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H6K “Mavis”/H8K “Emily” vs PB4Y-1/2 Liberator/Privateer: Pacific Theater 1943–45 by Edward M. Young
RRP: $31.18$22.64An 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... -
Look Back in Anger: The Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years on by Harry Paterson 9781907869952
RRP: $19.48$16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869952Author Harry PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Migrants: The Story of Us All Sam Miller 9781408713549
RRP: $48.75$28.59Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move.'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator'Timely and empathetic:... -
9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation by David Ray Griffin
RRP: $35.08$23.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623719746Author David Ray GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century David Blackbourn (Harvard University, USA) 9780631231967
RRP: $58.40$53.08This history offers a powerful and original account of Germany from the eve of the French Revolution to the end of World War One. Written by a leading German historian who has transformed the historiography of modern Germany over the past two decades... -
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the College De France, 1977 - 78 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $107.23$95.49This book derives from Foucault's lectures at the College de France between January and April 1978, which can be seen as a radical turning point in his thought. Focusing on 'bio-power', he studies the foundations of this new technology of power over... -
Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It David Fleming 9781603586481
RRP: $78.00$53.72Lean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming's... -
Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War by Nick Lloyd 9781519531117
$36.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519531117Author Nick LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace -
Utopia: The History of an Idea by Gregory Claeys
RRP: $21.43$14.84Aspirations for a better - even a perfect - society have existed throughout history, often imagined in intricate detail by philosophers, poets, social reformers, architects and artists. This book explores a perennially powerful idea: the quest for the... -
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $21.43$15.58WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTONSubtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's... -
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology by Lucy Moore
RRP: $35.08$26.03***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about... -
Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King by Francis Young
RRP: $31.18$24.30What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The search for the final resting place of King Edmund has led to this site, beneath which Francis Young argues... -
Badges of the Regular Infantry, 1914-1918 by David Bilton
RRP: $58.50$42.80_Badges of the Regular Infantry, 1914-1918_ is based on over thirty years research in museums, archives and collections. It is an exhaustive study of the development of the battalion, brigade and divisional signs of the twelve divisions that formed the... -
A Short History of the World in 50 Places by Jacob F. Field
RRP: $25.33$17.22Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world.From the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania,... -
The Art of War by James Clavell
RRP: $19.48$13.96Sun Tzu was one of the greatest army generals who ever lived. He wrote The Art of War in the fifth century BC and yet his words are still resoundingly relevant to our modern lives. His writings on aspects of warfare from the laying of plans to the... -
Revolutionary Berlin: A Walking Guide by Nathaniel Flakin
RRP: $29.23$19.60'Inspirational - with a deliciously bone-dry Berlinische humour' - Owen Hatherley Few European cities can boast a history as storied and tumultuous as that of Berlin. For more than 150 years it has been at the centre of revolutionary politics; of... -
In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson Dr Sam Willis 9780857895738
RRP: $58.50$41.44SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 MARITIME MEDIA AWARDSBetween 1794 and 1815 the Royal Navy repeatedly crushed her enemies at sea in a period of military dominance that equals any in history. When Napoleon eventually died in exile, the Lords of the Admiralty... -
EU law in the UK by Sylvia de Mars 9780198805922
RRP: $95.53$91.44The first new textbook to publish since Brexit, EU Law in the UK tackles EU law with a post-Brexit perspective interwoven throughout. It takes a uniquely contextual approach designed to enliven the learning experience, support understanding, and help... -
Life and Terror in Stalins Russia, 1934-1941 by Robert William Thurston 9780300074420
$47.81Terror, in the sense of mass, unjust arrests, characterized the USSR during the late 1930s. But, argues Robert Thurston in this controversial book, Stalin did not intend to terrorize the country and did not need to rule by fear. Memoirs and interviews... -
Roman Soldier vs Parthian Warrior: Carrhae to Nisibis, 53 BC-AD 217 by Si Sheppard
RRP: $27.28$19.21In 53 BC, Roman and Parthian forces collided in a confrontation that would reshape the geopolitical map and establish a frontier between East and West that would endure for the next 700 years. From the initial clash at Carrhae through to the battle of... -
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich
RRP: $19.48$13.46What lies behind the human attraction to violence? Why do we glorify war, seeing it as an almost sacred undertaking? Barbara Ehrenreich is known for the originality and clarity of her thinking, and in Blood Rites she proposes a radical new theory about... -
Peace Work by Spike Milligan
RRP: $21.43$16.79Peace Work is volume seven of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious, legendary War Memoirs.'I had not informed my parents of my return, I wanted it to be a lovely surprise; it was, for me, they were away ...'The seventh and last volume of Spike... -
British Battle Tanks: World War I to 1939 by David Fletcher
RRP: $58.50$42.80When British soldiers charged across the Somme in September 1916 they were accompanied by a new and astonishing weapon - the tank. After a stuttering start armoured behemoths such as the Mark IV, Mark V and Whippet played a crucial role in bringing World... -
Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs by Sonke Neitzel 9781849839495
RRP: $19.48$12.69The authors discovered 150,000 pages of transcriptions of secretly recorded conversations among German prisoners of war, of which approximately one third were made in P.O.W. camps in Britain, another cache was made by bugging prisoners in the... -
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Roma under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 by Radu Ioanid 9781538138083
RRP: $48.75$40.37After 1948, the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust became one of the main sources of immigration for the new state of Israel as almost all left their homeland to settle in Palestine and Israel. Romania's decision to allow its Jews to... -
Firefighters during the Troubles: The Men and Women on the Frontline Tell Their Stories by John Wilson
RRP: $25.33$21.47Before the outbreak of the Troubles, a typical firefighter's year might have included call-outs to chimney fires, the occasional house fire or road accident, and - even more rarely - a large factory or hay shed fire. While a firefighting career was... -
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden 9781846277030
RRP: $25.33$17.16Every time you try to say 'Africa is...' the words crumble and break. From every generalisation you must exclude at least five countries. And just as you think you've nailed down a certainty, you find the opposite is also true. Africa is full of... -
The Tavern Cook: Eighteenth Century Dining through the Recipes of Richard Briggs by Marc Meltonville
RRP: $35.08$29.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248786Author Marc MeltonvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
Ibn Sina: A Concise Life by Edoardo Albert
RRP: $11.68$8.48Ibn Sina, who is referred to as Avicenna in Latin, was a true polymath. Born in the tenth Century his passion for knowledge was unbound, and he made lasting contributions to medicine, maths and philosophy. His life was also full of intrigue and he served... -
Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe by Craig M. Koslofsky
RRP: $50.68$41.85What does it mean to write a history of the night? Evening's Empire is a fascinating study of the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced, and transformed the night. Using diaries, letters, and legal records together with... -
After Hitler: The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe Michael Jones 9781848544963
RRP: $25.33$16.97On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Doenitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in... -
Roman Soldier vs Germanic Warrior by Lindsay Powell
RRP: $29.23$21.35The reigns of Augustus and his successor Tiberius saw an epic struggle between the Romans and local peoples for the territory between the Rhine and Elbe rivers in what is now Germany. Following two decades of Roman occupation, Germania Magna erupted into... -
Operation Bagration: The Soviet Destruction of German Army Group Center, 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: $38.98$27.85Bagration was the code word that the Soviet Army gave for their summer offensive in 1944. This massive offensive led to the destruction of the German Army Group Center and was the greatest military defeat ever experienced by the German Army during World... -
Lost Lines of Wales: Bangor to Afon Wen by Paul Lawton 9781912213115
RRP: $17.53$12.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912213115Author Paul LawtonFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions by Anne-Marie Ryan 9781781171349
$33.50Sixteen men were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland, 1916: fifteen were shot and one was hanged. Their deaths changed the course of Irish history. But who were these leaders who set in motion events that would lead to the creation... -
History Of Witchcraft by Lois Martin 9780857301154
RRP: $25.33$17.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857301154Author Lois MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pocket EssentialsPublisher Oldcastle Books Ltd -
On A Wild Night: Number 9 in series Stephanie Laurens 9780749937232
RRP: $19.48$13.65Where are all the exciting men in London? After spending years in the glittering ballrooms of the town, Amanda Cynster is utterly bored by the current crop of bland suitors. Determined to take matters into her own hands, one night she shockingly goes... -
Double Standards: The Rudolf Hess Cover-Up Lynn Picknett 9780751532203
RRP: $31.18$21.90For sixty years there has been an unprecedented cover-up by both the British Establishment and successive generations of historians about the flight of Hitler's Deputy Rudolf Hess to Scotland in May 1941. Long dismissed as the misguided attempt of a... -
Town Class Destroyers: A Critical Assessment by John Henshaw
RRP: $38.90$38.20Early in World War II, fifty obsolete US Navy destroyers were transferred to the Royal Navy in return for a 99-year lease British bases in the Caribbean, Bahamas and Newfoundland. Though they were obsolete and far from ideal, they played a vital role in... -
Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz Alwin Meyer 9781509545506
RRP: $48.75$32.72The children of Auschwitz: this is the darkest spot in the ocean of suffering that was the Holocaust. They were deported to the concentration camp with their families, with most being murdered in the gas chambers upon their arrival, or were born there...