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Ninja Attack!: True Tales of Assassins, Samurai, and Outlaws by Hiroko Yoda
RRP: £12.99£9.00Ninja Attack! introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japanese history--many of whom are all but unknown outside their home country.Ninja masters. Solo assassins and operatives. Femme fatales as deadly as they... -
Infantry Antiaircraft Missiles: Man-Portable Air Defense Systems Steven J. Zaloga 9781472853431
RRP: £15.99£11.61Noted authority Steven J. Zaloga charts the development, combat use, and influence of man-portable air defense systems, from the late 1960s to the present day. The first attempts at developing a man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) based around a... -
The Art of War by James Clavell
RRP: £9.99£7.16Sun 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... -
The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, and the International Drug Traffic by Jonathan Marshall
RRP: £29.99£26.90Long before Mexico, Colombia, and Afghanistan became notorious for their contributions to the global drug traffic, Lebanon was a special target of U.S. drug agents for harboring the world's greatest single transit port in the international traffic in... -
Street on Torts by Christian Witting 9780198865506
RRP: £48.99£46.89Street on Torts provides an insightful and thorough treatment of tort law with a focus on key concepts and clear explanations. Alongside perceptive coverage of the key principles of tort law, succinct case extracts and accompanying analyses allow... -
A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism by Daniel Sjursen
RRP: £18.99£13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586422530Author Daniel A. SjursenFormat PaperbackPage Count 688Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press -
Disruption: Why Things Change by David Potter
RRP: £26.49£22.39How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is also a profoundly important issue today as western democracies find the fundamental tenets of their implicit social contract facing extreme challenges from forces... -
Fight for a Throne: The Jacobite '45 Reconsidered by Christopher Duffy
RRP: £45.00£32.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059155Author Christopher DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 682Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Manhattan '45 by Jan Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.32In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment... -
Maskerado: Dancing Around Death In Nazi Hungary by Tivadar Soros
RRP: £10.99£7.32This account of survival is told by a Budapest lawyer who secured fake Christian identities for himself, his wife and his two children following the invasion of the Germans in March 1944. Soros views his experiences with a beguiling humour and a deep... -
Hitler's Enforcers: Leaders of the German War Machine, 1939-45 by James Lucas
RRP: £11.99£7.59The generals that defined the Nazi WarJames Lucas, military historian and British Army veteran, spoke with many veterans of both Axis and Allied armies, digging deeper into the question of what it is that makes a good soldier. His studies of German... -
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought by Musab Younis
RRP: £25.00£19.59This expansive history of Black political thought shows us the origins-and the echoes-of anticolonial liberation on a global scale.On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two... -
The Christmas Contract by Cassie Connor 9780008568269
RRP: £9.99£6.64'What can I say, I loved this book. It has all my favorite tropes. Fake dating - check! Grumpy/ sunshine (reversed) check! One bed - check!' Reader review When you can't find the perfect date for the holidays you... -
The Story of Tutankhamun by Garry J. Shaw
RRP: £16.99£14.61A lively new biography of Tutankhamun-published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb's modern discovery The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania gripped... -
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty by Sarah Gristwood 9780861543748
RRP: £10.99£7.00A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman In this groundbreaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty... -
The Borgias Christopher Hibbert 9781849019941
RRP: £10.99£7.40The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven... -
Bow & Bromley-by-Bow: Britain in Old Photographs by Gary Haines
RRP: £12.99£9.62Bow and Bromley-by-Bow, at the heart of London's East End, grew up around crossings over the river Lea. The area saw rapid changes from a seventeenth-century rural retreat to densely populated terraced streets, as mills were built along the river and a... -
East African Folk Tales by J K Jackson
RRP: £8.99£6.55Traditional stories bring a deeper understanding of the movement of peoples across East Africa. Common roots and differences between ancient peoples create a lively portrait with their fragile, powerful gods. The modern nations of Kenya, Tanzania,... -
The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180 by Martin Goodman 9780415559799
RRP: £39.99£35.46The Roman World 44 BC - AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city... -
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
RRP: £13.99£11.77Widely heralded as a "masterful" (The Washington Post) and "essential" (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law offers "the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments... -
Atomic Thunder: British Nuclear testing in Australia by Dr Elizabeth Tynan 9781526727572
RRP: £16.99£12.68British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people... -
Wings Of War: The World War II Fighter Plane that Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly by David Fairbank White
RRP: £25.99£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746322Author David Fairbank WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Deserts: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Middleton
RRP: £8.99£6.45Deserts make up a third of the planet's land surface, but if you picture a desert, what comes to mind? A wasteland? A drought? A place devoid of all life forms? Deserts are remarkable places. Typified by drought and extremes of temperature, they can... -
Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler's Persecution by John Eidinow
RRP: £25.00£14.66Many of the academic refugees Esther Simpson helped rescue are well remembered. But who was she and why has history forgotten her?This is the story of Esther Simpson, a woman whose dedication to the cause of freedom in science and learning left an... -
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee David Treuer 9781472154941
RRP: £14.99£9.80FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDCHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCEA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's... -
On the Trail of Richard III by Kristie Dean
RRP: £9.99£6.64Richard III remains one of the most controversial rulers in history. Whether he was guilty of murdering his nephews or not is a mystery that perhaps will never be solved. Even the location of the battlefield where, on 22 August 1485, Richard was struck... -
Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia by George Makari 9780300270389
RRP: £12.99£11.46WINNER OF THE 2022 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD (NONFICTION) A BLOOMBERG BEST NONFICTION BOOK "Does not pull its punches."-The Independent "Enthralling."-New York Times "A compelling story of racial and ethnic animosity."-Wall Street Journal An illuminating... -
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know by Malcolm Gladwell 9780316478526
RRP: £30.00£18.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316478526Author Malcolm GladwellFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
RRP: £35.95£28.96In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised-should the governing Conservatives... -
The Buried Spitfires of Burma: A 'Fake' History by Andy Brockman
RRP: £20.00£15.44Rumours of buried Spitfires from the Second World War have spread around the world for seventy-five years. In April 2012, the press reported that the UK had negotiated an agreement with Myanmar for the recovery of twenty crated Spitfires, reportedly... -
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most by Marcel Gauchet
RRP: £38.00£25.95How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other... -
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World by Ghassan Hage
RRP: £24.00£23.03Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory. In The Diasporic Condition, Ghassan Hage... -
Walt Disney World: A Portrait of the First Half Century by Kevin M Kern
RRP: £56.99£37.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368052849Author Kevin M. KernFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc. -
In Search of the Romans (Second Edition) James Renshaw (Godolphin and Latymer School, London, UK) 9781474299916
RRP: £21.99£20.41In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome. Making extensive use of ancient sources and copiously illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, now for the first time in colour, its opening two chapters... -
The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein
RRP: £12.99£11.46A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin's death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein's riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph... -
Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance by Stephan Malinowski
RRP: £36.99£26.73In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the... -
Luftwaffe Special Weapons 1942-45 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: £35.00£25.29As the course of World War II turned against the Third Reich after Stalingrad some of the most inventive and radical proposals, and designs, were put forward by armaments manufacturers, scientists and technicians, aircrew and even private individuals to... -
The Spectacle of Illusion: Magic, the paranormal & the complicity of the mind by Matthew L. Tompkins 9780500022429
RRP: £19.95£14.65'A spectacular treasury of treats. Page after page of utter joy: I can't tear my eyes away' - Derren BrownIn The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins investigates the arts of deception as... -
Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War by Paul Jankowski
RRP: £14.99£10.95At seven o'clock in the morning on February 21, 1916, the ground in northern France began to shake. For the next ten hours, twelve hundred German guns showered shells on a salient in French lines. The massive weight of explosives collapsed dugouts,... -
Arthurian Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: £6.99£5.31Many medieval writers, especially from France and Wales, wrote stories about the great British leader that was King Arthur. Legends, folklore and myths from this period come together to paint a picture of who he was. Some describe him as a great warrior,...