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Hitler's Savage Canary: A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II David Lampe 9781526760722
RRP: $19.34$14.13Adolf Hitler stated that after occupation Denmark would turn into a model protectorate'. Winston Churchill, meanwhile, maintained that the small country of (then) four million people would become the sadistic murderer's canary'. In the end, neither was... -
Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in Elizabethan Gardens by Jane Whitaker
RRP: $51.60$39.71The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No... -
Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action Kevin Guyan 9781350230729
RRP: $25.79$22.72Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data? This important book is the first to look at queer data - defined as... -
A Short History Of The Middle East by Gordon Kerr 9781843446361
RRP: $16.76$4.53Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and religion but... -
The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless: A True Story of Love and Compassion Amid a Pandemic by Christina Lamb
RRP: $25.80$17.21'There will be an avalanche of books about the pandemic. None will be as eye-opening or humane or moving as Lamb's' DAILY TELEGRAPH A story of poverty, generosity and worlds colliding in modern Britain When... -
Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age by Max Adams
RRP: $12.89$9.17The story of Aelfred the Great, his war against the Vikings and the foundations of modern Britain. In AD 865, a 'great host' of battle-hardened Norse warriors landed on England's eastern coast, overwhelmed East Anglia with terrifying swiftness and laid... -
The History of the London Underground Map by Roope, Caroline 9781399006811
RRP: $25.80$18.43Few transportation maps can boast the pedigree that London's iconic Tube' map can. Sported on t-shirts, keyrings, duvet covers, and most recently, downloaded an astonishing twenty million times in app form, the map remains a long-standing icon of... -
Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: $16.76$11.73From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it. With the end of the Cold War... -
Catastrophes, Crashes and Crimes in the UAE: Newspaper Articles from the 1970s by Dr Athol Yates 9781909339903
RRP: $12.84$12.37Like any country, the United Arab Emirates have had their share of criminals, accidents, natural disasters and downright weird incidents. Most of these events merit a few pages in the newspapers before disappearing from history. This book brings the... -
Germany 1945: From War to Peace by Richard Bessel 9781416526193
RRP: $14.18$9.03In 1945, Germany experienced the greatest outburst of deadly violence that the world has ever seen. Germany 1945 examines the country's emergence from the most terrible catastrophe in modern history. When the Second World War ended, millions had been... -
Shot Down and on the Run: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII by Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork
RRP: $14.18$10.81First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces. Thousands of airmen shot down over enemy soil between 1940 and 1945 miraculously escaped capture. This compelling narrative reveals their... -
The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging Anne Murcott (SOAS, University of London, UK) 9781350022102
RRP: $25.79$22.72Tracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging. From tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic trays and... -
Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland by Fiona Watson
RRP: $16.76$11.04Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes - William Wallace and Robert Bruce - have excited the attention of a host of novelists, filmmakers, artists and... -
Defending Rodinu Volume 1: Creation and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force, 1945-1960 by Krzysztof Dabrowski
RRP: $21.87$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070715Author Krzysztof DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
We Fought Them in Gunboats: HMS Beehive edition by Robert Hichens
RRP: $19.34$16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899262595Author Robert HichensFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Golden Duck (UK) LtdPublisher Golden Duck (UK) Ltd -
Monty: His Part in My Victory by Spike Milligan
RRP: $14.18$10.87Monty: His Part in My Victory is volume three of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'It's all over, Von Arnheim has surrendered and he's very angry.''This could mean war...'The third volume of Spike Milligan's laugh-a-line... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont 9781509845453
RRP: $32.25$28.11A Sunday Times Book of the Year 2021This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than... -
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation by Declan Walsh
RRP: $14.18$10.02'All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read this book' - Pankaj MishraThe demise of Pakistan - a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam - is regularly predicted. But things rarely... -
Putin's Playbook: Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America by Rebekah Koffler
RRP: $16.76$10.55With a new introduction about the crisis in Ukraine.Putin's Playbook is urgently essential reading. A former U.S. intelligence specialist who was born and raised in the Soviet Union explains what Vladimir Putin wants and how he plans to get it. Russia's... -
Ruth: A Migrant's Tale by Ilana Pardes
RRP: $21.92$18.85A wide-ranging exploration of the story of Ruth, a foreigner who became the founding mother of the Davidic dynasty "[A]n insightful exploration of the book's themes of otherness, kindness, and loyalty. This is a valuable contribution to the literature... -
Fallschirmjager: German Paratroopers - 1942-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Francois Cochet
RRP: $19.34$14.13As elite troops, the German Fallschirmjager (paratroopers) were regularly engaged in front line combat during the Second World War. Their famed actions such as the fighting in Scandinavia, the taking of the Belgian fortress Eden-Emal in May 1940, and the... -
Barents Sea 1942: The Battle for Russia's Arctic Lifeline Angus Konstam 9781472848451
RRP: $20.63$14.98A gripping examination of the Battle of the Barents Sea, fought in the near darkness and icy cold of the northern winter, in which the Kriegsmarine sought to sever the crucial Allied Arctic Convoy route once and for all. The Arctic convoys that passed... -
The Song of Roland Glyn Burgess 9780140445329
RRP: $12.89$9.17On 15 August 778, Charlemagne's army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant... -
Birmingham: Remembering the 50s and 60s by Alton Douglas
$15.96Birmingham's Got Talent! Well, there can't be any question about that - a shopping centre that has always rivalled almost anywhere in existence, a manufacturing industry with a worldwide reputation andtheatres and cinemas in abundance.In this collection... -
Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago by Anna Pasternak
RRP: $12.89$8.57'Riveting, tragic tale' New Yorker 'Anna Pasternak has produced an irresistible account of joy, suffering and passion' Financial Times The heartbreaking story of the passionate love affair between Boris Pasternak and... -
Weapons of the Samurai by Stephen Turnbull
RRP: $18.05$12.58This fully illustrated new book describes and analyses the weapons and equipment traditionally associated with the samurai, Japan's superlative warriors. It examines the range of weapons used by them at different times and in different situations. ... -
Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin by Sherard Cowper-Coles
RRP: $16.76$10.94In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world. In 1977 fresh-faced Oxford graduate Sherard Cowper-Coles entered the hallowed portals of the Foreign Office... -
When We Were Enemies: A Novel by Emily Bleeker 9781662509889
RRP: $11.60$7.91Two women, generations apart, in the spotlight. A powerful novel about family secrets, devastating choices, and hope for the future by the bestselling author of When I'm Gone. Camera-shy Elise Branson is different from the other women in her maternal... -
By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $35.46$26.16By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of... -
Isle of Man at War 1939-45 by Matthew Richardson 9781526720733
RRP: $16.76$11.73Isle of Man at War 1939-45 presents the remarkable story of the Manx people, and their homeland, in the most destructive conflict of the twentieth century. Few people are now aware of the extraordinary role that this small island played in assisting the... -
Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-1922 by Richard Abbott 9781781176344
RRP: $24.50$17.56The Royal Irish Constabulary are often portrayed as the villains of the War of Independence in Ireland, Irishmen who betrayed their country by serving the British regime. No memorial has been raised in Ireland to those who died during the conflict and... -
The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler by David I. Kertzer 9780192890733
RRP: $40.62$28.30Filled with discoveries, this is the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to respond to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Nazi domination of Europe. The Pope at War is the third in a trilogy of books about the papacy's response to the... -
Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake
RRP: $39.98$31.01In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined... -
Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer
RRP: $19.34$14.87Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is... -
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
RRP: $12.89$7.69ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us... -
South Manchester Remembered by Graham Phythian 9780752470023
RRP: $19.34$14.90South Manchester Remembered is a fascinating compilation of articles written by author and South Manchester Reporter columnist Graham Phythian. Take a nostalgic journey into South Manchester's colourful past with this rich collection of tales from bygone... -
Kathmandu by Tomas Bell
RRP: $16.76$11.60One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city--exploring in... -
Pattern Under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk Life of East Anglia by George Ewart Evans 9781908213099
RRP: $19.35$14.14In 1948, shortly after settling with his family in the village of Blaxhall, Suffolk, George Ewart Evans started recording the conversations he had with neighbours, many of whom were born in the nineteenth century and had worked on farms before the... -
Rosa: The Story of the Rose by Peter E. Kukielski
RRP: $32.25$26.99A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the rose-the "queen of flowers"-in art, medicine, cuisine, and more"From noted rosarian Peter Kukielski comes this unique and handsome book that traces the many ways that roses have captured human... -
Churchill & Son Josh Ireland 9781529337754
RRP: $25.80$17.74'A compelling tragedy, but one which casts valuable new light on the outsized human dimensions of both men ... Agonising but excellent' The Telegraph'In this fascinating account of the turbulent Churchill father-and-son relationship, Josh Ireland shows...