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Stalin's Gamble: The Search for Allies against Hitler, 1930-1936 by Michael Jabara Carley 9781487544416
RRP: $120.90$105.55Shedding light on the origins of the Second World War in Europe, Stalin's Gamble aims to create a historical narrative of the relations of the USSR with Britain, France, the United States, Poland, Germany, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania during the... -
The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-1950 by Martin Jay
RRP: $52.65$41.07Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Franz Neumann, Theodor Adorno, Leo Lowenthal--the impact of the Frankfurt School on the sociological, political, and cultural thought of the twentieth century has been profound. The Dialectical Imagination is... -
Dublin: The View From Above by Dennis Horgan
$40.05With his first book Dennis Horgan showed he is an aerial photographer of exceptional talent. His aerial photographs are absorbing as they give a new bird's-eye-view of well-known buildings, streets, monuments, the suburbs and countryside. Here he has... -
Glasgow East: Images of Scotland by Gordon Adams 9780752445670
RRP: $31.18$24.24This fascinating collection of more than 200 archive photographs explores the history of the east of Glasgow over the last 100 years - travelling through the city centre and Glasgow Green, Calton, Mile-end and Bridgeton, Dennistoun, Camlachie and... -
Spanish Galleon vs English Galleon: 1550–1605 by Mark Lardas
RRP: $27.28$19.21Between 1550-1600, Europe witnessed a rapid evolution in the art of ship design which enabled safer and more efficient transatlantic travel. This was the pinnacle of the Age of Discovery and Exploration for the European powers, in which the galleon... -
China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict by David Daokui Li 9780393292398
RRP: $44.83$36.66Recent rising tensions between China and the West largely stem from a basic misunderstanding of China's approach to governance, argues Dr David Daokui Li, who has served as an advisor to senior Chinese Communist Party leaders as well as major... -
Macchi C.202/C.205V Units in Combat by Marco Mattioli
RRP: $31.18$22.64A study of the Macchi Folgore and Veltro, the most successful Italian fighters in World War II. With specially commissioned profiles, the book examines how these fighters were conceived, their performance and the fascinating stories of their pilots. ... -
Real Preseli John Osmond 9781781724972
RRP: $19.48$14.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724972Author John OsmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales Press -
And I Looked Back: East Anglians In Their Own Words by Gillian Campbell 9781803136905
RRP: $25.33$18.21This is a work of East Anglian oral history. Over a period of nearly 30 years I listened to and recorded a number people from different backgrounds, all born in the early years of the 20th century, in an attempt to capture and save the memories of those... -
Bath at War 1939-45 by Lassman, David 9781526706287
RRP: $25.33$17.92Bath at War 1939-45 is a comprehensive account of the city's experience of the conflict, covering in detail life on the Home Front set against the background of the wider theatres of war. The narrative of that global struggle is given with a focus on... -
In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 by Steven King
RRP: $68.25$59.94Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the... -
Island of Fire: The Battle for the Barrikady Gun Factory in Stalingrad Jason Mark 9780811719919
RRP: $89.70$82.70Stalingrad was one of the largest, bloodiest, and most famous battles in history as well as one of the major turning points of World War II. For four winter months during the battle, German and Soviet forces fought over a single factory inside the city... -
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls 9780374601652
RRP: $68.25$47.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374601652Author Tessa HullsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint MCDPublisher MCDWeight(grams) 300g -
Call Of The Litany Bird: Surviving the Zimbabwe Bush War Susan Gibbs 9781907991004
RRP: $35.08$31.08As a trained nurse, newly married to the son of the Governor of Rhodesia during the UDI years, Susan writes compellingly about bringing up a family on their farm in Matabeleland in the midst of the unfolding terror and growing number of atrocities. ... -
Wales Since 1939 by Martin Johnes
RRP: $38.98$29.09The period since 1939 saw more rapid and significant change than any other time in Welsh history. Wales developed a more assertive identity of its own and some of the apparatus of a nation state. Yet its economy floundered between boom and bust, its... -
Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile, 1900-1941 by John C. G. Rohl 9781107544192
RRP: $107.23$100.93This 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 Irish Difference: The Story of Ireland's 400-Year Journey to Independence by Fergal Tobin
RRP: $21.43$15.58An Irish TImes Book of the Year'The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity, and is full of fascinating detail... Exemplary.' Irish IndependentFor hundreds of years, the... -
World War I by John M. Burns 9781906814786
RRP: $19.48$15.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814786Author John M. BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store Ltd -
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson
RRP: $43.88$37.73An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the... -
Hybrid Warriors: Proxies, Freelancers and Moscow's Struggle for Ukraine by Anna Arutunyan
RRP: $39.00$35.57The Russian government's deniable use of rogues, businessmen, enthusiasts, mercenaries and political technologists confounded policymakers as Moscow waged a covert invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Did Crimea and Donbas reveal the Kremlin's new 'hybrid war'... -
Louise Nevelson: Art is Life by Laurie Wilson
RRP: $48.65$33.83Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was, with Calder, Noguchi and David Smith, one of the great American sculptors of the 20th century. She created extraordinary work, from room-size installations composed of boxes to gnarled and majestic steel structures. Her... -
Prison Life in Victorian England by Michelle Higgs 9780752442556
RRP: $33.13$25.60It is a commonly held assumption that all Victorian prisons were grim, abhorrent places, loathed by their inmates. This is undoubtedly an accurate description of many English prisons in the nineteenth century However, because of the way in which prisons... -
Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $25.33$18.21The Romans first set military foot on Greek soil in 229 BCE; only sixty or so years later it was all over, and shortly thereafter Greece became one of the first provinces of the emerging Roman Empire. It was an incredible journey - a swift, brutal, and... -
Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas by Gavin Menzies 9780062236784
$26.66Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas-offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who... -
The Spanish Galleon: 1530-1690 by Angus Konstam
$19.29During the middle decade of the 16th century a new type of sailing vessel emerged, designed to carry the wealth of Americas to Spain. This was the galleon, and over the next century these vessels would serve Spain well as treasure ships and war ships,... -
Glories and the Wildness of North Wales, The - Exploring North Wales 1810-1860 with the Reverend John Parker by Edward Parry
RRP: $31.20$27.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278458Author Edward ParryFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 210mm * 210mm * 10mm -
Tank Warfare, 1939-1945 by Simon Forty 9781526767622
RRP: $48.75$22.13On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary rate. In a few years, on all sides, tank warfare was... -
Thomas Hardy's Women: In Life and Literature by Peter Tait 9780857043498
RRP: $29.23$25.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043498Author Peter TaitFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint HalsgrovePublisher HalsgroveWeight(grams) 156g -
Lost at Sea in Mysterious Circumstances: Vanishings and Undiscovered Shipwrecks by Richard M Jones 9781399046213
RRP: $42.90$30.46Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott
RRP: $54.60$42.51This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women's... -
Soviet Machine Guns of World War II by Chris McNab
RRP: $29.23$21.35This study looks at how the Soviet armed forces developed and deployed a range of machine guns that fitted with their offensive and defensive infantry tactics across six years of total war. In 1939, three machine guns dominated the Red Army's... -
M10 Gun Motor Carriage: and the 17-Pounder Achilles Tank Destroyer by David Doyle
RRP: $44.83$29.35Based on the M4A2 and M4A3 Sherman tank chassis, and fitted with a 3-inch M7 gun, the M10 was numerically the most important US tank destroyer of WWII. The M10 was built in response to the stunning successes of the German armored Blitzkrieg at the outset... -
The King's Cathedral: The ancient heart of Christ Church, Oxford by Judith Curthoys
RRP: $68.25$48.15The cathedral church of Christ in Oxford - better known as Christ Church Cathedral - was established in 1546. It forms one half of Christ Church, the unique joint foundation of cathedral and university college created by King Henry VIII. Today's... -
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon by Angela McCarthy
$67.80This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the... -
Ranger 22 - The No. 1 Bestseller: Lessons from the Front by Ray Goggins
RRP: $23.38$16.89'The path I have travelled, the things I have done and the people I have met in crisis situations have given me a window into those qualities that make us perform. My military training created a mindset, an outlook and skills that can be channelled into... -
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
RRP: $31.18$22.64More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in... -
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II: The 'Warthog' Ground Attack Aircraft Peter C Smith 9781526759269
RRP: $68.25$47.37The Fairchild-Republic A-10A Close Support aircraft has become a legend over its long front line life. Known as the Warthog due to her unusual appearance, this little aircraft has built up an awesome reputation in the specialised ground-attack role,... -
Escher by Mark Veldhuysen 9788857251431
$74.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857251431Author Mark VeldhuysenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1760g -
The Quest For Mary Magdalene: History & Legend by Michael Haag
RRP: $25.33$17.92Mary Magdalene is a larger figure than any text, larger than the Bible or the Church; she has taken on a life of her own. She has been portrayed as a penitent whore, a wealthy woman, Christ's wife, an adulteress, a symbol of the frailty of women and an... -
Maya Conquistador by Matthew Restall 9780807055076
$39.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807055076Author Matthew RestallFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 383g