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Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis 9780062368744
RRP: $63.38$41.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062368744Author Daniel GordisFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint ECCO PressPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The French Royal Wardrobe: The Hotel de la Marine Restored Jerome Hanover 9782080261328
RRP: $126.75$80.59Apologies 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 -
Community and Identity: The Making of Modern Gibraltar Since 1704 by Stephen Constantine
RRP: $48.75$37.25This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to... -
US Navy Battleships 1895–1908: The Great White Fleet and the beginning of US global naval power by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: $23.38$16.63The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's... -
A History of the Mediterranean Air War, 1940-1945: Volume Three: Tunisia and the end in Africa, November 1942 - May 1943 by Christopher Shores 9781910690000
RRP: $126.75$92.64The third volume in this series returns to November 1942 to explain the background to the first major Anglo-American venture - Operation Torch, the invasion of French North Africa. It deals with the fratricidal combats which followed the initial landings... -
Arabesques by Anton Shammas
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376929Author Anton ShammasFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940-1945 by Jorg Friedrich
$187.73For five years during the Second World War, the Allies launched a trial and error bombing campaign against Germany's historical city landscape. Peaking in the war's final three months, it was the first air attack of its kind. Civilian dwellings were... -
Illustrated Tales of Northumberland by Rob Kirkup
RRP: $31.18$21.16Northumberland is England's most northerly county and one of its most beautiful, with its spectacular countryside and coastline. Its location on the Anglo-Scottish border brings a wealth of history and culture, which, together with the stunning scenery,... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack 9781408707692
RRP: $48.75$14.49A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean. After years of neglect, The Indian Empire at War... -
Flying Springbok, The: A history of South African Airways since its inception to the post-apartheid era Lionel Friedberg 9781789046465
RRP: $46.78$39.99An artistic rendering of the African antelope, the Springbok, was depicted with stylized wings to serve as the logo of South African Airways (SAA) for well over 60 years. It was replaced by a new corporate identity when the airline was rebranded after... -
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World by Vijay Prashad
RRP: $29.23$26.03The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the authorIn this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World-with a new preface by... -
Railway Guns of World War I by Marc Romanych
RRP: $23.38$16.63World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun. Even though at the start of the conflict none of the armies possessed any railway artillery pieces and the very idea was comparatively new, more railway guns were used during this war than in any other... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - 1700 by Charles Freeman 9781789545630
RRP: $31.20$21.92A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from... -
Piccadilly: The Circus at the Heart of London Midge Gillies 9781529339710
RRP: $48.75$32.72There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus.From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into an intoxicating thoroughfare, with the power to... -
The New Science of the Enchanted Universe: An Anthropology of Most of Humanity by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: $58.50$46.14One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors... -
Pennine Dragon: The Real King Arthur of the North by Simon Keegan
RRP: $25.33$22.05Pennine Dragon tells the true story of the legendary King Arthur. On the 1500th anniversary of Arthur's greatest battle at Badon, his whole life, family history and exploits are finally identified with those of a real historic ruler. Arthur Pendragon was... -
Slavery And Bristol G. M. Best 9781910089958
RRP: $38.98$29.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089958Author G. M. BestFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint New Room PublicationsPublisher Tangent Books -
Hornsea by G.L. Southwell
RRP: $31.18$24.24This fascinating collection of around 200 old photographs shows many scenes from the recent past of this attractive seaside town on the Yorkshire coast. The town was once described as 'consisting of three streets, one known in parts as Westgate, Market... -
Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith 9780691150345
RRP: $35.08$28.31The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 Red Flag: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, 1894-1921 Alec Jessop 9781398345447
$40.64Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
The Lion Sleeps Tonight Rian Malan 9781611855838
RRP: $19.48$14.06For Rian Malan, the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness astounds those who live in saner places. Twenty years after the publication of his bestseller My Traitor's Heart, he is still strongly... -
Is Democracy Failing?: A primer for the 21st century Niheer Dasandi 9780500293652
RRP: $25.25$17.18The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsOnly four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of democracy: free and... -
Irwin Allen Collectibles by John Buss 9781398115316
RRP: $31.18$21.16What is the appeal to Irwin Allen's shows? Well, to a sixties TV audience used to a diet of westerns and hard-boiled detectives, they were new and exciting compared to what had appeared before. As for the appeal, much of this is down to the groups of... -
Medieval Christianity: A New History by Kevin Madigan
RRP: $42.90$36.97An expansive guide to the medieval world, with new attention to women, ordinary parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and Muslims, and more For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign-an often brutal and seemingly irrational time of superstition,... -
Legion versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World by Myke Cole
RRP: $29.23$21.35From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the... -
The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850-1925 by Annie Ravenhill-Johnson 9781783083398
RRP: $48.75$46.37'The Art and Ideology of the Trade Union Emblem, 1850-1925' is a groundbreaking book that considers trade union emblems and banners as art objects in their own right. It studies their commissioning, their designers and the social conditions and gender... -
They Were Here Before Us: Stories from Our First Million Years by Ran Barkai 9781786788313
RRP: $33.13$20.46This is not a book about archaeological sites. We shall come across flint tools, bones, skulls, surprising structures, and layers of earth that we can date to different periods-but they are not the heart of the matter. This book is about us, human... -
German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933 by Larry Eugene Jones 9780807865507
$156.25Jones offers a detailed and comprehensive overview of the development and decline of the German Democratic party and the German People's party from 1918 to 1933. In tracing the impact of World War I, the runaway inflation to the 1920s, and the Great... -
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present Max Boot 9780871406880
RRP: $35.08$30.60Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or guerrilla warfare has been the dominant form of military conflict throughout history. New York Times... -
Modern Minds the twentieth-century world Pupil's Book by Jamie Byrom
$56.80Invokes curiosity and wonder to engage all pupils through arresting source material, thought-provoking enquiry and clear, vibrant pates. Supports development of thinking skills through progressive steps in each enquiry, which gradually build... -
Russian Revolution, The Paper by Chris Culpin
$40.40Covering popular topics and containing sharply focused material, Longman History in Depth is ideal for AS/A Level or higher Still students of all abilities. Introduces students to each topis through a narrative supported by charts, maps, timelines,... -
Soviet T-55 Main Battle Tank by James Kinnear
RRP: $58.50$42.80A highly illustrated study of the T-55 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War. The T-55 is one of the most iconic weapons created by the Soviets during the Cold War and also one... -
Panavia Tornado: Gr. 1, Gr. 4, Ids/Gr. 1b, Ecr, Adv by Anirudh Rao
RRP: $31.20$22.66The Panavia Tornado is a twin-engine fighter jet with variable wing geometry. Three main versions of the Tornado were created: the attack version - Tornado IDS (Interdictor/Strike), the interceptor version - Tornado ADV (Air Defense Variant) and the... -
Hidden Glasgow by Carol Foreman 9781839830426
RRP: $19.48$14.04Defining what is hidden in a city is not easy. In some cases, buildings are not open to public view, well off the beaten track, or are simply forgotten amidst the rapidly changing environment of a fast growing city. In other cases, we are looking at the... -
Roman Wales Sarah Symons 9781445643809
RRP: $31.18$21.16When the Roman army invaded Wales in AD 74, they had to build a continuous chain of fortresses along the length and breadth of the country because of the fierce opposition of the tribal population, the Celts. The clash of cultures that resulted gave... -
The Oligarchs: Wealth And Power In The New Russia by David E. Hoffman
RRP: $33.13$25.45In this saga of brilliant triumphs and magnificent failures, David E. Hoffman, the former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, sheds light on the hidden lives of Russia's most feared power brokers: the oligarchs. Focusing on six of these ruthless... -
Armies of the Crimean War, 1853 1856: History, Organization and Equipment of the British, French, Turkish, Piedmontese and Russian forces by Gabriele Esposito 9781399089852
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Monty'S Functional Doctrine: Combined Arms Doctrine in British 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 by Charles Forrester
$54.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174775Author Charles ForresterFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Berliners by Emma Harding
RRP: $19.48$11.82'Sometimes I get fanciful and think the buildings speak. That all their history is locked into the walls and if you listened closely enough, you could hear all the people who'd once been there.'Sigi lived upstairs from Sara at Friedrichstrasse 19 yet... -
The Seven Years War in Europe: 1756-1763 by Franz A. J. Szabo 9780582292727
RRP: $93.58$90.44In this pioneering new work, based on a thorough re-reading of primary sources and new research in the Austrian State Archives, Franz Szabo presents a fascinating reassessment of the continental war.Professor Szabo challenges the well-established myth...