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Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams by Charles King
RRP: $29.23$21.51From Alexander Pushkin and Isaac Babel to Zionist renegade Vladimir Jabotinsky and filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, an astonishing cast of geniuses helped shape Odessa, a legendary haven of cosmopolitan freedom on the Black Sea. Drawing on a wealth of... -
The Enchanted Glass: Britain and Its Monarchy by Tom Nairn 9781844677757
RRP: $54.58$41.22In this acclaimed study of British statehood, identity and culture, Tom Nairn deftly dispels the conviction that the Royal Family is nothing more than an amusing relic of feudalism or a mere tourist attraction. Instead, he argues that the monarchy is... -
The Field of Cloth of Gold by Glenn Richardson
RRP: $31.18$26.95Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late... -
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: The Boom in British Thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed by Mike Ripley
RRP: $29.23$22.74WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have lost an... -
Painting Wargaming Figures: Axis Forces on the Eastern Front by Andy Singleton
$32.53Andy Singleton has been modelling and painting most of his life and has been a professional commission figure painter for some years now. Here he shares his experience and tips of the trade for painting Axis forces on WW2's Eastern Front: Germans,... -
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan 9780375760525
RRP: $48.75$30.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 2003 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002. Nominated for Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction... -
German Heavy Armored Cars: Sd.Kfz. 231, 232, 233, 263, and 234 in World War II by David Doyle
RRP: $44.83$30.13During WWII, Germany fielded a variety of six- and eight-wheeled armored cars, which were used in numerous ways, including reconnaissance, antitank, infantry support, and other roles. The earliest of these vehicles, the 6-Rad, or six-wheeled vehicles,... -
Making Sense of History: 1066-1509 Ian Dawson 9781471806681
$49.16Deliver engaging, enquiry-driven lessons and help pupils gain a coherent chronological understanding of and across periods studied with this complete offering for Key Stage 3 History. Designed for the 2014 National Curriculum this supportive learning... -
The Last Days of Stalin by Joshua Rubenstein
RRP: $25.33$22.35A 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... -
The Destruction of the Imperial Army Volume 3: The Sedan Campaign 1870 by Grenville Bird 9781804513323
$91.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513323Author Grenville BirdFormat PaperbackPage Count 552Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Battles for Monte Cassino Then and Now by Jeffrey Plowman
RRP: $97.50$80.48The Battles for Cassino encompassed one of the few truly international conflicts of the Second World War. A strategic town on the road to Rome, the fighting lasted four months and cost the lives of more than 14,000 men from eight nations. Between January... -
Stoke Newington: The Story of a Dissenting Village by Rab MacWilliam 9780750990912
RRP: $29.25$22.85Stoke Newington has long been one of London's most intriguing and radical areas. Famous residents included Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, and it was home to a variety of religious dissenting groups, such as Puritans,... -
Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh
RRP: $33.13$21.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735221369Author Ryan H. WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience by Michael D Gordin
RRP: $35.08$26.03Everyone has heard of the term "pseudoscience", typically used to describe something that looks like science, but is somehow false, misleading, or unproven. Many would be able to agree on a list of things that fall under its umbrella-- astrology,... -
Dublin: The Making of a Capital City by Dr. David Dickson 9781861975867
RRP: $39.00$29.82Dublin has many histories: for a thousand years a modest urban settlement on the quiet waters of the Irish Sea, for the last four hundred it has experienced great - and often astonishing - change. Once a fulcrum of English power in Ireland, it was also... -
What the Amish Teach Us: Plain Living in a Busy World by Donald B. Kraybill 9781421442174
RRP: $24.38$19.17What do the traditional plain-living Amish have to teach twenty-first-century Americans in our hyper-everything world? As it turns out, quite a lot!It sounds audacious, but it's true: the Amish have much to teach us. It may seem surreal to turn to one of... -
The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich: Britain in Old Photographs by Roy Masters
RRP: $25.33$19.25Little is generally known of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and the immortal place it holds among all the Royal Ordnance Factories. For nearly four hundred years it was a 'secret walled city', self-sufficient and closely guarded. As it grew, and developed... -
Deadly Companions: How microbes shaped our history by Dorothy H. Crawford
RRP: $23.38$17.04Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the... -
A Time to Risk All: The incredible untold story of Mary Elmes, the Irish woman who saved children from Nazi Concentration Camps Clodagh Finn 9780717175611
RRP: $37.03$26.54'I am truly grateful to Mary Elmes for the life I might not have had, had it not been for her brave actions to save us and many others. She was truly a heroine.' Michael Freund Mary Elmes was an extraordinary woman. Sometimes known as the 'Irish... -
A Prince and a Spy: The gripping novel from the master of the wartime spy thriller by Rory Clements
RRP: $29.23$22.70In the gripping new spy thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hitler's Secret, a Cambridge spy must unravel a dangerous mystery that goes all the way to the heart of the Third Reich - and the British Monarchy.'A master of the wartime spy... -
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe 9781906814700
RRP: $15.58$9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814700Author Daniel DefoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store Ltd -
Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History 1832-1982 by Gareth Stedman Jones
RRP: $68.23$57.23This collection of essays by Gareth Stedman Jones proposes a different way of seeing both historians' analytical conceptions of 'class', and the actual manifestation of class in the history of English politics and English culture since the 1830s. As the... -
The Battle of Crecy: A Casebook Michael Livingston 9781781382707
RRP: $53.63$49.82Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2017This casebook is the most extensive collection of documents ever assembled for the study of one of the famous battles in history. Here we see the Battle of Crecy across the cultural... -
Military Drones: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) by Alexander Stilwell
RRP: $35.08$24.16Over the last 20 years, the role of unmanned aircraft systems in modern warfare has grown at an unprecedented rate. No longer simply used for intelligence, data collection or reconnaissance, drones are routinely used for target acquisition and to strike... -
The Far Land by Brandon Presser
RRP: $39.00$26.25'The Far Land swells in the cause and effect of actions of passion. Brandon Presser's fascinating narrative of the relentless consequences of the Bounty mutineers asks: were they brave or damned? They lived so very troubled ever after. You can't make... -
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker 9780593082966
RRP: $37.03$24.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593082966Author Peter BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia by Bill Hayton
RRP: $27.28$23.89Why the world can't afford to be indifferent to the simmering conflict in the South China Sea"The greatest risk today in U.S.-Chinese relations is the South China Sea, through which passes 40% of world trade. . . . Hayton explains how this all came about... -
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century by Jurgen Osterhammel 9780691169804
RRP: $54.60$47.85A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves... -
Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution by Laurent Dubois
RRP: $50.60$40.87The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue, the most profitable colony in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Within a few... -
The Archimedes Codex: Revealing The Secrets Of The World's Greatest Palimpsest Reviel Netz 9780753823729
RRP: $19.48$13.65The story of the amazing discovery of Archimedes' lost worksDrawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book. These hidden texts, slowly being... -
James I by Christopher Durston
RRP: $72.13$63.43James I has traditionally been portrayed as a foolish and unpleasant man. However, the last two decades have seen a rehabilitation of James I by historians, who have begun to appreciate that in some areas, in particular foreign policy and religion, he... -
The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis by Charles Read
RRP: $48.75$40.79Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy failings during the Great Famine. The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the... -
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Political Prisoner by David Herszenhorn 9781538709450
RRP: $48.75$31.94THE DISSIDENT is the story of how one fearless man, offended by the dishonesty and criminality of the Russian political system, mounted a relentless opposition movement and became President Vladimir Putin's most formidable rival-so despised that the... -
On the Trail of the Old West Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
RRP: $37.03$27.32The 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... -
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India by Tripurdaman Singh
RRP: $21.43$14.55'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic - and which remain deeply relevant and contentious... -
Peenemunde Raid by Martin Middlebrook 9781844153367
RRP: $29.23$22.13On the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenemunde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket whose destructive... -
Soviet State Security Services 1917-46 by Douglas A. Drabik
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Bolsheviks' seizure of power in Russia in late 1917 was swiftly followed by the establishment of the Cheka, the secret police of the new Soviet state. The Cheka was central to the Bolsheviks' elimination of political dissent during the Russian Civil... -
Flight Through the Ages: A Fiftieth Anniversary Tribute to the Guild of Aviation Artists by Guild of Aviation Artists 9781526763778
RRP: $68.25$49.32Flight Through the Ages' was the title of the first annual exhibition of the Guild of Aviation Artists in 1971. This book celebrates 50 years of exhibitions and includes paintings by some one hundred Guild artists, past and present, depicting aircraft... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
RRP: $29.23$21.31When Bunny Mellon died at age 103 on March 17th, she was the last embodiment of a Gilded Age lifestyle. Born into money (her grandfather invented Listerine), she married into even more money (the Mellon banking and oil fortune) and went on to build,... -
The Browning High-Power Pistol by Leroy Thompson
RRP: $31.18$22.64Making its debut in 1935, the Browning High-Power was the world's most widely used military pistol for much of the 20th century. Military and law-enforcement agencies in more than 90 countries have issued the High-Power and it has seen combat in...