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Sea and Fog by Etel Adnan 9780984459872
RRP: £12.99£8.63These interrelated meditations explore the nature of the individual spirit and the individual spiritedness of the natural world. As skilled a philosopher as she is a poet, in Sea & Fog, Adnan weaves multiple sonic, theoretical, and syntactic pleasures... -
Stargrave: Quarantine 37 by Joseph A. McCullough
RRP: £20.00£15.01When it was commissioned, Imperial Research Station 37 was home to nearly 10,000 scientists and researchers working on a vast array of biological and chemical projects. Then, six months before the outbreak of the war, Station 37 went dark. No escape pods... -
The World of the Crusades by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: £27.50£23.89A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the resulting military campaigns were fueled by... -
By Permission Of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London Adrian Tinniswood 9780712668477
RRP: £12.99£9.09There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame, monsters born in city slums. Then, in the early hours... -
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 9780385534246
RRP: £35.00£20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Carnegie Medal 2017 and National Book Awards 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780385534246Author David GrannFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Doubleday & Co... -
Malaya and Singapore 1941-42: The fall of Britain's empire in the East by Mark Stille
RRP: £16.99£12.28For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese Army's invincibility, the victory left both Burma and... -
Our Flag Stays Red by Phil Piratin 9781905007288
RRP: £14.00£13.78Our Flag Stays Red is a unique account of communist and anti-fascist activity in London's East End in the 1930s and 1940s. Its author was Communist MP for Stepney from 1945 to 1950, and played a leading role in the events described in the book - which... -
Four Ball One Tracer: Commanding Executives Outcomes in Angola and Sierra Leone by Roelf Van Heerden
RRP: £12.99£11.05Unapologetic, unassuming and forthright, the combat exploits of Executive Outcomes (EO) in Angola and Sierra Leone are recounted for the first time by a battlefield commander who was physically on the ground during all their major combat operations. From... -
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China by Dieter Kuhn
RRP: £21.95£18.87Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been... -
Island Stories: Britain and Its History in the Age of Brexit by David Reynolds 9780008282356
RRP: £9.99£6.64'Concise, elegant and lucid ... A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality' Guardian What do we get wrong about Britain's history and its place in the world? In... -
In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn by Sarah Morris
RRP: £18.99£12.71Follow in the footsteps of Anne Boleyn from Hever Castle, to Richmond Palace and ultimately to the Tower of London. On the morning of 19 May 1536, a French blade stilled the heart of an English queen. Her name was Anne Boleyn and her story has made an... -
Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire by Coll Thrush
RRP: £30.00£29.65An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries"Thrush has certainly offered a powerful corrective to the usual geographies imagined for... -
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire by Kyle Harper
RRP: £38.00£30.41A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to... -
The British Phonebox by Nigel Linge
RRP: £15.99£10.85It has achieved iconic status; it symbolises Britain; but it is now seldom used! The British phonebox or, more correctly, kiosk began life as the silence cabinet in the late 1800s, but started to establish itself firmly as part of the landscape in the... -
How the Workers' Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution: Reviving Socialism After the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Pedro Ross
RRP: £17.99£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583679784Author Pedro RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal 9781568589510
RRP: £20.99£19.202014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book AwardIn Goliath , New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey through the badlands and high roads of Israel-Palestine, painting a startling portrait of Israeli society... -
Victoria's Children of the Dark: The Women and Children who Built Her Underground by Alan Gallop 9780752456980
RRP: £9.99£7.55Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel the furnaces of the industrial revolution. Following the real... -
A Wargamer's Guide to the Battle of Leipzig 1813 by Rohan Saravanamuttu
RRP: £25.00£18.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510100Author Rohan SaravanamuttuFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
I Escaped from Auschwitz: The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews by Rudolf Vrba
RRP: £14.99£12.12The Stunning and Emotional Autobiography of an Auschwitz Survivor April 7, 1944-This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf... -
Smugglers and Smuggling by Trevor May 9780747812074
RRP: £8.99£7.40Smuggling was rife in Britain between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, and since then smugglers have come often to be romanticised as cheeky rogues - as highwaymen of the coasts and Robin Hood figures. The reality could be very different... -
Let Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London's Streets by Jennifer Kavanagh
RRP: £9.99£6.80In 1861, the great journalist and social advocate Henry Mayhew published London Labour and the London Poor, an oral history of those living and working on the streets of Victorian London. Nothing on this scale had been attempted before. On the surface,... -
Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV by Joe Moran
RRP: £12.99£9.45But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has assumed a central role in our houses and our lives, just as... -
The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man': Rethinking Homo Sovieticus Dr Gulnaz Sharafutdinova 9781350167728
RRP: £12.99£11.09Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to... -
The Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning by Richard Pike
RRP: £12.99£9.09In an international study, the Lightning was voted the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. It has many thousands of devotees who are a ready market for this entertaining book which relates the highs and lows, the dramas and the demands of... -
What is Early Modern History? by ME Wiesner–Hanks
RRP: £15.99£14.41What is Early Modern History? offers a concise guide to investigations of the era from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries and an entry-point to larger questions about how we divide and organize the past and how the discipline of history has evolved... -
H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer: Pacific Theater 1943–45 by Edward M. Young
RRP: £15.99£11.61An illustrated exploration of the dramatic aerial combats between the US Navy's long-range bomber and Japanese flying boats in the Pacific War. Edward Young explores these rarely written about combats, examining the aggressive and strategic tactics... -
Reading Primary Sources: The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History Miriam Dobson 9781138393196
RRP: £36.99£32.53Now in its second edition, Reading Primary Sources explores the varied traditions in source criticism and, through specific examples, illustrates how primary sources can be read and used in historical research.Part I of this two-part volume begins by... -
No Place for a Woman: The Spiritual and Political Power Abuse of Women within Catholicism by Debra Maria Flint 9781590567227
RRP: £18.99£13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590567227Author Debra Maria FlintFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,US -
In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre by Lara Pawson
RRP: £21.99£19.04On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola - led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people. These dreadful reprisals are little talked of in Angola today - and virtually unknown outside... -
A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day by Mike Wood 9781472144591
RRP: £20.00£5.31'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man,... -
The King's Only Champion: James Graham, First Marquess of Montrose by Dominic Pearce
RRP: £22.99£15.18James Graham was a Scottish nobleman, poet and soldier who joined the Covenanters but sided with Charles I as the English Civil War progressed. Through a string of brilliant military victories, Montrose won the civil war in Scotland until it was plain... -
The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World by Simon Elliott
RRP: £20.00£15.04The world of the Roman Republic and Empire is still very much with us, alive and a key companion as we negotiate the trials and tribulations of modern life. We don't just walk in the footsteps of Romans great and small; we walk side by side with them.At... -
Peru: a journey in time Cecilia Pardo 9780714124919
RRP: £30.00£20.40'The exhibition is now over, but the splendid book lives on.' 'A delightful, very readable eyecandy dive in the history of the cultures of Peru' 'An excellent book as you would expect from the British Museum, and a delight to dive into.' -- Sacred Hoop... -
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Heir to the Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780190250010
£34.37Part of The World in A Life series, this brief text provides insight into the life of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. By the outbreak of World War II, the Republic of Turkey epitomized more than a state bound for better times; it aspired to represent the essence... -
We British: The Poetry of a People by Andrew Marr 9780008130893
RRP: £9.99£7.52More than just an anthology, WE BRITISH is a history of Britain told through its poetry. Written by Britain's most celebrated political commentator for World Poetry Day. This is the story of Britain told from inside. Hundreds of... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume One: North Africa, June 1940 - January 1942 by Christopher Shores
RRP: £50.00£36.82It is now more than 40 years since "Fighters over the Desert" was published, and nearly as long since this was followed by "Fighters over Tunisia". Both volumes have long been out of print and collectors' items, but, despite much prompting, Christopher... -
Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award by Alev Scott
RRP: £10.99£3.51**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR**Alev Scott's odyssey began when she looked beyond Turkey's borders for contemporary traces of the Ottoman Empire. Their 800-year rule ended a century ago - and yet, travelling through twelve... -
Power and Propaganda: Scotland 1306-1488 by Katie Stevenson
RRP: £23.99£21.85How did the later medieval kings of Scotland manipulate their power and alliances after the Wars of Independence? Power and Propaganda is a thematic reflection on the political history of late medieval Scotland, that considers the ways in which power... -
It's My Life! 1960s Newcastle by Anna Flowers 9781857951387
£10.38The 1960s. It was the decade that began in black and white and ended in colour. In Newcastle, as elsewhere, it was a time when everything was possible and everything was changing. From the Club A'Go Go to the new highrise flats people were on the move... -
Life at the Dakota: New York's Most Unusual Address by Stephen Birmingham
RRP: £13.99£10.84Life at the Dakota is a deliciously entertaining social history which describes the lives of the rich and trendy who have lived at the Dakota, a New York apartment house daringly erected in 1884, "too far up" and on the wrong side of town. In Stephen...