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Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921 by Colin Darch
RRP: $38.98$30.73Histories of the Russian Revolution often present the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as the central event, neglecting the diverse struggles of urban and rural revolutionaries across the heartlands of the Russian Empire. This book takes as its subject... -
Bloody Scottish History: Edinburgh by Geoff Holder 9780752462936
RRP: $31.18$23.89Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful cities in the world - with one of the darkest histories on record. Sweeping through the centuries in a blood-soaked catalogue of assaults, assassinations and all-out attempts at annihilation, this volume reveals the... -
Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft by Robin Briggs
RRP: $70.10$62.54Witches and Neighbours is a highly original and unconventional analysis of a fascinating historical phenomenon. Unlike other studies of the subject which focus on the mechanisms of persecution, this book presents a rich picture of witchcraft as an... -
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force by Richard Overy
RRP: $21.43$15.15'Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights ... a masterful historian of air power' Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF was the world's first air force. This is the story of its founding in 1918, as a response to the new terror of... -
Arabia Felix by Thorkild Hansen
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370729Author Colin ThubronFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England by Rebecca Hardie 9781501517617
RRP: $196.95$183.73AEthelflaed (c. 870-918), political leader, military strategist, and administrator of law, is one of the most important ruling women in English history. Despite her multifaceted roles and family legacy, however, her reign and relationship with other... -
The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, Prehistory to AD 1450 by David C. Lindberg
RRP: $46.80$45.69When it was first published in 1992, "The Beginnings of Western Science" was lauded as the first successful attempt to present a unified account of both ancient and medieval science in a single volume. Chronicling the development of scientific ideas,... -
Colonized by Humanity: Caribbean London and the Politics of Integration at the End of Empire by Dr Rob Waters 9780198879831
RRP: $68.25$59.48'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the violent currents of racism-some seen, many disavowed. But the... -
The Little Book of the East End by Dee Gordon 9780752457178
RRP: $19.48$14.72The Little Book of The East End is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments,... -
Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe: Andorra, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City by Thomas Eccardt
RRP: $27.28$21.35This unique book examines the history, culture, and inner workings of the seven smallest independent countries in Europe. These are among the oldest states on the continent and, despite their diversity, they have much in common. Most have relatively high... -
Belladonna Dasa Drndic 9780857054302
RRP: $21.43$14.43"Belladonna is brutal, beautiful, and unforgettable . . . One of the truly outstanding novels of recent years" EILEEN BATTERSBY, Los Angeles Review of Books** Winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2018**** Shortlisted for the inaugural E... -
Patricians and Emperors: The Last Rulers of the Western Roman Empire by Hughes, Ian 9781399074643
RRP: $33.13$21.35Patricians and Emperors offers concise comparative biographies of the individuals who wielded power in the final decades of the Western Roman Empire, from the assassination of Aetius in 454 to the death of Julius Nepos in 480. The book is divided into... -
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of All Crusaders: Reynald de Chatillon by Jeffrey Lee 9781782399285
RRP: $19.48$13.07In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what puzzled investigators was the name of the person to... -
The Battleship Builders: Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships by Johnston, Ian 9781399092043
RRP: $38.98$27.85The launch in 1906 of HMS _Dreadnought_, the worlds first all-big-gun battleship, rendered all existing battle fleets obsolete, but at the same time it wiped out the Royal Navy's numerical advantage, so expensively maintained for decades. Already locked... -
The Irish Diaspora: Tales of Emigrants and Empire by Turtle Bunbury
$43.58The Irish have always been a travelling people. In the centuries after the fall of Rome, Irish missionaries carried the word of Christianity throughout Europe, while soldiers and mariners from across the land ventured overseas in all directions. Since... -
Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World: Blighted Bodies Kristina Richardson 9780748695881
RRP: $56.53$45.59This title outlines the complex significance of bodies in the late medieval central Arab Islamic lands. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness and... -
The Welsh The Biography by Terry Breverton
RRP: $58.50$40.85The Welsh: The Biography tells the story of the remarkable survival of the oldest nation and oldest language in Europe. We see how the four original major Celtic tribes are still reflected in the location of Britain's four oldest cathedrals, and how... -
What is Medieval History? by John H. Arnold 9781509532568
RRP: $31.18$28.10Since its first publication in 2007, John H. Arnold's What is Medieval History? has established itself as the leading introduction to the craft of the medieval historian. What is it that medieval historians do? How - and why - do they do it? Arnold... -
Hartlepool in the Great War by Stephen Wynn 9781473828605
RRP: $25.33$17.73With the outbreak of the First World War, it was not surprising that a number of individuals who were of German decent, and who lived in Hartlepool and its surrounding areas, were rounded up and detained by the British military authorities, in the... -
The Diary Of A Man In Despair by Friedrich Reck
RRP: $33.13$22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590175866Author Friedrich ReckFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Festal Letters of Athanasius of Alexandria, with the Festal Index and the Historia Acephala David Brakke 9781802076820
$220.80Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-373) is one of the great personalities of late-antique Christianity, and he is well-known to theologians and historians alike as a champion of orthodoxy against the 'Arian' heresy and a proponent of the ascetic life... -
The Deltics and Baby Deltics: A Tale of Success and Failure by Andrew Fowler
$62.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473833913Author Andrew FowlerFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Pen and Sword TransportPublisher Pen and Sword TransportWeight(grams) 244g -
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage by Stephen Budiansky 9780452287471
RRP: $46.80$31.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452287471Author Stephen BudianskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Seine: The River that Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino 9780393609356
RRP: $40.93$35.39In the spring of 1978, as a foreign correspondent in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she builds the story of the river through memoir, travelogue and history, writing a love letter to the city she has called home since 2002... -
The Riviera at War: World War II on the Cote d'Azur by George G. Kundahl
RRP: $33.13$30.24During World War II three distinct forces opposed the Allies - Germany, Italy, and Japan. Few areas of the world experienced domination by more than a single one of these, but southeastern France - the region popularly known as the Riviera or Cote d'Azur... -
Never Give In!: The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches by Sir Winston S Churchill 9780786888702
RRP: $46.78$36.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786888702Author Winston S ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 558Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Bournemouth in the 1950s & '60s by John Needham
RRP: $29.23$22.52Bournemouth in the 1950s & '60s offers a rare glimpse of life in the town during a fascinating period, which started with post-war austerity and ended with Britain becoming the music and fashion capital of the world. This volume - featuring a superb... -
Ancient Woodland: History, Industry and Crafts Ian Rotherham 9780747811657
RRP: $17.53$12.58Though most of us will have enjoyed strolling through beautiful British woodlands, we might not be aware of the ancient - and often complex - origins of our surroundings. From medieval times, woodlands were carefully managed commodities with hotly... -
British Military Biplanes: 1912–19 by Roger Staker 9781802825992
RRP: $39.00$27.87Covering the period from the establishment of the Royal Flying Corps in 1912 to the end of World War One, this book explores the development of the major stalwart of military aviation: biplanes. Throughout this period, the birth of the British aviation... -
D-Day To Berlin by Andrew Williams
RRP: $21.43$14.43Nightfall, 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... -
Hannah More: The First Victorian by Anne Stott 9780199274888
$104.70Hannah More (1745-1833), the daughter of an obscure schoolmaster, began her working life as a teacher at her sisters' school in Bristol. In her thirtieth year she came to London to persuade the actor-manager David Garrick to put on one of her plays. Her... -
The Old Paths of Gloucestershire by Alan Pilbeam
RRP: $35.08$26.60A walk around the old paths of Gloucestershire is, in many ways, a walk through the history of Gloucestershire itself. In this fascinating account, Alan Pilbeam takes us on a tour of the county's pathways and roads, demonstrating how the evolution of... -
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by Margot Finn 9781787350298
RRP: $58.50$53.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787350298Author Margot FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1080g -
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain by G.J.Barker- Benfield 9780226037141
RRP: $93.60$90.46G. J. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. His account focuses on the rise of new moral and spiritual values and the struggle to redefine the group identities of... -
Edith Piaf: A Cultural History by David Looseley 9781781382578
$65.50An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. The world-famous French singer Edith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. Dozens of biographies of her, of variable quality,... -
French and Germans, Germans and French: A Personal Interpretation of France under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944 by Richard Cobb
RRP: $21.43$15.15An extraordinary history of French lives under occupation in the First and Second World Wars, this is an intimate, unforgettable meditation on the strange mixture of compromise and betrayal, collaboration and resistance that marks defeat, written by one... -
The InterWar Years (1919 - 1939): The Best One-Hour History by Robert Freeman
RRP: $10.49$9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991409600Author Robert FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Kendall Lane PublishersPublisher Kendall Lane PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Battle of Northampton: 1460 by Mike Ingram 9780993077791
$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993077791Author Mike IngramFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint SatinpaperbacksPublisher Satinpaperbacks -
Pendant Numbers of the Royal Navy: A Complete History of the Allocation of Pendant Numbers to Royal Navy Warships and Auxiliaries by Steve Bush
RRP: $80.93$35.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526793782Author Steve BushFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint US Naval Institute PressPublisher US Naval Institute PressWeight(grams) 155g -
Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths R.I. Page 9780714123417
RRP: $25.33$16.77There have been many books about the Vikings, but few that see them from their own point of view. Most accounts rely heavily on the records of prejudiced observers (who saw the Vikings only as savage raiders) or the archaeological record, which tells us...