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Author and tennis historian Steve Flink profiles and ranks the greatest tennis matches in the history of the sport. Roger Federer, Billie Jean King, Rafael Nadal, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Martina Navratilova, Rod Laver, and Chris Evert are all featured...

The period from 1066 to 1272, from the Norman Conquest to the death of Henry III, was one of enormous political change in England and of innovation in the Church as a whole. Religion, Politics and Society 1066-1272 charts the many ways in which a...

'The best study of Lawrence of Arabia' Sunday TimesControversial and provocative, revised and updated, this edition of Lawrence James' acclaimed biography penetrates and overturns the mythology which surrounds T. E. Lawrence, yet remains dispassionate...

The Long War tells the story of the IRA and Sinn Fein from their beginnings right up to the Good Friday Agreement in Easter 1998 and beyond. It tracks the IRA's military strategy, their bombing and killing campaign, coupled with massive arms supplies...

By the middle of 1918 the British Army had successfully mastered the concept of 'all arms' warfare on the Western Front. This doctrine, integrating infantry, artillery, armoured vehicles and - crucially - air power, was to prove highly effective and...

The ‘Macedonian question’ has been much studied in recent years as has the political history of the period from the Balkan Wars in 1912-13 to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. But for a variety of reasons, connected with the political division of Greece...

Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor and, until his death in 1558, he was to play a central role on the European political stage. The book is a clear introduction to the often confusing train of events in the first half of the sixteenth century. It...

Charles V was elected Holy Roman Emperor and, until his death in 1558, he was to play a central role on the European political stage. The book is a clear introduction to the often confusing train of events in the first half of the sixteenth century. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244338954Author Ken RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992993Author Gwyn JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 240mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992993Author Gwyn JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 210mm * 240mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626865839Author Bathroom Readers' InstituteFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher Canterbury ClassicsWeight(grams) 519g

This collection of pamphlets describes fifteen English witchcraft cases in detail, vividly recreating events to give the reader the illusion of actually being present at witchcraft accusations, trials and hangings. But how much are we victims of literary...

This second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes discussions on 9/11 and the second Gulf War, and takes into account the latest historical research.A comprehensive survey of the key events and personalities of this period throughout the...

Few historians trace grand themes across many centuries and places, but Ernst Kantorowicz's great work on the symbolic powers of kingship is a fine example of what can happen when they do. The King's Two Bodies is at once a superb example of the critical...

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338683Author Ian LyellFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 176mm * 235mm * 4mm

This key Seminar Study was first published as Restoration England: The Reign of Charles II in 1985. Unavailable for several years, the book has now been heavily revised, and expanded, to take account of over ten years of new scholarship. In particular,...

Designed to complement "Crime and Punishment: An Introductory History" UCL Press, 1996, this sourcebook contains documents specifically selected to illuminate major issues raised in the textbook. In the first part of the book, extracts of laws...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578138022Author Susan WoodwardFormat PaperbackImprint Blackmore BooksPublisher Blackmore BooksWeight(grams) 150g

Doing History bridges the gap between the way history is studied in school or as represented in the media and the way it is studied at university level.History as an academic discipline has dramatically changed in recent decades and has been enhanced by...

This is an extremely wide-ranging and interdisciplinary survey of colonization from its origins to the post-colonial world. Original and lively, it offers the student:* a wide focus featuring Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Japan and the USSR*...

This is an extremely wide-ranging and interdisciplinary survey of colonization from its origins to the post-colonial world. Original and lively, it offers the student:* a wide focus featuring Africa, America, Asia, Australia, Europe, Japan and the USSR*...

When Gloucestershire was hit by flash flooding after heavy rainfall on Friday 20 July 2007, the result was catastrophic. Roads were blocked and cars left abandoned in towns and villages around the county. After floodwater overwhelmed the Mythe pumping...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338942Author Iain WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506721545Author Sunshine BarbitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Victory at Stalingrad tells the gripping strategic and military story of that battle. The hard-won Soviet victory prevented Hitler from waging the Second World War for another ten years and set the Germans on the road to defeat. The Soviet victory also...

The Norwegian island of Hrafnista was long remembered in medieval Iceland as the ancestral home of a family of powerful chieftains, who were said to have faced and triumphed over dangers ranging from tyrant kings, to storms and famines, to giants,...

This second collection of over 200 previously unseen photographs takes a fresh look at Barton Hill, a lively community in east Bristol. The area was redeveloped during the 1950s and 1960s and these images document the huge changes that took place at that...

The study of Scandinavia has been, and still is, deeply influenced by the interpretation of its earliest history that was developed in the 19th century by political, legal, and literary historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. Scandinavia figured...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840338829Author John AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing

Renowned as a centre of ship-building and steel-working in the early twentieth century, the town of Jarrow, on the river Tyne, has seen a huge amount of change over the course of the last 100 years. Today, the famous shipyards of Jarrow are silent, yet...

'Whoever has the youth has the future. My teaching will be hard. Weakness will be knocked out of them. A violently active, dominating, brutal youth - that is what I am after.' - Adolf Hitler Between 1933 and 1945, the majority of Germany's children were...

The people of Tyrone have the reputation for having 'open hearts and a desire to please' and their folk tales are as varied as their landscape. There are the tales of the amazing feats of the giant Finn McCool and the derring-do of the Red Hand of Ulster...

Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award. For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles Zika's groundbreaking study investigates how the...

Barbara Cherish's upbringing in Nazi-occupied Poland was one of relative wealth and comfort. But her father's senior position in the Nazi Party meant that she and her brothers and sisters lived on a knife edge. In 1943 he became commandant of perhaps the...

Barbara Cherish's upbringing in Nazi-occupied Poland was one of relative wealth and comfort. But her father's senior position in the Nazi Party meant that she and her brothers and sisters lived on a knife edge. In 1943 he became commandant of perhaps the...

Providing readers with a seasonal anthology of the county, this collection of Sussex carols and customs, seasonal recipes and literary tales, re-examines the rich heritage of Christmas past from around the county. It features Christmas disasters, such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339031Author Barry StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing