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The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland by Patricia Byrne 9781785371721
RRP: $16.76$14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785371721Author Patricia ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Tim Judah
RRP: $15.47$11.82On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central - geographically,... -
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich
RRP: $58.05$47.21A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved... -
The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History by Colin McEvedy
RRP: $16.76$12.05This is a revised edition of "The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History".About the AuthorColin McEvedy is the author of The Penguin Atlas of Ancient History; The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History; The Penguin Atlas of Recent History (Europe Since 1815)... -
No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 by Sinead McCoole
RRP: $29.66$23.28Updated edition with many more biographies and a new introduction by the author. Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom, risking loss of life and family for a cause to which they... -
Passchendaele: The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917 by Lyn Macdonald
RRP: $14.18$10.31'Four years of war turned Ypres into a ghost town. Not a leaf grew on a tree. Scarcely one stone stood upon another. From the battered ramparts the eye swept clean across a field of rubble to the swamp-lands beyond . . .' The Third Battle of Ypres,... -
My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: The Cold War in Europe 1941-1995 Nicholas Fellows 9781510416420
RRP: $13.55$12.73Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Spinoza, Life and Legacy by Prof Jonathan I. Israel 9780198857488
RRP: $51.59$46.22A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own... -
Evidence, History and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914-18 by Gail Braybon 9781571818010
RRP: $36.06$29.13" ...the student of the Great War and gender is well served, and Braybon's introduction provides an excellent overview of the various historiographical themes, whilst her footnotes provide a useful guide to further reading."? - History... -
Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters Between the Irish and the Iranians by H. E. Chehabi 9780674088283
RRP: $27.03$22.11In Erin and Iran, ten essays by North American and European scholars discuss parallel themes in and interactions between Irish and Iranian cultures. In the first section three essays explore common elements in pre-Christian Irish and pre-Islamic Iranian... -
Society and Culture in Early Modern France: Eight Essays by Natalie Zemon Davis by Natalie Zemon Davis 9780804709729
RRP: $36.11$34.68These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans,... -
The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare by Omer Bartov 9780333949443
RRP: $70.94$64.31Based largely upon unpublished sources, Omer Bartov's study looks closely at the background of the German army on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He describes the physical hardship, the discipline and morale at the front, and analyses the... -
CCEA AS-level History Student Guide: Germany (1919-1945) Fin Lappin 9781510418639
$15.65Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions... -
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War by Arkady Ostrovsky 9780857891600
RRP: $14.18$9.73The definitive and award-winning history of Vladimir Putin's rise to power following the collapse of the Soviet Union, by The Economist's Russia editor.'Fast-paced and excellently written' New York Times'A real insiders' story of Russia's post-Soviet... -
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: $14.18$10.31Outwardly Nella's life was probably seen as ordinary; but behind this mask were a lively mind and a persistent pen - a pen that never gave up over almost three decades, reporting, describing, pondering, and disclosing. Nella, 55 when the war ends, writes... -
A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black 9780712354714
RRP: $51.60$33.51In A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black takes readers deep into the unparalleled collections of the British Library Map Room to tell a new story of the British Isles through acknowledged treasures and previously undiscovered and unpublished... -
Cromwell was Framed - Ireland 1649 Tom Reilly 9781782795162
RRP: $19.34$17.07The publication of "Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy" fifteen years ago sparked off a storm of controversy with many historians publically deriding the divisive and groundbreaking study. Dissatisfied with the counter-explanations of these... -
The First World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: $16.76$12.05A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the conflict from the German advance in the West, through... -
The Kings and Queens of Britain by John Cannon
RRP: $18.05$13.98This authoritative and accessible guide to the British monarchy spans the Romano-British rulers of 55 BC to the present day House of Windsor. Generously illustrated with maps, photos, paintings, and genealogies, it contains a wealth of information on the... -
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010 by T. M. Devine
RRP: $16.76$12.05Part of his trilogy on Scottish history, T. M. Devine's To the Ends of the Earth is a compelling account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern world. The Scots are one of the world's greatest... -
Boldness Be My Friend by Richard Pape 9780755316267 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.95'"Escape... escape... escape... by God!"' was his constant exhortation. "Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home."'Shot down over Berlin in 1941,... -
Boldness Be My Friend Richard Pape 9780755316267
RRP: $14.18$9.82'"Escape... escape... escape... by God!"' was his constant exhortation. "Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home."'Shot down over Berlin in 1941,... -
The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire by Masha Kirasirova 9780197685709
RRP: $25.79$23.49In the first few years after the Russian Revolution, an ideological project coalesced to link the development of what Stalin demarcated as the internal "East"--primarily Central Asia and the Caucasus--with nation-building, the overthrow of colonialism,... -
Greek Lives by Plutarch
RRP: $14.18$10.31Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive... -
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal by Andreas Viestad 9781789147827
RRP: $14.18$10.31'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum,' writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City, and global civilization... -
Birmingham: The Workshop of the World by Malcolm Dick 9781781382462
$66.50Birmingham is a city with an extraordinarily diverse achievement in fields as varied as science, industry, politics, education, medicine, printing and the arts. Labels such as the 'first industrial city', 'city of a thousand trades', 'the best-governed... -
To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
$23.47Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic... -
Ivan the Terrible by Isabel de Madariaga 9780300119732
RRP: $35.48$35.26The definitive biography of Ivan the Terrible, setting the Tsar's infamous cruelty within the context of 16th-century Russia"[A] magnificent biography . . . illuminated by the wisdom gained by its author from a lifetime of learning and reflection about... -
By Sword and Fire: Cruelty And Atrocity In Medieval Warfare by Sean McGlynn
RRP: $16.76$11.39A vivid and original account of warfare in the Middle Ages and the cruelty and atrocity that accompanied it.Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would... -
A Short History Of The First World War by Gordon Kerr 9781843440949
RRP: $16.76$12.73The First World War, lasting just four years, from 1914 to 1918, was without parallel, the first true global conflict in which all of the earth's great powers participated. A Short History of the First World War tells the story of this cataclysmic event... -
The Two Cities: Medieval Europe 1050-1320 Malcolm Barber (University of Reading, UK) 9780415174152
RRP: $51.59$46.52First published to wide critical acclaim in 1992, The Two Cities has become an essential text for students of medieval history. For the second edition, the author has thoroughly revised each chapter, bringing the material up to date and taking the... -
Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History by Steven Beller
RRP: $29.66$25.23This book studies the role played by Jews in the explosion of cultural innovation in Vienna at the turn of the century, which had its roots in the years following the Ausgleich of 1867 and its demise in the sweeping events of the 1930s. Dr Beller shows... -
Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe by Violet Moller 9780861547524
RRP: $32.25$22.73Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories 'A scintillating journey into a world where discoveries rip through doctrine like meteors. There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of... -
Lancaster & District: Britain in Old Photographs by S. Ashworth 9780752449647
RRP: $19.34$15.12This portrait of a period at once familiar and remote includes views of the historic city of Lancaster, illustrates the development of Morecambe from a small fishing community to a thriving seaside resort, recaptures the wealth of Morecambe Bay's... -
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton by Nicolaus Copernicus 9780241360637
RRP: $21.92$15.84New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a... -
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches by Winston Churchill
RRP: $16.76$12.05The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when... -
A History of the Classical Greek World: 478 - 323 Bc by P. J. Rhodes
RRP: $43.80$39.49Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the 'classical' period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC... -
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen
RRP: $21.92$16.36The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific colonies, and the Ottoman provinces in the Middle East fell into allied hands. Britain, France,... -
Pilgrim Routes of the British Isles by Emma Wells
RRP: $25.79$22.81This book leads the modern traveller along some of the key medieval walking routes of England, Scotland and Wales, taking in world-famous sites such as Canterbury and Lindisfarne, and out-of-the-way places along paths not so widely travelled. Each route... -
Why Was Charles I Executed? by Clive Holmes 9781847250247
RRP: $42.56$40.62The execution of Charles I in 1649, followed by the proclamation of a Commonwealth, was an extraordinary political event. It followed a bitter Civil War between parliament and the king, and their abject failure to negotiate a peace settlement. Why the...