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Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45: The Essential Aircraft Identification Guide by Chris Bishop
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $28.03Illustrated with detailed artworks of World War II-era German aircraft and their markings with exhaustive captions and specifications, Luftwaffe Squadrons 1939-45: Identification Guide is the... -
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of... -
History of the Caucasus: Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires by Christoph Baumer
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $50.83"Magnificent [and] wondrous." The Spectator "Rich and illuminating." Literary Review "Phenomenally accurate." History Today "Stunning." The Morning Star "Sweeping." The New European "A... -
Victoria Cross Heroes Michael Ashcroft 9780755316335
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.77VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action. The book is introduced by... -
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $26.58The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel... -
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how... -
Fleet Air Arm Boys Volume Three: Helicopters - True Tales From royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew by Steve Bond
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $30.38Helicopters have been going to sea with the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm for over 70 years. Initially used for search and rescue (SAR) duties from aircraft carriers, the rapid development of both the... -
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998 by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $41.80Booksplease Price: $30.34This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating... -
The Manchester Compendium: A Street-by-Street History of England's Greatest Industrial City by Ed Glinert 9780141029306
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69In the same format as the successful London Compendium, the Manchester Compendium relates the remarkable and diverse history of England's second city. Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange... -
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by Max Hastings
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $21.26'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal... -
The Myth of the Jacobite Clans: The Jacobite Army in 1745 by Professor Murray Pittock 9780748627578
RRP: $56.98Booksplease Price: $41.78The Myth of the Jacobite Clans was first published in 1995: a revolutionary book, it argued that British history had long sought to caricature Jacobitism rather than to understand it, and that the... -
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49Now a major film starring GEORGE CLOONEY, MATT DAMON, CATE BLANCHETT, BILL MURRAY, JOHN GOODMAN, HUGH BONNEVILLE, BOB BALABAN, JEAN DUJARDIN and DIMITRI LEONIDAS.What if I told you that there was an... -
The Real Gorbals Story: True Tales from Glasgow's Meanest Streets by Colin MacFarlane
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97Colin MacFarlane was born in the Gorbals in the 1950s, 20 years after the publication of No Mean City, the classic novel about pre-war life in what was once Glasgow's most deprived district. He lived... -
British Battleships 1939-45 (2): Nelson and King George V Classes Angus Konstam 9781846033896
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $18.98With the outbreak of World War II, Britain's Royal Navy and her fleet of battleships would be at the forefront of her defence. Yet ten of the twelve battleships were already over twenty years old,... -
Necropolis: London and Its Dead by Catharine Arnold 9781416502487
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.42From Roman burial rites to the horrors of the plague, from the founding of the great Victorian cemeteries to the development of cremation and the current approach of metropolitan society towards... -
Tonight We Die As Men: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Tocchoa to D-Day Ian Gardner 9781849084369
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58The exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment have long been overshadowed by those of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion. Yet the actions of the 3rd Battalion during the D-Day... -
The CAC Boomerang: Australia’s own WWII Fighter by Don Williams 9780975642320
RRP: $56.91Booksplease Price: $31.48The CAC Boomerang has a unique place in Australian aviation history, being the nation's only home designed and produced fighter. The design was born in dark days at the start of the Pacific War when... -
The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb
RRP: $49.38Booksplease Price: $47.10The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch. On the cusp of the Second World War,... -
Battles that Changed History by DK
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $33.02From the fury of the Punic Wars to the onslaught of Operation Desert Storm, relive the most famous battles in history in this gripping guide.This military history book takes you on a journey through... -
Journey: An Illustrated History of the World's Greatest Travels DK 9780241363638
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $30.12From the earliest migrations to the dawn of space tourism, experience the excitement of travel throughout the ages in this gloriously illustrated book! The quest for adventure has defined human... -
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History by David Reynolds
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.09It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the... -
British Airborne Soldier vs Waffen-SS Soldier: Arnhem 1944 by David Greentree
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $22.78Operation Market Garden was an Allied plan to try and end the war before the end of 1944, and relied on landing airborne troops to secure bridges over the Rhine bridges in the Netherlands. Critical... -
English Food: A People's History by Diane Purkiss 9780007255566
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $42.94'An absolute gem' Sunday Times 'A mouthwatering history' The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a... -
The Truth About St. Kilda: An Islander's Memoir by Donald Gillies
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.46The Truth about St Kilda is a unique record of the isolated way of life on St Kilda in the early part of the twentieth century, based on seven handwritten notebooks written by the Rev. Donald... -
The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by Anika Orrock 9781452173641
RRP: $37.91Booksplease Price: $28.80This book chronicles the history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and the stories of the first women to play professional baseball in a league of their own. In 1941, the... -
Flint Knapping: A Guide to Making Your Own Stone Age Toolkit by Robert Turner 9780752488745
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.14Flint knapping, which is the shaping of flint or other fracturing stone to manufacture tools, was one of the primary skills used for survival by our prehistoric ancestors. Early mankind once made and... -
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz by Eti Elboim 9780008645960
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.53'You are no longer a number' Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but... -
Before the Dawn: An Autobiography by Gerry Adams 9781847179166
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $23.79Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams offers a unique, intimate account of his childhood in working-class Belfast and the turbulent years of social activism that followed. First published in 1996 - at a time... -
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350 by Robert Bartlett
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of... -
A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume by Daniel Gray
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $29.18John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage. John's greatest passion was - and is - industry. Over the course of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, he took over 25,000 photographs of... -
Kawanishi H6K ‘Mavis’ and H8K ‘Emily’ Units Edward M. Young 9781472860620
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $22.88An illustrated account of the little-known operations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force’s flying boat units during World War 2. Respectively codenamed the ‘Mavis’ and ‘Emily’ by the Allies,... -
Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473134Author Robert BeachyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Ninja: Unmasking the Myth Stephen Turnbull 9781526796486
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38The ninja is a well-known phenomenon in Japanese military culture, a fighter who is widely regarded as the world's greatest exponent of secret warfare. He infiltrates castles, gathers vital... -
Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide by Professor John Took
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $29.91John Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri. The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death... -
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester 9780063341906
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $22.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063341906Author Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint
The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World by Christopher Andrew
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.32The second sensational volume of 'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' (The Times)When Vasili Mitrokhin revealed his archive of Russian intelligence material to the world it caused...
Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia by Dan Kaszeta
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.06Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and massive industry for their manufacture-yet, strangely, the Third...
Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan 1945-1947 by D M Giangreco 9781682476437
RRP: $41.78Booksplease Price: $32.40Hell to Pay examines the invasion of Japan in light of the large body of Japanese and American operational and tactical planning documents the author unearthed in familiar and obscure archives. It...
Colditz: The Full Story by P R Reid
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Daring escapes, ingenious plans and heroic feats are revealed in Major Pat Reid's classic Second World War history of Colditz, the infamous prisoner-of-war camp. The great fortress was supposed to be...
Self-Defense For Gentlemen And Ladies: A Nineteenth-Century Treatise on Boxing, Kicking, Grappling, and Fencing with the Cane and Quarterstaff by Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $22.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583948682Author Colonel Thomas Hoyer MonsteryFormat HardbackPage Count