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SAC in the 1980s by Adrian Symonds
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65'Fighter pilots make movies, bomber pilots make history' - or so the bomber pilots say, anyway. Strategic Air Command held a constant nuclear-armed vigil, ready to launch nuclear war at a moment's... -
The Shah by Abbas Milani
Booksplease Price: $22.63Though his monarchy was toppled in 1979 and he died in 1980, Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlevi, the last Shah of Iran, remains relevant today. He was a social reformer, a romantic egomaniac, and a deeply... -
Perpetrators Victims Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe 1933-1945 by Raul Hilberg 9780060995072
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $16.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060995072Author Raul HilbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint < -
They Were Here Before Us: Stories from Our First Million Years by Ran Barkai 9781786788313
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.97This is not a book about archaeological sites. We shall come across flint tools, bones, skulls, surprising structures, and layers of earth that we can date to different periods-but they are not the... -
The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects by Brandon M. Schechter 9781501739798
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $33.58The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things-from spoons to tanks-to show how a... -
Reminiscences of a Radar Plotter: Life in the Royal Navy in Ceylon at the End of World War 2 by John Barford Lindop 9781905999248
Booksplease Price: $21.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905999248Author John Barford LindopFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Impr -
Wellington's Spies by Mary McGrigor 9781526766960
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.79Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. Then there was only one way of obtaining it by spies and informers. The Author uses first hand accounts of three of... -
Tigers I and II : Germany's Most Feared Tanks of World War II by David Doyle 9780764358487
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.96Germany's Tiger tank, whether in the form of the Tiger I or later Tiger II (King Tiger), was the most feared tank of WWII. Despite production totaling fewer than 2,000 units, its heavy armor, its... -
A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa by Emma Christopher 9780199695935
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.07This is a story lost to history for over two hundred years; a dirty secret of failure, fatal misjudgement and desperate measures which the British Empire chose to forget almost as soon as it was over... -
History of Civilization in Europe by Francois Guizot 9780865978379
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978379Author Francois GuizotFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $14.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101980200Author Colin DickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint < -
Secret Shepperton: England's Hollywood by Jill Armitage
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.37Secret Shepperton explores the history of the town from its early origins as an Iron Age settlement nestling on the banks of the River Thames. It's the place where Caesar crossed the river in AD 54... -
Through The Looking Glasses: The Spectacular Life of Spectacles by Travis Elborough
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman'Lively, engaging and admirably wide-ranging' The Times'Fascinating' ObserverThe... -
The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square by Ned Sublette 9781556529580
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556529580Author Ned SubletteFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint < -
Polish Wings 32: Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-21MF by Adam Golabek
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $17.65This new book in the popular Polish Wings series describes and illustrates in unparalleled detail the supersonic MiG-21MF jet fighter in service with the Polish Air Force. Nearly 60 countries in... -
It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump by Stuart Stevens
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593080979Author Stuart StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
The Fortunes of Wangrin by Amadou Hampate Ba
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31The Fortunes of WangrinAmadou Hampate Ba [note special accents on the "e" in Hampate and "a" Ba not correctly reproduced here-see ms.]Translated by Aina Pavolini Taylor with an Introduction by F... -
USS New Jersey (BB62): From World War II, Korea and Vietnam to Museum Ship by David Doyle 9780764356636
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.67Preserved today as a museum in its namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and was the only battleship of any nation to see service during the... -
740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building by Professor Michael Gross
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $19.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767917445Author Michael GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint -
Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution by Rebecca L. Spang
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.20Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesA Financial Times Best History Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearRebecca L. Spang,... -
Mein Kampf (Uncensored Edition) by Adolf Hitler 9780984536139
RRP: $40.13Booksplease Price: $31.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984536139Author Adolf HitlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint < -
Raid 42 by Graham Hurley
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.10'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Spring, 1941. The war in the West is as good as won. Nation after nation has fallen before the Reich's armies. Only Britain endures, her cities under... -
Italian Magic: Secret Lives of Women: Secret Lives of Women by Karyn Crisis 9780578773346
RRP: $41.53Booksplease Price: $33.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578773346Author Karyn CrisisFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint < -
Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon 9780060505127
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505127Author John Steele GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprin -
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.52Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the... -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others by Frank Cottrell Boyce
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers... -
Amtrak, America's Railroad: Transportation's Orphan and Its Struggle for Survival by Geoff Doughty
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.39Discover the story of Amtrak, America's Railroad, 50 years in the making.In 1971, in an effort to rescue essential freight railroads, the US government founded Amtrak. In the post-World War II era,... -
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection Various 9781409177555
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them - and us.Through moving personal letters, hilarious anecdotes, brilliant new fiction, and... -
The Holocaust as Culture by Imre Kertesz
Booksplease Price: $14.55Hungarian Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." His... -
Normandy: A Graphic History of D-Day, the Allied Invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe by Wayne Vansant
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.86Normandy depicts the planning and execution of Operation Overlord in 96 full-color pages. The initial paratrooper assault is shown, as well as the storming of the five D-Day beaches: Utah, Omaha,... -
Devil's Advocate by John Humphrys
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71________________________For decades, John Humphrys has been at the beating heart of the BBC's news division.From the 9 O'Clock News desk to his marathon 32-year stint on the Today Programme, Humphrys... -
The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo: Texts and Politics in Zimbabwe by Luise S. White
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95On March 18, 1975, Herbert Chitepo, an African nationalist in exile and chairman of the war council that struggled to liberate Zimbabwe from white-ruled Rhodesia, was killed by a car bomb. Since... -
The Second World War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
Booksplease Price: $42.22"I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office... I was in this second struggle with Germany for more than five years the... -
History of Cambodia: A Captivating Guide to Cambodian History, Including Events Such as the Rise and Decline of the Khmer Empire, Siege of Angkor, Cambodian-Vietnamese War, and Cambodian Civil War by Captivating History 9781637161944
RRP: $22.74Booksplease Price: $16.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161944Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Impr -
The Epic of Askia Mohammed by Nouhou Malio
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Askia Mohammed is the most famous leader in the history of the Songhay Empire, which reached its apogee during his reign in 1493-1528. Songhay, approximately halfway between the present-day cities of... -
The Spy Who Painted the Queen: The Secret Case Against Philip de Laszlo by Phil Tomaselli
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter... -
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom: Rebellion and the Blasphemy of Empire by Thomas H. Reilly
RRP: $46.83Booksplease Price: $44.53Occupying much of imperial China's Yangzi River heartland and costing more than twenty million lives, the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) was no ordinary peasant revolt. What most distinguished this... -
Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising by Alexander Rabinowitch
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98" . . . an expert work . . . remarkable for its objectivity, judiciousness, and its sure handling of the available evidence." -Political Science Quarterly" . . . a fine piece of historical writing."... -
Russian Food since 1800: Empire at Table by Professor Catriona Kelly 9781350192782
Booksplease Price: $20.84In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this illuminating history of Russian food in the modern age, Catriona Kelly - a leading cultural historian... -
Vergil's Aeneid: The Essential Books by Barry B. Powell
Booksplease Price: $47.82Barry Powell, acclaimed translator of the Iliad (OUP, 2013) and the Odyssey (OUP, 2014) now delivers a graceful, lucid, free-verse translation of the most important books and passages of the Aeneid...