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Bomber Command the Victoria Cross Raids by Martyn Chorlton 9781846743221
$39.70Since the Victoria Cross was first instituted on 29th January, 1856, the medal has been awarded 1,357 times, the most recent was gazetted on 22nd March, 2013, posthumously to L/Cpl J T D Ashworth for his gallantry in Afghanistan. Being the youngest of... -
Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond by Hillel Schwartz
RRP: $74.10$64.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408123Author Hillel SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 1384gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 64mm -
The Ledge: An Inspirational Story of Friendship and Survival by Jim Davidson 9780345523204
RRP: $35.10$29.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345523204Author Jim DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm)... -
What It Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the present Professor Joanna Bourke 9781844086450
RRP: $25.33$16.97In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In reality, their status was worse than that of animals:... -
Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Gregg Mitman
RRP: $38.98$27.22An ambitious and shocking expose of America's hidden empire in Liberia, run by the storied Firestone corporation, and its long shadow In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world's automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world's rubber... -
The Soviet Union: A Documentary History Volume 1: 1917-1940 by Edward Acton 9780859895811
RRP: $68.23$63.10This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story-the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, and the dramatic collapse under... -
The Age of Augustus Werner Eck (Cologne University) 9781405151498
RRP: $52.55$45.69In this updated edition of his concise biography, Werner Eck tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome's first monarch. Incorporates literary, archaeological, and legal sources to provide a vivid narrative of Augustus' brutal rise to powerWritten... -
A History of Japan in Manga: Samurai, Shoguns and World War II by Kanaya Shunichiro
RRP: $31.18$20.05The entire fascinating story of Japan told in one exciting manga-style volume!A History of Japan in Manga tells the action-packed saga of Japan from its misty origins up to the present day. Epic battles, noble Samurai and duplicitous leaders are all... -
Atlas of Irish History by Sean Duffy 9780717153992
$40.81'Out on the Western edge of Europe, a first glance at the map makes Ireland seem a small and isolated place. However, many peoples have by turns established themselves on this remote island, creating an historical dynamic whose dispersed voices are now... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652374
RRP: $48.75$34.94As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
General William Roy, 1726-1790: Father of the Ordnance Survey by Humphrey Welfare
RRP: $185.25$149.49The first biography of William Roy, exploring his life, career and legacyAbout the AuthorHumphrey Welfare, Visiting Fellow in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, University of Newcastle.Book InformationISBN 9781399505789Author Humphrey... -
A Military History of Scotland Edward M. Spiers 9780748694495
RRP: $78.00$67.55This is a magisterial work of Scots military history. The Scottish soldier has been at war for over 2000 years. This illustrated pean to his rich heritage explores both the detail of battles and the cultural history of war, devoting eight separate... -
Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London by Laura Gowing
RRP: $68.23$58.68Ingenious 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... -
Sinking of the Prince of Wales & Repulse, The: the End of the Battleship Era by Martin Middlebrook 9781844150755
$39.45On the third day of the war with Japan, two Royal Navy capital ships were sunk off Malaya by air torpedo attack. They had not requested the air support that could have saved them and 840 men died in the battleship HMS Prince of Wales and the battle... -
Lost White Tribes: Journeys Among the Forgotten by Riccardo Orizio 9780099289463
RRP: $31.18$22.64Over three hundred years ago the first European colonialists set foot in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean to found permanent outposts of the great empires. This epic migration continued until after World War II when these tropical outposts became... -
Trees in England: Management and disease since 1600: 2017 by Tom Williamson
RRP: $66.20$30.63There is currently much concern about our trees and woodlands. The terrible toll taken by Dutch elm disease has been followed by a string of further epidemics, most worryingly ash chalara - and there are more threats on the horizon. There is also a... -
Essex Boys by Karen Bowman
RRP: $19.48$13.34Warrior, prince, lover and rogue: there is much to be said for the Essex man. Henry VIII, Daniel Defoe and Wat Tyler are all covered along with many more in this exciting exploration of Essex Boys. Pepys and Dickens captured Essex in words, while the... -
European Dictatorships 1918-1945 Stephen J. Lee 9780415736145
RRP: $77.98$69.15European Dictatorships 1918-1945 surveys the extraordinary circumstances leading to, and arising from, the transformation of over half of Europe's states to dictatorships between the first and the second world wars. From the notorious dictatorships of... -
Hammer from Above: Marine Air Combat Over Iraq by Jay A. Stout 9780891418719
RRP: $27.28$23.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418719Author Jay A. StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Sukhoi Interceptors: The Su-9, Su-11 and Su-15: Unsung Soviet Cold War Heroes by Yefim Gordon 9780764358685
RRP: $107.23$70.61Closed in 1949, the Sukhoi Design Bureau was reborn in 1953 to meet an urgent demand for a fast interceptor that would counter the threat posed by NATO bombers. It wasted no time developing a succession of missile-armed, Mach 2 interceptors characterized... -
The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180 by Martin Goodman 9780415559799
RRP: $77.98$69.15The Roman World 44 BC - AD 180 deals with the transformation of the Mediterranean regions, northern Europe and the Near East by the military autocrats who ruled Rome during this period. The book traces the impact of imperial politics on life in the city... -
The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam by Christopher Goscha 9780691228648
RRP: $42.90$33.09A multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh's climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America's experience in VietnamOn May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in Dien Bien Phu, there was no doubt that Vietnam could... -
From Ironclads to Dreadnoughts: The Development of the German Battleship, 1864-1918 by David M Sullivan 9781804511848
RRP: $116.90$104.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511848Author David M SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide by Tyler Lansford
RRP: $56.55$52.05Rome's oldest known Latin inscription dates from the sixth century BC; the most recent major specimen was mounted in 2006-a span of more than two and a half millennia. Remarkably, many of these inscriptions are still to be found in situ, on the walls,... -
Roman Social History: A Sourcebook by Tim Parkin
RRP: $77.98$69.15This Sourcebook contains a comprehensive collection of sources on the topic of the social history of the Roman world during the late Republic and the first two centuries AD.Designed to form the basis for courses in Roman social history, this excellent... -
Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History by William Alexander
RRP: $42.90$28.39The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, subjected to being picked hard-green and gassed, even used as a projectile, the poor tomato has become the avatar for our... -
My Friends, The Enemy: Life in Military Intelligence During the Falklands War by Nick van der Bijl
RRP: $21.43$14.55'On the beach the Lieutenant asked if he could say a prayer before being shot. "Don't be so bloody silly," I replied, "get into the boat."' My Friends, The Enemy recounts the Falklands War from the viewpoint of the only Intelligence Corps in HQ 3... -
The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep: Russia's Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin by David Satter
RRP: $31.18$26.95Once you accept that the impossible is really possible, what happens in Russia makes perfect sense "A few pages into David Satter's truly terrifying book, one realizes that his title is smack-on accurate: modern Russia is a frightening member of the... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison Nicholas Guyatt 9780861542215
RRP: $23.38$15.23'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group by Derek Ryan
$70.79The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group is the most comprehensive available survey of contemporary scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group - the set of influential writers, artists and thinkers whose members included Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster,... -
Roads to Berlin Laura Watkinson 9781848662919
RRP: $21.43$14.63Roads to Berlin maps the changing landscape of Germany, from the period before the fall of the Wall to the present. Written and updated over the course of several decades, an eyewitness account of the pivotal events of 1989 gives way to a perceptive... -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393239348
RRP: $42.88$36.95In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire. An astute politician as well as a devoted partner, she... -
Edward II the Man: A Doomed Inheritance by Stephen Spinks
RRP: $19.48$13.34Edward II is one of the most controversial kings of English history. On numerous occasions he brought England to the brink of civil war. Author Stephen Spinks argues that Edward and the later murdered Piers Gaveston were lovers, not merely... -
Journalism by Joe Sacco
RRP: $39.00$30.26'The blessing of an inherently interpretive medium like comics is that it hasn't allowed me to . . . make a virtue of dispassion. For good or for ill, the comics medium is adamant, and it has forced me to make choices. In my view, that is part of its... -
Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant by Benedict Rogers
RRP: $48.73$42.26Than Shwe is one of the world's most brutal dictators, presiding over a military regime that persists in repressing and brutalizing its own people. Until now, his story has not been told. Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma's Tyrant provides the first-ever... -
Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future by Rachel Bowlby 9780198815914
RRP: $40.93$34.98What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and mortar' survivals of a pre-online retail world. But behind the bleak appearance, there is more to see. Back... -
Women in the First World War by Neil R. Storey 9780747807520
$13.98As millions of young men marched off to war, they left behind mothers, wives, sisters, and sweethearts who were determined to contribute to the British cause. Women enrolled as nurses to treat wounded soldiers, and over 700,000 became workers in... -
Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses by James Penton
RRP: $68.25$60.26Since 1876, Jehovah's Witnesses have believed that they are living in the last days of the present world. Charles T. Russell, their founder, advised his followers that members of Christ's church would be raptured in 1878, and by 1914 Christ would destroy... -
My Mum is a Superhero (NE) by Angela McAllister 9780702311697
RRP: $13.63$10.12Watch out! Mums have superpowers! Milo's mum always knows what he's up to. She knows when he's using her saucepans to brew up magic spells. She knows when he's bouncing on his bed. She even... -
Laboratories of Terror: The Final Act of Stalin's Great Purge in Soviet Ukraine by Lynne Viola 9780197647554
RRP: $48.73$43.91Laboratories of Terror explores the final chapter of Stalin's Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine. When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large...