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Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland by Karl Schloegel 9781789146776
RRP: €15.41€11.08In Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland, now available in paperback, Karl Schloegel presents a picture of a country which lies on Europe's borderland and in Russia's shadow. In recent years, Ukraine has been faced, along with Western Europe, with the... -
Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens by Mark Lamster 9780307387356
RRP: €17.84€13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307387356Author Mark LamsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289g -
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia, Volume I: Inner Eurasia from Prehistory to the Mongol Empire David Christian (San Diego State University) 9780631208143
RRP: €47.54€42.49This is a history of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia from the time of the first inhabitants of the region up to the break up of the Mongol Empire in 1260 AD. Inner Eurasia, as the author defines it, comprises most of the former Soviet Union and... -
The Death of Franz Liszt Based on the Unpublished Diary of His Pupil Lina Schmalhausen by Alan Walker 9780801440762
RRP: €28.55€23.04"If only I do not die here." After falling ill during a visit to Bayreuth, Franz Liszt uttered this melancholy refrain throughout his final days, which were spent in rented rooms in a house opposite Wahnfried, the home of his daughter Cosima and his... -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume II - Reform) by Chris Bryant
RRP: €17.84€13.03Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won for the working classes and, eventually, for women... -
Origins of the Great Purges: The Soviet Communist Party Reconsidered, 1933-1938 by John Arch Getty 9780521335706
RRP: €60.68€51.19This is a study of the structure of the Soviet Communist Party in the 1930s. Based upon archival and published sources, the work describes the events in the Bolshevik Party leading up to the Great Purges of 1937-1938. Professor Getty concludes that the... -
A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State by David Potter
€48.18A survey of French history from the reign of Louis XI to the outbreak of the Wars of Religion that isolates some of the controversial theories of the period: state building, nobility and clientage and the Reformation and discusses them with full... -
New Gill History of Ireland: Eighteenth Century Ireland by Ian McBride 9780717116270
€33.39The eighteenth-century was the heyday of the Protestant ascendancy. McBride, however, acknowledges that the greatest advance in the history of the time has been the recovery of Catholic attitudes during the zenith of the ascendancy. McBride insists on... -
Geography and Enlightenment David N. Livingstone 9780226487212
RRP: €47.60€46.35Explores both the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment. From disciplinary and topical perspectives, contributors consider the many ways in which the world of the long 18th century was brought to view... -
Great Deception, The: Can the European Union Survive? by Mr Christopher Booker
RRP: €29.75€24.01Since its publication in 2003, The Great Deception has taken on the role of the Eurosceptics' bible, with the third edition helping to fuel the debate during the 2016 EU Referendum. This fourth edition celebrates the moment when the UK broke away... -
Fire and Blood: The European Civil War (1914-1945) by Enzo Traverso
€28.36Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914-1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on a ruined continent. It opened with... -
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah
RRP: €11.89€10.50A lively, inside account of Putin's years of rule and the impending crisis that threatens his tsar-like regime From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet... -
Captivity, Forced Labour and Forced Migration in Europe during the First World War Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9780415846356
RRP: €57.11€49.75The notion of the First World War as 'the great seminal catastrophe' (Urkatastrophe) of the twentieth century is now firmly established in historiography. Yet astonishingly little has been written about the fate of non-combatants in occupied and... -
The 1848 Revolutions by Peter Jones 9780582061064
RRP: €44.02€36.16In 1848 revolutions broke out all over Europe - in France, the Habsburg and German lands and the Italian peninsular. This Seminar Study considers why the revolutions occurred and why they were so widespread. The book offers a broad ranging investigation... -
A Brief History of the Vikings by Jonathan Clements 9781845290764 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€2.73'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.'Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from... -
A Brief History of the Vikings by Jonathan Clements
RRP: €14.27€4.30'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.'Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their Scandinavian homeland to trade, raid and invade along the coasts of Europe. Their influence and expeditions extended from... -
Wrath of God: The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 by Edward Paice
RRP: €20.22€13.93Just after half past nine on the morning of Sunday 1 November 1755, the end of the world came to the city of Lisbon. On a day that had begun with blue skies and gentle warmth, Portugal's proud capital was struck by a massive earthquake. After a brief,... -
Borodino 1812 by Philip J. Haythornthwaite
RRP: €19.03€14.03The battle of Borodino was one of the greatest encounters in European history, and one of the largest and most sanguinary in the Napoleonic Wars. Following the breakdown of relations between Russia and France, Napoleon assembled a vast Grande Armee drawn... -
Roman Imperialism: A Concise History of the Rise and Expansion of Ancient Rome by Dexter Hoyos 9781780762753
RRP: €17.84€16.26Rome - Urbs Roma: city of patricians and plebeians, emperors and gladiators, slaves and concubines - was the epicentre of a far-flung imperium whose cultural legacy is incalculable. How a tiny settlement, founded by desperate adventurers beside the banks... -
The Portable Roman Reader by Various 9780140150568
€19.03THE CULTURE OF THE ROMAN STATE - ONE OF THE GREAT FORMATIVE FACTS OF OUR WORLD - AS REPRESENTED BY SELECTIONS FROM THE WORKS OF ITS FINEST WRITERS, IN THE BEST ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, INCLUDING: PLAUTUS; LUCRETIUS; CAESAR; CICERO; CATULLUS; VIRGIL; HORACE;... -
The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920-1921 by D. M. Leeson 9780199658824
RRP: €49.97€31.45This is the story of the Black and Tans and Auxiliaries, the most notorious police forces in the history of the British Isles. During the Irish War of Independence (1920-1), the British government recruited thousands of ex-soldiers to serve as constables... -
Around Whitby by Des Sythes 9780752410258
RRP: €17.84€13.95Whitby, for its size, must be one of the best visually documented towns in Britain. It has attracted over the years painters, printmakers and, since the middle of the nineteenth century, many well known photographers.This collection of 200 old... -
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack
€49.90The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth... -
The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset Philippa Levine 9780815366232
RRP: €47.59€42.04The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living... -
The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938 by R. J. Overy 9780521557672
RRP: €28.55€23.79The performance of the German economy between the Great Crash and the Second World War has been the subject of intense academic debate. The problems of economic growth were acute in inter-war Germany, and the depression of the early 1930s intensified... -
Rome and Italy: The History of Rome from its Foundation by R. M. Ogilvie
RRP: €15.46€11.11Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this... -
Chartism: A New History by Dr. Malcolm Chase
RRP: €23.79€17.75Chartism, 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... -
Wellington and the Lines of Torres Vedras: The Defence of Lisbon During the Peninsular War, 1807-1814 by Mark S. Thompson 9781914059858
RRP: €29.75€25.29In October 1810, the Third French invasion of Portugal under Marechal Massena arrived at the Lines of Torres Vedras and his triumphal march into Lisbon came to an abrupt halt. Five months later a thoroughly demoralised and defeated French army retreated... -
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 9780140433944
RRP: €26.18€19.06Edward Gibbon's six-volume History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88) is among the most magnificent and ambitious narratives in European literature. Its subject is the fate of one of the world's greatest civilizations over thirteen... -
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom
RRP: €19.03€13.22When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it... -
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London by Andrew Nagorski
RRP: €23.80€16.49'Astonishing... In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBASTIAN FAULKS, Sunday Times'[A] thrilling book, as edge-of-your-seat gripping as any heist movie'Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Book of the Day'A gripping... -
High Wood by Michael Harrison 9781473834095
RRP: €15.46€11.11Bois de Fourcaux, a luxuriant woodland covering 75 acres, set in the area of the battlefields of the Somme, dominates the surrounding landscape today, as it did in the summer of the year 1916. Known to the British Army as 'High Wood', the invading... -
Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy A. Adkins
RRP: €15.46€11.11For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with... -
Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicolas II by John van der Kiste
RRP: €13.08€10.08This biography of Xenia, sister of Nicholas II gives a new angle on the Romanov story and provides new information on relationships within the family after the Revolution. Important new letters and photographs are also included.Book InformationISBN... -
The Politics and Economics of Decolonization in Africa: The Failed Experiment of the Central African Federation by Andrew Cohen 9780755601059
€40.73The slow collapse of the European colonial empires after 1945 provides one of the great turning points of twentieth century history. With the loss of India however, the British under Harold Macmillan attempted to enforce a 'second' colonial occupation -... -
A Concise History of Greece by Richard Clogg
RRP: €27.36€22.30Now reissued in a fourth, updated edition, this book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the modern history of Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. As Greece emerges from... -
Gilded Youth: An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family Tom Quinn 9781785907647
RRP: €23.80€17.49For as long as the British monarchy has existed, royal children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us. From medieval wet nurses to today's Norland nannies and elite boarding schools, princes and princesses have... -
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond Robert D. Kaplan 9780812986624
RRP: €17.84€11.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986624Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
An Elegant Madness: High Society in Regency England by Venetia Murray 9780140282962
RRP: €28.56€19.99The Regency period was one of the most turbulent ages in British history, one that spanned the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, that witnessed unprecedented industrial progress, artistic accomplishment, and violent social unrest... -
The Memory of the Modern by Matt K. Matsuda 9780195093650
RRP: €88.06€65.14A multidisciplinary work, Memory of the Modern examines stock markets, tango dancers, vagabond murderers, neurology, monument destruction, and colonial policies to document how individuals and institutions shaped memory in the late nineteenth and early...