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  • Galileo's Daughter

    A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love

    by Dava Sobel ...
    Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called "the father of modern physics- indeed of modern science altogether." Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Feeding Wellington's Army in the Peninsula

    The Journal of Assistant Commissary General Tupper Carey - Volume I

    by Gareth Glover ...
    Transcribed for the first time from Commissary General Tupper Carey's handwritten journals, this is the first of two volumes which cover the lively career of a Commissary who served throughout the Peninsular war and Waterloo campaign.Written with vivid detail, these journals offer a truly unique window into the life of a Commissary and the campaigns in which he served. Although a civilian and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Munich: From Monks to Modernity

    by Paul Wheatley ...
    Munich? Grand capital of Bavaria: city of art, the Oktoberfest and Germany’s high-tech capital. It’s also the birthplace of Nazism, home to the British and French policy of Appeasement and the tragedy of the 1972 Olympics. Few cities suffer from such a complex collection of contrasting images, and stereotypes, as Munich does.Munich’s history is packed with figures of European import, ranging from ... Read more

    $11.08 USD

  • Market Garden Then and Now Boxed Set

    by Karel Margry ...
    Both volumes of Operation 'Market Garden' Then and Now in a presentation slip case. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Battered Bastards of Bastogne

    A Chronicle of the Defense of Bastogne December 19, 1944–January 17, 1945

    “Fleshes out in vivid detail the entire story of the Screaming Eagles’ valiant struggle . . . This is must reading for any student of World War II history” (Kepler’s Military History).The Battered Bastards of Bastogne is the product of contributions by 530 soldiers who were on the ground or in the air over Bastogne. They lived and made this history, and much of it is told in their own words.The ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stonehenge

    by Frank Stevens ...
    Amongst the many rude stone circles scattered over Great Britain, Stonehenge is unique, in the fact of having its sarsen stones carefully though roughly worked; and also in the introduction of the horseshoe within the circles, in the design or plan of the building. As in the present day, our churches, in their design, symbolise the Cross, so we may fairly infer that the horseshoe at Stonehenge had ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Americans and Germans at Bastogne

    First-Hand Accounts of the Commanders Who Fought

    by Gary Sterne ...
    This WWII oral history provides a fresh account of this famous episode in the Battle of the Bulge using declassified interviews with German commanders.In December of 1944, the Third Reich was in retreat and Allied victory was just around the corner—unless the Battle of the Bulge succeeded in turning the tide of the war. The US 101st Airborne were the only Allied unit capable of slowing the German ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La guerra. È in gioco la nostra vita

    La guerra avanza, ma non è quella che il mainstream politico-mediatico fa apparire ai nostri occhi. Per capirlo non si può restare al fermoimmagine di ciò che accade in Ucraina. Si deve guardare il docufilm degli eventi che, dalla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale ad oggi, hanno portato all'attuale situazione. Cruciale è il momento in cui, finita la Guerra fredda con la disgregazione dell'URSS, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cult of the Saints

    Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, Enlarged Edition

    by Peter Brown ...
    A new edition of the “brilliantly original and highly sophisticated” study of saint worship after the fall of the Roman Empire (Library Journal).In this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served as a heavenly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • GLADIO: NATO’S Dagger at the Heart of Europe: The Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis

    The attack on Libya laid bare the iron fist within the velvet glove of slogans such as “humanitarian intervention." Like the destruction of Yugoslavia and the rape of Afghanistan, the reduction of Libya to a virtual slave colony was performed under the banner of NATO. And what exactly is NATO? Richard Cottrell tells the story of mayhem and murder behind the “alliance for peace" and predicts an ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • De Opstand 1568-1648

    De strijd in de Zuidelijke en Noordelijke Nederlanden

    'De Opstand 1568-1648' van Arnout van Cruyningen is een prachtige geïllustreerde geschiedenis van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog, geheel in kleur. In ‘De Opstand 1568-1648’ behandelt Arnout van Cruyningen alle aspecten van de Tachtigjarige Oorlog, tegenwoordig vaak de Nederlandse Opstand genoemd. Precies 450 jaar geleden begon de strijd van de Lage Landen tegen het Spaanse koninkrijk. In dit boek komen ... Read more

    $14.41 USD

  • Penser l'univers

    Dieu est-il quantique?

    Cet ouvrage rend hommage à tous les savants qui ont eu le tort d’avoir eu raison trop tôt comme Pythagore, Galilée ou Einstein, isolés face à un pouvoir persuadé de détenir la vérité. Du quantum d’action de Max Planck (1900) à l’électrodynamique quantique de Richard Feynman (1965), le XXe siècle a connu un foisonnement de découvertes scientifiques majeures, qui s’accélère au cours des premières ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A History of the Great War

    WW1 Seen Through The Eyes of the Warriors: All 6 Volumes Illustrated with Maps and Plans

    This book is a six volume history of the World War I, written during the war by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle interviewed army generals, read their papers and diaries, and he also talked to numerous soldiers in order to get a full picture. He describes all the main battles of the British Army, offering very detailed accounts of battles, where great feats of bravery and courage are given._x000D_ Arthur ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna

    by Adam Zamoyski ...
    Following on from his epic ‘1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow’, bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna.In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip on Europe began to weaken, raising the question of how the Continent was to be reconstructed after his defeat. There were many who dreamed of a peace to end ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • De vergeten stad

    Het inspirerende verleden van Forum Hadriani

    Topauteur Tom Buijtendorp beschrijft het inspirerende verleden van Forum Hadriani.Forum Hadriani (het huidige Voorburg, genoemd naar keizer Hadrianus) lag aan de noordgrens van het Romeinse Rijk. Het was met Nijmegen de enige nederzetting in Nederland die Romeinse stadsrechten kreeg. In 2021 werd de Nederlandse limes, waar Forum deel van uitmaakt, uitgeroepen tot Unesco Werelderfgoed. Tom ... Read more

    $11.08 USD

  • Game of Queens

    The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

    "Sarah Gristwood has written a masterpiece that effortlessly and enthrallingly interweaves the amazing stories of women who ruled in Europe during the Renaissance period." -- Alison WeirSixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Etta Palm

    van Nederlands eerste feministe tot staatsvijand

    Het onbekende levensverhaal van een Groningse die participeerde in de Franse Revolutie van 1789, correspondeerde met stadhouder Willem V en zich als een van de eerste inzette voor de vrouwenzaak.In ‘Etta Palm’ vertelt Wil Schackmann, met veel gevoel voor historische details, het levensverhaal van Etta Palm (1743-1799). Zij behoort tot Nederlands interessantste historische figuren. In Groningen ... Read more

    $15.52 USD

  • Carson, the Advocate

    This is the story of the life of Sir Edward Carson (1854-1935), with a strong emphasis on his career as an advocate. Carson became a well-known Irish QC before moving from Dublin to London as MP for Trinity College, and continued his legal career in London, where he soon became an English QC, the rising star in the legal firmament, and the acknowledged leader of the London Bar.In 1895 Carson was ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is Fascism?

    from The Anatomy of Fascism

    by Robert Paxton ...
    Series series A Vintage Short
    Based on a lifetime’s worth of research, esteemed historian Robert Paxton explores what fascism is and how it has come to have a lasting and continued impact on our history. In the concluding section of his authoritative book, The Anatomy of Fascism,Paxton makes the convincing and radical case that existing definitions of the popular, nationalist, and conservative political view are lacking, and ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • 30 de febrero y otras curiosidades sobre la medición del tiempo

    En este libro aprenderemos que ciertos años han durado 445, 385 o 251 días, que determinadas fechas han sido suprimidas del calendario, que otras, por el contrario, fueron agregadas, que Francia jamás abandonó la hora impuesta por los alemanes en 1940, que los etíopes festejaron el año 2000 en 2007, que los soviéticos inventaron una semana de cinco días o que el segundo que utilizamos es, de hecho ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heretics and Heroes

    How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World

    by Thomas Cahill ...
    Series series The Hinges of History
    The New York Times bestselling author of How the Irish Saved Civilization reveals how the innovations of the Renaissance and the Reformation changed the Western world. • “Cahill is our king of popular historians.” —The Dallas Morning NewsThis was an age in which whole continents and peoples were discovered. It was an era of sublime artistic and scientific adventure, but also of newly powerful ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Why 1914?

    The Causes of the Great War

    Short, brisk and highly readable, this account stands out from the flood of books written for the Centenary of the Great War.In Why 1914?, Derek Robinson - trained as a historian, shortlisted for the Booker Prize - applies his novelist's skills to asking how and why Europe hurried into such a massive disaster.He captures a world of kings and Kaisers, generals and infantrymen. None of them knew ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Characters of the Reformation

    Hilaire Belloc’s landmark study Characters of the Reformation argues that Western Europe’s break from the Catholic Church was driven by a land-grab and looting of Church property by European noblemen. Belloc has little admiration for the so-called leaders of the time and credits the Reformation to behind-the-scenes players. Each chapter is a mini-biography and individuals covered include Anne ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bolt Action: Campaign: D-Day: Overlord

    by Warlord Games ...
    Series Book 34 - Bolt Action
    From the scaling of Pointe-du-Hoc and the assault on Pegasus Bridge, to the landings on the Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches, this new Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to take command of the Allied Forces or those of the defending Axis. Featuring new linked scenarios, rules, troop types, and Theatre Selectors, this volume provides plenty of options for both novice and veteran ... Read more

    $22.99 USD