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To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan by Abdullah Anas
RRP: $31.18$28.22As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin Laden, and befriended key Afghan resistance leaders such as... -
SR-71 Blackbird Paul F. Crickmore 9781472813152
RRP: $19.48$14.06Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic and famous jets ever built. Assembled in secret at Lockheed's Skunkworks, the Blackbird's vital statistics remain phenomenal decades later. It holds the airspeed record for a manned jet aircraft,... -
The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family by Mai Elliott
RRP: $36.06$28.02A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural... -
Hitler's Eastern Legions 1942-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: $29.23$22.91Between 1941-45, the Germans recruited around 175,000 men from a number of minorities in the USSR, distinguishing between 'Turkomans' (predominantly Muslims) and 'Caucasians' (predominantly Orthodox Christians). Of these, many formed rear-area auxiliary... -
Pilgrim Days: A Lifetime of Soldiering from Vietnam to the SAS Dr Alastair MacKenzie 9781472833198
RRP: $25.33$17.92'We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.' If there was ever anyone who went a little further, a little beyond, it was Alastair MacKenzie. In a career spanning... -
Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay by Brian Izzard
RRP: $48.75$41.13This is the first major biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay in fifty years. Ramsay masterminded the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. Initially, it was thought that 40,000 troops at most could be rescued. But... -
The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine by Hagar Kotef
RRP: $44.83$39.02Colonizers 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... -
Bolt Action: Armies of Italy and the Axis by Warlord Games
RRP: $48.75$38.94While many nations flocked to the side of the Allies, others joined forces with Germany as part of the Axis. This volume is the definitive guide to the armies of Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Finland. Fight the Winter War against the Soviets,... -
Arnhem Lift: A German Jew in the Glider Pilot Regiment by Louis Hagen 9780752468686
RRP: $29.23$22.85Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, over nine days 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 - about a third of them wounded - were captured. It was a bloody disaster. The remarkable Louis Hagen, an 'enemy alien' who had escaped to England having been... -
An Analysis of Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin Helen Roche 9781912128976
RRP: $12.68$12.11A flagbearer for the increasingly fashionable genre of "transnational history," Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands is, first and foremost, a stunning example of the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Snyder's linguistic precocity allows him to cite evidence... -
Flight Craft 15: Supermarine Spitfire MKV: The Mark V and its Variants by Lance Cole 9781526710499
RRP: $33.13$23.95The story of the Supermarine Spitfire has been told across many years and the debate about it is enduring, yet the Spitfire remains a true icon. For aviation enthusiasts, for historians, for modellers, the word Spitfire conjures many stories and... -
No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland 1900-2015 by Christopher Harvie
RRP: $35.08$29.46This is a colourful and stimulating history of modern Scotland. Christopher Harvie brings his inimitable vision to a history of modern Scotland epitomised by political and social change, in what he sees as 'recuperation' through change. This introductory... -
Napoleon's German Allies (4): Bavaria Otto von Pivka 9780850453737
$25.99In 1805, Bavaria allied itself with France and Bavarian troops served with Napoleon during the 1809 campaign against Austria, and participated in the Russian campaign of 1812, before eventually abandoning the Emperor's cause in 1813 prior to the battle... -
The World Crisis Volume III: 1916-1918 by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $50.68$45.34The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following... -
A Little History of Archaeology by Brian Fagan
RRP: $21.43$18.45A "learned and lively" (Wall Street Journal) history of archaeological adventure-with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around the globe-for readers of all ages What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind... -
Athos: The Holy Mountain by Sydney Loch 9781784537999
$38.84Athos, the Holy Mountain of Greece, is one of the most mysterious places in the world. A rugged pyramid that rises up from the Aegean Sea, this mountain is wreathed in myth, legend and ancient traditions that to this day remain largely hidden from view... -
The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front by Aliide Naylor 9781350352896
RRP: $25.33$19.29'An insightful, nuanced account that highlights the present multitude of currents at play in Europe' - Peter Pomerantsev The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war... -
The Plantation of Ulster by Jonathan Bardon 9780717154470
$45.84The Plantation of Ulster was the most ambitious scheme of colonisation ever attempted in modern Europe, and one of the largest European migrations of the period. It was a pivotal episode in Irish history, sending shock waves reverberating down the... -
Oxfordshire Folk Tales by Kevan Manwaring
RRP: $25.33$19.25Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross and listen to the tales of this ancient county. Hear how a King and his knights were turned to stone at the mysterious Rollright Stones; how Dragon Hill got its name; take the Devil's Highway to the End of the World -... -
Lancashire Murders by Alan Hayhurst
RRP: $33.13$25.60Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Lancashire's history. The cases covered here record the county's most fascinating but least known crimes, as well as famous murders that gripped not just... -
Dive Truk Lagoon, 2nd edition: The Japanese WWII Pacific Shipwrecks by Rod Macdonald 9781849955416
RRP: $68.25$56.20Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
De la Pole, Father and Son: The Duke, The Earl and the Struggle for Power by Michèle Schindler
RRP: $44.83$30.38John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1442-1492) was a major magnate in fifteenth-century England. His youth was overshadowed by the political fall and subsequent murder of his father, who had been a favourite of King Henry VI but was increasingly... -
The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade by John D. Hosler
RRP: $23.38$19.99The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third... -
Phantoms of Breslau: An Eberhard Mock Investigation Marek Krajewski 9780857381934
RRP: $19.48$13.65It is 1919 in Breslau. The hideously battered bodies of four young sailors are discovered on an island in the River Oder. When Criminal Assistant Mock arrives at the scene to investigate, he discovers a note addressed to him, asking him to confess his... -
Tribals, Battles & Darings: The Genesis of the Modern Destroyer by Alexander Clarke 9781526772909
$63.36The ships that dominate so much of the history of the Royal Navy in the Second World War are more often than not the carriers or battleships - Ark Royal, Warspite, Hood - and rarely do ships smaller than cruisers move centre stage. Apart that is from... -
Greek History: The Basics by Robin Osborne
RRP: $37.03$32.90Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome.With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece's ancient history, the book covers the key topics, approaches... -
New Zealand Infantryman vs German Motorcycle Soldier: Greece and Crete 1941 by David Greentree
RRP: $25.33$17.92In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of the German invasion of Greece where they would face off against the German Kradschutzen - motorcycle troops... -
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner 9780393340662
RRP: $29.23$24.45Selected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln... -
The Thirty Years War by C V Wedgwood
RRP: $48.65$30.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171462Author C. V. WedgwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
RRP: $44.85$29.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143121947Author Daniel YerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship and Women's Power in Eleventh-Century England Pauline Stafford (University of Liverpool) 9780631227380
RRP: $75.95$67.20Through detailed study of these women the author demonstrates the integral place of royal queens in the rule of the English kingdom and in the process of unification by which England was made.About the AuthorPauline Stafford was born and educated in... -
Napoleon's Plunder and the Theft of Veronese's Feast by Cynthia Saltzman 9780500296721
RRP: $25.33$17.22'A fascinating and deeply rewarding book' Adam Zamoyski, Daily Telegraph Napoleon's Plunder chronicles one of the most spectacular art appropriation campaigns in history and, in doing so, sheds new light on the complex origins of what was once called... -
From Warsaw to Rome by Martin Williams 9781473894884
RRP: $48.75$35.14In May 1944, 40,000 Polish soldiers attacked and captured the hilltops of Monte Cassino, bringing to a close the largest, bloodiest battle fought by the western Allies in the Second World War. Days later the Allied armies marched into Rome seizing the... -
Bow & Bromley-by-Bow: Britain in Old Photographs by Gary Haines
RRP: $25.33$19.25Bow and Bromley-by-Bow, at the heart of London's East End, grew up around crossings over the river Lea. The area saw rapid changes from a seventeenth-century rural retreat to densely populated terraced streets, as mills were built along the river and a... -
With Paulus at Stalingrad by Wilhelm Adam 9781473898981
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Through his daily involvement with them, Wilhelm Adam is able to perfectly describe the characters involved, the tensions and despair amongst them and the pressure Paulus and his staff found themselves under as the Soviet pincers closed around the men... -
James I , The King Who United Scotland and England by Keith Coleman 9781399093590
RRP: $48.75$34.36The life of King James VI who united England and Scotland under one crown and became James I in 1603 is marked by contradictions. Generally praised as a good king of Scotland and a poor English one, James was a deep theological thinker, but he also... -
Quartz and Feldspar: Dartmoor - A British Landscape in Modern Times by Matthew Kelly
RRP: $29.23$21.35Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses punctuating Britain's southwest peninsula. A miserable place of rain and bog or a sunny upland of exquisite natural beauty,... -
The Lone Samurai by William Scott Wilson
RRP: $44.85$30.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309872Author William Scott WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Egyptian Art by Bill Manley
RRP: $25.25$17.51The art and architecture of Egypt during the age of the pharaohs continue to capture the imagination of the modern world. Vivid, graceful forms decorating monuments that emanated ambition and authority spark our wonder about this distant culture. Ever... -
Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic by Daniel Stone
RRP: $40.93$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329375Author Daniel StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc