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Heysel Stadium Brussels: European Football's Darkest Hour by Paul McCallam 9781739707712 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£8.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739707712Author Paul McCallamFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Paul McCallam BooksPublisher Paul McCallam BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Heysel Stadium Brussels: European Football's Darkest Hour by Paul McCallam 9781739707712
RRP: £14.99£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739707712Author Paul McCallamFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Paul McCallam BooksPublisher Paul McCallam BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Murder by James E. Waller
RRP: £30.49£25.76Social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller offers a sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate... -
Daily Life in Ancient Rome: The People and the City at the Height of the Empire by Jerome Carcopino
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 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... -
Sex and the Weimar Republic: German Homosexual Emancipation and the Rise of the Nazis by Laurie Marhoefer
RRP: £32.00£29.13Liberated, licentious, or merely liberal, the sexual freedoms of Germany's Weimar Republic have become legendary. The home of the world's first gay rights movement, the republic embodied a progressive, secular vision of sexual liberation. Immortalized -... -
The Isle of Avalon: Sacred Mysteries of Arthur and Glastonbury Tor by Nicholas R. Mann
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953663132Author Nicholas R. MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Wroxeter: Life & Death of a Roman City by Roger White 9780752414096
RRP: £17.99£13.64The '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 Bielski Brothers by Peter Duffy 9780060935535
RRP: £10.99£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935535Author Peter DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire by Dominique Kirchner Reill 9780674244245
RRP: £30.95£24.82Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation.The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of... -
Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk by Joshua Levine 9780091932213 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99£1.89The subject of the new major film by Christopher NolanIt could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British Army was successfully evacuated, and 'Dunkirk spirit' became... -
Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk by Joshua Levine
RRP: £16.99£12.28The subject of the new major film by Christopher NolanIt could have been the biggest military disaster suffered by the British in the Second World War, but against all odds the British Army was successfully evacuated, and 'Dunkirk spirit' became... -
Australia'S War 1914-18 by Joan Beaumont
RRP: £24.99£21.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781863734615Author Joan BeaumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Allen & UnwinPublisher Taylor & FrancisWeight(grams) 453g -
Sallust's Bellum Catilinae by J. T. Ramsey
RRP: £32.49£26.85In his Bellum Catilinae, C. Sallustius Crispus or Sallust (86-35/34 B.C.E.) recounts the dramatic events of the year 63 B.C.E. when a disgruntled and impoverished nobleman, L. Sergius Catilina, after two electoral defeats, made himself the leader of a... -
Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder
RRP: £14.99£11.13Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction'Funny, erudite, frequently irritating . . . and never boring' - Sarah Bakewell, Financial Times 'An excellent, rich and amusing read' - The Times, Book of the WeekFor centuries much of Europe was in... -
Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History by Matthew Carr
RRP: £25.00£22.03Savage 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... -
Re-Writing the French Revolutionary Tradition: Liberal Opposition and the Fall of the Bourbon Monarchy by Robert Alexander 9780521039765
RRP: £30.99£28.68This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition during the Bourbon Restoration and early July Monarchy. Robert Alexander argues that political change was achieved by legal grassroots organization and persuasion - rather than by the... -
Aspects of International Socialism, 1871-1914: Essays by Georges Haupt by Georges Haupt 9780521180672
RRP: £30.99£20.94Prior to his death in 1978 Georges Haupt enjoyed a considerable reputation as a scholar of European socialism, but much of his best work was scattered in small periodicals. This 1986 volume brings together in translation a selection of some of his most... -
Blank by Fedja Stukan 9781716412417
RRP: £16.00£14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781716412417Author Fedja StukanFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 11mm -
Wrong Place, Wrong Time by George C. Kuhl 9780887404450
RRP: £27.99£18.02This 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... -
Queer Premises: LGBTQ+ Venues in London Since the 1980s by Prof. Ben Campkin
RRP: £24.99£20.44Queer premises provide vital social and cultural infrastructure - a queer infrastructure - connecting different generations and locations, facilitating the movement of resources, across and beyond the city. Queer Premises offers evidence for how... -
Britannia Surveyed: New light on early Roman Britain through the work of military surveyors by Robert Entwistle 9781910238172
RRP: £19.50£9.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910238172Author Robert EntwistleFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The Armatura PressPublisher The Armatura PressDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm -
The Aeronauts by James Glaisher 9781911545477
RRP: £9.99£6.80The Aeronauts is the true story behind the forthcoming Major Motion Picture, telling the daring life and death escapades of pioneering Victorian balloonist James Glaisher. In 1862, Glaisher set out to do the impossible: ascend higher into the skies than... -
The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe by Robert Steven Gottfried 9780029123706
RRP: £12.99£12.37A fascinating work of detective history, "The Black Death" traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as... -
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 by Carlos Eire
RRP: £22.50£19.95A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to... -
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War by Paul Jankowski 9781781256978 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£4.67During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times;... -
Nineteenth-Century Art: A Beginner's Guide by Laurie Schneider Adams
RRP: £9.99£7.55Munch's The Scream. Van Gogh's Starry Night. Rodin's The Thinker. Monet's water lilies. Constable's landscapes. The nineteenth-century gave us a wealth of artistic riches so memorable in their genius that we can picture many of them at an instant. ... -
The Military Archives: A History: 2022 by Daniel Ayiotis
RRP: £20.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934330Author Daniel AyiotisFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell -
The Roman History: From Romulus and the Foundation of Rome to the Reign of the Emperor Tiberius by Velleius Paterculus 9781603845915
RRP: £16.99£14.13This essential document for the study of Roman history traces the story of Rome from Romulus and the foundations of Rome to the reign of the Emperor Tiberius. It is especially valuable to historians and students for its vivid eyewitness account of the... -
Great War Britain: The First World War at Home by Lucinda Gosling 9780752491882
RRP: £25.00£19.54The declaration of war in August 1914 was to change Britain and British society irrevocably as conflict came to dominate almost every aspect of civilian life for the next four years. Popular weekly magazines such as The Tatler, The Sketch and The Queen,... -
A History of the Roman Republic by Klaus Bringmann 9780745633718
RRP: £24.99£21.81In this new and authoritative history of the Roman republic, distinguished historian Klaus Bringmann traces the rise of a small city state near the Tiber estuary into a power that controlled the Italian peninsula and created the final Empire of... -
Dragon by Rose Gan 9781912049882
RRP: £9.99£6.80Before 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... -
The Book of Legendary Lands by Umberto Eco
RRP: £30.00£19.80In the tradition of his books On Beauty and On Ugliness and The Infinity of Lists, Umberto Eco presents an enthralling illustrated tour of the fabled places that have awed and eluded us through the ages."Eco is one of the most influential thinkers of our... -
Portugal: A Traveller`s History by Harold V. Livermore
RRP: £25.00£20.92An historical guide to Portugal which both describes and accounts for what the visitor might see and experience in this often-spellbinding country. Portugal, the 'ancient ally', is a country easily accessible, with an enviable climate, welcoming... -
The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: £27.50£22.89An authoritative and refreshingly original consideration of the government and culture of ancient Sparta and her place in Greek history For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nature of a... -
D-Day Then and Now: v. 1 by Winston G. Ramsey 9780900913846
RRP: £29.95£24.84'People of Western Europe. A landing was made this morning on the coast of France...' With these simple - yet memorable - words, General Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, announced to the world on June 6, 1944 that the... -
An Island in Greece: On the Shores of Skopelos by Michael Carroll 9781845118228
RRP: £16.99£13.23Scattered in a crescent in the sparkling waters of the Aegean, the islands of the Sporades are known to Greek fishermen as 'the gates of the wind'. It was to this unspoilt archipelago that Michael Carroll sailed Astarte, a boat of sleek mahogany with... -
A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 by Professor A. R. Disney
RRP: £28.99£22.81The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'etre and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on... -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780198757917
RRP: £31.49£22.94With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious... -
The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein
RRP: £12.99£11.46A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph... -
The Killing Fields of Provence: Occupation, Resistance and Liberation in the South of France by James Bourhill 9781526761323
RRP: £25.00£18.02In the South of France, the most memorable event of the Second World War was the sea and airborne invasion of 15 August 1944. Perhaps because it went relatively smoothly, this Second D-Day was soon relegated to the back pages of history. Operation...