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The Lisbon Route: Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe by Ronald Weber
RRP: €23.79€18.35The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities, diplomats, fleeing troops, and ordinary citizens desperately slogged their way... -
Italian Fascism: Its Origins and Development, Third Edition by Alexander J. De Grand
RRP: €28.55€24.80On October 29, 1922, when Benito Mussolini completed the March on Rome and was appointed prime minister of Italy, the Fascist regime began in triumph. It ended some twenty-two years later with the execution of Mussolini and the collapse of the... -
The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Ethan H. Shagan
RRP: €26.18€20.66An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively... -
Cafe Europa: Life after Communism by Slavenka Drakulic 9780140277722
€19.10"Slavenka Drakulic is a journalist and writer whose voice belongs to the world." -Gloria SteinemToday in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure... -
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain by David Carballo
RRP: €38.66€33.08Mexico of five centuries ago was witness to one of the most momentous encounters between human societies, when a group of Spaniards led by Hernando Cortes joined forces with tens of thousands of Mesoamerican allies to topple the mighty Aztec Empire. It... -
Lines of Thought: Branching Diagrams and the Medieval Mind by Ayelet Even-Ezra
RRP: €47.60€40.45We think with objects-we conduct our lives surrounded by external devices that help us recall information, calculate, plan, design, make decisions, articulate ideas, and organize the chaos that fills our heads. Medieval scholars learned to think with... -
Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places by Margaret Anne Doody 9780226157832
RRP: €36.89€36.40In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue... -
The Nostalgic Imagination: History in English Criticism by Stefan Collini
RRP: €25.57€23.21This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words... -
Wessex to 1000 AD by B. Cunliffe 9780582492806
€68.07Wessex -- the ancient counties of Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Berkshire -- is remarkable for its economic and social cohesion as a region, and for the extraordinary wealth of its ancient remains. In this authoritative survey, Barry... -
The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe M. O. H. Carver 9780851153612
RRP: €35.69€30.74Comparative studies on the age of Sutton Hoo (5c - 8c) with English and European focus, plus summary of the latest site excavations. `The Sutton Hoo `princely' burials play a pivotal role in any modern discussion of Germanic kingship.'EARLY MEDIEVAL... -
Migrant Britain: Histories and Historiographies: Essays in Honour of Colin Holmes Jennifer Craig-Norton (University of Southampton, UK.) 9781138065147
RRP: €45.21€40.20Britain has largely been in denial of its migrant past - it is often suggested that the arrivals after 1945 represent a new phenomenon and not the continuation of a much longer and deeper trend. There is also an assumption that Britain is a tolerant... -
The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man by Mark Hodder 9781906727994
€15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906727994Author Mark HodderFormat PaperbackPage Count 441Imprint Snowbooks LtdPublisher Snowbooks LtdWeight(grams) 483g -
Heinemann Advanced History: British Imperial & Foreign Policy 1846-1980 by John Aldred
€38.58Heinemann Advanced History has quickly established itself as a major series for AS and A-level students. As well as word-of-mouth success, it has been praised in journals such as the Times Educational Supplement and BBC History Magazine. What makes... -
John of Gaunt: The Exercise of Princely Power in Fourteenth-Century Europe by A. Goodman 9780582098138
RRP: €70.20€67.35John of Gaunt (1340 -99), Duke of Lancaster and pretender to the throne of Castile, was son to Edward III, uncle to the ill-starred Richard III and father to Henry IV and the Lancastrian line. The richest and most powerful subject in England, a key actor... -
Stroud by Rupert Russell 9780750989909
RRP: €21.42€16.24Stroud is a compact cultural soup of stories waiting to be told. Rupert's photographs take you under the skin of the people in this unique town, at times part of the picture-perfect Cotswolds it occupies and at times set very apart.About the AuthorRupert... -
The Second World War Diaries of Violet Carey: Guernsey Under Occupation by Alice Evans 9781860775819
RRP: €26.18€20.04The diaries kept by Violet Carey during the occupation of Guernsey show precisely how the German invasion affected the lifestyle of an upper middle class woman. Whilst never indulging in self-pity, she captures the misery caused by imprisonment and the... -
Medieval Canon Law by James Brundage
RRP: €44.02€38.71It is impossible to understand how the medieval church functioned and, in turn, influenced the lay world within its care without understanding "canon law". This book examines its development from its beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages, updating its... -
The Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland by Steve Boardman 9781783272464
RRP: €29.75€28.49A new investigation of the saints' cults which flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully combining archaeological, historical, and literary perspectives. Of all the Celtic countries, Scotland has lacked the kind of scholarly attention that has been... -
British Imperial: What the Empire Wasn't by Bernard Porter 9781784534455
€59.38The British Empire is often misunderstood. Judgments of it differ widely, from broadly adulatory - a 'great' enterprise, spreading 'civilization' through the world; to the blame that is often put on it for most of the world's ills today, including... -
The Meath War Dead: A History of the Casualties of the Great War by Noel E. French 9781845887230
RRP: €23.80€17.90Over five hundred men from Meath died in the Great War. One hundred of those men were from Navan. Twenty Meath families lost more than one member in this war. The poet, Francis Ledwidge, would be the most famous of these, but many personal tragedies play... -
The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom: Lotharingia 855-869 by Charles West 9781487545161
RRP: €33.31€28.73The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom investigates how the first royal divorce scandal led to the collapse of a kingdom, changing the fate of medieval Europe. Through a set of annotated translations of key contemporary sources, the book presents the downfall... -
Ottoman Historical Documents: The Institutions of an Empire V.L. Menage 9781474479370
RRP: €30.93€25.06This collection of translated primary sources for Ottoman history shows how the major institutions of Ottoman government developed, and how they functioned in practice. Each text benefits from a brief contextualising introduction, annotations and a... -
A Century of Swansea: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by John O'Sullivan
RRP: €11.89€8.98This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Swansea during the 20th century. This book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 by Prasannan Parthasarathi
RRP: €32.12€25.59Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that... -
The Great Cat and Dog Massacre: The Real Story of World War Two's Unknown Tragedy by Hilda Kean
RRP: €28.56€27.41The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs were massacred in Britain. The government, vets, and animal charities all advised against this killing. So why would... -
The Scandal of George III's Court by Catherine Curzon 9781473872516
€24.22From Windsor to Weymouth, the shadow of scandal was never too far from the walls of the House of Hanover. Did a fearsome duke really commit murder or a royal mistress sell commissions to the highest bidders, and what was the truth behind George III's... -
France 1870-1914 by Robert Gildea 9780582292215
€43.65The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery of national self-confidence. Though political crises such as the Dreyfus Affair threatened to tear it apart, the Republic established firm parliamentary... -
Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia by Nikolay Koposov
RRP: €32.12€27.13Laws against Holocaust denial are perhaps the best-known manifestation of the present-day politics of historical memory. In Memory Laws, Memory Wars, Nikolay Koposov examines the phenomenon of memory laws in Western and Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and... -
London's Disasters: From Boudicca to the Banking Crisis by John Withington 9780752457475
RRP: €11.89€8.98From AD 61, when Queen Boudicca - outraged at her treatment at the hands of the Romans - marched on the city and burned it to the ground, London has been hit by wave upon wave of destruction. This fascinating and unique book tells the story of over 2000... -
A Short History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
RRP: €35.69€34.80A Short History of the French Revolution is an up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era that introduces readers to the origins and events of this turbulent period in French history, and historians' interpretations of these events.The... -
The Venlo Sting: Mi6'S Deadly Fiasco by Norman Ridley
RRP: €35.64€25.53On 9 November 1939, two unsuspecting British agents of the Special Intelligence Services walked into a trap set by German Spymaster Reinhard Heydrich. Believing that they were meeting a dissident German general for talks about helping German military... -
The Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715. Volume 2: The Infantry of Louis XIV by Rene Chartrand 9781912866540
€42.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866540Author Rene ChartrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Thatcher's Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town by Guy Ortolano
RRP: €41.64€36.28During the quarter of a century after the Second World War, the United Kingdom designated thirty-two new towns across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Why, even before selling council houses or denationalising public industries, did... -
Bent Arms & Dodgy Wickets: England's Troubled Reign as Test Match Kings During the Fifties by Tim Quelch
RRP: €20.22€15.40When Andrew Strauss's team seized the world title in the summer of 2011 they finally recovered what had been lost at the Adelaide Oval in 1959. This tale of England's preceding triumph and loss is recounted through the memoirs of many of the star players... -
Plague by Professor Andrew Spicer 9780752429632
RRP: €13.08€9.82The Black Death first hit Europe in 1347. This horrific disease ripped through towns, villages and families. Men, women, children, young and old succumbed to a painful, drawn-out death as pustules, abscesses and boils erupted over their bodies... -
Essence and Energies: Being and Naming God in St Gregory Palamas by Tikhon Pino
RRP: €154.70€133.41St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296-1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across his twenty-five treatises and letters written over a... -
The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin 9781837651122
RRP: €35.69€29.55The definitive reference book on Ireland's cultural and religious heritage. Ireland has one of the finest cultural heritages and a standard reference book combining the related subjects of folklore, myth, legend and romance is long overdue. There are... -
Hamlet's Choice: Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies by Peter Lake
RRP: €44.63€43.11An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth's reign. England was riven with tensions created by... -
Norfolk Folk Tales for Children by Dave Tonge 9780750984812
RRP: €11.89€8.98From dark dangerous dogs and wily wicked wyrms, to poor penniless pedlars and lanky, long-limbed lads, Norfolk is steeped in stories. Some had their beginnings here, growing in the telling until they were as big as Norfolk's skies. Others were brought... -
Britain before the Reform Act: Politics and Society 1815-1832 by Eric J. Evans 9780582299085
RRP: €44.02€42.53In the years1815-1832, Britain came close to revolution. Fewer than twenty years separate the Battle of Waterloo from the passing of the 'Great' Reform Act but during this period Britain's political elite was challenged as never before. In rising to that...