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Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii by James L Haley 9781250070395
RRP: $29.66$18.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070395Author James L HaleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm)... -
Bankside: London's Original District of Sin by David Brandon
RRP: $16.76$10.94On the south bank of the Thames and demarcated by Blackfriars and Tower Bridges lies the district known as Bankside, the Borough and Southwark. Its origin was in a Roman settlement nestling around the southern end of London Bridge, until the eighteenth... -
A History of Lancaster Castle Colin Penny 9781910837429
RRP: $12.89$9.17LANCASTER CASTLE is one of Britain's major historic monuments. For over 900 years it has dominated the hilltop looking out over the river Lune and the city of Lancaster. Owned by Her Majesty the Queen in her role as Duke of Lancaster, the castle has a... -
The History of the Panzerjager: Volume 2: From Stalingrad to Berlin 1943-45 by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $45.15$32.62The German Panzerjager, or Panzerjagertruppe, was one of the most innovative fighting arms of World War II and its story has never properly been told, until now. Many books have focused on an element of the story - the Hetzer, Jagdpanzer, and Jagdpanther... -
Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley
RRP: $21.92$12.31'The story of "invasive species" is really the story of human history, and Eatherley tells it with great verve ... Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A unique history of plant and animal invaders of the British isles spanning thousands... -
Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens: A Postcard from Sunny Bunces by Chris Helme 9780752443553
RRP: $19.34$14.90A history of Sunnyvale Pleasure GardensBook InformationISBN 9780752443553Author Chris HelmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 400g -
Gin Glorious Gin: How Mother's Ruin Became the Spirit of London Olivia Williams 9781472215345
RRP: $14.18$9.55Gin Glorious Gin is a vibrant cultural history of London seen through the prism of its most iconic drink. Leading the reader through the underbelly of the Georgian city via the Gin Craze, detouring through the Empire (with a G&T in hand), to the... -
Let This Radicalize You: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care by Mariame Kaba
RRP: $19.34$14.54What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe... -
Stranger in the House: Women's Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War by Julie Summers 9781416526841
RRP: $11.60$7.51'It is as if I have been waiting for someone to ask me these questions for almost the whole of my life' From 1945, more than four million British servicemen were demobbed and sent home after the most destructive war in history. Damaged by fighting,... -
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously... -
The Roman Empire: A Beginner's Guide by Philip Matyszak 9781780744247
RRP: $12.89$9.17No other political entity has shaped the modern world like the Roman Empire. Encompassing close to a quarter of the world's population and 3 million km2 of land, it represented a diverse and dynamic collection of nations, states and tribes, all bound to... -
Thinking About History by Sarah Maza
RRP: $24.51$20.90What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza's Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent... -
The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War by Mark Stille
RRP: $45.15$33.40An highly illustrated examination of the key ships, tactics and operations of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the War in the Pacific in World War II. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world at the start of World... -
Arms and Armour Of India, Nepal & Sri Lanka:: Types, Decoration and Symbolism Ravinder Reddy 9781898113850
RRP: $58.05$39.80An 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... -
Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre by Jacqueline Riding
RRP: $11.60$8.32The story of the Peterloo massacre, a defining moment in the history of British democracy, told with passion and authority. 'Excellent' Zadie Smith 'Fast-paced and full of fascinating detail' Tim Clayton 'A superb account of one of the defining... -
The Rise of Rome by Plutarch
RRP: $24.50$17.56The 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... -
The Century of Revolution: 1603-1714 by Christopher Hill 9780415267397
RRP: $25.79$22.82There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best... -
Women at War 1939-1945: The Home Front by Carol Harris
RRP: $16.76$12.41Long before the outbreak of the Second World War, official calculations showed Britain would be short of the manpower needed to fight the enemy and keep up production of weapons, food and other essentials. It was hoped that women volunteers would full... -
An Historical Map of Canterbury from medieval times to 1907 by Jake Weekes
RRP: $12.89$9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993469886Author Jake WeekesPage Count 2Imprint The Historic Towns TrustPublisher The Historic Towns Trust -
Living in Early Victorian London by Michael Alpert 9781399060844
RRP: $28.38$20.15London in the 1840s was sprawling and smoke-filled, a city of extreme wealth and abject poverty. Some streets were elegant with brilliantly gas-lit shop windows full of expensive items, while others were narrow, fetid, muddy, and in many cases foul with... -
Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Dane Kennedy
RRP: $13.53$10.35Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these peoples had become citizens of independent nation-states... -
Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White 9780195002669
RRP: $23.85$17.21This 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... -
Insurrection: Scotland's Famine Winter by James Hunter 9781780276229
$29.18'A gripping, heart-breaking account of the famine winter of 1847' - Rosemary Goring, The Herald Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize When Scotland's 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides... -
Mesolithic Britain and Ireland: New Approaches by Chantal Conneller
RRP: $25.79$19.38The general perception of the archaeology of the Mesolithic in Britain and Ireland is that the period is somewhat impoverished. Often assumed to have an exceptionally limited range of evidence, the period is also perceived as a theoretical backwater,... -
A Cultural History of the British Empire by John MacKenzie
RRP: $32.25$26.99A 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... -
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend Leo McKinstry 9780719568756
RRP: $16.76$11.09In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world will move forward into... -
Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom by Sanjeev Sanyal
RRP: $23.21$19.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356295940Author Sanjeev SanyalFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 220mm... -
Facing The Mountain: The Forgotten Heroes of World War II by Daniel James Brown
RRP: $14.18$10.02From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping untold story of one of the most heroic units that fought in World War II On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the... -
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan
RRP: $32.25$23.88A 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... -
The Italian Wars Volume 2: Agnadello 1509, Ravenna 1512, Marignano 1515 by Massimo Predonzani 9781913118808
RRP: $32.25$29.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118808Author Massimo PredonzaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity Puk Damsgard 9781786490568
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Number One International BestsellerThe dramatic story of freelance photographer Daniel Rye, who was held hostage for 13 months by ISIS, as told by an award-winning writer.In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held... -
Music in the Flesh: An Early Modern Musical Physiology by Bettina Varwig 9780226826882
RRP: $45.15$38.66A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe.Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects-composers, performers, listeners-in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the... -
Captivity, Forced Labour and Forced Migration in Europe during the First World War Matthew Stibbe (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 9780415846356
RRP: $61.91$53.93The notion of the First World War as 'the great seminal catastrophe' (Urkatastrophe) of the twentieth century is now firmly established in historiography. Yet astonishingly little has been written about the fate of non-combatants in occupied and... -
Introduction to Classical Chinese by Kai Vogelsang 9780198834984
RRP: $52.88$51.05This textbook provides a comprehensive scholarly introduction to Classical Chinese and its texts. Classical Chinese is the language of Confucius and Mencius and their contemporaries, who wrote the seminal texts of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years... -
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster by John O'Connor 9781464216633
RRP: $34.82$21.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464216633Author John O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm * 23mm -
Operation Torch 1942: The invasion of French North Africa Brian Lane Herder 9781472820549
RRP: $21.92$15.84Following the raid on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt identified the European theatre as his country's priority. Their first joint operation with the British was an amphibious invasion of... -
Art Deco Tiles Hans van Lemmen 9780747811992
RRP: $11.60$9.55Art Deco was arguably the twentieth century's most popular and memorable design movement, and has come to define the inter-war period with its clean sleek lines, streamlined shapes, bold abstract forms and bright colours. Art Deco Tiles charts the impact... -
Tudor Warship Mary Rose by Douglas McElvogue
RRP: $24.50$19.34The great warship the Mary Rose was built between 1509 and 1511 and served 34 years in Henry VIII's navy before catastrophically sinking in the Battle of the Solent on 19 July 1545. A fighting platform and sailing ship, she was the pride of the Tudor... -
The Jewish Community of Golders Green: A Social History by Pam Fox 9780750965873
RRP: $21.92$16.69The first Jews settled in Golders Green just before the First World War, and by 1930 the suburb had been recognised for its significant Jewish community. By 1960 the Jewish population of Golders Green had tripled. A century after the arrival of the first... -
The Browning High-Power Pistol by Leroy Thompson
RRP: $20.63$14.98Making its debut in 1935, the Browning High-Power was the world's most widely used military pistol for much of the 20th century. Military and law-enforcement agencies in more than 90 countries have issued the High-Power and it has seen combat in...