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Waterloo: Rout and Retreat by Andrew W. Field 9781526701718
RRP: $32.25$23.61This, the fourth volume in Andrew Field's highly praised study of the Waterloo campaign from the French perspective, depicts in vivid detail the often neglected final phase the rout and retreat of Napoleon's army. The text is based exclusively on French... -
Lewisham by John Coulter 9780752400594
RRP: $19.34$15.12This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752400594Author John... -
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg
RRP: $12.89$8.82A 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... -
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
RRP: $14.18$10.31'Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously... -
A History of Everyday Things: The Birth of Consumption in France, 1600-1800 by Daniel Roche
RRP: $33.53$27.61Things 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... -
The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933 by Zara Steiner
RRP: $68.37$59.38The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war. In The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges... -
Albion's Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth Century England by Douglas Hay
RRP: $32.24$31.36In the popular imagination, informed as it is by Hogarth, Swift, Defoe and Fielding, the eighteenth-century underworld is a place of bawdy knockabout, rife with colourful eccentrics. But the artistic portrayals we have only hint at the dark reality. In... -
A History Book for Scots: Selections from the Scotichronicon by Walter Bower 9781906566593
RRP: $21.92$15.58Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon - 'a history book for Scots'. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the... -
Anna Komnene and the Alexiad: The Byzantine Princess and the First Crusade by Ioulia Kolovou 9781526733016
RRP: $32.25$23.61Anna Komnene is one of the most curious ?gures in the history of an intriguing empire. A woman of extraordinary education and intellect, she was the only Byzantine female historian and one of the ?rst and foremost historians in medieval Europe. Yet few... -
Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot by Peter Brimacombe
RRP: $7.74$5.93Branded 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... -
Old Aston, Erdington, Kingstanding and Great Barr by Eric Armstrong
RRP: $15.42$14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840330762Author Eric ArmstrongFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 4mm -
The Great War: Myth and Memory by Dan Todman 9781852855123
$43.68The First World War, with its mud and the slaughter of the trenches, is often taken as the ultimate example of the futility of war. Generals, safe in their headquarters behind the lines, sent millions of men to their deaths to gain a few hundred yards of... -
The Salient: Ypres, 1914-18 Alan Palmer 9781472124807
RRP: $16.76$11.39Ypres today is an international 'Town of Peace', but in 1914 the town, and the Salient, the 35-mile bulge in the Western Front, of which it is part, saw a 1500-day military campaign of mud and blood at the heart of the First World War that turned it into... -
Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay
RRP: $24.50$17.56In his most ambitious endeavour since Freud, acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of Modernism in the arts, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the modern world, dominating western high culture for over a century... -
The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760-1800 - Updated Edition by R. R. Palmer 9780691161280
RRP: $38.70$31.04For the Western world, the period from 1760 to 1800 was the great revolutionary era in which the outlines of the modern democratic state came into being. Here for the first time in one volume is R. R. Palmer's magisterial account of this incendiary age... -
Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough
RRP: $12.89$9.03In this gloriously original social history, Travis Elborough argues that our national character - our snobbishness and willingness to laugh at ourselves, our attitudes to sex and fair play and our chequered relationship with national pride - has been... -
Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War by Ian Rutledge 9780863569500
RRP: $32.25$21.45In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great... -
A Brief Guide To British Battlefields: From the Roman Occupation to Culloden by David Clark
RRP: $15.47$5.43A very readable work of reference offering a survey in chronological order, from AD 84 to 1746, of the major battles which have taken place on British soil, from the Roman occupation to Culloden, the last battle fought on British soil. In this way, the... -
Annihilation: Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953 by Mark Levene 9780198791775
$63.43From 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,... -
War: A History in 100 Battles by Richard Overy
RRP: $16.76$12.05The object of this book is to introduce readers to a whole range of military history which has all the drama, dangers, horrors and excitement that we associate with Stalingrad or the Somme. Battles are acute moments of history whenever and wherever they... -
The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard 9780712600590
RRP: $21.92$16.09After the Great War, the millions killed on the battlefields were eclipsed by the millions more civilians carried off by disease and starvation when the conflict was over. Haunted by memories, the Allies were determined that the end of the Second World... -
The Battle for Warsaw, 1939-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781526741509
RRP: $19.34$14.33During the Second World War five brutal battles were fought in and around Warsaw. Each proved to be dramatic, decisive and bloody, and in this volume of the Images of War series Anthony Tucker-Jones records them all in graphic detail. The first occurred... -
Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland by Steve Bruce 9780199281022
RRP: $94.17$73.61The career of the Revd Ian Paisley raises vital questions about the links between religion and politics in the modern world. Paisley is unique in having founded his own church and party and led both to success, so that he effectively has a veto over... -
Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor, 1919-22 by Michael Llewellyn Smith
RRP: $16.76$15.65Michael Llewellyn-Smith sets the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the war in Anatolia against the background of Greece's 'Great Idea' and of great power rivalries in the Near East. He traces the origins of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos's... -
Swordfish: The Story of the Taranto Raid by David Wragg
RRP: $12.89$7.93The daring British air raid that inspired the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.In November 1940 Britain was isolated in its stand against Nazi Germany and its ally, Italy. The country could not afford to lose control of the Mediterranean, but the Royal... -
Germany and the Origins of the Second World War by Jonathan Wright
$49.20Jonathan Wright explores the events, discusses rival interpretations and places the policies of Hitler in the context of Germany as a whole. Wright explains that support rose and fell, but, nevertheless, by December 1941 Hitler had succeeded in carrying... -
On The Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
RRP: $19.34$14.33This is the portrait of a world on the eve of its destruction. Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught and World War Two. In this revisionist account of... -
Hell Riders: The Truth About the Charge of the Light Brigade by Terry Brighton 9780141018317
RRP: $21.92$15.84On 25 October 1854, during the Crimean War, the Light Brigade of the British Cavalry Division made the most magnificent and most brutal charge in military history. Almost 700 men armed with sabre and lance, charged straight at the muzzles of Russian... -
A Nation is Born by Michael B. Barry 9780717198511
RRP: $33.53$23.96A Nation Is Born celebrates a formative period in the history of the Irish state: the fifteen years during which we emerged from the rubble of wars and violence and set up as a fledgling country while establishing a diplomatic presence on the world stage... -
Democracy Defined: The Manifesto by Kenn d'Oudney
$27.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902848280Author Kenn d'OudneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Scorpio Recording Company (Publishing) LtdPublisher Scorpio Recording Company... -
Marlborough's War Machine, 1702-1711 by James Falkner
RRP: $19.34$14.33Blenheim, Ramilles , Oudenarde, Malplaquet much has been written about the brilliant victories of the Duke of Marlboroughs Anglo-Dutch army over the armies of Louis XIV of France during the War of the Spanish Succession. Less attention has been focused... -
1809 Thunder on the Danube: Napoleon's Defeat of the Hapsburgs, Volume III by John H. Gill
RRP: $21.92$19.22With this third volume John Gill brings to a close his magisterial study of the war between Napoleonic France and Habsburg Austria. The account begins with both armies recuperating on the banks of the Danube. As they rest, important action was taking... -
Memory and the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel 9780375703997
RRP: $28.38$21.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703997Author Fernand BraudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 379gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
A Landscape Revealed: 10,000 Years on a Chalkland Farm by Martin Green 9780752414904
RRP: $32.25$23.92The Down Farm Landscape (where the author's family has farmed for generations) is one of the most carefully studied areas in Western Europe. Much of this work has been carried out by the author himself - who in 1992 won the Pitt Rivers award for... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison Nicholas Guyatt 9781786079893
RRP: $32.25$23.61'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
Great Lengths: The historic indoor swimming pools of Britain by Dr. Ian Gordon 9781905624522
RRP: $25.79$19.89Swimming is Britain's most popular participation sport. Nearly one in four people swim at least once a month, with around 80 million visits to swimming pools recorded every year. Surprisingly, although public baths have formed a vital part of community... -
The Thirty Years War by C V Wedgwood
RRP: $32.19$22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171462Author C. V. WedgwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Interrogator: The Story of Hanns Joachim Scharff, Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe by Raymond F. Toliver
RRP: $41.27$26.73The story of Hanns Scharff, the master interrogator of the Luftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War II. Scharff, a German Intelligence Officer, gained the reputation as the man who... -
The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
RRP: $21.92$15.84William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away... -
Love Spells and Lost Treasure: Service Magic in England from The Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era by Tabitha Stanmore
RRP: $96.75$87.90Magic is ubiquitous across the world and throughout history. Yet if witchcraft is acknowledged as a persistent presence in the medieval and early modern eras, practical magic by contrast - performed to a useful end for payment, and actually more common...