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Nearly eighty women have sat on the throne of England, either as queen regnant or queen consort and the voices of all of them survive through their own writings and those of their contemporaries. The primary role of the queen over the ages was to provide...

This sequel to D-DAY opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the Falaise gap, Patton tearing through France, the...

In the last millennium there have been only six female sovereigns: Mary I and Elizabeth I, Mary II and Anne, Victoria and Elizabeth II, who celebrated her eightieth birthday in 2006. With the exception of Mary I, they are among our most successful...

Great Britain's geopolitical role in the global scheme of things has undergone many radical changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain's current position as an isolated, economically fragile...

From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great...

This enthusiastically reviewed, scrupulously researched and prize-winning book, which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, chronicles a resonant episode of Victorian history. It is the tale of the agitation led by Samuel Plimsoll MP, 'The Sailor's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780276446634Author Juliet GardinerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Reader's DigestPublisher Reader's Digest

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An engaging account-told for the first time-of the decline and ruin of Alexander the Great as he sought to conquer faraway lands in Asia and subdue his own growing megalomania. Alexander the Great accomplished more than any ordinary human could even hope...

An illustrated history of Britain since the Roman occupation, which traces its political, social, economic and cultural development.Book InformationISBN 9780198226840Author Kenneth O. MorganFormat HardbackPage Count 662Imprint Oxford University...

Based on the "Oxford Companion to British History", this dictionary is a compact reference work on all aspects of the history of Britain from 55 BC to the present day. In more than 3600 entries, over 100 specialist contributors describe the people and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906370268Author Jacqueline MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Book HousePublisher Salariya Book Company Ltd

This account of the U-boat campaign in the World War I represents the official British history of the war against the German submarine attack on shipping. From a few fragile craft, the U-boats grew to become the greatest menace to Britain's survival. By...

The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up to the start of the campaign, the German forces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850337846Author Sue BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd

The Eagle's Last Triumph is a compelling analysis of Napoleon's victory at Ligny on 16 June 1815. The fi ghting lasted for six hours, but such was its bitterness that more than 20,000 were killed or wounded - at least one in seven of the soldiers who...

"In countries just emerging from dictatorships, societies have been looking to history for models of reparations and justice for the victims. German reparations for the victims of Nazism represents both a model and a warning."-from the Preface...

Ideal topic books to use as a complete course or as supplementary resources providing in-depth focus on major themes and events.Book InformationISBN 9780582223721Author Josh BroomanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint LongmanPublisher Pearson Education...

In the early twentieth century brutal nation-states such as Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany came to the fore and the twin evils of dictatorship and war ensured the rapid destruction of liberal democracy, market economics and the...

From the Fall of France in June 1940 to Hitler's suicide in April 1945, the swastika flew from the peaks of the High Savoy in the western Alps to the passes above Ljubljana in the east. The Alps as much as Berlin were the heart of the Third Reich. 'Yes,'...

Philip Ardagh has a passion for history. During his numerous children's events over the years, he has been asked just about every conceivable question about castles and life in medieval times. Here he answers his favourite (printable) ones, in a similar...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780006860679Author G.R. EltonFormat PaperbackImprint Fontana PressPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 130g

Martin Middlebrook's "The First Day on the Somme" is a compelling and intensely moving account of the blackest day in the history of the British army. On 1 July, 1916, a continuous line of British soldiers climbed out from the trenches of the...

This new edition of this highly successful and influential work includes two entirely new chapters - on Europe and the wider world and on the Revolutionary crisis - and is extensively revised throughout. It offers a wide-ranging thematic account of the...

Even a brief glance at the maps of what has, or might have, been called Germany through the ages reveals a kaleidoscope of alterations in shape and composition. Though there are elements of continuity, the history of Germany has been the history of...

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Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), King of Macedonia, lived a life of mythical proportions. He modelled himself on Achilles and slept with a copy of the "Iliad", annotated by Aristotle, his teacher, under his pillow. Unrivalled by any historical military...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909217010Author Michelle BrachetFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Demand Media LimitedPublisher Demand Media Limited

France is in crisis. In this provocative account, Timothy Smith argues that the French economic and social model is collapsing inward on itself, the result of good intentions, bad policies, and vested interests who employ the rhetoric of 'solidarity' to...

1942 - British troops are stranded in the desert, struggling to hold back Rommel's Afrika Corps. Hitler's armies have reached Moscow, and there are murmurs of discontent at home as new doubts emerge about Churchill's leadership. Elsewhere in Europe...

Henry Eighth from 1509 to 1547 - in his reign the Bible was translated into English - toward the end of his life he was extremely corpulent On 1 August 1818, the Napoleonic Wars had ended, and King George III was on his deathbed, but still two years from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899388226Author Janet FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Bygone BristolPublisher Bygone Bristol

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874538202Author Iris Roderick ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Old Bakehouse PublicationsPublisher Old Bakehouse Publications

Based on huge research and scores of interviews, this book offers an unforgettable and richly illustrated narrative of the military action that took place in Moscow during 1941; telling portraits of Stalin and his generals, some apparatchiks, some great...

A magnificent narrative of 1941 and the Battle of Moscow, by some criteria the biggest battle in history, and the Russian ordinary men (and women) who fought it. It was fought over a territory the size of France. It cost the Russians as many casualties...

'A hell of a tale and Jonathan Beckman gives it all the verve and swagger it deserves . . . I read it with fascination, delight and frequent snorts of incredulity' The Spectator On 5 September 1785, a trial began in Paris that would divide the country,...

From the romantic agonies of Hector Berlioz to the lonely labours of Anton Bruckner, and from the cosmopolitan triumphs of George Frideric Handel to the politically fraught career of Dmitri Shostakovich in the Soviet Union, the lives of the great...