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Under The Wire by William Ash 9780553817119
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35Determined to take on the Nazis, Texan Bill Ash joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939 and in so doing sacrificed his citizenship. Before long, he was sent to England wherehe flew Spitfires... -
Brussels: A Cultural and Lieratry History by Andre De Vries 9781904955474
RRP: €18.00Booksplease Price: €14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904955474Author Andre de VriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint -
A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes 9780712650410
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.15Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. England after the war was a different place; the arts were different; history was different; sex,... -
The Little History of Devon by Suze Gardner
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.72Traditionally, Devon was seen as unimportant because of its distance from London and its bad roads - lesser, it was thought, than the historical capital or culturally rich home counties. How wrong... -
A Sultry Month by Alethea Hayter 9780571372294
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could... -
Fin De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske
RRP: €27.00Booksplease Price: €25.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 1981.Book InformationISBN 9780394744780Author Carl E. Schorske -
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'on the Concept of History' by Michael Lowy 9781784786410
Booksplease Price: €17.69Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the future, romantic partisan of materialism - Walter Benjamin is in every sense of the word an... -
Leeds in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies by Yorkshire Evening Post 9781780911151
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911151Author Yorkshire Evening PostFormat PaperbackPage Count 192 -
The 1950s Home Sophie Leighton 9780747807117
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €8.39The 1950s home presented an exciting new way of living for the generation that moved out of the suburbs. Young couples who had previously rented accommodation in urban centres found themselves able... -
Jews under Tsars and Communists: The Four Questions by Professor Robert Weinberg 9781350129153
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.81Tracing the evolving nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of the Jews from the 18th century onwards, Russia and the Jewish Question explores how perceptions of Jews in... -
Battle of the Atlantic 1942-45: The climax of World War II's greatest naval campaign by Mark Lardas
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.05This illustrated study explores, in detail, the climactic events of the Battle of the Atlantic, and how air power proved to be the Allies' most important submarine-killer in one of the most bitterly... -
The Nevills of Middleham: England's Most Powerful Family in the Wars of the Roses by K. L. Clark
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.72In 1465, the Nevills must have thought they'd reached the pinnacle of power and influence in England. Richard Nevill was the king's right-hand man and married to the richest woman in the kingdom;... -
The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy by Viktor E. Frankl
RRP: €22.80Booksplease Price: €14.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181263Author Viktor E. FranklFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint
HMS Cavalier: Destroyer 1944 by Richard Johnstone-Bryden
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €11.29HMS Cavalier is a 'C'-Class destroyer, one of 96 War Emergency Programme destroyers that were ordered between 1940 and 1942. She saw action on convoy duty off Russia, and later, in 1945, was sent to...
Istanbul: The Imperial City by John Freely
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61Istanbul's history is a catalogue of change, not least of name, yet it has managed to retain its own unique identity. John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and...
The Great Shame Thomas Keneally 9780749386047
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €17.81In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This masterly book traces the three causes of this depletion; first the manine, second the Irish diaspora and the emigrations to places such as...
Battle of Malta: June 1940-November 1942 by Anthony Rogers
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.39A detailed, illustrated exploration of the land, sea and air units that defended Malta, and the repeated Axis attempts to bring the crucial Allied island fortress to its knees. On 11 June 1940,...
Russian Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward 9781838860837
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.10Organised chronologically by type, Russian Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force during World War II. The book provides...
Women Our History by DK
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.10Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.Packed full of evocative images,...
The Nazis Knew My Name by Maya Lee 9781398506299
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14'This thought-provoking book is a must-read for anyone interested in the Holocaust' - Ariana Neumann The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who...
Normandy 1944: Allied landings and breakout by Dr Stephen Badsey 9780850459210
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Theaetetus by Plato 9780199646166
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74'What exactly is knowledge?' The Theaetetus is a seminal text in the philosophy of knowledge, and is acknowledged as one of Plato's finest works. Cast as a conversation between Socrates and a...
Sword of Bone by Anthony Rhodes 9781912423385
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.66A reissue of Anthony Rhodes's acclaimed 1942 novel detailing his own wartime experience during the evacuation at Dunkirk. It is September 1939. Shortly after World War II is declared, Anthony Rhodes...
Salford in 50 Buildings by Carole O'Reilly 9781445694221
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.02Although little is recorded of its earlier history, Salford is a city of great antiquity. In 1228, Henry III granted the Lancashire town the right to hold a market and an annual fair. Centuries...
Fifteen Colonial Thefts: A Guide to Looted African Heritage in Museums Sela Adjei 9780745349527
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €22.72'Eloquent and powerful' - Francoise Verges Debates around restitution and decolonising museums continue to rage across the world. Artefacts, effigies and ancestral remains are finally being...
Smoke Over Birkenau by Liana Millu 9780810115699
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.10Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Poetry Rebellion: Poems and prose to stir the soul by Paul Evans
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €9.13'Galvanises us to notice and care about our glorious natural world, through the words of an army of poets, ancient and modern' - Bel Mooney An anthology of poems to enter the bloodstream and rewild...
Waterloo 1815 (1): Quatre Bras by Gerry Embleton
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.19To commemorate the 2015 bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, one of the defining campaigns in European History, Osprey is replacing its single volume Campaign title covering the whole of the battle...
Rorke's Drift: A New Perspective by Neil Thornton 9781781555538
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.08The battle of Rorke's Drift is established in history as one of Britain's most incredible actions where approximately 155 defenders held off a Zulu force of over 4,000 warriors, in a savage, bloody...
The Uniqueness of Israel by Lance Lambert 9781683890171
RRP: €23.94Booksplease Price: €17.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683890171Author Lance LambertFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint
Blue Guide Florence Alta Macadam 9781905131754
RRP: €20.34Booksplease Price: €19.27Completely updated, this edition contains superb coverage of painting, architecture and sculpture as well as updates on museums including the reorganized Uffizi. Detailed coverage of where to stay...
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise by Scott Rozelle
RRP: €19.20Booksplease Price: €17.70As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as...
Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History by Alan Strathern
RRP: €33.60Booksplease Price: €29.99Why was religion so important for rulers in the pre-modern world? And how did the world come to be dominated by just a handful of religious traditions, especially Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism?...
The Direction of War: Contemporary Strategy in Historical Perspective by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: €32.40Booksplease Price: €26.40The wars since 9/11, both in Iraq and Afghanistan, have generated frustration and an increasing sense of failure in the West. Much of the blame has been attributed to poor strategy. In both the...
First World War For Dummies Sean Lang 9781118679999
RRP: €25.19Booksplease Price: €19.46From the Somme to Gallipoli to the home front, First World War For Dummies provides an authoritative, accessible, and engaging introduction to the War to End All Wars. It takes a global perspective...
A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.34In this monumental book, Chris Harman achieves the impossible-a gripping history of the planet from the perspective of the struggling people throughout the ages.From earliest human society to the...
The Little Book of Oxfordshire by Paul Sullivan
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.84The Little Book of Oxfordshire is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no one will want to be without. Here we find out...
On the Wandering Paths by Sylvain Tesson 9781517912819
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.80A walking journey through France's vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present-more than 425,000 copies sold in France After a free-climbing...
1612: the Lancashire Witch Trials: A New Guide by Christine Goodier by Christine Goodier 9781874181774
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.82This excellent little book is a wonderful introduction to the story of the trial of the witches of Pendle in 1612. In a very lively and readable style, Christine Goodier provides a who's who of the...
Carrhae 53 BC: Rome's Disaster in the Desert Nic Fields 9781472849045
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.39Explores the critical battle of Carrhae, a fascinating tale of treachery, tactics, and topography in which Rome experienced one of its most humiliating defeats. The Battle of Carrhae is from a...