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Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet Reality and Emigre Theories by Catherine Andreyev 9780521305457
RRP: £90.00£61.97Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement deals with the attempt by Soviet citizens to create a Russian anti-Stalinist liberation movement during the Second World War. These Soviet citizens were mainly prisoners-of-war, forced labourers or part of the... -
The Somme by Robin Prior
RRP: £11.99£10.15Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibility to military and political leaders for its catastrophic outcome. "A magisterial piece of scholarship. . . ... -
South Tyrol: A Minority Conflict of the Twentieth Century by Rolf Steininger
RRP: £43.99£39.60South Tyrol, a region in the heart of the Alps about half the size of Connecticut, brings into sharp focus an important part of twentieth-century history. Tyrol, a province that had been part of Austria for over 500 years and was almost totally... -
The Unsettling of Europe: The Great Migration, 1945 to the Present by Peter Gatrell
RRP: £16.99£12.28WINNER OF THE LAURA SHANNON PRIZE 2021 AND ITALY'S CHERASCO HISTORY PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE 2020A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019Migrants have stood at the heart of modern Europe's experience, whether trying to... -
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: £18.99£13.61Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians. Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial... -
A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers by Jeremy Black
RRP: £9.99£6.80A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its... -
The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism by Ian Angus 9781685900168
RRP: £18.99£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900168Author Ian AngusFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Devil's Disciples by Anthony Read
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen... -
The Seven Years War in Europe: 1756-1763 by Franz A. J. Szabo 9780582292727
RRP: £47.99£46.38In this pioneering new work, based on a thorough re-reading of primary sources and new research in the Austrian State Archives, Franz Szabo presents a fascinating reassessment of the continental war.Professor Szabo challenges the well-established myth... -
The French Mind: A Cultural History of an Exceptional People by Peter Watson
RRP: £30.00£27.08'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review_________________________________________________________________________________________We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and... -
The Pulse Glass: And the beat of other hearts by Gillian Tindall
RRP: £9.99£7.11*As read on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week*'A genius for a certain kind of social history that, in shining a light on one small place, illuminates a huge amount' Sunday TelegraphA toy train. A stack of letters. A tiny pulse glass, inherited from her... -
Here Begins the Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk, and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of the World by Meredith Francesca Small 9781639364190
RRP: £22.00£14.05The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece-the Venetian mappa mundi-that revolutionized how we see the world.In 1459 a Venetian monk named Fra Mauro completed an astonishing map of the world. Seven feet in diameter, Fra Mauro's mappamundi is... -
The Illyrians by John Wilkes
RRP: £36.95£32.91For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the river Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of the peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. This book, now... -
Gilded Youth: An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family by Tom Quinn 9781785907647
RRP: £20.00£14.48For 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... -
The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism and the Culture of the Modern by Alex Owen
RRP: £28.00£27.39By the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians were seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the... -
The Mystery of Olga Chekhova: A Life Torn Apart By Revolution And War by Antony Beevor
RRP: £12.99£9.09'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... -
Revolution and Reaction: Europe 1789-1849 by Andrew Matthews 9780521567343
RRP: £19.95£17.86An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. In many ways the period 1789-1849 saw the birth of the modern world, as the people of Europe grappled with the impact of the new political and social ideas, rapid population... -
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack
£42.25The 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... -
In Search of the Greeks Second Edition by James Renshaw
RRP: £27.99£25.44In Search of the Greeks offers an engaging introduction to the societies of Classical Greece. Making extensive use of ancient sources and illustrated with some hundred and fifty photographs, drawings, maps and plans, many now for the first time in... -
A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan
RRP: £22.99£19.28Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This new edition of Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman... -
The Longman Companion to the French Revolution by Colin A. Jones 9780582494176
RRP: £61.99£59.40Provides clear and comprehensive factual information across the full range of the Revolutionary period (1787-99).Reviews'authorative and detailed work of reference on all aspects of the Revolution.'Guardian'...will be a godsend; It is a most... -
The Crusades, 1095-1204 by Professor Jonathan Phillips 9781405872935
£38.94The crusades are an area of medieval history that continues to fascinate modern audiences. This is the first true introduction to the crusades that provides a balanced, comprehensive overview aimed specifically at students.Jonathan Phillips outlines the... -
Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis 9781849017237
£10.47The testament to a tragedy.Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the... -
On Burnley Road: Class, Race and Politics in a Northern English Town by Mike Makin-Waite 9781913546021
RRP: £17.00£16.13What was happening in Burnley Town Hall when the British National Party was winning and holding seats there? What lay behind the far right's advance, and what effect did it have on local government and wider policy trends? How did mainstream parties... -
The Oxford History of Modern Europe by T. C. W. Blanning
RRP: £15.99£11.61Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book offers a readable and authoritative account of Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the present day. Each chapter portrays both change... -
The Bretons by Patrick Galliou 9780631201052
RRP: £38.95£34.20This book draws upon a wide range of archaeological and literary material to provide a history of one of the most distinctive and individualistic regions of France and its people, from prehistoric times to the present. Focusing upon such themes as trade,... -
A Russian Diary: With a Foreword by Jon Snow by Anna Politkovskaya 9780099523451
RRP: £15.99£11.61A Russian Diary is the book that Anna Politkovskaya had recently completed when she was murdered in a contract killing in Moscow. Covering the period from the Russian parliamentary elections of December 2003 to the tragic aftermath of the Beslan school... -
Building Anglo-Saxon England by John Blair
RRP: £42.00£34.64Shortlisted for the Wolfson History PrizeA radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveriesThis beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of... -
The Seven Years' War by Daniel Marston
RRP: £14.99£11.75The closest thing to total war before World War One, the Seven Years' War was fought in North America, Europe, the Caribbean and India with major consequences for all parties involved. This fascinating book is the first to truly review the grand... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison by Nicholas Guyatt
RRP: £11.99£7.59'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
Women and Museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge by Kate Hill 9781526136671
RRP: £25.00£21.79This 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... -
The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £14.99£10.95What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps... -
East Devon at War: Britain in Old Photographs by Ted Gosling
RRP: £12.99£9.62This book chronicles the various wars that have affected East Devon through the centuries, from the invasions of Celts and Romans, Saxons and Danes, to the First and Second World Wars. It is only in more recent times that we have had the benefit of... -
The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera And The Mystery Of The Broad Street Pump by Sandra Hempel 9781862079373 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£1.92In 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: £12.99£8.56In 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... -
Hemel Hempstead by Eve Davis 9780752401676
RRP: £14.99£11.55This excellent collection of over 400 old photographs of Hemel Hempstead was originally published as two volumes in the popular Archive Photographs Series and is now available bound as a single volume. The fascinating sequence of photographs forms an... -
How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism by Benjamin Ginsberg 9781442222380
RRP: £59.00£51.45One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In this powerful book, Benjamin Ginsberg convincingly argues that the Jews not only resisted... -
Lenin the Dictator by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl MarxThe cold, one-dimensional figure of Lenin the political fanatic is only a partial truth... -
Sparta: Beyond the Mirage by Anton Powell
RRP: £25.00£23.78The study of the Spartans is now pursued more widely and intensively than ever. Indeed, no longer is Sparta the 'second city' of ancient Greece. This volume, the fourth in the established series on which Powell and Hodkinson have collaborated, breaks... -
By Sword and Fire: Cruelty And Atrocity In Medieval Warfare by Sean McGlynn
RRP: £12.99£8.60A vivid and original account of warfare in the Middle Ages and the cruelty and atrocity that accompanied it.Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would...