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1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe - Updated Edition by Mary Elise Sarotte 9780691163710
RRP: $39.00$30.991989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a... -
Our War by Christopher Somerville
RRP: $21.43$14.43Never heard before real stories of soldiers who fought in WW2 'Extraordinary ...If they had not made our war their war also, victory might not have come in 1945' DAILY TELEGRAPHIn this powerful and moving narrative, Christopher Somerville skilfully links... -
The Oxford Companion to Scottish History by Michael Lynch
RRP: $34.11$25.37The Oxford Companion to Scottish History interprets history broadly, including archaeology, architecture, climate, culture, folk belief, geology, and the langauages of Scotland. It covers more than 20 centuries of history, including immigrants, migrants,... -
The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border by Frances Stonor Saunders 9781787330542
RRP: $37.03$24.34'Frances Stonor Saunders is one of those writers you read no matter what she writes. She is that good... This is family history at its best... the words fizz off the page and flutter in the mind' Sunday TimesTen years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was... -
Medieval Military Technology by Kelly Robert DeVries
RRP: $68.25$60.72First published in 1992, Medieval Military Technology has become the definitive book in its field, garnering much praise and a large readership. This thorough update of a classic book, regarded as both an excellent overview and an important piece of... -
A Companion to Roman Britain by Malcolm Todd 9781405156813
RRP: $77.90$69.11This major survey of the history and culture of Roman Britain spans the period from the first century BC to the fifth century AD. Major survey of the history and culture of Roman BritainBrings together specialists to provide an overview of recent debates... -
The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others by Paul Cartledge
RRP: $37.03$26.54This book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: 'Who were the Classical Greeks?' Paul Cartledge - 'one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks... -
Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army by Donald W. Engels
RRP: $44.85$35.30'The most important work on Alexander the Great to appear in a long time. Neither scholarship nor semi-fictional biography will ever be the same again...Engels at last uses all the archaeological work done in Asia in the past generation and makes it... -
Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale
RRP: $25.33$17.73WINNER OF THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2013HERALD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014The extraordinary story of the Kremlin - from prize-winning author and historian Catherine MerridaleBoth beautiful and profoundly menacing, the Kremlin has dominated Moscow for many centuries... -
A Brief History of Roman Britain by Joan P. Alcock
RRP: $21.43$14.43In BC 55 Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until AD 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. For the next 400... -
The Portable Medieval Reader by Various 9780140150469
$27.16DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: THE PAGEANT OF THEMIDDLE AGES - IN THEOLOGY, HISTORY, TRAVEL, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE- BROUGHT TO LIFE BY WRITERS OF THE PERIOD 1050-1500. DANTE ALIGHIERI, FRANCESCO PETRARCA, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, SAINT THOMAS... -
The Last Viking: The Life of Olav Haraldsson by Desmond Seward
RRP: $42.90$28.68Raider. Conqueror. King. Saint. This is the story of Olav Haraldsson, the greatest Viking who ever lived. A ruthless Viking warrior who named his most prized battle weapon after the Norse goddess of death, Olav Haraldsson and his mercenaries... -
Persons and Polemics: Historical Essays by Edward Thompson 9780850364392
RRP: $29.15$26.52Description currently unavailableBook InformationISBN 9780850364392Author Edward ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd -
Istanbul: The Imperial City by John Freely
RRP: $25.33$17.73Istanbul's history is a catalogue of change, not least of name, yet it has managed to retain its own unique identity. John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and intrigue. The book also includes a comprehensive... -
Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951—1970 by Brian Harrison 9780199605132
$90.91In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then... -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
RRP: $44.83$44.56For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and resources of the Mediterranean world upon the Greeks and... -
Venice, A Maritime Republic by Frederic Chapin Lane
RRP: $68.25$61.70"Frederic Lane has achieved what is the often unfulfilled dream of every historian who has devoted his entire work to the exploration of partial aspects of a single broad subject: he has given us a comprehensive, thoughtful, readable, beautifully... -
Germany and the Second World War: Volume VI: The Global War by Horst Boog
$176.90Volume VI of the 'Germany and the Second World War' series deals with the extension of a European war into a global one in the period from 1941 to 1943. It focuses on the politics, strategy, and operations of the belligerent powers as Germany lost the... -
Historical Atlas of Central Europe: Third Revised and Expanded Edition by Paul Robert Magocsi 9781487523312
RRP: $117.00$103.08Central Europe remains a region of ongoing change and continuing significance in the contemporary world. This third, fully revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe takes into consideration recent changes in the region. The 120... -
Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar Since 1704 by Stephen Constantine
RRP: $48.75$37.44This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to... -
Rebuilding Germany: The Creation of the Social Market Economy, 1945-1957 by James C.Van Hook 9780521039963
RRP: $60.43$46.41The social market economy has served as a fundamental pillar of post-war Germany. Today, it is associated with the European welfare state. Initially, it meant the opposite. Rebuilding Germany examines the 1948 West German economic reforms that dismantled... -
A Concise History of Hungary by Miklos Molnar 9780521667364
RRP: $44.83$37.17This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the elections of 1988. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people which became... -
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War by Julie Mertus
RRP: $52.65$41.85Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and... -
Kursk 1943: The Northern Front by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $33.13$27.50In the summer of 1943, recoiling from defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler conducted a limited objective offensive to eliminate the Soviet Kursk salient. Operating a classic pincer attack of the kind that succeeded during the 1942 Kharkov campaign he hoped that... -
The Alps: A Human History from Hannibal to Heidi and Beyond by Stephen O'Shea 9780393246858
RRP: $40.93$34.61The Alps have seen the march of armies, the flow of pilgrims and Crusaders, the feats of mountaineers and the dreams of engineers-and some 14 million people live among their peaks today. In The Alps, Stephen O'Shea takes readers up and down these... -
A Radical History Of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms by Edward Vallance
RRP: $29.23$19.11From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study,... -
Children's Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport by Vera K. Fast
$107.00In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religious and governmental organizations, the Kindertransport... -
The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
RRP: $25.33$23.89The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely as possible on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of... -
Steel Boat, Iron Hearts: A U-Boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505 by Hans Goebeler 9781932714319
$25.27Hans Goebeler is known to history as the man who "pulled the plug" on U-505 on June 4, 1944, due to his efforts to keep his beloved U-boat out of the hands of the Allied Task Group 22.3. Steel Boat, Iron Hearts is his no-holds-barred account of his life... -
The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 by Michael Burleigh 9780521398022
RRP: $60.43$47.25Between 1933 and 1945 the Nazi regime in Germany tried to restructure a 'class' society along racial lines. This book deals with the ideas and institutions which underpinned this mission, and shows how Nazi policy affected various groups of people, both... -
I Should Know That: Great Britain: Everything You Really Should Know About GB by Emma Marriott
RRP: $15.58$10.35From icons of British history to geography, and the economy to the legal system, I Should Know That: Great Britain covers a wide range of topics, filling in all those embarrassing gaps in your knowledge of this fair isle.Inspired by the UK citizenship... -
The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800 by Pieter C. Emmer
RRP: $52.63$45.24How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colonial power? At the start of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic emerged as the centre of a global... -
Hadrian's Wall: Everyday Life on a Roman Frontier by Patricia Southern
RRP: $25.33$16.54Hadrian's Wall is a major World Heritage site, set in stunning countryside in Cumbria and Northumberland, where the Wall and its forts are the most visited Roman remains in Britain. It runs through the narrow gap across the Pennines between the Solway... -
Europe Under Napoleon by Michael Broers
$52.51Napoleon Bonaparte dominated the public life of Europe like no other individual before him. Not surprisingly, the story of the man himself has usually swamped the stories of his subjects. This book looks at the history of the Napoleonic Empire from an... -
The Italian Wars: Volume 4 - The Battle of Ceresole 1544 - The Crushing Defeat of the Imperial Army by Massimo Predonzani
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070296Author Massimo PredonzaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Phantom Terror: The Threat of Revolution and the Repression of Liberty 1789-1848 by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: $35.08$25.25A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow... -
Panzerwrecks X: German Armour 1944-45 by Lee Archer 9780955594076
RRP: $33.13$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955594076Format PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lee ArcherPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedDimensions(mm) 210mm * 280mm * 8mm -
Prehistory in the Peak by Mark Edmonds
RRP: $35.08$27.38Anyone who lives in Derbyshire or has walked in the Peak District will have marvelled at the rich variety of prehistoric remains: how and why did our remote ancestors choose to live in this seemingly wild and inhospitable. Arranging the text around a... -
The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason by Josiah Ober
RRP: $58.50$46.20Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains... -
Bootle by Peter W. Woolley
RRP: $25.33$18.76A history of BootleBook InformationISBN 9780752406244Author Peter W. WoolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm