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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953143Author Mike ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 922gDimensions(mm) 274mm *...

Published in the year 1994, The Third Reich is a valuable contribution to the field of History.Reviews'An excellent analysis of a complex subject, it is a worthy purchase.' - History Teaching Review 'This is a very welcome second edition of what has...

This book explores the formation of the Baghdad Pact and Anglo-American defence policies in the Middle East, 1950-1959. It determines the aims with which the pact was established; the failings of the pact, and the struggle that was undertaken against it...

Steven Mithen's unique history of water and society in the ancient world has never been told before and is particularly relevant today in the face of global climate change.The planet faces a 21st-century global water crisis - but to what extent is this...

It can be said of few men that without them the course of their nation's history would have been very different, yet through the force of his ideas and sheer bloody-mindedness, James Brindley, the first great canal builder, provided the spark that...

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily...

Awarded the Verbruggen Prize 2022 for the best book on medieval military history.Baldwin of Bourcq left his home in France in 1096 to join the great crusade summoned by Pope Urban II for the liberation of the holy sites and Christian peoples of Syria and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults and New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age and Pulitzer Prize 1992.Book InformationISBN 9780679729778Author Art...

In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights, even the foul-mouthed publican Muriel Belcher, who ran the legendary Colony Club. Harking...

In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights, even the foul-mouthed publican Muriel Belcher, who ran the legendary Colony Club. Harking...

The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, later, English. The fighting ebbed and flowed, but despite...

A Grim Almanac of Hampshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from the county's past, full of dreadful deeds, macabre deaths, grisly accidents and strange occurrences. Among the gruesome tales included here are the sinking in 1545 of the...

The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty. Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown...

Praise for the first edition:"Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites is made remarkably vivid." -- Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336160Author John Fyfe AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 5mm

A collection of diverse yet interconnected essays from one of the world's most respected historians. Carlo Ginzburg has been at the forefront of the discipline of microhistory ever since his earliest works were published to great acclaim in the 1970s...

From America's fight for independence to the Paris Commune - an exotic collection of fanatics, adventurers, poets and thinkers are brought vividly to life.Holy Madness probes into the psyche that was responsible for so many of the founding events of our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035803866Author James MorrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Have you heard the story of 'Bang Bang' Dudley, who roamed the streets of Dublin shooting anyone who caught his eye? Or of 'Lugs' Brannigan, the city's most famous detective? Do you know who the real Molly Malone was, or the story of Marsh's Library, or...

The one book you need to read if you want to understand the financial world.For fans of Michael Lewis's THE BIG SHORT and Andrew Ross Sorkin's TOO BIG TO FAIL, CRASH BANG WALLOP tells the gripping story of the most daring financial experiment in modern...

The aristocratic Rose Pender and her husband, James, were among the thousands of English travelers in the American West during the latter half of the nineteenth century. This is Pender's lively account of a grand tour in 1883 of Texas, California, Salt...

This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Newport during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader...

This fascinating volume celebrates every aspect of Whitby's Gothic past. With a detailed exploration of the town's connection with Dracula (including historical events such as the beaching of the Dmitri and a visit to many of the book's most famous...

After decades of civil war, the people of southern Sudan voted to secede from the north in an attempt to escape the seemingly endless violence. On declaring independence, South Sudan was one of the least developed places on earth, but with the ability to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789870350Author John G PatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789870350Author John G PatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Mahmood Mamdani's 1996 Citizen and Subject is a powerful work of analysis that lays bare the sources of the problems that plagued, and often still plague, African governments. Analysis is one of the broadest and most fundamental critical thinking skills,...

Covers the momentous reforms in the British electoral system during the period from the Great Reform Act of 1832 to 1918 when women were given the vote. The study charts the series of Reform Acts right through the period, involving rather more attention...

This is a fascinating selection of images featuring the town of Bury St Edmunds along with many of its surrounding villages. Robert Halliday has collected together over 250 old photographs, and these, coupled with his informative captions, give an...

When the Berlin Wall came down, the files of the East German secret police, the much-dreaded Stasi, were opened and read. And among the shocking stories revealed was that of the Stasi's infiltration of the Church. Almost 10% of the Lutheran Church's...

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The scene was set for a classic Western showdown. On a dusty main street, a sheriff backed by townspeople faced down a gang of heavily armed hired gunslingers. Tension rose, hard words were exchanged, and someone drew first. A few minutes later 10 men...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in...

This book explores the history of marriage and marriage-like relationships across five continents from the seventeenth century to the present day. Across fourteen chapters, leading marriage scholars examine how the methodologies from the new history of...

Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070781Author Kate RileyFormat PaperbackImprint AcairPublisher Acair

Situated almost on the border between England and Wales, Wrexham has a long and important history. In the past it was famous for its coal, iron, steel and lead mining and leather industries. Today, it is the largest town in North Wales and two of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189425934Author John BewFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 880g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906294536Author Jeanette RatcliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 55Imprint Twelveheads PressPublisher Twelveheads Press

"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds incredible..." - William L Shirer, journalist, 18 October 1939 Sinking the battleship HMS...