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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873518871Author Dick BancroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626542396Author Sander L GilmanFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams) 503g

Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation. He joined the Czech Air force, rising to Captain by the age of 21. When he could no longer tolerate life under the Communists, he hijacked an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789053309551Author Tracy Xavia KarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Schilt Publishing b.v.Publisher Schilt Publishing b.v.Weight(grams) 670g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869658136Author Fabio and Damiano D'InnocenzoFormat HardbackImprint ContrastoPublisher Contrasto

On the occasion of Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017, The Faraway Nearby presents a century of Canadian history through photographs. The book will take readers on a visual journey through photographs ranging from breaking news to portraiture, depicting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783716518496Author Walther SimonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Benteli VerlagPublisher Benteli VerlagWeight(grams) 1680g

"The great military cemeteries found along the Messines Ridge and around the town of Ieper (Ypres) in Flanders, Belgium, are the last resting place of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who died during the First World War..." - Regiments of the Dead The...

The @vintagetribune Instagram, a beloved photography account produced by the photo editors of the Chicago Tribune, has been mining the newspaper's vast subterranean archives since 2014 and breathing new life into its most gram-worthy black-and-white...

This book examines the role of photography as a powerful language of expressing collective identities in Eastern Europe during the period of dramatic socio-political transformation associated with the slow rise of national and ethnic consciousness, the...

Having left South Africa at the age of four as a political refugee with his parents, photographer Koto Bolofo returned to his home country with his wife in 1992, two years after Nelson Mandela had been released from prison. Bolofo got free access to the...

Until the end of the First World War, urban growth in Johannesburg proceeded unevenly and haphazardly, but under the impact of a wave of militant struggles by black workers and in the context of the devastating impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the...

'Lost Worlds: Ruins of the Americas' is a unique visual exploration that vividly captures the haunting mystery and visual poetry of historic ruins throughout the Americas. This extraordinary collection perfectly portrays the architectural, geographic and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783948450977Author Alexandre DupouyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Goliath Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, GermanyPublisher Goliath Verlagsgesellschaft mbH,...

How a single haunting image tells a story about violence, mourning, and memoryIn 1865, Clara Barton traveled to the site of the notorious Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where she endeavored to name the missing and the dead. The future...

A rare window into the changing lives of Native Alaskans between the late 1800s and 1920sLured north by the Klondike gold rush, Elbridge W. Merrill settled in Sitka, Alaska, and took up a career as a professional photographer. Merrill developed a good...

Exeter has long been an important city in Devon, centred around its mediaeval cathedral. Much of the historic city centre was lost during the Second World War and subsequent redevelopment but some scenes of Exeter from the past would be still...

England’s Military Heritage from the Air presents the story of the country’s rich military heritage using photographs from the Aerofilms Collection. Covering over 6,000 years, it reflects the changing threats faced by England from enemies without, and...