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Roman Towns in Britain by Guy de la Bedoyere 9780752429199
RRP: £30.00£22.43Today, Britain's Roman Town survive in numerous different forms: from the earthworks of small roadside settlements in Lincolnshire, to the unending new discoveries from deep beneath London's busy modern streets, and the great ruins at Leicester and... -
Operation Hoss: The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, May-July 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Operation 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... -
Hell's Highway by Tim Saunders 9780850528374
RRP: £12.99£10.95Hell's Highway is the dramatic name given to the vital stretch of road that the British 3rd Guards Armoured Division had to advance down rapidly on their route to relieve the American Paras (83rd Airborne) at Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne... -
Into Siberia: George Kennan's Epic Journey Through the Brutal, Frozen Heart of Russia by Gregory J. Wallance 9781250280053
RRP: £24.99£16.38In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was... -
AP European History Premium, 2024: 5 Practice Tests + Comprehensive Review + Online Practice by Seth A. Roberts 9781506287775
RRP: £24.99£21.09Be prepared for exam day with Barron's. Trusted content from AP experts!Barron's AP European History Premium, 2024 includes in-depth content review and practice. It's the only book you'll need to be prepared for exam day.Written by Experienced... -
France Since 1945 by Robert Gildea 9780192801319
RRP: £12.99£9.61The last fifty years of French history have seen immense challenges for the French: constructing a new European order, building a modern economy, searching for a stable political system. It has also been a time of anxiety and doubt. The French have had... -
Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide by Derrick Wright
RRP: £16.99£14.50The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering... -
Remembering Refugees: Then and Now by Tony Kushner 9780719068836
RRP: £19.99£17.82Refugee crises are one of the gravest problems facing the modern world. This book explores the paradox of why countries such as Britain pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are suspicious and hostile towards asylum seekers trying to... -
Northmen: The Viking Saga 793-1241 by John Haywood 9781781855256 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99£2.76'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS. The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the... -
Greece 1941: The Death Throes of Blitzkreig by Jeffrey Plowman 9781526730251
RRP: £19.99£14.68Blitzkrieg. Lightning war. We are all familiar with the rapid thrusts the Germans made in the early days of the Second World War that saw the demise first of Poland and then the Low Countries and France. But were the German tactics, which appeared at the... -
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present by Philippe Aries
RRP: £21.50£19.09Reveals the change in Western man's conception and acceptance of death as evidenced in customs, literature, and art since medieval times.About the AuthorPhilippe Aries (1914-1984) was a French historian best known for his book Centuries of Childhood, the... -
Duce: The Contradictions of Power: The Political Leadership of Benito Mussolini by Peter J. Williamson
RRP: £30.00£26.95Eighty years after the fall of Benito Mussolini, controversy remains about what his dictatorship represented. This reflects the different sides to the Duce's leadership: while adept at nurturing and enforcing his personal political power, Mussolini's... -
The Knights Hospitaller by Helen Jane Nicholson
RRP: £24.99£20.90Nicholson, one of the UK's leading historians of the medieval military orders...has a flair for clear and uncluttered explanations enlivened with telling detail and quotation. And her account is comprehensive. An attractive volume. HISTORY This short... -
The Banality of Evil: Hannah Arendt and 'The Final Solution' by Bernard J. Bergen 9780847692101
RRP: £42.00£36.93This highly original book is the first to explore the political and philosophical consequences of Hannah Arendt's concept of 'the banality of evil,' a term she used to describe Adolph Eichmann, architect of the Nazi 'final solution.' According to Bernard... -
Auschwitz And The Allies by Martin Gilbert 9780712668064
RRP: £25.00£17.62When Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be 'the complete annihilation of the Jews', he did so in 1942, not only in public, but before an enormous crowd in Berlin. The Allies heard, but, astonishingly, they did not listen. In... -
Recognition: A Chapter in the History of European Ideas by Axel Honneth 9781108819305
RRP: £20.99£16.12The idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country's different cultural and political... -
Ideology of Death: Why the Holocaust Happened in Germany by John Weiss 9781566631747
RRP: £12.99£10.01Despite all the thousands of studies of the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany, we still have no satisfactory explanation of why this tragedy occurred in one of the most "civilized" of Western nations. John Weiss's Ideology of Death is the first book... -
Laboratory of Modernity: Ukraine between Empire and Nation, 1772–1914 by Serhiy Bilenky 9780228017578
RRP: £39.00£34.12When the powers of Europe were at their prime, present-day Ukraine was divided between the Austrian and Russian empires, each imposing different political, social, and cultural models on its subjects. This inevitably led to great diversity in the lives... -
The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space by Owen Hatherley
RRP: £18.99£13.15The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a place that really existed, but it is long dead. By now, the word "Soviet" should be as meaningless as "Hapsburg". Yet it endures, as in the wave of "de-communisation" in Ukraine or the strange idea that the... -
The Stones of Florence by Mary McCarthy 9780156027632
RRP: £15.99£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027632Author Mary McCarthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)... -
Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age by Ronald G. Musto
RRP: £71.00£63.37On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome's barons and the absentee popes. A young visionary and the best political speaker of his time, Cola promised Rome a return to its former greatness. Ronald G. Musto's... -
The Birth of Modern Britain: A Journey Through Britain's Remarkable Recent Archaeology by Francis Pryor 9780007299119
RRP: £10.99£8.29From the author of 'Britain BC', 'Britain AD' and 'Britain in the Middle Ages' comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past The relevance of archaeology to the study of the ancient world is... -
Popular Culture in Ancient Rome by Jerry Toner 9780745643106
RRP: £18.99£16.78The mass of the Roman people constituted well over 90% of the population. Much ancient history, however, has focused on the lives, politics and culture of the minority elite. This book helps redress the balance by focusing on the non-elite in the Roman... -
Sources of the Holocaust by Steve Hochstadt 9781350328044
RRP: £28.99£27.59The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive? This new and improved edition of Sources of the... -
Studying Late Medieval History: A Thematic Approach by Cindy Wood
RRP: £37.99£33.38Studying Late Medieval History is an accessible introduction for undergraduate history students wishing to understand the major topics of late medieval history. Examining the period from 1300-1550, this introductory guide offers an overview of 250 years... -
Preaching the Crusades: Mendicant Friars and the Cross in the Thirteenth Century by Christoph T. Maier 9780521638739
RRP: £39.99£33.26This study describes the way in which the Franciscan and Dominican orders became involved in preaching the cross and examines their contribution to the crusading movement of the thirteenth century. The papacy used large numbers of trained preachers from... -
Prague Spring: Warsaw Pact Invasion, 1968 by Phil Carradice 9781526757005
RRP: £14.99£10.95Cold War nadir: January 1968 and in Czechoslovakia the new Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek has made it clear that this is the opportunity to loosen the Soviet stranglehold on the country. As the Prague winter slowly eases into a Prague spring, it... -
Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West by Anthony Grafton 9780674060258
RRP: £26.95£23.99In this book Anthony Grafton lets us in on one of the great secrets of scholars and intellectuals: although scholars lead solitary lives in order to win independence of mind, they also enjoy the conviviality of sharing a project sustained by common... -
Founding Weimar: Violence and the German Revolution of 1918-1919 by Mark Jones
RRP: £30.99£28.68The German Revolution of 1918-1919 was a transformative moment in modern European history. It was both the end of the German Empire and the First World War, as well as the birth of the Weimar Republic, the short-lived democracy that preceded the... -
Last Post: The Final Word From Our First World War Soldiers by Max Arthur
RRP: £8.99£2.91The '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... -
Britannia: 100 Documents that Shaped a Nation by Graham Stewart 9781843549987
RRP: £25.00£17.59In Britannia Graham Stewart traces two thousand years of an island's story - from Roman province to twenty-first century European nation-state - through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament of... -
The French at Waterloo: Eyewitness Accounts: Napoleon, Imperial Headquarters and 1st Corps by Andrew W Field 9781526768469
RRP: £19.99£14.28Andrew Field, who has published four best-selling books on the Battle of Waterloo, has established himself as one of the leading experts on the French perspective of the campaign. Using selected extracts from French eyewitness accounts that haven't been... -
Europe between Democracy and Dictatorship: 1900 - 1945 by Conan Fischer
RRP: £29.95£27.01Fischer offers a captivating analysis of Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century, from the optimism at the turn of the century to the successive waves of destruction of the First and Second World Wars. Written by a... -
Victoria Cross Heroes: Volume II by Michael Ashcroft 9781785900976
RRP: £25.00£18.24Foreword by Lance-Sergeant Johnson Beharry VCTHE VICTORIA CROSS is Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry medal for courage in the face of the enemy. It has been bestowed upon 1,355 heroic individuals from all walks of life since its... -
Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty by Patrick Griffin
£52.62Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic history interrogate anew the relationship between imperial reform and revolution in Ireland and America,... -
The Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
RRP: £25.00£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972634Author Jane RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Roman Army at War 100 BC - AD 200 by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy
£31.60This detailed examination of the way in which the Roman army operated during a war and how it fought a battle breaks away from existing studies, which mostly concentrate on the army in peacetime, and attempts to understand the army as an institution... -
Revolutionary Britannia?: Reflections on the Threat of Revolution in Britain, 1789-1848 by Edward Royle 9780719048036
RRP: £19.99£17.61Europe was swept by revolution in the period from 1789 to 1848. Britain, alone of the major western powers, seemed exempt from this revolutionary fervour. The governing class attributed this exemption to divine providence and the soundness of the... -
The Shifting Sands of the North Sea Lowlands: Literary and Historical Imaginaries by Katie Ritson
RRP: £37.99£33.38Global seawater levels are rising and the low-lying coasts of the North Sea basin are amongst the most vulnerable in Europe. In our current moment of environmental crisis, the North Sea coasts are literary arenas in which the challenges and concerns of... -
The Oxford Handbook of Fascism by Richard J. B. Bosworth 9780199594788
RRP: £41.49£41.03The essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of distinguished scholars, combine to explore the way in which fascism is understood by contemporary scholarship, as well as pointing to areas of continuing dispute and discussion. From a...