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The Founding of Israel: The Journey to a Jewish Homeland from Abraham to the Holocaust by Martin Connolly
$28.69Here [In the State if Israel] their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance, and gave the world the Eternal Book of Books.' David... -
The Meiji Restoration by W. G. Beasley 9781503608269
RRP: $32.24$28.47For Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point from which modern history begins. In this now classic work of Japanese history, the late W. G. Beasley offers a... -
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
RRP: $14.18$10.02'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward?Susan... -
The Magic Bean: A Short History of Coffee by Gordon Kerr
RRP: $16.76$11.09Having conquered the world's taste buds and established itself as a staple in our daily lives, coffee has mirrored the moods and movements of society for centuries - yet, how much do we know about its history? In his riveting new book, A Short History of... -
Viking Age Iceland by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $19.34$14.13Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this,... -
Arab Armour vs Israeli Armour: Six-Day War 1967 by Chris McNab
RRP: $20.63$14.98The Six-Day War in 1967 was a lightning Israeli campaign that changed the face of the Middle East. Israel's armoured brigades, despite being heavily outnumbered on paper by Arab AFVs, managed to dominate the Arab forces tactically and technologically,... -
The Great Lighthouses of Ireland by David Hare
$35.99The Great Lighthouses of Ireland is a collection of striking images and fascinating stories about the lighthouses around Ireland's coast and the extraordinary men and women who lived and worked in them. The book, published to accompany the TV series... -
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today by Peter Furtado 9780500296349
RRP: $16.76$11.09Revolutions - peaceful or violent, radical or reactionary - have shaped the political landscape of the world we live in today. But what led revolutionaries to action? What were they fighting against and what were they seeking to achieve? Each revolution... -
SAS Operation Storm: Nine men against four hundred Roger Cole 9781444726961
RRP: $16.76$9.69SAS OPERATION STORM is the inside story - told by those who took part - of the greatest secret war in SAS history. The tipping point, Mirbat, South Oman, 19 July 1972 is one of the least-known yet most crucial battles of modern times. If the SAS had been... -
A History of Bangladesh by Willem van Schendel
RRP: $36.11$30.97Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of... -
O'Connell Street: The History and Life of Dublin's Iconic Street Nicola Pierce 9781788491488
RRP: $23.21$18.32O'Connell Street is at the heart of Dublin. It has been through name changes and revolutions, destruction and rebuilding and remained at the heart of the story of Ireland for centuries. Nicola Pierce explores the people, the history, the buildings and... -
Aircraft and Aviation Stamps: A Collector's Guide by Howard Piltz 9781473871861
RRP: $21.92$16.36The author has combined his two greatest interests: Transport and Stamp Collecting and brought them together in this series of books looking at the way postage stamps have led him to increase his knowledge of our world via his interest in all forms of... -
The Finnish-Soviet Winter War 1939-40: Stalin's Hollow Victory by David Murphy
RRP: $20.63$17.20This informative study explores the Soviet invasion of Finland, detailing the events of the Winter War of November 1939 to March 1940. The invasion was expected to be swift and decisive, however, the fighting qualities of the Finnish Army blunted the... -
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
RRP: $19.34$12.32Sixty years after the defeat of the Third Reich, the complexities of Nazi ideology are still being unravelled. This enormously influential book has provided the first serious account of these ideological origins. The book demonstrates the way in which... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $25.80$18.95**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative... -
The SVD Dragunov Rifle by Chris McNab
RRP: $20.63$14.98Featuring specially commissioned artwork and carefully chosen photographs, this study charts the SVD Dragunov rifle's development, combat use and lasting legacy, from Vietnam to Syria. Developed as a medium-range sniping rifle in the Soviet Union... -
Acute Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses by Angela Kucia 9781119117780
RRP: $52.83$46.30In the newly revised Second Edition of Cardiac Care: A Practical Guide for Nurses, a team of dedicated and widely recognised nursing medical experts from around the world deliver an invaluable and practical guide for nurses who practice in cardiac care... -
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
RRP: $14.18$9.86Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era,... -
Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 by John Darwin
RRP: $14.18$10.02From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the... -
Verdun: The Left Bank by Christina Holstein 9781473827035
RRP: $16.76$11.73This new and enthralling study is the first detailed work in English of a largely unknown period of the Battle of Verdun. It considers the background to the battle and casts light on the first three critical months of fighting there. It explains the... -
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
RRP: $30.95$27.40A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have... -
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China by Xinran Xue 9781399406680
RRP: $32.25$22.73The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal and political intrigue, and the communist party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his... -
The Civil War by Julius Caesar 9780199540624
RRP: $14.18$10.02`All over Italy men were conscripted, and weapons requisitioned; money was exacted from towns, and taken from shrines; and all the laws of god and man were overturned.' The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself... -
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece by James Fraser
RRP: $45.15$28.59An eye-opening publication that contrasts perceptions of luxury - together with its positive and negative connotations - in imperial Persia, democratic Athens and the Hellenistic world between 600 and 200 BCE. 'Luxuriously illustrated' - Asian Review of... -
Southampton at War 1939 - 1945 by John J. Eddleston 9781473870543
RRP: $16.76$11.73In the Great War of 1914-1918, Southampton played a vital role in the war effort. Designated as Port Number One it saw hundreds of thousands of men and many tons of equipment sail for the fields of Belgium and France. The Second World War was a... -
MESSERSCHMITT Bf 109: The Latter Years - War in the East to the Fall of Germany Chris Goss 9781473899483
RRP: $19.34$14.64The most iconic German aircraft of the Second World War, the Messerschmitt Bf 109 was the Luftwaffe's principal fighter from 1939 until 1942 when the superior Focke-Wulf Fw 190 came into greater prominence. The Bf 109 served in every theatre of the war,... -
The Ones Who Got Away: Mighty Eighth Airmen on the Run in Occupied Europe by Bill Yenne 9781472858719
RRP: $32.25$22.73A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away. To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force flying over the war-torn skies of Europe required skill, tenacity, and ... -
My Life on the Plains: or, Personal Experiences with Indians by George Custer 9780486835990
RRP: $8.37$6.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486835990Author George CusterFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Outremer: Faith and Blood: Skirmish Wargames in the Crusades by Jamie Gordon
RRP: $16.76$12.64Outremer: Faith and Blood is a 28mm skirmish wargame featuring small groups of warriors fighting in Outremer during the Crusades. While suitable for one-off skirmish encounters the focus of the game is a structured and progressive campaign setting in... -
Haunted Cotswolds by Diz White 9780752454269
RRP: $16.76$12.41Spine-chilling tales of ghosts, ghouls and the undead have been gathered here from every corner of the Cotswolds, revealing in heart-stopping detail this region's unexplained events and the creepy elements that lurk just beneath its rolling hills and... -
Wartime Juliet Gardiner 9780755310289
RRP: $14.18$9.55Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war on the Home Front. The book has been commended for its... -
Liverpool Cowkeepers by Dave Joy
RRP: $20.63$14.00The mid-1800s witnessed a mass exodus from the Pennine 'Dales' as the then latest generation of farmers and miners sought a new life in the New World. However, many of these found a new life for themselves a bit closer to home - they became Liverpool... -
Ten Cities that Made an Empire by Tristram Hunt
RRP: $19.34$14.13From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised itSince the return of Hong Kong to... -
The Crusades Dr David Nicolle 9781841761794
RRP: $19.34$16.19Born amid immense suffering and bloodshed, the Kingdom of Jerusalem remained a battlefield for almost 200 years. The Crusades gave rise to the Military Orders of the Templars and Hospitallers, and were a backdrop to the careers of some of history's most... -
Churchill's Third World War: British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire 1945 by Jonathan Walker
RRP: $23.21$17.60As the war in Europe entered its final months, the world teetered on the edge of a Third World War. While Soviet forces hammered their way into Berlin, Churchill ordered British military planners to prepare the top secret Operation Unthinkable - the plan... -
The Wars of the Roses by Terence Wise
RRP: $16.76$12.63Much myth and fantasy surrounds the events of the Wars of the Roses: a bloody and prolonged dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster. Terence Wise's fascinating text lays bare the real story, and examines the armies, liveries and badges... -
The Storm by Daniel Defoe
RRP: $16.76$11.73On the evening of 26th November 1703, a cyclone from the north Atlantic hammered into southern Britain at over seventy miles an hour, claiming the lives of over 8,000 people. Eyewitnesses reported seeing cows left stranded in the branches of trees and... -
The Nevills of Middleham: England's Most Powerful Family in the Wars of the Roses by K. L. Clark
RRP: $19.34$14.90In 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; John Nevill was an accomplished soldier who'd done much to... -
Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings by Johann Gottfried Herder
RRP: $25.79$21.21Historians of ideas, and students of nationalism in particular, have traced the origins of much of our current vocabulary and ways of thinking about the nation back to Johann Gottfried Herder. This volume provides a clear, readable, and reliable... -
Battle of Malta: June 1940-November 1942 by Anthony Rogers
RRP: $20.63$14.98A 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, the British crown colony of Malta - which dominated the...