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For Your Freedom and Ours by Lynne Olson 9780099428121 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.03$4.47Members of the Polish Air Force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until the fall of France the following year, when they made their varied ways to Britain. There the Poles were among the Royal Air... -
Porto: Gateway to the World by Dr. Neill Lochery
RRP: $29.23$27.38'I fell in love with Porto and I love it still. The city's spectacular bridges, its vertiginous riverbanks, steep with ancient buildings, the old port houses, the wide squares: I was entranced by them all.' J.K. ROWLING One of the oldest cities in... -
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle by David Edmonds
RRP: $42.90$33.85From the author of Wittgenstein's Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe's historyOn June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at... -
The Good European: Arguments, Excursions and Disquisitions on the Theme of Europe by Iain Bamforth 9781857547658
RRP: $33.05$23.50Nietzsche, warning his countrymen in the Bismarck era against the nationalism that sought to promote all that was anti-rational in the German tradition, exhorted them to be "good Europeans", avatars of the enlightened economic man of the... -
The Nineteenth Century: Europe 1789-1914 by T. C. W. Blanning
RRP: $83.83$78.78The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor, Professor TCW Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including... -
Richelieu and Olivares by J. H. Elliott
RRP: $44.83$35.78Cardinal Richelieu is one of the best known and most studied statesmen in European history; his Spanish contemporary and rival, the Count-Duke of Olivares, one of the least known. The contrasting historical fortunes of the two men reflect the outcome of... -
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel
RRP: $33.13$23.95This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate... -
Borodino 1812 by Philip J. Haythornthwaite
RRP: $31.18$22.64The 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... -
A History of Birmingham by Chris Upton
RRP: $38.98$30.07Birmingham was a village worth only one pound in the Domesday Survey, yet it rose to become the second city of the British Empire with a population that passed a million. Its growth began when Peter de Birmingham obtained a market charter in 1154 for his... -
Lenin's Tomb: the Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
RRP: $42.90$28.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679751250Author David RemnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
A Lack of Offensive Spirit?: The 46th (North Midland) Division at Gommecourt, 1st July 1916 by Alan MacDonald 9780955811906
$44.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955811906Author Alan MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 708Imprint Iona BooksPublisher Iona BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
Captain Swing by E. J. Hobsbawm
RRP: $46.78$46.41Sir Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet... -
Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer by Anthony Grafton
RRP: $50.60$40.25Girolamo Cardano was an Italian doctor, natural philosopher, and mathematician who became a best-selling author in Renaissance Europe. He was also a leading astrologer of his day, whose predictions won him access to some of the most powerful people in... -
The Brief History of World War 2: The Rise of Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany and the Third Reich, Allied Forces, and the Battles from Blitzkriegs to Atom Bombs (1939-1945) by Academy Archives 9789493298729
RRP: $25.33$18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493298729Author Academy ArchivesFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Academy ArchivesPublisher Academy ArchivesWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
RRP: $25.33$18.43Here is a searing account-probably the best yet published-of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. ... -
A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day by Mike Wood 9781472144591
RRP: $39.00$10.35'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man,... -
Napoleon's German Allies: v. 4: Bavaria by Otto von Pivka 9780850453737
$25.99In 1805, Bavaria allied itself with France and Bavarian troops served with Napoleon during the 1809 campaign against Austria, and participated in the Russian campaign of 1812, before eventually abandoning the Emperor's cause in 1813 prior to the battle... -
British Imperialism: 1688-2015 by P. J. Cain 9781138817739
RRP: $107.23$104.29A milestone in the understanding of British history and imperialism, this ground-breaking book radically reinterprets the course of modern economic development and the causes of overseas expansion during the past three centuries. Employing their concept... -
Churches and Churchyards of England and Wales by Richard Hayman
RRP: $25.33$19.09The parish church is a symbol of continuity, a cornerstone of the urban and rural landscape, and a treasure trove often as rich in cultural history as any museum. This compact and accessible guide explores all of these aspects of the parish church,... -
Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 by Guy Halsall 9780521435437
RRP: $60.43$49.14This is a major survey of the barbarian migrations and their role in the fall of the Roman Empire and the creation of early medieval Europe, one of the key events in European history. Unlike previous studies it integrates historical and archaeological... -
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450 by Juliet Barker 9780349122021
RRP: $25.33$14.64Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword.Henry V's second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign... -
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield
RRP: $35.08$25.25Stalin, like Hitler and other tyrants, won and held power because he had collaborators - hangmen. Drawing on newly released archival material, Donald Rayfield gives us a fuller and more colourful picture of Stalin's inner circle than ever before. Stalin... -
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
RRP: $29.23$19.89An abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into a single epic narrative.Famously sceptical about Christianity, unexpectedly sympathetic to the barbarian... -
The French Revolution: From its Origins to 1793 by Gary Kates
RRP: $29.23$26.48Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the... -
Those Terrible Middle Ages!: Debunking the Myths by Regine Pernoud 9780898707816
$25.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898707816Author Regine PernoudFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm... -
A Dictionary of British History by John Cannon 9780199550371
RRP: $32.16$23.30Who was the first King of England? What prompted the Cat and Mouse Act? When was Wembley stadium demolished? Where did the Rebecca riots take place? How long did the Hundred Years War last? Containing more than 3,800 authoritative entries written by... -
Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642 by David Parrott 9780521025485
RRP: $93.58$85.04It is assumed widely that 'war made the state' in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study of the French army during the ministry of Cardinal Richelieu (1624-42) shows how the expansion of the war effort was not matched by army reform but by a reliance... -
British Armoured Divisions and their Commanders, 1939-1945 by Richard Doherty 9781848848382
RRP: $48.75$35.14A total of eleven British armoured divisions were formed during the 1939-1945 war but, as this highly informative book reveals, just eight saw action. In 1940 only 1st Armoured Division faced the overwhelming German blitzkrieg and it was in the North... -
Utopia's Discontents: Russian Emigres and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s by Associate Professor of History Faith Hillis
RRP: $54.58$46.82In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade. For most of the past seventeen years, the Bolshevik leader had lived in exile, moving between Europe's many "Russian... -
Rome's Italian Wars: Books 6-10 by Livy
RRP: $25.33$17.73'People have it in their minds that he would have been a match for Alexander, had Alexander turned his arms on Europe.' So Livy characterizes Papirius Cursor, one of Rome's famous generals in the fourth century BC. In Books 6 to 10 of his monumental... -
Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics by Martin Bernal 9780822327172
RRP: $54.58$47.07In Black Athena Writes Back Martin Bernal responds to the passionate debates set off by the 1987 publication of his book Black Athena. Producing a shock wave of reaction from scholars, Black Athena argued that the development of Greek civilization was... -
The Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes by Princess Elisabeth
RRP: $62.40$60.66Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80) and Rene Descartes (1596-1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters - thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant... -
German History in Modern Times: Four Lives of the Nation by William W. Hagen 9780521175210
RRP: $54.58$48.11This history of German-speaking central Europe offers a very wide perspective, emphasizing a succession of many-layered communal identities. It highlights the interplay of individual, society, culture and political power, contrasting German with Western... -
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
RRP: $81.90$65.21Few sources reveal the life of the ancient Romans as vividly as do the houses preserved by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wealthy Romans lavished resources on shaping their surroundings to impress their crowds of visitors. The fashions they set were taken up... -
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H Nicholas
RRP: $40.95$25.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Legion of Honor 1999 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679756866Author Lynn H. NicholasFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint... -
Flanders: Then and Now by John Giles
RRP: $44.75$39.99The author recreates, by means of contemporary photographs juxtaposed with others taken by him over a number of years plus eyewitness accounts and narrative, the atmosphere, past and present, of that once famous salient. He aims to present a moving... -
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown by Katie Nicholl 9780306827990
RRP: $33.13$25.53For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire to provide a steady presence and to be a trustworthy steward of the British people and the Commonwealth. In the face of her... -
A Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II by A. T. Williams 9780099593263
$25.04A Daily Telegraph Book of the YearShortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2017After the Second World War, the Nuremberg Tribunal became a symbol of justice in the face of tyranny, aggression and atrocity. But it was only a fragment of... -
Great Deception, The: Can the European Union Survive? by Mr Christopher Booker
RRP: $48.75$38.77Since 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... -
The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe by Prof. W. Montgomery Watt
RRP: $56.53$45.59In this admirable book Montgomery Watt traces the influence of Islam in medieval Europe, looking in detail at commerce, science and technology, philosophy, and the development of European self-awareness.ReviewsProfessor Watt's book is a fascinating and...