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The Soviet Century by Moshe Lewin
£30.22One hundred years after the Russian Revolution the Soviet Union remains the most extraordinary, yet tragic, attempt to create a society beyond capitalism. Yet its history was one that for a long time proved impossible to write. In The Soviet Century,... -
Africa 2024–2025 Lawrence R. Sullivan 9781538185780
£21.30The World Today Series: Africa provides students with vital information on all countries on the African continent through a thorough and expert overview of political and economic histories, current events, and emerging trends. Each country is examined... -
Gorillas in the Mist Dian Fossey 9780753811412
RRP: £10.99£7.61Dian Fossey's classic account of four gorilla families - one of the most important books ever written about our connection to the natural worldFor thirteen years Dian Fossey lived and worked with Uncle Bert, Flossie, Beethoven, Pantsy and Digit in the... -
Compacts and Cosmetics: Beauty from Victorian Times to the Present Day by Madeleine Marsh 9781473822948
RRP: £16.99£12.68This fascinating book explores the history of makeup and beauty from lipstick to leg shaving. Madeleine Marsh chronicles the development of cosmetics from a secret shame in the 19th century, to a handbag essential in the 20th. She tells the stories... -
The Arms of the Infinite: Elizabeth Smart and George Barker by Christopher Barker 9781554582709
RRP: £26.95£18.96The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker's parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their first fateful meeting and subsequent elopement,... -
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
RRP: £22.00£13.10A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The Times'Maxtone Graham [has a] unique blend of high comedy and shrewd social observation' Spectator'Terrific' Daily... -
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570355
RRP: £12.99£9.19Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and... -
The Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi 9781590309841
RRP: £17.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309841Author Miyamoto MusashiFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 294g -
Refilling Haig’s Armies: The Replacement of British Infantry Casualties on the Western Front, 1916-1918 by Alison Hine 9781912390700
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390700Author Alison HineFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan
RRP: £18.00£11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288584Author Justin KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm... -
Generations by William Strauss 9780688119126
£14.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688119126Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 771g -
The Lives of Women, 1850-1960 by Dan Jones
RRP: £30.00£22.55The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series. A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic, social, cultural and professional - played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina... -
Richthofen & Boelcke in Their Own Words by Manfred Freiherr Von 1892 Richthofen 9780857066473
£18.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857066473Author Manfred Freiherr Von 1892 RichthofenFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 376g -
Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe by Trenton W. Holliday 9780231204972
RRP: £25.00£19.59During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as... -
1971: 100 Films from Cinema's Greatest Year by Robert Sellers 9780750999991
RRP: £20.00£15.271971 was a great year for cinema. Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Sergio Leone, George Lucas, Sam Peckinpah, Roman Polanski, Nicolas Roeg and Steven Spielberg, among many others, were behind the camera, while... -
The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on The World's Most Powerful Mafia by Alex Perry
RRP: £10.99£7.46You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omerta is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world's most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is... -
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth by Keiron Pim
RRP: £25.00£18.02The first English language biography of the great European writer Joseph Roth, exploring his genius and his tragic life story, lived in the shadow of war. The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the... -
Athenian Democracy by Robin Osborne 9781009383394
RRP: £17.99£15.94This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Athenian democracy, which flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, with an accompanying glossary and introductory notes. It provides... -
My War Gone by, I Miss it So by Anthony Loyd 9781912836048
RRP: £10.99£7.61My War Gone By, I Miss It So is a uniquely powerful piece of writing, unparalleled in the genre. Ex-infantry officer Anthony Loyd arrived in the Balkans hoping to become a war correspondent. He wanted to see `a real war', and in Bosnia he found one. The... -
India: A History in Objects by T. Richard Blurton
RRP: £30.00£20.40An authoritative visual history of one of the world's oldest and most vibrant cultures, drawing on South Asian art and artefacts from prehistory to the present. Arranged chronologically, and abundantly illustrated with expertly selected objects, this... -
Mezcal: The History, Craft & Cocktails of the World's Ultimate Artisanal Spirit Emma Janzen 9780760352618
RRP: £18.99£12.75In Mezcal, two-time James Beard Award-winning author Emma Janzen explores what sets this cousin of tequila apart from the rest of the pack.*Nominated for the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award in the Beverage category* Produced in Mexico for... -
Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles that Made Our NHS, and the Struggle for Its Future by Isabel Hardman 9780241991862
RRP: £10.99£7.99'The book the NHS has always deserved' Andrew Marr'A sensational and much-needed book . . . thorough, scholarly and above all readable' Chris van Tulleken--------------------------------------------------How does our National Health Service really work,... -
Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life Joshua Leifer 9780593187180
RRP: £28.99£19.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593187180Author Joshua LeiferFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
London: A Travel Guide Through Time by Matthew Green
RRP: £12.99£9.19Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past.Let time traveller Dr Matthew Green be your guide to six extraordinary... -
Operation Black Buck 1982: The Vulcans' extraordinary Falklands War raids by Andrew Bird 9781472856661
RRP: £16.99£12.28'The definitive account of the Vulcan raids... taught me something new on every page' - Rowland White, author of the bestselling Vulcan 607 A newly researched, fully illustrated account of how RAF Vulcan bombers flew a series of the world's longest... -
Devon and Cornwall's Oddest Historical Tales by John Fisher
RRP: £12.99£9.87The West Country's colourful past encompasses a pageant of historical figures and peculiar stories - from Lawrence of Arabia's flamboyant motorbike forays across Dartmoor and the terrifying account of a lion attack on the Exeter mail coach, to Devonian... -
Companion to Historiography by Michael Bentley
RRP: £76.99£68.65The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed... -
Guide to Greece: Southern Greece by Pausanias
RRP: £14.99£10.95Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and... -
A Train of Powder by Rebecca West 9781566633192
RRP: £12.99£9.71Like most all of Rebecca West's reportage, A Train of Powder approaches great literature. Written between 1946 and 1954, these accounts of four controversial trials explore the nature of crime and punishment, innocence and guilt, retribution and... -
And the Band Played On: The enthralling account of what happened after the Titanic sank: The enthralling account of what happened after the Titanic sank by Christopher Ward
RRP: £10.99£7.50On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their instruments on deck and continued to play. They were... -
Japanese Combined Fleet 1941–42: The IJN at its zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway by Mark Stille 9781472856432
RRP: £15.99£11.61Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's striking force at the height of its power. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) entered the Pacific War as one of... -
British Military Medals - Second Edition: A Guide for the Collector and Family Historian Peter Duckers 9781526791917
RRP: £15.99£11.61This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry... -
Camelot: The epic new novel from the author of Lancelot by Giles Kristian
RRP: £7.99£5.98'So beautiful, so haunting . . . bitingly real . . . Giles has given us a vital, glorious story: rich, rewarding, and utterly revealing of our times' Manda ScottFollowing his acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller, Lancelot, Giles Kristian's new novel returns... -
De Re Militari (Concerning Military Affairs): the Classic Treatise on Warfare at the Pinnacle of the Roman Empire's Power by Flavius Vegetius Renatus 9780857068217
£9.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857068217Author Flavius Vegetius RenatusFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 150g -
Highgate and Muswell Hill by Joan Schwitzer 9780752401195
RRP: £14.99£11.72Highgate and Muswell HillBook InformationISBN 9780752401195Author Joan SchwitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 370gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
American Airborne Pathfinders in World War II by Jeff Moran 9780764317699
RRP: £45.99£29.69Trained in the use of the Eureka radar, holophan lights, and colored ground panels, the pathfinders dropped thirty minutes before the main airborne landing to provide ground guidance for successive airborne jumps. The concept of the pathfinders proved... -
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar by Oliver Hilmes
RRP: £14.99£13.43An engrossing new biography of Franz Liszt, the musical revolutionary who became the world's first international megastar"Makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of Liszt as a man and superstar. Hilmes shines a light into the shadows behind a... -
Speeches, 1997-2006 by Gordon Brown 9780747588375
RRP: £30.00£4.07Speeches, 1997-2006, will collect all Gordon Brown's major speeches on a broad range of topics ranging from Britishness and fairness, through the economy and public services, to child poverty and environmental issues. They reflect a formidable and widely... -
Journey into the Mind's Eye Lesley Blanch 9780907871545
RRP: £14.99£10.05Lesley Blanch was four when the mysterious Traveller first blew into her nursery, swathed in Siberian furs and full of the fairytales of Russia. She was twenty when he swept out of her life, leaving her love-lorn and in the grips of a passionate... -
Bute: A Guide David McDowall 9780952784777
RRP: £11.99£11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952784777Author David McDowallFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint David McDowallPublisher David McDowallDimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm * 26mm