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Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines by Gregory A. Daddis
RRP: $31.18$23.85In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The... -
Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay by Anne Carson
RRP: $27.28$20.59Named one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern LibraryAnne Carson's remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic loveSince it was first published, Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson's lyrical meditation on love in... -
Flanders: Then and Now by John Giles
RRP: $44.75$39.99The author recreates, by means of contemporary photographs juxtaposed with others taken by him over a number of years plus eyewitness accounts and narrative, the atmosphere, past and present, of that once famous salient. He aims to present a moving... -
Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life In Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930's by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: $37.03$26.54Here is a pioneeering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russain history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930's, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivisation and the first... -
The Dancing Debutante: The Adventures of a Society Beauty on and off the Stage by Elfrida Eden Fallowfield 9781861513311
RRP: $25.33$25.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861513311Author Elfrida Eden FallowfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm)... -
Garrison Life at Vindolanda: A Band of Brothers by Anthony Birley 9780752419503
RRP: $43.88$33.25The ink writing-tablets, first indentified at Roman Vindolanda, just south of Hadrian's Wall, in 1973, revealed a hitherto unknown papyrus-substitute, thin leaves of wood for day-to-day book-keeping and letters. Dating mostly from the years AD 90-125... -
Gorton by Jill Cronin 9780752411415
RRP: $29.23$22.85A history of GortonBook InformationISBN 9780752411415Author Jill CroninFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe by Robert Bartlett
RRP: $37.03$32.47Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births,... -
New York Is . . . by Elisa Parhad
RRP: $19.48$16.05From the creators of Los Angeles Is . . . , a stylish board book that is an ode to the Big Apple, with rhyming couplets and colorful art New York is . . . buildings above, bridges to love, Broadway plays, bagels and lox. This stylish primer for toddlers... -
Outskirts: Living Life on the Edge of the Green Belt by John Grindrod
RRP: $19.48$13.46'Evocative and intelligent' Guardian Discover the secret history of our green belts.The first book to tell the story of Britain's green belts, Outskirts is at once a fascinating social history, a stirring evocation of the natural world, and a poignant... -
Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village by Julia Blackburn
RRP: $21.43$15.58Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but a series of events... -
Domination and Lordship: Scotland, 1070-1230 by Dr. Richard Oram
RRP: $50.68$41.65This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a balance between traditional historiographical concentration on the 'feudalisation' of Scottish society as part... -
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory by David W. Blight
RRP: $36.95$30.56Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's... -
The Presidents' Letters: An Unexpected History of the Irish State by Flor MacCarthy
RRP: $44.83$32.53Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Irish-Published Book of the Year A TREASURE TROVE OF LETTERS TO AND FROM OUR NINE PRESIDENTS FROM 1938 TO THE PRESENT DAY With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs,... -
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx by Dr. Jerry Toner
RRP: $33.13$23.95'Toner again spins a tale that is enjoyable and informative.' The Times Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and his amanuensis, Dr Jerry Toner. Travelling east, Falx explores the great cultural centre of Athens before... -
These Englishmen Who Died for France: 1st July 1916: The Bloodiest Day in British History by Jean-Michel Steg
RRP: $19.48$14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800310872Author Jean-Michel StegFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland by Raymond Gillespie
RRP: $38.98$34.34This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the... -
Alarmstart East: The German Fighter Pilot's Experience on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 by Patrick G. Eriksson 9781445699127
RRP: $21.43$14.55For anyone who is interested in the air war from 1941 to 1945, the information provided here is of inestimable value. There are no more than a handful of Second World War Luftwaffe members alive today. Patrick Eriksson had the foresight to record these... -
The Ascent Of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: $44.85$30.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583945353Author Charles EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Evolver EditionsPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Workhouses of the Midlands: Images of England by Peter Higginbotham 9780752444888
RRP: $31.18$24.24The workhouse system officially ended in 1930, and the world in now a very different place. Many former workhouse buildings have vanished; the survivors, ironically, have often been converted into luxurious houses and flats, and their original purpose... -
Quest for Kim Peter Hopkirk 9780719564529
RRP: $23.38$16.03This book is for all those who love Kim, that masterpiece of Indian life in which Kipling immortalized the Great Game. Fascinated since childhood by this strange tale of an orphan boy's recruitment into the Indian secret service, Peter Hopkirk here... -
Celtic Fairy Tales and Legends by Rosalind Kerven 9781849948500
RRP: $29.23$19.62From mermaids to dragons, 16 ancient Celtic fairy tales retold with their histories The Celtic cultures of the British Isles - Ireland, Scotland and Wales - have produced some of the richest traditional tales in Europe. Three words best sum up their... -
A Fiery & Furious People: A History of Violence in England by James Sharpe
RRP: $40.93$29.60*Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, History Today and the Sunday Telegraph*'Wonderfully entertaining, comprehensive and astute.' The Times'Genuinely hard to put down.' BBC History MagazineFrom murder to duelling, highway robbery to mugging: the... -
The Great Fire of London: The Essential Guide Adrian Tinniswood 9781784872144
RRP: $13.63$10.202 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. In the five days that followed it grew into a conflagration that would devastate the third largest city... -
Kensington & Chelsea: Britain in Old Photographs by Barbara Denny
RRP: $33.13$25.23This fascinating selection of historic photographs documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last 150 years in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The book gives an unforgettable impression of familiar streets and... -
The Love Match M.C. Beaton 9781472114341
RRP: $17.53$14.63By day she champions women's rights but by night she plots romance! No young lady can be more devoted to the teachings of the infamous blue stocking Mrs Waverley than Felicity, her adopted author. Yet Felicity leads a secret life: that of an author of a... -
The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the End of America's Domination of Finance and Technology by Martin Chorzempa
RRP: $48.75$32.47The startling picture of how China's revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances.The future of finance - the way Wall Street operates and how individuals manage their money - is... -
Zemke'S Wolfpack: A Photographic Odyssey of the 56th Fighter Group During the Second World War by Nigel Julian
RRP: $58.40$42.74The only US 8th Army Air Force fighter group to retain the mighty P-47 Thunderbolt throughout its combat tour in the European Theatre of Operations, the 56th Fighter Group justified its nickname of 'Zemke's Wolfpack' by the aggressive attitude and... -
Brexit Without The Bullshit: The Facts on Food, Jobs, Schools, and the NHS by Gavin Esler 9781912454358
RRP: $17.53$11.72'Punchy, pithy and short.' - POLLY TOYNBEE, GUARDIAN COLUMNIST 'In an ideal world every citizen would read this essential book, and think hard.' - PROFESSOR AC GRAYLING, ACADEMIC The broadcaster and journalist Gavin Esler reveals the long-lasting... -
A Bad Day, I Fear: The Irish Divisions at the Battle of Langemarck, 16 August 1917 by Michael James Nugent 9781804513262
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513262Author Michael James NugentFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Malayan Emergency: The Crucial Years: 1949-53 by Forsdike, Mark 9781399082242
RRP: $37.03$26.54From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the... -
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life by Elspeth Marr
RRP: $15.58$14.24In this delightful and engagingly eccentric treasury of life lessons, redoubtable Victorian Elspeth Marr (1871-1947) reflects on the fundamental topics of life as well as the nuts and bolts of everyday living. Part journal, part commonplace book, among... -
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm by Jacob Grimm
RRP: $48.75$36.31A sumptuous treasury of original fairytales from the brothers Grimm, introduced by award-winning author Cornelia Funke and with full colour illustrations by artists Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Axel Scheffler, Oliver Jeffers, Helen Oxenbury and Emma... -
The French Mind: A Cultural History of an Exceptional People by Peter Watson
RRP: $58.50$52.40'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review_________________________________________________________________________________________We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and... -
The Thirty Years War, 1618 - 1648: The First Global War and the end of Habsburg Supremacy by John Pike
RRP: $68.25$47.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $44.83$31.75Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction' Independent on Sunday Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of... -
Arthur Gould: Rugby's First Superstar by Gwyn Prescott 9781904609124
RRP: $35.08$29.00Arthur Gould is the definitive biography of the record-breaking Welsh international player who is widely acknowledged as the first superstar of rugby. Such was his fame and renown, that upon his tragic, early death in 1919, aged just 54, Gould's funeral... -
Pabay: An Island Odyssey by Christopher Whatley
$44.54The tiny diamond-shaped island of Pabay lies in Skye's Inner Sound, just two and a half miles from the bustling village of Broadford. One of five Hebridean islands of that name, it derives from the Norse papa-ey, meaning 'island of the priest'. Many... -
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
RRP: $29.23$21.35A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN'S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE'Osebol is a magnificent success; it is hard to imagine it better ... Kapla... -
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: $19.48$13.46Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was homosexual and his marriage to Vanessa's Italian mother fell...