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The Borgias by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $21.43$14.43The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven... -
The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354454
RRP: $27.28$21.65In this informal history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts the Roman life and spirit as they are revealed in the greatest writers of the time. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters;... -
Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler by Shelley Baranowski 9780521674089
RRP: $60.43$47.66Drawing on recent studies of the links between empire, colonialism and genocide, Nazi Empire examines German history from 1871 to 1945 as an expression of the aspiration to imperialist expansion and the simultaneous fear of destruction by rivals... -
Gallipoli: The End of the Myth by Robin Prior
RRP: $29.23$25.41A decisive account of the dramatic Gallipoli campaign of World War I, with a devastating assessment of its pointless losses The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to shorten the war by eliminating Turkey, creating a Balkan... -
Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow by Gunnar Decker
RRP: $66.20$55.40A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers.Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread disillusionment with the forces of mass culture and consumerism,... -
The Concise History of Ludlow by David Lloyd
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723982Author David LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 476g -
Iceland's 1100 Years: History of a Marginal Society by Gunnar Karlsson
RRP: $48.75$42.96'Iceland's 1100 Years' recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as late as the Viking Age, and in... -
The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe by Brian W. Ogilvie
RRP: $62.40$61.44Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. In order to distinguish and catalog new plant and... -
Criminal Man by Mary Gibson 9780822337232
RRP: $48.73$43.04Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume... -
Carpathian Rus': A Historical Atlas by Paul Robert Magocsi 9780772751157
RRP: $76.05$67.31Located at the exact geographic center of the European continent, and known by many as "the heart of Europe," Carpathian Rus' is a quintessential borderland, where geographic, political, ethnolinguistic, religious, and socio-climatic borders converge. In... -
A Concise History of Austria by Steven Beller
RRP: $44.83$37.32For a small, prosperous country in the middle of Europe, modern Austria has a very large and complex history, extending far beyond its current borders. Today's Austrians have a problematic relationship with that history, whether with the multi-national... -
The Rise and Fall of the Danish Empire by Kurt Villads Jensen
RRP: $48.73$41.03This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South. Evolving over time, it has included most of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic,... -
The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea by Nicolette Jones
RRP: $25.33$16.77The story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors' lives and became a national hero'A story of ambition, treachery, libel, political intrigue and cold-blooded murder on a mass scale' Herald'Nicolette Jones... -
Blank by Fedja Stukan 9789926484064
$30.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789926484064Author Fedja StukanFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Fedja StukanPublisher Fedja StukanWeight(grams) 269gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm -
Debs at War: 1939-1945 by Anne de Courcy
RRP: $21.43$14.43An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the WarPre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried... -
Freely I Served: The Memoir of the Commander, 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade, 1941-1944 by Stanislaw Sosabowski 9781526781703
RRP: $29.23$21.35Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Enlightenment by Dorinda Outram
RRP: $46.78$40.83What is the Enlightenment? A period rich with debates on the nature of man, truth and the place of God, with the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did the Enlightenment mean the same for men and women, for rich and poor, for... -
The Dissolution of the Monasteries by G. W. O. Woodward 9780853726173
RRP: $13.63$9.89A fascinating guide to the English Reformation and its consequences. In April 1536, in the 27th year of the reign of King Henry VIII, there were scattered throughout England and Wales more than 800 monasteries, nunneries and friaries, and within them... -
Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia: A Provincial History by Sarah Badcock 9780521182256
RRP: $66.28$55.34After the collapse of the Romanov dynasty in February 1917, Russia was subject to an eight month experiment in democracy. Sarah Badcock studies its failure through an exploration of the experiences and motivations of ordinary men and women, urban and... -
Brutus of Troy by Anthony Adolph 9781473849174
RRP: $38.98$12.66Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of Brutus of Troy. A great-great-grandson of the love goddess Aphrodite through her Trojan... -
Pendulum Of War: Three Battles at El Alamein by Niall Barr
RRP: $29.23$21.35In late June 1942, the dispirited and defeated British Eighth Army was pouring back towards the tiny railway halt of El Alamein in the western desert of Egypt. Tobruk had fallen and Eighth Army had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Rommel's... -
Gerlin Bean: Mother of the Movement by A.S. Francis 9781913546373
RRP: $29.25$27.98This book recovers the neglected history of Gerlin Bean, an activist and community organiser in the Black radical movement of the 1960s-1980s. Gerlin Bean was one of the movement's most active participants, but like many such women little is documented... -
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-700 by Averil Cameron 9780415579612
RRP: $85.78$74.96This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman... -
Cambridge: The Hidden History by David Taylor 9780752419145
RRP: $53.63$39.55By combining the results of archaeological excavation carried out over the last thirty years with important discoveries in previous centuries, Alison Taylor is able to piece together the history of Cambridge through prehistoric, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and... -
Cornwall in Prehistory by Toni-Maree Rowe
RRP: $35.08$26.60Prehistory is a universal term used by archaeologists to describe a sizable portion of time in the past, essentially, from the beginning of human evolution to the arrival of the Romans in Britain. In Cornwall this distant past is always present, the... -
British Pan-Arab Policy, 1915-1922 by Isaiah Friedman 9781138507784
RRP: $85.78$75.74In this myth-shattering study Isaiah Friedman provides a new perspective on events in the Middle East during World War I and its aftermath. He shows that British officials in Cairo mistakenly assumed that the Arabs would rebel against Turkey and welcome... -
Beyond These Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto - A Young Girl's Story by Janina Bauman
RRP: $21.43$14.43'Absorbing . . . testaments such as Janina Bauman's are important and should never be allowed to fade away. The drama of Anne Frank is rightly always before us but the equally vital stories of those who suffered but survived need to be listened to with... -
Between God and Hitler: Military Chaplains in Nazi Germany by Doris L. Bergen 9781108487702
RRP: $58.50$49.35During the Second World War, approximately 1000 Christian chaplains accompanied Wehrmacht forces wherever they went, from Poland to France, Greece, North Africa, and the Soviet Union. Chaplains were witnesses to atrocity and by their presence helped... -
A Thousand Years of a London Street: Cheapside by Mike Read 9781803780238
RRP: $25.33$17.73This book is the second of a series documenting a thousand years of selected London streets and their respective histories. Some of the streets have their roots and foundations in places of worship, locations for trading or because of their geographical... -
The Celts: Origins, Myths & Inventions by John Collis 9780752429137
$42.08We use the word 'Celtic' fast and loose - it evokes something mythical and romantic about our past - but what exactly does it mean? Furthermore, why do people believe that there were Celts in Britain and what relationship do they have to the ancient... -
The Life of Alexander the Great by Plutarch
RRP: $19.48$13.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971330Author PlutarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Corfu Sketches: A Thirty-year Journey by John Waller 9780954788742
RRP: $38.90$32.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954788742Author John WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Yiannis BooksPublisher Yiannis Books -
The Pendulum: A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past by Julie Lindahl 9781538159613
RRP: $31.18$27.85This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the... -
Soldiers of the Queen: Victorian Colonial Conflict in the Words of those who Fought by Stephen Manning 9780752449845
RRP: $39.00$29.33It may come as some surprise that in such a popular area of military history there is no book that focuses on the experience of the Victorian soldier - from recruitment to embarkation, fighting and perhaps returning, perhaps dying - in his own words. Dr... -
Reactionary Modernism: Technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich by Jeffrey Herf
RRP: $44.83$37.05In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He... -
The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire c.500-1492 by Jonathan Shepard 9781107685871
RRP: $91.63$82.76Byzantium lasted a thousand years, ruled to the end by self-styled 'emperors of the Romans'. It underwent kaleidoscopic territorial and structural changes, yet recovered repeatedly from disaster: even after the near-impregnable Constantinople fell in... -
The Teutonic Knights: A Captivating Guide to a Catholic Military Order and Their Role in the Crusades and Impact in Europe during the Middle Ages by Captivating History 9781637165065
RRP: $44.83$30.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637165065Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm)... -
Charles X's Wars: Volume 3 - The Danish Wars, 1657-1660 by Michael Fredholm Von Essen
RRP: $77.90$55.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113603Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy by William Caferro 9781421418414
RRP: $59.48$54.15This book is the winner, 2008 Otto Grundler Book Prize, The Medieval Institute Notorious for his cleverness and daring, John Hawkwood was the most feared mercenary in early Renaissance Italy. Born in England, Hawkwood began his career in France during... -
The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front by Simon Forty 9781636243610
RRP: $48.65$34.30The German Army was all-conquering until late 1941 when, only a few miles short of Moscow, it ran out of steam. Maniacal defence, the Russian winter and exhaustion all played their part and, although they didn't realise it, the German forces wouldn't...