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Stalin's Russia by Chris Ward 9780340731512
RRP: €65.44€65.13Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
RRP: €11.89€9.51SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir' GuardianUncovering... -
Birmingham: The Workshop of the World Professor Carl Chinn 9781781382479
RRP: €19.58€19.54Birmingham 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... -
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 by Julian Jackson
RRP: €16.65€11.91On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill,... -
Woodsmoke and Sage: The Five Senses 1485-1603: How the Tudors Experienced the World by Amy Licence
RRP: €23.80€18.65Traditionally history is cerebral: what did they believe, what did they think, what did they know?Woodsmoke and Sage is not a traditional book. Using the five senses, historian Amy Licence presents a new perspective on the material culture of the past,... -
Berwick-Upon-Tweed: Berwick-Upon-Tweed: Images of England by Jim Walker 9780752415178
RRP: €19.03€14.79This incredible collection of over 200 old photographs and illustrations in and around Berwick-upon-Tweed beautifully portrays the town as it used to be. Through these pictures we discover all aspects of the town, from buildings and shops which no longer... -
A Bitter Winter: The Irish Civil War, 1922-23: 2022 by Colum Kenny
RRP: €10.70€9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934378Author Colum KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Primitive Rebels by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: €13.08€9.06Social agitation is as essential a part of public life today as it has ever been. In Eric Hobsbawm's masterful study, Primitive Rebels, he shines a light on the origins of contemporary rebellion: Robin Hood, secret societies, revolutionary peasants,... -
The Samurai and the Cross: The Jesuit Enterprise in Early Modern Japan by M Antoni J Ucerler
RRP: €37.47€32.82In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat--or "spiritual conquest"--that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book explores... -
Quinn by Trevor Birney
€31.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373992Author Trevor BirneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal by Peter Watson 9781471128981
RRP: €15.46€10.48'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review ____________________________________ We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity and sophistication, and even their insistence that they are exceptional. But... -
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin van Creveld
RRP: €36.88€30.74Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only two of the many questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively book. Drawing on a very wide... -
Tiberius Robin Seager (The University of Liverpool) 9781405115292
RRP: €39.21€34.94Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor's complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor.Argues that... -
Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler by Roger Howard 9780192862990
RRP: €37.47€26.11Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler. From 1933, these spy services watched with growing alarm... -
Battle of Malta: June 1940-November 1942 by Anthony Rogers
RRP: €19.03€14.03A detailed, illustrated exploration of the land, sea and air units that defended Malta, and the repeated Axis attempts to bring the crucial Allied island fortress to its knees. On 11 June 1940, the British crown colony of Malta - which dominated the... -
The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich 9780231133814
RRP: €26.18€21.13For 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... -
Diana: Death of a Goddess by David Cohen
RRP: €19.03€13.8200.23 a.m. August 31st 1997. The Mercedes driven by Henri Paul in which Princess Diana, Dodi Al Fayed and Trevor Rees-Jones were travelling crashes into a pillar in the Alma tunnel in the centre of Paris, killing Paul, Dodi and Diana and seriously... -
The Angels of Englemere Wood: The uplifting and inspiring true story of a children’s home during the Blitz by Karen Farrington
RRP: €13.08€9.51The inspiring, uplifting true story of a group of London girls dispatched to a children's home in rural England during the Blitz, and meet the formidable nurse and Lady in Waiting who transformed their lives forever . . .'A heartwarming story of hope and... -
Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 by Rosa Magnusdottir 9780190681463
RRP: €97.58€70.52Enemy Number One tells the story of the Soviet cultural and propaganda apparatus and its efforts to control information about the United States in the postwar landscape. Beginning with the 1945 meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe, this... -
Where's Boris? by Various
RRP: €9.51€7.04Search for Boris Johnson in this eye-boggling illustrated adventure!Greetings citizens! Can you spot Boris?In an array of crowded scenes, from zip wires and bikes to Beijing and the Bullingdon Club, search for Boris amongst the masses. Anyone for... -
The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings by Tony Sullivan
RRP: €26.18€26.01The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings takes a new look at the adventus Saxonum, the arrival of the Saxons, recorded in the earliest literary sources. As the Roman provincial structure fragmented, new cultural identities emerged. In fifth century Britain whatever... -
A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France by William Beik
RRP: €36.88€31.93A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the... -
The Life of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton: Extraordinary Perseverance by David Bruce
RRP: €121.38€106.08The social conscience of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786-1845) developed as he operated a brewery in Spitalfields, nineteenth-century London's poorest parish. His interest and research on penal discipline brought him national prominence and led to a... -
Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History by Hugh Williams
RRP: €17.84€11.85What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through... -
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
RRP: €21.41€15.89While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke-filled cafes, or with a brooding, angst-filled outlook on life, Gosetti-Ferencei shows how vital and heterogeneous the movement really was. ... -
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy A. N. Wilson 9781782398318
RRP: €29.75€21.44Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail 'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times 'Enthralling' Daily Telegraph For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of... -
A Short History of the Irish Revolution: 1912 -1927 by Richard Killeen
RRP: €14.27€10.31The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great War had broken out: the Act was suspended for the duration of the war, with... -
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism by Perry Anderson
RRP: €24.98€24.66Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism is a sustained exercise in historical sociology that shows how the slave-based societies of Ancient Greece and Rome eventually became the feudal societies of the Middle Ages. In the course of this study, Anderson... -
A Concise History of the Netherlands by James C. Kennedy 9780521699174
RRP: €36.88€27.67The Netherlands is known among foreigners today for its cheese and its windmills, its Golden Age paintings and its experimentation in social policies such as cannabis and euthanasia. Yet the historical background for any of these quintessentially Dutch... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350042940
RRP: €28.55€25.59'This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
The Perfect Summer Juliet Nicolson 9780719562433
RRP: €17.84€11.96'As page-turning as a novel' Joanna TrollopeOne summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying... -
Thomas Clarke: 16Lives Helen Litton 9781847172617
RRP: €19.03€14.72A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916. Clarke spent fifteen years in penal labour for his role in a bombing campaign in London between 1883 and... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 1: The American Airborne Missions by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: €20.22€14.84In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. The American portion of the airborne mission was to employ two divisions of the US XVIII Airborne Corps to seize key terrain features... -
Heart of Europe: The Past in Poland's Present by Norman Davies
RRP: €23.79€16.99The image of Poland has once again been impressed on European consciousness. Norman Davies provides a key to understanding the modern Polish crisis in this lucid and authoritative description of the nation's history. Beginning with the period since 1945,... -
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge
RRP: €22.60€16.20This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks... -
A Dictionary of the Roman Empire by Matthew E. Bunson 9780195102338
RRP: €30.33€22.02The extraordinarily rich cultural legacy of the Roman world has had a profound affect world civilization. Roman achievements in architecture, law, politics, literature, war, and philosophy serve as the foundation of modern Western society. Now, for the... -
The Cambridge Illustrated History of France by Colin Jones 9780521669924
RRP: €45.21€38.29Combining superb illustration with authoritative text, this is a major political and social history of France from earliest times to the eve of the new millennium. Colin Jones offers not only an expert's account of political, social and cultural... -
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: €20.22€14.61Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of... -
The History of Europe in Bite-Sized Chunks by Jacob F Field 9781789294163 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51€2.73An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped our continent.The book... -
The History of Europe in Bite-Sized Chunks by Jacob F Field
RRP: €9.51€4.36An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped our continent.The book...