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The Cold War: 1945-1991 by John Mason
RRP: $47.72$41.96Mason provides concise coverage of the entire Cold War, paying particular attention to the Soviet-American dimension. This pamphlet:* Analyzes the origins of the conflict* Examines how the existence of nuclear weapons gives a unique character to the... -
International Relations of the Middle East by Louise Fawcett 9780192893680
RRP: $49.01$46.72As the most authoritative and comprehensive overview of international relations in the Middle East, this highly respected textbook is designed to help students get to grips with this important and challenging subject area. A team of expert scholars... -
My House in Damascus: An Inside View of the Syrian Crisis by Diana Darke 9781908323996
RRP: $19.34$13.93How did Syria's revolution lose its way? Drawing on the author's firsthand knowledge of the country's complex religious and ethnic communities, this book illuminates the darker recesses of Syria's history, politics, and society. With the unique... -
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution by Peter Bradley
RRP: $25.80$23.17'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. ... -
A Royal Christmas by Jeremy Archer
RRP: $14.18$9.64'A rich achievement full of glorious anecdotes' Hugo Vickers A Royal Christmas is a Christmas pudding of a book, enticingly full of silver threepenny pieces. Organised thematically, it covers such topics as Christmas and conflict in the 20th... -
An Analysis of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Simon Taylor 9781912128419
RRP: $8.39$7.88Daniel Goldhagen's study of the Holocaust offers conclusions that run directly counter to those reached by Christopher Browning, whose book Ordinary Men is also the subject of a Macat analysis. As such, the two analyses make possible some interesting... -
Beirut by Samir Kassir 9780520271265
RRP: $38.70$30.56Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir Kassir before his tragic death in... -
How To Change The World: Tales of Marx and Marxism by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $18.05$11.87In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But... -
The Flight of the Mew Gull by Alex Henshaw
RRP: $24.50$20.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840370218Author Alex HenshawFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Airlife Publishing LtdPublisher The Crowood Press LtdWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747808121
RRP: $11.60$8.98As the world became embroiled in the second global conflagration in just over two decades, the women of Britain once more answered the call of duty. Many of the first volunteers had served in the Great War and now they offered their services again - this... -
Darkness Over Germany: A Warning From History E. Amy Buller 9781911350194
RRP: $19.35$12.64Hitler gave voice to a cry that came from the heart of a nation. Originally published in 1943, Darkness over Germany is a poignant and timely reminder of how high youth unemployment and the disenfranchised working class gave Hitler a savage worship. ... -
Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London by Rosalind Crone 9780719086854
RRP: $25.79$22.99By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly,... -
Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History by Bruce Cumings 9780393327021
RRP: $25.79$22.41Korea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the... -
Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were by J F Andrews 9781526736512
RRP: $25.79$18.42When William the Conqueror died in 1087 he left the throne of England to William Rufus his second son. The result was an immediate war as Rufus's elder brother Robert fought to gain the crown he saw as rightfully his; this conflict marked the start of... -
Stopping Places: A Gypsy History of South London and Kent by Simon Evans 9781902806303
RRP: $19.34$17.60The story of the enforced settlement of Gypsy travelers in southeast England, whose nomadic lifestyle ended when they were moved to concrete ghettos of local-government-run caravan sites following the 1968 Caravan Sites Act, is told in this textual and... -
Massacre At Montsegur: A History Of The Albigensian Crusade by Zoe Oldenbourg
RRP: $21.92$14.89A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when the Catholic Church waged war against heretics in its own ranksIn 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one... -
History SL&HL: The Move to Global War: Study & Revision Guide for the IB Diploma by Joe Gauci
$26.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913433376Author Joe GauciFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Peak Study Resources LtdPublisher Peak Study Resources LtdWeight(grams) 401gDimensions(mm)... -
Voices of Kent Hop Pickers by Hilary Heffernan 9780752411309
RRP: $16.76$12.41Before the advent of machines in the late 1950s, hop-picking was undertaken by an army of people, many of whom saw the countryside only during these four to six weeks of picking. It was work and a way of earning some much needed extra money, but it was... -
Chuang Tzu by David Hinton
RRP: $19.34$11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Around Leigh by Ashcroft Tont 9780752430218
RRP: $16.76$12.41A history of Leigh & surrounding areasBook InformationISBN 9780752430218Author Tony AshcroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn 9780195004564
RRP: $27.72$19.66The end of the millennium has always held the world in fear of earthquakes, plague, and the catastrophic destruction of the world. At the dawn of the 21st millennium the world is still experiencing these anxieties, as seen by the onslaught of fantasies... -
The Nobel Family: Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia by Bengt Jangfeldt 9781350348912
RRP: $32.25$24.36THE FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR This absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels' business and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia, as well as the... -
Accidental Gods: On Race, Empire and Men Unwittingly Turned Divine Anna Della Subin 9781783785025
RRP: $14.18$9.18A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip. Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods,... -
Dublin: The Making of a Capital City by Dr. David Dickson 9781861975867
RRP: $25.80$19.72Dublin has many histories: for a thousand years a modest urban settlement on the quiet waters of the Irish Sea, for the last four hundred it has experienced great - and often astonishing - change. Once a fulcrum of English power in Ireland, it was also... -
The War for Missouri: 1861-1862 by Joseph W McCoskrie
RRP: $32.24$20.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467143141Author Joseph W McCoskrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England by Dr Elizabeth Spencer 9781837650347
RRP: $103.20$98.83Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century. Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in... -
Amphibious Assault Falklands: the Battle of San Carlos Water by Michael Clapp 9781844155064
RRP: $23.21$17.22Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. Here he describes, with considerable... -
Infantry Small Arms of the 21st Century: Guns of the World's Armies by Leigh Neville 9781473896130
RRP: $38.70$28.32Soldiers in today's modern armies have access to ever more advanced infantry weapons; lighter, more compact and more accurate than anything seen in the last century. These include combat pistols, personal assault rifles, sub-machine guns, sniper rifles,... -
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
RRP: $28.38$16.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972825Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll 9780393343410
RRP: $25.79$21.98On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers... -
The Austrian Revolution by Otto Bauer 9781642591620
RRP: $32.24$24.38This is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer's magisterial work -- available in English for the first time in full -- charts the evolution... -
Waterloo 1815 (1): Quatre Bras by Gerry Embleton
RRP: $21.92$16.98To commemorate the 2015 bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo, one of the defining campaigns in European History, Osprey is replacing its single volume Campaign title covering the whole of the battle with three highly detailed volumes. Based on new... -
Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland by Cormac Moore 9781785372933
RRP: $25.79$21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785372933Author Cormac MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Made in Belfast by Vivienne Pollock
RRP: $16.76$12.41In 1900 Belfast had the world's biggest linen factories and its largest ropeworks. Its shipbuilding industry produced more tonnage than any other city's (Titanic and Olympic were both built here). But Belfast was also home to cycle-makers, printers,... -
Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen
RRP: $14.18$9.55From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the... -
An Armenian Sketchbook by Vasily Grossman
RRP: $14.18$9.55Few writers had to confront so many of the last century's mass tragedies as Vasily Grossman. He is likely to be remembered, above all, for the terrifying clarity with which he writes about the Shoah, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Terror Famine in the... -
First World War For Dummies Sean Lang 9781118679999
RRP: $27.08$18.52From the Somme to Gallipoli to the home front, First World War For Dummies provides an authoritative, accessible, and engaging introduction to the War to End All Wars. It takes a global perspective of this global conflict, proving insight into the... -
Porth: Gateway to the Rhondda by Aldo Bacchetta 9780752421612
RRP: $16.76$12.41This fascinating collection of more than 200 photographs illustrates scenes and events in Porth and the surrounding villages. Following the authors' previous two volumes on the area, this one places particular emphasis on industry, work and community... -
H. H. Asquith Letters to Venetia Stanley by Michael Brock
$51.87H. H. Asquith fell in love with Venetia Stanley in the spring of 1912. Over the next three years he wrote to her whenever he could not see her: sometimes three times a day, sometimes during a debate in the house of Commons, on occasion even during a... -
The Final Archives of the FüHrerbunker: Berlin in 1945, the Chancellery and the Last Days of Hitler by Paul Villatoux 9781612009049
RRP: $38.69$27.01In November 1945, two French officers secretly entered the Fuhrerbunker, the air raid shelter near the Chancellery in Berlin. The bunker was the last home of Adolf Hitler, the background of the last months of his life, and the war, where he married Eva...