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Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton 9780316155946
RRP: $29.23$22.50One of the most important and enduring figures in the history of 19th century America, the legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad whose courageous exploits have been described in countless books for young readers, is here revealed for the first... -
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. 260hington
RRP: $39.00$25.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915472Author Harriet A. WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)... -
The Allied Assault on Hitler's Channel Island Fortress: The Planned Operation to Eject the Germans in 1943 by John Grehan
RRP: $48.75$34.36Incredible as it may seem today, detailed plans were drawn up to re-capture the Channel Islands, the most heavily fortified of all the German-occupied territories, regardless of the potentially severe' loss of life and the widespread destruction to the... -
The Anne Lister Walk by Christopher Goddard
RRP: $11.68$10.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995450226Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 12Imprint Christopher GoddardPublisher Christopher Goddard -
The Triple Agent: the Al-Qaeda Mole Who Infiltrated the CIA by Joby Warrick
RRP: $27.28$18.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742315Author Joby WarrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic by Gay Salisbury
RRP: $25.33$24.75When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly... -
Anne Frank: The Collected Works by Anne Frank
RRP: $97.50$74.86Anne Frank's diary is one of the most recognised and widely read books of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people visit the Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam each year to see the annexe where Anne and her family hid from... -
The Age of Athelstan: Britain's Forgotten History by Paul Hill 9780752425665
RRP: $35.08$26.99In an age of evocative names like Eric Bloodaxe and Egil Skallagrimson, one name has been lost in the mists of time: that of Athelstan, ruler of all Britain. From the first raids of the Vikings on the shores of Britain and Ireland, the book traces the... -
Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson
RRP: $58.48$47.89Nefertiti's current world dominion as a cultural and artistic icon presents an interesting contrast with the way in which she was actively written out of history soon after her own death. This book explores what we can reconstruct of the life of the... -
Harrier Boys Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands 1969-1990 by Robert Marston
RRP: $25.33$17.92In Harrier Boys, Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands, 1969-1990, Bob Marston, who flew Harriers for many years, draws together accounts from others who worked with this unique jet through its history. The excitement, camaraderie and pride of... -
Hitler's Irish Slaves by David Blake Knox
RRP: $27.28$24.00Hitler's Irish Slaves tells the shocking story of 32 merchant seamen from Ireland who were held in conditions of great hardship in an SS slave labour camp from 1943 to 1945. Mercilessly punished for their refusal to join the German war effort, and... -
Discovering Tudor London: A Journey Back in Time by Natalie Grueninger 9780750970150
RRP: $19.48$15.15This engaging and practical travel guide takes you on a journey through the best of Tudor London, to sites built and associated with this fascinating dynasty, and to the museums and galleries that house tantalising treasures from this rich period of... -
The Reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius, AD 138 161 by McHugh, John S 9781526773982
RRP: $42.90$30.46The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overlooked by modern historians. He is considered one of the five good emperors of the Antonine dynasty under whom... -
Campaigns of the Eastern Association: The Rise of Oliver Cromwell, 1642-1645 by Laurence Spring
RRP: $58.40$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113986Author Laurence SpringFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fire and Blood: The European Civil War (1914-1945) by Enzo Traverso
$45.81Fire and Blood looks at the European crisis of the two world wars as a single historical sequence: the age of the European Civil War (1914-1945). Its overture was played out in the trenches of the Great War; its coda on a ruined continent. It opened with... -
Band of Angels: The Forgotten World of Early Christian Women by Kate Cooper
RRP: $25.33$17.92In Band of Angels, Kate Cooper tells the surprising story of early Christianity from the woman's point of view. Though they are often forgotten, women from all walks of life played an invaluable role in Christianity's growth to become a world religion... -
The Forest Brotherhood: Baltic Resistance against the Nazis and Soviets by Dan Kaszeta
RRP: $48.75$42.96Stalin's USSR and Hitler's Reich-- the populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had been subjected to a brutal Soviet occupation in 1940, Nazi invasion in 1941, and Soviet re-occupation in 1944, falsely branded as 'liberation'. Variously labelled... -
Merthyr, The Crucible of Modern Wales by Joe England
RRP: $37.03$26.54Merthyr Tydfil was the town where the future of a country was forged: a thriving, struggling surge of people, industry, democracy and ideas. It was the iron making capital of the world, and would become the crucible of modern Wales. The major figures... -
Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach 9780691165844
RRP: $42.90$35.41This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which... -
Merseyside Tales: Curious and Amazing True Stories from History by Ken Pye
RRP: $19.48$15.15This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside's history. The fifty stories inside - from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women 'smothered by the incurable malady they... -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War and the Americas 1945-1981 Second Edition Vivienne Sanders 9781471841378
$64.33A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945-1981)The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the... -
Cruiser Birmingham: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans Conrad Waters 9781526724977
RRP: $58.50$42.80The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the `as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it... -
China's Last Empire: The Great Qing by William T. Rowe
RRP: $42.80$34.91In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three... -
The Korean War: 1950-53 Carter Malkasian 9781472853172
RRP: $25.33$17.92In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Carter Malkasian provides a concise overview of the so-called "Forgotten War" in Korea. From 1950 to 1953, the most powerful countries in the world engaged in a major conventional war in Korea. Yet ironically... -
The House of Mitford Jonathan Guinness 9780753818039
RRP: $29.23$19.60The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader Sir... -
About Britain: A Journey of Seventy Years and 1,345 Miles Dr Tim Cole 9781472937261
RRP: $37.03$29.09A captivating glimpse of Britain then and now, seen from behind the steering wheel. In 1951, the Festival of Britain commissioned a series of short guides they dubbed 'handbooks for the explorer'. Their aim was to encourage readers to venture out... -
To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan by Abdullah Anas 9781787380110
RRP: $48.75$43.74As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin Laden, and befriended key Afghan resistance leaders such as... -
Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by ,Andres Resendez
RRP: $33.13$18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544947108Author Andres ResendezFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 361gDimensions(mm) 204mm *... -
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
RRP: $25.33$19.48SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's history' - Observer 'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating... -
United States Marine Corps in Vietnam: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Michael Green 9781526751232
RRP: $31.18$26.03With the American-supported South Vietnamese government verging on collapse in early 1965, American President Lyndon Johnson decided to commit American conventional ground forces in the form of a United States Marine Corps (USMC) brigade of approximately... -
German Luftwaffe in World War II by Chris McNab
RRP: $48.73$32.74The Luftwaffe - the German Air Force - played a crucial role in the Wehrmacht's blitzkrieg tactics, providing both air cover and air artillery for Germany's panzer troops on the ground. Germany's successful invasions of France, the Low Countries, the... -
Air Power in the Falklands Conflict: An Operational Level Insight into Air Warfare in the South Atlantic by John Shields
RRP: $48.75$34.36From the television footage shown in all its stark reality and the daily coverage and subsequent memoirs, the impression delivered from the air battles in the Falklands Conflict was that of heroic Argentine pilots who relentlessly pressed home their... -
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley
RRP: $43.88$37.54The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Winner of the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Award for History and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Gruesomely thorough. . . . Others... -
Japanese Fighting Heroes: Warriors, Samurai and Ronins by Jamie Ryder 9781399057066
RRP: $42.90$30.46Japanese mythology is filled with stories of larger-than-life characters that shaped the landscape of Japan. They are the folk heroes who slayed monsters, fought in epic battles and reflected the most complicated emotions of the people who created them... -
Speeches That Changed the World Quercus 9781529416053
RRP: $39.00$26.03From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context.With over... -
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
RRP: $29.23$27.18In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American struggles for equality are doomed... -
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: $25.33$17.92SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________ 'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator 'The ride is thrilling ... a work of serious scholarship' - Sunday... -
Lost Buildings of Birmingham by Roy Thornton
RRP: $29.23$22.85The lost buildings of Birmingham.Book InformationISBN 9780750950992Author Roy ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 170mm * 10mm -
Life in the Victorian Hospital by Michelle Higgs 9780752448046
RRP: $35.08$26.99Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient. The wealthy received private... -
Haunted Isle of Sheppey by Neil Arnold
RRP: $25.33$19.25Although only 30 or so square miles in size, the Isle of Sheppey, situated off the coast of Kent, is one of the most atmospheric locations in Britain. Its windswept marshes and rugged coastlines provide the ideal habitat for a diversity of wildlife and...