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More than a quarter of a century after his death, Douglas Bader remains the most famous fighter pilot Britain has every known. He lost both of his legs a flying accident in 1931, but overcame his disability and returned to the RAF in 1939, rising to...

David Jones presents a unique look into the lives, roles and responsibilities of the outdoor staff of the great country houses during the golden age of Queen Victoria's reign to World War 1. Through his meticulous research of estate records,...

The Roman province of Arabia occupied a crucial corner of the Mediterranean world, encompassing most of what is now Jordan, southern Syria, northwest Saudi Arabia, and the Negev. Mr. Bowersock's book is the first authoritative history of the region from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846825903Author John WaddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

As editor of The Economist, Walter Bagehot offered astute commentary on the financial issues of his day and his name lives on in an eponymous weekly column. During the upheavals of 2007-9, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of this...

This book provides an accessible study of the neglected but highly important series of wars fought for control of the Baltic and Northeastern Europe during the period 1558-1721. It is the first comprehensive history which considers the revolution in...

This collection of photographs presents a picture of Snowdonia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.Book InformationISBN 9780750922678Author Jim RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The...

The town of Rhyl was born around the turn of the nineteenth century when the novel idea of 'sea bathing' and 'taking the air' at coastal resorts began sweeping the country. At Rhyl splendid villas and a terraced promenade were built, spelling out the...

The volume is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main phases in Gothic history: their early history down to the fourth century, the revolution in Gothic society set in motion by the arrival of the Huns, and the history of the Gothic...

Sir Walter Mauny was described as Edward III's 'faithful knight'. That accurately summed up his life and career as a loyal servant of the king, distinguishing himself as a soldier, naval commander and diplomat. From the profits of war and royal favour he...

This book is a pioneering comparison of Wales with another small people, the Slovenes, over the formative period for national development in modern Europe. Language, religion and social conflict figured in both countries, but the determinant issue for...

The Century of Calamity is the story of a nation's fall, and the men who caused it. It is the story of how AEthelraed the Unready's calamitous and vicious rule took England to the brink of collapse; of how Cnut subsumed the country within a northern...

This book explores the role of animals - horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs - in shaping Georgian London. Moving away from the philosophical, fictional and humanitarian sources used by previous animal studies, it focuses on evidence of tangible,...

Charlemagne is often claimed as the greatest ruler in Europe before Napoleon. This magisterial study re-examines Charlemagne the ruler and his reputation. It analyses the narrative representations of Charlemagne produced after his death, and thereafter...

The Routledge History of Disability explores the shifting attitudes towards and representations of disabled people from the age of antiquity to the twenty-first century. Taking an international view of the subject, this wide-ranging collection shows that...

Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967...

Jonathan Eaton has provided the essential volume for all students of Archaeology, Classical Civilisations and Ancient History by condensing the entire archaeological history of Britain into one accessible volume. The Archaeological History of Britain...

Although many studies have addressed important aspects of medieval southern Italy, this was the first work for nearly ninety years to be devoted specifically to the life and reign of King Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily. The book provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333527Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Empires at War, 1911-1923 offers a new perspective on the history of the Great War. It expands the story of the war both in time and space to include the violent conflicts that preceded and followed the First World War, from the 1911 Italian invasion of...

A comprehensive survey examining the vibrant and sumptuous art of illumination during a period of profound intellectual and cultural transformation Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645163077Author Eira Wynn BishFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Eira BattagliaPublisher Eira BattagliaWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Awards 1980.Book InformationISBN 9780345349576Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random...

Murders, mayhem and bloody struggles, warring families and deeds of chivalry and love are disclosed in tales from more than three hundred years of English history. Follow the Peasants Revolt, Glorious Agincourt, War of the Roses and the murder of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703683Author David CannadineFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

...revisit the people and places and deepen your enjoyment of the sublime BBC tv series "Wayfaring Stranger"...in these pages revisit people and places you loved in the BBC tv series "Wayfaring Stranger"... by the authors as featured in the acclaimed BBC...

Published in association with the Royal Academy of Arts, London Animated by an unprecedented study of its collections, this book tells the story of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and illuminates the history of art in Britain over the past two and a...

Cinema has had a hugely influential role on global culture in the 20th century at multiple levels: social, political, and educational. The part of British cinema in this has been controversial - often derided as a whole, but also vigorously celebrated,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901610Author Serge DaneyFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500294567Author Judith MackrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

"Masterfully told and compelling reinterpreted." The Moscow Times Stalinism at War tells the epic story of the Soviet Union in World War Two. Starting with Soviet involvement in the war in Asia and ending with a bloody counter-insurgency in the...

Swansea University: Campus and Community in a Post-War World, 1945-2020 marks Swansea University's centenary. It is a study of post-Second World War academic and social change in Britain and its universities, as well as an exploration of shifts in youth...

The economic depression of the interwar period marks a fundamental turning-point in Welsh history, and in particular the history of south Wales, when decades of breakneck industrialisation, urbanisation and in-migration came to an end and were followed...

In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to several million. Yet the institutions that drove - and still drive - this change have been all but ignored by...

As a Macclesfield journalist for four decades and editor of the Macclesfield Express for twenty-four years, Doug Pickford has delighted Maxonians with his weekly 'Old Macc' column, as well as compiling a number of books on the Macclesfield of days gone...

A Century of Kingston-upon-Thames offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Kingston's recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385338455Author Michael BaigentFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dell Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world. The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a...

The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting world, with '1989' instead marking a...