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Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900-1941 by John C. G. Rohl 9781107544192
RRP: £54.99£51.76This final volume of John Roehl's acclaimed biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II reveals the Kaiser's central role in the origins of the First World War. The book examines the Kaiser's part in the Boer War, the Russo-Japanese War, the naval arms race with... -
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, With a New Preface by Ross E. Dunn 9780520272927
RRP: £30.00£23.29Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of... -
Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime by Alex Espinoza 9781944700829
RRP: £17.00£11.68"Espinoza's book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers, thinkers, and activists. Reading these accounts, I felt myself drawn into a past both wonderful and strange, a world I hope we will continue to celebrate and preserve." -Garrard Conley ... -
British Political History, 1867-2001: Democracy and Decline by Malcolm Pearce
RRP: £36.99£33.53This third edition of British Political History, 1867-2001 is an accessible summary of major political developments in British history over the last 140 years.Analyzing the changing nature of British society and Britain's role on the world stage, Malcolm... -
Atisa Dipamkara: The Illuminator of the Awakened Mind by James Apple 9781611806472
RRP: £23.00£14.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806472Author James AppleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History by Kristina R. Gaddy
RRP: £23.99£17.76In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings... -
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: £15.99£14.79This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the world wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; beautiful Diana... -
Cher Ami: Based on the World War I Legend of the Fearless Pigeon by Melisande Potter
RRP: £12.99£9.70In October 1918, during World War I, nearly seven hundred American soldiers were trapped behind enemy lines with no prospect of rescue. Allied troops did not have access to their location, and every attempt at communication provoked more casualties... -
With Zeal and with Bayonets Only: The British Army on Campaign in North America, 1775-1783 by Matthew H Spring
£27.23The image is indelible: densely packed lines of slow-moving Redcoats picked off by American sharpshooters. Now Matthew H. Spring reveals how British infantry in the American Revolutionary War really fought.This groundbreaking book offers a new analysis... -
Drug War: The Secret History by Peter Walsh 9781908479914
RRP: £20.00£14.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908479914Author Peter WalshFormat HardbackPage Count 672Imprint Milo BooksPublisher Milo Books -
The Latvians: A Short History by Andrejs Plakans
RRP: £24.95£22.42This is the first English-language volume that brings the history of Latvia to the threshold of the twenty-first century. Until the re-establishment of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet dominance served for nearly fifty years to hinder publication of... -
History Beyond the Text: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources by Sarah Barber
RRP: £39.99£35.06Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider... -
A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England by John Tosh 9780300123623
RRP: £16.99£16.66Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women's history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men's lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many... -
Russia 2010: And What it Means for the World : the Cera Report by Daniel Yergin
RRP: £17.00£12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679759225Author Daniel YerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 207mm *... -
Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon by Marwan Iskandar 9780863563706
RRP: £16.99£11.54On Valentine's Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people subsequently took to the streets, and the United Nations Security... -
Amarna Diplomacy: The Beginnings of International Relations by Raymond Cohen
RRP: £28.00£24.54Published in 1992, William L. Moran's definitive English translation, The Amarna Letters, raised as many questions as it answered. How did Pharaoh run his empire? Why did the god-king consent to deal with his fellow, mortal monarchs as equals? Indeed,... -
Mary of Oignies: Mother of Salvation by Anneke B Mulder-Bakker 9782503517032
£67.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503517032Author Anneke B Mulder-BakkerFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V. -
Spitfire: The Biography by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £9.99£4.71Updated edition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.It is difficult to overestimate the excitement that accompanied the birth of the Spitfire. An aircraft imbued with balletic grace and extraordinary versatility, it was powered... -
Lost White Tribes: Journeys Among the Forgotten by Riccardo Orizio 9780099289463
RRP: £15.99£11.61Over three hundred years ago the first European colonialists set foot in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires. This epic migration continued until after World War II when these tropical outposts became... -
Death in the Shape of a Young Girl: Women's Political Violence in the Red Army Faction by Patricia Melzer
RRP: £28.99£25.36In the early 1970s, a number of West German left-wing activists took up arms, believing that revolution would lead to social change. In the years to come, the bombings, shootings, kidnappings and bank robberies of the Red Army Faction (RAF) and Movement... -
Manchester Stories by David Clayton 9781905769414
RRP: £11.99£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769414Author David ClaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 232mm * 155mm * 17mm -
Bloody April: Slaughter in the Skies over Arras, 1917 by Peter Hart
RRP: £10.99£7.40The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete... -
Junior History Book 1 Edward Lawlor Brennan 9781902984964
£23.02Junior History Book 1 is the first in a three-part chronological History course which takes pupils on a fascinating journey from the dinosaurs, through to the Dark Ages visiting the Stone Age and Ancient Egypt along the way. Rigorous but fun, this book... -
Funeral for a Queen: Twelve Days in London by John Fraser
RRP: £12.99£8.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555903Author John FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc. -
Understanding Heritage and Memory by Tim Benton
RRP: £24.99£18.31Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by 'virtual', 'intangible' and 'multicultural'... -
Jacked: The unauthorized behind-the-scenes story of Grand Theft Auto by David Kushner
RRP: £12.99£9.16The behind-the-scenes story of the world's most notorious and controversial video games company - Rockstar Games. Jacked is the incredible story behind the phenomenon that changed video games for ever - Grand Theft Auto. Powerful... -
Gothic Line 1944-45: The USAAF starves out the German Army by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the history of how the mighty Gothic Line was defeated by American air power, in one of the most pivotal but least-known air campaigns of World War II. By late 1944, the Italian Campaign was secondary to the campaigns in France, and Allied... -
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic 9780060975401
RRP: £16.99£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060975401Author Slavenka DrakulicFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: £12.99£11.13In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
Ancient Literacy by William V. Harris 9780674033818
RRP: £43.95£35.55How many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans? No one has previously tried to give a systematic answer to this question. Most historians who have considered the problem at all have given optimistic assessments, since... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two by Richard Overy
RRP: £34.49£24.94World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally... -
The Forge of Christendom: The End of Days and the Epic Rise of the West by Tom Holland 9780307278708
RRP: £20.00£14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278708Author Tom HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
Harrier Boys Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands 1969-1990 by Robert Marston
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Harrier Boys, Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands, 1969-1990, Bob Marston, who flew Harriers for many years, draws together accounts from others who worked with this unique jet through its history. The excitement, camaraderie and pride of... -
The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain: A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists by Callum G. Brown
RRP: £19.99£16.54Humanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Here, leading historians of religious non-belief Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch examine how humanist organisations brought ethical reform and rationalism... -
The Birth of The Chocolate City: Life in Georgian York Summer Strevens 9781445633466
RRP: £15.99£10.85One of the great names in chocolate history, Rowntree's, evolved from the humble retail beginnings of Mary Tuke, eighteenth-century mother of York's chocolate industry. This book explores how she was formative in shaping modern York as a city of... -
Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears by Thomas Dixon 9780199676064
RRP: £14.99£11.22There is a persistent myth about the British: that we are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia - the first history of crying in Britain - comprehensively debunks this myth. ... -
Aurore by Graham Hurley
RRP: £8.99£7.07'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Barely half of the Bomber Command's aircrews survive a full tour, but wireless operator Billy Angell has beaten the odds and completed his 30th - and final - mission. Now, Billy is due two-weeks leave, a... -
The Unwritten Order: Hitler's Role in the Final Solution by Peter Longerich
RRP: £15.99£12.25The Holocaust differs from other genocides in recent history for one main reason: there is no other example in which a minority was annihilated systematically and as completely as possible on the orders of a head of state and through the apparatus of... -
The British Army in Afghanistan 2006-14: Task Force Helmand by Leigh Neville
RRP: £14.99£10.95Fighting an elusive and dangerous enemy far from home, the British army in Afghanistan has been involved in asymmetric warfare for the best part of a decade. The eight-year series of deployments jointly known as Operation Herrick, alongside US and other... -
The Population of Europe Massimo Livi-Bacci (University of Florence) 9780631218814
RRP: £33.95£29.98This book describes the history of the inter-relationships in Europe between population, land, resources, and disease.About the Author Massimo Livi Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. From 1989 to 1993 he was President of the...