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Architects of Death: The Family Who Engineered the Holocaust by Karen Bartlett 9781785900426
RRP: €23.80€17.49Topf and Sons designed and built the crematoria at the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, Belzec, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen. At its height sixty-six Topf triple muffle ovens were in operation - forty-six of which were at Auschwitz... -
Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935 Martin Windrow 9780753828564
RRP: €20.22€15.12The gripping true story of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara.Ever since the 1920s the popular legend of the French Foreign Legion has been formed by P.C. Wren's novel BEAU GESTE - a world of remote forts, warrior tribes, and desperate men of all... -
The Ancient Greeks For Dummies by Stephen Batchelor 9780470987872
RRP: €22.60€15.65The civilisation of the Ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science and arts of Western culture. As well as instigating itself as the birthplace of the Olympics, Ancient Greece is... -
Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra by Shareen Blair Brysac 9780195132694
RRP: €96.39€87.68"Resisting Hitler" is a biography of the only American woman to have been executed for treason against Germany during World War II. Mildred Harnack was born in Wiscinsin but moved to Germany with her husband in 1929 where she taught American literature... -
Medici Money: Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence Tim Parks 9781861977571
RRP: €13.08€9.51The Medici are famous as the rulers of Florence at the high point of the Renaissance. Their power derived from the family bank, and this book tells the fascinating, frequently bloody story of the family and the dramatic development and collapse of their... -
Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe by Anne Applebaum
RRP: €15.46€11.11A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands... -
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War Robert Sackville-West 9781526613141
RRP: €15.46€11.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION CROWN AWARDS 2022 'Compelling and often horrifying' THE TIMES Best Paperbacks of 2022 The epic, moving stories of Britain's search to recover, identify and honour the missing soldiers of the First... -
Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
RRP: €35.69€32.93Covering European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, the third edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated with new scholarship and an emphasis on environmental history, travel and migration, race... -
Putin’s War on Ukraine: Russia’s Campaign for Global Counter-Revolution by Samuel Ramani
RRP: €23.80€21.55Eight 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... -
CCEA AS-level History Student Guide: Russia (1914-1941) by Fin Lappin
€14.43Build, 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... -
Beau Brummell Ian Kelly 9780340836996
RRP: €15.46€10.51Beau Brummell's life is a riveting story of unparalleled fame, fashion and admiration followed by a descent into poverty and madness. The man who put Saville Row on the map, who could win friends, political arguments or the favours of women with apparent... -
Maxime Weygand: A Biography of the French General in Two World Wars by Barnett Singer 9780786435715
RRP: €26.17€21.38At the end of World War I, during the armistice proceedings in Germany and at the Peace Conference after the war, French General Maxime Weygand served as chief aid to Marshal Foch. Called out of retirement in the mid - 1930s, Weygand again served his... -
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great by James Romm
RRP: €29.75€20.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079674Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Writing Underground: Reflections on Illegal Texts in Communist Czechoslovakia by Martin Machovec
€17.96In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examines the multifarious nature of the underground phenomenon. After devoting considerable attention to the... -
Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: €19.03€14.03The Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and had considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from mid to late 1941. Although initially used simply as a bomber, later variants were developed to allow the Do 217... -
Castle Cary, North Cadbury and Wincanton by Bridget Laver 9781845882587
RRP: €7.13€5.89Presents a pictorial history of Castle Cary, North Cadbury and Wincanton through a series of photographs and images. This work features historical captions.Book InformationISBN 9781845882587Author Sam MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Nonsuch... -
Hannibal's War: Books 21-30 by Livy
RRP: €16.65€12.53'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory!' Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans... -
The British Market Hall: A Social and Architectural History by James Schmiechen 9780300060645
€101.57The story of Britain's market halls-built to replace traditional open-air markets throughout England, Wales, and Scotland-is a tale of exuberant architecture, civic pride, and attempts at social engineering. This book is the first history of the market... -
Hadrian's Empire by Danny Danziger
RRP: €15.46€10.51Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell... -
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39 by Florian Illies
RRP: €23.80€15.59A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles towards war, the great minds of the time have other concerns. Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously in a Parisian cafe for his first date... -
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton
RRP: €11.89€8.71'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... -
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 by Michael Broers 9781639364657
RRP: €20.22€13.86An accomplished Oxford scholar delivers a dynamic new history covering the last chapter of the emperor's life-from his defeat in Russia and the drama of Waterloo to his final exile-as the world Napoleon has created begins to crumble around him. In 1811,... -
Historopedia - The Story of Ireland From Then Until Now by Kathi Burke
RRP: €30.93€23.29It's A Time-Travelling Journey Through Ireland ... It's A Historopedia! Buckle up and get ready to travel back in time with John and Fatti Burke's new adventure through Ireland's history. This breathtakingly exciting book discovers Ireland, era by... -
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement by Laura Swan 9781629190082
RRP: €13.08€9.04The beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and they did not live in monasteries. They practiced a remarkable way of living independently, and they were never a religious order or... -
The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland by Alexandra Walsham 9780199654383
RRP: €61.88€44.83The Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It explores how the profound... -
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793-1815 by Jenny Uglow
RRP: €20.22€13.78Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeAs the Napoleonic wars raged, what was life really like for those left at home? Award-winning social historian Jenny Uglow reveals the colourful and turbulent everyday life of Georgian Britain through the diaries,... -
Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Howe
RRP: €10.70€7.91A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. And although the great historic imperial systems, the land-based... -
Flag Fen: Life and Death of a Prehistoric Landscape by Francis Pryor 9780752429007
RRP: €29.75€22.06The Fens of eastern England form a very distinct environment which has produced particular patterns of prehistoric occupation. Dr Francis Pryor, the Director of the Flag Fen Archaeological Trust, gives his own personal account of his discovery and... -
Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: €15.46€11.11A 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... -
Chessington Remembered by Mark Hamilton Davison 9780953424016
€12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953424016Author Mark Hamilton DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Mark DavisonPublisher Mark Davison -
The Spanish Civil War by Stanley G. Payne 9780521174701
RRP: €27.36€21.10This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker... -
The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama by Sanjay Subrahmanyam 9780521646291
RRP: €36.88€31.93Vasco da Gama (?1469-1524) is well known as one of a generation of discoverers, along with Magellan, Cabral, and Columbus. Yet little is known about his life, or about the context within which he 'discovered' the all-sea route to India in 1497-99. This... -
The Lion from the North: The Swedish Army During the Thirty Years War Volume 2 1632-48 by Michael Fredholm von Essen 9781913118839
€43.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118839Author Michael Fredholm von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
What is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity by Jean Clottes
RRP: €21.42€20.93Was it a trick of the light that drew our Stone Age ancestors into caves to paint in charcoal and red hematite, to watch the heads of lions, likenesses of bison, horses, and aurochs in the reliefs of the walls, as they flickered by firelight? Or was it... -
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unravelling the Norman Conquest by David Musgrove
RRP: €29.75€19.97Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat - all this is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic account of one of the pivotal episodes in English history embroidered on a strip of linen. Famously, it shows the... -
Bismarck and the German Empire: 1871-1918 by Lynn Abrams
RRP: €44.02€38.71Updated and expanded, this second edition of Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871-1918 is an accessible introduction to this important period in German history. Providing both a narrative of events at the time and an analysis of social and cultural... -
Prehistoric Dorset by Gale John 9780752429069
RRP: €23.80€18.17Dorset is one of the country's richest counties in archaeological remains and over the last 30 years there have been a great number of new discoveries. This detailed, up-to-date and well-illustrated study of prehistoric monuments in and around Dorset... -
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander
RRP: €15.46€12.21Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous contemporary controversy, and she has subsequently been portrayed variously as a political genius, a despotic foreign adventuress, a tyrant, and... -
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings by Jean Manco
RRP: €15.46€10.51Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? In recent years scientific advances have yielded a mass of new data, turning cherished ideas upside down. The idea of migration in prehistory, so long out of favour, is back on the agenda. Visions of... -
Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe by Suzanne L. Marchand 9780691182339
RRP: €35.70€29.35"This is the book on porcelain we have been waiting for. . . . A remarkable achievement."-Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesA sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the presentPorcelain was...