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Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea
RRP: $25.33$17.16The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Not simply an effort to free the country from German occupation, it was part of a Europe-wide anti-fascist struggle, which included Spanish republicans,... -
The Waterloo Campaign in 100 Locations by John Grehan 9781526746917
RRP: $48.75$34.36In the 200 years since the famous battle in the muddy, bloody fields of Waterloo, almost every aspect of the fighting has been examined and analysed, apart from one – that of finding and illustrating locations relating to the campaign. From Napoleon’s... -
Scramble!: The Memoir of Britain's Most-Decorated RAF Fighter Pilot by J R D 'Bob' Braham
RRP: $27.28$19.21J. R. D. 'Bob' Braham was Britain's most-decorated fighter pilot and one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War II. Joining the RAF in 1938 at the age of 18, he was posted to No. 29 Squadron at Debdon, where he learned to fly the Hawker... -
History of South Africa: 1902 to the Present by Thula Simpson
RRP: $42.90$38.06South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and... -
The Art of War by Tzu Sun 9780141395845
RRP: $29.23$21.35For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone... -
When I Lived In Modern Times by Linda Grant 9781847082619
RRP: $17.53$12.05It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a new life in a brand-new country. In the glittering, cosmopolitan, Bauhaus... -
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji 9781847925497
RRP: $58.50$40.85**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEThis is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.Shadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj... -
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
RRP: $25.33$17.92'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards middle-class families who can afford huge investments in their children's... -
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone
RRP: $38.98$28.63**The New York Times bestseller****Updated to include Obama's second term, Trump's first year and a half, climate change, nuclear winter, Korea, Russia, Iran, China, Libya, ISIS, and Syria**'This is not history for history's sake, however - this is the... -
Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 by Pierre Brocheux 9780520269743
RRP: $58.50$46.20Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English. Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social,... -
A Short History of the Troubles by Brian Feeney
RRP: $17.53$13.59From the first symptoms of serious unrest - the Divis Street riots of 1964 - to the tortuous political manoeuvrings culminating in the 2003 Assembly elections, the book traces the reality of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It details the... -
A History of Irish Republicanism in Dundee c1840 to 1985 by Rut Nic Foirbeis 9781913836276
RRP: $29.25$24.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913836276Author Rut Nic FoirbeisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Tippermuir Books LimitedPublisher Tippermuir Books Limited -
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: $39.00$29.82'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun... -
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan 9780241674857
RRP: $48.75$34.36A gripping account of the past and future of TaiwanIn the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast... -
Fighting the French Revolution: The Great Vendee Rising of 1793 by Rob Harper 9781473868960
RRP: $48.75$34.36In 1793 France was facing foreign invasion along its borders and a fierce political war was raging in Paris when a large-scale revolt, centred on the western Department of the Vendee, suddenly erupted, almost bringing the new-born French Republic to its... -
Darren Campbell: Track Record by Darren Campbell 9781902719832
RRP: $27.28$22.97Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell is one of Britain's most successful and popular athletes, yet the real story behind his success has not been made public, until now. Track Record, his long-awaited autobiography, reveals how a boy from painfully... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice
RRP: $21.43$15.35A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson
RRP: $44.83$33.70The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration,... -
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1960-75 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $25.33$17.92A new analysis of the technology and tanks that faced off against each other on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, during the very height of the Cold War. From the 1960s onwards, there was a generational shift in tank design and warfare with the... -
China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 by Chris Murray 9780198767015
RRP: $171.60$155.61Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel narratives, ancient Greece and Rome lent interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to Britain's information on the Middle Kingdom... -
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price 9780140274851
RRP: $38.98$27.85'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanTo an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political... -
Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know by Jennifer Van Sijll 9781932907056
RRP: $50.70$38.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907056Author Jennifer Van SijllFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 762g -
The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
RRP: $21.43$14.55An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last 'grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1939, a young Eric Newby - later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent - set sail aboard... -
The Gate and the Wall: A History of China and Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: $48.75$12.97'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter ... -
Europe Since 1945 by Mary Fulbrook 9780198731788
RRP: $81.88$58.79Bringing home the extraordinary waves of transformation that washed across Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, this book interprets the trends, developments, and issues which were of major importance in East and West Europe in the latter... -
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker
RRP: $29.23$19.60Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the 'England' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English... -
Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir 9781787303300
RRP: $37.03$26.54A dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmetic'Fascinating' Nigella Lawson'Awe-inspiring' Funmi Fetto'A treat to read' Kassia St ClairA Sunday Times Style Barometer and New... -
Beastly Fury: The Strange Birth Of British Football by Richard Sanders
RRP: $31.18$22.64"Footeballe is nothinge but beastlie furie and extreme violence", wrote Thomas Elyot in 1531. Nearly five hundred years later, the game may still seem furious and violent, but it has also become the most popular sport on the planet.This is the story of... -
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe by Travis Elborough
RRP: $39.00$29.07Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics - an art... -
Aspects of British Political History 1815-1914 by Stephen J. Lee 9780415090070
RRP: $72.13$63.43Aspects of British History, 1815-1914 addresses the major issues of this much-studied period in a clear and digestible form.* Introduces a fresh feel to long-studied topics* Consolidates a grest deal of recent research* Carefully organised to reflect the... -
Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy 9780571372829
RRP: $21.43$14.70THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil... -
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: $48.75$35.14BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times 'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes More than any other conflict,... -
Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: $37.03$26.01The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the HolocaustWith THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the history of the persecution and... -
The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor 9781408802564
RRP: $33.13$23.95The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise... -
St Albans: A history by Mark Freeman 9781912260652
RRP: $38.98$34.75Mark Freeman’s classic history of St Albans, first published in 2008, has been substantially rewritten by the author and brought fully up to date, making it an invaluable guide to more than two thousand years of St Albans’s history. From the late Iron... -
World War II Illustrated Atlas by David Jordan 9781838863531
RRP: $48.73$34.69World War II was the greatest conflict in the history of mankind. It penetrated into every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to the Pacific Oceans. Immense armed forces engaged one another in battle in every type of environment, from the desert sands... -
Medieval Wales c.1050-1332: Centuries of Ambiguity by David Stephenson 9781786833860
RRP: $33.13$29.46After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the usual perspective of the `intrusive' marcher lords, for... -
Civilizations by FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPE 9780743202497
RRP: $64.33$48.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743202497Author FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPEFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1g -
Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, Volume 1 - Conflicts and Divisions by Pierre Nora 9780231084048
RRP: $120.90$95.98Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history. Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of the emblems... -
A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals by Ruth Illingworth
RRP: $25.33$19.251950s Ireland was the age of De Valera and John Charles McQuaid. It was the age before television, Vatican II, and home central heating. A time when motor cars and public telephones had wind-up handles, when boys wore short trousers and girls wore...