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Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and the Solent: A Cultural History by Mark Bardell 9781908493071
RRP: €17.85€16.49The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own local roadsteads and a unique... -
The London that Never Happened by Antony Badsey-Ellis 9781854144690
RRP: €23.74€23.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854144690Author Antony Badsey-EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Capital History PublishingPublisher Capital Transport Publishing -
Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age by Anne Goldgar
RRP: €32.13€31.98In the 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story - how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they... -
Ovid and the Politics of Emotion in Elizabethan England by C. Fox 9780230617049
RRP: €53.54€53.51Elizabethan English culture is saturated with tales and figures from Ovid s Metamorphoses. While most of these narratives interrogate metamorphosis and transformation, many tales - such as those of Philomela, Hecuba, or Orpheus - also highlight... -
Cheltenham: A New History by Anthea Jones
€6.20Cheltenham is well known as the most complete Regency town in Britain. It boasts a wonderful ensemble of broad streets, handsome terraces and sweeping crescents, as well as a remarkable number of generously proportioned squares and gardens. Grand... -
Lenin's Tomb: the Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
RRP: €26.18€17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679751250Author David RemnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
Pompeii by Alex Butterworth 9780753820766
€17.70A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life.This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, thus beginning with the earthquake which all but destroyed Pompeii and ending with the volcanic eruption... -
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, its Popes and its People Jessica Wärnberg 9781837731824
RRP: €14.27€9.71In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic... -
Finding Poland by Matthew Kelly
RRP: €20.22€14.61Following the partitioning of Poland by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, Matthew Kelly's great grandmother and her two daughters were deported to the East. Thus began an extraordinary ordeal that took them, and many thousands like them, on a journey... -
Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume II: The Peace of Westphalia to the Dissolution of the Reich, 1648-1806 by Joachim Whaley 9780199688838
RRP: €66.64€53.40Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806. Over two volumes, Joachim Whaley rejects the notion that... -
Dive Scapa Flow by Rod Macdonald
RRP: €35.70€29.70Dive Scapa Flow has been THE definitive guide to diving the fabled wrecks of Scapa Flow, one of the world's greatest wreck diving locations. This completely re-written and updated centenary edition is produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of... -
Europe in Question: Referendums on European Integration by Sara Binzer Hobolt 9780199549948
RRP: €154.70€132.47How do voters decide in referendums on European integration? Direct democracy has become an increasingly common feature of European politics with important implications for policy-making in the European Union. Attempts to reform the EU treaties have been... -
Leonardo's Salvator Mundi and the Collecting of Leonardo in the Stuart Courts by Martin Kemp
RRP: €55.92€42.39The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a... -
Belgium in the Great War by Jean-Michel Veranneman 9781526716606
RRP: €29.75€21.30In 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... -
Heimskringla III. Magnus Olafsson to Magnus Erlingsson: Volume III by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521932
RRP: €14.28€13.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521932Author Snorri SturlusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Viking Society for Northern ResearchPublisher Viking Society for Northern... -
Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar Since 1704 by Stephen Constantine
RRP: €29.75€23.21This 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... -
Bootle by Peter W. Woolley
RRP: €15.46€11.75A history of BootleBook InformationISBN 9780752406244Author Peter W. WoolleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Medicine before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment by Roger French 9780521007610
RRP: €46.40€38.41This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. These were the elite, in reputation and rewards, and they were successful. Yet we can form little idea of their... -
Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation, & Social Change by Hugh Trevor-Roper 9780865972780
RRP: €13.03€11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865972780Author Hugh Trevor-RoperFormat PaperbackPage Count 465Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 757g -
The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich
€114.56For five years during the Second World War, the Allies launched a trial and error bombing campaign against Germany's historical city landscape. Peaking in the war's final three months, it was the first air attack of its kind. Civilian dwellings were... -
Up to Mametz...and Beyond by Llewelyn Wyn Griffith 9781526700551
RRP: €17.84€13.22Llewelyn Wyn Griffiths Up to Mametz, published in 1931, is now firmly established as one of the finest accounts of soldiering on the Western Front. It tells the story of the creation of a famous Welsh wartime battalion (The Royal Welsh Fusiliers), its... -
Catherine the Great: Life and Legend by John T. Alexander 9780195052367
€56.12John Alexander has provided the first popular biography of one of the most powerful, infamous, and colourful figures in modern history. Empress of the vast Russian Empire by the age of 33, Catherine's private and public life generated tremendous... -
Cooking in Europe, 1650-1850 by Ivan P. Day 9780313346248
€57.93From the Baroque Era to the Victorian Era, 1650-1850, unprecedented changes took place in the food ways and dining habits of European society. This daily life aspect of history comes alive for students and food enthusiasts as they read and try out these... -
Vive la Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution by Mark Steel 9781931859370
RRP: €20.22€14.49"Thank goodness . . . for Mark Steel. Engagingly lighthearted while clearly thorough, the author has taken the events of the French Revolution and given them a human face, as well as neatly poking fun at the over-pomposity with which our recent... -
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi by Thomas Weber 9780199664634
RRP: €17.84€13.03The fateful story of Adolf Hitler's transformation from awkward, feckless loner to lethal, charismatic demagogue. The story of the making of Adolf Hitler that we are all familiar with is the one Hitler himself wove in his 1924 trial, and then expanded... -
Victorian Sensation: Or the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Michael Diamond 9781843310761
RRP: €83.30€80.96'Victorian Sensation' sheds light on the Victorians' fascination with celebrity culture and their obsession with gruesome and explicit reportage of murders and sex scandals. With a vivid cast of characters, ranging from the serial poisoner William... -
Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern by Charles Dellheim
RRP: €38.08€33.74The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has become a cause celebre. In Belonging and Betrayal, Charles Dellheim turns this story on its head by... -
The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union by Mr. Anthony Pagden
RRP: €36.88€31.45The creation of the European Union and the progressive integration of the European states has raised serious questions about the existence of a distinctive European identity. Do the British share much in common with the French, or the French with the... -
Operation 'Dragoon' and Beyond: Then and Now by Jean Paul Pallud 9781399046114
RRP: €35.70€25.34From the Riviera, to the Rhine and on to the Colmar pocket, all three operations are covered in this volume by Jean Paul Pallud, and each show the action and locations in our unique then and now style. The project of a landing operation in southern... -
Russian Revolution, The Paper by Chris Culpin
€24.66Covering popular topics and containing sharply focused material, Longman History in Depth is ideal for AS/A Level or higher Still students of all abilities. Introduces students to each topis through a narrative supported by charts, maps, timelines,... -
Lost Tramways of England: London South West by Peter Waller 9781914079832
RRP: €10.70€7.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914079832Author Peter WallerFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg LimitedDimensions(mm) 150mm * 200mm * 15mm -
RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 6: 1945 W. R Chorley (Author) 9780904597929
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780904597929Author W. R ChorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Midland PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 178mm * 110mm * 17mm -
The Goths: Lost Civilizations David M. Gwynn 9781780238456
RRP: €21.42€15.66The Goths are truly a 'lost civilization'. Sweeping down from the north, ancient Gothic tribes sacked the imperial city of Rome and set in motion the decline and fall of the western Roman Empire. Ostrogothic and Visigothic kings ruled over Italy and... -
Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC: The Imperial Republic Rosenstein 9780748623228
RRP: €38.08€31.46Rome's stunning rise to mastery of the ancient Mediterranean Nathan Rosenstein charts Rome's incredible journey and command of the Mediterranean over the course of the third and second centuries BC. He describes the Republic's great wars - against... -
The Seven Years War in Europe: 1756-1763 by Franz A. J. Szabo 9780582292727
RRP: €57.11€55.19In this pioneering new work, based on a thorough re-reading of primary sources and new research in the Austrian State Archives, Franz Szabo presents a fascinating reassessment of the continental war.Professor Szabo challenges the well-established myth... -
The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: €26.17€23.19The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a... -
From the Score to the Stage: An Illustrated History of Continental Opera Production and Staging Evan Baker 9780226035086
RRP: €77.35€76.41Without scenery, costumes, and stage action, an opera would be little more than a concert. But in the audience, we know little (and think less) about the enormous efforts of those involved in bringing an opera to life - by the stagehands who shift... -
The Human Rights Dictatorship: Socialism, Global Solidarity and Revolution in East Germany by Ned Richardson-Little
RRP: €29.74€25.20Richardson-Little exposes the forgotten history of human rights in the German Democratic Republic, placing the history of the Cold War, Eastern European dissidents and the revolutions of 1989 in a new light. By demonstrating how even a communist... -
Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century by V. R. Berghahn 9780521347488
RRP: €45.21€39.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Napoleon's German Allies (4): Bavaria Otto von Pivka 9780850453737
€15.86In 1805, Bavaria allied itself with France and Bavarian troops served with Napoleon during the 1809 campaign against Austria, and participated in the Russian campaign of 1812, before eventually abandoning the Emperor's cause in 1813 prior to the battle...