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Falklands Secret Weapon, MV Norland: First in, Last Out - From North Sea Ferry to San Carlos Bay by Reg Kemp
RRP: $35.08$26.99In 1982, North Sea ferry MV Norland transported passengers and vehicles between Hull and Rotterdam. Requisitioned as a troop ship to take the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment to the Falklands, the 'volunteer' merchant navy crew were told they would only... -
Black Watch by Gregory Burke
RRP: $21.43$14.70Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watch reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, what it means to be part of the war on terror, and what it means to make the journey home.This book contains Gregory Burke's... -
The Man with Miraculous Hands: The Incredible Story of Himmler’s Physician Who Saved Thousands of Lives by Joseph Kessel
RRP: $39.00$26.62The incredible story of Heinrich Himmler's physician who saved thousands of lives. With a new introduction by bestselling author Norman Ohler, which addresses Kersten's flawed legacy. In 1938, before the outbreak of the Second World War, Dr... -
The Liberal Democrats: From Hope to Despair to Where? David Cutts 9781526127839
RRP: $48.75$34.94This is the definitive account of the rise, fall and future prospects of the Liberal Democrats, the party that threatened to break the mould of British politics but suffered electoral calamity after entering government with the Conservatives.Retracing... -
Japan's Trafalgar: The Voyage of the Condemned Fleet to the Straits of Korea by Phil Thorne
RRP: $87.75$66.20The Battle of Tsushima, the epic battle between the Japanese and Russian navies on May 27-28 1905, is examined in far greater detail than ever before. Making extensive use of official records, personal accounts and a wealth of untouched information on... -
Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey
RRP: $58.50$44.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593299456Author Colin DickeyFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 573gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 157mm * 28mm -
In the Footsteps of the Brontes by George Sheeran
RRP: $31.18$21.16The lives and works of the celebrated Bronte family are so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their characters offers a new perspective on their work. Our... -
Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore That Built the Atomic Bomb by Susan Williams
RRP: $33.13$29.85Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb.The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important... -
Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War by Stephen Bourne
RRP: $25.33$16.69In 1914 Britain was home to at least 10,000 black Britons, many of African and West Indian heritage. Most of them were loyal to the 'mother country' when the First World War broke out. Despite being discouraged from serving in the British Army, men... -
Forbidden History: Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, and the Suppressed Origins of Civilization J. Douglas Kenyon 9781591430452
RRP: $35.08$22.76In Forbidden Historywriter and editor J. Douglas Kenyon has chosen 42 essays that have appeared in the bimonthly journal Atlantis Risingto provide readers with an overview of the core positions of key thinkers in the field of ancient mysteries and... -
Major & Mrs Holt's (Gallipoli) Battlefield Guide to Gallipoli by Tonie Holt
RRP: $29.15$24.32As the battlefields of Gallipoli become even more firmly established on the tourist map, this book is bound to be as popular as it is useful. The format of Major and Mrs Holt's battlefield guides is by now tried and tested, providing as they do not only... -
The Walks Near Farnham: 45 Short Walks 4-6 Miles Linking Crondall Puttenham Hindhead Frensham Bentley by Bill Andrews 9780956060471
$16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956060471Author Bill AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Bill AndrewsPublisher Bill Andrews -
Hidden History of the Korean War: New Edition by I F Stone
RRP: $48.75$39.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900083Author I F StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Battle of the Bulge 1944-45 by Andrew Rawson
RRP: $19.48$15.15In December 1944 the German military made its final attempt to end the Second World War by throwing in all its reserves in a desperate attempt to shatter the Allied lines. After breaking through the American-held sector in the Ardennes, two Panzer armies... -
German Armor in Normandy by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006437
RRP: $38.98$27.85Throughout the Second World War, a shift occurred in the composition of the large armored units of armies which lead to an increase in the power of their tanks in particular. The Germans were no exception. Many of its recently formed Panzer divisions,... -
Slavic Myths by Ema Lakinska
RRP: $17.53$12.75With a new introduction, this collection of Slavic tales is based on the oral storytelling traditions of the peoples of Eastern Europe, from the Polish and the Slovaks to the Macedonians, Czechs and Serbians, with roots in pagan folklore and influenced... -
The Bolivian Diary by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
RRP: $19.48$14.27'Guevara was a figure of epic proportions. These diaries, stark and moving, will be his most enduring monument' ObserverThe final diaries of Che Guevara begin in 1966, when he travelled to Bolivia to foment a revolution, and end just two days before his... -
Whale Tells a Tale by Russell Punter 9781474971508
RRP: $11.68$7.41How can Whale escape from four hungry sharks? By telling them a tale of treasure, perhaps? Find out in this latest edition to the popular Phonics Readers series. A funny rhyming story, specially written to develop phonemic awareness. With free online... -
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China by Jessica Rawson
RRP: $78.00$52.55A Prospect Book of the YearAn epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombsThe three millennia up to the establishment of the first imperial Qin dynasty in 221 BC cemented many of the distinctive elements of... -
A History of the World with the Women Put Back in by Kerstin Lucker 9780750989091
RRP: $39.00$29.91'Who says that daughters cannot be heroic?' Once upon a time, history was written by men, for men and about men. Women were deemed less important, their letters destroyed, their stories ignored. Not any more. This is the story of women who went to war,... -
The Other Side of Notting Hill: From Wartime to the Westway by Roger Rogowski 9780750989060
RRP: $33.13$25.60Notting Hill has inspired a large number of books and has often made national news - though not always for the right reasons. It has forever been an area of contrast between rich and poor, and has undergone almost constant change since it was developed... -
Caesar Rules: The Emperor in the Changing Roman World (c. 50 BC - AD 565) by Olivier Hekster
RRP: $58.50$51.38For centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what exactly he had to do, or how the succession was organised. Everyone... -
Come Fly the World: The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace by Julia Cooke 9781785787799
RRP: $21.43$8.21At a time when that 1960s notion of air travel as decadent and exceptional is experiencing an unexpected revival, this book ... could be the G&T in a plastic glass you need.' The SpectatorTravel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service 9781509883059
RRP: $21.43$15.89In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite... -
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: $21.43$15.58After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation... -
Partition of Ireland 1900-25 for CCEA A2 Level by Russell Rees
$39.35Written to address the CCEA GCE History specification for Unit A2 2: Option 4: Partition of Ireland 1900-25, renowned historian Dr Russell Rees has comprehensively updated his authoritative Ireland 1900-25. The book is a detailed and insightful... -
The Arab Conquests by Justin Marozzi
RRP: $37.03$26.54The story of the seventh- and eighth-century Muslim conquests, when armies inspired by the new religion of Islam burst out of Arabia to build the Islamic Empire. 'This book delivers drama through sublime writing, but mainly through marvellous images..... -
Desert Storm 1991: The most shattering air campaign in history by Dr Richard P. Hallion
RRP: $29.23$21.35An expertly written, illustrated new analysis of the Desert Storm air campaign fought against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which shattered the world's fourth-largest army and sixth-largest air force in just 39 days, and revolutionized the world's ideas about... -
The Granite Coast: Dún Laoghaire, Sandycove, Dalkey by Peter Pearson
RRP: $64.33$47.79Explore Dun Laoghaire and its coastal surroundings with local painter, historian and writer Peter Pearson as he reveals the story behind its transformation from rocky granite shoreline to grand Victorian 'watering place'. Peter Pearson is a Dun... -
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot Mifflin 9780803235175
RRP: $31.18$25.162019 Tucson Weekly "40 Essential Arizona Books" pick 2014 One Book Yuma selection 2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection 2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist 2009 Southwest Book of the Year"The Blue Tattoo is well... -
The Children's Nurse: The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse Susan Macqueen 9781409129172
RRP: $17.53$12.29The memoir of a Great Ormond Street nurse.This is the inspirational story of life as a nurse during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most of which was spent at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Susan Macqueen was 12 years old when she accompanied her mum... -
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne Murphy
RRP: $58.50$46.92An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "a great engine of state"The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders-and yet came to... -
Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $31.18$22.64Featuring full-colour artwork, maps and carefully chosen illustrations, this exciting book investigates the Teutonic Knights and their Lithuanian foes during the epic Lithuanian Crusade. The Teutonic Knights were a military order committed to... -
The Tudor Socialite: A Social Calendar of Tudor Life by Jan-Marie Knights 9781398119567
RRP: $21.43$14.55Delivered in bite-sized diary chunks, Jan-Marie Knights takes the reader on a journey into the world of Tudor high society. This is a world of love affairs, tragedy, marriage and death; the realm of flamboyant dress, opulent jewellery and burning... -
Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939-1945 by Richard Taylor 9781399081030
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
East China Sea 1945: Climax of the Kamikaze by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: $31.18$22.64This study describes the air-sea offensive supporting the ground-force invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in February and April 1945, which led to the sinking of the Yamato and the onslaught of the Japanese kamikaze. During the Pacific War, the island... -
The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue by Stephen McGinty
RRP: $19.48$13.10The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13. They were out of their depth, out of breath, and out of time. It was 1973. Two men were trapped in a crippled submarine... -
The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky 9780486433981
RRP: $33.13$21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486433981Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder 9780802144256
RRP: $27.28$24.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144256Author Gary KinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 by Alistair Horne
RRP: $37.03$26.54To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is the final book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and The Price of Glory and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to...