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Lion and the Eagle by Kathleen Burk
RRP: $25.33$17.73An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in... -
Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical by Walter Reid 9781780276748
RRP: $48.75$45.84Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler's credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed 'peace in our time'. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals the... -
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century by Maarten Prak 9781009240567
RRP: $44.83$38.14Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest... -
The Bridge: A Journey Between Orient and Occident by Geert Mak
RRP: $21.43$15.15Istanbul's Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and... -
From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990 by Rudy J. Koshar
RRP: $103.35$81.49Rudy Koshar constructs a powerful framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than a half century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust. Finding the assumptions of many... -
Coal, Steel, and the Rebirth of Europe, 1945-1955: The Germans and French from Ruhr Conflict to Economic Community by John Gillingham 9780521524308
RRP: $72.13$58.01This is the first large-scale historical investigation of the critical first stage of European integration, the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). John Gillingham discusses the thirty year Franco-German struggle for heavy industry... -
Herculaneum - Italy's Buried Treasure by Joseph Jay Deiss 9780892361649
RRP: $42.88$36.17A vivid portrayal of life in Pompeii's sister city, this book includes a detailed description of the ancient Villa dei Papiri, on which the present Getty Museum in Malibu is modeled.Book InformationISBN 9780892361649Author . DeissFormat PaperbackPage... -
Fear, Reverence, Terror by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: $48.75$41.57We are surrounded by images, fairly drowning in them. From our cell phones to our computers, from our televisions at home to the screens that light up while we wait in the grocery store checkout line, images of all kinds are seducing us, commanding us to... -
The Sixteenth Century by Professor Euan Cameron
RRP: $64.33$60.94The sixteenth century witnessed some of the most abrupt and traumatic transformations ever seen in European society and culture. Population growth strained the old fabric of community and economic relations. New supplies of precious metals from east and... -
Up to Mametz...and Beyond by Llewelyn Wyn Griffith 9781526700551
RRP: $29.23$21.35Llewelyn 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... -
Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture by Walter Burkert
RRP: $52.55$41.75At the distant beginning of Western civilization, according to European tradition, Greece stands as an insular, isolated, near-miracle of burgeoning culture. This book traverses the ancient world's three great centers of cultural exchange--Babylonian... -
The French Revolution by Hippolyte Taine 9780865971271
RRP: $58.40$51.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865971271Author Hippolyte TaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 1600Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 2940g -
Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus by Hugh Kennedy 9780582495159
$89.66This is the first study in English of the political history of Muslim Spain and Portugal, based on Arab sources. It provides comprehensive coverage of events across the whole of the region from 711 to the fall of Granada in 1492. Up till now the history... -
London: the Autobiography by Jon Lewis
RRP: $25.33$16.77In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand. From Roman times to the 21st century, Londoners and visitors to the city have recounted the extraordinary events, everyday... -
Around Ramsbottom: Britain In Old Photographs by Ramsbottom Heritage Society 9780752403564
RRP: $29.23$22.52THIS fascinating collection of around 200 old photographs of Ramsbottom and the surrounding villages has been drawn from the extensive archives of the Ramsbottom Heritage Society. The book shows the town through a century of change. Although many of the... -
The Papacy, 1073-1198: Continuity and Innovation by I. S. Robinson
RRP: $113.08$99.41Before the mid-eleventh century the pope was far from being the active leader of the Church that he is today: he restricted himself to the local concerns of the diocese of Rome and was virtually ignored by the outside world. This book is a study of the... -
British Civilization: An Introduction by John Oakland 9781138318144
RRP: $72.13$65.38Thoroughly updated and revised, the ninth edition of the highly regarded British Civilization: An Introduction continues to be the ideal textbook on Britain, its country and people, religion, politics and government, international relations, legal... -
A History of Medieval Europe: From Constantine to Saint Louis by R. H. C. Davis 9780582784628
$103.12'Probably the best "buy" among recent works for one who comes to medieval history for the first time.'History (about the second edition)Consisting of two parts, this book successfully conveys the importance of the distant past in understanding our modern... -
Gypsy Law: Romani Legal Traditions and Culture by Walter O. Weyrauch 9780520221864
RRP: $56.55$43.95Approximately one thousand years ago Gypsies, or Roma, left their native India. Today Gypsies can be found in countries throughout the world, their distinct culture still intact in spite of the intense persecution they have endured. This authoritative... -
A Brief History of the British Army by John Lewis-Stempel
RRP: $19.48$6.84The story of the British Army has many sides to it, being a tale of heroic successes and tragic failures, of dogged determination and drunken disorder. It involves many of the most vital preoccupations in the history of the island - the struggle against... -
Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades 1000-1300 by John France 9781857284676
RRP: $74.08$65.09In 1095 the First Crusade was launched, establishing a great military endeavour which was a central preoccupation of Europeans until the end of the thirteenth century. In Western warfare in the age of the Crusades, 1000-1300 John France offers a... -
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood by Christopher E. Forth 9780801883859
$49.65In 1894, French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, was wrongly accused of passing military secrets to the Germans. The ensuing scandal has often been studied for what it reveals about French anti-Semitism and tensions between republicanism and... -
Willenhall to Horseley Fields: Images of England by Alec Brew 9780752415109
RRP: $29.23$22.52This collection of over 200 old photographs illustrates scenes from the communities of Willenhall and Horseley Fields. These pictures show how relatively unchanged the streets and buildings of Willenhall are. A walk around the town today shows that it is... -
Fighting Through to Hitler's Germany: The Memoirs and Letters of Richard Laird, A Japanese Prisoner of War by Mark Forsdike 9781526772862
RRP: $48.75$35.14After 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... -
Death Traps: The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II by Belton Y. Cooper 9780891418146
RRP: $11.68$11.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418146Author Belton Y. CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Forest Gate by Dorcas Saunders
RRP: $25.33$18.76This book is part of the Images of London 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 9780752400495Author Dorcas... -
D-Day 1944 (2): Utah Beach & the US Airborne Landings by Steven J. Zaloga 9781841763651
$38.96On their western flank, the Allied landings on D-Day combined a parachute drop by the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions with an amphibious assault on "Utah" Beach by the US 4th Infantry Division. The landings came ashore in the wrong place but met weaker... -
The Black Death and the Transformation of the West by David Herlihy
RRP: $44.75$35.84In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new... -
Island: Nijmegen to Arnhem by Tim Saunders 9780850528619
RRP: $25.33$21.35Having fought their way up fifty miles of Hell's Highway and through Nijmegen, XXX Corps was just ten miles from Arnhem and 1st British Airborne Division. The Island is flat land between the Waal at Nijmegen and the Rhine at Arnhem. The situation was... -
The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World by Wim Klooster 9780801450457
RRP: $64.35$57.43The author draws on a dazzling variety of archival and printed sources.... The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to the field. Renaissance Quarterly In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire... -
The Russian Revolution, 1917 by Rex A. Wade
RRP: $50.68$42.88Rex A. Wade presents an essential overview of the Russian Revolution from its beginning in February 1917, through the numerous political crises under Kerensky, to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution. This thoroughly revised... -
Waterloo: Rout and Retreat by Andrew W. Field 9781526701718
RRP: $48.75$35.14This, 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... -
Wot! No Engines?: A brief history of gliders and their military use during WWII, with an emphasis on the volunteer RAF pilots who joined the Glider Pilot Regiment and took part in Operation Varsity 1945 by Alan Cooper 9781903953181
$40.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953181Author Alan CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 614g -
Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean by Carolina Lopez-Ruiz
RRP: $75.95$61.80The first comprehensive history of the cultural impact of the Phoenicians, who knit together the ancient Mediterranean world long before the rise of the Greeks.Imagine you are a traveler sailing to the major cities around the Mediterranean in 750 BC. You... -
Modern Europe, 1789-Present by Asa Briggs 9780582772601
$83.19Now covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day, this major new edition has been completely revised and brought up-to-date. The approach embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and... -
To Rule the Waves by Arthur Herman 9780060534257
RRP: $23.38$22.13Apologies 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 -
Famous Last Words: Confessions, Humour and Bravery of the Departing by Chris Wood
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526770899Author Chris WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture by Richard Pipes 9780300122695
$47.81Why have Russians chosen unlimited autocracy throughout their history? Why is democracy unable to flourish in Russia? Russian Conservatism and Its Critics provides the first account of Russia's immemorial commitment to the theory and practice of... -
The Battle of Znaim: Napoleon, The Habsburgs and the end of the 1809 War by John H Gill 9781784384500
RRP: $58.50$41.63The little known Battle of Znaim (10th-11th July 1809) was the last battle to be fought on the main front of the Franco-Austrian War. Cut short to make way for an armistice it effectively ended hostilities between France and Austria and is now uniquely... -
Nijmegen: US 82nd Airborne & Guards Armoured Division by Tim Saunders
RRP: $25.33$22.35The race by Montgomery's ground forces, principally 30 (British) Corps, to relieve the US & UK airborne troops at Nijmegen and Arnhem respectively has been the subject of fierce controversy since that dramatic summer of 1944. In the first of three books...