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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511854Author Jason StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Bear in Mind These Dead by Susan McKay
RRP: £12.99£8.56Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. And the killings were as intimate as they were brutal. Neighbours murdered neighbours. Susan McKay's book explores the difficult legacy of this conflict for... -
It Had to be Tough: The Origins and Training of the Commandos in World War II by James Dunning
RRP: £14.99£10.95It Had to Be Tough tells the fascinating story of the origins of the Commandos (Britain's first Special Service troops and the forerunners of today's Parachute Regiment, the SAS and the SBS). The Commandos were raised on the specific and personal orders... -
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Powerful and poetic ... For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara ... this book is essential reading' Colm Toibin, Observer'We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of some dark psychic mechanism...'The Cuban Revolution... -
Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Rebels and the Spanish Civil War by Sarah Watling 9781529920772
RRP: £12.99£9.09In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance.'Glorious... so beautifully rendered, so powerful'ANNA FUNDER, author of WifedomIn the 1930s, women... -
A Wing and A Prayer: My Life and Times by Malcolm Weisman 9781803710518
RRP: £18.95£14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710518Author Malcolm WeismanFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain by Ray Hudson
RRP: £20.00£16.83No one personified the age of industry more than the miners. The Shadow of the Mine tells the story of King Coal in its heyday - and what happened to mining communities after the last pits closed. Coal was central to the British economy, powering its... -
The Fifty Years That Changed Chinese Religion, 1898–1948 by Paul R. Katz
RRP: £20.00£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304965Author Paul R. KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)... -
Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day
RRP: £14.99£9.80**Winner of the Bread and Roses Prize 2024** **Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2023** George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis triggered abolitionist shockwaves. Calls to defund the police found receptive ears around the world. Shortly... -
Classical Art: From Greece to Rome by Mary Beard
RRP: £23.49£17.44The stunning masterpieces of Ancient Greece and Rome are fundamental to the story of art in Western culture and to the origins of art history. The expanding Greek world of Alexander the Great had an enormous impact on the Mediterranean superpower of Rome... -
William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution by John van der Kiste
RRP: £15.99£12.25Mary (1662-94), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the... -
What Happens In London by Julia Quinn
RRP: £8.99£3.51Welcome to The Bevelstokes, an irresistibly romantic collection by the bestselling author of Bridgerton, now a series created for Netflix by ShondalandAbout the AuthorJulia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing university and has... -
A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma 9781782398028
RRP: £8.99£6.08'The whole thing sparks astonishingly to life' ObserverWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in... -
A Waggoner's War: A Motor Transport Driver's Experiences in North Africa and Italy with the Royal Army Service Corps -1942-45 by Fergus Fulton 9781846831164
£12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846831164Author Fergus FultonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm)... -
South Benfleet: A History by Robert Hallmann
RRP: £15.99£12.65A history of South Benfleet.Book InformationISBN 9781860773594Author Robert HallmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 185mm * 20mm -
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann
RRP: £16.99£11.94Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and the Wolfson History PrizeIn March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau. By the end of 1945, the SS concentration camp system had become an... -
The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths by Brad Fox
RRP: £22.00£14.71'Hypnotic... raises questions of exploration and wonder, of nature and humanity' New York Times Book Review 'Exquisite and shocking... just as any exploration of the deep should be' Helen Scales, author of The Brilliant Abyss '[A] rich, strange... -
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812979480Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
RRP: £25.00£16.53A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
Boston Marathon: History by the Mile by Paul C. Clerici 9781626194755
RRP: £16.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626194755Author Paul C. ClericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Panther German Army Medium Tank: Italian Front, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781399065009
RRP: £18.99£13.61The Allied invasions of Sicily and the Italian mainland had been met with tenacious resistance by the Germans but the defence consisted for the most part of armoured units that were little different to those the British had faced in North Africa. But in... -
Maverick One: The True Story of a Para, Pathfinder, Renegade by David Blakeley
RRP: £9.99£6.80The explosive sequel to the bestselling PATHFINDER.For the first time ever an elite British operator tells the gruelling story of his selection into the Pathfinders - Britain's secret soldiers. Pathfinder selection is a brutal physical and psychological... -
Bloody British History: Manchester by Michala Hulme
RRP: £15.99£12.25Manchester has one of the darkest histories in Britain. From the Screaming Skull of Wardley Hall to an epidemic of deadly factory fires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, you will find all manner of horrible events inside this book. With coffins... -
The Glorious Revolution: 1688 - Britain's Fight for Liberty by Edward Vallance
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1688, a group of leading politicians invited the Dutch prince William of Orange over to England to challenge the rule of the catholic James II. When James's army deserted him he fled to France, leaving the throne open to William and Mary. During the... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw 9780141998237
RRP: £14.99£10.95One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies... -
Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Harvie
RRP: £8.99£6.45First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and... -
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
RRP: £22.00£14.56'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here' GUARDIAN'This funny, startling, insightful story of the selfie, from Durer to the Kardashians, is a must read if you... -
Vikings: A History of the Northmen by W. B. Bartlett
RRP: £25.00£16.83The year 1066: a battlefield in England, a mighty king lies prone on the ground, his lifeblood ebbing out of him. As he draws his last breath, the world of which he is the greatest figurehead also moves towards its end, its existence about to pass from... -
House Histories for Beginners by Colin Style
RRP: £20.00£15.04Popular television programmes highlight the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, and there is always plenty of interest in the subject, with archives becoming ever more accessible with access to the internet.As the... -
Attacker: The Royal Navy's First Operational Jet Fighter by Richard A. Franks
RRP: £14.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905414055Author Richard A FranksFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingPublisher Dalrymple and Verdun... -
Aircraft Carriers: The World's Greatest Carriers of the last 100 Years by David Ross
RRP: £24.99£17.79On 9 May 1912 the first airplane take-off from a ship was made from the deck of the HMS Hibernia. In July 1918, seven Sopwith Camels launched from the converted battlecruiser HMS Furious damaged the German airbase at Tonder and destroyed two zeppelins... -
Soldiers of the English Civil War: v. 2: Cavalry by John Tincey 9780850459401
RRP: £14.99£12.55In March 1642 King Charles I, believing that Parliament had gone too far when it issued the Grand Remonstrace, moved to arrest John Pym and four other leaders. That summer Parliament, fearing military action, tried to seize control of the army by issuing... -
The Tank Factory: British Military Vehicle Development and the Chobham Establishment by William Suttie
RRP: £17.99£13.64Despite being the inventor of the tank and responsible for campaign-winning tactics, by the start of the Second World War the United Kingdom had fallen well behind other nations in the design and build of armoured vehicles. Here, William Suttie uncovers... -
Generations of Empire: Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean by Andreas Guidi 9781487541279
RRP: £52.00£42.97In 1912, Italy occupied Rhodes, an Ottoman town inhabited by Greek Orthodox, Muslims, Jews, and Catholics. Rhodes became a territory of Italy's empire in 1923 following the Treaty of Lausanne, only one year after Mussolini seized power in Rome. The... -
A Will to Kill by RV Raman 9781782277323
RRP: £8.99£6.08MIST, MOUNTAINS, MURDER. Ageing millionaire Bhaskar Fernandez has invited his relatives to the remote, and possibly haunted, Greybrooke Manor, high up in the misty Nilgiris. He knows his guests expect to gain from his death, so he writes two... -
Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £12.99£9.09A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in AD 68. With... -
GCSE Spanish by RSL: Volume 2: Reading, Writing, Translation by Matt Lim 9781914127090
RRP: £14.99£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914127090Author Matt LimFormat PaperbackImprint RSL EducationalPublisher RSL Educational -
Fools Crow by Thomas E. Mails 9780803281745
RRP: £14.99£11.38Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright... -
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by John Darwin 9780141010229
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book, their empire building... -
The Sami Peoples of the North: A Social and Cultural History by Neil Kent
RRP: £18.99£16.98The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. There is no single volume which encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sami people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia...