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Secret SAS Missions in Africa: C Squadron's Counter-Terrorist Operations 1968-1980 by Michael Graham 9781526748447
RRP: $22.28$15.59This fascinating book is the first to cover the little known C Squadron of the Special Air Service. Operating in East Africa, the Squadron was involved in almost continuous counter communist terrorist operations over the period 1968 to 1980. In the... -
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 9780850364781
$2.78Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the worlds most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the... -
The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin by Aoife Moore 9781844885794
RRP: $30.86$22.90THE NO. 1 BESTSELLERA fascinating, insightful, warts-and-all portrait' - The Guardian 'Painstakingly researched ... informed by countless inside sources' - The Observer'Compelling and revealing' - Irish Times* * *Inside the rise of the political party,... -
Idealism beyond Borders: The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954-1988 by Eleanor Davey
RRP: $53.16$39.19This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical left third-worldism was displaced by the... -
Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape by Acid Horizon 9781915672094
RRP: $18.85$12.69Anti-Oculus is a work of conceptual espionage: an assemblage of polemical tracts complete with a gallery of graphic illustrations inspired by postmodern and pulp classics from Anti-Oedipus to Ways of Seeing. Through the concept of "Ocularity", the... -
The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: $22.28$15.59Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future... -
On Her Majesty's Nuclear Service by Eric Thompson
RRP: $25.71$16.06During the Cold War, nuclear submarines performed the greatest public service of all: prevention of a third world war. History shows that they succeeded; the Cold War ended peacefully, but for security reasons, only now can this story be told.Eric... -
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: $13.71$9.93Vladimir Lenin created this hugely significant Marxist text to explain fully the inevitable flaws and destructive power of Capitalism: that it would lead unavoidably to imperialism, monopolies and colonialism. He prophesied that those third world... -
History+ for Edexcel A Level: Communist states in the twentieth century by Robin Bunce
$69.11Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: AS: Summer 2016; A-level: Summer 2017Endorsed for EdexcelEnable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth... -
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto by China Miéville
RRP: $18.85$13.33China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto. 'It's thrilling to accompany Mieville... as he wrestles - in critical good faith and incandescent commitment - with a... -
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976 by Frank Dikotter
RRP: $25.71$18.78Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. 'The seminal English language work on the subject' Sunday Times 'A major... -
Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War by Lukasz Stanek 9780691168708
RRP: $99.49$78.85How socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn the course of the Cold War, architects, planners, and construction companies from socialist Eastern Europe engaged in... -
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter
RRP: $29.14$21.06The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikoetter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum ... -
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
RRP: $22.28$19.19Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology--terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark... -
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
RRP: $22.28$15.59'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis'In this... -
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
RRP: $17.14$12.20Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable to understanding what may soon become the most powerful country on earth, and here is it is newly updated to include material on the... -
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: $20.57$14.46In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned,... -
Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
RRP: $27.43$18.75Throughout the 1960's and 70's, Abbie Hoffman criss-crossed the country, ferreting out alternative ways of getting by in America-some illegal and all radical. Causing scandals with its advice on how to Survive!, Fight!, and Liberate! in the "prison that... -
Absolute Recoil: Towards A New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Zizek 9781784781996
RRP: $46.30$39.25At the outset of the twentieth century, Lenin argued that materialism has to change its form with each new scientific discovery. Today, argues Slavoj Zizek in this major new work, we should apply this stricture to Lenin himself. Philosophical materialism... -
River of Time by Jon Swain
RRP: $18.85$13.33Between 1970 and 1975 Jon Swain, the English journalist portrayed in David Puttnam's film, The Killing Fields, lived in the lands of the Mekong river. This is his account of those years, and the way in which the tumultuous events affected his perceptions... -
Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
RRP: $17.07$16.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453716557Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy
RRP: $51.46$36.62Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete non-fiction.'Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time' Naomi Klein 'The world has never had to face such global confusion... -
Essential Works by V. I. Lenin 9780486253336
RRP: $33.43$21.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486253336Author V. I. LeninFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 475gDimensions(mm)... -
The Prophet Outcast: Trotsky 1929-1940 by Isaac Deutscher 9781859844519
RRP: $61.73$52.97Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused as much controversy as the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky's extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on revolutionary conscience, yet there was a danger... -
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000 by Stephen Kotkin
RRP: $24.00$21.06Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue-bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse-this compact, original,... -
On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) by Nora Krug
RRP: $29.14$22.81A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in... -
The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844: and the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
RRP: $18.85$13.71Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an... -
Class War: A Literary History by Mark Steven
RRP: $32.57$26.96A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark... -
Marx, Revolution, and Social Democracy by Philip J. Kain
RRP: $92.63$83.76Many people think Marx a totalitarian and Soviet Marxism the predictable outcome of his thought. If one shows them the texts-proves to them that Marx was a radical democrat--they often flip and think him utopian. Totalitarian or utopian--for many those... -
Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East Volume 3: North Yemen, South Yemen, Iraq and Iran, 1948-1990 by Martin Smisek
RRP: $34.22$24.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070791Author Martin SmisekFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Communist Manifesto: The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844; Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Karl Marx
RRP: $8.56$5.93With an introduction by Dr. Laurence Marlow. A spectre is haunting Europe (and the world). Not, in the twenty-first century, the spectre of communism, but the spectre of capitalism. Marx's prediction that the state would wither away of its own accord... -
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen Ghodsee
RRP: $18.85$13.33'Funny, angry, urgent. Ghodsee is going to start a revolution' Daisy Buchanan, author of The Sisterhood A witty, fiercely intelligent exploration of why capitalism is rigged against women and what we can do about it.Unregulated capitalism is bad for... -
The Russian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: $48.01$33.64An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history - the Russian revolution of 1917. In the early years of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was an ethnically diverse empire, stretching from Ukraine and Belarus in the west... -
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Theodor Adorno
RRP: $25.71$16.64Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer are the leading figures of the Frankfurt School and this book is their magnum opus. Dialectic of Enlightenment is one of the most celebrated works of modern social philosophy that continues to impress in its wide-ranging... -
People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Leigh Philips
RRP: $18.85$12.44For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet,... -
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction: A Socialist Introduction by Sumaya Awad 9781642592764
RRP: $29.14$20.02Palestine: A Socialist Introduction systematically tackles a number of important aspects of the Palestinian struggle for liberation, contextualizing it in an increasingly polarized world and offering a socialist perspective on how full liberation can be... -
Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East Volume 2: Egypt, 1948-1990 by Martin Smisek
RRP: $29.07$24.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070784Author Martin SmisekFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: $17.14$12.20'Guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people'First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war.It covers strategy, tactics, terrain, organization of an army, logistics,... -
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of it by Bruni De La Motte 9780955822865
RRP: $17.15$13.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955822865Author Bruni De La MotteFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Artery PublicationsPublisher Artery Publications -
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanovic 9780674264144
RRP: $47.94$35.13A Financial Times Best Book of the Year.A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures."How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do...