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Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis by Robert Gellately 9780190689902
RRP: €33.90€28.36Understanding Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the mental world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories... -
Longford Folk Tales by Philip Byrne
RRP: €15.46€11.45Longford Folk Tales is a treasure trove of wonderful stories of saints and deities, fairies and devils, kings and ghosts, shoemakers and other engaging characters. Read about The Blake Millions, butter stealing, the Wooing of Etain, and 'The Walking... -
Around Pontardawe: The Third Selection: Britain in Old Photographs by The Pontardawe Historians 9780752486222
RRP: €16.65€12.91Whether as a village, town or former local authority area Pontardawe and its associated communities have a fascinating and invigorating history. This is revealed clearly in this Third Selection of images which, building on the success of the First and... -
The Politics and Polemics of Culture in Ireland, 1800-2010 Pat Cooke 9780367567897
RRP: €47.59€42.20As a contribution to cultural policy studies, this book offers a uniquely detailed and comprehensive account of the historical evolution of cultural policies and their contestation within a single democratic polity, while treating these developments... -
Early Aegean Warrior 5000–1450 BC by Dr Raffaele D’Amato 9781780968582
RRP: €17.84€14.70The mainland and islands of Greece were extensively settled by peoples moving from Asia Minor in c.5000 BC, while a further wave in c.5000 BC introduced bronze-working to the region. It is form this point on that it is possible to discern a distinct... -
Waterways and Canal-Building in Medieval England by John Blair 9780198723134
€56.72A book centring on late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals may come as a surprise; it is generally assumed that no such things existed. Persuasive evidence has, however, been unearthed independently by several scholars, and has stimulated this first... -
How to Slay a Dragon: A Fantasy Hero's Guide to the Real Middle Ages by Cait Stevenson
RRP: €17.84€12.17Grab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic quests.What should you ask a magic mirror? How do you outwit a genie? Where should you dig for buried... -
A Short History of Ireland's Famine by Ruan O'Donnell
RRP: €10.70€8.18This condensed history examines why the Great Famine was so catastrophic, and explores its effect on Irish society and culture. It explains the circumstances surrounding the period and addresses issues and characteristics of the time. Aspects covered... -
Peter of Savoy: The Little Charlemagne by John Marshall 9781399065665
€39.33Where did the story that ended with the great Edwardian castles of north Wales begin? How was it that hundreds of men from Savoy built castles in north Wales? Whose stylised statue sits outside the Savoy Hotel in London on the site of his former palace?... -
Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture by Miri Rubin
RRP: €36.88€29.92This book studies later medieval culture [c. 1150-1500] through its central symbol: the eucharist. From the twelfth century onwards the eucharist was designed by the Church as the foremost sacrament. The claim that this ritual brought into presence... -
Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 by Robert M. Citino 9780700617913
RRP: €39.21€22.48For Hitler and the German military, 1942 was a key turning point of World War II, as an overstretched but still lethal Wehrmacht replaced brilliant victories and huge territorial gains with stalemates and strategic retreats. In this major reevaluation of... -
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita Anand 9781501195709
RRP: €35.70€21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501195709Author Anita AnandFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm)... -
Faith and Fury: The evangelical campaign in Dingle and West Kerry, 1825-45 by Bryan MacMahon
RRP: €22.60€17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934125Author Bryan MacMahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 2: Dancing with Imperialism by Andre Moncourt
RRP: €30.93€20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860306Author J SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 574g -
The Story of the Scottish Parliament: Reflections on the First Two Decades by Gerry Hassan
RRP: €21.41€19.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454902Author Gerry HassanFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
The Origins of the Crimean War by David M. Goldfrank 9780582490550
RRP: €65.44€62.45The Crimean War (1853-56) between Russia, Turkey, Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia was a diplomatically preventable conflict for influence over an unstable Near and Middle East. It could have broken out in any decade between Napoleon and... -
On an Irish Island: The Lost World of the Great Blasket by Mr Robert Kanigel
RRP: €19.03€13.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389879Author Robert KanigelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)... -
Sudbury:: History & Guide by Barry Wall 9780752433172
RRP: €23.80€17.90The market town of Sudbury in Suffolk has long been considered an area of outstanding natural beauty. Around 2,000 BC a group of Early Bronze Age farmers settled on a hill above a loop in the River Stour on the Suffolk side, looking into Essex, and the... -
Greece, the Decade of War: Occupation, Resistance and Civil War by David Brewer
RRP: €21.41€18.97In this book, acclaimed historian David Brewer investigates explores 1940s Greece -- one of the most tumultuous decades in Greece's modern history. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal: children starved on the... -
Tsars & Cossacks - A Study in Iconography by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: €18.98€15.59Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709)-the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa-be... -
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergusson 9781586489946
€18.55When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation's currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000 marks), the... -
The Little Book of Wicklow by Chris Lawlor
RRP: €17.84€13.74Did You Know?According to legend, St Kevin founded his monastery at Glendalough after being shown the spot by a goose. A murder in the sleepy village of Barndarrig in east Wicklow in 1890 led to the last hanging in Wexford gaol. The Little Book of... -
The Devil's Historians: How Modern Extremists Abuse the Medieval Past by Amy Kaufman
RRP: €21.41€17.93Amy S. Kaufman and Paul B. Sturtevant examine the many ways in which the medieval past has been manipulated to promote discrimination, oppression, and murder. Tracing the fetish for "medieval times" behind toxic ideologies like nationalism, antisemitism,... -
Liberating Sapmi: Indigenous Resistance in Europe's Far North by Gabriel Kuhn
RRP: €20.22€13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637129Author Gabriel KuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
A New History of the Isle of Man Vol. 1: Evolution of the Natural Landscape by Richard Chiverrell 9780853235873
RRP: €32.73€29.69This volume provides a fascinating account of the natural forces which shaped the Island's landscape from its formation some 500 million years ago to the present nature of the Manx environment and landscape. The story of the island's colonisation by... -
English Legal History and its Sources: Essays in Honour of Sir John Baker by David Ibbetson
RRP: €44.02€34.25This volume honours the work and writings of Professor Sir John Baker over the past fifty years, presenting a collection of essays by leading scholars on topics relating to the sources of English legal history, the study of which Sir John has so much... -
Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia by Antony Eastmond
RRP: €49.97€27.67This book tells the compelling story of a Christian noblewoman named Tamta in the thirteenth century. Born to an Armenian family at the court of queen Tamar of Georgia, she was ransomed in marriage to nephews of Saladin after her father was captured... -
Shipping at Cardiff: Photographs from the Hansen Collection by David Jenkins 9780708326466
RRP: €5.94€5.28One of the greatest treasures in the archives of the Welsh Industrial and Maritime Museum is the Hansen Collection, consisting of over 4500 negatives of shipping taken at Cardiff Docks between 1920 and 1975. Lars Peter Hansen, a native of Copenhagen,... -
Guildford Past & Present: Britain in Old Photographs by Philip Hutchinson 9780752451275
RRP: €15.46€11.45Guildford still retains much of its 'Olde Worlde' charm in the twenty-first century; it is what makes it such a popular place for tourists from all over the world who come and take photographs of the Guildhall, the castle and the picturesque River Wey... -
The Austrian Mind: An Intellectual and Social History, 1848-1938 by William M. Johnston
RRP: €39.27€31.67Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. Part Two examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together... -
For Lord and Land by Matthew Harffy 9781801102223
RRP: €22.60€21.42Greed and ambition threaten to tear the north apart. War rages between the two kingdoms of Northumbria. Kin is pitted against kin and friend becomes foe as ambitious kings vie for supremacy. When Beobrand travels south into East Angeln to rescue a... -
Mumbles by David Gwynn 9780752428581
RRP: €17.84€13.74The famous Mumbles area of Swansea is no a thriving and popular suburb, with pretty villages and attractive bays. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the need for a railway to transport coal and iron ore to Swansea meant that the once-distant... -
Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950-1200 by Bjoern Weiler
RRP: €41.64€36.28Medieval Europe was a world of kings, but what did this mean to those who did not themselves wear a crown? How could they prevent corrupt and evil men from seizing the throne? How could they ensure that rulers would not turn into tyrants? Drawing on a... -
Birtley: Images of England by George Nairn 9780752403663
RRP: €17.84€13.74Around BirtleyBook InformationISBN 9780752403663Author George NairnFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 10mm -
How to Do it: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians by Rudolph M. Bell 9780226042008
RRP: €27.37€26.33Hope to conceive a boy? Tie a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Pregnant and fear a weak or malformed baby? Frequent hearty laughter should reduce the risk. And if you're a teenager of good repute, avoid dancing at all costs and stay away... -
The Birth of Popular Heresy by R.I. Moore 9780802076595
RRP: €32.12€26.76The seeds of heresy are contained in Christianity itself, which began as a religion of dissent. In the Middle Ages the Church was the main focus of intellectual activity, and its spiritual leaders themselves often questioned the practices and beliefs... -
Haunted Plymouth by Kevin Hynes 9780752452326
RRP: €17.84€13.99From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and supernatural phenomena, to first-hand encounters with phantoms and spirits, this collection of spooky sightings from around the city of Plymouth is guaranteed to make your blood run cold... -
In Search of History: 1066-1485 John F. Aylett 9780713106855
€28.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780713106855Author John F. AylettFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 216mm... -
Edinburgh New Town by Susan Varga 9780752443638
RRP: €17.84€13.74A companion to "Edinburgh Old Town", this book provides more than 200 archive images accompanied by captions that explore the life and history of the streets of Edinburgh New Town. Drawing from the photographic archives of the city library, it gives a... -
Katyn: Stalin's Massacre and the Triumph of Truth by Allen Paul
RRP: €23.79€21.35Twenty years ago, Allen Paul wrote the first post-communist account of one of the greatest but least-known tragedies of the twentieth century: Stalin's annihilation of Poland's officer corps and massive deportation of so-called "bourgeoisie elements" to...