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Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
RRP: $21.92$16.09Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life, grand seigneur of his household, father and hunted victim,... -
The Ration Book Diet by Mike Brown
RRP: $21.92$16.69In 1939, Britain was preparing for war. As well as building aeroplanes and digging Anderson shelters, this meant managing food supplies for the home front.The Ministry of Food rose to the challenge, introducing rationing, encouraging the nation to dig... -
Right Royal Scandal: Two Marriages that Changed History by Joanne Major 9781473863422
RRP: $25.79$18.42Almost two books in one, A Right Royal Scandal recounts the fascinating history of the irregular love matches contracted by two successive generations of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, ancestors of the British Royal Family. The first part of this... -
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: $12.89$9.17Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands... -
World War III?: The Battle for Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky 9781783341917
RRP: $25.80$21.19The Ukrainian bestseller that predicted the invasion, revised and updated, now available in the English languageBook InformationISBN 9781783341917Author Yuri FelshtinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Gibson Square Books LtdPublisher Gibson Square... -
Writing Your Family History by Gill Blanchard
$20.37Gill Blanchard's practical step-by-step guide to writing a family history is designed for anyone who wants to bring their ancestors' stories to life. She looks at ways of overcoming the particular problems family historians face when writing a family... -
Seaforth World Naval Review: 2024 by Conrad Waters 9781399023115
RRP: $45.15$32.62For more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world's navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional surveys with major articles on important new warships, and... -
A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe by Francois Neveux
RRP: $15.47$5.30The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the 'Norsemen' they were one of the most successful warrior tribes of the Dark Ages that came to dominate Europe from the Baltic Sea to the island of Sicily and the borders of... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
RRP: $12.89$9.17'War is merely the continuation of policy by other means' On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, sought to understand and... -
The Making of Holy Russia: The Orthodox Church and Russian Nationalism Before the Revolution by John Strickland 9781942699279
RRP: $37.40$30.16This book is a critical study of the interaction between Russian Church and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. At a time of rising nationalist movement throughout Europe, Orthodox patriots advocated for the place of the Church as... -
It Was Snowing Butterflies by Charles Darwin 9780141398556
RRP: $3.87$3.21'The vessel drove before her bows two billows of liquid phosphorus'A selection of Darwin's extraordinary adventures during the voyage of the Beagle Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate... -
The Flame of Resistance: American Beauty. French Hero. British Spy. by Damien Lewis
RRP: $14.18$8.35'I have always been fascinated by that charismatic hero of the Resistance, Josephine Baker, but it turns out I didn't know the half of it. Lewis' story-telling blew my mind. Again.' - Dan Snow'A story of incredible bravery in the face of tyrants who... -
Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia by Ole Grell 9781032402352
RRP: $51.59$45.23The close relationship between religion, medicine and natural philosophy in the post-Reformation period has been documented and explored in a body of research since the 1990s; however, the direct and continued impact of Melanchthonian natural philosophy... -
White Riot: The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month by Joe Thomas 9781529423396
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Joe Thomas brilliantly recaptures an ugly episode in our recent past. Lest we forget . . .' Val McDermid'A timely, powerful and gorgeously readable novel that represents everything that is good and important about the crime fiction genre' Irish... -
KJV, Gift and Award Bible, Leather-Look, Black, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Zondervan 9780718097905
RRP: $10.31$8.63Commemorate a special accomplishment or event with a gift to be treasured for years to come. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at any size.Featuring the... -
Chief of Staff: Notes from Downing Street by Gavin Barwell
RRP: $25.80$18.95BOOK OF THE YEAR, The Times, Guardian and Prospect'Fascinating and instructive... his decency and pragmatism shine through.' The Times'Candid, valuable and insightful.' ObserverSince the EU referendum of 2016, British politics has witnessed a barrage of... -
American Tanks of World War II by Dr Stephen Hart
RRP: $23.21$15.98With the United States producing almost 90,000 AFVs during World War II, American tanks made up the bulk of those deployed by the western Allies, and were even supplied through the lend-lease scheme to the Soviet army on the Eastern Front. American Tanks... -
Harpoon Missile vs Surface Ships: US Navy, Libya and Iran 1986–88 by Lon Nordeen 9781472859204
RRP: $20.63$14.98An illustrated study of premier US anti-ship missile, the AGM/RGM-84 Harpoon, and its 1986 and '88 uses against Libyan and Iranian naval vessels. In this study, defence technology expert Lon Nordeen details the role played by the Harpoon missile in... -
Band Of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose 9781471158292
RRP: $12.89$8.27**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays tribute to the men of Easy Company, a crack rifle company in... -
Riding in the Zone Rouge: The Tour of the Battlefields 1919 - Cycling's Toughest-Ever Stage Race by Tom Isitt
RRP: $14.18$9.55'An evocatively thoughtful wider history of the race, the war and the peace' GUARDIAN'Occasionally funny and regularly poignant, brilliantly focused in its research . . . His drive, wit and curiosity inform Zone Rouge . . . gently profound and genuinely... -
Redcoats: The British Soldier and War in the Americas, 1755-1763 by Stephen Brumwell 9780521807838
RRP: $103.20$61.06In the last decade, scholarship has highlighted the significance of the Seven Years War for the destiny of Britain's Atlantic empire. This major 2001 study offers an important perspective through a vivid and scholarly account of the regular troops at the... -
Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea 9780141016535
RRP: $24.50$17.56Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology. Yet this was also a tumultuous century of political anarchy and bloodshed, where each generation of the... -
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti by Cosey Fanni Tutti 9780571362196
RRP: $16.76$10.73From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into the lives of three visionary artists.'A fascinating tale of the interlinking lives of three legendary... -
The First City on Mars: An Urban Planner’s Guide to Settling the Red Planet by Justin B. Hollander
RRP: $36.11$33.09Hundreds of novels, films, and TV shows have speculated about what it would be like for us Earthlings to build cities on Mars. To make it a reality, however, these dreamers are in sore need of additional conceptual tools in their belt-particularly, a... -
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes by Robert Serber 9780520344174
RRP: $19.34$15.67More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at Los Alamos who developed the bombs, which were... -
How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians by Quintus Tullius Cicero 9780691154084
RRP: $19.34$14.94How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother... -
Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class by Alex Renton
RRP: $14.18$9.55'A brave and necessary book' GUARDIAN'Shocking, gripping and sobering' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHNo other society sends its young boys and girls away to school to prepare them for a role in the ruling class.Beating, bullying, fagging, cold baths, vile food and... -
British Royal Tombs by Aidan Dodson 9781843681182
RRP: $21.92$14.89Aidan Dodson's British Royal Tombs covers all the burials of the kings, queens (and lords protector) of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom, from the occupant of the great Sutton Hoo ship burial, to George VI, last Emperor of India, including of... -
Panzerwrecks 25: Normandy 4 by Lee Archer 9781908032263
RRP: $32.24$22.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032263Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
Spitfire Ace: My Life as a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot by Gordon Olive
RRP: $16.76$10.94Pitched into the maelstrom of air fighting in the summer of 1940, twenty-four-year-old Gordon Olive barely lived to tell this extraordinary tale of courage and endurance. As Britain fought alone for its survival, 'the Few' of RAF Fighter Command took to... -
The Children's Nurse: The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse by Susan Macqueen
RRP: $11.60$8.00The memoir of a Great Ormond Street nurse.This is the inspirational story of life as a nurse during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most of which was spent at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Susan Macqueen was 12 years old when she accompanied her mum... -
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
RRP: $30.95$27.40A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have... -
Strolling Through Istanbul: The Classic Guide to the City by Hilary Sumner-Boyd
RRP: $24.50$18.82'The best travel guide to Istanbul' - The Times Practical and informative, readable and vividly described, this is the definitive guide to and story of Istanbul, by those who know it best. This is the 2009 revised and updated edition of the classic... -
The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
RRP: $14.18$10.02Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new translation reflects Catullus' mastery of poetic forms as diverse as the lyric, the... -
In the Castle of My Skin by Mr George Lamming
RRP: $12.89$9.17'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet mischief crab catching, teasing preachers and playing among the pumpkin vines. His sleepy fishing village in 1930s Barbados is... -
London Underground Symmetry and Imperfections: The Tube Mapper Project by Luke Agbaimoni
RRP: $32.25$24.43There are currently 272 London Underground, 113 Overground and 45 Docklands Light Railway stations. Luke Agbaimoni has been slowly attempting to capture visual moments at each one.When we see a symmetrical image, it soothes us. It feels as if a puzzle... -
Tanks: 100 years of evolution by Richard Ogorkiewicz
RRP: $16.76$11.73From an internationally acclaimed expert in the field comes a detailed, analytical and comprehensive account of the worldwide evolution of tanks, from their inception a century ago to the present day. With new ideas stemming from the latest academic... -
How Folklore Shaped Modern Art: A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics by Wes Hill
RRP: $58.04$50.67Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed relevance of what were previously considered "outsider" art... -
The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Habsburgs have been described at one extreme as demons - responsible for a 'long history of atrocities'; and, at the other, as dodos - living fossils unable to adapt to the modern world. In reality, the flamboyant royal family appear, in many ways,... -
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
RRP: $11.60$8.00A Reese Witherspoon YA Book Club Pick!A New York Times bestselling novel, The Downstairs Girl is a compelling and poignant story following seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan, a Chinese American girl living in segregated 1890s Atlanta.'Everyone needs to read this...