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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...

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...

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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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240950546Author Guido CarocciFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint 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 9781240922871Author Edwin Josiah MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241780678Author Jh LefevreFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint 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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241570613Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint 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 9781241465612Author Linus Pierpont BrockettFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...