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The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich
£96.41For five years during the Second World War, the Allies launched a trial and error bombing campaign against Germany's historical city landscape. Peaking in the war's final three months, it was the first air attack of its kind. Civilian dwellings were... -
The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials: Northern Europe by Liv Helene Willumsen
RRP: £45.99£40.13Women come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway,... -
British Marxist Historians, The by Harvey Kaye
RRP: £22.99£19.33The British Marxist Historians remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. In this classic text, Kaye looks at Maurice Dobb and the debate on the... -
The Eastern International: Arabs, Central Asians, and Jews in the Soviet Union's Anticolonial Empire by Masha Kirasirova 9780197685709
RRP: £19.99£18.21In 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,... -
Medieval Europe by Chris Wickham
RRP: £12.99£11.46A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative... -
Beslan: The Tragedy Of School No. 1 by Timothy Phillips
RRP: £9.99£6.70Tim Phillips' book tells the human story of the siege - of the terrible toll that thirst, hunger and sleeplessness took on the hostages, of the bravery of those who dealt with the terrorists, such as the elderly headmistress of the school and the doctor... -
A Short History Of The First World War by Gordon Kerr 9781843440949
RRP: £12.99£9.62The 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... -
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson 9781846680748 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£1.86Outwardly 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... -
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson
RRP: £10.99£8.08Outwardly 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... -
The Two Cities: Medieval Europe 1050-1320 by Malcolm Barber 9780415174152
RRP: £39.99£36.06First 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... -
Aces Falling: War Above The Trenches, 1918 by Peter Hart
RRP: £10.99£7.40How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western FrontAt the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the battlefields of the Western Front, they cut a deadly swathe through the ranks of their... -
Access to History: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust Second Edition by Alan Farmer
£25.21Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History by Steven Beller
RRP: £22.99£19.56This 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... -
Last Hope Island: Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war by Lynne Olson 9781911617181
RRP: £10.99£5.31Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights' Financial TimesThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake... -
Chartism: A New History by Dr. Malcolm Chase
RRP: £19.99£14.92Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the... -
Imperial Triumph: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine (AD 138-363) by Michael Kulikowski
RRP: £14.99£10.95Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often... -
Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer 9780300093001
RRP: £15.99£13.33Yehuda Bauer, one of the world's premier historians of the Holocaust, here presents an insightful overview and reconsideration of its history and meaning. Drawing on research he and other historians have done in recent years, he offers fresh opinions on... -
The Annals: The Reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £10.99£7.97'He was atrocious in his brutality, but his lechery was kept hidden... In the end, he erupted into an orgy of crime and ignominy alike' Such is Tacitus' obituary of Tiberius, and he is no less caustic in his opinion of the weak and cuckolded Claudius... -
The Antonine Wall by David Breeze
RRP: £14.99£10.77As the most advanced frontier construction of its time, and as definitive evidence of the Romans' time in Scotland, the Antonine Wall is an invaluable and fascinating part of this country's varied and violent history. For a generation, from about AD 140... -
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: £12.99£9.09A BBC History magazine Book of the Year and an amazon.com Best Book of the Month As religion divided sixteenth-century Europe, an extraordinary group of women rose to power. They governed nations while kings fought in foreign lands. They ruled on... -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780192843104
RRP: £16.99£12.68A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, The Marshall Plan is an instant classic of Cold War literature. With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to... -
London Recruits: The Secret War Against Apartheid by Ken Keable 9780850366556
RRP: £17.99£16.14The history of the antiapartheid movement brings up images of boycotts and public campaigns in the UK, but another story went on behind the scenes, in secret. This is the story of the foreign volunteers and their activities in South Africa, how they... -
Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363: The New Empire by Jill Harries
RRP: £32.00£29.97A distinct perspective on the momentous religious change in the region Diocletian (284-305) and his principal successor, Constantine (306-337), would rule the Roman world for over half a century and Constantine's sons would build on their legacy... -
Race: The History of an Idea in the West by Ivan Hannaford
RRP: £26.50£23.69In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But,... -
When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity by Kolleen M. Guy
RRP: £27.50£26.93Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the... -
Roman Britain: A New History 55 BC-AD 450 by Patricia Southern
RRP: £18.99£12.71For nearly four centuries, from AD 43 to 410, Britain was a small province on the north-western edge of the vast Roman Empire. Though it was small, it was not insignificant. There were more Roman soldiers in Britain than there were in the provinces of... -
Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak by Selma Leydesdorff
RRP: £20.99£18.37In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica-the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female... -
Bayle, Jurieu, and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique by Mara Van der Lugt
£116.01Bayle, Jurieu and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique presents a new study of Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1696), with special reference to Bayle's polemical engagement with the theologian Pierre Jurieu. While recent years have... -
Book of the Dead by E. A. Wallis Budge 9780486218663
RRP: £16.99£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486218663Author Sir E. A. WallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 533Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War by Gerald Brenan 9781107431751
RRP: £18.99£13.73Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience. It represents a struggle to... -
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera
RRP: £10.00£6.71The people of Central Europe cannot be separated from European history; they cannot exist outside it; but they represent the wrong side of this history; they are its victims and outsiders.In a moment of historic peril and uncertainty in mainland Europe,... -
Prince William: Born to be King: An intimate portrait by Penny Junor
RRP: £12.99£8.60As the nation celebrates the birth of William and Kate's son Prince George, Penny Junor brings us the definitive biography of the man who will be King before him. His face is recognized the world over, he is unmistakably Diana's eldest son. But what is... -
The Carolingian World by Marios Costambeys
RRP: £30.99£24.97At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the... -
Putin’s War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution by Samuel Ramani
RRP: £20.00£17.84Eight years after annexing Crimea, Russia embarked on a full-scale invasion of neighbouring Ukraine in February 2022. For Vladimir Putin, this was a legacy-defining mission-to restore Russia's sphere of influence and undo Ukraine's surprisingly resilient... -
Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions by John Brewer 9780300272666
RRP: £30.00£24.85A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism "Momentous and spellbinding."-Caroline Eden, Financial Times "Endlessly fascinating."-Pratinav Anil, Times (UK) Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous... -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: £30.99£24.91How did the levels of anti-Semitism in the 1930s compare to those of earlier decades? Did anti-Semitism vary in content and intensity across societies? In other words, were Germans more anti-Semitic than their European neighbors, and, if so, why? How... -
The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the autumn of 1502 three giants of the Renaissance period - Cesare Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli - set out on one of the most treacherous military campaigns of the period. Cesare Borgia was a ferocious military leader whose name... -
Falklands War Heroes: Extraordinary true stories of bravery in the South Atlantic Michael Ashcroft 9781785907142
RRP: £25.00£17.84The Falklands War, which may prove to be the last 'colonial' war that Britain ever fights, took place in 1982. Fought 8,000 miles from home soil, it cost the lives of 255 British military personnel, with many more wounded, some seriously. The war also... -
Three Came Home by Agnes Newton Keith 9780907871286
RRP: £14.99£9.80When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith's spirit never...