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The Cambridge History of the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler 9781107602298
RRP: £33.99£30.26This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War. In the first comprehensive reexamination of the period, a team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical... -
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival by Amira Keidar 9781913543075
RRP: £8.99£3.05A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto. Two courageous women. And an inspirational story of survival. In 1941 at the height of World War II, in a Polish ghetto, a baby girl named Rachel is born. Her parents, Jacob and Zippa, are willing to... -
When the Wheels Come Off: More Confessions of a 1970s & '80s Car Mechanic by Brian Cunningham
RRP: £12.99£9.87Brian Cunningham's popular first book, Under the Bonnet, was a colourful and humorous collection of memories of his time as a car mechanic in the 1970s and '80s. When he wrote it, he was sure he had put everything of interest down, but it turns out there... -
Leys: Secret Spirit Paths in Ancient Britain by D.P. Sullivan 9781904263388
RRP: £6.95£4.86Many ancient peoples built their sacred sites in dead straight lines. The magical paths involved astronomy and geomancy, and were used for spirit flight both by the living as they slept or travelled in shamanic trance, and by spirits of the dead, both... -
Health and Society in Twentieth-Century Wales by Pamela Michael 9780708319086
RRP: £48.00£36.60This book offers an introduction to many aspects of health and society in 20th century Wales, ranging from public health, to personal life-styles and household budgets, birth control and the incidence of deaths from childbirth.About the AuthorPamela... -
Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America by Michael Reid
RRP: £15.99£13.82A newly updated edition of the best-selling primer on the social, political, and economic challenges facing Central and South America Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has... -
Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek: West Hampstead's Musical Heritage Remembered by Dick Weindling
RRP: £9.99£7.77The book explores the history of Decca Studios, where thousands of records were made between 1937 and 1980. Klooks Kleek was run next door from 1961 to 1970 in the Railway Hotel by Dick Jordan and Geoff Williams, who share their memories here. With... -
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution by Christopher Hill
RRP: £12.99£9.34This is the classic life of Cromwell by one of the great radical historians of the English Civil War'A triumph of complex interpretation and delicious prose ... Hill introduced nuance into the character of Cromwell and the nature of his revolution ..... -
Set My Hand Upon The Plough by E. M. Barraud 9781915068323
RRP: £14.00£10.02In 1939 the writer Enid Barraud, disillusioned with her city life, left London and went to live in a village in Cambridgeshire, joining what became known as The Women's Land Army, one of thousands of women who worked the land, while war raged overhead... -
Hungry Beat: The Scottish Independent Pop Underground Movement (1977-1984) by Douglas MacIntyre 9781399600255
RRP: £12.99£8.83'Hungry Beat is the story of an all-too-brief era where the short-circuiting of that industry seemed viable. But hell, the times were luminous as was the music these artists made. The songs and many of the players remain, and here they tell their story... -
Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat by Dan Hampton
RRP: £9.99£6.84"Viper Pilot" is the high-octane memoir of one of America's elite aviators: a twenty-year battle-seasoned pilot who flew 151 combat missions in the world's most iconic fighter plane - the F-16 Fighting Falcon - the Viper as its pilots call it. A fighter... -
Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World by Jonathan Bate 9780008167455
RRP: £10.99£7.46A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 'Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact' Financial Times ... -
Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens's London by Lee Jackson 9780300266207
RRP: £20.00£16.98The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years "Jackson paints a vivid and detailed picture of the city as it was. . . . Dickens, who was no stranger to... -
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast - Shortlisted for the 2021 Cundill History Prize - Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize by Marjoleine Kars
RRP: £20.00£13.10Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass Prize 'A richly detailed account of a gripping human story' Washington Post '[An] epic history ... a sweeping, thoughtful narrative' Los Angeles Times On Sunday... -
Bring Me the Arse of Saddam: A True Story of an SAS Man at War with the British Establishment by Nigel Ely 9780995660502
RRP: £9.99£9.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995660502Author Nigel ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint TrebletapPublisher TrebletapWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm -
Interregnum: The People's Republic of Britain by Anna Keay
RRP: £25.00£16.83THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king. ... -
Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories by Mike Rothschild 9781685890643
RRP: £30.00£19.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890643Author Mike RothschildFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe James Belich 9780691219165
RRP: £20.00£16.13A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved... -
Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor by Philip Freeman 9780300256642
RRP: £18.99£16.18The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman "When we think of ancient Rome, it's impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports-but what if it hadn't been? This is... -
The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesWINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a... -
The Lost Pianos of Siberia: A Sunday Times Paperback of 2021 by Sophy Roberts
RRP: £10.99£7.33A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2021* Shortlisted for the 2021 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year prize* A critically-acclaimed Sunday Times, Spectator and Independent Book of 2020* Now with colour photography by Michael Turek'Richly absorbing..... -
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf
RRP: £10.99£7.99One January morning in 1734, cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies. But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him, but plants and seeds... -
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
RRP: £13.99£12.25A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan"Eloquently discusses the making of India and Pakistan after British rule on the subcontinent was dismantled in 1947. . . . A new look at... -
Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley 9781783788651
RRP: £10.99£7.54Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise... -
Battle of Stalingrad: The Beginning of the End for Hitler in the East by Dmitry Degtev 9781399052351
RRP: £22.00£15.62The Battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle of the Second World War. An estimated 2 million individuals, military as well as civilian, became casualties in a savage struggle which lasted for more than five months. Stalingrad’s strategic position on... -
Parisian Days: The Rediscovered Classic Memoir by Banine 9781782278030
RRP: £10.99£7.54'A scintillating book' TLS 'Her company is a delight' Tatler 'Part memoir, part social history... sumptuous and unsparing' Financial Times A brilliantly witty memoir telling the story of a young woman's determined struggle for freedom ... -
Britain’s Steam Locomotives: 100 of the best, from Penydarren to Tornado by Julian Holland 9780008622794
RRP: £30.00£19.53It is more than 200 years since the world's first steam railway locomotive hauled its initial load of iron ore and passengers on a short, slow journey. From that time onwards, the evolution of the steam locomotive continued unabated through the 19th... -
What Is Japanese Cinema?: A History by Yomota Inuhiko 9780231191630
RRP: £22.00£17.36What might Godzilla and Kurosawa have in common? What, if anything, links Ozu's sparse portraits of domestic life and the colorful worlds of anime? In What Is Japanese Cinema? Yomota Inuhiko provides a concise and lively history of Japanese film that... -
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome Harry Sidebottom 9780861546855
RRP: £10.99£7.21What happens when you put the Roman Empire in the hands of a teenage boy? Discover the scandalous life and times of Rome's worst emperor. 'Buy the book; it's very entertaining.' David Aaronovitch, The Times On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old... -
Victory to Defeat: The British Army 1918–40 by Richard Dannatt 9781472860866
RRP: £25.00£17.90A compelling history of the decline of an army from the triumph of victory in 1918 to defeat in 1940 and why this happened. A salutary warning for modern Britain. 'Both [authors] are former soldiers, Dannatt having ended his career as chief of the... -
Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans by Christopher Clark
RRP: £10.99£7.99An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the... -
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: £14.99£10.95In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. Surveying the golden age of Arabic... -
Excellent Essex: In Praise of England's Most Misunderstood County Gillian Darley 9781913083021
RRP: £9.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083021Author Gillian DarleyFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Warship 2024 by John Jordan 9781472863300
RRP: £45.00£33.36The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring original research on the history, development, and service of the world's warships. For over 45 years, Warship has been the leading annual resource on the design, development, and... -
Walthamstow by Keith Romig 9780752403595
RRP: £14.99£11.72This book is part of the Images of London series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752403595Author Keith... -
In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present by Michael R.J. Bonner
RRP: £17.99£12.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990823060Author Michael RJ BonnerFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Genocide: Key Themes by Donald Bloxham 9780192865267
£19.28The growth of scholarship on the pressing problem of genocide shows no sign of abating. This volume takes stock of Genocide Studies in all its multi-disciplinary diversity by adopting a thematic rather than case-study approach. Each chapter is by an... -
Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State and the Uses of Science in the Age of Revolution by John Gascoigne 9780521181365
RRP: £27.00£22.81Joseph Banks is one of the most significant figures of the English Enlightenment. This book places his work in promoting 'imperial science', in the context of the consolidation of the British State during a time of extraordinary upheaval. The American,... -
How to Read a Rock: Our Planet's Hidden Stories by Jan Zalasiewicz 9780750999953
RRP: £20.00£15.27Earth's history is embedded in its rocks, from dinosaur-trodden landscapes to new plastic-and-rock combinations. How to Read a Rock unearths stories buried in everything from grains of sand to mountain ranges, featuring over one hundred breathtaking... -
Football School Season 2: Where Football Explains the World by Spike Gerrell 9781406379211
RRP: £7.99£5.57The second book in the groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. This book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads - and it's...