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A young teenager enlisted into the Polish Army in 1938. Deported to the Soviet Union and imprisoned in a Siberian prison camp, this audacious soldier became reunited with his compatriots in Scotland where he trained as a paratrooper and took part in the...

In this remarkable tale Nick Barratt delves into the shadows of the British and Soviet secret services to reveal the shocking story of his great uncle Ernest Holloway Oldham. After serving in the British army during the First World War, Oldham was...

In this remarkable tale Nick Barratt delves into the shadows of the British and Soviet secret services to reveal the shocking story of his great uncle Ernest Holloway Oldham. After serving in the British army during the First World War, Oldham was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380806430Author Walter EdgarFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787109605Author Ian LockwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 564Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788550048Author Olwen PurdueFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

Capetian France 987-1328 is an authoritative overview of the country's development across four centuries, with a focus on changes to the political, religious, social and cultural climate during this period. When Hugh Capet took the throne of France in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995450233Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Christopher GoddardPublisher Christopher GoddardWeight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474322569Author Jean-Pierre VernantFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Gedisa EditorialPublisher Gedisa EditorialWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system.H.M. Scott demonstrates how the well-known and dramatic events of these decades - the emergence of...

This classic text is the first integrated survey of the phenomenon of siege warfare during its most creative period. Duffy demonstrates the implications of the fortress for questions of military organization, strategy, geography, law, architectural...

Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between...

Beginning with Native American stories, this invaluable resource provides hands-on activities that inspire children to understand and appreciate Native American cultures and the Earth.Book InformationISBN 9781555913854Author Joseph BruchacFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333909Author Craig StathamFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 174mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060936730Author Robert L AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint HarperCollins Publishers IncPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The amazing story of a small island in the South Pacific, its music and culture and its gifts to the worldBook InformationISBN 9780244333553Author Ruth FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850549911Author Kevin McPhillipsImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps

How did the Tudors enjoy themselves? For the men and women of Tudor England there was, just as there is today, more to life than work. Four hundred years before the invention of television and radio, they did not lead boring or mundane lives. Indeed, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852445440Author Allan ChapmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint GracewingPublisher Gracewing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244324599Author Robert CunliffeFormat PaperbackImprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 150g

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...

This is a comprehensive new operational military history of the Ottoman army during the First World War. Drawing from archives, official military histories, personal war narratives and sizable Turkish secondary literature, it tells the incredible story...

In line with the resurgence of interest in the history of archaeology manifested over the past decade, this volume aims to highlight state of the art research across several topics and areas, and to stimulate new approaches and studies in the field. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059230Author Dmitry RyabushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Since 1945, the U.S. government has officially set the number of nuclear weapons accidents at thirty-six Broken Arrows. After several years of research and dozens of Freedom of Information Act requests, the authors present documentation on previously...

Material things mattered immensely to those who engaged in daily struggles over the character and future of slavery and to those who subsequently contested the meanings of freedom in the post-emancipation Caribbean. Throughout the history of slavery,...

'One of the most relentlessly brilliant studies of twentieth-century Britain ... these young historians have found a marvellous theme and stuck to it. Theirs is the glory!' Professor Arthur Marwick, History The 1930s - remembered as the decade of dole...

The history of London up to 1666 is a story of Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans, Plantagenets, Tudors and Stuarts. Of a city that grew from ancient origins to become 'the flower of all cities', until the centuries of building and the lives within it were...

The Safavid World brings together thirty chapters on many aspects of the complex Safavid state, 1501-1722. With the latest insights and arguments, some offer overviews of the period or topic at hand, and others present new interpretations of old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884479441Author Vinny FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm *...

Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the results of a war that are post-event defined as just or...

Placed in the wider scope of post-war European decolonisation migrations, The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa looks at the "Return" of the Portuguese nationals living in the African colonies when they became independent. Using an...

Enclosure transformed the old open fields and common lands of England to create the modern rural landscape. It changed forever the life of many villages, but provided food for a rapidly rising population. Its methods and consequences were controversial -...

Together with her mother, Emmeline, Christabel Pankhurst co-led the single-sex Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded in 1903 and soon regarded as the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women. A First...

"There wasn't a meeting when someone didn't mention Black Hawk Down ." - A senior Obama administration official, as quoted in The New York Times, 02/05/2011 From Mark Bowden, internationally bestselling and acclaimed author of Black Hawk Down and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334807Author Fiona ScharlauFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 135gDimensions(mm) 174mm...

The twelve essays in this new collection by John Monfasani examine how, in particular cases, Greek emigres, Italian humanists, and Latin scholastics reacted with each other in surprising and important ways. After an opening assessment of Greek migration...

This volume focuses on the relationship between Greek medical texts and their audience(s), offering insights into how not only the backgrounds and skills of medical authors but also the contemporary environment affected issues of readership, methodology...

For the last decade scholars have been questioning the idea that the Holocaust was not talked about in any way until well into the 1970s. After the Holocaust: Challenging the Myth of Silence is the first collection of authoritative, original scholarship...

This book presents a great deal of new research findings on the history of Borneo, the history of Sulawesi and the interrelationship between the two islands. Some specific chapters focus on empires and colonizers, including the activities of James Brooke...