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On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
RRP: £17.99£13.35While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke-filled cafes, or with a brooding, angst-filled outlook on life, Gosetti-Ferencei shows how vital and heterogeneous the movement really was. ... -
European History For Dummies by Sean Lang 9780470978184
RRP: £20.99£14.36Read about the world's smallest continent's incredible history: From Greek gods and mad Roman emperors to kings, queens, Visigoths, and Normans You meet Visigoths in Africa and Normans in Sicily; an Italian who talked to his books and another who... -
Gutenberg's Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity by Frederic Barbier 9780745672588
RRP: £18.99£16.87Major transformations in society are always accompanied by parallel transformations in systems of social communication what we call the media. In this book, historian Frederic Barbier provides an important new economic, political and social analysis of... -
Normanton by Bryan Fraser 9780752415031
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752415031Author Bryan... -
Ghost Empire by Richard Fidler 9780733338557
RRP: £12.99£8.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780733338557Author Richard FidlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint ABC BooksPublisher ABC BooksWeight(grams) 626gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 155mm * 40mm -
Alexander the Great by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £16.99£12.28From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time. Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate... -
Europe in the High Middle Ages: The Penguin History of Europe by William Chester Jordan
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The most accessible, up-to-date introduction to its subject ... does full justice to the multifarious forces at work in high gothic Europe' Daily TelegraphThe years from AD 1000 to the beginning of the fourteenth century were the most formative... -
Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Holocaust by Karen Bartlett 9781785900426
RRP: £20.00£14.48Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen. At its height sixty-six Topf triple muffle ovens were in operation - forty-six of which were at Auschwitz... -
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport by Deborah Oppenheimer
RRP: £14.99£10.95___________________ BASED ON THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY ___________________ 'Wonderfully moving ... a noble story, beautifully told' - Daily Mail With a preface by Lord Richard Attenborough, this is a moving collection of... -
Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs who Tried to Civilise the Nazis by Charles Spicer
RRP: £20.00£14.29How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history's greatest 'what ifs'... A TELEGRAPH AND SPECTATOR HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding true story of a handful of amateur British intelligence... -
Europe Since 1945 by Mary Fulbrook 9780198731788
RRP: £41.99£30.15Bringing home the extraordinary waves of transformation that washed across Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, this book interprets the trends, developments, and issues which were of major importance in East and West Europe in the latter... -
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 by Robert C. Davis 9781403945518
RRP: £27.99£25.65This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Africa to the Americas. Here are explored... -
An Italian Girl in Brooklyn by Santa Montefiore
RRP: £16.99£11.08Dark secrets and hidden sorrows abound in Santa Montefiore's spellbinding novel set in war-torn Italy and the streets of New York. 'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES 'A wonderful story, beautifully told. I absolutely tore through... -
Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War: Reds Versus Whites by Professor Marlene Laruelle
RRP: £13.99£12.61In examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today. The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite... -
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe
RRP: £14.99£10.95Keith Lowe's Savage Continent is an awe-inspiring portrait of how Europe emerged from the ashes of WWII.The end of the Second World War saw a terrible explosion of violence across Europe. Prisoners murdered jailers. Soldiers visited atrocities on... -
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present by Serhii Plokhy 9780674268838
RRP: £16.95£13.85The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War... -
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance by Jake Subryan Richards 9781781301234
RRP: £25.00£18.88An important illustrated history of the relationship between Cambridge and the Black Atlantic. Between 1400 and 1900, European powers, not least Britain, colonised the Americas and transported over 12.5 million people from sub-Saharan Africa as... -
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London by Andrew Nagorski 9781785788772
RRP: £10.99£7.32'Astonishing... In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBASTIAN FAULKS, Sunday Times'[A] thrilling book, as edge-of-your-seat gripping as any heist movie'Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Book of the Day'A gripping... -
The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction by John Robertson
RRP: £8.99£6.45A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human... -
The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter
RRP: £16.99£12.28The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and and the English became a subject race, dominated by a Norman-French... -
Queen of the Sea: A History of Lisbon by Barry Hatton
RRP: £16.99£15.31Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was not always smooth sailing-in 1755 the city was devastated... -
The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £14.99£10.95An electrifying narrative history of the Mediterranean from Ancient Egypt to 1919, from the bestselling author of The Popes and Sicily: A Short HistoryThe Mediterranean has nurtured three of the most dazzling civilisations of antiquity, witnessed the... -
Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England by Eleanor Parker
RRP: £25.00£18.88"Outstanding." - The Sunday Times "Beautifully written." The Times "Superbly adroit." The Spectator "Excellent." BBC History Magazine The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England - so what... -
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard 9781861975966
RRP: £11.99£8.43WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an... -
Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750 by Sir Noel Malcolm 9780198886334
RRP: £25.00£21.59A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world. Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored... -
The London Compendium by Ed Glinert
RRP: £14.99£10.95The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts. Ed Glinert has... -
Hms Bristol by Rob Griffin
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658757Author Rob GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 355g -
The Oxford Companion to Irish History by S. J. Connolly
RRP: £17.49£12.61'A companion to be cherished', 'judicious and authoritative', 'informative and entertaining', an 'invaluable work of reference' - these are just some of the phrases used by reviewers to describe the Oxford Companion to Irish History. The history of... -
Life and Terror in Stalins Russia, 1934-1941 by Robert William Thurston 9780300074420
£24.52Terror, in the sense of mass, unjust arrests, characterized the USSR during the late 1930s. But, argues Robert Thurston in this controversial book, Stalin did not intend to terrorize the country and did not need to rule by fear. Memoirs and interviews... -
A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.93'I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day - traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade that I have walked past before and not noticed; an... -
Enemy Coast Ahead Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson by Guy Gibson
RRP: £11.95£8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791182Author Guy GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
On History by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £12.99£8.60In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide-ranging papers reflect Professor Hobsbawm's lifelong concern... -
Eleni by Nicholas Gage
RRP: £12.99£9.09A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder.In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith 9780091898267 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.29Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of... -
Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of... -
Loyalty and Identity: Jacobites at Home and Abroad by Paul Kleber Monod 9780230222571
RRP: £44.99£44.97This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral... -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume I - Ancestral Voices) by Chris Bryant
RRP: £16.99£12.28The history of Parliament is the history of the United Kingdom itself. It has a cast of thousands. Some were ambitious, visionary and altruistic. Others were hot-headed, violent and self-serving. Few were unambiguously noble. Yet their rowdy... -
Great and Glorious Days: Marlborough's Battles 1704-09: Schellenberg, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet by James Falkner 9781862274181
RRP: £16.99£12.94Armies led by John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough met and defeated general and army that King Louis XIV of France could put against them. This book brings soldierly understanding of the trials and tribulations of the fateful days of battle and... -
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Alexander Lee
RRP: £12.99£9.26'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' - Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors.'A notorious fiend', 'generally... -
Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder by Gitta Sereny
RRP: £18.99£13.61The biography of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp - a classic and utterly compelling study of evilOnly four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. Franz Stangl was one of the. Gitta Sereny's...