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Birth of a State: The Anglo-Irish Treaty by Micheal O Fathartaigh
RRP: $23.21$21.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551595Author Micheal O FathartaighFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
The Nomonhan War 1939: Soviet-Japanese Clash at the Khalkhin Gol by Brendan Hulley
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628668Author Brendan HulleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
RRP: $25.80$15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250782069Author Buddy LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 206mm... -
Boulton Paul Defiant: An Illustrated History by Alec Brew
RRP: $21.92$15.84Fighting over the beaches of Dunkirk and in the Battle of Britain, guarding the night skies during the perilous months of the Blitz, pioneering electronic countermeasures, and serving air-sea rescue roles all around our coasts, the Boulton Paul Defiant... -
Roman Heavy Cavalry (1): Cataphractarii & Clibanarii, 1st Century BC-5th Century AD Raffaele D'Amato (Author) 9781472830043
RRP: $19.34$14.13From the army of Marc Antony in the 1st century BC, Roman generals hired Oriental heavy armoured cavalry to serve in their military alongside the legions. These troops, both from the northern steppes and the Persian frontiers, continued an ancient... -
East Devon: People and Places by Ted Gosling 9780750928274
RRP: $16.76$12.41This collection of photographs presents a picture of life around the towns and villages of East Devon from the nineteenth century right up to the present day. It shows the people of East Devon, residents as well as visitors, local events, and some of the... -
Gunther Prien and U-47: The Bull of Scapa Flow: From the Sinking of HMS Royal Oak to the Battle of the Atlantic by Dougie Martindale 9781526737755
RRP: $32.25$24.02On the night of 13/14 October 1939, the Type VIIB U-boat U-47, on its second War Patrol, penetrated the main Royal Navy base at Scapa Flow and sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. This legendary attack is remembered as one of the most audacious... -
The Great Nation: France from Louis XV to Napoleon: The New Penguin History of France by Colin Jones 9780140130935
RRP: $25.80$18.43There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discredited, debt-ridden failure toppled by Revolution in1789... -
The Gorbals: An Illustrated History by Eric Eunson 9781872074689
RRP: $28.32$24.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074689Author Eric EunsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
Tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy by Michael Johnson 9781841764900
RRP: $25.80$15.26The federated Iroquois tribes were absolutely central to the long struggle between the British colonists in eastern North America, and the French and their client tribes. They fought many exciting frontier campaigns, and were generally loyal allies of... -
Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps by Yitzhak Arad
RRP: $36.11$31.66" . . . Mr. Arad reports as a controlled and effective witness for the prosecution. . . . Mr. Arad's book, with its abundance of horrifying detail, reminds us of how far we have to go."-New York Times Book Review" . . . some of the most gripping chapters... -
The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag by Peter Burke
RRP: $15.47$13.09From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."-Kirkus Reviews"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."-Robert Wilson,... -
A Concise History of the Baltic States by Andrejs Plakans
RRP: $32.24$26.69The Baltic region is frequently neglected in broader histories of Europe and its international significance can be obscured by separate treatments of the various Baltic states. With this wide-ranging survey, Andrejs Plakans presents an integrated history... -
Geordie Newcastle: How we used to live by Neil Storey
$17.18Geordie Newcastle is a unique collection of evocative photographs from a golden age in Newcastle's past. The result of hours of research in Newcastle City Library's archive to restore photographs from the original glass plates which hadn't been touched... -
The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage by Jan Morris
RRP: $14.18$13.12For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern Mediterranean - an empire of coasts, islands and isolated fortresses by which, as Wordsworth wrote, the mercantile Venetians... -
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx by Dr. Jerry Toner
RRP: $21.92$15.84'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... -
The Islamic World: A History in Objects by Ladan Akbarnia
RRP: $38.70$26.32This illustrated introduction offers a fresh approach to the history of the Islamic world from its origins to the present day. Told in six chapters, arranged both chronologically and thematically, and richly enhanced with outstanding images, it provides... -
Napoleon's Military Machine by Philip J. Haythornthwaite 9780750969758
$26.03That Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the greatest military commanders in history is never in doubt. His rise was meteoric, and his successes awesome; and they were founded almost entirely upon military prowess. But the reasons for his successes were many... -
6th SS Mountain Division Nord at War 1941-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781526721389
RRP: $19.34$14.13Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord 1941 - 1945 is the 6th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series compiled by Ian Baxter. The book tells the story of the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord,... -
Polish Wings No. 33 Ilyushin Il-2 by Wojciech Zmyślony 9788366549999
RRP: $23.22$16.72The renowned Soviet attack aircraft Il-2 and its various models within the Polish Air Force have been extensively documented with unmatched detail. This publication comprises numerous unpublished photographs obtained from private collections, along with... -
The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization Fabian Scheidler 9781789042719
RRP: $25.79$22.41The End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states,... -
The Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824 by Harvey Sachs
RRP: $12.89$8.64A decade after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had given way to an era of retrenchment and repression, 1824 became a watershed year. The premiere of the Ninth Symphony, the death of Lord Byron - who had been aiding the Greeks in their... -
Magna Carta: The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
RRP: $16.76$11.73A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a... -
The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction by Eric H. Cline
RRP: $11.60$8.32Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More recently, it has given rise to countless scholarly articles and... -
Blood of Others: Stalin's Crimean Atrocity and the Poetics of Solidarity by Rory Finnin 9781487558253
RRP: $30.95$25.81In the spring of 1944, Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars, a small Sunni Muslim nation, from their ancestral homeland on the Black Sea peninsula. The gravity of this event, which ultimately claimed the lives of tens of thousands of victims, was shrouded... -
Nubia: Lost Civilizations by Sarah Schellinger 9781789146592
RRP: $23.22$16.72Nubia, the often overlooked southern neighbour of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians' religious, social, economic and cultural histories, from their nomadic origins during the... -
The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick Babita Sharma 9781473673229
RRP: $21.92$14.89A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Nuanced, human and engaging' Nikesh Shukla, Observer'Full of life, characters, gossip and all the richness of the local community' Sir David Jason'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater,... -
The Diamond Queen: The Last Great Monarch? by Andrew Marr
RRP: $14.18$9.69Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, fully revised and updated with a new chapter.'Absorbing . . . particularly acute on the political aspects of constitutional monarchy, but he also writes perceptively about individual members of the Royal Family.' Daily... -
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts Tim Harris (Customer) 9781783270446
RRP: $32.24$30.86Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed... -
History Skills: A Student's Handbook by Mary Abbott 9780415466905
RRP: $47.72$41.96Degree-level history is characterized not only by knowledge and understanding of the human past, but by a battery of skills and qualities which are as directly applicable to employment as to professional postgraduate training or academic research... -
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs
RRP: $16.76$11.04'Impeccably researched and beautifully written' David Wengrow'Utterly original' Paul StrathernWhen it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and... -
Empire of Booze by Henry Jeffreys 9781783525157
RRP: $14.18$9.64Winner of the Fortnum and Mason Best Debut Drink Book Award 2017From renowned booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain and the Empire, told through the improbable but true stories of how the world's favourite... -
Toxteth Tales: Growin' up in Liverpool 8 by Ken Hayter 9781910837139
RRP: $11.60$8.86Liverpool in the 40s and 50s: a city of safe, cosy little streets - except when Hitler's Luftwaffe couldn't find the docks. A city of two-up, two-downs, where two or three generations lived within a few doors of each other, and often behind one door. It... -
US Soldier vs Afrikakorps Soldier: Tunisia 1943 David Campbell 9781472828163
RRP: $20.63$17.20Operation Torch, launched on 8 November 1942, landed Anglo-American forces in Vichy-controlled Morocco and Algeria to create a second front against the Axis forces in North Africa, catching Rommel's German and Italian forces in the claws of a giant... -
South Wales Collieries Volume 2 by David Owen 9780752423937
RRP: $19.34$14.90This is part of a series on South Wales Collieries, which illustrates the area's industrial history during the past 200 years, in text and photographs, and gives a glimpse of both working and village life in the valleys. This volume covers the Lewis... -
War Primer by Bertolt Brecht
$17.87In this singular book written during World War Two, Bertolt Brecht presents a devastating visual and lyrical attack on war under modern capitalism.He takes photographs from newspapers and popular magazines, and adds short lapidary verses to each in a... -
Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper by Helen Parr
RRP: $14.18$10.02WINNER OF THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A SPECTATOR BOOK THE YEAR... -
British Generals in Blair's Wars Jonathan Bailey 9781409437369
RRP: $51.59$45.74British Generals in Blair's Wars is based on a series of high profile seminars held in Oxford in which senior British officers, predominantly from the army, reflect on their experience of campaigning. The chapters embrace all the UK's major operations... -
Greek Homosexuality: with Forewords by Stephen Halliwell, Mark Masterson and James Robson by Sir Kenneth J. Dover
RRP: $45.14$39.91Hailed as magisterial when it first appeared, Greek Homosexuality remains an academic milestone and continues to be of major importance for students and scholars of gender studies. Kenneth Dover explores the understanding of homosexuality in ancient... -
The Defeat of the Luftwaffe: The Eastern Front 1941-45, A Strategy for Disaster by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $12.89$8.57In 1939 and 1940 the Nazi blitzkrieg crushed Poland and the Low Countries and France. This was a new type of warfare with air and ground forces working hand-in-glove and sweeping away all resistance. On the ground the new panzer divisions symbolised this...