of Thomas Becket in English and features... -
Communicating with the Spirits: Christian Demonology and Popular Mythology: Vol. 1: Demons, Spirits and Witches Vol. 1 by Eva Pocs 9789637326134
RRP: €86.87€80.53Focuses on the problem of communication with the other world: the phenomenon of spirit possession and its changing historical interpretations, the imaginary schemes elaborated for giving accounts of the journeys to the other world, for communicating with... -
The Norns in Old Norse Mythology by Karen Bek-Pedersen
RRP: €47.60€42.92The nornir or norns were a group of female supernatural beings closely related to ideas about fate in Old Norse tradition. Karen Bek-Pedersen provides a thorough understanding of the role played by norns and other beings like them in the relevant sources... -
Fascist Italy by John Whittam
RRP: €23.79€21.21Fascist Italy is a concise introduction to the phenomenon of Italian fascism and its impact. The author balances an up-to-date re-evaluation of political, diplomatic and military developments with a full assessment of the more neglected domestic and... -
The Arab Rediscovery of Europe: A Study in Cultural Encounters by Ibrahim Abu Lughod 9780863564031
RRP: €17.84€11.66Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 suddenly exposed the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire to a Europe vastly different from the one known to the Arabs of the Middle Ages. At the start of the nineteenth century, Arabs were totally unprepared for the... -
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: €33.32€28.55At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan... -
The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook by Jonathon Shears
RRP: €23.79€21.21The Great Exhibition, 1851 is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary... -
Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars by Jean Markale 9780892810901
RRP: €19.03€12.47On March 16, 1244, over 200 Cathars were captured in their fortress stronghold of Montsegur and were burned alive by troops of the Inquisition. While some Cathar enclaves survived into the next century, this was the death blow to a religion that had been... -
History in Progress: Pupil Book 1 (1066-1603) by Rosemary Rees
€32.45This book can inspire every pupil to succeed in History at Key Stage 3. "History in Progress" features clearly differentiated tasks that are designed to support and encourage well-structured progression in readers of all ability levels, promoting... -
The Sweating Sickness Epidemic: Henry VIII's Great Fear by Stephen Porter 9781399064286
RRP: €23.80€17.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780872207547
RRP: €15.46€13.16Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than... -
Town & Country: The Queen: A Life in Pictures by Victoria Murphy
RRP: €38.08€33.51Since she succeeded to the throne in 1952, Queen Elizabeth II has become respected, celebrated, and beloved around the world. This stunning collection of powerful images illustrates her storied reign in all its glory. More than 300 extraordinary... -
Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History by Alan Charles Kors
RRP: €36.89€35.12Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 2001 The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe between the twelfth and the end of the seventeenth centuries. Now greatly expanded,... -
Persons and Polemics: Historical Essays by Edward Thompson 9780850364392
RRP: €17.79€16.18Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850364392Author Edward ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing by Rachel Poliquin 9780271053738
RRP: €35.64€32.50From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an... -
Armies of the Balkan Wars 1912–13: The priming charge for the Great War by Philip Jowett
RRP: €15.46€13.10In 1912, the Balkan states formed an alliance in an effort to break free from the crumbling Ottoman Empire. Forming an army of some 645,000 troops from Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenego, they took on a force of 400,000 Turkish soldiers. Both sides... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: Britain in Peace and War 1900-1918 by Christopher Culpin
€26.10Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture' by Vitruvius 9780521002929
RRP: €36.88€29.94The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin
RRP: €66.64€55.14In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis by Jurgen Tampke 9781911617280
RRP: €11.89€7.97An Irish Independent book of the year. Did the Versailles Peace Treaty cause World War II? The Versailles Peace Treaty - the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies - has long been regarded as one of the key causes of... -
Immigration, Ethnicity and Racism in Britain 1815-1945: 1815-1945 by Panikos Panayi
RRP: €23.79€20.96First documentary history of immigration into postwar Britain. Looks at all aspects of immigration into postwar Britain. Uses a wide range of official and unofficial sources.About the AuthorPanikos Panayi is Reader in History at De Montfort... -
Voices of Stanley by Jo Bath 9780752460376
RRP: €15.46€11.45Voices of Stanley is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, recalling life in the area between 1880 and 1950. Vivid memories are recounted, including childhood and schooldays, work and... -
Megalithomania: Artists, Antiquarians and Archaeologists at the Old Stone Monuments by John Michell 9781906069032
RRP: €15.46€13.15A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the incredible story of the amazing reactions, ancient and modern, to these prehistoric relics, whether astronomical,... -
Grangetown by Barbara Jones Baker 9780752403830
RRP: €15.46€11.45GrangetownBook InformationISBN 9780752403830Author Barbara Jones-BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Revolutionary Britannia?: Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 by Edward Royle 9780719048036
RRP: €23.79€20.96Europe was swept by revolution in the period from 1789 to 1848. Britain, alone of the major western powers, seemed exempt from this revolutionary fervour. The governing class attributed this exemption to divine providence and the soundness of the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Later Medieval Archaeology in Britain by Christopher Gerrard
€51.73Echoes of the Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. Sites like the Tower of London, Hampton Court, and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism, Medieval institutions like the monarchy, monasteries, and universities are... -
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean by Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
RRP: €46.35€37.71The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks.Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You... -
Book 1: Text in Greek, Commentary in English by Herodotus
RRP: €19.03€15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524139Author HerodotusFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 290g