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Ingenious Britain: 101 Innovations that Changed the World by Steven A.T. Williams 9781399034890
€27.06Britain has a rich and spectacular history. It is a core country in the development of the modern world. Indeed, as the first industrial nation, there is a strong case that Britain is its primary cause, and it certainly isn’t easy to imagine our 21st... -
Viking Leicestershire by Roderick Dale
RRP: €10.70€9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170816Author Roderick DaleFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
The Origins of the First World War: Diplomatic and Military Documents by Annika Mombauer
RRP: €29.75€27.11Annika Mombauer's essential source reader translates, cross-references and annotates a vast range of international diplomatic and military documents on the origins of the First World War. It collects together documents which are newly discovered or were... -
Stalin and His Hangmen: An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by Donald Rayfield
RRP: €21.41€15.41Stalin, 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... -
Those Terrible Middle Ages!: Debunking the Myths by Regine Pernoud 9780898707816
€15.74Apologies 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... -
Richelieu's Army: War, Government and Society in France, 1624-1642 by David Parrott 9780521025485
RRP: €57.11€51.90It 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 Richard Doherty 9781848848382
RRP: €29.75€21.44A 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... -
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire by Jerome Carcopino
RRP: €15.46€11.11In this portrait of life in Ancient Rome, the author begins by painting a backcloth on which the social, political, cultural and religious aspects of the community are drawn. He enlarges on the details of everyday life, following the typical routine of a... -
Massacre At Montsegur: A History Of The Albigensian Crusade by Zoe Oldenbourg
RRP: €20.22€13.93A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when the Catholic Church waged war against heretics in its own ranksIn 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one... -
Utopia's Discontents: Russian Emigres and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s-1930s by Associate Professor of History Faith Hillis
RRP: €33.31€28.57In 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... -
Hitler's Cosmopolitan Bastard: Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and His Vision of Europe by Martyn A. Bond
RRP: €42.84€38.06In the turbulent period following the First World War the young Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan-European Union, offering a vision of peaceful, democratic unity for Europe, with no borders, a common currency, and a single passport. His... -
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by George C. Kuhl 9780887404450
RRP: €33.31€21.44This is true story of the second raid on Schweinfurt, Germany by the Eighth Air Force 1st and 3rd Bombardment Divisions on 14 October 1943. On this day, the Eighth Air Force lost air superiority to the German Luftwaffe in a continuous air battle that... -
The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture by Joint Association of Classical Teachers 9780521698535
RRP: €34.50€31.20Classical Athens boasted some of the most original and influential achievements in literature, art, philosophy, medicine and politics. This best-selling book, now issued in a second edition, provides a comprehensive and highly illustrated introduction to... -
German History in Modern Times: Four Lives of the Nation by William W. Hagen 9780521175210
RRP: €33.31€29.36This 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... -
The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum [Historia Regum Britanniae] Geoffrey of Monmouth 9781843834410
RRP: €29.74€25.73New translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin history - the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur. This imaginative history of the Britons, written in the twelfth century, is the first work to recount the woes of... -
Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
RRP: €49.98€39.79Few 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... -
Flanders: Then and Now by John Giles
RRP: €27.31€24.41The 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... -
Garrison Life at Vindolanda: A Band of Brothers by Anthony Birley 9780752419503
RRP: €26.78€20.29The ink writing-tablets, first indentified at Roman Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian's Wall, in 1973, revealed a hitherto unknown papyrus-substitute, thin leaves of wood for day-to-day book-keeping and letters. Dating mostly from the years AD 90-125... -
Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe by Robert Bartlett
RRP: €22.60€19.81Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births,... -
Temporary Palaces: The Great House in European Prehistory by Richard Bradley 9781789256611
RRP: €20.22€19.00The Great Houses of the prehistoric and early medieval periods were enormous structures whose forms were modelled on those of domestic dwellings. Most were built of wood rather than stone; they were used over comparatively short periods; they were... -
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis by Richard Breitman 9780521617949
RRP: €36.88€28.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Royal Christmas by Jeremy Archer
RRP: €13.08€9.15'A rich achievement full of glorious anecdotes' Hugo Vickers A Royal Christmas is a Christmas pudding of a book, enticingly full of silver threepenny pieces. Organised thematically, it covers such topics as Christmas and conflict in the 20th... -
Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush by Eve Morrison
RRP: €21.41€20.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551458Author Eve MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: €22.60€16.20Mark 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... -
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern 9781838958558
RRP: €29.75€20.53A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines.During the 1600s, between the end of the... -
A History of the Czech Lands Jaroslav Panek 9788024622279
RRP: €47.60€47.42Born January 1, 1993, after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside its modern borders boast an ancient and intricate past. With A... -
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner 9780192866646
RRP: €27.95€23.76Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a... -
Yorkshire Literary Landscapes by Paul Chrystal 9781999717575
RRP: €15.46€11.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999717575Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackImprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson 9781839767982
RRP: €17.84€15.17The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday, the heroics and betrayals of the Miners' Strike, and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed.No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. Coal was... -
Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe by Dr. Lisa Pine
RRP: €29.74€27.68Bringing together leading scholars from across the UK, North America and mainland Europe, this book provides a uniquely comparative exploration of daily life under dictatorship in 20th-century Europe. With coverage of well-known regimes and some that are... -
Gosport by Ian Edelman 9780752403007
RRP: €15.46€11.75In this fascinating new collection of about two hundred old photographs compiled by Ian Edelman, curator of Gosport Museum, the recent history of the ancient town of Gosport is once again brought to life. Once surrounded by a moated rampart and boasting... -
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the Third Reich by Friedrich Kellner
RRP: €45.21€39.95This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany's path to... -
The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354447
RRP: €15.46€12.28A perennial favourite, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (The New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the... -
A Compendium of Medieval World Sovereigns Timothy Venning 9781032361987
RRP: €148.75€128.35The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access 'who's who' with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of... -
Myth and Thought among the Greeks by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: €33.32€26.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951603Author Jean-Pierre VernantFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Light Division in the Peninsular War, 1811-1814 by Tim Saunders 9781526770134
RRP: €35.70€25.81Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Berlin Diaries 1940-45 Marie Vassiltchikov 9780712665803
RRP: €22.60€16.45Marie `Missie' Vassiltchikov as a White Russian emigree caught with her family in Hitler`s Germany at the outbreak of the war. She was a Bright Young Thing, part of the cosmopolitan set who managed to maintain a trance-like normality until as late as... -
The Last Man in Russia: And The Struggle To Save A Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough
RRP: €13.08€9.51'Wonderful ... These are the chronicles of a writer who truly knows Russia' New York TimesAward-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man,... -
All Things Georgian: Tales from the Long Eighteenth-Century by Joanne Major 9781526757852
RRP: €20.22€14.84Take a romp through the long eighteenth-century in this collection of 25 short tales. Marvel at the Queen's Ass, gaze at the celestial heavens through the eyes of the past and be amazed by the equestrian feats of the Norwich Nymph. Journey to the... -
Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History by David Nash 9780199255160
RRP: €111.86€111.16David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as...