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Unity and Struggle by Basil Davidson 9780853456254
RRP: $19.29$16.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456254Author Basil DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Guards: Changing The Guard - Trooping The Colour - The Regiments by Peter Simkin
RRP: $7.74$5.73The seven illustrious Guards Regiments, renowned and respected around the world for their self-discipline, smartness and reliability, are today manned by thoroughly modern soldiers equally at home on Horseguards Parade or on operational duty. See them at... -
A History of the Irish Language: From the Norman Invasion to Independence by Aidan Doyle
RRP: $33.53$31.68In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main... -
Red Corona: A Richard Knox Spy Thriller: 'A thriller of true ambition and scope.' Lucie Whitehouse by Tim Glister
RRP: $11.60$7.64WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE! 'Relentless and sleek. This pitch-perfect debut signals the arrival of a remarkable talent.' A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window 'A thoroughly engaging spy thriller that had me gripped from start to... -
Exploring Roman London by Simon Webb 9781399058490
RRP: $21.92$15.84Much more than a simple guidebook, Exploring Roman London is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the early history of England's capital city. In addition to containing information on every site in London where Roman remains can be seen, the... -
Plain Tales From The Raj: Images of British India in the 20th Century by Charles Allen
RRP: $14.18$8.35The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by... -
A 1950s Housewife: Marriage and Homemaking in the 1950s by Sheila Hardy 9780750964142
RRP: $16.76$12.41Being a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. After the independence of the wartime years, women had to leave their jobs when they married and support their husband by creating a spotless home, delicious meals and an inviting... -
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan Jose Millas
RRP: $19.34$12.64A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all. Perhaps he is a... -
The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of World War II by Paul E. Eden 9781782744733
RRP: $45.15$32.86The Encyclopedia of Aircraft of WWII is an exhaustive survey of the aircraft flown by all the combatants in Europe and the Pacific, including such famous aircraft as the P-51 Mustang, Supermarine Spitfire, Yakovlev Yak-3, Messerschmitt Me 109 and Vought... -
The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization by Stephen Bourke 9780500294451
RRP: $25.79$18.51The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization synthesizes the latest research and information from a range of disciplines to tell the compelling story, from the Neolithic period through to the Arab conquest, of how a group of linguistically disparate,... -
Unwinnable: Britain's War in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 by Theo Farrell
RRP: $16.76$11.73Afghanistan was an unwinnable war. As British and American troops withdraw, discover this definitive account that explains why. It could have been a very different story. British forces could have successfully withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2002, having... -
Japan: Land of the Rising Sun by Melanie Clegg
RRP: $25.79$17.61From shrines to megacities, from paddy fields to high speed trains to the latest in digital technology, Japan is a fascinating mix of the ancient and modern, of East and West. Featuring castles and hot springs, remote volcanic islands and intense... -
The British Officer: Leading the Army from 1660 to the present by Anthony Clayton 9781405859011
$46.10An Army officer must lead men into frightening and dangerous situations and sometimes make them do things that they never thought they could do. This book recounts how British officers have led their men, and commanded their respect, from the days of... -
Knight's Cross Winners of the Waffen SS: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Marc Rikmenspoel
$22.50Knight's Cross winners of the Waffen-SS details some of the most-decorated personalities of that infamous organization. Rare photos will portray men such Sepp Dietrich, Theodor Eicke, and Michael Wittmann. The images are a mix of studio portraits and... -
Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life: 2023 by Jane Hamlett
RRP: $25.80$18.43A history of pets and their companions in Britain from the Victorians to today.Pet Revolution tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we keep, as well as how we relate to and care for them, has... -
The Great British Bobby: A history of British policing from 1829 to the present Clive Emsley 9781849161978
RRP: $16.76$11.09The Victorians called him 'Bobby' after Sir Robert Peel, the Home Secretary who created the Metropolitan Police in 1829. The generations that followed came to regard the force in which he served as 'the best police in the world'. If twenty-first century... -
Boeing in Photographs: A Century of Flight by Martin W. Bowman
RRP: $32.25$23.92Founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing, a wealthy timber merchant, the mighty Boeing Company's long history spans decades of rich achievement and technological development. Beginning with the manufacture of seaplanes, fighters and, from the 1930s onwards,... -
The Guide to Mysterious Loch Ness and the Inverness Area by Geoff Holder 9780752444857
RRP: $20.63$15.80This is a guide to everything supernatural, paranormal, folkloric, eccentric and, above all, mysterious that has occurred on the dark waters of the enigmatic Loch Ness and the surrounding area of Inverness. Containing Celtic gods and martyrs, telepathy,... -
The Pit Brow Women of Wigan Coalfield by Alan Davies
RRP: $19.34$14.90This illustrated book tells the story of the female colliery surface workers, or pit brow women, of the Wigan coalfield. The numbers of women working in mines grew vastly after the expansion of the coal industry in the mid- to late eighteenth century... -
London: A Travel Guide Through Time by Matthew Green
RRP: $16.76$11.73Step 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... -
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Timothy Snyder 9781784701482
RRP: $16.76$11.73LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE We have come to see the Holocaust as a factory of death, organised by bureaucrats. Yet by the time the gas chambers became operation more than a million European Jews were already dead: shot at close range... -
A Higher Form of Killing Jeremy Paxman 9780099441595
RRP: $19.34$14.13A Higher Form of Killing was first published to great acclaim in 1982. The authors have written a new Introduction and a new Epilogue to take account of the events that have happened since the early 1980s - including the break-up of the former Soviet... -
The Great British Woodstock: The Incredible Story of the Weeley Festival 1971 by Ray Clark 9780750969895
RRP: $25.80$19.92It started as a donkey derby, a small local charity event, but when plans for the 1971 Isle of Wight Festival fell through, Clacton Round Table decided to hold a pop concert of their own - a small gig for 5,000 locals. Little did they know that it would... -
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver
RRP: $14.18$10.02Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered small, frail and shy. So what was it that turned this... -
Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti by Jake Johnston 9781250284679
RRP: $32.24$21.13Haiti's state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels... -
Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
RRP: $28.38$21.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1980.Book InformationISBN 9780375756788Author Edmund MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden 9780571234370
RRP: $16.76$11.04Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the... -
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
RRP: $11.60$7.51This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement-the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till-"and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with history: learn from it" (The... -
Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers who Turned the Tide in the Second World War by Paul Kennedy
RRP: $16.76$11.73From Paul Kennedy, author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, one of the most acclaimed history books of recent decades, Engineers of Victory is a new account of how the tide was turned against the Nazis by the Allies in the Second World War. In... -
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957 by Frank Dikotter 9781408886359
RRP: $21.92$16.23The second installment in 'The People's Trilogy', the groundbreaking series from Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author Frank Dikoetter 'For anyone who wants to understand the current Beijing regime, this is essential background reading' Anne Applebaum ... -
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control by Stephen Kinzer
RRP: $19.34$15.67The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentle hearted torturer - the agency's "poisoner in chief." As head of the MK-ULTRA mind control project, he directed brutal experiments at secret prisons on three continents. He... -
Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution by R. R. Palmer 9780691175928
RRP: $28.38$21.58The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in... -
The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery by Stephen Bates 9781785789601
RRP: $15.47$9.96SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEYA brilliant narrative investigation into the... -
More Was Lost: A Memoir by Eleanor Perenyi
RRP: $20.63$14.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590179499Author Eleanor PerenyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
German U-Boat Losses During World War II: Details of Destruction by Niestle, Axel 9781399082839
RRP: $21.92$15.84Hitler's U-boats fired some of the first shots of the Second World War, going on to threaten the Allies' maritime life lines until the very end of the fighting in Europe. Indeed, the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of... -
Victor Boys: True Stories from Forty Memorable Years of the Last V Bomber by Tony Blackman
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Handley Page Victor was the third of the three V Bombers and the most long lasting, serving in the RAF until 1993, and still doing invaluable service in the first Iraq war. Moreover, in 1982 it was only the Victor tanker fleet based on Ascension... -
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century Brad de Long 9781399803410
RRP: $38.70$25.54AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEARA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world's leading economists, a... -
The History of Europe in Bite-Sized Chunks by Jacob F Field
RRP: $10.31$4.53An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-sized Chunks details the events, personalities, ideas and disasters that have shaped our continent.The book... -
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History by Thomas J. Barfield 9780691181639
RRP: $38.70$30.04An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern timesThe world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins... -
Protagoras by Plato
RRP: $10.31$7.47'You are going to entrust your soul to the care of a sophist. But I should be surprised if you even know what a sophist is.' In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled the Greek world claiming to teach success in public...