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Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy Can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman Charles Dunst 9781399704434
RRP: £25.00£16.38' Charles Dunst's deeply researched, timely and powerful book offers a blueprint for how democracies should fight back.' - Sir Kim Darroch'Remarkable. A thoughtful and perceptive book.' - Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt, MPThe world is currently experiencing the... -
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
RRP: £9.99£8.76'This is essential' Margaret Atwood on Twitter 'She's one of the most acute and perceptive analysts of the furtive growth of fascism. Everyone should know about this' Philip Pullman 'Vibrates with outrage' The Times ... -
Lenin, Stalin and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe by Robert Gellately
RRP: £16.99£12.28Between 1914 and 1945 European society was in almost continuous upheaval, enduring two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust and the rise and fall of the Third Reich. In his remarkably ambitious and powerful narrative, historian Robert... -
The Broken House: Growing up under Hitler by Horst Kruger 9781847926340
RRP: £14.99£9.53The Broken House is a rediscovered coming-of-age story that provides an unforgettable portrait of life under the Nazis. In 1965, journalist Horst Kruger attended the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, where 22 former camp guards were put on trial for the... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
RRP: £12.99£8.63As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett
RRP: £10.99£7.77*A TIMES AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR*WHAT CAUSED THE FALL OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE, AND THE RISE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING?In the 1930s, Germany was at a turning point, with many looking to the Nazi phenomenon as... -
Evita, First Lady: A Biography of EVA Peron by John Barnes 9780802134790
RRP: £12.99£10.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802134790Author John BarnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic Books -
Suffragette Fascists: Emmeline Pankhurst and Her Right-Wing Followers by Simon Webb 9781526756886
RRP: £14.99£10.95Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to Hitler and Mussolini. It was suggested that Mrs Pankhurst and her Women's Social and Political Union could... -
Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology by Richard Wolin
RRP: £25.00£24.34What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher? "Combines close readings of Heidegger's key writings with a rich cultural, literary and... -
Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy by Nadia Urbinati
RRP: £40.95£33.23A timely and incisive assessment of what the success of populism means for democracy.Populist movements have recently appeared in nearly every democracy around the world. Yet our grasp of this disruptive political phenomenon remains woefully inadequate... -
A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis Martyn Whittock 9781849012997
RRP: £10.99£7.40Beginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Whittock tells not just the account of the men who rose to the fore in the dangerous days of the Weimar republic, circling... -
Nazi Germany And The Jews: The Years Of Persecution: 1933-1939 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: £14.99£10.95A magisterial history of the Jews in Nazi Germany and the regime's policies towards them in the years prior to World War II and the Holocaust. Written by arguably the world's leading scholar on the subject.Himself a survivor, Friedlander has been a... -
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Daron Acemoglu
RRP: £26.99£21.47This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the... -
On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) by Nora Krug
RRP: £16.99£12.68A 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 Worst Is Yet to Come: A Post-Capitalist Survival Guide Peter Fleming 9781912248322
RRP: £8.99£6.20The Worst is Yet to Come explores the disturbing possibility that the current crisis of neoliberal capitalism isn't going to spawn an emancipatory renaissance, but a world that is much, much worse. Wealthy CEOs see it. They've been purchasing isolated... -
Hope and Marxism: Historical and Theoretical Essays by Ernest Mandel 9780902869417
RRP: £15.00£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780902869417Author Ernest MandelFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Resistance BooksPublisher Resistance Books -
The Nazi Death Camps: Then and Now by Winston G Ramsey, Edited by
RRP: £50.00£37.62In the 12 years that the National Socialist Party was in power in Germany, upwards of 15,000 concentration and labour camps were established in the Greater Reich and the occupied countries to incarcerate all who were deemed enemies of the state. Contents... -
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century by Sergei Guriev 9780691211411
RRP: £25.00£19.99A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler,... -
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: £23.99£21.24Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on anxiety... -
Nobody Lives Here: A Jewish Childhood in the Occupied Netherlands by Lex Lesgever 9781803993225
RRP: £18.99£14.32'I was on the street and I was free - but what now?'This is the story of Lex Lesgever: a young Jewish boy who found himself alone on the streets of wartime Amsterdam, the only survivor of his large family. He was just 11 when the Germans invaded in May... -
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197036Author Mark BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Fascism: The Career of a Concept by Paul Gottfried 9780875807829
RRP: £27.99£24.14"For historians, [Fascism] offers clear and provocative insights and arguments, and the very detailed notes are especially helpful.... Recommended." Choice What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as... -
The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South by Rosana Pinheiro-Machado
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Rise of the Radical Right in the Global South is the first academic study-adopting an interdisciplinary and international perspective-to offer a comprehensive and groundbreaking framework for understanding the emergence and consolidation of different... -
The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses by Leon Goldensohn
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history's greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi... -
Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August by Oliver Hilmes
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics - told through the voices and stories of those who were there.'Compelling, suspenseful and beautifully done' Anna Funder, author... -
Franco: A Personal and Political Biography by Stanley G. Payne 9780299302108
RRP: £34.95£33.62General Francisco Franco ruled Spain for nearly forty years, as one of the most powerful and controversial leaders in that nation's long history. He has been the subject of many biographies, several of them more than a thousand pages in length, but all... -
On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) 9780745399317
RRP: £16.99£11.54Admired by some, condemned by others, and feared by all-the military might of the West is undeniably colossal. In On Western Terrorism, world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative... -
The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship by Ernst Fraenkel 9780198716204
£43.02The Dual State, first published in 1941, remains one of the most erudite books on the logic of dictatorship. It was the first comprehensive analysis of the rise and nature of National Socialism and the only such analysis written from within Hitler's... -
Fascism by Roger Griffin 9780192892492
RRP: £41.99£39.88Fascism as a political ideology is a product of the modern age. It is an ideology which has been identified with totalitarianism, state terror, social engineering, fanaticism, orchestrated violence, and blind obedience. Yet once again fascism is in the... -
Inside the Mind of Vladimir Putin by Michel Eltchaninoff
RRP: £12.99£11.95What does the head of the Kremlin think about? What are his hopes and aims for the lands bordering Russia, for Europe, and even the world? In January 2014, the Kremlin sent its senior civil servants, governors and party bigwigs a special New Year's... -
Fascism: What it is and How to Fight it by L. Trotskii 9780873481069
£4.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873481069Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 50g -
The Devil's Disciples Anthony Read 9780712664165
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. But while it lasted, his closest lieutenants competed ferociously for power and position as his chosen... -
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: £18.99£13.61Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians. Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious reshaping of Europe in history. Inspired by the imperial... -
Culture in the Third Reich by Moritz Follmer
RRP: £26.49£18.61'It's like being in a dream', commented Joseph Goebbels when he visited Nazi-occupied Paris in the summer of 1940. Dream and reality did indeed intermingle in the culture of the Third Reich, racialist fantasies and spectacular propaganda set-pieces... -
Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator by Jung H. Pak 9780861542529
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account' Sunday Times When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, many expected his rule to be short. Years later, he remains the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear... -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania Margo Rejmer 9781529411461
RRP: £18.99£12.75"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating... -
Darkness Over Germany: A Warning From History E. Amy Buller 9781911350194
RRP: £15.00£9.80Hitler gave voice to a cry that came from the heart of a nation. Originally published in 1943, Darkness over Germany is a poignant and timely reminder of how high youth unemployment and the disenfranchised working class gave Hitler a savage worship. ... -
Mussolini's Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy David Broder 9780745348025
RRP: £17.99£12.14'Fascinating and trenchant, this account of contemporary Italian neo-fascism is both original and shocking' - John Foot, historian The dominant force in Italian politics is Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia - a party with a direct genealogy from... -
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior
RRP: £13.99£11.50The rise of Donald Trump may have shocked Americans, but it should not have surprised them. His anti-democratic movement is the culmination of a decades-long breakdown of U.S. institutions. The same blindness to U.S. decline - particularly the loss of... -
The Rage: The Vicious Circle of Islamist and Far-Right Extremism by Julia Ebner
RRP: £15.99£12.46The early twenty-first century has been defined by a rise in Islamist radicalisation and a concurrent rise in far right extremism. This book explores the interaction between the 'new' far right and Islamist extremists and considers the consequences for...