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The image of the Third Reich as a monolithic state presiding over the brainwashed, fanatical masses, retains a tenacious grip on the general public's imagination. However, a growing body of research on the social history of the Nazi years has revealed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788171513840Author Habib SiddiquiFormat HardbackImprint Kitab BhavanPublisher Kitab Bhavan

Originally published in 1959, this volume is a symposium from Official Government documents, Mikolajczyk's private files and other Polish sources is an indictment of Soviet policy towards Poland and of the Western Allies' leniency towards Stalin. Book...

A history of Bristol.About the AuthorMaurice Fells is a born and bred Bristolian with a passionate interest in the city's history, and a prolific author of books about Bristol. He worked as a journalist in both the print and broadcast mediums, and held...

A history of Lee-on-the-SolentBook InformationISBN 9780752410388Author Lesley BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm

The Humanities and Human Flourishing series publishes edited volumes that explore the role of human flourishing in the central disciplines of the humanities, and to what degree the humanities can increase human happiness. This volume examines the...

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' held Goering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby changing the course of the war. For much of the twentieth...

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' held Goering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby changing the course of the war. For much of the twentieth...

Seventeen-year-old Henry VIII was 'a youngling, he cares for nothing but girls and hunting.' Over the years, this didn't change much. Henry was considered a demi-god by his subjects, so each woman he chose was someone who had managed to stand out in a...

Savvy Italians will tell you that Neapolitans are considered the cleverest, most imaginative, most romantic, and the most entertaining people in the country. The world's finest men's fashions are Neapolitan, Italy's most celebrated popular songs and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874336532Author Colin PomeroyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789872330Author Edward J RuppeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993108389Author David DunfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Summersbook (UK) LtdPublisher Summersbook (UK) LtdWeight(grams) 152g

Decolonisation: The British Experience since 1945 is a concise and accessible introduction which introduces students to this often dramatic story of colonial wars and emergencies, and fraught international relations. The 2nd edition provides an overview...

North Walsham & District IOP: A Second SelectionBook InformationISBN 9780752489001Author Neil R. StoreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987740434Author John SlizFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Travelogue 219Publisher Travelogue 219Weight(grams) 113g

This anthology offers a comprehensive introduction to Pliny the Younger's Epistulae for intermediate and advanced Latin students, with the grammatical, lexical, and historical support to enable them to read quickly and fluidly. As the only selection of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788131900932Author Samuel LilienthalFormat HardbackPage Count 1154Imprint B Jain Publishers Pvt LtdPublisher B Jain Publishers Pvt LtdWeight(grams) 1240g

'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...

This ambitious and wide-ranging study of the European Middle Ages respects the complexity and richness of its subject; always accessible, it is never merely superficial or over-simplistic. Stressing the long-term factors of continuity, evolution and...

Many wonder how Adolf Hitler, a mediocre army corporal and failed landscape painter, could have become the architect of the most calamitous events of the twentieth century. But fewer know that Hitler's fateful transition from ambitious demagogue to...

Placing women's experiences in the context of the major social, economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553382402Author G. J. MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint Delacorte Press Books for Young ReadersPublisher Delacorte Press Books for Young...

Surveying the latest research, this welcome second edition of Alun Munslow's successful Deconstructing History provides an excellent introduction to the debates and issues of postmodernist history. This new edition has been updated and revised and, along...

Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man...

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

Michael Davis revisits questions of interpretation in Greek tragedy emerging in the thought of the late Seth Benardete. While this is not the book Benardete would have written, it wrestles with problems that bear his indelible mark. In the extant...

Combining over 100 beautifully crafted maps, charts and graphs with a narrative packed with facts and information, An Atlas of Irish History provides coverage of the main political, military, economic, religious and social changes that have occurred in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060934835Author Steven E. OzmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The arrival of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia forms an indispensable part of modern Turkish discourse on national identity, but Western scholars, by contrast, have rarely included the Anatolian Turks in their discussions about the formation of European...

Didn't Cleopatra look like Elizabeth Taylor? Didn't Shakespeare look like Shakespeare? Doesn't Mazzini deserve to have a biscuit named after him? Did Napoleon pass his French exam? Did Nelson really see no ships? Van Gogh...or Van Gogh? And can you spot...

W.A. Camps' four-volume edition of Propertius' Elegies was originally published by Cambridge University Press. Books II and III were later reissued by Bristol Classical Press, now an imprint of Bloomsbury. Book II, the longest, is commonly regarded as...

The reign of King Edward IV occupies a pivotal place in late medieval English history, marking the transition from a medieval to a renaissance monarchy. The personality of the young monarch was undoubtedly a factor in this transition, yet there has been...

Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries the highlight of the social calendar in many Essex towns and villages was the local horse race meeting. Of these Chelmsford Races, held on Galleywood Common, were by far the most successful. They were so popular...

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...

'The cruelty and magnificence of Restoration London provides endless fascination . . . there's much to delight in this volume' The Times'Don Jordan's history captures the shifts [Charles II] engineered in trade and culture' NatureDuring the reign of...

Rustington, a village on the Sussex plain between the South Downs and the sea, has a long history, which has been dramatically transformed over the past century. This book recounts its story, from its earliest inhabitants, and in a wealth of historic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359397976Author Nathan James StaniforthFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

This book covers the crucial period of Irish history from the completion of the Tudor conquest of Ireland and the end of Gaelic resistance to the temporary achievement of political stability in the early eighteenth century. This was a period of not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398453685Author Mick DrewryFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers