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The Anglo-Florentines: The British in Tuscany, 1814-1860 by Diana Webb
RRP: €29.74€26.39This book gives a fuller picture than has hitherto been attempted of the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and... -
Christmas Truce by the Men Who Took Part: Letters from the 1914 Ceasefire on the Western Front by Mike Hill 9781781558126
RRP: €29.75€20.97The Christmas Truce of 1914 remains a moment of enduring fascination more than a century after the day the First World War guns fell silent. Now for the first time hundreds of first person accounts of this most extraordinary period of history have been... -
Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation by David Horspool 9781472902993
RRP: €11.90€8.25Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the murderer of the Princes in the Tower and the warrior vanquished at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Richard III is one of England's most enigmatic monarchs. Now, with the... -
Middlebrough St. Hilda's: Timelines by Araf Chohan 9780956718785
RRP: €15.46€9.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956718785Author Araf ChohanFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
The Spirit of the Oxford Movement by Christopher Dawson 9780813236063
RRP: €29.69€27.42This is the book we have been waiting for . . . a permanent enrichment of our understanding of the Oxford Movement" proclaimed The Downside Review upon the publication of Christopher Dawson's masterwork in 1933, exactly 100 years after John Keble's... -
Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War by Joern Leonhard
RRP: €28.50€21.48Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize"The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict."-Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history... -
Flesh and Steel during the Great War: The Transformation of the French Army and the Invention of Modern Warfare by Goya, Michel
RRP: €29.75€21.44Michel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to have appeared in recent years. It is a major contribution towards a deeper understanding of the impact of the struggle... -
The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: €34.45€27.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643131504Author Mary HollingsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Hitler's Flemish Lions: The History of the SS-Freiwilligan Grenadier Division Langemarck (Flamische Nr. I) by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: €15.46€11.15Motivated by anti-communist zeal and a burning desire for Flemish self-rule, the men of the SS Langemarck answered Himmler's call to arms and earned a reputation for steadfastness in battle from friend and foe alike, right through to their eventual... -
The Sixteenth Century by Professor Euan Cameron
€37.19The sixteenth century witnessed some of the most abrupt and traumatic transformations ever seen in European society and culture. Population growth strained the old fabric of community and economic relations. New supplies of precious metals from east and... -
Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: The Dynasty of Aivarr to A.D. 1014 by Clare Downham
RRP: €47.60€43.40Vikings plagued the coasts of Ireland and Britain in the 790s. By the mid-ninth century vikings had established a number of settlements in Ireland and Britain and had become heavily involved with local politics. A particularly successful viking leader... -
Blitzkrieg: The Invasion of Poland to the Fall of France by Stephen A. Hart
RRP: €35.70€26.12A fascinating study of the devastating new form of warfare that redrew the map of Europe in the opening year of World War II, bringing about the military collapse and capitulation of seven modern industrialized nations. On 1 September 1939, Nazi... -
Nieuwpoort 1600 by Bouko de Groot
RRP: €17.84€13.03The Eighty Years' War began as a limited Dutch rebellion seeking only religious tolerance from their Spanish overlords, but it quickly escalated into one of the longest wars in European history. Spain's failed invasion of 1599 and the mutinies that... -
The White Rose by Dorothee Soelle 9780819560865
RRP: €17.79€15.46The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small underground organization of German students and professors to oppose the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazi Party. They named their group the White Rose,... -
SAS in Italy 1943-1945: Raiders in Enemy Territory by Malcolm Tudor 9781781556979
RRP: €23.80€17.50This is the story of Britain's elite special force in Italy during the Second World War. In the summer of 1943 the SAS came out of Africa to carry the fight to the Germans and Fascists in Sicily and the mainland. On the Italian Armistice and Surrender in... -
Fighting Through to Hitler's Germany: The Memoirs and Letters of Richard Laird, A Japanese Prisoner of War by Mark Forsdike 9781526772862
RRP: €29.75€21.44After landing on D-Day, 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment fought through France, Holland and into Germany as part of the 3rd (British) Infantry Division. Ever cheerful, the Battalion were opposed by an increasingly ruthless enemy determined to deny the... -
The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World by Wim Klooster 9780801450457
RRP: €45.22€39.33The author draws on a dazzling variety of archival and printed sources.... The Dutch Moment is a signal contribution to the field. Renaissance Quarterly In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire... -
Dockers' Stories from the Second World War by Henry T. Bradford 9780752456881
RRP: €15.46€11.15Dockers' Stories from the Second World War is a collection of several true stories, drawn from Henry Bradford's time as a Registered Docker in the Port of London. Men were often killed and injured during their every-day work on the docks; nonetheless,... -
The Good Bohemian: The Letters of Ida John by Michael Holroyd
RRP: €17.84€13.65'It is right that, after more than one hundred years, she should have her say' John Carey, Sunday Times Twelve days before her twenty-fourth birthday, on the foggy morning of Saturday 12 January 1901, Ida Nettleship married Augustus John in a private... -
Religion and National Identity: Governing Scottish Presbyterianism in the Eighteenth Century by Alistair Mutch
RRP: €107.10€96.37What is the enduring impact of Presbyterianism on what it means to be Scottish? Presbyterianism has shaped Scotland and its impact on the world. Behind its beliefs lie some distinctive practices of governance which endure even when belief fades. These... -
Poles in the Battle of Britain: A Photographic Album of the Polish 'Few' by Peter Sikora 9781526782410
RRP: €29.75€20.97The Polish Air Force, which was created in Britain in the summer of 1940 from flying and ground personnel evacuated from Poland and then from France, proved to be one of the most successful formations to fight the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain... -
Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800 by Charles H. Parker
RRP: €35.70€29.57A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern period "A tour de force offering the reader the best study of global Calvinism in the realms of the Dutch East India Company."-Ronnie... -
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory by Roxane Van Iperen 9780063097629
RRP: €21.41€12.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097629Author Roxane Van IperenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)... -
Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages by C.H. Lawrence 9780367767914
RRP: €42.83€38.19Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. It explores the relationship between... -
Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, and Women in Tenth-Century England by Rebecca Hardie 9781501517617
€112.12AEthelflaed (c. 870-918), political leader, military strategist, and administrator of law, is one of the most important ruling women in English history. Despite her multifaceted roles and family legacy, however, her reign and relationship with other... -
Richard III: A Ruler and his Reputation by David Horspool
RRP: €15.46€9.02A fascinating reappraisal of Richard III, the man and the monarch. Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the alleged murderer of the Princes in the Tower and the warrior vanquished at the Battle of Bosworth... -
1865: the Golden Age of Mountaineering: An illustrated history of Alpine climbing's greatest era by Gilles Modica 9781910240526
RRP: €46.41€34.56From the Wetterhorn in 1854 to the Matterhorn in 1865 - from triumph to tragedy - the Alps were conquered in a decade. It was what Reverend W.A.B. Coolidge called the 'golden age of alpinism,' the era of the first great guides (Christian Almer, Melchoir... -
The Dunkirk Perimeter and Evacuation 1940: France and Flanders Campaign by Jerry Murland 9781473852235
RRP: €17.84€13.03The book, the latest in a series of eight Battleground Europe books that deals with the BEF's campaign in France and Flanders in 1940, covers the fierce fighting around the Dunkerque Perimeter during May and June 1940 between the retreating British... -
Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery, 1756-1838 by Iain Whyte 9780748624331
RRP: €36.89€33.50Although much has been written about Scottish involvement in slavery, the contribution of Scots to the abolition of black slavery has not yet been sufficiently recognised. This book starts with a Virginian slave seeking his freedomin Scotland in 1756 and... -
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive 1918: The American Expeditionary Forces' Crowning Victory by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: €19.03€13.82When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the tiny US Army did not even have a standing division. A huge national army worthy of the Western Front was quickly enlisted, trained, and then transported to France to fight against the... -
Combat History of Sturmpanzer-Abteilung 217 by Timm Haasler
RRP: €53.54€37.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032201Author Timm HaaslerFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
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... -
Sisters of the Resistance: The Nuns Who Defied the Nazis by Dennis J. Turner
RRP: €10.70€7.38Throughout the occupied territories, Catholic sisters were active in resistance to the Nazis Based on letters and documents - not seen for seventy years - written by the Catholic Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur during the Nazi occupation of Belgium,... -
Marx and Engels on Bonapartism: Selected Journalism, 1851-59 by Spencer A. Leonard
RRP: €123.76€111.92For 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... -
The Vagabond and the Princess: Paddy Leigh Fermor in Romania by Alan Ogden 9781910533352
RRP: €14.27€9.87Invention, passion, war and exile are but some of the elements in this revealing new insight into Paddy Leigh Fermor's many Romanian journeys. Starting with the `great trudge' on foot through Romania in 1934 and ending in 1990 with his assignment for... -
The Trial of Joan of Arc by Daniel Hobbins
RRP: €28.50€22.30No account is more critical to our understanding of Joan of Arc than the contemporary record of her trial in 1431. Convened at Rouen and directed by bishop Pierre Cauchon, the trial culminated in Joan's public execution for heresy. The trial record,... -
A History of Mevagissey by Liz Hurley 9780993218026
RRP: €7.13€6.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993218026Author Liz HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Mudlark's PressPublisher Mudlark's Press -
Blitzkrieg in the West: Then and Now by Jean-Paul Pallud
RRP: €59.50€44.77The author presents an account of the Battle of France: the forty-five traumatic days from May 10 to June 24, 1940 that resulted in one of the most remarkable military victories of modern times. During those six weeks, six nations found themselves at... -
Arnhem: The Fight To Sustain: The Untold Story of the Airborne Logisticians by Frank Steer 9781526791931
RRP: €19.03€13.82On the ground the airborne logisticians at the battle of Arnhem fought to the bitter end, indistinguishable from their paratroop comrades. In the air, their deeds and sacrifice were shining examples of duty done under the most desperate circumstances... -
Operation Totalize by Tim Saunders 9781526741264
RRP: €17.84€13.03By early August 1944 the Germans fighting in Normandy had been worn down by the battles around Caen, while to the west, the American breakout was finally gaining momentum. Now was the time to launch II Canadian Corps south towards Falaise. With much of...