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This one-volume history of Britain tells the story of Britain and her peoples over two thousand years, from the Roman invasion to the present day. The work contains contributions from several historians who explore the relationship between the political,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904449294Author Richard BougaardtFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Chaucer PressPublisher Chaucer Press

The author traces the history of the town from the first grant of land by Wulfruna to the re-development of the 1990s; the first comprehensive account of this ancient town.Book InformationISBN 9781860770807Author Chris UptonFormat HardbackPage Count...

Covers the days of peace following the downfall of Napoleon to the death of Queen Victoria and the beginning of the present era, including the British Empire at its highest peak, the creation of the dominions and the first steps towards the British...

This book is longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. This is the essential new book by the author of Bloodlands - "The most important work of history for years." (Antony Beevor). A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850339475Author Georgia SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850332544Author Barbara Carpenter TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850524123Author Richard Townshend BickersFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Pen & Sword Books LtdPublisher Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780831767068Author Hanson W. BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Smithmark,U.S.Publisher Smithmark,U.S.

In the summer of 1940, Britain's army had been driven ignominously from France, her allies had collapsed and the population was seized with invasion panic. It seemed only a matter of time before Britain was forced to surrender to Germany's terrifying and...

This work offers an insight into the rise of Hitler, the lightning dash of his armies to the Channel coast in 1940 and on the debacle of Dunkirk - the crucial and fundamental turning point of World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780712674287Author Len...

Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Sigfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain -voices famous and unknown - Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the...

Melvyn Bragg describes the geology of the Lake District from when it was desert and swamp, and tells of the people who have lived there for 4000 years. The legends, myths and folklore of the farmers and fishermen are included, and the types of people...

Classical scholars and military historians have long held that pitched infantry battle in ancient Greek society evolved as a necessary alternative to the more fundamental but exhausting business of warfare, which was the ravaging and destruction of crops...

British policy towards European integration has been one of the most divisive issues in British politics since 1945. Based on a detailed evaluation of the newly accessible government records, of the Conservative Party records, private papers and...

In 1987 Theo Richmond, an English-born Jew, decided to take a six-month sabbatical to write a book - his first. It took him seven years. It began as a subject that excited his curiosity. It became an obsession. Eventually it took over his life. A blend...

Ninety years after the cessation of gunfire on the Western Front, the Imperial War Museum pays tribute to the memory of those who fought its battles with a major new exhibition. The exhibition focuses on remembrance, honouring the lives of the men and...

Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europe's more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407574332Format HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Parragon Book Service LtdPublisher Parragon

A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the GDR and the end of the Cold War, Germany has begun to cope with the political, economic, social and nationalistic challenges unification has posed to its institutions and way of life in both...

Until the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch, with their overseas empire, had managed to stay aloof from the machinations of intra-European fighting. However, the beginning of the Cold War found them persuaded by Britain and the US to break with their...

This book reveals how, in confrontation with secularity, various new forms of Christianity evolved during the time of Europe's crisis of modernisation. Rudolf Schloegl provides a comprehensive overview of the development of religious institutions and...

Covering the entire ancient county created in the 11th century, this book includes that southern part incorporated in the short-lived county of Avon between 1974 and 1996. Since the first edition, in 1972, the book has remained in popular demand as the...

From Romulus to Augustus, the Chronicle of the Roman Republic examines the succession of leaders who took Rome from a small fortified hilltop to the greatest empire of antiquity. Here we meet the builders of Rome - superstitious, brutal and utterly...

D-Day, 6th June 1944, was the climactic battle of World War II. Allied triumph was anything but inevitable - there was everything to play for and everything to lose. The story of the landings has been told and re-told many times, but no one has revealed...

Written by 11 contributors of international standing, this book offers a readable and authoritative account of Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late-18th century to 1998. Each chapter portrays both change and continuity,...

When was the first motorway opened? What did the Levellers believe in? What was the book of sports? Where did the Rebecca riots take place? What prompted the Cat and Mouse Act? How long did the Hundred Years War last? When was the treaty of Worms for?...

In 1648, Europe was reeling from the destabilizing effects of religious conflict, economic change, and social upheaval. The issues that divided the Church in the late Middle Ages had forced Europeans to choose sides in a bitter and bloody...

At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero's majestic account combines British and French histories to give voice to all nationions involved. The Battle is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510742116Author David LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

The position of the nobility depended on a stable world which accepted their authority: but, in the eighteenth century, that world was becoming increasingly fractured as a result of social and economic developments and new ideas. Since nobles were, in...

On 6 June 1944, the greatest invasion the world has ever seen took place; involving hundreds of thousands of troops and huge flotillas of boats and ships, the D-Day landings on the Normandy coast were a triumph of strategic planning and management. This...

The bestselling memoir of a Jewish pianist who survived the war in Warsaw against all odds. 'We are drawn in to share his surprise and then disbelief at the horrifying progress of events, all conveyed with an understated intimacy and dailiness that...

Long after the Battle of Britain, the aircrews of RAF Bomber Command risked their lives night after night during the Second World War. Over 55,000 of the airmen never returned from these missions; a further 10,000 became prisoners of war. And yet Bomber...

Verdun was the largest, the longest and the bloodiest battle between the French and Germans in the First World War, lasting from February 1916 until the end of the year and claiming more than 700,000 casualties. For the French in particular, it was...

The Years of ...series provides core coverage of events in British and European History. It features: - strong and accessible narrative written by experienced teachers - a comprehensive selection of visual and written source material - extensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781862270220Author Jonathan WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Howell PressPublisher Howell PressWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410219183Author William Stearns DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Even in this most murderous of European wars, children were not merely passive victims of genocide, bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies and mass flight. They were also active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and...

This volume, part of The Short Oxford History of the Modern World, is a survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. It...