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Hitler's Chariots, Vol Two: Mercedes-Benz 770K Grser Parade Car by Blaine Taylor 9780764335211
RRP: £45.99£30.72This book is the first ever illustrated study devoted exclusively to the famous Mercedes 770K parade car used by Hitler during most of the 1930s, and into the 1940s, both in peace and war. Culled from the rich photo archives of Daimler-Benz - and the... -
Carlo Sigonio: The Changing World of the Late Renaissance by William McCuaig
RRP: £52.00£40.63William McCuaig explores the intellectual turbulence of the late Italian Renaissance through a full examination of the work of one scholar--the humanist Carlo Sigonio (1523-84), whose insistence on critical methods for reconstructing the past... -
Scotland: The Making and Unmaking of the Nation c1100-1707: Volume 5: Major Documents by Caroline Erskine
RRP: £18.99£11.14Part of a five volume set completed in time for the 300th anniversary of the parliamentary union of Scotland with England. The series provides a comprehensive introduction to medieval and early modern Scotland.Book InformationISBN 9781845860301Author... -
Turbulent Foresters: A Landscape Biography of Ashdown Forest by Brian Short
RRP: £110.00£105.14A richly detailed history of Ashdown Forest -- home of Winnie-the-Pooh. The seeming tranquility of many rural landscapes can hide a combative history. This biography of one such landscape, Ashdown Forest in the Weald of Sussex, exemplifies the... -
The History of Mauchline: Village and Parish Dane Love 9780956755032
RRP: £20.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956755032Author Dane LoveFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltdDimensions(mm) 240mm * 165mm * 23mm -
A Full Life: James Connolly The Irish Rebel by Paul Buhle
RRP: £4.99£4.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633725Author Paul BuhleFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 62g -
Fascist Modernities: Italy, 1922-1945 by Ruth Ben-Ghiat 9780520242166
RRP: £30.00£23.29Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism... -
The Falklands War: An Imperial History by Ezequiel Mercau 9781108483292
RRP: £34.99£30.49Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival of Britain's imperial past? Despite widespread conjecture about the imperial... -
A History of the Habsburg Empire 1273-1700 by Jean Berenger 9780582090101
RRP: £71.99£70.10The first part of a two-volume history of the Habsburg Empire from its medieval origins to its dismemberment in the First World War.This important volume (which is self-contained) meets a long-felt need for a systematic survey in English of the Habsburgs... -
Narrators of Barbarian History (A.D. 550-800), The: Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon by Walter Goffart
RRP: £35.00£31.14In this substantial work Walter Goffart treats the four writers who provide the principal narrative sources for our early knowledge of the Ostrogoths, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, and Lombards: Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and Paul the Deacon. The... -
Manchester: Photographic Memories by Cliff Hayes 9781859371985
RRP: £15.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859371985Author Cliff HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Frith Book Company Ltd.Publisher Frith Book Company Ltd. -
Botany and Gardens in Early Modern Ireland by Charles Nelson
RRP: £45.00£44.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510233Author Charles NelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Great War Britain Northampton: Remembering 1914-18 by Philip Sawford
RRP: £12.99£9.62The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.Great War Britain: Northampton offers an intimate portrayal of the town and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. It describes... -
Enemies of the People: Hitler's Critics and the Gestapo by J. Ryan Stackhouse
RRP: £34.99£30.49How do terror and popularity merge under a dictatorship? How did the Gestapo deal with critics of Nazism? Based on hundreds of secret police case files, Enemies of the People explores the day-to-day reality of political policing under Hitler. Examining... -
Heroes & Villains of Worcestershire by Terry Wardle 9780752455150
RRP: £14.99£11.55The great, the good, and the very, very bad from Worcestershire's past live again in this informative, lively and entertaining collection of more than 700 mini-biographies of county men and women from across the centuries. All of human life is here, from... -
The City of Coventry by Graham Kempster 9780752433578
RRP: £12.99£9.62This pictorial history traces some of the dramatic changes and developments that have taken place in the city of Coventry during the last century. This collection of 170 old photographs are drawn largely from the archives of the Coventry Evening... -
Waiting for War: Britain 1939-1940 by Barry Turner
RRP: £10.99£7.32At the outbreak of war in 1939, ordinary people were quickly forced to adapt to the realities of a nation under dire threat. But it soon became known as the Phoney War, a time when official incompetence reigned supreme. Theatres and cinemas were closed... -
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power by Leah Redmond Chang 9781526613448
RRP: £16.99£13.68LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: HISTORY The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de' Medici, Elisabeth de Valois and Mary, Queen of Scots - three queens exercising power in a... -
The Early Modern European Economy by Peter Musgrave
£34.23Until recently, study of the early modern economy in Europe has tended to have heroes and villains: the former being the progressive and 'modern' economies of the Netherlands and England, and the latter being doomed, backward and Catholic Italy and Spain... -
Medieval Religious Rationalities: A Weberian Analysis by David D'Avray
RRP: £22.99£19.56Inspired by the social theories of Max Weber, David d'Avray asks in what senses medieval religion was rational and, in doing so, proposes a new approach to the study of the medieval past. Applying ideas developed in his companion volume on Rationalities... -
The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East by Nicholas Morton
RRP: £22.00£16.79In 1119, the people of the Near East came together in an epic clash of horses, swords, sand, and blood that would decide the fate of the city of the Aleppo-and the eastern Crusader states. Fought between tribal Turkish warriors on steppe ponies, Arab... -
Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe: Economies in the Era of Early Globalization, c. 1450 - c. 1820 by Robert S. DuPlessis 9781108405553
RRP: £26.99£23.20Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, and industry were disparately but profoundly transformed. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second... -
The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky: Into Germany at the End of World War II by Charlotte A. Lerg 9781800736955
RRP: £107.00£86.87"'The Diary of Lt. Melvin J. Lasky' offers not only a panoramic view of a country poised between devastation and an uncertain future but a gripping self-portrait of a man poised between unresolved youthful bewilderment and a mature clarity of conviction... -
The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 by Margaret R. Hunt
RRP: £53.00£41.79To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. In a lively study that combines narrative and alternately poignant and hilarious... -
A Year in the Life of Stuart Britain by Andrea Zuvich 9781445647425
£22.54The Stuart monarchs reigned during a time when Britain was balanced on the brink of change. It was an era torn between absolute monarchy and revolution: kings ruled with iron fists only to be toppled by opponents who laid claim, not to a crown, but to a... -
Tamta's World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia by Antony Eastmond 9781107167568
RRP: £44.99£41.58This 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... -
Everyman and Its Dutch Original, Elckerlijc by Ton J Broos
RRP: £13.00£11.02Faced with death's certainty-and the uncertainty of the time of its coming, particularly in a historical period of widespread plague and other afflictions-as well as the inevitability of the hereafter, what is one to do? Everyman speaks to this dilemma. ... -
Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial by Olga Bush 9781474480901
RRP: £37.00£30.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474480901Author Olga BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Guide to the Churches and Chapels of Wales by Nigel Yates 9780708321188
RRP: £8.99£6.87A guide to the most important church and chapel buildings in Wales, from the early middle ages onwards. It includes an introduction that provides a clear overview, based on research, of the religious history of Wales and the way that history can be seen... -
The Reign of Mary I Robert Tittler 9781408245347
RRP: £37.99£36.68Until recently, the reign of Mary Tudor was generally seen as a 'sterile interlude' in the Tudor century, with Mary herself dismissed as 'Bloody Mary'. Extensive research in the past several decades has overturned these assumptions in almost every... -
Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship by Michael G. Shapland
RRP: £120.00£100.95It has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western European tradition of castle-building until after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is now becoming apparent that Anglo-Saxon lords had been constructing free-standing towers at their residences... -
The Swiss Economy in a Nutshell by Cyrill Jost
RRP: £19.99£13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783038690962Author Cyrill JostFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Bergli Books LtdPublisher Bergli Books Ltd -
The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes of Labouring Life in Seventeenth Century England by Steve Hindle
RRP: £100.00£90.50The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census,... -
Germany's First Ally: Armed Forces of the Slovak State 1939-1945 by Charles K. Kliment 9780764305894
RRP: £36.99£23.98Slovakia split from Czechoslovakia and formed its own state on March 14, 1939. The Slovak State was born under the auspices of Hitler's Third Reich and became its first ally on September 1, 1939, when it took part in the invasion of Poland. The Slovak... -
Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary by John C. Swanson 9780822964292
£56.63Tangible Belonging presents a compelling historical and ethnographic study of the German speakers in Hungary, from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Through this tumultuous period in European history, the Hungarian-German leadership... -
War and Semiotics: Signs, Communication Systems, and the Preparation, Legitimization, and Commemoration of Collective Mass Violence by Frank Jacob
RRP: £39.99£35.06Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or... -
The Medieval Clothier John S. Lee (Royalty Account) 9781837651092
RRP: £34.99£29.54A clear and accessibly written guide to the medieval cloth-making trade in England. Cloth-making became England's leading industry in the late Middle Ages; clothiers co-ordinated its different stages, in some cases carrying out the processes... -
The Marlborough Mound: Prehistoric Mound, Medieval Castle, Georgian Garden by Richard Barber
RRP: £45.00£37.63The Marlborough Mound has recently been recognised as one of the most important monuments in the group around Stonehenge. It was also a medieval castle and a feature in a major 17th century garden. This is the first comprehensive history of this... -
Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (1295-1360): Household and Other Records by Jennifer C Ward 9781843838913
RRP: £49.95£42.01Edition, with full explanatory notes and introduction, of financial records from Elizabeth de Burgh, one of the most important women of fourteenth-century England. Noble widows were powerful figures in the later Middle Ages, running their own estates... -
Cronica Walliae by J. Beverley Smith 9781783169481
RRP: £14.99£11.66The publication of Cronica Walliae in 2002 provided for the first time ever a printed text of a scholarly work found in manuscripts of the sixteenth century. Its author, the antiquary Humphrey Llwyd, born in Denbigh about 1527, graduated at Oxford...