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Vampire Boys: True Tales from Operators of the RAF's First Single-Engined Jet by Charlotte Bailey
RRP: £25.00£18.02Sliding out of the shadows of World War Two, the de Havilland Vampire - accompanied by the distinctive whine of its Goblin engine - quickly proved itself an effective alternative to piston-powered fighters. After entering operational service with the RAF... -
The Road to War: The Origins of World War II by Richard Overy
RRP: £14.99£10.95Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history. Taking each major... -
Waging War in America 1775-1783: Operational Challenges of Five Armies during the American Revolution by Don N Hagist 9781804513460
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513460Author Don N HagistFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Preston's Victorian red light district: Into the Sandhole John Garlington 9781910837474
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Sandhole was Preston's place of debauchery and shame. But Victorian morality ensured that it never appeared on any town maps, and despite regular reports in the newspapers of the time, it doesn't even survive in folk memory. It is a part of Preston's... -
The Good Assassin: Mossad's Hunt for the Butcher of Latvia by Stephan Talty
RRP: £10.99£7.25Before the Second World War, Herbert Cukurs was a world-famous aviator and a hero in his hometown of Riga, Latvia. During the war he joined the SS, led a militia and was responsible for the genocide of 30,000 Latvian Jews. By the 1960s the man who became... -
Darkness Falling: The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33 by Peter Walther
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes 'A brilliant mix of detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd 'History at its very best - and a fabulous translation, too' Graham Hurley In March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that... -
Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: A History by Barbara Caine 9781350237629
RRP: £22.99£21.48Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography, exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life... -
The Welsh Gypsies: Children of Abram Wood by Eldra Jarman 9780708323984
RRP: £18.99£14.52The Gypsy family of Abram Wood first arrived in Wales in the eighteenth century, a tawny-skinned people speaking a language close to Hindi and Sanskrit. Welsh society found their customs strange and sometimes unacceptable. The family included such... -
The Boer War: A History by Denis Judd
£20.97The 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... -
Athenian Hoplite vs Spartan Hoplite: Peloponnesian War 431–404 BC by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: £13.99£9.75The Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), waged between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies, involved some of the most important developments in ancient warfare. A life-and-death struggle between the two most powerful Greek city-states in the wake of... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War Volume Five: Volume Five: From the fall of Rome to the end of the war 1944-1945 by Christopher Shores
RRP: £50.00£35.22During the final year of World War II, the defending Axis forces were steadily driven from southern skies by burgeoning Anglo-American power. This was despite the steady withdrawal of units to more demanding areas. In this fifth volume of the series the... -
Confessions of a British Spy by Hempher
RRP: £17.00£15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910220153Author HempherFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Omnia Veritas LtdPublisher Omnia Veritas Ltd -
Diocletian and the Roman Recovery by Stephen Williams
RRP: £45.99£40.13Stephen Williams's book is the first biography of Diocletian to appear in English. It combines the historical narrative of his remarkable reign and those of his fellow-emperors, with a chapter-by-chapter study of each of the great problems he faced, the... -
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 by Alexander Morrison
RRP: £79.99£73.16The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains... -
The Normans in Italy 1016-1194 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £12.99£9.09Preceding and simultaneously with the conquest of England by Duke William, other ambitious and aggressive Norman noblemen (notably the Drengot, De Hauteville and Guiscard families) found it prudent to leave Normandy. At first taking mercenary employment... -
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks 9780393326710
RRP: £11.99£10.15In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine... -
Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300 by Catherine Hanley 9780300272970
RRP: £12.99£11.46An exhilarating, accessible chronicle of the ruling families of France and England, showing how two dynasties formed one extraordinary story The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty... -
The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism by Robert E. Buswell 9780691157863
£74.98With more than 5,000 entries totaling over a million words, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Buddhism ever produced in English. It is also the first to cover terms from all of the canonical Buddhist languages and traditions:... -
Privacy: A Short History David Vincent (The Open University) 9780745671130
RRP: £16.99£15.22Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept... -
South Wales Collieries Volume 1 by Owen David
RRP: £12.99£9.62This collection of over 200 images provides an illustrated account of the development of the South Wales Coalfield, once one of the largest and most productive in Britain. It illustrates the area's industrial history during the past two hundred years as... -
Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 by Dr Daibhi O Croinin
RRP: £41.99£40.80This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement. Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the... -
Brittany: A Cultural History by Wendy Mewes
RRP: £15.00£13.65Brittany's richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region's traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea and shore to tales of misty moors, sacred hill-tops and secretive forests. Evangelizing Dark Age saints from Britain... -
Iceland Saga by Magnus Magnusson 9780752433424
RRP: £12.99£9.62Magnus Magnusson relates the world-famous Icelandic sagas to the spectacular living landscapes of today, taking the reader on a literary tour of the mountains, valleys, and fjords where the heroes and heroines of the sagas lived out their eventful lives... -
Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945 by Martin van Creveld 9780313091575
£48.90Analyses the performance of two key parties engaged in fighting during World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780313091575Author Martin van CreveldFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 3: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859896023
RRP: £21.99£20.27This 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... -
Wirral: A History by Stephen J. Roberts 9781860775123
RRP: £18.99£14.72The Wirral peninsula is a microcosm, having experienced every historical development to have affected England since the Stone-Age hunter-gatherers came. Inhabited in the Bronze and Iron Ages, it was exploited by Romans from their nearby fortress of Deva,... -
Overreach: China, America, and the New Cold War by Susan Shirk
RRP: £24.49£21.18For decades, China's rise to power was characterized by its reassurance that this rise would be peaceful. Then, as Susan L. Shirk, shows in this sobering, clear-eyed account of China today, something changed. For three decades after Mao's death in... -
Twelve Days that Made Modern Britain by Andrew Hindmoor
RRP: £26.49£14.29This is the story of modern Britain, focusing on twelve formative days in the history of the United Kingdom over the last five decades. By describing what happened on those days and the subsequent consequences, Andrew Hindmoor paints a suggestive - and... -
Four Queens and a Countess: Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, Mary I, Lady Jane Grey and Bess of Hardwick: The Struggle for the Crown by Jill Armitage
RRP: £9.99£7.11When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy. Elizabeth had continued the religious changes made by her father and England was a Protestant country, yet ardent Catholics... -
Dornier Do 335 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £15.99£12.61The Dornier Do 335 was conceived as a high-speed, all-weather fighter, and represented the pinnacle of piston-engined aircraft design. The Do 335 was a big aircraft, weighing just over 10,000kg when laden with fuel, equipment, and pilot, yet powered by... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
£16.32For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne troops of World War Two.Primosole Bridge in Sicily (13-16... -
House of Spies: St Ermin's Hotel, the London Base of British Espionage by Peter Matthews
RRP: £9.99£7.55St Ermin's Hotel has been at the centre of British intelligence since the 1930s, when it was known to MI6 as 'The Works Canteen'. Intelligence officers such as Ian Fleming and Noel Coward were to be found in the hotel's Caxton Bar, along with other less... -
Long Range Desert Group: Reconnaissance and Raiding Behind Enemy Lines by Shaw, W B Kennedy 9781399092050
RRP: £29.95£11.95During the two-and-a-half years fighting in the Western Desert of North Africa, which began with the Italian declaration of war in June 1940 and ended in 1943, the Long Range Desert Group became the acknowledged master of the vast desert. This small,... -
Flying Springbok, The: A history of South African Airways since its inception to the post-apartheid era Lionel Friedberg 9781789046465
RRP: £23.99£20.51An artistic rendering of the African antelope, the Springbok, was depicted with stylized wings to serve as the logo of South African Airways (SAA) for well over 60 years. It was replaced by a new corporate identity when the airline was rebranded after... -
Black Tom: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution by Andrew Hopper 9780719071096
RRP: £19.99£17.82Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a... -
The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces by Natalya Semenova
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia's art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was... -
The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave by Polly Morland
£9.00This book is a modern investigation of an ancient virtue, inspired by a group for stage-frightened musicians in 1940s Manhattan. Coinciding with the terrifying height of World War Two, it was called The Society of Timid Souls. Seventy years later, as... -
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell
RRP: £27.99£24.67The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have shaped the way we encounter literature. Eighteenth-century children and young women... -
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: £14.99£11.47'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent ... -
Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War Pamela Horn 9781445644776
RRP: £12.99£8.48The First World War particularly affected the landed classes with their long military tradition; country houses were turned into military hospitals and convalescent homes, while many of the menfolk were killed or badly injured in the hostilities. When...