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People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker by Mary Fulbrook 9780300144246
$62.81An insight into the experience of life within the East German dictatorship What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of... -
The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future Theodore Zeldin 9780857053695
RRP: $25.33$17.22A guide to new ambitions in work, relationships and learning, by our most inspired thinker on society and community."Scintillating . . . prophetic . . . engaging" - Financial Times"A masterpiece" - The TimesWhat is worth knowing? What does it mean to be... -
Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo by Roger Manvell 9781526713391
RRP: $29.23$21.35_There are no better biographies of Goering, Goebbels and Himmler in existence_. **New York Review of Books** Heinrich Himmler was the commander of the SS, and as founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen... -
Malaya & Dutch East Indies 1941–42: Japan's air power shocks the world by Mark Stille
RRP: $29.23$21.35Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was quickly followed by a rapid invasion of Malaya, a plan based entirely on the decisive use of its airpower. While the British was inadequately prepared, they likewise relied on the RAF to defend their colony. The... -
Betsy Gray or Hearts of Down: A Tale of Ninety-Eight by Derek a Rowlinson 9781910375211
RRP: $25.33$22.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375211Author Derek a RowlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *... -
Hitler's Alpine Headquarters by James Wilson 9781526782113
RRP: $29.23$22.13Hitlers Alpine Headquarters look at the development of the Obersalzberg from a small, long established farming community, into Hitlers country residence and the Nazis southern headquarters. Introducing new images and additional text, this book is a much... -
Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action by Lucy Adlington
RRP: $33.13$24.73What would you wear to war? How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied Paris? Singing in Harlem, or on fire watch in Tokyo..? Ready for Action is a unique, illustrated... -
New Gill History of Ireland: Eighteenth Century Ireland by Ian McBride 9780717116270
$54.72The eighteenth-century was the heyday of the Protestant ascendancy. McBride, however, acknowledges that the greatest advance in the history of the time has been the recovery of Catholic attitudes during the zenith of the ascendancy. McBride insists on... -
Geography and Enlightenment David N. Livingstone 9780226487212
RRP: $78.00$75.95Explores both the Enlightenment as a geographical phenomenon and the place of geography in the Enlightenment. From disciplinary and topical perspectives, contributors consider the many ways in which the world of the long 18th century was brought to view... -
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M Barry
RRP: $21.43$15.58THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history' Bill Gates'Easily our fullest, richest, most panoramic history of the subject' New York Times Book ReviewIn 1918, the world faced the... -
Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan by Oleg Benesch
RRP: $84.81$77.08Inventing the Way of the Samurai examines the development of the 'way of the samurai' - bushido - which is popularly viewed as a defining element of the Japanese national character and even the 'soul of Japan'. Rather than a continuation of ancient... -
American Exception: Empire and the Deep State by Aaron Good 9781510769137
$67.88American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy. In particular, how we can understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an... -
Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements by Onur Inal
RRP: $81.88$71.66This book is an exploration of the environmental makings and contested historical trajectories of environmental change in Turkey. Despite the recent proliferation of studies on the political economy of environmental change and urban transformation, until... -
West Cork Railways: Birth, Beauty and Betrayal by Chris Larkin
RRP: $46.80$33.07This wonderful publication provides a unique visual and historical record of the West Cork Railway as rail enthusiast and historian Chris Larkin warmly remembers the lifetime of the rail system in a travelogue which allows readers to hop onto a West Cork... -
Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman 9780742552630
RRP: $37.03$27.92In telling the tragic and heroic story of Roanoke, the "lost colony," award-winning historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman recovers the earliest days of English exploration and settlement in America-the often forgotten years before Jamestown and the landing of... -
Life and Death on the Eastern Front: Rare Colour Photographs From World War II by Tucker-Jones, Anthony
RRP: $48.75$38.26This incredible visual record of life and death along the Eastern Front features more than 250 images from the the PIXPAST Archive, a collection of more than 32,000 original colour photographs taken between 1936 and 1946/. Collated into three parts and... -
Richard III: The Maligned King by Annette Carson 9781803991832
RRP: $29.23$22.52Richard III, King of England from 1483 to 1485, made good laws that still protect ordinary people today. Yet history concentrates on the fictional hunchback as depicted by Shakespeare: the wicked uncle who stole the throne and killed his nephews in the... -
Football in the Land of the Soviets Carles Vinas 9780745347448
RRP: $29.23$19.60Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story... Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 3: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859896023
RRP: $42.88$39.33This is a new edition of Volume Three of the four volume collection of documents on Nazism 1919-1945, with substantial revisions to three chapters and the inclusion of many new documents, an index and a revised bibliography. The volume contains the most... -
An Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove: The Life of Joan Rhodes by Triona Holden
RRP: $33.13$25.60Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless as she bent steel bars with her teeth, ripped large phone books into quarters, and lifted two men at a time. But what she did was real. Joan had a superstrength, forged out of desperation to survive. Born into... -
Voices from the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham 9780752467498
RRP: $29.23$22.85Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution. Using a wide variety of sources -... -
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
RRP: $21.43$15.35Shortlisted for the HWA Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown AwardA work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia's last imperial family... -
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August-October 1942 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: $33.13$24.73Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were... -
The Silent Listener: British Electronic Surveillance Falklands 1982 by Major D. J. Thorp
RRP: $25.33$19.25On 2 April 1982 Argentina launched Operation Rosario, the invasion of the Falklands. The British, caught off guard, responded with Operation Corporate. Deployed alongside the rest of the British Army was a small specialist intelligence unit, whose very... -
Memoirs From Beyond The Grave by Alex Andriesse
RRP: $29.23$20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371290Author Alex AndriesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Arms and Armour Of India, Nepal & Sri Lanka:: Types, Decoration and Symbolism Ravinder Reddy 9781898113850
RRP: $87.75$60.16An introduction and overview to the arms and armor of the Indian region. The book is designed for easy use with pull out details from objects and timelines, maps and explanations of design details. Arms & Armour Of India, Nepal & Sri Lanka is a very... -
Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre by Kim Wagner
RRP: $25.33$22.35A powerful reassessment of a seminal moment in the history of India and the British Empire: the Amritsar Massacre"Amritsar 1919 chronicles the run up to Jallianwala Bagh with spellbinding, almost minute-by-minute focus. . . . Mr. Wagner's achievement is... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance by Gordon Campbell
RRP: $45.81$34.34The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views... -
British Battle Tanks: Post-war Tanks 1946-2016 by Simon Dunstan
RRP: $58.50$42.80This book, the last in a four-part series on British Battle Tanks covering the whole history of British armoured warfare, concentrates on those vehicles that have served following the end of World War II up to the present day. Starting with the... -
Wrestling Merchandise of the 1990s by Kevin Williams
RRP: $31.18$21.16Take a look back at the Golden Era of wrestling with some of the spectacular merchandise from that awesome time. Featured here is the story of the wrestling merchandise that could be found as pro wrestling took the world by storm. Featuring action... -
Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White 9780195002669
RRP: $36.06$26.01This study examines the role of technological innovation during the rise of social groups in the Middle AgesAbout the AuthorLynn White is Founding Director of UCLA Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles... -
Tanks, The World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated history and directory of tanks, from 1916 to the present day, with more than 650 photographs George Forty 9780754835745
RRP: $29.25$21.70This fully-updated book is an authoritative directory of tanks and their immediate derivatives, such as tank destroyers and armoured recovery vehicles. It begins with a history of tank design and evolution from its first action at Flers during World War... -
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
RRP: $19.48$14.27King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles to create this powerful trilogy about humanity's... -
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $25.33$18.21WINNER OF THE HISTORICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWNAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'Fabulous, timely, a marvellous achievement' Spectator'A richly resonant work which recasts our understanding of the Elizabethan era' Daily TelegraphIn 1570, after plots... -
After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift Giles Macdonogh 9780719567667
RRP: $25.33$17.22In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often scarring the villages they passed through with parting... -
British Amphibious Assault Ships: From Suez to the Falklands and the present day by Edward Hampshire
RRP: $25.33$17.92Amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963-66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq... -
The History of the SAS Chris Ryan 9781529324648
RRP: $39.00$26.81'Drawing on the stories of the soldiers who were there, this dramatic history of the SAS is full of bravado. Forged to fight guerrillas in the sweltering jungles of Malaya... Ryan writes with the authority of a man familiar with every nuance of the... -
A Cultural History of the British Empire by John MacKenzie
RRP: $48.75$40.79A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around the world As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more than troops and goods. In every colony, imperial... -
Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, the Crown of Bohemia and the Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots Nancy Goldstone 9781474602082
RRP: $29.23$19.31'What a compelling read! Nancy Goldstone has brought to life the four female Stuarts in all their tragic glory' Amanda ForemanValentine's Day, 1613. Elizabeth Stuart, the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Frederick V, a... -
Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 by John Bossy 9780192891624
RRP: $74.08$61.50A study not of the institution of the Church but of Christianity itself, this book explores the Christian people, their beliefs, and their way of life, providing a new understanding of Western Christianity at the time of the Reformation. Bossy begins...