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The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran by Robert Steele
RRP: £22.99£22.85In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they... -
The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur by Scott S. Greenberger
RRP: £14.99£12.32Despite his promising start as a young man, by his early fifties Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of New York machine boss Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur had been perceived as unfit to govern, not only by critics and the vast majority... -
A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton
RRP: £14.99£9.80Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its... -
Cashing Out: The Flight of Nazi Treasure, 1945–1948 by Neill Lochery 9781541702301
RRP: £25.00£18.11By the end of January 1945, it was clear to Germany that the war was lost. The Third Reich was in freefall, and its leaders, apart from those clustered around Hitler in his Berlin bunker, sought to abscond before they were besieged. But they wanted to... -
The Wild East: Gunfights, Massacres and Race Riots Far From America's Frontier by Ian Hernon 9781445689272
RRP: £20.00£14.69The scene was set for a classic Western showdown. On a dusty main street, a sheriff backed by townspeople faced down a gang of heavily armed hired gunslingers. Tension rose, hard words were exchanged, and someone drew first. A few minutes later 10 men... -
Soviet Cold War Guided Missile Cruisers by Edward Hampshire
RRP: £12.99£9.79A fully illustrated study of the Soviet Navy's biggest and most powerful surface combatants of the Cold War. Heavily armed and formidable, guided missile cruisers formed the core of the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. From the last class of... -
Kursk, 1943: Last German Offensive in the East by Ian Baxter
RRP: £19.99£15.10In the summer of 1943, the German launched Operation Zitadelle (Citadel), aimed at cutting off a large number of Soviet forces in the Kursk salient. This offensive resulted in the battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle of World War II.Kursk quickly... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus by Karl Galinsky
RRP: £29.99£26.34The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 BC - AD 14, was a pivotal period in world history. A time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean world, many developments were underway when Augustus took charge and a recurring... -
Pottery of the Southwest: Ancient Art and Modern Traditions by Carol Hayes
RRP: £8.99£7.81Native American pottery of the U.S. southwest has long been considered collectible and today can fetch many thousands of dollars per piece. Authors, collectors, and dealers Carol and Allen Hayes provide readers with a concise overview of the pottery of... -
Britain's Final Defence: Arming the Home Guard 1940-1944 by Dale Clarke
RRP: £17.99£13.64Known affectionately as 'Dad's Army', the Home Guard was Britain's very serious attempt to protect our shores from invasion by Nazi Germany in the Second World War. In the 'Spitfire summer' of 1940, all that the 1 million unpaid, untrained part-timers of... -
Military Helicopters, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of: A guide to over 80 years of rotorcraft, from the first types deployed in World War II to the specialized aircraft in service today by Francis Crosby
RRP: £15.00£14.84This fully up-to-date reference book provides an authoritative overview of the military helicopter. It begins with a detailed history, from the ideas of Leonardo da Vinci through to the tilt-rotor aircraft that have operated with coalition forces in... -
Racial Justice and Nonviolence Education: Building the Beloved Community, One Block at Time by Arthur Romano
RRP: £25.99£22.63This book examines the role that community-based educators in violence-affected cities play in advancing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s radical nonviolent vision for racial and social justice.This work argues that nonviolence education can help communities... -
Operation Hoss: The Deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, May-July 1944 by Ian Baxter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Operation Hoss or Aktion Hoss was the codename for the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews and their murder in the gas chambers of Birkenau extermination camp. Between 14 May and 9 July 1944, 420,000 Jews were sent to Auschwitz from Hungary, or about... -
The American Republic: Primary Sources by Bruce Frohnen 9780865973336
RRP: £10.95£10.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973336Author Bruce FrohnenFormat PaperbackPage Count 724Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1751g -
The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways by Leonard H. Lesko
RRP: £34.00£30.87This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Headstart In History: Power & People 1066-1485 by Rosemary Rees
£32.11Aiming to provide challenge and stimulus for more able pupils, the "Headstart in History" books have high narrative content; extended writing opportunities and suggestions videos and historical fiction.Book InformationISBN 9780435323028Author Rosemary... -
Euripides: Cyclops by Richard Hunter
RRP: £24.99£21.78Euripides' Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer's Odyssey of how Odysseus blinded the Cyclops after making him drunk. The play has much to teach us, not... -
Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past by Kevin M Kruse
£27.39The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperilling our... -
Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White by Patricia Sullivan
RRP: £33.95£27.72"A profound and uplifting account of Robert F. Kennedy's brave crusade for racial equality. This is narrative history at its absolute finest, with RFK squarely at the center of the 1960s civil rights movement along with Martin Luther King Jr., James... -
The Way of the Warrior: Deluxe 3-Volume Box Set Edition by Sun Tzu 9781398801882
RRP: £49.99£28.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398801882Author Sun TzuImprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius EntertainmentWeight(grams) 2100gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 163mm * 69mm -
Violence: A Modern Obsession by Richard Bessel 9781471147920
RRP: £9.99£6.41After a century that has been described as the most violent in the history of humanity, Professor Richard Bessel has written an intelligent and fascinating book on the history of our violent world and how we have become obsessed about violence. He... -
Argonauts by Apollonius 9781906814755
RRP: £7.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906814755Author of Rhodius ApolloniusFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Classic Comic Store LtdPublisher Classic Comic Store LtdWeight(grams)... -
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier David Hayton 9780719086038
RRP: £30.00£21.71Acclaimed after the Second World War as England's greatest historian, Sir Lewis Namier was an eastern European immigrant who came to idealise the English gentleman and enjoyed close friendship with leading figures of his day, including Winston Churchill... -
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: £30.00£18.80Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally... -
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
RRP: £31.00£30.59The search for a "patient zero" popularly understood to be the first infected case in an epidemic has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of... -
Combat Divers: An illustrated history of special forces divers by Michael G. Welham
RRP: £35.00£26.45The full visual history of the special forces combat diver from World War II to the present day. Combat divers are an elite within an elite. Every special forces combat diver is required to pass selection twice - first into the elite military unit and... -
Haunted Shropshire by Allan Scott-Davies 9780752447872
RRP: £14.99£11.55Shropshire's reputation as one of England's most haunted counties is certainly well founded... and all manner of ghosts, ghouls and phantoms inhabit the ancient towns and villages, ruined castles adn rolling countryside. From wicked stepmothers and... -
History, Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past by Jason Steinhauer 9783030851163
RRP: £22.99£16.61The Internet has changed the past. Social media, Wikipedia, mobile networks, and the viral and visual nature of the Web have inundated the public sphere with historical information and misinformation, changing what we know about our history and History... -
Making A Life Between The Wars in Bridlington by Dorothy M Swain 9780244033101
RRP: £5.00£4.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780244033101Author Dorothy M SwainFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 77g -
Akizuki-Class Destroyers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II by Lars Ahlberg
RRP: £22.99£14.65The destroyers of the Akizuki "Autumn Moon" class were very different from the standard fleet type of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers inaugurated with the Fubuki class. They were designed for the protection of the Imperial Japanese Navy's carrier task... -
The Knights Hospitaller Helen J. Nicholson 9781843830382
RRP: £24.99£20.90Nicholson, one of the UK's leading historians of the medieval military orders...has a flair for clear and uncluttered explanations enlivened with telling detail and quotation. And her account is comprehensive. An attractive volume. HISTORY This short... -
European Counter-Terrorist Units 1972-2017 by Leigh Neville
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Munich Olympics massacre in 1972 was a shock awakening to the public. In the decades since, European countries have faced a wide range of threats from Palestinian and home-grown terrorists, to the more recent world-wide jihadists. The threats they... -
12th Ss Panzer Division Hitlerjugend by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: £24.95£17.23Created in 1943 from members of the Hitler Youth born in 1926, the division was attached to I SS Panzer Corps in March 1944 and transferred to Normandy. Based around Caen, it was intended to repel a possible and expected invasion from the sea. When the... -
Agriculture in World History by Mark B. Tauger
RRP: £36.99£32.53Now in its second edition, Agriculture in World History presents a unique exploration of farmers and farming, and their relationships to non-farmers and urban societies from the ancient world to the 21st century.From its origins, civilization has... -
Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese by Mark Felton 9781848845503
£15.60The mistreatment and captivity of women by the Japanese is a little known and poorly documented aspect of the Second World War. In The Real Tenko, Mark Felton, who has a fast growing reputation as an authority and author on the war in the Far East,... -
The Tavern Cook: Eighteenth Century Dining through the Recipes of Richard Briggs by Marc Meltonville
RRP: £17.99£14.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248786Author Marc MeltonvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
Black Utopia: The History of an Idea from Black Nationalism to Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin
RRP: £22.00£17.36Within the history of African American struggle against racist oppression that often verges on dystopia, a hidden tradition has depicted a transfigured world. Daring to speculate on a future beyond white supremacy, black utopian artists and thinkers... -
Over the Edge of the World, Updated Edition: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen 9780062890481
RRP: £19.99£12.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062890481Author Laurence BergreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham 9780399589812
RRP: £30.00£20.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399589812Author Jon MeachamFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
SOE in Denmark: The Special Operations Executive's Danish Section in WW2 by An Official History
RRP: £25.00£17.62From a small number of clandestine activities against the German occupation of Denmark in 1940, a sophisticated resistance movement developed which by 1944, with the support of Special Operations Executive, had become a highly effective intelligence...