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On the Social Life of Postsocialism: Memory, Consumption, Germany by Daphne Berdahl
RRP: $38.98$34.20Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German... -
The Little History of Worcestershire by Vanessa Morgan 9781803991207
RRP: $29.23$24.47Here in the pages of this compact little book are thousands of years history about a county which has many stories to tell, all laid out in an informative but easy-to-read way. From Roman times when three roads traversed its landscape, to its involvement... -
The Somme: A New History by Professor Gary Sheffield
RRP: $19.48$13.65On 1 July 1916, after a stupendous 7-day artillery preparation, the British Army finally launched its attack on the German line around the River Somme. Over the next four and half months they continued to attack, with little or no gain, and with... -
A Traveller's History of Cyprus by Timothy Boatswain 9781907973086
$4.08"A Traveller's History of Cyprus" offers a complete and authoritative history of the island's past and also touches on the sensitive present-day issues for both sides of the island. Although Cyprus is a relatively small island, its position in the East... -
The European Economy since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond by Barry Eichengreen 9780691138480
RRP: $68.25$55.28In 1945, many Europeans still heated with coal, cooled their food with ice, and lacked indoor plumbing. Today, things could hardly be more different. Over the second half of the twentieth century, the average European's buying power tripled, while... -
Knives, Daggers & Bayonets, the World Encyclopedia of: An authoritative history and visual directory of sharp-edged weapons and blades from around the world, with more than 700 photographs Tobias Capwell 9780754834847
RRP: $29.25$22.93Since sharpened tools emerged almost one million years ago, edged weapons have played an incredible role in the shaping of human history. This beautifully presented volume traces the history of daggers, knives and bayonets through to the 21st century... -
Sumerian Mythology by Samuel Noah Kramer
RRP: $38.98$34.20Sumerian Mythology Revised Edition Samuel Noah Kramer "A real addition to the body of world mythology."--American Anthropologist "No people has contributed more to the culture of mankind than the Sumerians, and yet it has been only in recent years that... -
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: $21.43$15.35Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, GuardianExtraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child... -
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy by Christopher Duggan
RRP: $29.23$21.35Fascist Voices is a fresh and disturbing look at a country in thrall to a charismatic dictator. Tracing fascism from its conception to its legacy, Christopher Duggan unpicks why the regime enjoyed so much support among the majority of the Italian people... -
Dr Johnson's London Liza Picard 9781842127292
RRP: $25.33$16.97'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' ObserverWhen Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in... -
Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: $25.33$18.21From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it. With the end of the Cold War... -
HMS Dolphin: Gosport's Submarine Base by Keith Hall 9780752421131
RRP: $25.33$19.25In the latter half of the 19th Century, the Gosport side of Portsmouth harbour was developed as a fortified port. Fort Blockhouse, originally established in 1495, was updated and became the home of the Royal Engineers' Submarine Mining School in 1873... -
A War Transformed: WWI on the Doggerland Front: A Wargame by Frederick Silburn-Slater 9781472856258
RRP: $48.75$38.22The Great War meets the horrors of forgotten folklore in this occult skirmish wargame. 1916: A World Transformed. As the Great War raged, the Moon fell from its orbit. Seas shifted, uncovering new lands and revealing what tide and time had concealed... -
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote by Jane Robinson
RRP: $19.48$14.06_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story of the ordinary people effecting extraordinary change. 1913: the last long summer before the war. The... -
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus
RRP: $15.50$11.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451529107Author Carolina Maria de JesusFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
Rif War: Insurgency in Northern Morocco, 1920-1927 by Javier Garcia de Gabiola
RRP: $33.05$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377013Author Javier Garcia de GabiolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume One: Air Defence Fighter Aircraft Since 1945 True Tales From Royal Navy Aircrew, Maintainers and Handlers by Steve Bond
RRP: $39.00$28.65The RAF's continuing role in the projection of air power in the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm... -
Singapore: A Biography Mark Ravinder Frost 9789814385169
RRP: $39.00$27.98Brimming with verve and dramatic incident, Singapore: A Biography offers fresh insights into the life story of this island city-state through the personal experiences of the workers, adventurers, rulers and revolutionaries who have shaped its history... -
Love Letters from Golok: A Tantric Couple in Modern Tibet by Holly Gayley 9780231180535
RRP: $54.60$43.10Love Letters from Golok chronicles the courtship between two Buddhist tantric masters, Tare Lhamo (1938-2002) and Namtrul Rinpoche (1944-2011), and their passion for reinvigorating Buddhism in eastern Tibet during the post-Mao era. In fifty-six letters... -
Female Husbands: A Trans History by Jen Manion
RRP: $27.28$21.14Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from... -
European Medieval Tactics 1: The Fall and Rise of Cavalry 450-1260 by David Nicolle
RRP: $29.23$21.35After the fall of the Western Roman Empire there was a decline in 'professional' cavalry forces, and infantry dominated in the Germanic successor 'barbarian' kingdoms. In the Carolingian and Norman periods from the 9th to the 11th centuries, the cavalry... -
The Second World War Tank Crisis: The Fall and Rise of British Armour, 1919-1945 by Richard Taylor
RRP: $48.75$34.36British Second World War tanks performed so badly that it is difficult to bring to mind any other British weapon of the period that provokes such a strong sense of failure. Unfortunately, many of the accusations appear to be true - British tanks were in... -
The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: $37.03$26.54The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable Greek counterparts. Here he pairs Romulus, mythical... -
Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Concise Life by John C. G. Rohl 9781107420779
RRP: $44.83$37.05Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) is one of the most fascinating figures in European history, ruling Imperial Germany from his accession in 1888 to his enforced abdication in 1918 at the end of the First World War. In one slim volume, John Roehl offers... -
An Atlas of the Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution, 1775-1783 by David C. Bonk 9781914059797
RRP: $116.90$81.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059797Author David C. BonkFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A League of Our Own: The Cymru Premier Story 1992-93 to 2022-23 by Mark Langshaw 9781904609100
RRP: $37.03$30.52A League of Our Own is the first book to tell the remarkable story of the establishment and 30-year history of the League of Wales, which was rebranded as the Welsh Premier League in 2010 and the Cymru Premier in 2019. The League of Wales kicked-off its... -
Economic Warfare and the Sea: Grand Strategies for Maritime Powers, 1650-1945 by David Morgan-Owen 9781802078268
RRP: $58.48$52.98Economic Warfare and the Sea examines the relationship between trade, maritime warfare, and strategic thought between the early modern period and the late-twentieth century. Featuring contributions from renown historians and rising scholars, this... -
The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
RRP: $52.65$42.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560685Author Gayle Tzemach LemmonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm)... -
Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese by Mark Felton 9781848845503
RRP: $25.33$17.92The mistreatment and captivity of women by the Japanese is a little known and poorly documented aspect of the Second World War. In The Real Tenko, Mark Felton, who has a fast growing reputation as an authority and author on the war in the Far East,... -
Sealand: The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation by Dylan Taylor-Lehman
RRP: $33.13$22.58'The unexpected comic masterpiece of the year' Daily MailIn 1967, retired army major and self-made millionaire Paddy Roy Bates inaugurated himself ruler of the Principality of Sealand on a World War II Maunsell Sea Fort near Felixstowe - and began the... -
Battle of Britain, 1940: The Finest Hour's Human Cost by Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781526775931
RRP: $58.50$41.63The summer of 1940 remains a pivotal moment in modern British history - still inspiring immense national pride and a global fascination. The Fall of France was catastrophic. Britain stood alone and within range of German air attack. America, with its... -
Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: The Golden Age and the Viking Age by Fiona Edmonds
RRP: $52.63$43.82WINNER OF THE FRANK WATSON BOOK PRIZE 2021. SHORTLISTED IN SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2021 The first full-scale, interdisciplinary treatment of the wide-ranging connections between the Gaelic world and the Northumbrian kingdom. Northumbria was... -
James Gillray - A Revolution in Satire by Tim Clayton
RRP: $97.50$88.22A lavishly illustrated biography of James Gillray, inventor of the art of political caricature James Gillray (1756-1815) was late Georgian Britain's funniest, most inventive, and most celebrated graphic satirist and continues to influence cartoonists... -
Northmen: The Viking Saga 793-1241 by John Haywood
RRP: $23.38$16.63'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS. The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the... -
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman 9780520280069
RRP: $37.03$29.48In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and... -
The Highland Clearances by Eric Richards
RRP: $29.23$20.09The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering... -
The Little Book of Stonehenge by Meredith MacArdle
RRP: $9.73$8.35Published in association with English Heritage, this fact-filled gift book is the perfect tribute to this iconic historical landmark, the best-known prehistoric monument in the world.With a history spanning 4,500 years, the mystery that surrounds... -
Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman
RRP: $25.33$19.31"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." -The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the... -
Hostile Skies by David Morgan 9780753821992
RRP: $21.43$14.84The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace.David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir. On secondment to the Royal Navy when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands began and... -
The English Public School - An Irreverent and Personal History: An Irreverent and Personal History by Martin Stephen
RRP: $33.13$22.93Until his retirement in 2011, Dr Martin Stephen was High Master of St Paul's School, and before that of Manchester Grammar School, two of the most academically successful independent schools in the world, bar none. As such, he is uniquely placed to write...