European history: medieval period, middle ages Books
Pan Macmillan The Himmler Brothers
Book SynopsisKatrin Himmler is the great-niece of Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, Gestapo and leading organiser of the Holocaust. She was born in 1967 and lives in Berlin.
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Pan Macmillan Trench Warfare 191418
Book SynopsisThe story of the great battles of the First World War has been told by historians, journalists and others. The shock and slaughter of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele are a major theme of most books. Large scale battles, however, comprised the smaller part of soldiers' total time in combat. For 90% of that time soldiers fought small scale battles . These small conflicts were violent, continual and involved complex weaponry and specialised tactics. Yet, during small battles, soldiers could and often did, make choices not possible during large ones. From these choices, there evolved between enemies a curious culture of live and let live which constrained the war culture of kill or be killed in fundamental ways.
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl The Origins of France From Clovis to the Capetians 5001000 New Studies in Medieval History
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Palgrave Macmillan The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism
Book SynopsisAcknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - The Early KPD: Responses to Weakness - The National Question 1918-1922 - The 1923 Crisis - The Stabilisation Era, 1924-28: General Developments - The Stabilisation Era, 1924-28: The KPD and Right-Radicals in the Factories - Communist-Nazi Relations 1928-32: The Ideological Dimension - The Sociology of Communist-Nazi Relations - The Battle for the Unemployed and for Territory - The Struggle in the Workplace - Conclusion - Notes - Sources - Glossary of German words and terms used in the text - IndexTable of ContentsAcknowledgements - Abbreviations - Introduction - The Early KPD: Responses to Weakness - The National Question 1918-1922 - The 1923 Crisis - The Stabilisation Era, 1924-28: General Developments - The Stabilisation Era, 1924-28: The KPD and Right-Radicals in the Factories - Communist-Nazi Relations 1928-32: The Ideological Dimension - The Sociology of Communist-Nazi Relations - The Battle for the Unemployed and for Territory - The Struggle in the Workplace - Conclusion - Notes - Sources - Glossary of German words and terms used in the text - Index
£123.49
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Kingship and Government in PreConquest England c5001066 British History in Perspective
Book SynopsisANN WILLIAMS is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Secularisation in Western Europe 18481914 European Studies Series
Book SynopsisHUGH MCLEOD is Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham and president of the British subcommission of CIHEC, the international church history organisation.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Race Relations in Britain Since 1945 Social History in Perspective
Book SynopsisHARRY GOULBOURNE is Professor of Sociology at South Bank University, London.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Renaissances The Cultures of Italy 13001600 European Studies European Studies Series
Book SynopsisRICHARD MACKENNEY is Reader in Early Modern European History at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Church Religion and Society in Early Modern Spain
Book SynopsisHELEN RAWLINGS is a lecturer in the School of Modern Languages at the University of Leicester.
£43.29
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Late Medieval France European History in Perspective
Book SynopsisGRAEME SMALL is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow, UK.
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl Politics and War in the Three Stuart Kingdoms 163749
Book SynopsisDAVID SCOTT is Senior Research Fellow in the 1640-60 section of the History of Parliament Trust, London. He is the author of a number of articles and essays on British politics in the 1640s, and co-edited The Journal of Thomas Juxon, 1644-1647 (1999).
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great
Book SynopsisAlfred is the only English King honoured with this name and is credited with various successes (the foundation of a navy, English education system and religious revival). The medieval 'Life' of King Alfred of Wessex purports to be written by Asser, a monk in the King's service.Trade Review'Alfred Smyth's The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great is a pathbreaking work...a sophisticated introduction and study of the entire field of Alfredian biography, ancient and modern...The Medieval Life of King Alfred the Great also serves as an excellent introduction to the text of the Life itself and to the controversies surrounding its creation and history.' - Professor Daniel Melia, University of California, Berkeley 'Alfred Smyth's new translation and commentary challenges consensus opinion at every level...an extensive commentary relates the Life to the new and still-developing awareness of historical writing in the late Anglo-Saxon period...Smyth's text asks new questions and provides new answers, offering a more complex account of the origins of England, and of English History, than has been possible to date.' - Tom Shippey, Saint Louis University, Missouri '...this translation...is useful for presenting a version without many of the previous editorial emendations...' - J.L. Leland, Choice Reviews from previous book: 'Smyth's book, then, must stand as the definitive account of the reign.' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times 'This is a glorious book. It rescues a great English ruler from some of the more obtuse concepts and prejudices of our own time, and builds more carefully on ninth-century foundations than any other biography yet published.' - Eric Christiansen, The SpectatorTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction [A]Translation of the Life of King Alfred [B] Commentary A Tour Around the Manuscripts The Author of the Life The Author's Latin Style The Author's Use of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Why Was the Life of King Alfred Written at Ramsay in C.A.D. 1000? Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Sweden in the Seventeenth Century
Book SynopsisPAUL DOUGLAS LOCKHART is Associate Professor of History at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. He is a specialist in the history of early modern Scandinavia, and his previous publications include Denmark in the Thirty Years' War (1996).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Britain and the Origins of the First World War
Book SynopsisZARA S. STEINER is Emeritus Fellow of New Hall, University of Cambridge.KEITH NEILSON is Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Weimar and the Rise of Hitler
Book SynopsisA. J. NICHOLLS is a Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Medieval European Pilgrimage c.700c.1500
Book SynopsisDIANA WEBB is Senior Lecturer in History at King's College London. She is the author of a number of books on medieval religion and pilgrimage.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) European Warfare 18152000 Problems in Focus
Book SynopsisJEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. His books include War and the World 1450-2000 and War in the New Century
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Later Reformation in England 15471603
Book SynopsisDIARMAID MACCULLOCH is a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford and Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University. He has published widely in Tudor and Reformation history. His book Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996) won the Whitbread Biography Prize, the James Tait Black Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Tudor England and its Neighbours
Book SynopsisGLENN RICHARDSON is Senior Lecturer and Director of the History programme at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill, University of Surrey, UK.SUSAN DORAN is a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Origins of the French Revolution
Book SynopsisPETER R. CAMPBELL is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex, UK. He has written widely on the ancien regime and his books include The Ancien Regime in France (1988), Louis XIV (1993) and Power and Politics in Old Regime France (1996).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Social Work with Addictions Practical Social Work Series
Book SynopsisJAMES G. BARBER is currently Professor of Social Administration and Social Work at Flinders University in South Australia. Prior to becoming an academic he worked with street kids, skid row alcoholics, terminal cancer patients and psychiatric patients. Since becoming an academic he has continued his interest in direct practice through numerous research projects in the fields of addictions, child welfare and youth suicide.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Britain in the First Millennium From Romans to Normans Britain and Europe
Book SynopsisEdward James is Professor of Medieval History, University College Dublin.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Ireland The Twentieth Century Hodder Arnold Publication
Book SynopsisCharles Townsend, Professor of International History, University of Keele, UKTrade Review'A marvel of compression and balance.' Brian Farrell '...reflects wide reading and reflection...[Townsend's] treatment is the ideal starting point.' English Historical Review '...combines impressive, and unobtrusive, scholarship with refreshing insight and more than fulfills its stated purpose of making the work of the latest generation of historians more widely accessible.' Irish Review 'A fascinating in-depth look at the country that went from colony in 1900 to economic dynamo by the advent of the 21st century...Coogan has done a masterful job of taking a very complicated history and making it lively reading.' Publisher's WeeklyTable of ContentsPart I - The struggle for statehood / Parnellism and fenianism / Constructive unionism / 'The Battle of Two Civilizations' / The home rule crisis 1906-1914 / The impact of total war 1941-1919 / The republic, Northern Ireland, and the treaty 1919-1921 - Part II - State and nation building / Civil war and partition 1922-1932 / De Valera in power 1932-1946 / The second republic and modernization 1948-1966, The Stormont regime 1920-1972 / The northern crisis 1972-1984 / Peace processes 1984-1998.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Germany Inventing the Nation
Book SynopsisStefan Berger is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Glamorgan, UKTrade Review'[Berger's] insightful guide over this slippery but crucial terrain convincingly shows how each different 'Germany' was dependent on its predecessors and contemporary events.' Choice 'It is overall an interesting, balanced, and very readable account of a fascinating and pertinent topic.' Central European History Vol 38, No 4
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Rethinking the Weimar Republic Authority and Authoritarianism 19161936
Book SynopsisAnthony McElligott is Professor of History at the University of Limerick, Ireland and editor of The Short Oxford History of Germany: Weimar Germany (2009). He is currently researching the Holocaust in the eastern Mediterranean.Trade Review[A] thought-provoking new approach to the Weimar Republic … [This] well-researched book provides a perceptive analysis of Weimar’s struggle to maintain authority and of the Republic’s relationship to both the German Empire and the Third Reich. * The Historian *This is an excellent and insightful book that challenges the reader to look anew at a familiar subject. McElligott demonstrates a masterful command of a huge range of material (there are over 100 pages of endnotes) and manages to combine an overview of the ebb and flow of the historiography on a variety of different aspects of life under the Weimar Republic with genuinely new insights drawn from the primary sources. * Reviews in History *This is an impressive book and one that deserves to be taken seriously ... McElligott is to be commended for having written something substantially different from the conventional histories of Weimar. For, in doing so, he has provided a valuable new perspective on how and why Germany’s first experiment in democracy ended in such bitter failure. * English Historical Review *In a narrative that skilfully blends discourses, cultural and political practices, McElligott shows the difficulties inherent in the Republic's struggle for legitimacy ... A useful and stimulating synthesis * German History *McElligott’s comprehensive and challenging work will reward every reader who specializes in interwar European or twentieth-century German history, as well as those who do comparative work on authoritarianism. It includes some absolutely top-notch maps and a treasure trove of endnotes. * European History Quarterly *More than 80 years after its demise, the Weimar Republic continues to fascinate. McElligott's own edited collection has enriched understanding of the republic's political instability and cultural dynamism. The chapter titled "Authority between Democracy and Dictatorship" is perhaps the volume's most compelling contribution, as McElligott discusses the Weimar constitution's inadequacies (or rather, the perception of such by contemporaries) and the widespread appeal during periods of acute crisis (1923, 1930-33) of dictatorship as a remedy for the failures of Germany's parliamentary democracy. A must read for any scholar interested in the origins of the Nazi dictatorship. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate students, faculty. -- K. C. O'Connor, Gonzaga University * CHOICE *McElligott’s persuasive analysis of the multifaceted nature of Weimar’s political culture is an important step toward a more open, contingent, and complex historical image of the Weimar Republic. * Central European History *Anyone interested in the Weimar period will benefit from reading this impressively researched work. McElligott’s 220 pages of text are supported by 110 pages of endnotes, with references to a wealth of archival and printed sources and an enormous body of secondary literature. -- Andrew G. Bonnell * Australian Journal of Politics and History *All of the chapters are packed with provocative insights ... Undergraduates and specialists alike will profit from reading this book. * BHIL Bulletin *McElligott's impressive mastery of an enormous body of research guides him on a distinctive path through the dense thickets of Weimar historiography to a provocative new interpretation of the nature of authority in Germany's first democracy. -- Sir Ian Kershaw, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UKMcElligott's study offers a significant and highly persuasive examination of the Weimar Republic's struggle for authority, a notion he embeds in both politics and culture. Offering strikingly new perspectives on the everyday struggles over authority at the national and local levels, McElligott challenges previous interpretations of Weimar's founding and of its collapse. This book is a must-read for scholars and students with an interest in Weimar and Nazi Germany. -- Kathleen Canning, Professor of History, University of Michigan, USAA stimulating new analysis of Weimar politics, society and culture – vivid, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. -- Elizabeth Harvey, Professor of History, University of Nottingham, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction: A Republic without Authority? 2. 1916/19: The Antinomies of Authority 3. Authority Revitalized: Weimar’s foreign policy 4. The Authority of Money 5. The Authority of Law: the Judiciary 6. The Quest for Cultural Authority 7. Renegade Authority: The Junker Landrat 8. Authority Between Democracy and Dictatorship 9. Postscript: Dictatorship Unbounded 1933-36 Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Eastern Europe 19392000
Book SynopsisMark Pittaway is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Open University, UKTrade Review'Pittaway's writing style is direct and supple, and his arguments are well presented. This is a great addition to the scholarship on communist Eastern Europe, and it will be useful to instructors of undergraduate classes as well as researchers. Highly recommended.' ChoiceTable of ContentsThe other Europe; building socialism, 1945-1953; consolidating socialism, 1953-1970; society based on socialist labour; autonomy and privatization - escape from the nationalised public sphere; nation, community and opposition; the decay of socialism, 1970-1995; new order has yet to be born - post-socialist Eastern Europe.
£32.99
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe
Book SynopsisJohn H. Arnold is Professor of Medieval History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also the successful author of History: A Very Short Introduction.Trade Review'... by focusing on the laity over and extended period of time, he is able to highlight the multiple meanings, functions and even levels of religious belief (or unbelief) in medieval society. In so doing, Arnold presents a much more complicated picture of the so-called 'Age of Faith', and one which will be welcomed by specialist and student audiences alike.' The Journal of the Historical Association 'This is an ambitious book. In it, John H. Arnold presents a new and challenging way of interpreting the history of lay religious practices between 1000 and 1500 and the ways in which those practices interacted with the official positions of the church hierarchy.' H-France Review
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Random House USA Inc Peter the Great His Life and World
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Random House USA Inc Bible and Sword
Book SynopsisFrom Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century. Historically, the British were drawn to the Holy Land for two major reasons: first, to translate the Bible into English and, later, to control the road to India and access to the oil of the Middle East. With the lucidity and vividness that characterize all her work, Barbara W. Tuchman follows these twin spiritual and imperial motives—the Bible and the sword—to their seemingly inevitable endpoint, when Britain conquered Palestine at the conclusion of World War I. At that moment, in a gesture of significance and solemnity, the Balfour Declaration of 1917 established a British-sponsored mandate for a national home for the Jewish people. Throughout this characteristically vivid
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Random House USA Inc The Zimmermann Telegram
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Random House USA Inc The Wars of the Roses
Book SynopsisLancaster and York. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the English throne. Kings were murdered and deposed. Armies marched on London. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. The war between the royal houses of Lancaster and York, the most complex in English history, profoundly altered the course of the monarchy. Alison Weir, one of the foremost authorities on British history, brings brilliantly to life both the war itself and the larger-tha-life figures who fought it on the great stage of England. The Wars of the Roses is history at its very best—swift and compelling, rich in character, pageantry, and drama, and vivid in its re-creation of an astonishing period of history.
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Random House USA Inc The Last Lion Winston Spencer Churchill Defender
Book SynopsisSpanning the years 1940 to 1965, The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm begins shortly after Winston Churchill became prime minister—when Great Britain stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. In brilliant prose and informed by decades of research, William Manchester and Paul Reid recount how Churchill organized his nation’s military response and defense, convinced FDR to support the cause, and personified the “never surrender” ethos that helped win the war. We witness Churchill, driven from office, warning the world of the coming Soviet menace. And after his triumphant return to 10 Downing Street, we follow him as he pursues his final policy goal: a summit with President Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet leaders. And in the end, we experience Churchill’s last years, when he faces the end of his life with the same courage he brought to every battle he ever fought. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY <
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Little, Brown Book Group 50 Years On
Book SynopsisIn FIFTY YEARS ON, Roy Hattersley explores and explains the events which have shaped modern Britain. Combining acute analysis of domestic politics with a brilliant eye for the bigger picture, his ''prejudiced history'' takes the reader from the high hopes of 1945 to the cynicism of end-of century Britain. Roy Hattersley focuses his attention on two particular features of post-war Britain: the perpetuation of an education system which fails to meet the needs of the whole country, and our stubborn refusal to accept that the United Kingdom is a medium-sized European nation which can only increase its power and prosperity by real integration within the European union. FIFTY YEARS ON is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the forces that have shaped us.Trade ReviewThis eloquently written work would be my first choice for any student who wanted a compressed political history of the last fifty years in Britain...a classic. * Brian Walden, LITERARY REVIEW *Hattersley calls it a 'prejudiced history' and it is all the better for that. What makes Hattersley a consistently thought-provoking and page-turning writer is the fact that his prejudices are not always predictable -- Andrew Rawnsley * Observer *An entertaining, stylish and generally unbiased romp through the last half-century by Britain's leading born-again Socialist -- Ben Pimlott * Independent on Sunday, Books of the Year *Centring on parliament, party, cabinet and conference, and where the inner history of the Labour Party is concerned, mingling casual revelations with well-researched accounts of key episodes. Not only is Hattersley's recall vivid, but he started in politics so young that he straddles the decades with little sign of effort. -- John Vincent * Spectator *Mixes perspective and a polemic in a way which constantly makes you have to define where you stand -- Peter Preston * Observer, Books of the Year *A formidable book, meticulously researched [and] immensely readable...Marvellous -- Tony Benn * Sunday Times *
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Little, Brown Book Group Dont Mention The War
Book SynopsisThe Times decided in 1891 that ''Germany does not excite in any class among us the slightest feeling of distrust or antipathy'' - the zenith of a century in which Britons admired German culture and our monarchy was closely involved with Germany royalty. Yet twenty-five years later began the era of world wars in which Britain and Germany were twice pitted against each other. After 1945, it seemed that Britain would learn to co-exist on happier terms with newly democratic Germany, yet persistent memories of 1940 have slowed that process, hesitations reinforced by the showing of war films on television, chants on the terraces, and populist tabloid gibes.John Ramsden''s groundbreaking book looks at every aspect of Anglo-German relations for the last 100 years: from the wars themselves to how they have been seen by the tabloids as re-enacted in subsequent football matches. And he askes ''What is the British problem with Germany?'' As Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin once said ''I Trade ReviewA lucid, funny history of our attitude to the Germans since the Victorian age, encompassing everything from the Battle of the Somme to Fawlty Towers * Dominic Sandbrook, DAILY TELEGRAPH Books of the Year 2006 *Ramsden's book traces an extraordinary relationship that was central to Europe's 20th century. In 1890 "an Anglo-German war seemed utterly fantastic" - but in 2001, beating Germany 5-1 could turn "perfectly sane people all over England" mad with joy. DON * GUARDIAN *Germanophobes and Germanophiles alike will find much to enjoy in this glorious synthesis of anecdotes and prejudices * Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES *Ramsden's perambulation through more than a century of inter-state relationships and anecdotes is as amusing as it is enlightening * GLASGOW HERALD *
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Little, Brown Book Group The Plimsoll Sensation
Book SynopsisThe story of a Victorian philanthropist who reformed shipping laws, saved thousands of sailors'' lives and became a national hero''A story of ambition, treachery, libel, political intrigue and cold-blooded murder on a mass scale'' Herald''Nicolette Jones charts Plimsoll''s course with skill, insight and elegance'' Sunday Telegraph''Splendid and meticulously researched'' GuardianIn the second half of the nineteenth century, an astonishing campaign stirred a nation to save the lives of the hundreds of British sailors who were drowning unnecessarily every year. Overladen and ill-repaired ships set sail, their doomed crews sacrificed while mercenary shipowners profited from the insurance. Samuel Plimsoll blew the whistle on these scandalous practices, devoting his life to a campaign for maritime reform. Plimsoll caught the public imagination: under his banner working men and women stood side by side with enTrade ReviewSplendid and meticulously researched * Guardian *A story of ambition, treachery, libel, political intrigue and cold-blooded murder on a mass scale... told in an engaging, witty, racy style * Herald *Excellent... Nicolette Jones charts Plimsoll's course with skill, insight and elegance * Sunday Telegraph *Jones clearly loves her subject... Her set-pieces mix sensitively and narrative gusto. Dickens would have delighted in this story * Jonathan Keates *Jones's strength lies in bringing to life the sailor's friend and the political climate in which he battled * The Economist *An excellent, circumstantial biography that alerts us to how much still remains to be done in the cause of safety at sea * The Times *A fine piece of work - fluently written, full of interesting things * Spectator *Jones is sure-footed, never allowing her empathy with her subject to blind her to his failings. Her comprehensive biography... will be the first port of call for all future researchers * Sunday Times *Expertly tracked * Observer *Excellently researched... a welcome reappraisal of one of Britain's long-forgotten heroes * Camden New Journal *Jones's account is entirely worthy of its deserving subject... rehabilitates a man who remains a household name, but whose legion achievements have been forgotten * Independent *A fascinating piece of social history * Sunday Herald *
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Little, Brown Book Group Bloody Victory
Book Synopsis1 July 1916: the first day of the Battle of the Somme. The hot, hellish day in the fields of northern France that has dominated our perception of the First World War for just shy of a century. The shameful waste; the pointlessness of young lives lost for the sake of a few yards; the barbaric attitudes of the British leaders; the horror and ignominy of failure. All have occupied our thoughts for generations. Yet are we right to view the Somme in this way?Drawing on a vast number of sources such as letters, diaries and numerous archives, Bloody Victory describes in vivid detail the physical conditions, the combat and exceptional bravery against the odds but it also, uniquely, captures how the Somme defined the twentieth century in so many ways. This is an utterly gripping new analysis of one of the most iconic campaigns in history.Trade ReviewRequired reading . . . A thoughtful and important book by a first-rate historian . . . It is a proper history of the battle, not simply an agonising account of its first day . . . He is supremely skilful in charting what he terms the battle's "shifting history and enduring memory" . . . There is something about the Somme that is imprinted onto my heart, and I am grateful that this book has helped me put it into a context that goes beyond time, place, courage and suffering * Richard Holmes, *A sweeping and authoritative re-examination of the battle . . . Bloody Victory is a magnificent and powerful book, destined to become the standard work on the subject * Christopher Silvester, Daily Express *Comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and vividly written . . . His new findings and his provocative conclusions will be of exceptional importance * David Stevenson *Philpott argues that nearly everything we think we know about the Somme . . . is either wrong or a misinterpretation of events . . . After reading this ambitious narrative, it becomes impossible to see the Somme as a futile engagement in a futile conflic * Nick Rennison, Sunday Times *
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Lulu.com The Influence of Sea Power Upon the French Revolution and Empire Both Volumes the Complete Naval History of France before and during the Napoleonic Wars with Maps and Charts Hardcover
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Lulu.com Characters of the Reformation
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Lulu.com Ten Days That Shook The World
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Farrar Straus Giroux Maimonides
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St. Martins Press-3PL Five Germanys I Have Known
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Troublesome Young Men The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England
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Random House USA Inc A Question of Honor
Book SynopsisA Question of Honor is the gripping, little-known story of the refugee Polish pilots who joined the RAF and played an essential role in saving Britain from the Nazis, only to be betrayed by the Allies after the war.After Poland fell to the Nazis, thousands of Polish pilots, soldiers, and sailors escaped to England. Devoted to liberating their homeland, some would form the RAF’s 303 squadron, known as the Kosciuszko Squadron, after the elite unit in which many had flown back home. Their thrilling exploits and fearless flying made them celebrities in Britain, where they were “adopted” by socialites and seduced by countless women, even as they yearned for news from home. During the Battle of Britain, they downed more German aircraft than any other squadron, but in a stunning twist at the war’s end, the Allies rewarded their valor by abandoning Poland to Joseph Stalin. This moving, fascinating book uncovers a crucial forgotten chapter in World War II-
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Mysteries of the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisFrom the national bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization—a fascinating look at how medieval thinkers created the origins of modern intellectual movements.“Intoxicating.... Cahill's command of rich historical detail makes medieval cities and their colorful characters come to alive.” —The Los Angeles Times After the long period of decline known as the Dark Ages, medieval Europe experienced a rebirth of scholarship, art, literature, philosophy, and science and began to develop a vision of Western society that remains at the heart of Western civilization today, from the entry of women into professions that had long been closed to them to the early investigations into alchemy that would form the basis of experimental science. On visits to the great cities of Europe-monumental Rome; the intellectually explosive Paris of Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas; the hotbed of scientific study that was Oxford; and the incomparable Florence of Dante and Giotto-acclaimed historian Thomas Cahill brilliantly captures the spirit of experimentation, the colorful pageantry, and the passionate pursuit of knowledge that built the foundations for the modern world.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Portugal Story Three Centuries of Explorations and Discovery Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery
Book SynopsisThis selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research. “Dos Passos,” writes historian J. H. Plumb, “brings to his material a novelist’s acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know.”
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Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S. Priest and Parish in Vienna 1780 to 1880 Studies in Central European histories 15
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WW Norton & Co The Hapsburg Monarchy 18671914
Book SynopsisIn this richly detailed and readable history of of Austria-Hungary, Arthur J. May traces the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Monarchy, from the epochal Ausgleich of 1867 to the eve of the First World War.
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W. W. Norton & Company The Bolshevik Revolution 19171923 Vol 3 History of Soviet Russia
Book Synopsis“E. H. Carr’s History of Soviet Russia holds a unique position in the vast literature on Bolshevism and Soviet Russia. No other work on this subject comparable in scope and scale exists in English or in any other language, including the Russian.” —Times Literary Supplement
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