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The Jew Accused: Three Anti-Semitic Affairs (Dreyfus, Beilis, Frank) 1894-1915 by Albert S. Lindemann 9780521447614
RRP: £26.99£23.80Three Jews, Alfred Dreyfus, Mendel Beilis, and Leo Frank, were charged with heinous crimes in the generation before World War I, Dreyfus of treason in France, Beilis of ritual murder in Russia, and Frank of the murder of a young girl in the United States... -
The Emergence of a Hero: A Tale of Romantic Love in Russia around 1800 by Andrei Zorin
RRP: £83.00£75.34The Emergence of a Hero is dedicated to the history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - the epoch when the court Masonic lodges and literature were competing for the monopoly on the 'symbolic images of... -
The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918 by Richard Wall 9780521525152
RRP: £41.99£34.63In a fully comparative, European context, this book offers a unique examination of the effects of the First World War on family life. The contributory essays, written by sixteen scholars in the field, focus primarily on the social, economic and... -
A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples by Fred Singleton 9780521274852
RRP: £26.99£22.80There are few countries in Europe which contain within an area as small as the British Isles such a variety of natural environments and cultures as Yugoslavia. This book provides a survey of the history of the South Slav peoples who came together at the... -
Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933-1940 by M. Feldman
£41.96The true nature of Mussolini's foreign policy during the late interwar period has been the subject of considerable controversy. Was Mussolini in reality pro-British, even as late as June 1940; or was his international policy more sinister and based on... -
From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain by A. Katie Harris 9780801885235
£52.09In 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented... -
Victory Was Beyond Their Grasp: With the 272nd Volks-Grenadier Division from the Huertgen Forest to the Heart of the Reich by Douglas Nash
RRP: £19.99£17.11As the Allies were approaching the German frontier at the beginning of September 1944, the German Armed Forces responded with a variety of initiatives designed to regain the strategic initiative. While the "Wonder Weapons" such as the V-1 flying bomb,... -
A Short History of the Crimean War by Trudi Tate 9781848858619
RRP: £14.99£14.28The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war... -
The Royal Navy and Maritime Power in the Twentieth Century by Ian Speller 9781138873445
RRP: £49.99£43.50This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based upon key Royal Navy operations in the twentieth century to draw out enduring principles about maritime... -
Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919 by Erik Grimmer-Solem 9781108483827
RRP: £44.99£41.58The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial interests. Structured around the figures of five influential economists... -
After the Deportation: Memory Battles in Postwar France by Philip Nord
RRP: £34.99£30.49A total of 160,000 people, a mix of resistants and Jews, were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. In this compelling new study, Philip Nord addresses how the Deportation, as it came to be known, was... -
The British Settlement of Natal: A Study in Imperial Migration by Alan F. Hattersley 9780521109437
RRP: £36.99£28.38Celebrations held in the main towns of Natal on the centenary of the first organised emigration from Great Britain inspired the writing of this book, first published in 1950. The author, Alan F. Hattersley was Professor of History at Pietermariitzberg... -
Embezzlement and High Treason in Louis XIV's France: The Trial of Nicolas Fouquet by Vincent J. Pitts 9781421418247
RRP: £39.00£34.68From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself... -
Red Nations: The Nationalities Experience in and after the USSR by Jeremy Smith 9780521128704
RRP: £30.99£25.85Red Nations offers an illuminating and informative overview of how the non-Russian republics of the Soviet Union experienced communist rule. It surveys the series of historical events that contributed to the break-up of the Soviet Union and evaluates... -
Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages by Brett Edward Whalen 9780674036291
£37.42Brett Whalen explores the compelling belief that Christendom would spread to every corner of the earth before the end of time. During the High Middle Ages-an era of crusade, mission, and European expansion-the Western followers of Rome imagined the... -
Victory through Coalition: Britain and France during the First World War by Elizabeth Greenhalgh 9780521096294
RRP: £38.99£32.28Germany's invasion of France in August 1914 represented a threat to the great power status of both Britain and France. The countries had no history of co-operation, yet the entente they had created in 1904 proceeded by trial and error, via... -
Siena and the Sienese in the Thirteenth Century by Daniel Philip Waley 9780521403122
RRP: £90.00£72.57Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The German Idea of Militarism: Radical and Socialist Critics 1866-1914 by Nicholas Stargardt 9780521466929
RRP: £22.99£19.56This 1994 book examines the development of the modern idea of militarism from its inception in the 1860s until the outbreak of World War I. Often regarded as the archetypical militarist state, imperial Germany in fact witnessed a major controversy over... -
Christmas in the Trenches by Alan Wakefield 9780750941686 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99£2.65The outbreak of war in 1914 was greeted with euphoria by many in Europe, and it was widely believed that the conflict would be 'over by Christmas'. In the event, millions of men were destined to spend the first of four seasons away from their families... -
The Wonder of Their Voices: The 1946 Holocaust Interviews of David Boder by Alan Rosen 9780199945078
RRP: £39.99£23.80Over the last several decades, video testimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight. Yet the success of these projects has made it seem that little survivor testimony took place in earlier years. In truth,... -
From Cranmer to Davidson - A Church of England Miscellany by Stephen Taylor 9780851157429
RRP: £60.00£57.55Important texts in the Church's history collected together in one volume. This first miscellany volume to be published by the Church of England Record Society contains eight edited texts covering aspects of the history of the Church from the... -
Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions: 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective by Stefan Rinke 9783593507057
RRP: £37.50£36.23Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet while... -
The Great War and Urban Life in Germany: Freiburg, 1914-1918 by Roger Chickering 9780521109772
RRP: £49.99£43.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe by Steven E. Ozment 9780674004849
RRP: £26.95£21.41Rescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, Ancestors offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history-and tells a story of age-old domesticity inextricably linked, and... -
Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 by Judith M. Bennett 9780812216684
RRP: £27.99£24.54When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families-married couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of a spouse,... -
Daily Life in Rembrandt's Holland by Paul Zumthor 9780804722018
RRP: £24.99£21.67Rembrandt's life coincided with what the Dutch refer to as their "golden age." This engagingly written study presents a rich picture of a dynamic society that had torn itself away from the mediocrity of its past - a stagnant nation of peasants and... -
The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past by Mary S. Hartman 9780521536691
RRP: £37.99£31.31This book argues that a unique late marriage pattern, discovered in the 1960s but originating in the Middle Ages, explains the continuing puzzle of why western Europe was the site of changes that, from about 1500, gave rise to the modern world. Contrary... -
Every Day Lasts a Year: A Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland by Christopher R. Browning
RRP: £29.00£24.43Author Richard S. Hollander was devastated when his parents were killed in an automobile accident in 1986. While rummaging through their attic, he discovered letters from a family he never knew - his father's mother, three sisters, and their husbands and... -
A People's Music: Jazz in East Germany, 1945-1990 by Helma Kaldewey
RRP: £30.99£26.43A People's Music presents the first full history of jazz in East Germany, drawing on new and previously unexamined sources and vivid eyewitness accounts. Helma Kaldewey chronicles the experiences of jazz musicians, fans, and advocates, and charts the... -
Europe's Crises by Manuel Castells 9781509524877
RRP: £18.99£17.27Today, the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago. What makes this so serious is that it is not a single crisis but rather multiple crises - the euro crisis, the... -
The Jews of East Central Europe between the World Wars by Ezra Mendelsohn
RRP: £20.99£18.37" . . . a carefully crafted and important book . . . a first-class contribution to the literature on modern Europe." -American Historical Review" . . . valuable . . . the first historical work to attempt a 'synthetic sketch' of the problems indicated in... -
Forging a Multinational State: State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War by John Deak
RRP: £62.00£53.56The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighboring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state... -
Riding East: The SS Cavalry Brigade in Poland and Russia 1939-1942 by Mark C. Yerger 9780764300608
RRP: £54.99£35.61Riding East details the history of the previously unexamined SS Cavalry Brigade. Beginning with a background of the General SS mounted units, from which personnel formed part of the Brigade's cadre, the author details the organizations, units and... -
782 Gear: United States Marine Corps Field Gear and Equipment of World War II by Harlan Glenn 9780764333552
RRP: £81.99£52.68This new book is the companion volume to Glenn's 2006 "United States Marine Corps Uniforms, Insignia, and Personal Items of World War II" (see page 57 of this catalog). With numerous rare and never before published war time photographs, "782 Gear" is the... -
Scramble for Crowns: The Fascinating Stories of Europe's Modern Royals by Mark Antony Shead
RRP: £14.99£12.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528990905Author Mark Antony SheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The East German Economy, 1945-2010: Falling Behind or Catching Up? by Hartmut Berghoff
RRP: £30.99£22.85By many measures, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had the strongest economy in the Eastern bloc and was one of the most important industrial nations worldwide. Nonetheless, the economic history of the GDR has been primarily discussed as a failure... -
Families in Former Times by Jean-Louis Flandrin 9780521294492
RRP: £34.99£29.35In this book, the author provides a detailed analysis of kinship, household and family relations in early modern France. He discusses the strength of kinship and family ties, the structure of households, the rights and duties of husband and wife, their... -
Citizen Soldiers: The Liverpool Territorials in the First World War by Helen B. McCartney 9780521187770
RRP: £33.99£28.38The popular image of the British soldier in the First World War is of a passive victim, caught up in events beyond his control, and isolated from civilian society. This book offers a different vision of the soldier's experience of war. Using letters and... -
Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001 by Harold Marcuse 9780521552042
RRP: £99.00£74.15Auschwitz, Belsen, Dachau. These names still evoke the horrors of Nazi Germany around the world. This 2001 book takes one of these sites, Dachau, and traces its history from the beginning of the twentieth century, through its twelve years as Nazi... -
The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Vol. II: From Rejection to Referendum, 1963-1975 by Stephen Wall
RRP: £49.99£44.50This is the second volume in The Official History of Britain and the European Community, and describes the events from 1963 up until the British referendum on the Common Market in 1975.In 1963, General de Gaulle dashed Prime Minister Macmillan's hopes of...