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Modern Strategy by Colin S. Gray 9780198782513
£57.08Modern Strategy explains the permanent nature, but ever changing character, of strategy in light of the whole strategic experience of the twentieth century. The book is a major contribution to the general theory of strategy; it makes sense of the... -
On the Trail of the Old West Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
RRP: £18.99£14.01The Old West may have faded from living memory but the actual locations where the robberies and shoot-outs took place can still be found over one hundred years later. In the pages of On the Trail of the Old West Then and Now, we glimpse the past through... -
Armies of the Baltic Independence Wars 1918-20 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £14.99£10.95Immediately following the end of World War I, amid the collapse of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, bitter fighting broke out in the Baltic region as Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania struggled for their independence, and... -
1997: The Future that Never Happened by Richard Power Sayeed 9781786991997
RRP: £12.99£9.79'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchi's YBAs setting the international art world aflame. Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack dress. A time of vibrancy and optimism: when the... -
The Merovingian Kingdoms 450 - 751 by Ian Wood 9780582493728
RRP: £46.99£46.38A comprehensive survey which begins with the rise of the Franks, then examines the Merovingians. Reviews'xxx; the most detailed account of the Merovingian kingdoms available in any language, and the most exciting xxx; this book should be required reading... -
Mining in Cornwall Vol 2: The County Explorer by L. J. Bullen 9780752417080
RRP: £12.99£9.62A companion to Volume One: The Central District this book widens it's focus to study important workings accross the Duchy of Cornwall, from the oldest tine mines of the St Just area to the major workings at Tregurtha Downs, Great Wheal Vor and Wheal... -
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Foundation Crime and punishment through time, c1000–present Student Book by Darryl Tomlin
£24.64We've worked with teachers to develop versions of our core textbooks that feature reduced content and language level, providing greater support and enabling students of all abilities to progress. Now available for the seven most popular options, these... -
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution by Peter Bradley 9780008475000
RRP: £9.99£6.52'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. ... -
Tales By Japanese Soldiers by Kazuo Tamayama
RRP: £9.99£6.80An absolutely unique book, this is the Second World War in Burma as seen through the eyes of ordinary Japanese soldiersOver 305,000 Japanese soldiers fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945; 180,000 of them died. This book, uniquely, tells how the common... -
Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany by Lyndal Roper 9780300119831
RRP: £22.00£21.22A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis by Warlord Games
RRP: £25.00£19.87While many nations flocked to the side of the Allies, others joined forces with Germany as part of the Axis. This volume is the definitive guide to the armies of Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. Fight the Winter War against the Soviets,... -
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene 9780231123419
RRP: £25.00£20.59When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly... -
Armies of Anglo-Saxon England 410-1066: History, Organization and Equipment by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £25.00£17.62In the early 5th century, Germanic Angles, Saxons and Jutes crossed the North Sea in increasing numbers and began settling among the ruins of the former Roman province of Britannia. This led to centuries of warfare as these 'Anglo-Saxons' carved new,... -
The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records by Sima Qian
RRP: £7.99£5.79'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.' The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First... -
Anti-intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award 1963 and Pulitzer Prize 1964 and Sidney Hillman Prize 1963.Book InformationISBN 9780394703176Author Richard... -
Days In The Life by Jonathon Green
RRP: £16.99£12.68Jonothan Green offers a time trip from lat-fifties CND, beatniks and bop to the threshold of our own decade's designer revolutionaries and style warriors. . . His chosen form is the oral history pioneered by Studs Terkel in which cross-cut voices recount... -
RAF Cosford by Alec Brew 9780752452111
RRP: £14.99£11.55RAF Cosford was built as part of the pre-war RAF Expansion Plan in 1937 and in 1938 it was designated as a site for one of the new Technical Training Schools, aimed at strengthening the knowledge and manpower of the air force. By the outbreak of war,... -
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven 9780735222199
RRP: £40.00£23.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735222199Author Dominic LievenFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 799gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 43mm -
A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between Ute Lotz-Heumann (University of Arizona, USA) 9780815373537
RRP: £39.99£35.06A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History not only provides instructors with primary sources of a manageable length and translated into English, it also offers students a concise explanation of their context and meaning.By covering different areas of... -
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 by Professor J. R. McNeill
RRP: £20.95£16.88The Earth has entered a new age-the Anthropocene-in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the... -
Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit 9780520262508
RRP: £25.00£19.99What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and... -
The Crimean War: Europe's Conflict with Russia by Hugh Small 9780750985871
RRP: £17.99£13.64The Crimean War was the most destructive conflict of Queen Victoria's reign, the outcome of which was indecisive; most historians regard it as an irrelevant and unnecessary conflict despite its fame for Florence Nightingale and the Charge of the Light... -
On Wars by Michael Mann 9780300266818
RRP: £30.00£24.85A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But what determines whether war or peace is chosen?... -
The Seven Years War in Europe: 1756-1763 by Franz A. J. Szabo 9780582292727
RRP: £47.99£46.38In this pioneering new work, based on a thorough re-reading of primary sources and new research in the Austrian State Archives, Franz Szabo presents a fascinating reassessment of the continental war.Professor Szabo challenges the well-established myth... -
The Allied Assault on Hitler's Channel Island Fortress: The Planned Operation to Eject the Germans in 1943 by John Grehan
RRP: £25.00£17.62Incredible 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... -
Finnish Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Winter War 1939-40 David Campbell 9781472813244
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Winter War was supposed to be a quick and easy conflict; instead it proved to be a bitter war that destroyed the international reputation of the Soviet Red Army. The diminutive Finnish force was desperately outnumbered by almost half a million... -
The Story of Greece and Rome by Tony Spawforth
RRP: £12.99£11.46The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia, from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the... -
F-4 Phantom IIs of the USAF Reserve and Air National Guard by Don Logan 9780764316272
RRP: £63.99£41.70Don Logan's latest book ""his tenth with Schiffer Publishing, and the first in a planned multi-volume set on F-4 Phantoms chronicles the service of the McDonnell-Douglas F-4 and RF-4 Phantom II in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard... -
The Age of Alexander by Plutarch
RRP: £16.99£12.50The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western literature, and have exerted a profound influence on writers and statesmen since the Renaissance, most notably Shakespeare. This selection of ten biographies spans the period from the start of... -
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse: From the Australian bush to the Battle of Beersheba - an epic story of courage, resilience and derring-do by Peter FitzSimons 9780733646676
£21.76On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris
RRP: £22.49£17.17A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise... -
Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Valerie Hope
RRP: £37.99£33.38Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world,this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The breadth of material included ensures that this... -
Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak by Selma Leydesdorff
RRP: £20.99£18.37In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica-the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female... -
Women In England 1500-1760 Anne Laurence 9781842126226
RRP: £12.99£8.60Drawing on a wide range of recent research, WOMEN IN ENGLAND is an intimate social history of women who experienced life between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.Anne Laurence writes about marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside... -
A soldier on the Southern Front: the classic Italian memoir of WWI by Emilio Lussu
£17.37Taking its place alongside works by Ernst Junger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking... -
An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949 by Andre Gerolymatos
RRP: £22.50£21.68An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the... -
The Picts: Including Guides to St Vigeans Museum and Meigle Museum by Jill Harden
RRP: £9.00£6.16The Picts were a sophisticated and powerful people who dominated much of what is now Scotland for hundreds of years, before uniting with the Gaels to form the nation of Alba (later Scotland). Their language has all but disappeared, but their cultural... -
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions by Kate Cooper
RRP: £20.00£13.35'A brilliant new take' Janina Ramirez, author of Femina'A masterpiece of the historian's art' Peter Brown, author of Augustine of HippoThe powerful and surprising story of the four remarkable women who changed Augustine's life - and history - forever... -
The Vikings: Classic Histories Series by Magnus Magnusson 9780750978583
RRP: £12.99£9.62The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West, both symbolically and in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe. Magnus Magnusson's indispensable study of this great period presents a rounded and fascinating picture of a... -
The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Orin Starn
RRP: £23.99£21.24Sixteenth-century Spanish soldiers described Peru as a land filled with gold and silver, a place of untold wealth. Nineteenth-century travelers wrote of soaring Andean peaks plunging into luxuriant Amazonian canyons of orchids, pythons, and jaguars. The...