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Troop Leader: A Tank Commander's Story by Bill Bellamy
RRP: €17.84€13.95Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low... -
Sacred Land: Decoding Britain's extraordinary past through its towns, villages and countryside by Martin Palmer 9780749952921
€23.28SACRED LAND will enable you to discover the hidden secrets and meaning of the landscape around you, town or country, modern or old, wherever you live in Britain. There has been a dramatic growth in interest in our own history, buildings, landscape,... -
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order by Robert Paxton
RRP: €35.70€28.19Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. With a new... -
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital, 1939-45 by Roger Moorhouse
RRP: €17.84€13.03Berlin was the nerve-centre of Hitler's Germany - the backdrop for the most lavish ceremonies, it was also the venue for Albert Speer's plans to forge a new 'world metropolis' and the scene of the final climactic bid to defeat Nazism. Yet while our... -
Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History Nigel Rodgers 9780754833574
RRP: €23.80€20.12The legacy of the ancient Greeks has shaped our world. Classical Greece's military prowess, political sophistication and cultural innovations continue to influence modern society. The first half of the book focuses on political and military history, from... -
The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople: The Cross-Cultural Biography of a Mediterranean Monument by Elena N. Boeck
RRP: €35.69€33.08Justinian's triumphal column was the tallest free-standing column of the pre-modern world and was crowned with arguably the largest metal equestrian sculpture created anywhere in the world before 1699. The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over... -
The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Martyn Rady
RRP: €10.70€7.91The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, they ruled much of Central Europe, and for two centuries were also rulers of Spain. Through the Spanish connection, they acquired lands... -
Cicero and Rome by David Taylor 9781853995064
RRP: €23.79€22.51In "Cicero and Rome", David Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point for examination of the last years of the Roman Republic. He traces the often dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship of Sulla (82 BC) to Cicero's own death in 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: €17.84€2.73Following 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: €17.84€13.03Following 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... -
Tour of the Arnhem Battlefields by John Waddy 9780850525717
RRP: €15.46€13.22Although the Battle of Arnhem was fought over sixty years ago. It still evokes such interest that it would seem to rank with the great victories of Agincourt, Trafalgar, Waterloo and the Battle of Britain, all of which proved to be turning points in the... -
To the Lake: A Journey of War and Peace by Kapka Kassabova
RRP: €13.08€8.97A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa. Two vast lakes joined by underground rivers. Two lakes that have played a central role in Kapka Kassabova's maternal family. As she journeys to her grandmother's place of origin,... -
NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe by Daniele Ganser 9780714685007
RRP: €34.50€30.33This fascinating new study shows how the CIA and the British secret service, in collaboration with the military alliance NATO and European military secret services, set up a network of clandestine anti-communist armies in Western Europe after World War... -
London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over a thousand years of London's history by Tom Quinn 9781911622024
RRP: €15.46€10.36London's Strangest Tales takes a walk on London's weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world's greatest cities. This fascinating book is packed with amazing things you didn't know about Britain's capital, like the... -
A Brief Guide to Classical Civilization by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: €15.46€10.51A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire. The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth... -
A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis Martyn Whittock 9781849012997
RRP: €13.08€9.06Beginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Whittock tells not just the account of the men who rose to the fore in the dangerous days of the Weimar republic, circling... -
Ironbridge: History & Guide by Richard Hayman 9780752414607
RRP: €29.75€19.55The Ironbridge Gorge (midway between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury) was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. The site is best symbolised by the Iron Bridge itself, cast in Coalbrookdale and erected across the River Severn in 1779. It was... -
Amsterdam Then and Now (R) by Egbert de Haan 9781910904855
RRP: €23.80€17.31Amsterdam Then and Now is the perfect historical guide to one of Europe's best preserved city centres. Written by one of Amsterdam's most popular walking tour leaders, the book matches up archive images from the late nineteenth century through to the... -
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks by Judy Parkinson
RRP: €9.51€6.88'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of British____________________A bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has... -
The Crusades by Hans Eberhard Mayer 9780198730972
RRP: €61.88€52.21See hardback fileBook InformationISBN 9780198730972Author Hans Eberhard MayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 461g -
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia: The Place-Name Evidence by David Boulton 9781914427251
RRP: €47.54€43.95This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries.The... -
Rome's Revolution: Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire by Richard Alston 9780190663469
RRP: €19.03€15.03Novelized, televised, and endlessly scrutinized by scholars, the fall of the Roman Republic marks one of history's great turning points. Historians have studied the descent of the Republic into civil war as a great political tragedy, a warning from the... -
A New History of Ireland Volume VII: Ireland, 1921-84 by J.R. Hill 9780199592821
€68.85A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
RRP: €26.18€19.78Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen... -
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: €20.22€17.86The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the... -
Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-1922 by Richard Abbott 9781781176344
RRP: €22.60€16.20The Royal Irish Constabulary are often portrayed as the villains of the War of Independence in Ireland, Irishmen who betrayed their country by serving the British regime. No memorial has been raised in Ireland to those who died during the conflict and... -
The Crystal Palace by Patrick Beaver 9781860771989
RRP: €23.80€18.65The Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park to house the treasures of the world for the Great Exhibition of 1851. It became a microcosm of Victorian life, industry and leisure, reflecting every aspect of its age. Designed by Joseph Paxton as a temporary... -
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
RRP: €15.46€11.31'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday TimesOnce we've learned it as children, few of us think much of the alphabet and... -
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns
€39.33Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America,... -
The Crusades, 1095-1204 by Professor Jonathan Phillips 9781405872935
€46.70The crusades are an area of medieval history that continues to fascinate modern audiences. This is the first true introduction to the crusades that provides a balanced, comprehensive overview aimed specifically at students.Jonathan Phillips outlines the... -
Meghan: A Hollywood Princess by Andrew Morton 9781789293906
RRP: €11.89€8.28'Highly readable and compelling' Daily Telegraph _______________What an extraordinary journey it has been for Meghan Markle. In this fully revised and updated biography, Andrew Morton navigates the at times baffling twists and turns of a royal saga that... -
The Witchcraft Sourcebook: Second Edition Brian P. Levack 9781138774971
RRP: €61.87€54.67The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400... -
A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe by Malcolm Vale 9781780763859
€20.27The concept of a Northern European 'Renaissance' in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture north of the Alps often evokes the idea of a cultural transplant which was not indigenous to, or rooted in, the society from which it emerged. Classic... -
Lime, Lemon and Sarsaparilla: The Italian Community in South Wales, 1881-1945 by Colin Hughes
RRP: €11.89€8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724897Author Colin HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 19mm -
The A-Z of Curious Norfolk: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Sarah E. Doig 9781803994406
RRP: €17.84€13.74Norfolk's spectacular coastline, quaint villages, historic houses, bustling market towns and meandering rivers all provide the perfect backdrop for some of the most curious tales from across the centuries.Which eccentric cleric's final words were 'Did I... -
Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature by Sarah Iles Johnston
€21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555404277Author Sarah Iles JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Scholars PressPublisher Scholars PressWeight(grams) 341gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society Gillian Rose (Late of the University of Sussex) 9780631182214
RRP: €43.97€38.98The Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti-philosophy and anti-theory of post-modernity. Extending across the disciplines from philosophy to theology, Judaica, law,... -
Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 Neill Lochery 9781610391887
RRP: €19.03€11.07Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million... -
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker: The story of Britain through its census, since 1801 by Roger Hutchinson
RRP: €15.46€9.19At the beginning of each decade for 200 years the national census has presented a self-portrait of the British Isles.The census has surveyed Britain from the Napoleonic wars to the age of the internet, through the agricultural and industrial revolutions,... -
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Alexander Lee
RRP: €15.46€11.31'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...