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Giant of the Grand Siecle: The French Army, 1610-1715 by John A. Lynn 9780521032483
RRP: £37.99£34.83An 'invisible giant', the seventeenth-century French army was the largest and hungriest institution of the Bourbon monarchy. Combining social and cultural emphases with more traditional institutional and operational concerns, this book examines the army... -
Blood and Bandages: Fighting for Life in the Ramc Field Ambulance 1940-1946 by Liz Coward 9781781220085
RRP: £19.99£14.68War changes everyone and for those lucky enough to survive there can be no return to the carefree days before the hell of war broke out. William Earl was a 26 year old Chemist's Assistant when his call up papers arrived and his life changed forever... -
A Brief History of the Private Lives of the Roman Emperors by Anthony Blond
RRP: £10.99£7.40The history of ancient Rome omitting all the boring bits. Following the success of BBC2 hit Rome on BBC2, no one has looked at the private lives of the Roman Emperors again in the same light. Anthony Blond's scandalous expose of the life of the Roman... -
States, Nations and Nationalism: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Hagen Schulze
RRP: £33.95£30.38The first general history of the evolution of European states and nations from medieval times to the present.About the AuthorHagen Schulze was born in Tangiers, Morocco in 1943. He was until recently Professor of Modern History and Head of Department at... -
Chamberlain and the Lost Peace by John Charmley 9781566632478
RRP: £14.99£11.53Most studies of World War II assume that it was, in some way, a triumph for Britain. John Charmley's important new reappraisal of the immediate origins of the war is based on extensive new work in the Chamberlain papers. It starts from Chamberlain's... -
Armies of Celtic Europe 700 BC to AD 106: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £19.99£14.68Although comprised of many distinct tribes and groupings, the Celts shared a distinctive culture that dominated much of Europe for centuries. They enjoyed a formidable reputation as fierce and brave warriors, skilled horsemen and fine metalworkers. In... -
Europe's Inner Demons: The Demonization of Christians In Medieval Christendom by Norman Cohn
RRP: £14.99£10.95In this ground-breaking book, Professor Norman Cohn traces popular beliefs about witches to their origins. He examines the fantasies that inspired the great European witch-hunt of the 16th and 17th centuries when thousands of innocent people were... -
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker 9780190659240
RRP: £24.99£18.06In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel... -
Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies: The French Revolution in Martinique and Guadeloupe, 1789-1802 by William Cormack 9781487503956
RRP: £56.00£48.88Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies examines the complex revolutionary struggle in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802. The arrival of tricolour cockades - badges showing support for the French Revolution - and news from Paris... -
The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt by Anna Hájková
RRP: £30.99£27.17Terezin, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East... -
Panzers in Normandy: Then and Now by Eric Lefevre
RRP: £28.00£20.62Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Normandy campaign, Panzers in Normandy Then and Now is a detailed study of the German panzer regiments in Normandy in 1944 as seen from the German side. The book is basically divided into two parts:... -
Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History by Owen Davies 9781847250360
RRP: £42.99£42.00Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their... -
Basingstoke in the 1960s: Britain in Old Photographs by Robert Brown
RRP: £12.99£9.62Basingstoke in the 1960s looks at the North Hampshire town during the period in which it was drastically altered to accept the flow of population from London and other areas under the Town Development Scheme. The town centre was partially demolished to... -
A Concise History of Greece by Richard Clogg
RRP: £22.99£18.74Now reissued in a fourth, updated edition, this book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the modern history of Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. As Greece emerges from... -
Unwritten Rome by T. P. Wiseman 9780859898232
RRP: £34.99£32.12In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments... -
Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Greek Postclassicism by Tim Whitmarsh
RRP: £30.00£23.29The "Second Sophistic" traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire's power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization... -
The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780520267572
RRP: £31.00£24.43Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of... -
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance: South India through European Eyes, 1250-1625 by Joan-Pau Rubies 9780521526135
RRP: £30.99£28.68This book, first published in 2000, offers a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis of how European travellers in India developed their perceptions of ethnic, political and religious diversity over three hundred years. It analyses the growth of novel... -
The Royal Women Who Made England: The Tenth Century in Saxon England by M J Porter 9781399068437
RRP: £20.00£14.31Throughout the tenth century, England, as it would be recognised today, formed. No longer many Saxon kingdoms, but rather, just England. Yet, this development masks much in the century in which the Viking raiders were seemingly driven from England's... -
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
RRP: £9.99£6.64A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World War II In 1937, as the Nazi... -
The Kings & Queens of England: The Biography by David Loades
RRP: £14.99£9.70This is the history of the men and women who occupied the highest position in English, and later British, society. From Richard III's infamous life and death, to Henry VIII's wives, Charles I's execution and Queen Victoria's exceptionally long reign,... -
Arnhem 1944: The Human Tragedy of the Bridge Too Far by Dilip Sarkar 9781526732736
RRP: £30.00£21.95The airborne battle for the bridges across the Rhine at Arnhem ranks amongst the Second World War's most famous actions - inspiring innumerable books and the star-studded 1977 movie. This book, however, is unique: deeply moved, the author provides a... -
Cicero and Rome by David Taylor 9781853995064
RRP: £19.99£19.04In "Cicero and Rome", David Taylor takes Cicero as the focal point for examination of the last years of the Roman Republic. He traces the often dramatic and violent events from the harsh dictatorship of Sulla (82 BC) to Cicero's own death in the... -
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton by Nicolaus Copernicus 9780241360637
RRP: £16.99£12.63New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it aboutIn the late fifteenth century, it was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a... -
Hadrian's Empire by Danny Danziger
RRP: £12.99£8.60Hadrian's Wall is one of the world's best known legacies of the Roman Empire. It has stood for two thousand years as a moment to its creator, and yet he himself remains an enigmatic figure. Now bestselling author Danny Danziger and Nicholas Purcell... -
Belgium in the Great War by Jean-Michel Veranneman 9781526716606
RRP: £25.00£17.62In August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defences of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgian army resisted and fought on, holding a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres, alongside the... -
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah
RRP: £9.99£8.59A lively, inside account of Putin's years of rule and the impending crisis that threatens his tsar-like regime From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet... -
Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant
RRP: £28.00£22.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299199Author Jean-Pierre VernantFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800 by Daniel Roche
RRP: £25.99£21.67Things which we regard as the everyday objects of consumption (and hence re-purchase), and essential to any decent, civilised lifestyle, have not always been so: in former times, everyday objects would have passed from one generation to another, without... -
619: The History of a Forgotten Squadron: How the recovery of a missing Lancaster aircraft and its crew in Hanover in 1977 led me to uncover the complete lost history of a World War Two Bomber Command Squadron by Bryan Clarke 9781903953518
£17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953518Author Bryan ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 750gDimensions(mm)... -
Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot by Peter Brimacombe
RRP: £6.00£4.44Branded one of the greatest villains of all time, the name Guy Fawkes is synonymous with a spectacular crime that never was - the Gunpowder Plot. But who was this young man, caught up in a world of intrigue, treachery, betrayal, spies, double agents and... -
A People's History of Catalonia by Michael Eaude
RRP: £16.99£11.54On October 1, 2017, the Spanish police assault on Catalans voting in a peaceful referendum shot Catalonia's struggle for independence onto the world's front pages. Today, those two million-plus voters have neither forgiven nor forgotten: the struggle... -
The Nazis' Flight from Justice: How Hitler's Followers Attempted to Vanish Without Trace by Richard Dargie 9781789509861
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789509861Author Richard DargieFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Witnesses Of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt 9781844130856 [USED COPY]
RRP: £18.99£4.44Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. Children were often the victims in this most terrible of European conflicts, falling prey to bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies, mass... -
Witnesses Of War: Children's Lives Under the Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt
RRP: £18.99£13.61Witnesses of War is the first work to show how children experienced the Second World War under the Nazis. Children were often the victims in this most terrible of European conflicts, falling prey to bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies, mass... -
Exploring Northumberland History: 2021 by Philip Nixon
£18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916237605Author Philip NixonFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesWeight(grams) 1200gDimensions(mm)... -
Boldness Be My Friend by Richard Pape 9780755316267 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29'"Escape... escape... escape... by God!"' was his constant exhortation. "Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home."'Shot down over Berlin in 1941,... -
Boldness Be My Friend by Richard Pape
RRP: £10.99£7.40'"Escape... escape... escape... by God!"' was his constant exhortation. "Never mind hunger pains, discomfort, or any other agony. Let escape become your passion, your one and only obsession until you finally reach home."'Shot down over Berlin in 1941,... -
Annihilation: Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953 by Mark Levene 9780198791775
£49.17From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia,... -
The Siege of Leningrad: 900 Days of Terror by David Glantz
RRP: £10.99£7.40The full story of the most terrible siege in history when over a million people perished, illustrated by pictures recently released from Russian archives.Leningrad (now reverted to its pre-1914 name of St Petersburg) was surrounded by German forces in...