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The Occupation of Hong Kong 1941-45 by Philip Cracknell
RRP: $29.66$20.10The Battle for Hong Kong lasted eighteen days. It was always going to be a losing battle. Winston Churchill knew that Hong Kong could not be defended or relieved if attacked. It had become an isolated outpost to be held as long as possible. After... -
US Soldier vs British Soldier: War of 1812 by Gregg Adams
RRP: $18.05$12.58Between June 1812 and January 1815, US and British forces, notably the regular infantrymen of both sides (including the Canadian Fencibles Regiment), fought one another on a host of North American battlefields. This study examines the evolving role and... -
Grown-up Pose by Sonya Lalli
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451490964Author Sonya LalliFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Is Democracy Failing?: A primer for the 21st century Niheer Dasandi 9780500293652
RRP: $16.71$11.07The 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... -
The History of the Panzerjager: Volume 1: Origins and Evolution 1939-42 by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $45.15$32.62The German Panzerjager, or Panzerjagertruppe, was one of the most innovative fighting arms of World War II and its story has never properly been told. Many books have focused on an element of the story - the Hetzer, Jagdpanzer, Jagdpanther - but this... -
Death in the Theatre by Chris Wood 9781399009119
RRP: $28.38$20.15* "A richly entertaining account of tragic theatre accidents and murders most foul. If theatre walls could talk, what secrets would they reveal? Chris Wood provides fascinating answers with tales of brawling ushers, murderously jealous husbands,... -
Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction by June Purvis
RRP: $47.72$41.96Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 introduces the main themes and debates of feminist history during this period of change, and brings together the findings of new research. It examines the suffrage movement, race and empire, industrialisation, the... -
Rif War: Insurgency in Northern Morocco, 1920-1927 by Javier Garcia de Gabiola
RRP: $21.87$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377013Author Javier Garcia de GabiolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Bomber Command: Airfields of Lincolnshire by Peter Jacobs 9781783463343
RRP: $23.21$20.94From the opening day of the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command took the offensive to the enemy and played a leading role in the liberation of Europe. Many of its squadrons were based in Lincolnshire, where the flat terrain and open fields made the... -
Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion by Brian P. Levack
RRP: $49.01$43.06Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs AwardWitch-Hunting in Scotland presents a fresh perspective on the trial and execution of the hundreds of women and men prosecuted for the crime of witchcraft, an offence that involved the alleged practice of... -
No Earthly Pole: The Search for the Truth about the Franklin Expedition 1845 by E. C. Coleman 9781398102118
RRP: $32.25$21.32Ernest Coleman has led or participated in four expeditions to find out the fate of the Franklin expedition. 129 men were lost from the two ships the Erebus and the Terror, looking for the North-West Passage. Many theories have been put forward - and some... -
TA-U-RO-QO-RO: Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of Jose Luis Melena Jimenez by Julian Mendez Dosuna 9780674272576
RRP: $32.19$25.66TA-U-RO-QO-RO takes up problems of script and language representation and textual interpretation, ranging from the use of punctuation marks and numbers in the Linear B to personal names and place names reflecting the ethnic composition of Mycenaean... -
Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution: Gender, Genre, and History Writing by Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille 9780192857538
RRP: $122.55$104.81In Lucy Hutchinson and the English Revolution, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille explores Lucy Hutchinson's historical writings and the Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, which, although composed between 1664 and 1667, were first published in 1806... -
Crimes of War 2.0: What the Public Should Know by Anthony Dworkin 9780393328462
RRP: $25.79$22.41Originally published in 1999, this A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities has received worldwide acclaim and has been translated into eleven languages. Now substantially updated, with sixteen new entries, this concise guide to the broken rules of war... -
40 Thieves on Saipan: The Elite Marine Scout-Snipers in One of WWII's Bloodiest Battles by Joseph Tachovsky
RRP: $16.76$10.55Winner of The 2020 Best Book Award for Military History -- American Bookfest An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky's "40 Thieves" were chosen for their willingness to defy rules and beat all-comers. When two Marines got... -
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg
RRP: $32.25$21.13Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs rooting through garbage in the streets, geese and chickens harried by the packs of stray dogs that roamed the 19th... -
The Travels by Marco Polo 9780140440577
$15.84Marco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West, he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of... -
Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder 9781324051022
RRP: $18.05$16.03Checkers, backgammon, chess and Go. Poker, Scrabble and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their... -
Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?: The Northern Ireland Conflict by Liam Kennedy
RRP: $30.95$26.88The Troubles claimed the lives of almost four thousand people in Northern Ireland, most of them civilians; forty-five thousand were injured in bombings and shootings. Relative to population size this was the most intense conflict experienced in Western... -
British Art and the First World War, 1914-1924 by James Fox
RRP: $29.66$25.23The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and creating a mood of belligerent philistinism around the nation. In this book, however, James Fox paints a very different picture... -
The Twisted Road to Auschwitz: Nazi Policy toward German Jews, 1933-39 by Karl A. Schleunes
RRP: $24.50$21.57"There is no single phenomenon in our time so important for us to understand as the one which identified itself in Germany during the 1920's, 30's and 40's as National Socialism. By the time this movement was swept from the stage it had destroyed the... -
The Rome that Did Not Fall: The Survival of the East in the Fifth Century Gerard Friell 9781138007031
RRP: $64.49$56.12The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated, comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It... -
Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic by Paul Belonick 9780197662663
RRP: $101.91$92.60Strongly-held values can stabilize a society. They can also splinter it. In Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, Paul Belonick explores the moral paradoxes of Republican Rome. He describes how aristocrats engaged in "performative... -
T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944-2004 Steven J. Zaloga (Author) 9781841767925
RRP: $16.76$14.20The T-54 and T-55 tanks are the most widely manufactured tanks of all time. They have become ubiquitous to wars around the globe since the 1950s, starting with Hungary in 1956, and including the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967, 1973 and 1982, the Vietnam war... -
The Moral Authority of Nature by Lorraine Daston
$40.65For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human... -
Early Rome to 290 Bc: The Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic by Guy Bradley
RRP: $39.99$33.60The emergence of Rome as an imperial power. In the first few centuries of its existence, Rome developed from a minor settlement on the Tiber into the most powerful city-state in Italy. This book examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success... -
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 by Ian W. Toll 9780393080650
RRP: $41.27$38.26In June 1944, the United States launched a crushing assault on the Japanese navy in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. The capture of the Mariana Islands and the accompanying ruin of Japanese carrier airpower marked a pivotal moment in the Pacific War. No... -
A History of Wales 1485-1660 by Thomas Hugh 9780708324875
RRP: $6.44$5.21The events of the period 1485 - 1660 were decisive in the development of modern Wales and, in Hugh Thomas' first in the four-volume "Welsh History Text Books" series, students are presented with a scholarly, balanced and informative discussion. From the... -
The Blood of Heroes: The 13-Day Struggle for the Alamo - and the Sacrifice That Forged a Nation by James Donovan
RRP: $19.34$18.45For almost two centuries, the last stand at the Alamo has been recognized as a defining moment in America's history. On February 23, 1836, a Mexican army thousands of soldiers strong attacked a makeshift garrison of about 200 Texas settlers-among them,... -
A Short History of the Wars of the Roses by David Grummitt
$21.63The Wars of the Roses (c. 1455-1487) are renowned as an infamously savage and tangled slice of English history. A bloody thirty-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, they embraced localised vendetta (such as the bitter northern... -
Katastrophe by Graham Hurley 9781838938383
RRP: $12.89$10.00The new blockbuster thriller from Graham Hurley set against the final stages of the Second World War. Confidant of Goebbels. Instrument of Stalin. What's the worst that could happen? January 1945. Wherever you look on the map, the Thousand Year... -
Wolves Match of My Life: Molineux Legends Relive Their Favourite Games by Simon Lowe
RRP: $12.89$7.06A dozen Wolverhampton Wanderers legends come together to tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club - enabling Wolves fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing... -
Lion and the Eagle by Kathleen Burk
RRP: $16.76$11.73An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in... -
Hitler's Collaborators: Choosing between bad and worse in Nazi-occupied Western Europe by Philip Morgan
RRP: $34.17$24.52Hitler's Collaborators focuses the spotlight on one of the most controversial and uncomfortable aspects of the Nazi wartime occupation of Europe: the citizens of those countries who helped Hitler. Although a widespread phenomenon, this was long ignored... -
Forgotten Women of the Wars of the Roses: The Untold History Behind the Battle for the Crown by Jo Romero 9781399066167
RRP: $32.25$20.81The Wars of the Roses were fought in England from the mid-fifteenth century, as the supporters of Lancaster and York wrestled over control of the crown. Books have analyzed the politics, battles and motives of its key characters. However, a discussion of... -
The Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914: Crucible of Modernity by Trevor R. Getz
$32.83The Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and experiences by which communities and individuals in different parts of the world constructed, contested, and were... -
Land for the People?: The British Government and the Scottish Highlands 1880-1925 by Ewen Cameron
RRP: $32.25$22.34Land for the People? covers a previously neglected period which saw the formative legislation and policies which continue to shape Highland life. Drawing on a wider range of sources, both public and private, than hitherto, Ewen Cameron delivers an... -
The British Battleship HMS Vanguard by Witold Koszela
RRP: $24.45$19.63The British battleship HMS "Vanguard" was built in the years 1941-1946 at the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank. It was quite an unusual ship due to the fact that it was built as the largest and also the last of the British battleships, and... -
Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing
RRP: $45.14$38.82Ingenious Trade recovers the intricate stories of the young women who came to London in the late seventeenth century to earn their own living, most often with the needle, and the mistresses who set up shops and supervised their apprenticeships. Tracking... -
Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt by Lisa Gail Collins
RRP: $30.95$23.83In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time and a seasoned quiltmaker herself,...