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The Roman Forum David Watkin 9781861978059
RRP: €10.70€7.91There are few more historic and evocative places in the world. Caesar was cremated there. Charles V and Mussolini rode by it in triumph. There Napoleon celebrated his festival of liberty. In this radical reappraisal David Watkin teaches us to see the... -
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: A Life Torn Apart By Revolution And War by Antony Beevor
RRP: €15.46€11.11'An extraordinary drama of exile and espionage' Boyd Tonkin, Independent'Compelling . . . as engaging a read as Stalingrad and Berlin' Guardian______________Olga Chekhova was the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov and a Russian beauty. She was also a... -
Women and Museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge by Kate Hill 9781526136671
RRP: €29.75€25.93This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing... -
Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World by Noel Malcolm
RRP: €20.22€14.61In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale... -
Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363: The New Empire by Jill Harries
RRP: €38.08€35.66A 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... -
The Wrench by Primo Levi
RRP: €11.89€8.33'This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us... -
Celtic Fairy Tales and Legends by Rosalind Kerven 9781849948500
RRP: €17.84€12.19From mermaids to dragons, 16 ancient Celtic fairy tales retold with their histories The Celtic cultures of the British Isles - Ireland, Scotland and Wales - have produced some of the richest traditional tales in Europe. Three words best sum up their... -
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook 9780300143218
€46.99In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook... -
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg 9780521618267
RRP: €36.88€32.40Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this is the first history of World War II to provide a truly global account of the war that encompassed six continents. Starting with the changes that restructured Europe and her colonies following the First World War,... -
The Curtain and the Wall: A Journey in the Shadow of the Cold War by Timothy Phillips
RRP: €23.80€16.74A landmark journey along the full length of the old Iron Curtain - from the Arctic Circle to Turkey's eastern border - tracing the history of the Cold War and meeting the people who live with its legacy. The Iron Curtain divided the continent of... -
The Islander: Complete and Unabridged by Garry Bannister 9780717157945
RRP: €14.27€10.15This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read. ... -
The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera And The Mystery Of The Broad Street Pump by Sandra Hempel 9781862079373 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.28In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in... -
The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera And The Mystery Of The Broad Street Pump by Sandra Hempel
RRP: €15.46€10.47In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in... -
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield
RRP: €22.60€16.20In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives... -
Atlas of Medieval Europe by David Ditchburn
RRP: €40.45€36.18The Atlas of Medieval Europe covers the period from the fall of the Roman Empire through to the beginnings of the Renaissance, spreading from the Atlantic coast to the Russian steppes. Each map approaches a separate issue or series of events in medieval... -
A Short History of the First World War Gary Sheffield 9781780743646
RRP: €11.89€7.87The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for those encountering the period for the first time. ... -
Bayle, Jurieu, and the Dictionnaire Historique et Critique by Mara Van der Lugt
€138.05Bayle, 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: €20.22€13.86Apologies 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)... -
Tory Nation: How one party took over by Samuel Earle
RRP: €20.22€13.19'A witty, lucid investigation into one of the great mysteries of our time' JONATHAN COE'Should be read and enjoyed by readers on the left, right and centre' David Edgerton, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT ________________________________________________Why do... -
The Conquest of Morocco by Douglas Porch 9780374128807
RRP: €34.51€21.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374128807Author Douglas PorchFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance by Jake Subryan Richards 9781781301234
RRP: €29.75€22.82An 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... -
The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry by Vasily Grossman
RRP: €66.63€59.43The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewryis a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps, ghettoes, and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably, the only apt... -
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe by Milan Kundera
RRP: €11.90€8.22The 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,... -
The InterWar Years (1919 - 1939): The Best One-Hour History by Robert Freeman
RRP: €6.40€5.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991409600Author Robert FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Kendall Lane PublishersPublisher Kendall Lane PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Carolingian World by Marios Costambeys
RRP: €36.88€29.93At 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... -
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer 9780192890733
RRP: €37.47€26.11Filled with discoveries, this is the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to respond to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Nazi domination of Europe. The Pope at War is the third in a trilogy of books about the papacy's response to the... -
The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War by Arno J. Mayer
€30.29In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European economies and their political subjugation by... -
The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Barenberg 9780197548226
RRP: €10.70€7.91A vast system of prisons, camps, and exile settlements, the Gulag was one of the defining attributes of the Stalinist Soviet Union and one of the most heinous examples of mass incarceration in the twentieth century, combining the functions of a standard... -
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism by Philip J. Stern 9780674988125
RRP: €35.64€29.07"A landmark book...[a] bold reframing of the history of the British Empire."-Caroline Elkins, Foreign AffairsAn award-winning historian places the corporation-more than the Crown-at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and... -
Roots of Hate: Anti-Semitism in Europe before the Holocaust by William I. Brustein 9780521774789
RRP: €36.88€29.87How 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... -
Falklands War Heroes: Extraordinary true stories of bravery in the South Atlantic Michael Ashcroft 9781785907142
RRP: €29.75€21.55The 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... -
3 Commando Brigade in the Falklands: No Picnic Julian Thompson 9781844158799
RRP: €19.03€14.03Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April - June 1982 were fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Commando Brigade, he was at the heart of the planning and conduct of the War. Under his direct command had been... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
€19.93For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne troops of World War Two.Primosole Bridge in Sicily (13-16... -
Rasputin: A short life Frances Welch 9781780722320
RRP: €15.46€10.51Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian peasant-turned-mystic, was as fascinating as he was unfathomable. He played the role of the simple man, eating with his fingers and boasting, 'I don't even know my ABC...' But, as the only person able to relieve the... -
Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time by Bernard Wasserstein 9780198730736
RRP: €41.04€29.68The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically... -
Three Came Home Agnes Keith 9780907871286
RRP: €17.84€11.96When 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... -
The Royal Line of Succession by Dulcie M. Ashdown
RRP: €7.14€5.52The best-selling illustrated guide to the British Monarchy and the succession process, updated and redesigned for 2018. Queen Elizabeth II is descended from King Egbert through 12 centuries of monarchs. Showcasing all the family trees, from the... -
Counting One's Blessings: The Collected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross 9780330535779
€24.28One of the revelations of William Shawcross's official biography of the Queen Mother was her private correspondence. Indeed the Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.' Queen... -
UK Airfields of the Ninth: Then and Now by Roger A. Freeman 9780900913808 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.69€10.86Charged primarily with the support of ground forces in the invasion of Normandy, the Ninth fielded a variety of aircraft - liaison, fighter, bomber and troop carrier - and operated from over 60 airfields in Britain. In this work, they are explored and... -
Mohammed & Charlemagne Revisited: The History of a Controversy by Emmet Scott 9780578094182
RRP: €16.65€12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578094182Author Emmet ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint World Encounter Institute/New English Review PressPublisher World Encounter...