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Beaten Paths are Safest: From D-Day to the Ardennes - Memories of the 61st Reconnaissance Regiment - 50th (TT) Northumbrian Division by Roy Howard 9781858582566
£11.39Beaten Paths are Safest - was the motto of The Reconnaissance Regiment. This book tells the story of the 61st Recce Regiment whose own official history was never completed for the period 23rd Feb 1944 to 1st October 1944. Roy Howard who compiled the book... -
The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940 by Martin S. Alexander 9780521524292
RRP: £37.99£34.83This is the first full-length study in English of the career of one of France's most controversial military leaders, General Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958). Gamelin was reviled by many of his contemporaries and denigrated by historians as 'the man who lost... -
Memorylands: Heritage and Identity in Europe Today by Sharon Macdonald
RRP: £37.99£33.38Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a 'memoryland' - littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums,... -
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt 9780143037750
RRP: £25.00£16.65Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award * One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year"Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enormous authority." -The Wall Street Journal"Magisterial . ... -
Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945 by Gerald D. Feldman 9780521809290
RRP: £125.00£103.07This history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or previously unavailable archival sources. Feldman takes the reader through varied cases of collaboration and conflict with the Nazi... -
Beyond Totalitarianism: Stalinism and Nazism Compared by Michael Geyer 9780521723978
RRP: £36.99£24.20In essays written jointly by specialists on Soviet and German history, the contributors to this book rethink and rework the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond the now-outdated... -
Lithuania Ascending: A Pagan Empire within East-Central Europe, 1295-1345 by S. C. Rowell
RRP: £27.99£22.25From 1250 to 1795 Lithuania covered a vast area of eastern and central Europe. Until 1387 the country was pagan. How this huge state came to expand, defend itself against western European crusaders and play a conspicuous part in European life are the... -
The Anglo-Scots Wars, 1513-1550 - A Military History by Gervase Phillips 9780851157467
RRP: £95.00£79.21Military activity was central to Anglo-Scots relations in the first half of the sixteenth century, playing an important role in the formation of the multi-national Tudor state and the process of political union. This book examines both the organisational... -
Nazi Fugitive: The True Story of a German on the Run by Eugen Dollmann
RRP: £16.99£13.52An SS colonel goes underground at the end of WWII Eugen Dollmann was a scholar and member of the SS whose connections among Italian society led to a posting as a liaison officer attached to Mussolini during World War II. In his work as a diplomat and... -
Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "Final Solution" in History by Arno J. Mayer
£39.08Was the extermination of the Jews part of the Nazi plan from the very start? Arno Mayer offers astartling and compelling answer to this question, which is much debated among historians today.In doing so, he provides one of the most thorough and... -
Ritual and Domestic Life in Prehistoric Europe by Richard Bradley
RRP: £37.99£33.38This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the... -
Fractured Europe: 1600 - 1721 by David J. Sturdy 9780631205135
RRP: £34.95£31.23This book presents a narrative history of Europe, including Britain and Ireland, from the end of the sixteenth century to the Treaty of Nystadt in 1721.About the Author David J. Sturdy is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Ulster in... -
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters by Surekha Davies 9781108431828
RRP: £26.99£21.62Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints,... -
A Short History of Finland by Fred Singleton 9780521647014
RRP: £22.99£19.56This is a second edition of the most successful study of Finland in the English language. It presents the reader - whether tourist, student, specialist, or business person - with a readable and authoritative introduction to the Finns and the present... -
Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II by Wendy Z. Goldman
RRP: £32.49£28.41The first history of the Soviet home front experience during World War II and of the civilians who bore the burden of total war and played a critical role in the global victory over fascism. After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German... -
Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 by Peter F. Sugar
RRP: £32.00£28.61Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 provides an over-all picture of the least studied and most obscured part of Balkan history, the Ottoman period. The book begins with the early history of the Ottomans and with their establishment in... -
The European Nobility, 1400-1800 by Jonathan Dewald 9780521425285
RRP: £28.99£25.82This book is the first comprehensive history of the European nobility between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. Designed to introduce students and non-specialists to the subject, it explains all the principal themes and problems in an... -
The Magnificent Boat: The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure by Goetz Aly 9780674276574
RRP: £24.95£19.89From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific. Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but few as trenchantly as the Humboldt Forum, which... -
Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250 by Florin Curta 9780521894524
RRP: £37.99£33.66Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages stood at a crossroads of trade and crusading routes and fell within the spheres of influence of both the Byzantine Orthodox Church and Latin Christendom. This authoritative survey draws on historical and... -
Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory, 1923-2000 by Anne Dolan 9780521026987
RRP: £44.99£40.58After civil war, can the winners commemorate their victory, hailing their conquering heroes with the blood of their former comrades still fresh on their boots? Or should they cover themselves in shame and hope that the nation soon forgets? In this book,... -
The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters by Paolo Capuzzo
RRP: £35.99£31.69The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters studies the relations and productive tensions between the Third International, intellectual histories of racial justice and anti-imperialism, as well as other forms of internationalism... -
Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth by Magda Teter 9780674240933
RRP: £35.95£29.96A landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth-how it took root in Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today. Accusations that Jews ritually killed Christian children emerged in the mid-twelfth century,... -
Food in Early Modern Europe by Ken Albala 9780313319624
£60.35Rarely do we read about the roles of food in history. Yet its study offers us a humanizing look at those who lived before us. This unique book examines food's importance during the massive evolution of Europe following the Middle Ages. It was a time when... -
The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia by S. Frederick Starr 9781421420509
RRP: £22.50£19.92During the summer of 1916, approximately 270,000 Central Asians-Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks-perished at the hands of the Russian army in a revolt that began with resistance to the Tsar's World War I draft. In addition to those killed... -
Fighting Terror after Napoleon: How Europe Became Secure after 1815 by Beatrice de Graaf
RRP: £34.99£30.49After twenty-six years of unprecedented revolutionary upheavals and endless fighting, the victorious powers craved stability after Napoleon's defeat in 1815. With the threat of war and revolutionary terror still looming large, the coalition launched an... -
The Great Game, 1856-1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia by Evgeny Sergeev
RRP: £35.00£31.64The Great Game, 1856-1907 presents a new view of the British-Russian competition for dominance in Central Asia in the second half of the nineteenth century. Evgeny Sergeev offers a complex and novel point of view by synthesizing official collections of... -
The Last Christian: A novel by David Gregory
RRP: £10.99£7.78A.D. 2088. Missionary daughter Abigail Caldwell emerges from the jungle for the first time in her thirty-four years, the sole survivor of a mysterious disease that killed everyone else in her village. After receiving a curious message from her... -
The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 by Alfred W. Crosby 9780521554275
RRP: £85.00£72.42Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. By the sixteenth century more people were... -
Austria, Prussia and The Making of Germany: 1806-1871 by John Breuilly 9781408272763
RRP: £36.99£35.74It is often argued that the unification of Germany in 1871 was the inevitable result of the convergence of Prussian power and German nationalism. John Breuilly here shows that the true story was much more complex. For most of the nineteenth century... -
The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions by Gabriel Paquette
RRP: £27.50£23.29An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and... -
The Court of France 1789-1830 by Philip Mansel 9780521423984
RRP: £22.99£19.56This attractively illustrated volume describes the succession of courts and monarchies in France 1789-1830, from the revolutionary period to the fall of Charles X. It shows decisively that the revolution resulted in a stronger monarchy and a larger and... -
The Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment after 75 Years by Manfred F. Boemeke 9780521628884
RRP: £47.99£44.21This book on the Treaty of Versailles constitutes a new synthesis of peace conference scholarship. It illuminates events from the armistice in 1918 to the signing of the treaty in 1919, scrutinizing the motives, actions and constraints that informed... -
After the Deluge: Poland-Lithuania and the Second Northern War, 1655-1660 by Robert I. Frost 9780521544023
RRP: £39.99£32.28The Swedish invasion of 1655, known to Poles ever since as the 'Swedish deluge', provoked the political and military collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the second-largest state in Europe. Robert Frost examines the reasons for Poland's fall... -
John Skylitzes: A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811-1057: Translation and Notes by John Skylitzes
RRP: £34.99£27.80John Skylitzes' extraordinary Middle Byzantine chronicle covers the reigns of the Byzantine emperors from the death of Nicephorus I in 811 to the deposition of Michael VI in 1057, and provides the only surviving continuous narrative of the late tenth and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History by Dan Stone 9780198729174
£42.25The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent... -
The Bolsheviki And World Peace: Introduction By Lincoln Steffens by Leon Trotzky 9789354208829
RRP: £9.00£8.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354208829Author Leon TrotzkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 5mm -
Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book by Jane Jakeman
RRP: £14.99£13.03Ralph Ayres was head cook at New College in the 1770s. This book is a fascinating insight into the eighteenth-century kitchen, a period of great interest to social and culinary historians, and includes recipes for famous dishes such as Quaking Pudding,... -
Nationalism in Modern Europe: Politics, Identity, and Belonging since the French Revolution by Professor Derek Hastings
RRP: £24.99£23.26Derek Hastings's Nationalism in Modern Europe is the essential guide to a potent political and cultural phenomenon that featured prominently across the modern era. With firm grounding in transnational and global contexts, the book traces the story of... -
Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin by Howard Blum
£14.23The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. The mission: to kill... -
Hippodrome of Constantinople by Engin Akyurek
RRP: £17.00£14.72The Hippodrome of Constantinople was constructed in the fourth century AD, by the Roman Emperor Constantine I, in his new capital. Throughout Byzantine history the Hippodrome served as a ceremonial, sportive and recreational center of the city; in the...