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The Dream of Europe: Travels in a Troubled Continent by Geert Mak
RRP: €15.46€11.13'Mak is the history teacher everyone should have had' Financial TimesFrom the author of the internationally acclaimed In Europe, a stunning history of our present, examining the first two decades of this most fragile and fraught new millennium.How did... -
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation by Alexei Yurchak
RRP: €41.65€33.26Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it... -
The Poetry of Derek Mahon by Hugh Haughton
€52.47Derek Mahon is one of the leading poets of his time, both in Ireland and beyond, famously offering a perspective that is displaced from as much as grounded in his native country. From prodigious beginnings to prolific maturity, he has been, through thick... -
Bobby Sands: Nothing But an Unfinished Song Denis O'Hearn 9780745336336
RRP: €22.60€15.40This is the best-selling biography of the IRA resistance fighter and hunger-striker, Bobby Sands. In this updated, new edition, Denis O'Hearn draws from a wealth of interviews with friends, comrades, fellow prisoners and prison wardens, to provide a... -
Kursk 1943: The Southern Front by Robert Forczyk
RRP: €19.03€14.03Mauled at Stalingrad, the German army looked to regain the initiative on the Eastern Front with a huge offensive launched near the city of Kursk, 280 miles south-west of Moscow. Armed with the new Panther tank, Hitler and Field Marshal von Manstein were... -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781350360747
RRP: €20.22€19.49Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania -... -
The Kuban 1943: The Wehrmacht's last stand in the Caucasus by Robert Forczyk
RRP: €20.22€14.84In the summer of 1942, the Wehrmacht invaded the Caucasus in order to overrun critical oil production facilities at Maikop, Grozny and Baku. However, the Red Army stopped the Germans short of their objectives and then launched a devastating winter... -
Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives by Katie Hickman 9780006387800 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€2.23An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service. 'English ambassadresses are usually on the dotty side and... -
Blazing a Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World by Sarah Webb
€14.09A book for everyone who dreams of changing the world. From fearless aviator, Lady Mary Heath, the first woman in the world to parachute from an aeroplane, to Margaret Bulkley, the 18th-century surgeon who lived as a man, meet 28 remarkable Irish women... -
The Crisis Of The European Mind by Paul Hazard
RRP: €27.37€19.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176191Author Paul HazardFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams) 510gDimensions(mm)... -
Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History by Matthew Carr
RRP: €29.75€26.63Savage Frontier traces the routes over the mountains taken by monks, soldiers, poets, pilgrims and refugees, examining the lives and events that have shaped the Pyrenees across the centuries. Its cast of characters includes Napoleon, Hannibal and... -
About England by David Matless
RRP: €23.80€17.27'England' and 'Englishness' have received much attention in the twenty-first century, not least in debates over Brexit. About England explores how these concepts have been imagined since the 1960s, covering themes including politics, popular culture,... -
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire Victor Sebestyen 9780753827093
RRP: €15.46€10.51'A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world' Jonathan Dimbleby, MAIL ON SUNDAYFor more than 40 years after the Second World War the... -
By the Emperor's Hand by Timothy Dawson 9781848325890
RRP: €35.70€26.53By the sixth century of the common era the Roman Empire already had many hundreds of years of accumulated ceremonial embedded in its government, and practical science embodied in its army. The transition from Republic to Imperium and the more... -
Culloden: Great Battles by Murray Pittock
RRP: €15.46€11.11The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite... -
The Artist, The Philosopher and The Warrior by Paul Strathern
RRP: €20.22€14.84In 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... -
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson 9780812969702
RRP: €17.84€11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969702Author Victor Davis HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm)... -
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger by Fintan O'Toole 9780571260751
RRP: €15.46€10.47For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in... -
Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled Tim Heald 9780753823774
RRP: €13.08€9.06Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She was a... -
Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 Barry Cunliffe 9780300170863
€30.39A sensational, interdisciplinary work which entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European... -
Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth Jane Rogoyska 9780861543038
RRP: €13.08€8.58WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski 'This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.' Geoffrey Alderman, Times... -
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe Monty Halls 9781509866014
RRP: €11.89€3.11'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .'Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over... -
Wroxeter: Life & Death of a Roman City by Roger White 9780752414096
RRP: €21.41€16.47The 'Old Work', the largest fragment of a Roman civilian building still standing in Britain, is a spectacular landmark which points to the site of Wroxeter Roman City, between medieval Shrewsbury and modern Telford. In its prime the city was the fourth... -
The Battle of Quatre Bras 1815 by Mike Robinson 9780752457604
RRP: €41.65€32.63Major Richard Llewellyn, who fought at Quatre Bras, wrote in 1837 that, 'Had it not been so closely followed by the... victory of Waterloo, perhaps the gallant exploits and unexampled bravery that marked that day would... have excited even more... -
British Marxist Historians, The Harvey J. Kaye 9781789048643
RRP: €27.36€23.36The 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... -
Middlesbrough 1920-2020: A Century of Change by Araf Chohan 9781999647056
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999647056Author Araf ChohanFormat PaperbackImprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
The Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century: The British Abroad by Professor Jeremy Black
RRP: €17.84€13.95Travel for pleasure developed greatly in the 18th century, and here Jeremy Black examines travel on the Continent, the so-called "Grand Tour". He considers not only the standard destinations of France and Italy, but also the Low Countries, Germany,... -
Northmen: The Viking Saga 793-1241 by John Haywood
RRP: €13.08€10.31'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS. The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the... -
The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland by Lindy Brady
RRP: €89.25€80.61The inhabitants of early medieval Britain and Ireland shared the knowledge that the region held four peoples and the awareness that they must have originally come from 'elsewhere'. The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland studies these... -
Selected Letters by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: €15.46€11.11'How I wish that you had invited me to that most attractive feast on the Ides of March!' Cicero lived through some of the most turbulent years in the history of Rome, and witnessed at first-hand the overthrow of the republic and its replacement by a... -
Dragon Rose Gan 9781912049882
RRP: €11.89€8.33Before Raffles, before Rajah Brooke, there was Francis Light, the 18th-century trailblazer in the Malay Archipelago. 'Dragon', the first volume of the Penang Chronicles, charts Light's colourful adventures in the decades before the settlement of Penang... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Lenin and the Russian Revolution by Steve Phillips
€31.98A study of Lenin and the Russian Revolution. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions... -
Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex by Rupert Darwall 9781594039355
RRP: €22.60€19.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039355Author Rupert DarwallFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
Print Markets and Political Dissent: Publishers in Central Europe, 1800-1870 James M. Brophy 9780198845720
RRP: €122.57€110.88Moving book history in a new direction, this study examines publishers as brokers of Central Europe's political public sphere. They created international print markets, translated new texts, launched new journals, supported outspoken authors, and... -
Modern Europe, 1789-Present by Asa Briggs 9780582772601
€50.77Now covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day, this major new edition has been completely revised and brought up-to-date. The approach embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and... -
A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop by Kevin O'Rourke
RRP: €11.89€9.19'Crisp, clear and quietly devastating' Guardian'Excellent, authoritative, highly readable' Irish TimesA succinct, expert guide to how we got to BrexitAfter all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin... -
Roman Civilization: Selected Readings: The Republic and the Augustan Age, Volume 1 by Naphtali Lewis 9780231071314
RRP: €59.50€47.03Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's Roman Civilization is a classic. Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1955, the authors have undertaken another revision which takes into account recent work in the field. These volumes consist of... -
Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear Klaus-Michael Bogdal 9780141997292
RRP: €17.84€13.03‘A magisterial contribution to the understanding of the cultural position of Romani people in Europe. … nothing short of astounding’ Literary ReviewThis remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their... -
Pageant of Kings: The Nine Sovereigns at Edward VII's Funeral by Julia P Gelardi
RRP: €13.08€11.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733528450Author Julia P GelardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint R. R. BowkerPublisher R. R. BowkerWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *... -
Fatal Colours: Towton, 1461 - England's Most Brutal Battle George Goodwin 9780753828175
RRP: €13.08€9.06A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.'Vivid, humane and superbly researched' David Starkey'The story has never been told so well or so excitingly' Desmond SewardThe Battle of Towton in 1461...