Routledge Atlas Of The Second World War - Prijzen

The Trotula

The Trotula was the most influential compendium of women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attribution of the work to the mysterious Trotula, said to...

The Envoy

In July 1944, thirty-two-year-old Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest on a mission to rescue the last Jews of Europe.Over the next six months, he repeatedly risked his life to save t...

The Royal Mile

There are several books about the Royal Mile, so why buy this particular one? The reason is, it covers everything you need to know - all the little closes, wynds and courts running off the main street...

Wexford Then & Now

Wexford is a town of great character and individuality. It has been in existence for one thousand years, and this new publication, researched and written by County Librarian Jarlath Glynn explores tha...

Religious Practices and Everyday Life in the Long Fifteenth Century (1350-1570)

The essays in this book bring to light and analyse the continuities and shifts in daily religious practices across Europe--from Portugal to Hungary and from Italy to the British Isles--in the transiti...

Stonewall Jackson

Miyamoto Musashi

Musashi, best known for The Book of Five Rings, is the most famous samurai of all time, and this biography critically examines his life and writings, separates fact and fiction, and gives a clear pic...

The Quiet Heroes

The men of Britain's Merchant Navy, although unarmed civilians going about their normal business, were the first to be involved in the war against Nazi Germany. For almost six years they faced their o...

Behind Dead Eyes

A MYSTERY VICTIM A corpse is found: its identity extinguished in the most shocking manner imaginable. Detective Ian Bradshaw can't catch the killer if no one can ID the victim. Out there, somewhe...

Towton

'An astonishingly complete account of this most significant battle in the Wars of the Roses. Impeccable research, clear, concise and fascinating maps, and a narrative that persuades you you're an onlo...

Borderlines

Opening with the revolution-era debates of the 1790s, Borderlines reads Romantic genders across a mobile syntax, tuned to such figures as the stylized feminine poetess, the aberrant masculine woma...

The Drowned and the Saved

WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 Next morning at about 6 o'clock my mother wakened us to say there had been a shipwreck and bodies were being washed ashore. My father...