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In the Hell of the Eastern Front: The Fate of a Young Soldier During the Fighting in Russia in WW2 by Sauer, Arno 9781526797704
RRP: £14.99£11.11On 22 June 1941, German forces launched Operation Barbarossa -Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union. Instead of the swift knock-out blow that the Germans had anticipated, the war against the Soviets ground on relentlessly for almost four years. It was... -
Upstairs & Downstairs: My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid by Tim Tate
RRP: £10.99£7.57The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of tiaras and a coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda Newman had a unique insight into the leisured life of... -
Waffen-SS Dutch & Belgian Volunteers by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, numerous Dutchmen, Belgians and Danes volunteered for the Waffen-SS. The largest division, SS Volunteer Legion Netherlands operated in Yugoslavia and then Northern Russia. It was later re-designated 23rd... -
The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009 Richard van Emden 9781408897225
RRP: £12.99£9.19'An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history' Daily Mail On 17 June 2009, Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday. At the time, he was the last living British Tommy who had fought in the... -
Riding Denver's Rails: A Mile High Streetcar History by Kevin Pharris 9781609499150
RRP: £19.99£13.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609499150Author Kevin PharrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 152mm *... -
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2): The Second Day by Dr. Timothy Orr
RRP: £16.99£12.28This work provides an authoritative illustrated examination of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, analyzing both grand strategy, and the tactical decisions of Day Two and the ensuing combat. July 2, 1863 was the bloodiest and most complicated... -
The Western European Union: International Politics Between Alliance and Integration by Sally Rohan 9780367669416
£42.44This full-term study of the Western European Union (WEU) brings to life the history of Europe’s search for a co-operative security and defence order, from its post World War II origins to the present day. Establishing the WEU as a support organization,... -
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs
RRP: £25.00£17.97A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight... -
‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate Donald Rayfield 9781789149098
RRP: £30.00£21.29The Crimean Tatars – Turkic-speaking native peoples of Crimea – established a powerful Khanate in the 1440s, which remained in power until 1783. In this, the first history in English for over 100 years, eminent scholar Donald Rayfield gives a historical... -
Harthacnut: The Last Danish King of England by Ian Howard 9780752446745
RRP: £17.99£13.84Harthacnut was the last of three Danish kings to rule in England between 1013 and 1042. Although he was king of Denmark for many years, Harthacnut only ruled England directly for the last two years of his life. Yet he shaped the course of English history... -
James Hutton and the Evolution of the Earth by Ray Perman
RRP: £25.00£16.59Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment's brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overlooked. Yet his Theory of the Earth revolutionised the way we think about how our planet was formed and laid... -
When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder by Steve Fischer 9780977065844
RRP: £15.19£13.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977065844Author Steve FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Berkline PressPublisher Berkline PressWeight(grams) 404g -
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale by Kate Lister
RRP: £25.00£17.38The history of selling sex is a hidden one, its practitioners a 'damnable crew' pushed to the margins of history. Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts redresses the balance, revealing the history of sex for sale, from medieval back street to Wild West saloon,... -
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
RRP: £10.99£7.99LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial Times'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and... -
Power and Identity in the Middle Ages: Essays in Memory of Rees Davies by Huw Pryce 9780199285464
RRP: £137.50£118.90Collecting sixteen thought-provoking new essays by leading medievalists, this volume celebrates the work of the late Rees Davies. Reflecting Davies' interest in identities, political culture and the workings of power in medieval Britain, the essays range... -
Battle of the Odon by Georges Bernage 9781473857612
RRP: £25.00£19.22The Battle of the Odon evokes the clash between the British Army and the II SS-Panzer Korps, as they attacked across the Odon Valley during Operation "Epsom" in June 1944. Using contemporary photographs and documents, this book provides day-by-day... -
Invisible by Paul Auster
RRP: £9.99£6.90Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and... -
White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams
RRP: £25.00£22.03The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's... -
Cultural Treasures of the World by DK
RRP: £30.00£18.71Take a guided tour through history and discover the most precious, iconic, and celebrated objects ever created.Revered, admired, and protected - every country and culture has certain artefacts that are prized above all others. Cultural Treasures of the... -
Philip's Skye and Lochalsh: Leisure and Tourist Map: Leisure and Tourist Map by Philip's Maps
RRP: £6.99£6.45Brand new edition from Philip's of this information-packed sheet map of Skye and Lochalsh, giving detailed coverage of the road network, and featuring all the major places of tourist, cultural and historic interest.From the colourful town of Portree to... -
Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order by Jeffrey James Byrne 9780190053772
RRP: £32.99£26.70Mecca of Revolution traces the ideological and methodological evolution of the Algerian Revolution, showing how an anticolonial nationalist struggle culminated in independent Algeria's ambitious agenda to reshape not only its own society, but... -
Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Priya Satia
RRP: £10.99£7.99CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the... -
You Wouldn't Want To Be An Anglo-Saxon Peasant! by Jacqueline Morley 9781910184967
RRP: £7.99£5.70You're a farmer's son living in England in the early 7th century. Your people are descendants of invaders from Northern Europe: the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, who arrived about 200 years earlier, seized land from the native Britons and made... -
100 Great Black Britons by Patrick Vernon
RRP: £12.99£8.70'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and complicated history'DAVID LAMMY, author of Tribes, in 'The best books of 2020', the Guardian'Timely and so important . ... -
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs by David Runciman 9781788163675
RRP: £20.00£14.29'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundred years ago, humans started... -
Paras: The Inside Story of Britain's Toughest Regiment. by John Parker
£12.61Formed at the personal insistence of Winston Churchill after the Nazi Blitzkrieg of Western Europe, the Parachute Regiment quickly acquired a formidable reputation as tough, fearless soldiers; it was the Germans themselves who christened then the 'Red... -
Orderly Britain: How Britain has resolved everyday problems, from dog fouling to double parking Tim Newburn 9781472137968
RRP: £18.99£12.75How do British pavements remain free of dog mess? Why are paths not littered with cigarette butts or roads not lined with abandoned cars? What does the decline of the public lavatory say about us and is the national reputation for queuing still deserved... -
Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language by Darach O Seaghdha 9781788545266
RRP: £9.99£7.21From the author of the bestselling Motherfocloir, Non-fiction Irish Book of the Year. A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR. What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or supporting a language do we mean the musical combination of... -
The Siege of Delhi by Amarpal Singh
RRP: £30.00£19.93On 10 May 1857, the most serious threat to British supremacy in India appeared at Meerut, a large military station near Delhi. After months of increasing tension, sepoys of the 3rd Light Cavalry along with the 11th and 20th Native Infantry pointedly... -
Soul of the Samurai: Modern Translations of Three Classic Works of Zen & Bushido Thomas Cleary 9780804848954
RRP: £7.99£5.78Soul of the Samurai contains modern translations of three classic works of Zen & Bushido.In Soul of the Samurai, bestselling author and respected translator Thomas Cleary reveals the true essence of the Bushido code or Zen warrior teachings according to... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven
RRP: £20.00£15.64"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North." Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love: the... -
A Concise History of Switzerland by Clive H. Church
RRP: £22.99£17.61Despite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland's history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging history of Switzerland traces the historical and cultural... -
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
RRP: £10.99£7.87_____________________________________________The 20th Anniversary Edition of Tina Brown's definitive behind-the-scenes insight into the life of Diana Princess of Wales, as depicted in the hit Netflix series The Crown, with a brand new introduction by... -
Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: £20.00£16.13When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself--would reign... -
Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan 9780008407339
RRP: £16.99£13.65THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David... -
The Lawless Land by Boyd Morrison 9781801108652
RRP: £9.99£7.21'A rollicking adventure [with] the inventive twists and turns of a satisfyingly bustling plot.' New York Times 'Fantastic... Gerard Fox could be Jack Reacher's ancestor, 700 years ago. Highly recommended!' Lee Child First in a fast-paced historical... -
Tales from Lindford Catherine Fox 9781910674659
RRP: £13.99£9.85'Lyrical, compelling and full of insight. I found this very hard to put down.' KATIE FFORDE, THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Catherine Fox writes with immense compassion, unsentimental faith and an impressively undisciplined humour.' ... -
A Little Feminist History of Art by Charlotte Mullins
RRP: £12.99£9.34An introduction to the feminist art movement: one of the most ambitious, influential and enduring artistic movements of the twentieth century. Emerging in the late 1960s as women artists struggled to `de-gender' their work to compete in a... -
America, Inc: The 400-Year History of American Capitalism by Bhu Srinivasan
RRP: £20.00£13.74How and why did the US become the most successful economy in history? One of The Economist's Best Books of 2017, America, Inc explains the rise of America's economic power and how so many US businesses have succeeded. In a winning, accessible style,... -
No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976-1984 by Matthew Worley
RRP: £19.99£15.42'No Feelings', 'No Fun', 'No Future'. The years 1976-84 saw punk emerge and evolve as a fashion, a musical form, an attitude and an aesthetic. Against a backdrop of social fragmentation, violence, high unemployment and socio-economic change, punk...