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Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone by Lawrence Devlin
RRP: £13.99£10.10Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost empty ferry... -
Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
RRP: £12.99£11.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061348112Author Daniel James BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Bomber War: A Ladybird Expert Book: Book 7 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: £8.99£6.45Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, The Bomber War is an accessible, insightful and authoritative introduction to the airborne Allied fight against Nazi Germany.- How did aeroplane technology change the theatre of war?- How did the Blitz affect... -
A Short History of the Etruscans by Corinna Riva 9781780766157
RRP: £14.99£14.28Of all civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, it is perhaps the Etruscans who hold the greatest allure. This is fundamentally because, unlike their Greek and Latin neighbours, the Etruscans left no textual sources to posterity. The only direct... -
The Medical Detective: John Snow, Cholera And The Mystery Of The Broad Street Pump by Sandra Hempel
RRP: £12.99£8.56In 1831, an unknown, horrifying and deadly disease from Asia swept across Continental Europe, killing millions in its path and throwing the medical profession into confusion. Cholera is a killer with little respect for class or wealth. When it arrived in... -
The Grass Roots of English History: Local Societies in England before the Industrial Revolution by David Hey
£30.16In medieval and early modern Britain, people would refer to their local district as their 'country', a term now largely forgotten but still used up until the First World War. Core groups of families that remained rooted in these 'countries', often... -
China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord by Philip Snow
RRP: £25.00£20.92A compelling, expansive history of the relationship between China and Russia, from the seventeenth century to the present Russia and China, the largest and most populous countries in the world, respectively, have maintained a delicate relationship for... -
British Battle Tanks: World War I to 1939 by David Fletcher
RRP: £30.00£21.95When British soldiers charged across the Somme in September 1916 they were accompanied by a new and astonishing weapon - the tank. After a stuttering start armoured behemoths such as the Mark IV, Mark V and Whippet played a crucial role in bringing World... -
Anonymous Old English Lives of Saints by Johanna Kramer
RRP: £29.95£24.06From the first centuries of Christianity, believers turned to the perfection modeled by saints for inspiration, and a tradition of recounting saints' Lives flourished. The Latin narratives followed specific forms, dramatizing a virgin's heroic resolve or... -
A History of Women in the Garden by Dr Twigs Way 9781803994758
RRP: £14.99£11.55From 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... -
The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It by John Wigger
RRP: £22.99£19.96He pulled off what some deem the crime of the century: skyjacking a commercial jetliner, collecting a ransom of $200,000, parachuting off the aft stairs of the Boeing 727 into the night, and simply disappearing. Since November 1971, "D.B. Cooper"-no one... -
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom
RRP: £15.99£10.95When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it... -
Reading the Peak District Landscape John Barnatt 9781848023796
RRP: £32.00£30.13The Peak District is a vital place with landscapes of great beauty from wild moorlands to walled fields around picturesque villages. There are few places in the world where such a rich history is visible in one relatively small but varied landscape. ... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings by Peter Sawyer
RRP: £23.49£17.01Were the Vikings, as contemporary description had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people' who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or in the words of a Manx folksong 'ware-wolves keen in hungry quest', who lived and died by the... -
Children of the Quicksands by Efua Traor 9781913322366
RRP: £7.99£5.82In a remote Nigerian village, thirteen-year-old Simi is desperate to uncover a family secret ... WINNER OF THE TIMES/CHICKEN HOUSE CHILDREN'S FICTION COMPETITION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S... -
Stratford: A Pictorial History by Stephen Pewsey 9781803993614
RRP: £16.99£12.94Stratford 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... -
Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code and the Uncovering of a Lost Civilisation by Margalit Fox
RRP: £12.99£9.09The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later, it exerts a mesmerising pull on the... -
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures by Charlie English
RRP: £14.99£9.70'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... -
Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs by Sonke Neitzel 9781849839495
RRP: £9.99£6.41The authors discovered 150,000 pages of transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war, of which approximately one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain, another cache was made by bugging prisoners in the... -
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akcam 9781845295523
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1915, the Turkish government systematically organised the wholesale slaughter of a complete race, the Armenians. Under the cover of World War I, through the secret organisation of unofficial gangs of Kurds, released prisoners, German officers and... -
Hitler by Wyndham Lewis 9781953730206
£17.95Apologies 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)... -
People's State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker by Mary Fulbrook 9780300144246
RRP: £28.00£23.67An 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... -
Who Lost Russia?: From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin's War in Ukraine by Peter Conradi
RRP: £10.99£7.12'A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.' Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and beyond Why did Vladimir Putin launch his... -
London's Truly Strangest Tales by Tom Quinn
RRP: £7.99£5.41More extraordinary but true stories from London's history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London's Strangest Tales, Tom Quinn makes a further foray into the weirder side of the capital, bringing us a... -
French Armies of the Hundred Years War Dr David Nicolle 9781855327108
RRP: £12.99£11.01The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were a time of great upheaval for medieval France. In 1328 the Capetian line came to an end. This was the trigger for the Hundred Years War as successive English kings attempted to uphold their claim to the French... -
Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action by Lucy Adlington
RRP: £16.99£12.68What 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... -
Engel's England: Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man Matthew Engel 9781846685729
RRP: £10.99£7.77England, says Matthew Engel, is the most complicated place in the world. And, as he travels through each of the historic English counties, he discovers that's just the start of it. Every county is fascinating, the product of a millennium or more of... -
Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbruck Peter Hore 9780750966214
RRP: £20.00£16.43Already a decorated heroine of the First World War, British-born Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War, yet her story has almost been forgotten. Evoking the spirit of Edith... -
Geography and Enlightenment David N. Livingstone 9780226487212
RRP: £40.00£38.95Explores 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... -
Bageye at the Wheel: A 1970s Childhood in Suburbia by Colin Grant
RRP: £10.99£7.77A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents. ... -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9780691018546
RRP: £40.00£32.53On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of... -
Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England by Jane F. Kershaw
RRP: £41.49£38.16Viking Identities is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking-Age Scandinavian-style female dress items from England. Based on primary archival and archaeological research, including the analysis of hundreds of recent metal-detector finds, it... -
Hunter Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the Hawker Hunter by Richard Pike
RRP: £12.99£9.45From Richard Pike, author of Grub Street's bestselling Lightning Boys series, comes Hunter Boys, a fascinating insight into the experiences of those who flew the iconic Hawker Hunter - an aircraft known affectionately to many as `Queen of the Skies'. In... -
The New Middle East: The World After the Arab Spring by Paul Danahar
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Arab revolts changed the Middle East forever. A movement for democratic change has dissolved into chaos and bloodshed. States are collapsing. Out of a wave of sectarian fervour unleashed by these changes has emerged the merciless cruelty of Islamic... -
Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan by Oleg Benesch
RRP: £43.49£39.53Inventing 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... -
Transforming Socio-Natures in Turkey: Landscapes, State and Environmental Movements by Onur Inal
RRP: £41.99£36.75This 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... -
Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony by Karen Ordahl Kupperman 9780742552630
RRP: £18.99£16.78In 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... -
With Paulus at Stalingrad by Wilhelm Adam 9781473898981
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Through his daily involvement with them, Wilhelm Adam is able to perfectly describe the characters involved, the tensions and despair amongst them and the pressure Paulus and his staff found themselves under as the Soviet pincers closed around the men... -
Peace! Books! Freedom! The Secret History of a Radical London Building by Rosa Schling 9780852832851
RRP: £10.00£9.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852832851Author Rosa SchlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Housmans BookshopPublisher Housmans BookshopWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Richard III: The Maligned King by Annette Carson 9781803991832
RRP: £14.99£11.55Richard 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...