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Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs
RRP: $19.35$14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489737Author Farrell DobbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books Ltd -
Big Guns in the Atlantic: Germany's battleships and cruisers raid the convoys, 1939-41 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $18.05$12.58At the outbreak of World War II the German Kriegsmarine still had a relatively small U-boat arm. To reach Britain's convoy routes in the North Atlantic, these boats had to pass around the top of the British Isles - a long and dangerous voyage to their... -
Hard Road West: History and Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail by Keith Heyer Meldahl 9780226519623
RRP: $21.93$18.86In 1849, news of the discovery of gold in California triggered an enormous wave of emigration toward the Pacific. Lured by the promise of riches, thousands of settlers left behind the forests, rain, and fertile soil of the eastern United States in favor... -
Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman
RRP: $16.76$12.72"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." -The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the... -
The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine by Hagar Kotef
RRP: $29.66$25.81Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers... -
Ladies in Waiting by Anne Somerset
RRP: $16.76$11.09'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail---------------------------------------------Ladies in Waiting chronicles the lives of famous and... -
The A-Z of Curious County Limerick: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Sharon Slater
RRP: $19.34$14.90Limerick's history stretches back over thousands of years. It is famed for pigs and poetry, but so far only the surface of its past has been revealed.The A-Z of Curious County Limerick looks at the forgotten tales, such as the story of the deer that ran... -
A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death by Erik Desmazieres 9780500516348
RRP: $45.15$29.45Erik Desmazieres is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, landscapes and fantastical compositions from a Piranesian world. Any new work Desmazieres produces is a... -
Weber: Political Writings by Max Weber
RRP: $32.24$28.10Max Weber (1864-1920), generally known as a founder of modern social science, was concerned with political affairs throughout his life. The texts in this edition span his career and include his early inaugural lecture The Nation State and Economic... -
Cuban Migs: The Defenders of Castro's Air Force by Hélio Higuchi
RRP: $37.35$31.67The Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighters as its main fighter aircraft, both in the defence of Cuban territory against the threat of US invasion... -
Covenant with Death by John Harris
RRP: $12.89$9.24Stirringly told from the view of everyday soldiers, Covenant with Death is acclaimed as one of the greatest novels about war ever written. With a new foreword by Louis de Bernieres, author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin.They joined for their country. They... -
The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity: AD 395-700 by Averil Cameron 9780415579612
RRP: $56.75$49.59This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity, now covering the period 395-700 AD, provides both a detailed introduction to late antiquity and a direct challenge to conventional views of the end of the Roman... -
Boots on the Ground: Britain and her Army since 1945 by General Sir Richard Dannatt
RRP: $16.76$11.73On 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... -
St Andrews' Untold Stories by Leonard Low
RRP: $12.84$9.13Apologies 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 -
English Houses 1300-1800: Vernacular Architecture, Social Life by Matthew H. Johnson 9780582772182
RRP: $47.72$46.10Houses are more than a shelter from the elements: they also offer an unparalleled insight into the beliefs, ideas and experiences of the people who built and lived in them. In this engaging book, Matthew Johnson looks at the traditional houses that still... -
Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age by Reid Mitenbuler
$35.86The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World War II."An absolute joy...Wanderlust... -
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II by Scott McGaugh
RRP: $32.25$24.36The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing... -
Heinemann Advanced History: China, 1900-76 by Geoff Stewart
$41.82Heinemann Advanced History titles focus on periods of great change in countries that are once again taking centre stage in world politics. Affordable and authoritative, Heinemann Advanced History features practice questions as well as advice on planning... -
The Last Consolation Vanished: The Testimony of a Sonderkommando in Auschwitz by Zalmen Gradowski
RRP: $25.80$19.13A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a... -
Tenochtitlan 1519-21: Clash of Civilizations by Si Sheppard
RRP: $20.63$14.98In 1519, the Conquistador Hernan Cortes landed on the mainland of the Americas. His quest to serve God, win gold, and achieve glory drove him into the heartland of what is now Mexico, where no European had ever set foot before. He marched towards to the... -
US Air Cavalry Trooper vs North Vietnamese Soldier: Vietnam 1965–68 by Chris McNab
RRP: $18.05$12.58The tactics and technologies of modern air assault - vertical deployment of troops by helicopter or similar means - emerged properly during the 1950s in Korea and Algeria. Yet it was during the Vietnam War that helicopter air assault truly came of age... -
The Ground Breaking: An American City and its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: $21.92$14.94** Chosen by Oprah Daily as one of the Best Books to Pick Up in May 2021 **'Fast-paced but nuanced ... impeccably researched ... a much-needed book' The Guardian''[S]o dystopian and apocalyptic that you can hardly believe what you are reading. ... But... -
Billericay Voices by Sylvia Kent 9780752424705
RRP: $16.76$12.93This book is part of the oral history series, which combines the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book... -
The French Royal Wardrobe: The Hotel de la Marine Restored Jerome Hanover 9782080261328
RRP: $83.85$53.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080261328Author Jerome HanoverFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 2640g -
Down the River H. E. Bates 9781908213198
RRP: $18.06$12.59Rivers are great workings of nature, time and geology. They have long been at the very centre of human culture, sustaining us with water, food, power and stories. Our thoughts flow like a river. A river's journey, from source to sea, is a metaphor for... -
Scapegoats of the Empire: The True Story of Breaker Morant's Bushveldt Carbineers by Edward Witton 9781774641873
RRP: $10.26$8.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774641873Author Edward WittonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Red Star: The First Bolshevik Utopia by Alexander Bogdanov
RRP: $20.63$19.38"[A] surprisingly moving story." -The New Yorker"Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it." -Slavic Review"Bogdanov's... -
Transcribing Oral History Teresa Bergen 9780815350934
RRP: $49.01$43.06Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct... -
Rone: Street Art and Beyond by Rone 9781760760953
RRP: $38.70$29.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760760953Author Tyrone Wright (Rone)Format HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdPublisher Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty... -
Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains by Andrew Martin
RRP: $14.18$10.02In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to... -
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel
RRP: $12.89$9.21A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Including a new story 'The School of... -
Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals. As soon as I saw, I was done for...All my dreams were of Leucippe.' Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five 'Greek... -
The Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style by Veronica Hinke
RRP: $16.76$10.55The Last Night on the Titanic demystifies life in all three classes aboard the world's most beloved ocean liner. Learn why the Titanic still captures the heart of people everywhere even 110 years later.Sailing-and making history-on the cusp of... -
They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate by James Verini
RRP: $24.50$17.56The battle is for a city. The war is for history. In autumn 2016, Iraqi forces began operations to recapture Mosul from the Islamic State. Millennia-old, Mosul was a birthplace of Western culture but also infamous for its cruelty, from the Assyrians... -
No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War Ian Mackersey 9780753828137
RRP: $12.89$7.69The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air.'This moving book uses letters and diaries to evoke the terrible cost of such warfare...Sleepless nights, separated lovers and grieving parents are recalled with... -
Almost Heaven: Tales from a Cathedral by Leslie Thomas 9781903071236
RRP: $16.76$11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071236Author Leslie ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 Lady Antonia Fraser 9781474601948
RRP: $14.18$8.35The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the... -
Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary by Giuseppe Fiori 9780860915331
RRP: $27.08$22.61Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early thirties, was arrested by Mussolini's police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death ten years later. The posthumous... -
Danger Zone: Us Clandestine Reconnaissance Operations Along the West Berlin Air Corridors, 1945-1990 by Kevin Wright
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510254Author Kevin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Working It Out by Nicola May 9781785632952
RRP: $10.31$7.47After an unexpected redundancy, Ruby begins to question her priorities. Inspired by a quote from Kahlil Gibran about loving your work, she launches her mission to find the ideal job. Her year of gainful (and sometimes painful) employment includes:...