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The German Trauma: Experiences and Reflections 1938-2001 by Gitta Sereny
RRP: $19.34$14.13Gitta Sereny is one of the world's most respected journalists and historians. This book gathers together the best of her writing on Germany from over sixty years. It amounts to an extraordinary portrait of the country and its people, how they have come... -
The Accidental Detectorist: The Adventures of a Reluctant Metal Detectorist by Nigel Richardson
RRP: $25.80$22.73'Richardson writes beautifully about his return to the land, about listening to the soil and about understanding the ancient world.' - The SpectatorEach new field is hope, each old one reality.There are things below the surface that pull people together... -
Folklore of Sussex by Jacqueline Simpson 9780752451008
RRP: $21.92$16.69Sussex, though near London and nowadays extensively urbanised, has a rich heritage of traditional local stories, customs and beliefs. Among many topics explored here are tales linked to landscape features and ancient churches which involve such colourful... -
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
RRP: $16.76$6.62** A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend this book to anyone' THE SPECTATOR'A charming, absorbing and history that takes us on a journey from the silk roads to sportswear,... -
The British West Indies Regiment: Race and Colour on the Western Front by Dominiek Dendooven 9781399067690
RRP: $25.80$18.43This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative - race, colour and prejudice. But despite this, there is an extraordinary underlying theme of empire loyalty among serving soldiers -... -
The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806 by Jonathan Israel
RRP: $74.82$71.89The Dutch Golden Age, the age of Grotius, Spinoza, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and a host of other renowned artists and writers was also remarkable for its immense impact in the spheres of commerce, finance, shipping, and technology. It was in fact one of the... -
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
RRP: $14.18$9.35The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the... -
Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics by Francis Parker Yockey
RRP: $24.70$22.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615505978Author Francis Parker YockeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Invictus BooksPublisher Invictus BooksWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller 9781838852795
RRP: $19.34$12.64SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEIn this astonishing collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this... -
Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings by Thomas Paine
RRP: $9.02$6.62`An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot . . . it will march on the horizon of the world and it will conquer.' Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense (1776) was the most widely read... -
Voices of the Dead by Ambrose Parry
RRP: $21.92$15.05A SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAREDINBURGH, 1853.In a city of science, discovery can be deadly . . .In a time of unprecedented scientific discovery, the public's appetite for wonder has seen a resurgence of interest in mesmerism, spiritualism and other... -
The Five Hundred Year Rebellion by Benjamin Dangl
RRP: $19.29$12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849353465Author Benjamin DanglFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
A Bradford Pal: `It was Simply Heart Breaking' - From Mill Town to the Battlefields of France by John Broadhead
RRP: $25.80$18.65In 1914 the City of Bradford was the world's leading manufacturer of fine woollen goods. On the outbreak of war, at the urging of the city's wealthy industrialists, thousands of young men rushed to join the colours and within a matter of months two... -
Coup D'etat: A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition by Edward N. Luttwak
RRP: $32.19$22.41Coup d'Etat astonished readers when it first appeared in 1968 because it showed, step by step, how governments could be overthrown. Translated into sixteen languages, it has inspired anti-coup precautions by regimes around the world. In addition to these... -
Fiction in the Quantum Universe by Susan Strehle 9780807843659
RRP: $55.41$50.92In this outstanding book Susan Strehle argues that a new fiction has developed from the influence of modern physics. She calls this new fiction actualism, and within that framework she offers a critical analysis of major novels by Thomas Pynchon, Robert... -
Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir
RRP: $16.76$11.73Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in her lifetime there were rumours about her that were not without substance. She... -
The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History by John Tosh
RRP: $46.43$41.40Well-written and engaging, this book deals with complex and wide-ranging material in a clear and accessible way and is up-to-date with current historiographical trends, such as digital history which students need to know about. It also includes a... -
Diver's Daughter: A Tudor Story (Voices #2) by Patrice Lawrence
RRP: $9.02$5.99A gripping heart-in-your-mouth adventure told by Eve, a Tudor girl who sets out on a dangerous journey to change her life for the better. Voices: Diver's Daughter - A Tudor Story brings Eve and her mother, who was... -
The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins
RRP: $12.89$8.77'Rich and intricately drawn... luminous prose' Carolyn ParkhurstAfter the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal... -
When the World Goes Quiet: A Novel by Gian Sardar 9781662518669
RRP: $11.60$7.91In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist's courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by the author of Take What You Can Carry. It's 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien... -
Nella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49' by Richard Broad
RRP: $11.60$8.32In September 1939, housewife and mother Nella Last began a diary whose entries, in their regularity, length and quality, have created a record of the Second World War which is powerful, fascinating and unique. When war broke out, Nella's younger son... -
Lightbringers of the North: Secrets of the Occult Tradition of Finland by Perttu Hakkinen
RRP: $32.25$20.95* Examines the significant figures and groups of Finland's occult world, including their esoteric practices and the secret societies to which they were connected * Investigates the relationship of nationalism and esotericism in Finland as well as the... -
Solving Genealogy Problems: How to Break Down 'brick walls' and Build Your Family Tree by Graeme Davis
RRP: $19.34$16.42'Brick walls' occur everywhere and all the time in genealogy research, but with this book you can take your British Isles family tree back further. Solving Genealogy Problems will: - Help you find new records, including unusual ones genealogists often... -
Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258 by David Carpenter
RRP: $21.92$20.01The first in a groundbreaking two-volume history of Henry III's rule "Professor Carpenter is one of Britain's foremost medievalists. . . . No one knows more about Henry, and a lifetime of scholarship is here poured out, elegantly and often humorously... -
German Men Sit Down to Pee and Other Insights in German Culture by James Cave 9780995481305
$11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995481305Author James CaveFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HJ PublishingPublisher Marchmont Publishing -
Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 1: The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean by Fitz Hugh Ludlow 9780996639439
RRP: $41.28$30.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996639439Author Fitz Hugh LudlowFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
Wedded Wife: a feminist history of marriage by Ms. Rachael Lennon
RRP: $21.92$14.89In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK.Wedded Wife tells a remarkable story of how this institution has developed from... -
MP 38 and MP 40 Submachine Guns by Alejandro De Quesada 9781780963884
RRP: $20.63$17.20Nazi Germany's MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns are among World War II's most recognizable weapons. Portable and with folding stocks, both were widely issued to airborne troops and became the hallmark of Germany's infantry section and platoon leaders. A... -
The Allotment by Colin Ward 9781915068231
RRP: $20.64$14.99Allotments are sanctuaries for growing, often on the fringes of suburbia, where life is getting ever more stressful and expensive. Here, a simple urge to grow-your-own or become self-sufficient, brings us closer to a community of people, wildlife and... -
The Dali Legacy: How an Eccentric Genius Changed the Art World and Created a Lasting Legacy by Jean-Pierre Isbouts
RRP: $25.79$18.63This immersive dive into the life and work of Salvador Dali unlocks the secret of this creative genius and reveals for the first time how his erotically charged paintings changed the world of modern art. In turns beloved and reviled, twentieth century... -
The Bronte Sisters: Life, Loss and Literature by Catherine Rayner 9781526703125
RRP: $19.34$14.13Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall...these fictional masterpieces are all recognised as landmarks of English Literature. Still inspirational and challenging to readers today, upon release in the mid-nineteenth century they caused a... -
Making Sense of a United Ireland by Brendan O'Leary
RRP: $25.80$18.95'Should be required reading for everyone - including unionists - who are interested in and concerned about the fate of this island' Dublin Review of Books'Compelling' Financial TimesWill Ireland really reunite?A century ago the resolution to Ireland's... -
Power Failure by William D. Cohan
RRP: $45.15$39.93A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporationPerhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing... -
Waterloo 1815: The British Army's Day of Destiny by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
RRP: $25.80$19.92Writing to his mother the day after the fighting, Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars described 'a victory so splendid & important that you may search the annals of history in vain for its parallel'. Little wonder, for Waterloo was widely... -
Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs): The Making of England by Tom Holland
RRP: $11.60$8.32The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackThe formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious... -
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperialismIn... -
Hurrah For The Blackshirts!: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars by Martin Pugh
RRP: $16.76$11.73Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary... -
The Lion Sleeps Tonight by Rian Malan
RRP: $12.89$9.17For Rian Malan, the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness astounds those who live in saner places. Twenty years after the publication of his bestseller My Traitor's Heart, he is still strongly... -
Survival in the Killing Fields by Haing S. Ngor
RRP: $16.76$11.09Best known for his academt award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer... -
Shots in the Dark: A Diary of Saturday Dreams and Strange Times by David Kynaston
RRP: $12.89$9.17'I loved every page, and ended up admiring David Kynaston, our greatest social historian, even more than I already did' Nick Hornby Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston's diaries written over one football season offer up his most personal...