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Fighting in the Dark: Naval Combat at Night, 1904 1945 by Vincent P O'Hara 9781399030519
RRP: $48.75$35.14Fighting in the Dark is a new book about naval combat at night; the title also, however, signifies the overarching theme of the book, of moving from dark to light: in short, the process of mastering technological change during war. The authors start... -
Strasbourg AD 357 by Dr Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $31.18$22.64Civil war in the Western Roman Empire between AD 350-53 had left the frontiers weakly defended, and the major German confederations along the Rhine - the Franks and Alemanni - took advantage of the situation to cross the river, destroy the Roman... -
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin
RRP: $39.00$28.65A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods,... -
Tanks of D-Day 1944: Armor on the beaches of Normandy and southern France by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $25.33$17.92Allied success in invading Fortress Europe (the area of Continental Europe occupied by Nazi Germany) depended on getting armor onto the beaches as fast as possible. This book explains how the Allies developed the specialist tanks it needed, their... -
Cicero: Philippics I-II by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $54.58$47.33This edition is the first since J. D. Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text of and a commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of the most polished orations in the Ciceronian corpus. These speeches, which were composed less than six... -
The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History by Martin Puchner
RRP: $33.13$22.58You might have heard the saying 'you're in a pickle' meaning you're in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and... -
Fatal Colours: Towton, 1461 - England's Most Brutal Battle George Goodwin 9780753828175
RRP: $21.43$14.84A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.'Vivid, humane and superbly researched' David Starkey'The story has never been told so well or so excitingly' Desmond SewardThe Battle of Towton in 1461... -
Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938 by Janek Wasserman 9781501713606
RRP: $35.08$31.01Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black... -
The British Oskar Schindler: The Life and Work of Nicholas Winton by Edward Abel Smith 9781399011488
RRP: $39.00$27.87When Nicholas Winton cancelled his skiing holiday in favour of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own. As millions of Jewish families attempted to flee the... -
British Town Class Cruisers: Southampton & Belfast Classes: Design, Development & Performance by Conrad Waters 9781526718853
RRP: $78.00$58.05Entering service between 1937 and 1939, the ten British Town' class cruisers were the most modern vessels of their type in the Royal Navy when the Second World War began. Built in response to large 6-inch gunned cruisers in the US and Japanese Navies... -
The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism by Thant Myint-U
RRP: $21.43$14.47A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020A New York Times Critic's Pick 2019'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' Financial Times'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' William DalrymplePrecariously positioned between China and... -
Facing the Red Army in Festung Posen: First-Hand Accounts of German Soldiers on the Eastern Front in 1945 by Hans Klapa 9781399061759
RRP: $42.90$34.36Facing the Red Army in Festung Posen features the stories of two German soldiers who took part in the battles for Festung Posen (Pozna? Fortress) in January and February 1945. Never before published in English, the accounts of Hans Klapa, written... -
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan 9780063269330
RRP: $25.33$16.98A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s new book chronicles ten days that tested us and ultimately showed us at our best. It’s a captivating story about what’s worth fighting for, an antidote to... -
Slaughter at Halbe: The Destruction of Hitler's 9th Army by Tony Tissier
RRP: $29.23$22.85Operation 'Berlin', the Soviet offensive launched on 16 April, 1945, by Marshals Zhukov and Koniev, isolated the German Ninth Army and tens of thousands of refugees in the Spreewald 'pocket', south-east of Berlin. Stalin ordered its encirclement and... -
Northern Lights: The Arctic Scots by Edward J. Cowan 9781780277875
RRP: $58.50$39.20Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage - a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific - has not received a great deal of attention. This book charts the extensive contribution... -
The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical Revision by Henry Kamen
RRP: $43.88$37.73In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen's classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new-and thought-provoking-view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the... -
The Making of Modern British Politics: 1867 - 1945 Martin Pugh (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 9780631225904
RRP: $64.25$57.25The third edition of this successful text has been revised to include a new chapter on the politics of the Second World War, and to reflect recent developments in research into the period. Third edition of this insightful survey of changes in British... -
Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: $29.23$22.13Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. The Japanese forces then continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich... -
Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre
RRP: $25.33$16.98The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant,... -
George W Bush by James Mann 9780805093971
$35.28George W. Bush stirred powerful feelings on both sides of the aisle. Republicans viewed him as a resolute leader who guided America through the worst terrorist attack in its history and retaliated in Afghanistan and Iraq, while Democrats saw him as an... -
The Boer War: A History by Denis Judd
$40.89The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of... -
Palaces of Power: The Birth and Evolution of London's Clubland by Stephen Hoare 9780750997270
RRP: $35.08$26.99The core of what we call St James's dates from the late seventeenth century, when large estates were leased by the Crown to the landed gentry after the Restoration in 1660. St James's clubs, coffee houses and institutions have been shaped by enterprise,... -
The Tyne Bridge: Icon of North-East England by Paul Brown
RRP: $33.13$29.85The Tyne Bridge, opened in 1928 by King George V, is one of Britain's most iconic structures, a Grade II* listed building. Linking Newcastle and Gateshead, this symbol of Tyneside and the region is also a monument to the Tyne's industrial past. Paul... -
A History of Women in the Garden by Dr Twigs Way 9781803994758
RRP: $29.23$22.52From the early misfortunes of Eve, condemning her descendants to a dubious reputation for fruit management, to the acclaimed successes of plant breeders such as the eccentric Ellen Willmott who combined bankruptcy with iris breeding, the fortunes of the... -
Waterloo 1815 (1): Quatre Bras by Gerry Embleton
RRP: $33.13$25.66To commemorate the 2015 bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, one of the defining campaigns in European History, Osprey is replacing its single volume Campaign title covering the whole of the battle with three highly detailed volumes. Based on new... -
The First Helicopter Boys: The Early Days of Helicopter Operations - The Malayan Emergency, 1947-1960 by David Taylor
RRP: $48.75$35.14The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challenging jungle terrain of Borneo and in the countryside straddling the Malaysia/Indonesia border, where there... -
A History of the GAA in 100 Objects by Siobhan Doyle
RRP: $44.83$36.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Sports Book of the Year 2022 (Ireland).Book InformationISBN 9781785374258Author Siobhan DoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Merrion PressPublisher... -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume II - Reform) by Chris Bryant
RRP: $29.23$21.35Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won for the working classes and, eventually, for women... -
The Guide to Mysterious Perthshire by Geoff Holder 9780752441405
RRP: $31.18$24.24A beautifully illustrated guidebook to Perthshire's hidden treasures - stone circles, ancient castles, haunted forests, sacred wells - and where to find them.About the AuthorGeoff Holder is an award-winning television and video writer and producer with... -
Stratford: A Pictorial History by Stephen Pewsey 9781803993614
RRP: $33.13$25.23Stratford developed at the lowest crossing point of the River Lea and was a strategic gateway to London. Part of the Essex parish of West Ham, its name, which derives from the Roman road to Colchester, was first mentioned shortly after the Norman... -
The Naked Hermit: A Journey to the Heart of Celtic Britain by Nick Mayhew-Smith
RRP: $44.83$32.53Descending into the darkness of a long-abandoned hermit's cave, wading naked into an icy sea to pray, spending the night on a sacred mountain, Nick Mayhew-Smith recounts an extraordinary one-man mission to revive the ancient devotions of Britain's most... -
The Glorious First of June: Fleet Battle in the Reign of Terror Sam Willis 9781849160391
RRP: $33.13$22.50France, early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine relentlessly takes the heads of innocents, two vast French and British fleets meet in the mid-Atlantic... -
Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children by Dorie McCullough Lawson 9780767909044
RRP: $33.13$24.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767909044Author Dorie McCullough LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures by Charlie English
RRP: $29.23$19.42'An exemplary work of investigative journalism that is also a wonderfully colourful book of history and travel' Observer, Book of the Year 'A piece of postmodern historiography of quite extraordinary... -
Heroes and Villains of Chester and beyond: 800 years of history in 30 lives by Peter Cotgreave 9781910837245
RRP: $37.03$27.32Chester and its surrounding area are birthplace to some truly fascinating heroes and villains. The stories in this book bring to life eight centuries of their loves and hates, hopes, fears, triumphs, relationships and failings. Based on meticulous... -
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell
RRP: $21.43$12.81'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking chunks out of the Berlin Wall when it fell...draped in the... -
Hitler by Wyndham Lewis 9781953730206
$36.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953730206Author Wyndham LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin by Andrew S Weiss
RRP: $42.88$30.38In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in... -
Stalingrad 1942-43 (2): The Fight for the City Robert Forczyk 9781472842695
RRP: $31.18$22.64The second in a three-part series examining the Stalingrad campaign, one of the most decisive military operations in World War II, that set the stage for the ultimate defeat of the Third Reich. By early September 1942, 6.Armee and 4.Panzer-Armee had... -
A Short History Of The Middle East by Gordon Kerr 9781843446361
RRP: $25.33$7.04Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilisation and religion but...