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Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century by David Caute
RRP: $39.00$27.40In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is known chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who endanger national security-from Nazi fifth columnists to Soviet spies and today's domestic extremists... -
Spitfire People: The Men and Women Who Made the Spitfire the Aviation Icon by Paul Beaver 9781910505052
RRP: $48.75$35.14This book presents a fresh angle on the Spitfire by examining the contribution to its development and achievements by over 65 people - some famous, others not - ranging from politicians to pilots. Published to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of... -
Dartmoor In Old Photographs by Tom Greeves 9780752431468
RRP: $25.33$16.69This fascinating volume of archive pictures recalls life as it once was on Dartmoor: the towns, the villages and the local people who lived and worked on the moor between the 1860s and 1950s. Illustrated with over 200 archive photographs and postcards,... -
Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ezra Vogel
RRP: $33.13$21.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618619597Author Ruth BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin -
Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy by Timothy McCall 9781789147858
RRP: $48.75$34.36Making the Renaissance Man explores the images, objects and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy. Across the peninsula, Italian princes fought each other in fierce battles and spectacular jousts; they... -
The Formation of Christendom by Judith Herrin
RRP: $39.00$31.57A groundbreaking history of how the Christian "West" emerged from the ancient Mediterranean worldIn this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, Judith Herrin shows how-from the sack of Rome in 410 to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800-the Christian... -
British Tank Crewman 1939-45 by Neil Grant
RRP: $29.23$21.35Great Britain had introduced the tank to the world during World War I, and maintained its lead in armoured warfare with the 'Experimental Mechanised Force' during the late 1920s, watched with interest by German advocates of Blitzkrieg. Despite these... -
100 Things X-men Fans Should Know & do Before They Die by Brian Cronin
RRP: $29.15$26.09Whether you've read the earliest X-Men comics from the silver age or never miss a big screen release, these are the 100 things all X-Men fans need to know and do in their lifetime. Comic Book Resources' Brian Cronin has collected every essential piece of... -
Canadian Corps Soldier vs Royal Bavarian Soldier: Vimy Ridge to Passchendaele 1917 Adam Hook (Illustrator) 9781472819765
RRP: $31.18$25.99In 1917 the soldiers of the Canadian Corps would prove themselves the equal of any fighting on the Western Front, while on the other side of the wire, the men of the Royal Bavarian Army won a distinguished reputation in combat. Employing the latest... -
Maskerado: Dancing Around Death In Nazi Hungary by Tivadar Soros
RRP: $21.43$14.70This 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... -
Hope Bourne's Exmoor Village by Hope L. Bourne 9780857042569
RRP: $25.33$21.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042569Author Hope L. BourneFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
A Short History of South-East Asia Peter Church 9781119062493
RRP: $37.05$33.42Explore the fascinating history of south-east Asia A Short History of South-East Asia, Sixth Edition is the latest in a series of updated texts spotlighting this fascinating region. With revised chapters for all of the countries in this geographic area,... -
Argonauts of the Scottish Isles: Sea-kayaking Adventures by Robin Lloyd-Jones
RRP: $19.48$13.46Robin Lloyd-Jones has been exploring the west coast and islands of Scotland in his sea kayak for more than forty years. In this book he recalls many a memorable expedition to wild and beautiful shores. Amongst magnificent scenery and ever-changing seas,... -
Tutankhamun T. G. Henry James 9788854418684
RRP: $68.25$43.74On November 04th, 1922, after months of unsuccessful expeditions and excavations, a young Howard Carter was close to give up his Egyptian experience in the Valley of the Kings when, unexpectedly, he and his team discovered one of the most important... -
Wales, the Welsh and the Making of America by Vivienne Sanders 9781786837905
RRP: $23.38$18.02In 1971, Californian congressman Thomas M. Rees told the US House of Representatives that 'very little has been written of what the Welsh have contributed in all walks of life in the shaping of American history'. This book is the first systematic attempt... -
A Strange Campaign: The Battle for Madagascar by Russell Phillips 9781912680276
$17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912680276Author Russell PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Shilka PublishingPublisher Shilka PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Smolensk 1943 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $33.13$23.95With the German defeat at Kursk, the Soviet Stavka (high command) ordered the Western and Kalinin Fronts to launch Operation Suvorov in order to liberate the city of Smolensk. The Germans had held this city for two years and Heeresgruppe Mitte's (Army... -
Lost Country Houses of North and East Yorkshire by Ian Greaves 9781398116245
RRP: $31.18$21.16England's country houses have for centuries been where the rich and grand families have displayed their wealth and status. Today, England is still well endowed with these houses, although many of them are now popular visitor attractions instead of... -
Boots on the Ground: Britain and her Army since 1945 by General Sir Richard Dannatt
RRP: $25.33$17.92On Luneberg Heath in 1945, the German High Command surrendered to Field Marshall Montgomery; in 2015, seventy years after this historic triumph, the last units of the British Army finally left their garrisons next to Luneberg Heath. Boots on the... -
The Canal Line 1940: The Dunkirk Campaign by Jerry Murland 9781473852198
RRP: $29.23$21.35The network of canals stretching from the coast at Gravelines, through St-Omer, B thune and La Bass e, follows the approximate boundary between Artois and Flanders and was, in 1940, the defensive line established on the western edge of the so-called... -
Swindon: A Sixth Selection by Swindon Society
RRP: $25.33$19.25Local history of SwindonBook InformationISBN 9780750916714Author The Swindon SocietyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 169mm * 10mm -
Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War by R. M. Douglas
RRP: $42.90$36.97More than 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe were driven from their homes in the wake of WWII, yet barely anyone noticed or remembers Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized and helped to carry out the forced... -
St Andrews' Untold Stories by Leonard Low
RRP: $19.40$14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904246442Author Leonard LowFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Steve Savage Publishers LimitedPublisher Steve Savage Publishers Limited -
Ia Drang 1965: The Struggle for Vietnam's Pleiku Province J. P. Harris 9781472835154
RRP: $31.18$22.64The 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... -
Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot 9780691206806
RRP: $58.50$46.98A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism... -
The Magnetism of Antarctica: The Ross Expedition 1839-1843 by John Knight
RRP: $37.03$30.99This under-documented expedition was a pivotal moment in the annals of polar exploration and was the starting point, in historical terms, of revealing the great unknown continent of Antarctica. It was the first time in nearly 70 years since Captain James... -
No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in World War II Robert Weintraub 9781444796964
RRP: $25.33$16.97An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.The two friends huddled close together, each of them the other's saving grace in a world gone to hell . . . There was nothing terribly unusual about POWs... -
The Love Child by Edith Olivier 9780712353649
RRP: $19.48$13.65'She had saved her. But at what a cost! Her position, her name, her character - she had given them all, but Clarissa was hers.' Upon the death of her mother, Agatha Bodenham finds herself alone for the first time in her life. Solitary and socially... -
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Margaret Atwood 9781844080823
RRP: $21.43$14.63Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious-- and disastrous --... -
Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 - New Interpretations by Donald Scragg 9781843839286
RRP: $52.63$51.17Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence. King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as... -
Terra Forma: A Book of Speculative Maps by Frederique Ait-Touati
RRP: $52.65$36.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046695Author Frederique Ait-TouatiFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
North Dublin: Ireland in Old Photographs by Derek Stanley 9781845887742
RRP: $33.13$25.23North Dublin is vibrant, lively and always changing, a place where people live against the backdrop of some of the city's most renowned landmarks and beautiful buildings. In this book, the author captures the history of North Dublin before the... -
A Falklands Family at War: Diaries of the 1982 Conflict by Neville Bennett 9781399010238
RRP: $48.75$34.36Many military accounts of the British side of the Falklands War have been published as well as memoirs written by servicemen who took part, so this aspect of the story of the Argentine occupation and the British liberation of this remote territory in the... -
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society by Roderic Fenwick Owen
RRP: $21.43$13.01'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all true' - William Boyd, Sunday Times bestselling author'Outrageous fun...my goodness there are knee-tremblers galore in this... -
The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam by Andrew Wiest
RRP: $21.43$16.54Following on from the stunning success of the novel Matterhorn as well as Osprey's own Tonight We Die as Men, this book follows the trials and tribulations of a group of Vietnam draftees from basic training to the rice paddies of Vietnam. In the... -
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson
RRP: $25.33$17.22An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822. Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-Francois Champollion, the... -
Double Cross in Cairo: The True Story of the Spy Who Turned the Tide of War in the Middle East by Nigel West 9781785905186
RRP: $19.48$14.06As part of the infamous Double Cross operation, Jewish double agent Renato Levi proved to be one of the Allies' most devastating weapons in the Second World War. ln 1941, with the help of Ml6, Levi built an extensive spy ring in North Africa and the... -
Who Governs Britain?: Trade Unions, the Conservative Party and the Failure of the Industrial Relations Act 1971 by Sam Warner
RRP: $165.75$145.29Providing fresh insights from the archival record, Who governs Britain? revisits the 1970-74 Conservative government to explain why the Party tried - and failed - to reform the system of industrial relations. Designed to tackle Britain's strike problem... -
Orosius: Seven Books of History against the Pagans by Andrew Fear
$81.28This book is a new annotated translation of Orosius's Seven Books of History against the Pagans. Orosius's History, which begins with the creation and continues to his own day, was an immensely popular and standard work of reference on antiquity... -
Otto Skorzeny: The Devil's Disciple by Stuart Smith
RRP: $48.75$35.14SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. 'Hitler's favourite commando' acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. Skorzeny's influence...