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Frozen in Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition by Owen Beattie 9781771641739
RRP: $36.95$24.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771641739Author Owen BeattieFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Greystone BooksPublisher Greystone BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
Guardians of the Ukraine: The Ukrainian Air Force Since 1992 by Babak Taghvaee
$77.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109619Author Babak TaghvaeeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
Dante Encyclopedia Richard Lansing 9780415876117
RRP: $134.53$119.18Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy.The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia: brings together... -
The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr by R. R. Davies 9780192802095
$59.92Owain Glyn Dwr is arguably the most famous figure in the history of Wales. His revolt (1400-1409) was the last major Welsh rebellion against English rule. It established a measure of unity such as Wales had never previously experienced and generated a... -
Crime and Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England by Andrew Rabin
RRP: $33.15$30.65Arguably, more legal texts survive from pre-Conquest England than from any other early medieval European community. The corpus includes roughly seventy royal law-codes, to which can be added well over a thousand charters, writs, and wills, as well as... -
Bolton's Industrial Heritage by Charles Jones
RRP: $25.33$18.76Bolton was built on the cotton industry. This illustrated book includes information about the transport infrastructure that made all this industrial activity practicable, as well as essential public utilities.About the AuthorBill Jones is a retired... -
Scottish History Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton
RRP: $25.33$16.69This is the story of Scotland as it's never been told before. From the 4th millennium BC, when the first Scot was expelled from Eden, right up to the 21st century, when US intelligence identified a distillery on Islay as a possible threat to world peace,... -
Leonardo's Brain: Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius by Leonard Shlain
RRP: $29.23$22.48Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right... -
Peterloo: The English Uprising by Robert Poole
RRP: $61.41$45.57On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them... -
The Poor in England 1700-1850: An Economy of Makeshifts by Alannah Tomkins
RRP: $38.98$34.75This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing... -
A History of the Modern British Isles, 1914-1999: Circumstances, Events and Outcomes by Arthur Marwick 9780631195221
RRP: $77.90$70.77This book presents a "total history" of the British Isles from the outbreak of the First World War through to the late 1990s. Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century history, the volume offers readers a multi-layered narrative combining... -
The Madman and the Churchrobber: Law and Conflict in Early Modern England by Jason Peacey 9780192897138
RRP: $84.81$77.86This microhistory reconstructs and analyses a protracted legal dispute over a small parcel of land called Warrens Court in Nibley, Gloucestershire, which was contested between successive generations of two families from the mid-sixteenth century to the... -
Dr Radcliffe's Library: The Story of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford Stephen Hebron 9781851244294
RRP: $25.33$22.35The Radcliffe Camera is one of the most celebrated buildings in Oxford. Instantly recognizable, its great dome rises amid the Gothic spires of the University. Through early maps, plans and drawings, portraits, engravings and photographs this book tells... -
Defending Cambridgeshire: The Military Landscape from Prehistory to Present by Mike Osborne 9780752493305
RRP: $37.03$27.92Throughout history, Cambridgeshire (including Huntingdon and Peterborough) has figured in many of the conflicts which have shaped our nation. Doomed Roman legionaries marched from Longthorpe to defeat by Boudicca's Iceni; Saxons and Danes fought over the... -
The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth Century England by Ian Keable
RRP: $39.00$26.03In 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre. Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds to witness the trick, the performer didn't. Over the following decades,... -
Fritz Bauer: The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to Trial by Ronen Steinke
RRP: $46.78$40.64German Jewish judge and prosecutor Fritz Bauer (1903-1968) played a key role in the arrest of Adolf Eichmann and the initiation of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. Author Ronen Steinke tells this remarkable story while sensitively exploring the many... -
Women in Britain: Voices and Perspectives from Twentieth Century History by Janet H. Howarth 9781850434566
$49.04The millennium has sharpened perspectives on the history of women in twentieth-century Britain. Many features of the contemporary gender order date only from the last decades of the century - the expectation of equal opportunities in education and the... -
Grim Almanac of Suffolk by Neil R. Storey
RRP: $33.13$26.01This day-by-day look at the darker side of Sussex's past includes diverse tales of highwaymen, smugglers, murderers, footpads, poachers, rioters and rebels. This sordid cast of characters is deservedly accompanied by accounts of old gaols, bridewells and... -
The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages by Ian Wood
$67.72The Early Middle Ages, which marked the end of the Roman Empire and the creation of the kingdoms of Western Europe, was a period central to the formation of modern Europe. This period has often been drawn into a series of discourses that are more... -
Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Michael J. Levin
RRP: $105.30$91.24Historians have long held that during the decades from the end of the Habsburg-Valois Wars in 1559 until the outbreak in 1618 of the Thirty Years' War, Spanish domination of Italy was so complete that one can refer to the period as a "pax hispanica." In... -
History on British Television: Constructing Nation, Nationality and Collective Memory by Robert Dillon 9780719099854
RRP: $58.50$29.07History on British television explores the production and consumption of factual history programming on British television. The chronological development of Western historiography is compared to phases of British television history production,... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Hitler and the Nazi State by Martin Collier
$59.01A comprehensive resource that helps candidates tackle the intricacies of the relationship between Hitler and his lieutenants and the power structure of the Nazi state. This book has been written for Edexcel and with the right level of depth for A2... -
Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World by Benjamin Schmidt 9780812246469
RRP: $200.85$175.77As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process... -
Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination by Paul Freedman 9780300151350
RRP: $37.03$36.04How medieval Europe's infatuation with expensive, fragrant, and exotic spices led to an era of colonial expansion and the discovery of new worlds The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the... -
Battleground Sussex by John Grehan 9781848846616
RRP: $38.98$24.63From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe and the county's coastline, some seventy-six miles long, occupies a large part of Britain's southern frontier. Before the days of Macadam and the Turnpike, water... -
The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
RRP: $60.43$43.50Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld reveals, for the first time, these postwar nightmares of a future that never happened and explains what they... -
Herbert Marcuse, Philosopher of Utopia: A Graphic Biography by Nick Thorkelson 9780872867857
RRP: $23.38$16.91"I believe that Marcuse's ideas can be as valuable today as they were fifty years ago."-Angela Y. Davis, from the forewordHerbert Marcuse was one of the twentieth century's most unlikely pop stars: a celebrity philosopher. In the 1960s, his argument for... -
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government by Thomas N. Bisson
RRP: $54.60$43.29Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the... -
Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
RRP: $54.58$47.07There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some... -
Ten Tales from Dumfries & Galloway by David Carroll
RRP: $19.48$14.72Stretching from Langholm in the east to Portpatrick in the west, with its dramatic landscape embracing hills, lochs and forests, Dumfries and Galloway occupies a large corner of south-west Scotland. Scratch just below the surface of this predominantly... -
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt 9780143037750
RRP: $48.75$32.35Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award * One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year"Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority." -The Wall Street Journal"Magisterial . ... -
Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain by Roger Bland 9781785708558
$156.51More coin hoards have been recorded from Roman Britain than from any other province of the Empire. This comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume provides a survey of over 3260 hoards of Iron Age and Roman coins found in England and Wales with a... -
Making Monte Carlo: A History of Speculation and Spectacle by Mark Braude 9781476709703
RRP: $33.15$24.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476709703Author Mark BraudeFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm... -
Bomber Crew: Taking On the Reich by John Sweetman
RRP: $23.38$15.60During the Second World War aeronautical technology gathered rapid pace. By 1945, bombers had not only greatly increased in engine power and range, but the bombs which they carried rose from 250lbs to 10 tons; the navigator's pencil and rubber of 1939... -
From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology I by Carmen Lavin 9780719066719
RRP: $38.98$28.31This is the second of two anthologies designed to accompany the Open University course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. The collection of... -
Throwing Thunderbolts: A Wargamer's Guide to the War of the First Coalition, 1792-7 by Garry David Wills
$70.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512036Author Garry David WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Leeds Pals: A Handbook for Researchers by Leeds Pals Volunteer Researchers 9780750989794
RRP: $33.13$25.23Many men and boys from Leeds enlisted as volunteer soldiers at the outset of the First World War as part of the national phenomenon of 'Pals' that sprang up across the Britain. The Leeds Pals, who made up the 15th Battalion (Prince of Wales's Own) West... -
Pietro Bembo: History of Venice: v. 1: Books I-IV by Robert W. Ulery, Jr.
RRP: $58.40$46.14Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), a Venetian nobleman, later a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, was the most celebrated Latin stylist of his day and was widely admired for his writings in Italian as well. His early dialogue on the subject of love greatly... -
Poland 1939: The Outbreak of World War II by Roger Moorhouse 9780465095384
RRP: $62.40$38.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465095384Author Roger MoorhouseFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 155mm * 33mm -
Quarry Bank & The Delph: Britain in Old Photographs by Ned Williams 9780752451343
RRP: $25.33$18.76This is Ned Williams and the Mount Pleasant Local History Group's third book about Quarry Bank and this time they take a fresh look at this little Black Country township, plus the even smaller place next door - simply known as The Delph. The area covered...