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Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis John Carr 9781529381573
RRP: $25.80$17.74'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett 'It deserves to be ranked among the great survival stories of the Second World War' - The Jewish Chronicle ~~~~~ The captivating true story of one boy's flight across Europe to escape the Nazis. A tale... -
Access to History: Germany: Democracy to Dictatorship c.1918-1945 for WJEC Nicholas Fellows 9781510459175
$32.52Exam board: WJECLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better... -
AV-8B Harrier II: The US Marine Corps' VSTOL Jet Aircraft by Ken Neubeck
RRP: $24.50$16.34The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II-vertical/short takeoff and landing (VSTOL)-is the US Marine Corps' current frontline close-air-support aircraft. A variant of the famed British Aerospace Harrier II, the AV-8B is noted for its ability to hover in... -
Clan Battles: Warfare in the Scottish Highlands by Chris Peers 9781399070034
$26.56Warfare between the clans of the Highlands in the late Middle Ages determined the course of history in this region of Scotland, and Chris Peers's gripping account of it - and of the rivalry between the strongest clans - gives the reader a deep insight... -
Dim Croeso '69 - Gwrthsefyll yr Arwisgo Arwel Vittle 9781784617103
$13.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784617103Author Arwel VittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Honour: Achieving Justice for Banaz Mahmod by Caroline Goode
RRP: $14.18$13.02The true story of the police investigation into the 'honour' killing of Banaz Mahmod When Rahmat Sulemani reported his girlfriend Banaz missing, it quickly became clear to DCI Caroline Goode that something was very wrong. In fact, Banaz had contacted... -
The Bloodiest Year 1972: British Soldiers in Northern Ireland, in Their Own Words by Ken Wharton 9780750985468
RRP: $25.80$19.92Ken Wharton's latest book on the Northern Ireland Troubles is, as always, written from the perspective of the British soldier. Here he chronicles the worst year of The Troubles - 1972 - a year in which 172 soldiers died as a direct consequence of the... -
Parachute Infantry: The book that inspired Band of Brothers by David Webster
RRP: $21.92$15.84Paratrooper David Kenyon Webster jumped into the chaos of occupied Europe on D-Day, fighting his way through Holland and finally capturing Hitler's Eagle's Nest. He was the only member of Easy Company to write down his experiences as soon as he came home... -
Revolutionary France 1770 - 1880 Francois Furet (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) 9780631198086
RRP: $47.67$43.23Revolutionary France is a vivid narrative history. It is also a radical reinterpretation of the period, and testimony to the power both of ideas and of personality in movements of the past. Francois Furet is France's leading historian of the periodA work... -
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan 9780062913685
RRP: $32.25$21.71Should we stop caring about fading regional powers like China, Russia, Germany, and Iran? Will the collapse of international cooperation push France, Turkey, Japan, and Saudi Arabia to the top of international concerns?Most countries and companies are... -
The Great War: 1914-1918 by Peter Hart
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history In this magnum opus, critically-acclaimed historian Peter Hart examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines cutting edge... -
British Diesel Locomotives of the 1950s and '60s by Greg Morse
RRP: $11.60$8.98After the Second World War, the drive for the modernisation of Britain's railways ushered in a new breed of locomotive: the Diesel. Diesel-powered trains had been around for some time, but faced with a coal crisis and the Clean Air Act in the 1950s, it... -
The Greatest Escape: A Bomber Command Navigator s Story of Survival in Nazi Germany by Martin Barratt 9781399075275
RRP: $32.25$22.73This is the story of a wartime bomber, its crew and of a tantalising detective story unfolding over nearly a quarter of a century of intensive research. It is also a story of courage, fortitude and endurance and of one man's will to survive against... -
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander the Great by James Romm
RRP: $32.25$22.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079674Author James RommFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1960-75 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $15.47$11.73A new analysis of the technology and tanks that faced off against each other on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, during the very height of the Cold War. From the 1960s onwards, there was a generational shift in tank design and warfare with the... -
White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams 9781787389618
RRP: $23.21$21.34The shocking, untold story of how African independence was strangled at birth by America's systematic interference. Accra, 1958. Africa's liberation leaders have gathered for a conference, full of strength, purpose and vision. Newly independent Ghana's... -
St Albans: A history by Mark Freeman 9781912260652
RRP: $25.79$22.99Mark Freeman’s classic history of St Albans, first published in 2008, has been substantially rewritten by the author and brought fully up to date, making it an invaluable guide to more than two thousand years of St Albans’s history. From the late Iron... -
Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain by Trevor Phillips 9780008609702
RRP: $16.76$10.94The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the... -
Secrets of Churchill's War Rooms by Jonathan Asbury 9781904897491
RRP: $38.70$31.99On 10 May 1940, Britain's new Prime Minister strode purposefully down to the basement of an anonymous government building and entered a top secret command centre. 'This,' growled Winston Churchill, 'is the room from which I will run the war.'This... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652374
RRP: $32.25$23.25As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
The Mongols David Morgan (University of Wisconsin, USA) 9781405135399
RRP: $42.51$37.59The revised second edition of this highly praised introduction to the Mongol Empire takes account of recent scholarship in the field. Provides an overview of the government, religion, and politics of the Mongolian Empire Considers the effects of Mongol... -
Hurricane Manual 1940 by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: $12.89$8.57Though less iconic than the nimble Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane was a vital stalwart in the British war effort. The Hurricane was a more stable gun platform than the Spitfire, more rugged, and was used in more challenging theatres of war. An amazing... -
Witchcraze by Anne Llewellyn Barstow 9780062510365
RRP: $20.63$12.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062510365Author Anne BarstowFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 235gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 by Charles Townshend
RRP: $19.34$12.64Since 2003, Iraq has rarely left the headlines. But less discussed is the fact that Iraq as we know it was created by the British, in one of the most dramatic interventions in recent history. A cautious strategic invasion by British forces led - within... -
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
RRP: $16.76$14.20No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and... -
Supermarine Spitfire (Icon): 1936 onwards (all marks) by Blackah Price 9781785215742
RRP: $20.63$17.83This is one of the new Icon titles from Haynes. Originally published in the classic manual size, this compact format will appeal to trade outlets and gift markets. The legendary Supermarine Spitfire receives the famous Haynes manual treatment with the... -
Occult Russia: Pagan, Esoteric, and Mystical Traditions by Christopher McIntosh
RRP: $24.50$15.83In this in-depth look at occult and esoteric traditions in Russia, Christopher McIntosh explores the currents of mysticism, myth, magic, and the spiritual to which the Russian soul has always been attuned. The author explains how the search for meaning... -
To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain by Adam Hochschild
RRP: $24.50$5.30In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister whose views... -
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon
RRP: $25.79$17.49An unflinching expose of the hidden costs of American war-making written with "an immense and rare humanity" (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts"[War Made Invisible is] an antidote to twenty years of U.S. media malpractice and should... -
Prison Notebooks: Volumes 1, 2 & 3 by Antonio Gramsci
RRP: $103.20$83.58Columbia University Press's multivolume Prison Notebooks is the only complete critical edition of Antonio Gramsci's seminal writings in English. Based on the authoritative Italian edition of Gramsci's work, Quaderni del Carcere, this comprehensive... -
The Dublin Railway Murder: The sensational true story of a Victorian murder mystery by Thomas Morris
RRP: $12.89$9.17A thrilling investigation of a true Victorian crime at Dublin railway station, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2022.'All the shocks and surprises of the best crime fiction' The Times Crime ClubDublin, November 1856: George Little, the... -
A Short History of Lyme Regis by John Fowles 9780946159932
RRP: $7.68$7.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946159932Author John FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote PressDimensions(mm) 180mm * 157mm * 5mm -
The Trench: Life and Death on the Western Front 1914 - 1918 by Trevor Yorke
RRP: $11.60$10.80The Trench - Life and Death on The Western Front - with a Foreword by Michael Morpugo.The horrors of the First World War scarred an entire generation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, one hundred years later, we are asked to reflect upon... -
The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic by Mike Duncan
RRP: $32.25$23.45The creator of the award-winning podcast series The History of Rome and Revolutions brings to life the bloody battles, political machinations, and human drama that set the stage for the fall of the Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was one of the most... -
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England by Sharon Marcus
RRP: $28.38$22.39Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each... -
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 9781472261915
RRP: $16.76$11.09***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE***A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair.For the... -
Ghost Pets & Spirit Animals by Jill Armitage 9780752439976
RRP: $12.89$9.74Ghost enthusiasts and pet lovers can combine their passion in this unique publication which will make a most absorbing read for animal lovers and those interested in the paranormal.About the AuthorJill Armitage trained as a photojournalist and, as well... -
The French Mind: A Cultural History of an Exceptional People by Peter Watson 9781398511507
RRP: $21.92$17.61'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review_________________________________________________________________________________________We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and... -
Every Rising Sun: For a thousand and one nights Shaherazade told stories. This is hers. by Jamila Ahmed 9781399805964
RRP: $21.92$13.40'Lyrically imaginative . . . enthralling' GUARDIANBefore she was the legendary Persian queen who spun a thousand tales, Shaherazade was a girl who saw something she shouldn't have.She told the king.She thought she was doing what was right.She couldn't... -
Disbelief: 100 Russian Anti-War Poems by Julia Nemirovskaya 9781739772277
RRP: $12.89$9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739772277Author Julia NemirovskayaFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Smokestack BooksPublisher Smokestack Books