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Derbyshire - Unusual & Quirky Andrew Beardmore 9780857042378
RRP: £19.99£17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042378Author Andrew BeardmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation by Raja Shehadeh
RRP: £10.99£7.77Winner of the Moore Prize 2020 In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the relationships, the... -
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories by Diarmuid Hester 9780241528457
RRP: £25.00£16.53'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a kind of magic' Colm Toibin'Hester is a fizzingly brilliant writer' Robert Macfarlane'Haunted and haunting... -
The Russian Revolution by Anthony Wood 9780582355590
£35.74A popular concise guide - one of the clearest available on the Russian Revolution.Book InformationISBN 9780582355590Author A. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 146gDimensions(mm) 138mm * 216mm... -
Hunter of Stories Eduardo Galeano 9781472128867
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often poetic pearls astonish, inspire reflection and entertain' Morning StarThe internationally acclaimed last work... -
Vietnam: A View from the Front Lines by Andrew Wiest
RRP: £10.99£8.38From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict. Vietnam allows the... -
Japanese Family Crests and Designs Nobuyoshi Hamada 9784756257260
RRP: £40.00£26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756257260Author Nobuyoshi HamadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
The Truth about the Mutiny on Hmav Bounty - And the Fate of Fletcher Christian by Glynn Christian
RRP: £19.99£14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399014182Author Glynn ChristianFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
Latvia: A Short History by Mara Kalnins
RRP: £22.00£19.52The history of the Latvian people begins some four and a half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinctive and remarkably robust... -
The Rising Sun by John Toland
RRP: £21.00£14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968583Author John TolandFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 896gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup by Dana Frank
RRP: £24.99£14.63This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two... -
Schweinfurt-Regensburg 1943: Eighth Air Force's costly early daylight battles Marshall Michel III 9781472838674
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1943, the USAAF and RAF launched the Combined Bomber Offensive, designed to systematically destroy the industries that the German war machine relied on. At the top of the hit list were aircraft factories and plants making ball-bearings - a component... -
A Concise History of Spain by William D. Phillips, Jr.
RRP: £24.99£19.77The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This updated edition traces that history from prehistoric times to the present,... -
Chippenham: Britain in Old Photographs by Mike Stone 9780752453835
RRP: £14.99£11.55This collection of old photographs and postcards provides the reader with a fascinating and informative guide to Chippenham and its history over the past hundred years. The book spans the expansion and development of the thriving market town by the River... -
Politics after Violence: Legacies of the Shining Path Conflict in Peru by Hillel Soifer
RRP: £35.00£31.14Between 1980 and 1994, Peru endured a bloody internal armed conflict, with some 69,000 people killed in clashes involving two insurgent movements, state forces, and local armed groups. In 2003, a government-sponsored "Truth and Reconciliation Committee"... -
Access to History for Cambridge International AS Level: The History of the USA 1820-1941 Alan Farmer 9781510448681
£31.89This title is endorsed by Cambridge Assessment International Education to support the History of the USA 1820-1941 Option from the Cambridge AS Level History syllabus for first examination from 2021.Develop knowledge and analytical skills with engaging... -
Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century by Chris Wickham 9780691181141
RRP: £22.00£17.36A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian communeAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government-the commune-arose in the cities of northern and central Italy... -
The Art of War by Tzu Sun 9780140439199
RRP: £9.99£7.11For more than two thousand years, Sun-tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics and management strategies. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone for the Western struggle for... -
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick 9781915590626
RRP: £25.00£16.59'A compelling real-life thriller, full of passion, free of writerly fuss, woven from the most intractable archival cat's cradle imaginable.' Simon Ings, The Telegraph The true story of a decade-long investigation that opens a new window onto Cold War... -
The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum [Historia Regum Britanniae] Geoffrey of Monmouth 9781843834410
RRP: £24.99£21.30New translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin history - the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur. This imaginative history of the Britons, written in the twelfth century, is the first work to recount the woes of... -
The Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome: A Guide to the Classical Pantheon by Philip Matyszak
RRP: £30.00£20.40The essential illustrated guide to the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome, vividly retelling their stories and exploring their origins. Who were the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece and Rome? What did they mean to the people who... -
Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century by Richard Kieckhefer
RRP: £30.95£28.16Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full... -
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Poland, the United Nations War Crimes Commission, and the Search for Justice by Michael Fleming
RRP: £75.00£68.14In the midst of the Second World War, the Allies acknowledged Germany's ongoing programme of extermination. In the Shadow of the Holocaust examines the struggle to attain post-war justice and prosecution. Focusing on Poland's engagement with the United... -
The Other Battle of Britain: 1940: Bomber Command's Forgotten Summer by Paul Tweddle 9780750987066
RRP: £25.00£18.54While the heroic exploits of 'The Few' of Fighter Command are rightly lauded, those of 'The Many' of Bomber Command often remain overlooked. Night after night, the bomber crews ranged across Europe seeking out and attacking targets in an all-out effort... -
Anne Frank: The Collected Works by Anne Frank
RRP: £50.00£38.68Anne Frank's diary is one of the most recognised and widely read books of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people visit the Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam each year to see the annexe where Anne and her family hid from... -
The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muhammad by Mamar Ibn Rashid 9781479816828
RRP: £12.99£11.77One of the earliest surviving biographies of Prophet Muhammad, translated into readable, modern English for the first time The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author,... -
The Hot Trod: A History of the Anglo-Scottish Border by John Sadler
RRP: £22.99£15.18The 2014 Scottish independence debate and the re-ignition of the SNP's call for a second vote in the wake of Brexit - and indeed Brexit itself - begs a reappraisal of what nationality and borderer identity actually mean in the twenty-first century and... -
Battle Under the Moon: The Disastrous RAF Raid on Mailly-Le-Camp, 1944 by Jack Currie
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809808Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Very First Americans by Cara Ashrose
RRP: £5.99£4.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448401683Author Cara AshroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Grosset & Dunlap Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 85gDimensions(mm)... -
American Diplomacy by George F. Kennan
RRP: £21.00£20.31For more than fifty years, George F. Kennan's "American Diplomacy" has been a standard work on American foreign policy. Drawing on his considerable diplomatic experience and expertise, Kennan offers an overview and critique of the foreign policy of an... -
Truth, Lies and O-Rings: Inside the Space Shuttle `Challenger' Disaster by Allan J. McDonald
RRP: £29.95£18.25On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an... -
The Reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius, AD 138 161 by McHugh, John S 9781526773982
£28.28The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overlooked by modern historians. He is considered one of the five good emperors of the Antonine dynasty under whom... -
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
RRP: £14.99£11.03From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of... -
A Concise History of Albania by Bernd J. Fischer
RRP: £22.99£19.56A Concise History of Albania charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan and European contexts. It shows the country's journey from its ancient past, still shrouded in mystery and controversy, through its difficult transition from a... -
RAF West Malling: The RAF's First Night Fighter Airfield - WWII to the Cold War by Anthony J. Moor 9781526753236
RRP: £25.00£18.62This is the story of West Malling airfield, from its earliest days through its role in the Second World War - when several dramatic and tragic events occurred - and beyond into the Cold War. Opened as a private landing ground after the First World War,... -
France in the World: A New Global History by Patrick Boucheron
RRP: £19.99£14.56A fresh, provocative history that renews our understanding of France in the world through short, incisive essays ranging from prehistoric frescoes to Coco Chanel to the terrorist attacks of 2015. Bringing together an impressive group... -
Bush War Operator: Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and Beyond by Andrew Balaam 9781909982772
£20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982772Author Andrew BalaamFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Greek Hoplite, 480-323 BC: Weapons, Armour, Tactics by Nick Sekunda
RRP: £14.99£12.55A study of the Greek Hoplite in the "Golden Age" of Ancient Greek civilization, from the victory at Marathon over Darius of Persia, through bitter inter-state warfare, to the rise of Philip of Macedonia and his son Alexander the Great. It was during this... -
Becoming Kim Jong Un: Understanding North Korea's Young Dictator by Jung H. Pak 9780861542529
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account' Sunday Times When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, many expected his rule to be short. Years later, he remains the unchallenged dictator of a nuclear... -
Dystopia: A Natural History by Gregory Claeys 9780198820475
RRP: £31.99£23.84Dystopia: A Natural History is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous...