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The Border - A Journey Around Russia: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 by Erika Fatland 9780857057815
RRP: $38.70$25.54A journey along the seemingly endless Russian border - from North Korea in the Far East through Russia's bordering states in Asia and the Caucasus, crossing the Caspian Ocean and the Black Sea along the way."Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the... -
Glasgow by Michael Fry
RRP: $32.25$28.63Beloved, reviled - and not only by Glaswegians - Glasgow isn't just the Industrial Revolution nor the Victorian slums. Founded in the sixth century, its forebears pushed back the Romans. The roof of its cathedral, founded in the twelfth century,... -
The Wood that Built London: A Human History of the Great North Wood by C.J. Schuler
RRP: $16.76$11.73It 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... -
Engineering Hitler's Downfall: the Brains that Enabled Victory by Gwilym Roberts 9781849953863
RRP: $24.50$20.19Foreword by Admiral Lord West Whilst living in Liverpool, Britain's second most heavily bombed city during World War II, the author experienced at first-hand the terrible effects of the war on the civilian population and when studying at Cambridge he... -
Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 by Rosa Magnusdottir 9780190681463
RRP: $105.78$76.45Enemy Number One tells the story of the Soviet cultural and propaganda apparatus and its efforts to control information about the United States in the postwar landscape. Beginning with the 1945 meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe, this... -
Mr Horniman's Walrus: Legacies of a Remarkable Victorian Family by Clare Paterson
RRP: $25.80$17.61'This has everything I love in a book; drama, intrigue and a giant, stuffed mammal.' Sue PerkinsMr Horniman's Walrus tells the story of the rise and fall of three generations of a remarkable and dysfunctional Victorian family - the Hornimans - exploring... -
The Spanish Armada: A Ladybird Expert Book by Sam Willis
RRP: $10.31$7.47Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Why did the Spanish launch their Armada on England?How did Francis Drake counter the Spanish threat?And why were so many ships lost at sea?In 1585 Spain was the most POWERFUL Empire in the known... -
A Detailed History of RAF Manston 1945-1999 by Joe Bamford
RRP: $25.80$19.40Having been classified by the Air Ministry as a 'Master Diversion' airfield, RAF Manston was for many years open twenty-four hours a day and available to both civil and military aircraft 365 days a year. It was also later equipped with the Pyrene foam... -
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals by Hiroki Azuma 9780816653522
RRP: $18.05$16.24In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners... -
From Hope to Betrayal by Geoffrey Hayward 9781916732117
RRP: $19.32$14.13From Hope to Betrayal transports you to Rishton, a small Lancashire cotton town, in the years between the Great Wars. Inspired by true events, the heroes of this story are a group of demobbed comrades returning home from the war, full of hope for the... -
The Zekameron: One hundred tales from behind bars and eyelashes by Maxim Znak
RRP: $16.76$11.53WINNER OF ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2024 'How did these stories get into your hands? They flew, as if painted by Marc Chagall, through prison walls, borders, and languages.' - Valzhyna Mort ... -
Meanwhile, in Russia...: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video by Professor Eliot Borenstein
RRP: $18.05$16.27The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the West turns to it for an endless reserve of humorous content. But how did this powerful cyber community grow... -
A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France by William Beik
RRP: $39.98$34.61A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the... -
The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in World War II by Adam Zamoyski 9781848841963
RRP: $19.34$14.13By the beginning of 1941 there was a fully fledged Polish Air Force operating alongside the RAF. With 14 Squadrons it was larger than any other of the Air Force from Nazi-occupied Europe that had joined the Allies. Over 17,000 men and women passed... -
The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano
RRP: $12.89$9.17WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder - a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir - Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about her... -
Prehistoric Rock Art in the North York Moors by Paul Brown 9780752468778
RRP: $35.48$26.68This revised edition is an accumulation of two decades of research and fieldwork by the authors, and presents a comprehensive account of the little known prehistoric rock art within the North York Moors area. It covers Northern England's last major area... -
Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns by Keiko Nitanai
RRP: $23.21$15.34Kimono Design: An Introduction to Textiles and Patterns uses hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information on colors, fabrics and embellishments to paint a portrait of Japanese culture, art and thought. Lavish classical patterns, sweeping scenes,... -
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: a life by Jane Sherron De Hart 9781913348496
RRP: $14.18$9.44The definitive account of an icon who shaped gender equality for all women. In this comprehensive, revelatory biography - fifteen years of interviews and research in the making - historian Jane Sherron De Hart explores the central experiences that... -
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions by Caitlin Haskell
RRP: $38.70$33.01An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice of Remedios Varo (1908-1963) following her... -
Mortar Gunner on the Eastern Front: Volume II: Russia, Hungary Lithuania, and the battle for East Prussia by Hans Heinz Rehfeldt 9781784383657
RRP: $32.25$23.25Returning to his old unit, the grenade launcher, in May 1944, he experienced the heavy defensive battles in Romania as a platoon commander and from August 1944 in East Prussia and Lithuania. After being transferred by ship from Memel to Konigsberg in... -
Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick
RRP: $14.18$10.02*Winner of the 2022 Cherasco International Prize*'Thoroughly engrossing' Michael Pollan, The Atlantic'Wonderful, energising' Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianCoffee is one of the most valuable commodities in the history of the global economy and the world's... -
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules by L. David Marquet 9781591846406
RRP: $39.99$22.95"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers." David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As newly appointed captain of the USS Santa Fe, a... -
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life In Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930's by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: $24.50$17.56Here is a pioneeering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russain history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930's, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivisation and the first... -
Heimat: A German Family Album by Nora Krug
RRP: $28.38$21.67The German bestseller - a powerful and deeply affecting graphic memoir that explores identity, guilt and the meaning of home Winner of Moira Gemmill Illustrator of the YearWinner of Book Illustration prize at the V&A Illustration Awards Winner of the... -
The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: $37.35$29.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643131504Author Mary HollingsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Fallen Idols: A short history of the world in twelve statues by Alex Von Tunzelmann
RRP: $25.80$16.90Books of 2021, The Economist 'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a book you will adore, devour, and talk about to everyone you know. Hesitate no longer; buy... -
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: $16.76$10.94Following on from his epic '1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow', bestselling author Adam Zamoyski has written the dramatic story of the Congress of Vienna. In the wake of his disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, Napoleon's imperious grip... -
London In The Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing by Jerry White
RRP: $38.69$28.30Jerry White's London in the Eighteenth Century is an unrivalled, panoramic account of the city's dramatic century of rebirth by its leading expert.London in the eighteenth century had risen from the ashes. The city and its people had been brought to the... -
The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism by Robert Kee
RRP: $24.50$18.07THE GREEN FLAG stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years available as three separate volumes (THE MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY, THE BOLD FENIAN MEN and OURSELVES ALONE), this outstanding... -
The Victorians Jeremy Paxman 9781846077449
RRP: $25.80$18.43Jeremy Paxman's unique portrait of the Victorian age takes readers on an exciting journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, he tells us stories of urban life, family, faith, industry and empire that... -
The School That Escaped the Nazis Deborah Cadbury 9781529365771
RRP: $25.80$17.74*JEWISH CHRONICAL CRITICS' CHOICE: NON-FICTION OF THE YEAR 2022*'A devastatingly affecting book. . . Bunce Court! I keep saying the name to myself because it encapsulates all that is gentle and comically charming about wartime England' The Times ... -
The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together by Michael Smith 9781471186813
RRP: $16.76$10.55'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former MI6... -
The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front by Aliide Naylor 9781350352896
RRP: $16.76$12.63'An insightful, nuanced account that highlights the present multitude of currents at play in Europe' - Peter Pomerantsev The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war... -
Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History by Hugh Williams
RRP: $19.34$12.51What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through... -
Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $16.76$11.73A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz, the dramatic world of the Eastern borderlands... -
Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum by Mike Snook
RRP: $24.50$17.56In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed, the self-styled Mahdi, unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. The Egyptian military met with a series of disasters, including the rout of major expeditions... -
Someone to Care by Mary Balogh
RRP: $12.89$8.77'One of the best!' Julia Quinn, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series When adventure calls in the form of a handsome aristocrat, will Viola Kingsley throw all caution to the wind?Two years after the death of the Earl of Riverdale, his... -
Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis by Professor Omer Bartov 9781350332317
RRP: $32.24$26.37This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have... -
Panzers in Berlin 1945 by Lee Archer 9781908032164
RRP: $77.39$57.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032164Author Lee ArcherFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 1900g -
Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness by Joe Moran
RRP: $14.18$10.42Our success as a species is built on sociability, so shyness in humans should be an anomaly. But it's actually remarkably common - we all know what it's like to cringe in embarrassment, stand tongue-tied at the fringe of an unfamiliar group, or flush...