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Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen":: A Photographic History by Holger Nauroth
RRP: $82.55$62.11The legendary World War II Luftwaffe fighter unit Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" is the subject of this new, large-format, illustrated volume. Tracing their history back to World War I fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen (the legendary "Red Baron"), JG 2... -
Voracious Idols and Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel by Lee Palmer Wandel 9780521663434
RRP: $29.66$25.23This 1995 book is an effort to recover the participation of ordinary Christians in the enterprise of Reformation through an exploration of the meaning of acts of iconoclasm: what they tell us about the role of images in Christianity and about ordinary... -
Europe, Small Navies and Maritime Security: Balancing Traditional Roles and Emergent Threats in the 21st Century by Robert McCabe
RRP: $54.17$47.41This book seeks to identify and address gaps in our understanding of maritime security and the role of small navies in Europe. The majority of Europe's navies are small, yet they are often called upon to address a complex array of traditional and... -
Jews and the Military: A History by Derek J. Penslar
RRP: $28.38$22.91Jews and the Military is the first comprehensive and comparative look at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Derek Penslar shows that although Jews have often... -
The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment: Ibn Tufayl's Influence on Modern Western Thought by Samar Attar 9780739119907
RRP: $58.05$50.94The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. His philosophical novel, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, could be considered one of... -
Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day by Associate Professor Annette F. Timm
RRP: $32.24$28.81At a time when issues of gender and sexuality are as prominent as they have ever been, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides an authoritative exploration of the history of these deeply connected subjects over the last 250 years... -
The Playboy King: Carol II of Romania by Paul D. Quinlan 9780313295195
$107.90The love story between King Carol II of Romania and his long-time mistress, Magda Lupescu, was a subject of great interest in the first half of the 20th century. For several decades sensation-seeking journalists provided eager readers with juicy morsels... -
Soviet Propaganda Baruch A. Hazan 9781138514928
RRP: $56.75$50.10This book encompasses the period since the establishment of the State of Israel (1948-75), which marked the peak of Soviet involvement in the Middle East. It introduces new concepts in the study of propaganda, and describes and analyzes Soviet propaganda... -
Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany by Paul Warde 9780521143332
RRP: $51.59$43.42This is an innovative analysis of the agrarian world and growth of government in early modern Germany through the medium of pre-industrial society's most basic material resource, wood. Paul Warde offers a regional study of south-west Germany from the... -
Scholarly Community at the Early University of Paris: Theologians, Education and Society, 1215-1248 by Spencer E. Young
RRP: $39.98$29.48This book explores the ways in which theologians at the early University of Paris promoted the development of this new centre of education into a prominent institution within late medieval society. Drawing upon a range of evidence, including many... -
Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935-1941 by Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9780521395564
RRP: $58.04$49.20This is a study in English of a major and instructive episode in the history of the Soviet Union. The Stakhanovite movement commemorated the mining of 102 tons of coal by Aleksei Stakhanov on August 30-1, 1935, and it was an important symbol by which the... -
German Reformation by R.W. Scribner 9780333665282 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.53$3.84Over the past twenty years, new approaches to the history of the Reformation of the Church have radically altered our understanding of that event within its broadest social and cultural context. In this classic study R. W. Scribner provided a synthesis... -
Twentieth-Century France: Politics and Society 1898-1991 by James F. McMillan 9780340522394 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.56$2.70Originally published as "Dreyfus to de Gaulle", this authoritative account has been revised and extended, its greater chronological range reflected in the new title.Two substantial additional chapters have been incorporated focussing on the presidencies... -
Heart of England Fairs by Vanessa Toulmin 9780752420769 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$4.99'Heart of England Fairs' is a unique collection of nearly 200 photographs taken by Midlands engineer and fairground enthusiast Jack Leeson. Jack photographed his first images at Rugby Fair in June 1949 and continued taking pictures that covered all... -
European Political Thought 1600-1700 by W. M. Spellman 9780333676042 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.14$5.55The European seventeenth century saw the seeming resolution of two great conflicts.Through the nightmares of the Thirty Years War and the British civil wars, the murderous religious hatreds that had dominated the previous period finally burnt themselves... -
Battle of Britain by 9781405440080 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89$3.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405440080Format HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Parragon PlusPublisher Parragon Plus -
Great Battles of World War 2 by 9781407525129 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.80$3.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407525129Format HardbackImprint Parragon Book Service LtdPublisher Parragon -
The First World War by Brian Williams 9781841652252 [USED COPY]
RRP: $7.74$2.89They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. In 1914, the war aim of all nations was simple: victory. By the time that... -
The European Reformation by Euan K. Cameron 9780198730934 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.70$2.95This is a survey and analysis of the European Reformation of the sixteenth century. During this period western Christianity underwent the most dramatic changes in its entire history. From Iceland to Transylvania, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees, the... -
Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe by Peter Heather 9780330492553 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$4.33At the start of the first millennium AD, southern and western Europe formed part of the Mediterranean-based Roman Empire, the largest state western Eurasia has ever known, and was set firmly on a trajectory towards towns, writing, mosaics, and central... -
The Spy with 29 Names: The story of the Second World War's most audacious double agent by Jason Webster 9780099578246 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$2.95He fought on both sides in the Spanish Civil War. He was awarded the Iron Cross by Hitler and an MBE by Britain. To MI5 he was known as Garbo. To the Abwehr, he was Alaric. He also went by Rags the Indian Poet, Mrs Gerbers, Stanley the Welsh Nationalist... -
The Commandos at Dieppe: Rehearsal for D-Day by Will Fowler 9780007111251 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.21$2.95In August 1942, the Allies launched a raid against the German-held port of Dieppe on the French channel coast. It was largely a disaster, with the Canadian forces bearing the brunt of the catastrophe. However, it wasn't all a failure. Landings against... -
The Terror in the French Revolution by Hugh Gough 9780333601396 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.63$2.52Why has the guillotine become one of the best known symbols of the French Revolution? Why did a revolution, which set out to provide French people with constitutional government and freedom in 1789, end up with a dictatorship that executed tens of... -
Wilmslow and Alderley Edge: Quarry Bank Mill and Manchester Airport by Roy Westall 9780850338676 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.02$7.96Since prehistoric times copper and lead are believed to have been mined on the Edge and burial urns from the early Bronze Age have been found in the area. In 1984 excitement was created, by the discovery of a body preserved for 2,500 years by peat of... -
Democracy and Classical Greece by J. K. Davies 9780006862512 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.47$2.52The art of classical Greece, and its political and philosophical ideas, have had a profound influence on Western civilization. It was in the fifth and fourth centuries BC that this culture - material, political and intellectual - reached its zenith, and... -
A History of Wiltshire by Bruce Watkin 9780850336924 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$6.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850336924Author Bruce WatkinFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
The History of Ireland by Daniel Webster Hollis 9780313312816 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.50$7.82Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Andreas Vesalius and his 'Fabrica', 1537-1564: Changing the World of Anatomy Vivian Nutton 9783031695643
RRP: $141.89$141.32This monograph presents a study of the most significant book in the history of anatomy, Fleming Andreas Vesalius' (1514-1564) De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius' Fabrica was immediately recognised as changing the view of the human body when it was... -
Europe in the Long Twentieth Century: A Transnational History Christoph Cornelissen 9780192871428
RRP: $153.51$130.48Thanks to their economic and military strength, the European empires had achieved global supremacy by 1900, with large parts of the world under their dominance in the wake of colonial expansion. This situation fuelled ideas of Europe's permanent, almost... -
Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism in the Early Modern World Kazimierz Bem 9783031696572
RRP: $154.79$131.57This collection offers an innovative and fresh interpretation of Antitrinitarian and rational dissent in the early modern world. The central themes focus on the fierce debates surrounding Antitrinitarianism and Unitarianism that emerged from the... -
Soldiers and Silver: Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest Michael J. Taylor 9781477330777
RRP: $38.69$32.88By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region—Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire—to... -
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age Eleanor Barraclough 9781788166751
RRP: $14.18$12.05Imagine a Viking, and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless, faceless warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorise the hapless local population of a northern European country. Yet while such characters define the Viking Age... -
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State Ciaran O'Neill 9780192855428
RRP: $127.71$108.55The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders - from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera -- and as moments of sectarian division and high... -
Waging War and Making Peace: European Ways of Inciting and Containing Armed Conflict, 1710–1960 Matthew D'Auria 9783110763911
RRP: $112.88$95.95The history of Europe is as much about violence and divisions as it is about shared cultural, social, and economic accomplishments. War has been a constant feature of Europe’s history, shaping a shared European space. However, efforts to reduce the... -
Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives on the Balkans, 1850–1918 Eva Asboth 9783031691799
RRP: $154.79$131.57This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was 'Europeanised' in the twentieth century - that is, brought into a wider fold of European countries through... -
In the Storms of Transformation: Two Shipyards between Socialism and the EU Ulf Brunnbauer 9781487550349
RRP: $36.11$30.69In the 1990s, states in what would become the eastern edge of the European Union transformed their political systems and economies, leaving state socialism behind for liberal democracies and free markets. In the ensuing decades, two shipyards that were... -
Sir Orme Sargent and British Policy Towards Europe, 1926-1949 Adam Richardson 9781032394923
RRP: $51.59$45.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032394923Author Adam RichardsonImprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd -
The Gentleman's Mistress: Illegitimate Relationships and Children, 1450–1640 Tim Thornton 9781526114075
RRP: $32.25$27.41This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mistresses, the taking of lovers, the birth of illegitimate children and the fate of those children. It... -
The Periodicals of Ferdinand Pelzer (1833-1857): A German Musician in London dr Sarah Clarke 9780900952098
RRP: $90.30$76.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900952098Author dr Sarah ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint London Record SocietyPublisher London Record Society -
Companion Species: Saints, Ordinary Humans in the Middle Ages Mathilde van Dijk 9781032764429
RRP: $167.70$142.55This book explores the connection between saints and animals, and how the power over animals has been a characteristic of saints from their beginnings in the Early Church.