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Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools by Ward Churchill
RRP: $27.28$25.76For five consecutive generations, from roughly 1880-1980, Native American children in the United States and Canada were forcibly taken from their families and relocated to residential schools. The stated goal of this government program was to "kill the... -
Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg by Paul Vallely
RRP: $58.50$42.80'This is the definitive book on philanthropy - its history, contradictions and future' - John Gray, Emeritus Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics 'Good books lay out the lie of the land. Important books change it. This book is... -
Renaissance in the North: Holbein, Burgkmair, and the Age of the Fuggers by Guido Messling 9783777442037
RRP: $101.40$69.67Illustrious turning point - Augsburg as the centre of the German Renaissance. Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Burgkmair are regarded alongside Albrecht Durer as the forerunners of Renaissance painting in Germany. The prosperous Imperial and trading... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
RRP: $48.75$31.94'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary exploration of the birth, death, and legacy of the... -
U-Boats at War in 100 Objects, 1939-1945 by Gordon Williamson
RRP: $48.75$34.36'The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,' wrote Winston Churchill in his history of the Second World War. 'I was even more anxious about this battle than I had been about the glorious air fight called the Battle... -
Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC-AD 1000 Barry Cunliffe 9780300170863
$49.80A sensational, interdisciplinary work which entirely reorients our understanding of Europe from 10,000 BC to the time of the Vikings In this magnificent book, distinguished archaeologist Barry Cunliffe reframes our entire conception of early European... -
Hitler's Interpreter by Paul Schmidt 9781781555163
RRP: $37.03$27.32As the main interpreter for Adolf Hitler during the key prewar moments, such as the Munich Agreement, the British Declaration of War and the surrender of France, Paul-Otto Schmidt was well placed to record his impressions of events from 1935 up to 1945... -
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
RRP: $25.33$17.90During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique... -
Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection Tom M. Devine 9781474408806
RRP: $42.88$35.04For more than a century and a half the real story of Scotland's connections to transatlantic slavery has been lost to history and shrouded in myth. There was even denial that the Scots, unlike the English, had any significant involvement in slavery... -
SAS Combat Vehicles 1942-91 by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: $23.38$16.63A concise illustrated history of the Special Air Service's lightweight, heavily armed vehicles and their combat use. The SAS, the world's most famous special operations unit, made its name in the desert of North Africa, shooting up Axis airfields... -
The Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham Ahmad
RRP: $19.48$14.27The incredible and inspirational true story of one young man's struggle to find peace during war, and the power of music to bring hope to a desperate nation. 'Ahmad has created a moving and visceral account of conflict, hope and the power of music'... -
The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Dan Jones
RRP: $19.48$14.06The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science,... -
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe Monty Halls 9781509866014
RRP: $19.48$5.09'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .'Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over... -
Corregidor 1945: Repossessing the Rock by Mark Lardas
RRP: $33.13$23.95A detailed and fascinating exploration of the 1945 US combined land, naval and air operation to retake Corregidor and the other Japanese-held islands in Manila Bay from a determined and well-entrenched enemy. The islands guarding the entrance to... -
The Wood that Built London: A Human History of the Great North Wood by C.J. Schuler
RRP: $25.33$17.92It is hard to imagine that the busy townscape of South London was once a great wood, stretching almost seven miles from Croydon to Deptford or that, scattered through the suburbs, from Dulwich to Norwood, a number of oak woodlands have survived since... -
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: $19.48$14.27From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas Becket The assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170 is one of the most famous events in... -
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard 9780300274172
RRP: $21.43$18.74The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory "A perfectly paced biography."-Tom Holland, Times Literary Supplement Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer... -
Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England by Eleanor Parker
RRP: $31.18$24.30Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and... -
Archaeology for Kids by Richard Panchyk
RRP: $40.93$28.24This activity book features 25 projects such as making a surface survey of a site, building a screen for sifting dirt and debris at a dig, tracking soil age by color, and counting tree rings to date a find, teaches kids the techniques that unearthed... -
Women at War 1939-1945: The Home Front by Carol Harris
RRP: $25.33$19.25Long before the outbreak of the Second World War, official calculations showed Britain would be short of the manpower needed to fight the enemy and keep up production of weapons, food and other essentials. It was hoped that women volunteers would full... -
Edinburgh: The Classic Old Photographs by James McCarroll 9781905769513
RRP: $25.33$22.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769513Author James McCarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd -
DH9: From Ruin to Restoration: The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery in India and Return to Flight of a Rare WWI Bomber by Guy Black
RRP: $39.00$29.58In 2000 aircraft restorer Guy Black of Aero Vintage located the hulks of at least two Airco DH9 bombers in a remote part of India - hidden away in what had been a Maharaja's elephant stable at his palace in Bikaner, Rajasthan. They were truly remarkable... -
The Great Imperial Hangover: How Empires Have Shaped the World by Samir Puri
RRP: $21.43$14.70'An exceptional account.' Prospect'Enlightening.' SpectatorFor the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's... -
Anything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties by Lucy Moore
RRP: $27.28$18.08Bracketed by the catastrophes of the Great War and the Wall Street Crash, 1920s America was a place of drama, tension and hedonism. It glittered and seduced: jazz, flappers, wild all-night parties, the birth of Hollywood, and a glamorous gangster-led... -
Alamein Stephen Bungay 9781854109293
RRP: $29.23$19.31El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in... -
A Most Holy War: The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom by Mark Gregory Pegg 9780195393101
RRP: $29.23$22.48The Albigensian Crusade, the first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--a long savage war for the soul of Christendom. In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a swift-moving,... -
Oxford: Mapping the City by Daniel MacCannell
RRP: $58.50$41.54Over the past four and a half centuries, the magnificent city of Oxford has been mapped for many reasons, few of which have involved the mere finding of one's way through the streets. Maps were produced as part of schemes to defend Oxford from rampaging... -
Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf.B: Construction and Development by Alexander Volgin
RRP: $58.48$42.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583131Author Alexander VolginFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Middlesbrough 1920-2020: A Century of Change by Araf Chohan 9781999647056
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999647056Author Araf ChohanFormat PaperbackImprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation David Hall 9781780227801
RRP: $21.43$14.63The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday... -
Great Western, 0-6-2 Tank Classes: Absorbed and Swindon Designed Classes by David Maidment 9781526752055
RRP: $58.50$42.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Little Book of Herefordshire by David Vaughan 9780750993821
RRP: $25.33$19.25The Little Book of Herefordshire is a compendium full of information which will make you say, 'I never knew that!' Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Herefordshire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its literary,... -
Tudor Warship Mary Rose by Douglas McElvogue
RRP: $37.03$29.23The great warship the Mary Rose was built between 1509 and 1511 and served 34 years in Henry VIII's navy before catastrophically sinking in the Battle of the Solent on 19 July 1545. A fighting platform and sailing ship, she was the pride of the Tudor... -
Desert Queen Janet Wallach 9780753802472
RRP: $25.33$17.22The life of Gertrude Bell is now the subject of the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco and Damian LewisTurning away from privileged Victorian Britain, Gertrude Bell explored, mapped and excavated the world of... -
Tiberius Robin Seager (The University of Liverpool) 9781405115292
RRP: $64.25$56.39Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor's complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor.Argues that... -
Armies of Anglo-Saxon England 410-1066: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $48.75$34.36In the early 5th century, Germanic Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossed the North Sea in increasing numbers and began settling among the ruins of the former Roman province of Britannia. This led to centuries of warfare as these 'Anglo-Saxons' carved new,... -
The Illuminated Window: Stories Across Time by Virginia Chieffo Raguin 9781789147933
RRP: $58.50$40.85The Illuminated Window is a unique journey through stained-glass installations that spans both time and place. Diverse in technique and style, these windows speak for the communities that created them. From the twelfth to the twenty-first century, we... -
Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire David Anderson 9780753819029
RRP: $29.23$19.60The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first timeThis book tells for the first time the story of the dirty war the British fought in Kenya, in the run-up to the country's independence in 1964. In 1952, after years of... -
High Flying Around: Memories of the 1960s Leicester Music Scene by Shaun Knapp 9781780915500
RRP: $29.23$28.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915500Author Shaun KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint JMD MediaPublisher JMD Media -
Elizabeth the Queen: The most intimate biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Sally Bedell Smith 9781405932165
RRP: $25.33$17.92Queen. Mother. Servant. Friend. This is the most intimate portrait of our longest serving monarch, an inspiration to her country: Queen Elizabeth II.Get to know the real Elizabeth in the definitive biography from the bestselling British Royal Family...