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Spitfire: The Biography by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: €11.89€5.81Updated edition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered... -
Six Moments of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy by Gill Bennett 9780199583751
RRP: €27.36€20.37Former Whitehall insider Gill Bennett unravels the story of six crucial British foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict, offering an inside account of episodes that shaped Britain's position in... -
Anglo-Papal Relations in the Early Fourteenth Century: A Study in Medieval Diplomacy by Barbara Bombi 9780198729150
RRP: €119.00€92.47This volume is concerned with diplomacy between England and the papal curia during the first phase of the Anglo-French conflict known as the Hundred Years' War (1305-1360). On the one hand, Barbara Bombi compares how the practice of diplomacy, conducted... -
Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag by Nicolas Werth 9780691130835
RRP: €26.18€20.98During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of... -
The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt by Anna Hájková 9780197696323
RRP: €23.79€20.38Terezin, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East... -
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner 9780198718796
€26.98The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of personal and political ideals: Joan of Arc is the heroine... -
The Ottoman Road to War in 1914: The Ottoman Empire and the First World War by Mustafa Aksakal
RRP: €27.36€22.53Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as... -
Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography by Tamas Krausz 9781583674499
RRP: €29.75€24.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583674499Author Tamas KrauszFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace by Joseph Shatzmiller
RRP: €23.80€19.19Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture... -
Under Two Dictators: Prisoner of Stalin and Hitler: With an introduction by Nikolaus Wachsmann by Margarete Buber-Neumann
RRP: €22.60€16.45This book is a unique account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps: its author, Margarete Buber-Neumann, was a loyal member of the German Communist party. From 1935 she and her second husband, Heinz Neumann, were political... -
Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, Emperor of the Turks; A Christian Turned Turk; and The Renegado by Daniel Vitkus 9780231110297
RRP: €35.70€27.72During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Ottoman empire posed a clear and present danger to Christian rule in Europe. While English commerce with the Mediterranean world expanded, Ottoman forces invaded Greece, Hungary, and Austria. At the... -
Maistre: Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre 9780521466288
RRP: €30.93€26.91Joseph de Maistre's Considerations on France is the best known French equivalent of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. This new edition of Richard Lebrun's 1974 translation is introduced by Isaiah Berlin, with a bibliography and... -
Mastering Modern European History by Stuart Miller
€45.30Mastering Modern European History traces the development of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. Political, diplomatic and socio-economic strands are woven together and supported by a wide range of pictures, maps, graphs and questions... -
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble
RRP: €36.28€31.83Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself. Muslims are neither newcomers nor outsiders in Europe. In the twentieth century, they have been... -
Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790 by Jonathan Israel
€33.19The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty, and freedom of expression and the press, form an interlocking system that derives directly from the... -
Heinemann Advanced History: France in Revolution 1776-1830 by Sally Waller
€38.58France in Revolution is the ideal book for students studying France in the period 1776-1830, including the origins and events of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise to power, his rule and the subsequent restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy in 1814.Book... -
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War by Paul Jankowski
RRP: €13.08€9.51During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times;... -
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays by Nestor Makhno 9781873176788
€11.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176788Author Nestor MakhnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 200g -
What the Greeks Did for Us by Tony Spawforth
RRP: €23.80€22.54An enjoyable, accessible exploration of the legacy of ancient Greece today, across our daily lives and all forms of popular culture Our contemporary world is inescapably Greek. Whether in a word like "pandemic," a Freudian state of mind like the "Oedipus... -
Rules: A Short History of What We Live By by Lorraine Daston
RRP: €45.22€35.12A panoramic history of rules in the Western worldRules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of... -
The Fall of the Western Roman Empire: Archaeology, History and the Decline of Rome by Neil Christie 9780340759660
€39.58The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on numerous sources, interweaving the latest archaeological evidence, to reconstruct the period's landscape and... -
Forest Gate by Dorcas Saunders
RRP: €15.46€11.75This 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... -
The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe by David Parrott
RRP: €36.88€27.67This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasised the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott... -
The War in the Channel Islands: Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
RRP: €33.32€24.54Besides being the only British territory occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, it is perhaps less generally known that the Channel Islands were fortified out of all proportion to the rest of Hitler's Atlantic Wall: a legacy that is explored in... -
Cathedrals: Masterpieces of Architecture, Feats of Engineering, Icons of Faith by Simon Jenkins
€35.80The acclaimed best-selling author and popular historian explores the history of Europe via its cathedrals.Beautifully illustrated with color photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of the history of Western civilization ... -
Last Post: The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers by Max Arthur
RRP: €10.70€3.63The 'Forgotten Voices' of the First World War speak for the final time.LAST POST is very consciously the last word from the handful of First World War survivors who were left alive in 2004. Now they have passed away, our final human connection with the... -
Wales by Alison Jenkins 9781910821329 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€4.39Amazing and Extraordinary Facts: Wales takes you on an absorbing journey around Wales to unearth the adventures, inventions, legends, firsts and birthplaces that have shaped the unique history of Wales. From the ancient mines of the Great... -
Wales by Alison Jenkins
€15.85Amazing and Extraordinary Facts: Wales takes you on an absorbing journey around Wales to unearth the adventures, inventions, legends, firsts and birthplaces that have shaped the unique history of Wales. From the ancient mines of the Great... -
Marx and Engels on Bonapartism: Selected Journalism, 1851-59 by Spencer A. Leonard
RRP: €123.76€108.61For a little over a decade after the ignominious collapse of the Revolution of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels worked as professional journalists. Writing from London for newspapers in the United States and, eventually, on the Continent, Marx... -
Labour in Power 1945-1951 by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780192851505
€51.35This is the only detailed and comprehensive account of the policies, programs, and personalities of the powerful and influential Attlee government. Based on a vast range of previously unpublished material, personal papers, and recently released public... -
Operation Tonga: Pegasus Bridge and the Merville Battery by Jon Cooksey
RRP: €20.22€14.84The seizure of Pegasus Bridge by six glider borne platoons of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry under Major John Howard very early 6th June 1944, is one of the better-known stories of D-Day. Landing just yards from vital bridges over the... -
Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels by Edward W. Bodnar 9780674007581
RRP: €35.64€29.07Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to... -
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia P.E. Caquet 9781781257104
RRP: €23.80€17.74On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain addressed the British crowds: 'My good friends... I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of... -
When Champagne Became French: Wine and the Making of a National Identity by Kolleen M. Guy 9780801871641
€49.47Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented traditions." In the case of France, scholars sharply disagree, not only over the... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 Andrew Roberts 9781474614184
RRP: €20.22€14.41'Roberts boldly dons Churchill's own mantle, setting out to continue where Churchill's four volumes left off, which was in 1901. The mantle fits ... an advocate of Churchillian eloquence' Mail on Sunday Andrew Roberts, Wolfson History prize-winner,... -
Freud: In His Time and Ours by Elisabeth Roudinesco 9780674659568
RRP: €42.78€41.73Elisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century-a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a... -
Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650: Doctrine, Politics, and Community by James D. Tracy 9780742537897
RRP: €47.60€41.91In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex... -
Blackburn: Images of England by Ray B. Smith 9780752418582
RRP: €17.84€13.95Old photographs allow us to relive the past a little and this excellent collection of more than 200 photographs of Blackburn will bring back memories for many. The author has chosen the earliest images of the town for the book from his own extensive... -
The Battle of Znaim: Napoleon, The Habsburgs and the end of the 1809 War John H Gill 9781784384500
RRP: €35.70€25.81The 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... -
The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain by Bernard Porter 9780199299591
€71.05The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for...