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'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...

For six years the people of Britain endured bombs and the threat of invasion, and more than 140,000 civilians were killed or seriously wounded. Men and women were called to serve in the armed forces in record numbers, and everyone experienced air raids...

General W J Slim achieved something no one believed possible. Appointed to lead what was soon to become the famous 'forgotten' 14th Army in 1943, at a time when British units in the Far East were defeated and demoralised, within six months he had dealt...

The letters home to his family by Gerald Goodlake, a young officer in the Coldstream Guards, make remarkable reading. They vividly describe the ill-preparedness of the British Army and the dire conditions experienced by all ranks in the Crimea...

This book is part of an invaluable series of accessible reference books packed with essential information, ideal for use at home or school. "Kings, Queens, Chiefs & Rulers" is an expansive guide to the fascinating history of the monarchy...

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This is the story of the fighter aces who flew throughout the war in many different operational theatres. The book opens with the first Polish Aces during the German invasion and continues with Finland's pilots in the Winter War against the Soviets...

Now re-issued in a third, updated edition, this book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the modern history of Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. The current economic...

What is Europe's highest mountain? How many countries are in Europe? What languages do people in Europe speak? This book answers these questions and more as it introduces young readers to the continent of Europe through age-appropriate maps, engaging...

The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller 'A fabulous story, superbly told ... cannot be bettered' Max Hastings 'Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.' On the 18th June 1815 the armies of France, Britain and Prussia descended upon a...

Why do certain places and not others symbolically capture the past and freeze time? Likewise, why does the process of memory, as a fluid and changing activity, seem to prevent its own solidification? Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241401832Author Leonard LindenFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241533281Author Philipp SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

This book analyses the actions, background, connections and the eventual trials of Hungarian female perpetrators in the Second World War through the concept of invisibility. It examines why and how far-right women in general and among them several Second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240920426Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241465612Author Linus Pierpont BrockettFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783753443874Author Verein Via Claudia Augusta TirolFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Books on DemandPublisher Books on DemandWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914337604Author Joseph BichikashviliFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint GP BooksPublisher GP BooksWeight(grams) 1964g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241458010Author Edward ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

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For a nation with a relatively small territory and population, Ireland has had a remarkable influence in the English-speaking world. In the United States alone, it is estimated that there are now forty-four million descendants of Irish lineage. For them...

The Industrial Revolution has been, and continues to be, the focus of massive historiographical as well as historical inquiry. This collection includes reappraisals by Phyllis Deane and by Francois Crouzet of their classic accounts of industrialisation...

This book takes a new look at occupied and liberated France through the dual prism of race, specifically Jewishness, and gender - core components of Vichy ideology. The imagining of liberation and the potential post-Vichy state, lay at the heart of...

Reflecting on the greatest war in human history, one cannot help but think about the terrible conflict as a whole, its leaders, its peoples, and the puzzles still open about its conduct. Leaders on both sides realised that at stake from the very...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241451301Author Hugh E SeebohmFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241547998Author Louis NoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

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This book makes use of newly available archival sources to reexamine the Roman Catholic Church's policy, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, of coercing the Jews of Rome into converting to Christianity. Marina Caffiero, one of the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241761639Author Augusto MarquesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241742881Author Henri RibadieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that still resound today. In this 2005 book, Jerrold Seigel provides an original and penetrating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241440138Author Pierre Franc GiraudFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...