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To Rule the Waves by Arthur Herman 9780060534257
RRP: $15.47$14.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060534257Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 567g -
Consett The Second Selection by Derwentdale Local History Society
RRP: $16.76$12.73This second selection of over 200 old photographs brought together by the Derwentdale Local History Society contiunes the dramatic story of Consett, its people and heritage. The lives and work surroundings of yesteryear have at time to be wondered at, as... -
The Templars by Piers Paul Read 9780753810873 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18$2.95The dramatic, ultimately tragic history of the Knights Templar, the largest and most powerful military order of the Crusades.Sifting myth from history, Piers Paul Read reveals the Templars - the multinational force of warrior monks, in their white tunics... -
The Templars Piers Paul Read 9780753810873
RRP: $14.18$9.82The dramatic, ultimately tragic history of the Knights Templar, the largest and most powerful military order of the Crusades.Sifting myth from history, Piers Paul Read reveals the Templars - the multinational force of warrior monks, in their white tunics... -
Mining in Cornwall Vol 4: Hayle to Kerrier and Carrick by L. J. Bullen 9780752421339
RRP: $19.34$15.12Mining has been the most important industry in large parts of Cornwall for hundreds of years. This volume contains many photographs of mines both large and small with an emphasis on hitherto unpublished scenes of the latter. Within the pages of Mining in... -
Casanova by Ian Kelly 9780340922156 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$3.42Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording... -
Casanova by Ian Kelly
RRP: $16.76$11.39Giacomo Casanova was one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of his or any age. Braggart or perfect lover? Conman or genius? He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording... -
Europe Since 1945 by Mary Fulbrook 9780198731795
$24.23Mary Fulbrook's Introduction to this splendid concluding volume in The Short Oxford History of Europe begins with a vivid contrast, setting the struggle for survival in a devastated rubble-strewn street of East Berlin in 1945 against the same location in... -
The Last Duel: Now a major film starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer by Eric Jager
RRP: $11.60$8.58THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNow a major motion picture directed by Ridley Scott starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer.In 1386, a few days after Christmas, a massive crowd gathered at a Paris monastery to watch two men fight a duel to the... -
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately
RRP: $21.92$16.09Between 1914 and 1945 European society was in almost continuous upheaval, enduring two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. In his remarkably ambitious and powerful narrative, historian Robert... -
Internal Colonization: Russia's Imperial Experience Alexander Etkind (King's College, Cambridge) 9780745651309
RRP: $25.79$23.17This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of... -
Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests by Walter Emil Kaegi
RRP: $34.82$29.41This is a study of how and why the Byzantine Empire lost many of its most valuable provinces to Islamic (Arab) conquerors in the seventh century, provinces which included Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. It investigates conditions on the eve... -
The Royal Navy: A History Since 1900 by Duncan Redford
$71.85Since 1900, the Royal Navy has seen vast changes to the way it operates. This book tells the story, not just of defeats and victories, but also of how the navy has adjusted to over 100 years of rapid technological and social change. The navy has... -
Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen
RRP: $24.50$17.56In the middle of the sixth century, the world's smallest organism collided with the world's mightiest empire. With the death of twenty-five million people, the Roman Empire, under her last great emperor, Justinian, was decimated. Before Yersinia pestis,... -
Hell or Some Worse Place: Kinsale 1601 Des Ekin 9781847179593
RRP: $20.63$16.22Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601 As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Aguila has been sprung from a prison cell to command... -
By Moonlight and Spirit Flight by Michael Howard 9781945147340
RRP: $19.29$12.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945147340Author Michael HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Three Hands PressPublisher Three Hands PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology by Fritz R. Stern
RRP: $38.70$30.04This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn,... -
The Enlightenment and Original Sin by Matthew Kadane 9780226832890
RRP: $30.96$29.71Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Vegetius: Epitome of Military Science by N. P. Milner
$38.47The only Latin art of war to survive, Vegetius' Epitome was for long a part of the medieval prince's military education. The core of his proposals, the maintenance of a professional standing army, was revolutionary for medieval Europe, while his theory... -
Fighting Through to Hitler's Germany: The Memoirs and Letters of Richard Laird, A Japanese Prisoner of War by Mark Forsdike 9781526772862
RRP: $32.25$23.61After landing on D-Day, 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment fought through France, Holland and into Germany as part of the 3rd (British) Infantry Division. Ever cheerful, the Battalion were opposed by an increasingly ruthless enemy determined to deny the... -
German Soldiers and the Occupation of France, 1940-1944 by Julia S. Torrie
RRP: $39.98$29.48From 1940 to 1944, German soldiers not only fought in and ruled over France, but also lived their lives there. While the combat experiences of German soldiers are relatively well-documented, as are the everyday lives of the occupied French population, we... -
The German Infantryman on the Eastern Front by Simon Forty 9781636243610
RRP: $32.19$23.05The 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... -
John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy by William Caferro 9781421418414
RRP: $39.35$36.09This 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 Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence by Anna di Lellio 9781843312451
RRP: $19.34$19.22This book makes the case for the independence of Kosova - the former province of 'old-Yugoslavia' and now temporarily a United Nations-led International protectorate - at a time in which international diplomacy is deeply involved in solving the contested... -
The Legend of Basil the Bulgar-Slayer by Paul Stephenson 9780521158831
RRP: $25.79$22.10The reign of Basil II (976-1025), the longest of any Byzantine emperor, has long been considered as a 'golden age', in which his greatest achievement was the annexation of Bulgaria. This, we have been told, was achieved through a long and bloody war of... -
Information and Communication in Venice: Rethinking Early Modern Politics by Filippo de Vivo 9780199568338
RRP: $77.40$62.96A unique investigation of the political uses of different forms of communication - oral, manuscript, and printed - in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice. Today we take it for granted that communication and politics influence each other through... -
Res Gestae Divi Augusti: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus Augustus Caesar 9780198317722
RRP: $45.78$38.20Res Gestae Divi Augusti The Achievements of the Divine AugustusBook InformationISBN 9780198317722Author Augustus CaesarFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Operation Hoss: The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, May-July 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: $19.34$14.33Operation Hoss or Aktion Hoss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp. Between 14 May and 9 July 1944, 420,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from Hungary, or about... -
The Myth of "bloody Mary": A Biography of Queen Mary I of England by Linda Porter 9780312564964
RRP: $38.69$26.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312564964Author Linda PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Saved and the Damned: A History of the Reformation by Prof Thomas Kaufmann 9780198841043
RRP: $47.72$40.96Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and... -
Diana by Sarah Bradford
RRP: $16.76$12.05*20th anniversary edition featuring a new afterword*Glamour. Duty. Tragedy: The Woman Behind the Princess. Sarah Bradford delivers an authoritative and explosive study of the greatest icon of the twentieth century: Diana.After more than a decade... -
The Weimar Republic by J. W. Hiden 9780582287068
RRP: $45.14$44.92It is often assumed that the Weimar Republic was bound to fail due to the harsh terms of the Versailles Settlement. Professor Hiden dispels this simplistic view and shows that it was a complex set of factors which finally brought Hitler to power. This... -
Bad Queen Bess?: Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I by Peter Lake 9780198753995
RRP: $76.11$75.58Bad Queen Bess? analyses the back and forth between the Elizabethan regime and various Catholic critics, who, from the early 1570s to the early 1590s, sought to characterise that regime as a conspiracy of evil counsel. Through a genre novel - the... -
Around Plaistow by George Taylor 9780752406145
RRP: $16.76$12.73This book is part of the Archive Photographs series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain.Book InformationISBN 9780752406145Author George TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint... -
The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe by Anthony Grafton
RRP: $36.11$31.63The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe focuses on the ways in which culture is moved from one generation or group to another, not by exact replication but by accretion or revision. The contributors to the volume each consider how the passing... -
Statelessness: A Modern History by Mira L Siegelberg
RRP: $39.93$32.52The story of how a much-contested legal category-statelessness-transformed the international legal order and redefined the relationship between states and their citizens.Two world wars left millions stranded in Europe. The collapse of empires and the... -
Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary from Hitler's Last Birthday to VE Day by Walter Kempowski 9781847086419
RRP: $16.76$11.35Swansong 1945 chronicles four significant days in the last three weeks of WWII: 20 April, Hitler's last birthday; 25 April, when American and Soviet troops first met at the Elbe; 30 April, the day Hitler committed suicide; and 8 May, the day of the... -
A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present: Modernisation, Ideology and Nationality by Ian D. Armour
$45.86Why is Eastern Europe still different from Western Europe, more than a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present shows how the roots of this difference are based in Eastern Europe's tortured 20th... -
From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200 by Rachel Fulton Brown 9780231125512
RRP: $45.15$37.07Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled... -
The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia's Most Brutal Serial Killer by Peter Conradi 9781504040167
RRP: $23.21$18.09The shocking true story of the Russian serial killer who brutally murdered more than fifty victims-and evaded capture for over a decade. By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women...