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Genocide: A World History by Norman M. Naimark 9780199765263
RRP: £24.99£18.62Genocide occurs in every time period and on every continent. Using the 1948 U.N. definition of genocide as its departure point, this book examines the main episodes in the history of genocide from the beginning of human history to the present. Norman M... -
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations by Admiral William H. McRaven
RRP: £25.00£17.92Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having orchestrated some of the most famous missions in recent memory, including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips, and the raid to kill Osama bin... -
A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War by Owen Davies 9780198862659
RRP: £14.99£10.95A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'superstitious'... -
Sheffield Past & Present: The Changing Face of the City & its People by Geoffrey Howse
RRP: £14.99£11.55Sheffield Past & Present gives a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place in the city during the 20th century. The book recalls houses and public buildings, shops, factories and pubs that have vanished or been changed almost... -
Corridors: Passages of Modernity by Roger Luckhurst 9781789140538
RRP: £30.00£29.49We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a... -
Married to Another Man: Israel's Dilemma in Palestine Ghada Karmi 9780745320656
RRP: £26.99£17.59Two rabbis, visiting Palestine in 1897, observed that the land was like a bride, 'beautiful, but married to another man'. By which they meant that, if a place was to be found for Israel in Palestine, where would the people of Palestine go? This is a... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 by Christopher Shores 9781910690000
RRP: £65.00£47.87The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain the background to the first major Anglo-American venture - Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings... -
Maurice's Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy by George T. Dennis
RRP: £23.99£20.84As a veteran campaigner, the Byzantine emperor Maurice (582-602) compiled a unique and influential handbook intended for the field commander. In this first complete English translation, the Strategikon is an invaluable source not only for early Byzantine... -
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War by Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
RRP: £30.00£26.95Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand... -
Titanic: 'Iceberg Ahead': The Story of the Disaster By Some of those Who Were There by James W Bancroft
RRP: £14.99£10.95To have sailed on the voyage of the century' aboard White Star Line's RMS Titanic - described at the time as a floating palace' - was like being one of the first passengers to fly on Concorde. On 10 April 1912, people from all walks of life began... -
Norman England: 1066-1154 by Trevor Rowley 9780747808008
RRP: £8.99£7.401066 is perhaps the most important date in English history. The Norman invasion, headed by William the Conqueror, meant revolutionary change throughout English life. Soon there was a new ruling class, new language, new styles of dress, behaviour and... -
The Gun that Changed the World by Elena Joly 9780745636924
RRP: £16.99£15.22The Russian word that is most frequently spoken throughout the world isn't Lenin, gulag or perestroika, it's 'Kalashnikov'. The reason for this is simple: there are 80 million Kalashnikovs in circulation on five continents. Once invented, the AK-47... -
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment David M. Turner 9781138107588
RRP: £43.99£38.44This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used,... -
The Civil Wars of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston: Volume 1: Virginia to Mississippi, 1861-1863 by Richard M. McMurry 9781611215922
RRP: £25.99£21.55Joseph Eggleston Johnston was one of the original five full generals of the Confederacy. He graduated West Point in the same 1829 class as Robert E. Lee and served in the War with Mexico, the Seminole Wars in Florida, and in Texas and Kansas. By 1860 he... -
Those Terrible Middle Ages!: Debunking the Myths by Regine Pernoud 9780898707816
£13.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898707816Author Regine PernoudFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm... -
When Montezuma Met Cortes: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History by Matthew Restall 9780062427274
RRP: £14.99£14.80A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortes that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes first met Montezuma, the Aztec... -
Complete Visual Encyclopedia of Naval Aircraft of World Wars I and Ii Crosby Francis 9780754830566
RRP: £7.99£5.79This title features a directory of over 70 aircraft with 330 identification photographs. It includes Shipborne fighters, bombers, flying boats and naval planes, including the Curtiss Helldiver, Mitsubishi Zero-Sen, Supermarine Seafire, Fairey Swordfish,... -
Flight Craft 19: North American Aviation P-51 Mustang by Robert Jackson
RRP: £16.99£12.08The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most successful and effective fighter aircraft of all time. It was initially produced in response to a 1940 RAF requirement for a fast, heavily-armed fighter able to operate effectively at altitudes in... -
The Highland Battles: Warfare on Scotland's Northern Frontier in the Early Middle Ages by Chris Peers 9781526741745
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
To War With the Walkers: One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War Annabel Venning 9781473679306
RRP: £20.00£10.32**DAILY MAIL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019****SUNDAY TELEGRAPH CHRISTMAS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2019**'So blissfully good that I'd give it to a reader of any age . . . deeply touching, unforgettable family memoir'ALLISON PEARSON, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Uplifting and... -
The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom by James Romm
RRP: £29.00£18.31From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great's destruction of Thebes-and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit... -
Before Our Very Eyes, Fake Wars and Big Lies: From 9/11 to Donald Trump by Thierry Meyssan
RRP: £22.99£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615770120Author Thierry MeyssanFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 456g -
Radio War: The Secret Espionage War of the Radio Security Service 1938-1946 by David Abrutat 9781781557594
RRP: £25.00£17.62During the Second World War German intelligence had deployed wireless teams throughout occupied Europe. Agents had even been deployed to mainland Britain to spy on British military activity. Monitoring and reporting of their wireless transmissions fell... -
TSR2: Britain's lost Cold War strike jet Andrew Brookes 9781472822482
RRP: £15.99£11.61The TSR2 is one of the greatest 'what-if' aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among aviation fans. It was a magnificent, cutting-edge aircraft, one of the most striking of the Cold War, but fell victim to... -
Waterloo 1815 (2): Ligny John Franklin 9781472803665
RRP: £16.99£14.10This title represents the second instalment of the captivating study of the Waterloo campaign, one of the defining events in European history. In particular it focuses on the desperate struggle for Ligny, which saw the Prussians pushed back by the French... -
Boesinghe by Stephen McGreal 9781848840461
RRP: £12.99£9.09In the aftermath of the War the war-ravaged countryside was restored and the trenches of the Western Front were filled in. 75 years after the War a group of Belgians, known as the Diggers, excavated a classic trench system at Boesinghe, discovering many... -
Wargames Terrain and Buildings: The Napoleonic Wars by Tony Harwood
£20.65Any miniature wargame is greatly enhanced by realistic and evocative scenery and buildings, but commercial ready-made pieces can be expensive. Building your own can be a cost-effective and very rewarding alternative, another hobby in itself, but it can... -
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egypt by Peter Parsons
RRP: £9.99£5.96How an ancient rubbish dump has given us a unique view of life 2,000 years agoIn 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a mound south of Cairo. Ten years later, they had uncovered 500,000 fragments of papyri. Shipped back to Oxford, the meticulous... -
Roman Conquests: Britain Simon Elliott 9781526765680
RRP: £19.99£14.68The Roman Conquests series seeks to explain when and how the Romans were able to conquer a vast empire stretching from the foothills of the Scottish Highlands to the Sahara Desert, from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf. How did their armies adapt to and... -
A History of Southend by Ian Yearsley 9781860776458
RRP: £17.99£13.64SOUTHEND has a complex and surprisingly interesting history. From 18th-century origins as the `South End' of Prittlewell Parish, it has grown over 300 years to swallow up six separate parishes: Prittlewell, Southchurch, Leigh, Eastwood,North Shoebury and... -
War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction by Alex Roland 9780190605384
RRP: £8.99£6.45Humans were born armed. Before Homo sapiens first walked the Earth, proto-humans had manufactured spears and other tools not only to hunt and defend themselves but also to attack other humans. The war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to... -
Poole Past & Present: Britain in Old Photographs by Ian Andrews 9780752452869
RRP: £14.99£11.55This absorbing collection of photographs, containing many rare and unpublished images of Poole, illustrates the changes that have been seen in this picturesque seaside town as it has evolved over the years. Featuring scenes from work and home life to the... -
Zelensky: The President and His Country by Steven Derix
RRP: £16.99£11.08Zelensky is the first major biography of Ukraine's leader written for a Western audience. Told with flair and authority, it is the gripping story of one of the most admired and inspirational leaders in the world. Action-packed biography of Ukraine's... -
Cardiff Remember When by Brian Lee 9781780913377
£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913377Author Brian LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece And Turkey by Bruce Clark 9781862079243
RRP: £10.99£7.32It was a massive, yet little-known landmark in modern history: in 1923, after a long war over the future of the Ottoman world, nearly 2 million citizens of Turkey or Greece were moved across the Aegean, expelled from their homes because they were of the... -
Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England by Helena Hamerow
£48.77In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons. This volume presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has... -
The People of Devon in the First World War by Dr. David Parker
RRP: £16.99£13.34Thematically divided, this fascinating study explores the experiences of many of Devon's people during the First World War: soldiers; aliens and spies (real and imagined); refugees; conscientious objectors; nurses and doctors; churchmen; the changing... -
Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy by Timothy McCall 9781789147858
RRP: £25.00£17.62Making the Renaissance Man explores the images, objects and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy. Across the peninsula, Italian princes fought each other in fierce battles and spectacular jousts; they... -
The Ancient Assyrians: Empire and Army, 883–612 BC by Mark Healy
RRP: £35.00£27.73Drawing on 30 years of scholarship, this is a unique, richly illustrated history of the Ancient Assyrian Army and Empire. For the greater part of the period from the end of the 10th century to the 7th century BC, the Ancient Near East was dominated... -
West African Folk Tales by J.K. Jackson
RRP: £6.99£5.31Tricksters and animals play an important role in West African folklore with stories that entertain but serve a moral purpose. Traditions and local tales revel in the antics of these characters: from Nigeria to Benin, from the cunning spider god Anansi to...