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The Early Vasas: A History of Sweden 1523-1611 by Michael Roberts 9780521311823
RRP: £41.99£34.63This comprehensive history of sixteenth-century Sweden has remained a standard work for English-speaking historians since its publication in 1968. It is now available in paperback for the first time. The book includes a full account of the reign of... -
Mastering Modern European History by Stuart Miller
£38.07Mastering 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... -
Fight to the Finish: The First World War - Month by Month by Allan Mallinson 9780857503800 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.65'Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.' Lawrence James, THE TIMESWe remember months, because months have names, because they are linked to the seasons, and... -
Fight to the Finish: The First World War - Month by Month by Allan Mallinson
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.' Lawrence James, THE TIMESWe remember months, because months have names, because they are linked to the seasons, and... -
Europe Transformed: 1878-1919 by Norman Stone
RRP: £35.95£32.51This book provides readers with an introduction to the complex era from 1878 to the end of World War I.About the Author Norman Stone is currently Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University, Ankara, TUrkey, where he is Director of the... -
The Gypsies by Angus Fraser 9780631196051
RRP: £36.95£32.51Since their unexplained appearance in Europe over nine centuries ago, the Gypsies have refused to fall in with conventional settled life. They remain a people whose culture and customs are beset with misunderstanding, and who cling to their distinct... -
Iliad - Imperium Press by Homer 9780648690504
RRP: £22.95£16.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648690504Author HomerFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 785gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 35mm -
The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Joshua D. Zimmerman
RRP: £26.99£22.29The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939-1945 examines one of the central problems in the history of Polish-Jewish relations: the attitude and the behavior of the Polish Underground - the resistance organization loyal to the Polish government-in-exile -... -
From the Riviera to the Rhine: Us Sixth Army Group August 1944-February 1945 by Simon Forty 9781612006239
£22.10Two months after D-Day, just as the battle of Normandy was reaching its climax, with all eyes on the Falaise Pocket, the Allies unleashed the second invasion of France not in the Pas de Calais but the French Riviera. Immaculately planned, effectively... -
Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo by Peter T. Schneider
RRP: £30.00£23.69Reversible Destiny traces the history of the Sicilian mafia to its nineteenth-century roots and examines its late twentieth-century involvement in urban real estate and construction as well as drugs. Based on research in the regional capital of Palermo,... -
The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: New Perspectives on the Economic and Social History of Seventeenth-Century Spain by I. A. A. Thompson 9780521416245
RRP: £110.00£98.15This is a collection of revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. Since the 1970s an explosion of historical scholarship in Spain, employing new techniques, approached and sources, has... -
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 2, Fighting the Napoleonic Wars by Bruno Colson 9781108417662 [USED COPY]
RRP: £110.00£59.54The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting. Fighting took place on an unprecedented scale, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the rugged mountains of the Peninsula; from Egypt's Lower Nile to the bloody battlefield of New Orleans... -
The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars: Volume 2, Fighting the Napoleonic Wars by Bruno Colson
£110.56The Napoleonic Wars saw almost two decades of brutal fighting. Fighting took place on an unprecedented scale, from the frozen wastelands of Russia to the rugged mountains of the Peninsula; from Egypt's Lower Nile to the bloody battlefield of New Orleans... -
The First Crusaders, 1095-1131 by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith 9780521646031
RRP: £27.99£23.61Much has been written about the crusades, but very little about the crusaders. What moved them to go? What preparations did they need to make? How did they react to their experiences? This book comes up with detailed answers to these questions, and... -
Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967-1989 by Jeffrey Herf
RRP: £30.99£23.25Undeclared Wars with Israel examines a spectrum of antagonism by the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations - ranging from hostile propaganda and diplomacy to military support for Israel's Arab armed adversaries - from 1967... -
Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle by G. E. R. Lloyd
£15.00This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers, and Aristotle. G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between... -
Waterloo: The Battle That Brought Down Napoleon by Professor Jeremy Black 9781848312333 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£1.92A masterly and concise reinterpretation of one of the seminal events in modern history, by one of the world's foremost military historians. The battle on Sunday 18th June 1815, near Waterloo, Belgium was to be Napoleon's greatest triumph - but it ended... -
Why Switzerland? by Jonathan Steinberg
RRP: £24.99£20.39Revised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. Why Switzerland? examines the complicated voting system that allows citizens to add, strike out, or vote more than once... -
Household Gods: The British and their Possessions by Deborah Cohen 9780300136418
RRP: £19.99£17.37A fascinating account of the British preoccupation with homes, interior decoration, and personal possessions since 1830 At what point did the British develop their mania for interiors, wallpaper, furniture, and decoration? Why have the middle classes... -
The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus by Serhii Plokhy 9780521864039
RRP: £105.00£86.33This book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the... -
Austrian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Austria and the Habsburg Empire by Captivating History 9781637164174
RRP: £26.99£18.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637164174Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm)... -
Mediaeval Feudalism by Carl Stephenson
RRP: £13.99£10.17"In the following pages I have tried to explain, as simply and concisely as possible, the historical significance of the feudal system.... My purpose has not been to give a comprehensive description of Europe in the feudal age, or even of feudal society... -
: The Rape of the Masses (1940): The Psychology of Totalitarian Political Propaganda by Serge Chakotin
RRP: £32.99£29.16First published in French in 1939, and later in English in 1940, this work by the author, analyses and strongly critiques the effect of Nazi propaganda on the psychology of the masses. By bringing together the political and the psychological, the author... -
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £26.00£18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703683Author David CannadineFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium by Walter Emil Kaegi 9780521036986
RRP: £30.99£24.32This book evaluates the life and empire of the pivotal yet controversial and poorly understood Byzantine emperor Heraclius (AD 610-641), a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad. Heraclius' reign is critical for understanding the background to fundamental... -
Medieval Chivalry by Richard W. Kaeuper 9780521137959
RRP: £21.99£19.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome: The Rise of the Resident Ambassador by Catherine Fletcher
RRP: £30.99£22.85Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome is an investigation of Renaissance diplomacy in practice. Presenting the first book-length study of this subject for sixty years, Catherine Fletcher substantially enhances our understanding of the envoy's role during this... -
Waffen-SS in the West:: Holland, Belgium, France 1940 by Editors
RRP: £27.99£21.02The sought after original SS publication "Waffen-SS im Western" is available here for the first time. Translated into English and carefully reproduced, this rare SS book photographically documents the Waffen-SS campaigns in Holland, Belgium, and France... -
The French at War, 1934-1944 by Nicholas Atkin 9780582368996
£35.74The years 1934 to 1944 remain the most contentious and dramatic decade in modern French history. Covering the Occupation, the Vichy regime, the Resistance and collaboration, Nick Atkin provides an important introduction to this key period. Accessible and... -
Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute by John Davies 9780708324639
RRP: £18.99£14.52As late as 1980, a quarter of the population of Wales lived within the boundaries of what had once been the lordships of the Bute estate. Powerful landowners for centuries, the Stuarts of Bute were key drivers of the many social, political, and economic... -
The Princes of Orange: The Stadholders in the Dutch Republic by Herbert H. Rowen 9780521396530
RRP: £38.99£32.28This major study provides the first comprehensive assessment of an important European institution, the Stadholderate of the Dutch Republic. Professor Rowen looks at the career of each Prince of Orange in turn, from William I ('The Silent'), to the last... -
Gregory the Great and his World by R. A. Markus 9780521586085
RRP: £24.99£20.43Markus's new and accessible work is the first full study of Gregory the Great since that of F. H. Dudden (1905) to deal with both Gregory's life and work as well as with his thought and spirituality. With his command of Gregory's works, Markus portrays... -
Laverstock and Ford: chapters from local history by Laverstock and Ford Research Group 9781916135901
RRP: £12.00£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916135901Author LaverstockFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Sarum ChroniclePublisher Sarum Chronicle -
History of Fascism 1914 - 1945 by Stanley G. Payne 9780299148744
RRP: £27.95£27.93What was life like under the Third Reich? What went on between parents and children? What were the prevailing attitudes about sex, morality, religion? How did workers perceive the effects of the New Order in the workplace? What were the cultural... -
Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution by Lynn Hunt 9780520241565
RRP: £25.00£19.59When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century... -
The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century by Maarten Prak 9781009240598
RRP: £69.99£63.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009240598Author Maarten PrakFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press -
Pitt's 'Gallant Conqueror' by James Dreaper 9781845111779
RRP: £50.00£49.86The capture of Manila from the Spanish in October 1762 was an impressive victory, masterminded by a truly extraordinary leader. It was a battle that took British forces to the edge of the known world and caused William Pitt the Elder to refer to the... -
The BBC German Service during the Second World War: Broadcasting to the Enemy by Vike Martina Plock
RRP: £119.99£109.55This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC's attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained. Who were the individuals behind the microphone,... -
The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest by Peter S. Wells 9780393326437
RRP: £14.99£12.80In AD 9, a Roman traitor led an army of barbarians who trapped and then slaughtered three entire Roman legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this battle, the Roman Empire would surely have expanded to the Elbe River, and probably... -
Inquisitorial Inquiries: Brief Lives of Secret Jews and Other Heretics by Richard L. Kagan 9781421403403
RRP: £55.50£48.85On the first day of Francisco de San Antonio's trial before the Spanish Inquisition in Toledo in 1625, his interrogators asked him about his parentage. His real name, he stated, was Abram Ruben, and he had been born in Fez of Jewish parents. How then,...