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Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left by Jean Amery 9780253058768
RRP: $25.79$22.63In April 1945, Jean Amery was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the... -
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The tragedy of Mary, Katherine and Lady Jane Grey by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: $19.34$12.51'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid life in her fascinating biography' Philippa Gregory The dramatic... -
The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert
RRP: $32.25$28.28How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914-but shaped Britain's success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett (1854-1922) brought a new level... -
The American Dream in the 21st Century by Sandra L. Hanson
RRP: $30.95$26.88A multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American DreamA multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American DreamAbout the AuthorSandra L. Hanson is Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Research... -
Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John Darnell and Colleen Darnell
RRP: $32.25$24.43Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom... -
Real Dorset by Jon Woolcott 9781781727171
RRP: $12.89$9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727171Author Jon WoolcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 12mm -
Wild about Richmond and Kew: The Thames, The Park, The Gardens Andrew Wilson 9781916485860
RRP: $32.25$28.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916485860Author Andrew WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Unity Print and Publishing LtdPublisher Unity Print and Publishing Ltd -
Walking Gallipoli by Stephen Chambers 9781473825642
RRP: $20.63$14.98Gallipoli was a First World War tragedy, a side show that had ambitious hopes to end the war early. Despite the immense gallantry displayed by those fighting, from the beginning, this grand scale 1915 operation was plagued with mismanagement; failure in... -
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer 9780192867681
RRP: $38.70$33.99Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland-in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'-to better understand how it has formed the... -
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith 9780140012781
$18.60This history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony -- and waste. Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War's... -
The Pity of it All: A Portrait of Jews in Germany 1743-1933 by Amos Elon
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Pity of It All is a passionate and poignant history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich.As it is usually told, the story of the Jews in Germany starts at the... -
Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War by Ed Rasimus 9781250038685
RRP: $27.08$19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250038685Author Ed RasimusFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)... -
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
RRP: $32.25$23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036661Author Hugh RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 560gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 156mm *... -
The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway by Ann Lingard
RRP: $32.25$21.40Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly... -
Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 by Daniel Todman
RRP: $21.92$16.36WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2020A SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesPart Two of Daniel Todman's epic history of the Second World War opens with one of the... -
Now That's What I Call a History of the 1980s: Pop Culture and Politics in the Decade That Shaped Modern Britain by Lucy Robinson
RRP: $19.34$14.34Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s tells the story of eighties Britain through its popular culture. Charting era-defining moments from Lady Diana's legs and the miners' strike to Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage and Adam and the Ants, Lucy Robinson... -
Operation Market-garden Then and Now: v. 2 by Karel Margry 9781870067454
RRP: $57.99$48.67Volume 2 of this two-volume history of Operation "Market-Garden" continues the story as XXX Corps links up with the 82nd Airborne at Nijmegen which leads to the dramatic and spectacular capture of the vital bridges there over the Waal river. But at... -
A Short History Of Myth by Karen Armstrong
RRP: $12.89$8.64As long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that begins at a Neanderthal graveside and ends buried in... -
Dornier Do 217 Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: $20.63$14.98The Do 217 had a much larger bomb load capacity and had considerably greater range than the Do 17, which it replaced in frontline service from mid to late 1941. Although initially used simply as a bomber, later variants were developed to allow the Do 217... -
Tanks in the Battle of the Bulge by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $15.47$10.87The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific 'lessons learned' from the combat? And did these lessons result in changes... -
Killigrew Clay: A gripping tale of love and family by Rowena Summers
RRP: $14.18$12.37Can two people from different worlds find their way to each other?Just as an unexpected passion began to blossom between Morwen Tremayne and Ben Killigrew, the fates seemed determined to stifle its growth. A long, bitter struggle between owner and... -
The Spingarn Brothers: White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
RRP: $37.41$33.64An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States.In the late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New York City as brothers with very different personalities,... -
A Brief History of Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire by Roy Moxham
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Absorbing and sometimes shocking' - Literary Review'A masterful historical study' - The Good Book GuideBehind the wholesome image of the world's most popular drink lies a strangely murky and often violent past. From its first discovery to the present... -
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda H. Podany
RRP: $41.91$36.13A unique history of the ancient Near East that compellingly presents the life stories of kings, priestesses, merchants, bricklayers, and others In this sweeping history of the ancient Near East, Amanda Podany takes readers on a gripping journey from... -
Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: $38.70$28.32*A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2021**Longlisted for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History*'Preposterously entertaining' Observer'Brilliant' Daily Telegraph'Rollicking' Sunday TimesFrom the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a... -
Baldwin by Anne Perkins 9781904950608
$11.60Stanley Baldwin's cultivated image of the plain man, Mr Suburbia', helped him cope with two of the greatest domestic political crises of the first half of twentieth century Britain, the General Strike and the Abdication.Book InformationISBN... -
U.S. Army Vehicle Markings 1944 by Jean Bouchery 9781612007373
RRP: $38.69$31.42Everyone is familiar with the iconic WWII Jeep, its green paintwork annotated with white letters, numbers and symbols. Unintelligible to the casual observer, these markings were integral to the organization of the U.S. Army on the move in 1944.This... -
The Puritan Princess: The stunning and unforgettable historical novel of family, politics and the price of love in the Civil War by Miranda Malins
RRP: $14.18$9.55Power, passion and a devastating fight for the crown - discover the gripping story of Oliver Cromwell's youngest daughter. Perfect for fans of Anne O'Brien, Alison Weir and Philippa Gregory 'A powerful and superbly researched historical novel' Andrew... -
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End by Duncan Barrett
RRP: $12.89$8.57Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. 'On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the... -
Lighthouses of Ireland: An Illustrated Guide to the Sentinels that Guard our Coastline by Roger O'Reilly
RRP: $32.24$27.45`I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.' George Bernard Shaw Since ancient times, long before GPS, radio transmission or radar, lighthouses have served as beacons helping ships... -
Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy) by Hilary Mantel 9780008366766
RRP: $25.80$18.29Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction 'Simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn't yet read it' Daily Mail... -
Below Manchester: Going Deeper Under the City by Keith Warrender 9780946361427
RRP: $23.16$19.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946361427Author Keith WarrenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Willow Publishing,TimperleyPublisher Willow Publishing,TimperleyDimensions(mm) 250mm... -
Slow Noodles: A Recipe for Rebuilding a Lost Civilization by Chantha Nguon 9781643753492
RRP: $32.25$22.01Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale extermination. Subtract a reliable source of food, life savings, and family members, until all are gone. Shave down childhood... -
They Flew: A History of the Impossible by Carlos M. N. Eire 9780300259803
RRP: $38.70$29.70An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance "Historically rich and superbly written."-David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena... -
Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era by Kathleen Paul
RRP: $32.24$27.95Kathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned... -
The Last Years of the Teutonic Knights: Lithuania, Poland and the Teutonic Order by William Urban 9781784383572
RRP: $32.25$23.25The Battle of Grunwald was one of the largest battles in Medieval Europe and was the most important in the histories of Poland and Lithuania. It was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish-Lithuania-Teutonic War between the alliance of the Kingdom of... -
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
RRP: $23.21$17.22While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke-filled cafes, or with a brooding, angst-filled outlook on life, Gosetti-Ferencei shows how vital and heterogeneous the movement really was. ... -
Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices 1981-2000 by Kate Kerrow
RRP: $25.80$19.92In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British soil. They formed what became the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp and stayed there for almost twenty... -
Secrets from the Black Vault: The Army's Plan for a Military Base on the Moon and Other Declassified Documents that Rewrote History by Jr., John, Greenewald 9781538134061
RRP: $16.76$12.40What happens when the history books are wrong? The United States Government wants you to not question the narrative that, in some cases, has been written by them for more than a century. But sometimes, real facts emerge from declassified documents that... -
Peaky Blinders: The Aftermath: Britain's most notorious gangsters 1930-50 by Carl Chinn
RRP: $11.60$8.02From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnAs Britain emerges into the mid-twentieth century, change is afoot. Cities are beginning to shift from smog-filled industrial hubs to more efficient metropolitan centres of commerce and, despite the...