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King Stephen by Edmund King
RRP: $38.98$33.87This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the... -
The Edifice Complex: The architecture of power by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $25.33$18.21Deyan Sudjic's The Edifice Complex: The Architecture of Power is a fascinating exploration of the language of architecture as an insight into the psychology of power, from tyrants to billionaires. Why do presidents and prime ministers, tycoons and... -
Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1 by Peter Adamson 9780198767039
RRP: $25.33$18.99Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In short, lively chapters, based on the popular History... -
The History of Cinema: A Very Short Introduction by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
RRP: $17.53$12.97Cinema was the first, and is arguably still the greatest, of the industrialized art forms that came to dominate the cultural life of the twentieth century. Today, it continues to adapt and grow as new technologies and viewing platforms become available,... -
Following in the Footsteps of Henry Tudor: A Historical Guide from Pembroke to Bosworth by Phil Carradice 9781526743305
RRP: $25.33$16.69The story of Henry Tudor's march to Bosworth and the throne of England began long before the fatal summer of 1485, with his birth in Pembroke Castle. The gigantic fortress where he spent his childhood years lay some 12 miles inland from the spot where... -
Stalin Waiting For ... The Truth! by Grover Furr 9780578445533
RRP: $48.75$41.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578445533Author Grover FurrFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Red Star PublishersPublisher Red Star PublishersWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt Ilona Regulski 9780714191287
RRP: $78.00$54.50Praise for the exhibition ***** The Telegraph ***** The Times ***** Daily Telegraph **** The Evening Standard "Plunge into the infinity pool of ancient Egyptian history with this dizzying array of artworks" - Waldemar Januszczack, Sunday Times Culture... -
The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939-1945 by Chris McNab
RRP: $19.48$14.06Airborne assault was one of the great innovations of the 1930s and 1940s, adding a new 'vertical' dimension to infantry warfare. By the onset of World War II in 1939, Germany, Italy, and Russia were already advanced in their development of paratrooper... -
The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast Gavin Knight 9781784700997
RRP: $21.43$14.29The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He catches the stories of a whole community,... -
US Naval Aviation in the 1980s: Atlantic and Pacific Fleet Air Stations by Adrian Symonds
RRP: $31.18$21.16The final decade of the Cold War saw unprecedented peacetime expansion of the US Navy, including Naval Aviation. President Reagan's plan for a 600-ship Navy resulted in stepped-up construction of Nimitz class supercarriers and the aircraft to operate... -
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
RRP: $17.53$13.79A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with RosieLaurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spain's civil war. But though he braved icy,... -
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: $61.41$43.56In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union with no alternative but to admit defeat is wrong. To... -
Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $39.00$26.79Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had... -
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza 9781944700829
RRP: $33.15$22.78"Espinoza's book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers, thinkers, and activists. Reading these accounts, I felt myself drawn into a past both wonderful and strange, a world I hope we will continue to celebrate and preserve." -Garrard Conley ... -
The Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide by Abraham Ascher
RRP: $19.48$15.151917: the year a series of rebellions toppled three centuries of autocratic rule and placed a group of political radicals in charge of a world power. Here, suddenly, was the first modern socialist state, "a kingdom more bright that any heaven had to... -
Birmingham We Lived Back to Back - The Real Story by Ted Rudge 9781781552674
RRP: $29.23$22.52Numerous back-to-back houses, two or three stories high, were built in Birmingham during the 19th century, the majority of them were still in quite good condition in the early 20th century. Most of these houses were concentrated in inner-city areas such... -
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess Andrew Lownie 9781473627383
RRP: $21.43$14.63Winner of the St Ermin's Intelligence Book of the Year Award. 'One of the great biographies of 2015.' The TimesFully updated edition including recently released information. A Guardian Book of the Year. The Times Best Biography of the Year. Mail on... -
An Historical Map of Cambridge: University and County Town by Tony Kirby 9781838071950
RRP: $21.43$15.23A full colour map, based on a digitised OS map of Cambridge published in 1927, with its medieval, Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian past overlain and important buildings picked out. Cambridge is one of England's two ancient university towns. It was an... -
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass 9780300190595
$25.41"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan... -
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
RRP: $25.33$17.22SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERWith extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time.The first nine months of Donald Trump's term... -
Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railways: The Late 1940s to Late 1960s by Brian Reading
RRP: $31.18$21.16With images and vivid recollections, we journey away from the main line to valleys, quarries and factories. Industries as diverse as slate, iron, paper, glass, food and tourism relied on dozens of small railways to keep people and goods moving. At... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Professor Peter Frankopan 9781408839973
RRP: $68.25$49.32The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of... -
Night by Elie Wiesel 9780140189896
RRP: $17.53$12.97Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was... -
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars Daisy Dunn 9781474615570
RRP: $39.00$26.03Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and... -
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
RRP: $25.33$17.92How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out-In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work on the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois and his Yahad-In Unum team, which has culminated in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to... -
By Tank into Normandy by Stuart Hills
RRP: $19.48$13.65'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and... -
At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household by Brian Hoey
RRP: $21.43$14.55Behind the scenes of the private world at the heart of royalty, as revealed by a distinguished royal commentator. This is the real story of what goes on inside the royal palaces, as witnessed by members of the royal staff and household past... -
Flight to Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
RRP: $19.48$14.27The French Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born in Lyon. His first two books, SOUTHERN MAIL and NIGHT FLIGHT, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including WIND, SAND... -
Eleni Nicholas Gage 9781860463464
RRP: $25.33$17.92A son's quest to avenge his mother's murder.In 1948, in a Greek mountain village, Eleni Gatzoyiannis was arrested, tortured and shot. She was one of the 158,000 victims of the Greek Civil War. Her crime had been to help her children escape from the... -
The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors Abraham Eraly 9780753817582
RRP: $33.13$22.83A history of the great Mughal rulers of India, one of the world's greatest empires.In December 1525 Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At the battle... -
The Blitz: The British Under Attack by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: $25.33$16.98From the author of 'Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's aerial attack on civilian Britain... -
The Creation of Patriarchy: The Origins of Women's Subordination. Women and History, Volume 1 by Gerda Lerner
RRP: $36.06$26.01When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over... -
Into the Void: Special Operations Forces after the War on Terror by James D. Kiras 9781911723158
RRP: $87.75$78.25The moment in the sun for special operations sometimes appears to have passed, seemingly eclipsed by preparations for potential conflict under the guise of ‘great power’ competition, combined with failure in Afghanistan. Yet the war in Ukraine serves as... -
Sunderland vs U-boat: Bay of Biscay 1943–44 by Mark Lardas 9781472854810
RRP: $31.18$22.64An illustrated examination of the role played by the Sunderland as an antisubmarine aircraft during the Battle of the Atlantic, focusing on the key battles of the Biscay campaign in 1943-44. The Sunderland is an iconic British aircraft of World War... -
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
RRP: $29.23$21.35* * * Special 75th Anniversary Edition * * * Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing capture and defeat by the Nazis at Dunkirk.Dunkirk was not just about what happened... -
The Haunting Of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose
RRP: $21.43$14.63Since her suicide in 1963 at the age of 30, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon. This book addresses why this is the case and what this tells us about the way culture picks out important writers. The author argues that without a concept of fantasy... -
The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown
RRP: $58.50$46.20First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual... -
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew RobertsDavid Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its... -
It's Our Turn to Eat by Michela Wrong
RRP: $25.33$16.98A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point. When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London... -
Abandoned Castles by Kieron Connolly
RRP: $38.98$28.57An ancient hilltop fortress. A crusader citadel in the West Bank. A fairytale medieval castle fallen into ruin. From ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century, Abandoned Castles explores more than 100 forts, castles and defensive strongholds...