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India in the Second World War: An Emotional History by Diya Gupta
RRP: $38.70$34.77In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged against colonial subjecthood and imperial war. Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War, while 3 million civilians were killed by the... -
Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial Korea, 1910-1945 by Hildi Kang
RRP: $25.79$22.63In the rich and varied life stories in Under the Black Umbrella, elderly Koreans recall incidents that illustrate the complexities of Korea during the colonial period. Hildi Kang here reinvigorates a period of Korean history long shrouded in the silence... -
The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832 by Frank O'Gorman
$54.64This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the... -
What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? by John Hausdoerffer
RRP: $30.96$29.71As we face an ever-more-fragmented world, What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? demands a return to the force of lineage-to spiritual, social, and ecological connections across time. It sparks a myriad of ageless-yet-urgent questions: How will I be... -
Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack
RRP: $14.18$9.551920s Cairo: singers were pressing hit records, dramatic troupes were springing up and cabarets were packed - a counterculture was on the rise. In bars, hash-dens and music halls, people of all backgrounds came together as a passionate group of artists... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White
$41.67During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his... -
Bolt Action: World War II Wargames Rules: Second Edition by Warlord Games
RRP: $45.15$34.08With more than 23,000 copies sold of the first edition, this second edition of the best-selling Bolt Action World War II wargaming ruleset from Osprey and Warlord Games presents streamlined and refined rules, incorporating all the FAQs and errata... -
When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam by Michael Philip Penn 9780520284944
RRP: $38.70$30.04The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under... -
Elizabeth I and Religion 1558-1603 by Susan Doran
RRP: $47.72$41.96Clearly organised under A-Level topicsSusan Doran highly thought of for England and Europe (Seminar Study)Very little in same format on English church in this periodDiscusses interpretations of historiansAbout the AuthorSusan DoranBook InformationISBN... -
Animals and Society: An Introduction to Human-Animal Studies by Margo DeMello 9780231152952
RRP: $45.15$36.30Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human-animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of... -
Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust by Andrew I. Port
RRP: $38.64$30.11Germans remember the Nazi past so that it may never happen again. But how has the abstract vow to remember translated into concrete action to prevent new genocides abroad?As reports of mass killings in Bosnia spread in the middle of 1995, Germans faced a... -
Will Britain Make it?: The Rise, Fall and Future of British Industry by Richard Morris
RRP: $25.80$19.40British industry isn't dead.Yet.ICI was Britain's biggest manufacturer and exporter, while GEC was its biggest employer and Morris Motors made over half of its cars; Courtaulds dominated global cloth production and produced the first man-made fibres; BSA... -
Dialectics without Synthesis: Japanese Film Theory and Realism in a Global Frame by Naoki Yamamoto
RRP: $38.70$30.04Dialectics without Synthesis explores Japan's active but previously unrecognized participation in the global circulation of film theory during the first half of the twentieth century. Examining a variety of Japanese theorists working in the fields of... -
Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East by Christopher Davidson
RRP: $21.92$16.36In this unparalleled investigation, Christopher Davidson exposes the true extent of Western interference in the Middle East over the past one hundred years. Drawing on the examination of hundreds of leaked and declassified documents, and interviews with... -
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael C. Ruppert
RRP: $46.43$36.64The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects-finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government-by showing... -
Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder
RRP: $30.95$27.40Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aime Cesaire (Martinique) and Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets... -
The Devil's Bridge: The German Victory at Arnhem, 1944 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: $25.80$20.28In the late summer of 1944, SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Wilhelm 'Willi' Bittrich found himself in the Netherlands surveying his II SS Panzer Corps, which was in a poor state having narrowly escaped the defeat in Normandy. He was completely unaware that his... -
50 Bronze Age Finds From the Portable Antiquities Scheme by Dot Boughton
RRP: $20.63$14.00British Bronze Age artefacts made from copper, bronze, gold, flint, jet and shale are renowned throughout Europe for their beauty and exquisite craftsmanship. In England and Wales, many new discoveries are made each year by members of the public and... -
Jean Paul Marat: Tribune of the French Revolution Clifford D. Conner 9780745331935
RRP: $32.24$21.13Jean-Paul Marat's role in the French Revolution has long been a matter of controversy among historians. Often he is portrayed as a violent, sociopathic demagogue. This biography challenges that interpretation and argues that without Marat's contributions... -
Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War by Philip Bell
RRP: $19.34$16.81A fresh exploration of the Second World War through twelve key events that shaped the conflict The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs... -
Priestley'S England: J. B. Priestley and English Culture by John Baxendale 9780719072871
RRP: $25.79$18.73Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century... -
Some Damn Fool's Signed the Rubens Again by Norman Thelwell 9781846893995
RRP: $20.63$14.25The artist Norman Thelwell (1923-2004) was famous for his horse and pony cartoons, but his work was far more wide ranging. He focused his exceptional talent and humour on many diverse subjects, with his witty and wry observations providing amusement and... -
Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History by William Alexander
RRP: $28.38$21.01The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, subjected to being picked hard-green and gassed, even used as a projectile, the poor tomato has become the avatar for our... -
The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
RRP: $21.92$15.84William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away... -
St. Aubin - Sword and Juno Beaches 1944 by Tony Painter
$4.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841516929Author Tony PainterImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
British Queer History: New Approaches and Perspectives by Brian Lewis
RRP: $25.79$18.73This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality, and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. In... -
The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade by John D. Hosler
RRP: $15.47$13.09The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third... -
Sources of Chinese Tradition: From Earliest Times to 1600 by Wm. Theodore De Bary
RRP: $54.18$43.91A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1 has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and students... -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780198757917
RRP: $40.62$29.59With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious... -
The Histories: v. V by Polybius
RRP: $32.19$30.17Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction by R. B. Bernstein
RRP: $11.60$10.36The Founding Fathers is a concise, accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic... -
The Tiger from Pozna? by Richard Siegert
RRP: $25.79$18.42In the Second World War, Pozna? was a key river crossing and railway junction on the Polish-German border. When the alarm was given indicating the Red Army's approach in January 1945, the city's 80-100,000 German civilians were speedily evacuated,... -
The Third Reich is Listening: Inside German codebreaking 1939-45 by Christian Jennings
RRP: $19.34$14.64The success of the Allied codebreakers at Bletchley Park was one of the iconic intelligence achievements of World War II, immortalised in films such as The Imitation Game and Enigma. But cracking Enigma was only half of the story. Across the Channel,... -
Europe Since Napoleon by David Thomson
RRP: $24.50$18.07A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.About the AuthorDavid Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire. After the period described in Woodbrook he developed a... -
No Free Parking: The Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets by Nicholas Boys Smith
RRP: $21.92$16.03From the medieval cobbles, through Dickensian iron and fog, to the neon lights and bustle of the twenty-first century, the ever-changing streets of London map out the vibrant stories, triumphs and struggles of everyone who ever called London home. ... -
Dowding's Despatch: The Leader of the Few's 1941 Battle of Britain Narrative Examined by Andy Saunders
RRP: $32.25$22.73In September 1946, the London Gazette published a despatch from Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh C T Dowding that was titled simply: The Battle of Britain. Written and submitted to the Air Ministry in 1941, this document became the very framework for... -
Ia Drang 1965: The Struggle for Vietnam's Pleiku Province J. P. Harris 9781472835154
RRP: $20.63$14.98The Pleiku campaign of October-November 1965 was a major event in the Vietnam War, and it is usually regarded as the first substantial battle between the US Army and the People's Army of Vietnam. The brigade-sized actions involving elements of the US 1st... -
British Light Infantry in the American Revolution Robbie MacNiven 9781472842497
RRP: $19.34$14.13During the Seven Years' War (1755-63), a number of independent light-infantry outfits served under British command and dedicated light companies were added to the British Army's regular infantry battalions. The light companies were disbanded after the... -
The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset Philippa Levine 9780815366232
RRP: $51.59$45.23The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset is a broad survey of the history of the British Empire from its beginnings to its demise that offers a comprehensive analysis of what life was like under colonial rule, weaving the everyday stories of people living... -
Topgun: The Legacy: The Complete History of Topgun and Its Impact on Tactical Aviation by Brad Elward
RRP: $59.33$40.66The exclusive and definitive look at the 50-year history of the Navy Fighter Weapons School. The history of air combat has seen one recurring theme-new tactics are learned in battle, forgotten or discarded when battle concludes, and relearned at...