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Ground-breaking new studies of Henry V's chapel, tomb and funeral service have new revelations and insights into the time. Before Henry V set out in 1415 on the campaign which culminated in victory at Agincourt, he made a will laying down precise...

What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an...

Nowhere else have Jews contributed so massively and consequentially to the general culture than in Germany. From Mendelssohn to Marx, from Freud to Einstein, Jewish contributions to secular German thought have been both wide-ranging in scope and profound...

The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his...

Renaissance humanists believed that the origins of peoples could reveal crucial facts about their modern political character. Margaret Meserve explores what happened when European historians turned to study the political history of a faith other than...

Resonating as profoundly today as when it was first published to widespread critical acclaim a decade ago, God's Crucible is a bold portrait of Islamic Spain and the birth of modern Europe from one of our greatest historians. David Levering Lewis's...

Written by specialists from various fields, this edited volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain. The contributors explore different aspects of Britain's imperial experience as the empire...

The story of a forbidden book that became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in the battle between East and West.1956. Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words: 'This is Doctor Zhivago. May it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957000544Author Nigel CostleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Breviary Stuff PublicationsPublisher Breviary Stuff PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788376587Author Alan DurantFormat PaperbackImprint Badger PublishingPublisher Badger PublishingDimensions(mm) 197mm * 128mm * 3mm

This book examines the global history of the Cold War in the 1970s through the perspective of Yugoslavia's activism in the Global South and its relations with the superpowers. The author shows that Yugoslavia's anxiety over a "new Yalta" required a...

Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Third Duke of Alba, is one of the most formidable and controversial figures of the sixteenth century. He has been depicted as a great hero, an indefatigable defender of the Catholic faith and a true buttress of the Spanish...

This study re-examines Venice's political economy from the viewpoint of its ordinary people or popolani who, despite the commonly held view that they were excluded from political life by the nobility or nobili, actually organized and ran for themselves...

Anatoly Dobrynin arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1962 -- at 43 the youngest man ever to serve as Soviet Ambassador to the United States -- and remained through the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Dobrynin became the...

Who preceded whom? Who wore what? Which form of address should one use? One of the most striking aspects of the early modern period is the crucial significance that contemporaries ascribed to such questions. In this hierarchical world, status symbols did...

The Bavarian mountain village of Oberammergau is famous for its decennial passion play. The play began as an articulation of the villagers' strong Catholic piety, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries developed into a considerable commercial...

Truro is undoubtedly one of the most attractive cities in Britain. This fascinating collection of over 260 old photographs provides a glimpse into the life of the city from the last century to recent times. The photographs have all come from private...

This single volume history of 'Sir Gar' (Carmarthenshire), Wales' largest county spans the period of the earliest recorded occupation through the various phases of history from prehistoric times down to the present day.About the AuthorDr. Dylan Rees...

Selling under the Swastika is the first in-depth study of commercial advertising in the Third Reich. While scholars have focused extensively on the political propaganda that infused daily life in Nazi Germany, they have paid little attention to the role...

All political actors of the 1790s are assumed to fall into 'radical' or 'conservative' camps according to the strength of their reactions to the French Revolution. The response of the Younger Pitt to that revolution remains unclear and has been contested...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934163Author Donal MccrackenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

Red Saxony throws new light on the reciprocal relationship between political modernization and authoritarianism in Germany over the span of six decades. Election battles were fought so fiercely in Imperial Germany because they reflected two kinds of...

Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.About the AuthorIsabelle Rohr is a visiting lecturer at King's College, University of London and at St Mary's College, University of Surrey. She has published several...

The five-year period following the proclamation of the Republic in April 1931 was marked by physical assaults upon the property and public ritual of the Spanish Catholic Church. These attacks were generally carried out by rural and urban anticlerical...

This compelling history of our most feared institution charts the growth of prisons across the country: castle dungeons and decaying hulks, the dreadful Fleet and Marshalsea of Dickens' novels and the soulless structures of Dartmoor and Reading Gaol...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279217Author Frederick BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 298gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

This spendid selection of nearly 200 photographs documents a poignant journey through the historical development of Burnley from the 1850s to the 1960s.About the AuthorThe author, Mike Townend, is Keeper of History at the Towneley Hall Museum in Burnley...

"They are works of art that speak to the creative spirit that once stirred within a heart to carve a statue, to gather stones to build a foundation, or gather words to form a poem or mix colors for a painting; they are messages from the past telling what...

For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children. John de Warenne, earl...

Until now insular and continental material, mostly metal-work, found in pagan Viking Age graves in Norway, has been interpreted as looted material from churches and monasteries on the British Isles and the Continent. The raiding Vikings brought these...

This absorbing collection of over 150 archive images documents some of the major events and changes that have occurred in Northwich over the years, mainly from the end of the nineteenth century through to local government reforms in 1973. Removing the...

'Stop the world, Scotland wants to get on.' - Hamilton, Scotland, 3 November 1967 A young couple, married only one day, join a group of eager SNP supporters in the early morning of the by-election to gather last minute votes around Hamilton. ...

This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752426488Author Barry...

Based on their combat achievements, friends and foes alike have singled out the men from the German 1st Parachute Division as the best soldiers in World War II, as they at Eben Emael executed the most successful commando raid of the war; on Crete the...

A collection of images and captions.About the AuthorPeter Lee is the chairman of the Local Civic Society and the author of several books on the region, including Nuneaton Volume II (2004).Book InformationISBN 9780752439792Author Brian LeeFormat...

An Economist and Sunday Times Best Book of the Year"Deserves to be hailed as a magnum opus."-Tom Holland, The Telegraph"Ambitious...seeks to rehabilitate the Holy Roman Empire's reputation by re-examining its place within the larger sweep of European...

Illustrated with 200 photographs and postcards, many of which have never before been published, this fascinating selection of archive images charts many changes which have taken place in Bodmin during the last 100 years. Images of shops which have ceased...

Brigadier General James L. Collins Jr. Book PrizeIn the narrative of D-Day the Canadians figure chiefly-if at all-as an ineffective force bungling their part in the early phase of Operation Overlord. The reality is quite another story. As both the Allies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074436Author Stuart MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 4mm

Analyses British pressure to partition and ultimately destroy the Ottoman EmpireAbout the AuthorJustin McCarthy, Professor of History, University of Louisville.Book InformationISBN 9781399500043Author Justin McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint...