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Beginning with an exploration into the question of what war is, War and Warfare since 1945 provides a chronological analysis of military history since the end of World War II extending through to an analysis of the limits of modern warfare in the nuclear...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006584787Author John RuskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061129803Author Tom WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Below High HunsleyBook InformationISBN 9781845881511Author Malcolm M. HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 160g

A Chronology of the Crusades provides a day-by-day development of the Crusading movement, the Crusades and the states created by them through the medieval period. Beginning in the run-up to the First Crusade in 1095, to the fall of Constantinople in...

"How the War Was Won" describes the major role played by the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in defeating the German army. In particular, the book explains the methods used in fighting the last year of the war, and raises questions as to...

This book contains an innovative and important series of studies of the complex relations of major cities associated with key moments in the history of higher learning in the West. By exploring the interplay of university learning and civic culture over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954248611Author Olivia CottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint O M CottonPublisher O M Cotton

Throughout Europe longstanding ideas of what it means to be a citizen are being challenged. The sense of belonging to a nation has never been more in flux. Simultaneously, nationalistic and racist movements are gaining ground and barriers are being...

Historians Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma make available--for the first time to an English-speaking audience--the best, most recent work on the history of male homosexuality in Early Modern Europe. The role of the male homosexual--during the pivotal era of...

'The Zohar' was compiled and composed in Spain in the thirteenth century, and exerted a powerful influence on Jewish life in medieval ghettoes. In this book, first published in 1932, Dr Bension was the first scholar to deal with the influence on Jewish...

Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest...

Elizabeth Longford has chosen eleven Victorian women who in their actions or writing challenged the repressive rules of established society. They include Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, whose cloistered lives were illuminated by the vividness of their...

Controversy, especially religious controversy, was the great spectator sport of Victorian England. This work is a study of the biggest and best of Victorian religious controversies. Essays and Reviews (1860) was a composite volume of seven authors (six...

The Rise of National Socialism in the Bavarian Highlands offers a microhistory of the town of Murnau between 1919 and 1933, a period which witnessed the rise of national socialism in Germany. National socialism had its roots in Bavaria, where the Weimar...

The Great War is a landmark history that firmly places the First World War in the context of imperialism. Set to overturn conventional accounts of what happened during this, the first truly international conflict, it extends the study of the First World...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371491Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This study of "The Stern Gang" attempts to demythologize the image of this extremist, Zionist underground group. The book analyzes the party's split from the Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organization) and its attempts to synthesize the politics...

Piracy is a significant global threat to international sea-borne trade - the life-blood of modern industrial economies and vital for world economic survival. The pirates of today are constantly in the world's news media, preying on private and merchant...

This is the most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political offenders from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. Those who chose violence to advance their Irish nationalist beliefs ranged...

Why did communism grow so quickly? Why did it spread to turn almost half of the world red by the mid-1970s? What impact did it have upon capitalism and capitalist society?Communism is a concise introduction to one of the most important and influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993581540Author Wendy MewesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Red Dog BooksPublisher Red Dog Books

First published in 1985. In the 1930s the Labour Party undertook a deliberate search for a viable economic programme to introduce a democratic socialism to Britain. Against the background of the economic turmoil of the period, a group of young economists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993361005Author Mireille GalinouFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Your London PublishingPublisher Your London Publishing

Covers the development and use of the Jagdpanzer armored fighting vehicle.Book InformationISBN 9780887403231Author Horst ScheibertFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 363g

The third book in the five-volume Community Oral History Toolkit takes the planning steps outlined in Volume 2 and puts them into action. It provides the practical details for turning your plans into reality and establishes the basis for guiding your...

First Published in 1999. The interaction between religion and medicine is universal throughout recorded history. They meet at the great turning points of life: at birth, at moments of acute suffering and at death. Not only are priest and doctor often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789395458016Author Thomas Egenes Kumuda ReddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Motilal Banarsidass,Publisher Motilal Banarsidass,

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615263656Author Elizabeth IshiyamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint The EAW GroupPublisher The EAW GroupWeight(grams) 210g

Art, politics and dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art.. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events,...

Google the strategic town of Berwick-Upon-Tweed, and you will find it changed hands 13/14 times, as is commonly thought. Kevin Scott has found another 9 such recaptures of this pivotal base in England's NE, or is that Scotland's SE? Join the stories, as...

This volume is part of a comprehensive effort by Professor Rummel to understand and place in historical perspective the entire subject of genocide and mass murder-what is herein called Democide. It is the third in a series of volumes published by...

The Routledge Companion to Christian History is an indispensable aid for anyone seeking comprehensive coverage of the facts in clear, concise and easy to use language. It covers:all key events in the Christian calendar from the persecution of the Roman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957540392Author A. K. ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint The A. K. Chesterton TrustPublisher The A. K. Chesterton Trust

This book provides the first major analysis of the covenanted interest from an integrated three kingdoms perspective. It examines the reaction of the covenanted interest to the actions and policies of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, drawing particular...

In his Etymologiae, St Isidore of Seville put together a systematic survey of the world in the form of a vast thesaurus of Latin vocabulary, which supplies a more or less accepted or fanciful etymology for each term. It became one of the most influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982604915Author Susan KlopferFormat PaperbackImprint Susan KlopferPublisher Susan KlopferWeight(grams) 463g

This book examines four dramatic periods that have shaped not only Ukrainian, but also Soviet and Russian history over the last hundred years: the revolutionary struggles of 1917-20, Stalin's "second" revolution of 1928-33, the mobilization of...

First published in 1966- The history of a foreign policy is not the same thing as the biography of a Foreign Minister. The former aims at showing what a foreign policy was, the latter at what a Foreign Minister was. The latter is pure biography, while...