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South Manchester Remembered by Graham Phythian 9780752470023
RRP: $29.23$22.85South Manchester Remembered is a fascinating compilation of articles written by author and South Manchester Reporter columnist Graham Phythian. Take a nostalgic journey into South Manchester's colourful past with this rich collection of tales from bygone... -
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
RRP: $25.33$22.25In Of Woman Born, originally published in 1976, influential poet and feminist Adrienne Rich examines the patriarchic systems and political institutions that define motherhood. Exploring her own experience-as a woman, a poet, a feminist and a mother-she... -
The Templars at War by Grbasic, Zvonimir
RRP: $58.50$42.80The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, better known as the Knights Templar or simply the Templars, are the most famous of the Crusading knightly orders. Formed in 1119 to protect Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, this curious... -
The Viking Wars: War and Peace in King Alfred's Britain: 789-955 by Max Adams 9781643132549
RRP: $38.90$23.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643132549Author Max AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 137mm * 38mm -
Ka-50 and Ka-52 Hokum by Piotr Butowski
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Ka-50 (NATO reporting name: Hokum A) helicopter made its maiden flight 40 years ago on 17 June 1982. After undergoing extensive tests and tweaks, the helicopter was ready for full-scale production almost 10 years later. However, by then Russia had... -
King Arthur: The Man Who Conquered Europe by Caleb Howells
RRP: $39.00$26.79Who was King Arthur? That question has puzzled researchers for hundreds of years, yet still, no consensus has been reached. However, whether it is concluded that he was a Celtic king or a Roman officer, or something in-between, there is one conclusion... -
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England: Imagining Physical Impairment David M. Turner 9781138107588
RRP: $85.78$75.54This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used,... -
Target Hong Kong: A true story of U.S. Navy pilots at war by Steven K. Bailey 9781472860101
RRP: $48.75$34.36Brought to life by the personal accounts of six Navy pilots and one British POW, this is the history of the U.S. Navy airstrikes on Japanese-held Hong Kong. Commander John Lamade started the war in 1941 a nervous pilot of an antiquated biplane. Just... -
Discovering Gilgamesh: Geology, Narrative and the Historical Sublime in Victorian Culture by Vybarr Cregan-Reid 9780719090516
RRP: $165.75$119.07In 1872, a young archaeologist at the British Museum made a tremendous discovery. While he was working his way through a Mesopotamian 'slush pile', George Smith, a self-taught expert in ancient languages, happened upon a Babylonian version of Noah's... -
Every Man A King: The Autobiography Of Huey P. Long by Huey Long 9780306806957
RRP: $42.88$30.44Huey Long (1893-1935) was one of the most extraordinary American politicians, simultaneously cursed as a dictator and applauded as a benefactor of the masses. A product of the poor north Louisiana hills, he was elected governor of Louisiana in 1928, and... -
Economic Interdependence and War by Dale C. Copeland 9780691161594
RRP: $62.40$49.84Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive to stay peaceful. Realists contend that trade compels states to struggle for... -
An Introduction to the History of Trinidad and Tobago by Bridget Brereton
$31.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780435984748Author Bridget BreretonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Heinemann International Literature and TextbooksPublisher Heinemann International... -
Medieval Wrestling: Modern Practice of a Fifteenth-Century Art by Jessica Finley
RRP: $61.43$57.82In the Middle Ages, wrestling was practiced as both pastime and self-defense by every level of society - nobles, townsman and peasants alike - and was regarded as the foundation of all other martial arts. And no medieval wrestler's name looms as large as... -
The Story of Exeter by Hazel Harvey 9780750966184
RRP: $39.00$30.11Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain. It was an inhabited place some two hundred years before the Romans came, and people have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years. The High Street has been in continuous use as a... -
The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History by Diego Javier Luis 9780674271784
RRP: $74.00$59.96The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire-from Manila to Acapulco and beyond-and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris 9780199209002
RRP: $67.26$49.84A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise... -
Cold War Berlin: An Island City: Volume 3 - US Forces in Berlin - Keeping the Peace, 1945-1994 by Andrew Long
RRP: $38.90$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510292Author Andrew LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Churchill and Spain: The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940-1945 Richard Wigg 9781845192839
RRP: $47.78$42.90Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies. "Churchill and Spain" examines why Franco's regime was alone among Europe's "Big Three" Fascist dictatorships in being able to survive beyond the end of the Second... -
The Birth of Territory by Stuart Elden 9780226202570
RRP: $54.60$54.19Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts... -
Mikoyan MiG-23 & MiG-27: Famous Russian Aircraft by Yefim Gordon
$97.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809310Author Yefim GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Charlemagne: Empire and Society by Dr. Joanna Story 9780719070891
RRP: $38.98$34.34The age of Charlemagne was a crucible for change in the history of Europe, bridging the divide between the medieval and the classical worlds and setting the political and cultural tone for centuries to come. This book focuses directly on the reign of... -
Horace: Epodes by Horace
RRP: $64.33$57.00The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace's first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon. David Mankin's introduction and... -
Italian Magic: Secret Lives of Women: Secret Lives of Women by Karyn Crisis 9780578773346
RRP: $60.43$45.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578773346Author Karyn CrisisFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Karyn Krol-TisoPublisher Karyn Krol-TisoWeight(grams) 152g -
Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire from the Blitz to the Swinging Sixties by Julie Summers
RRP: $19.48$13.71'Magnificent ... Dressed for War works on many levels: as an evocation of an uncommon time; as a celebration of an uncommon woman; as pure, unalloyed fun.' Lucy Davies, Daily TelegraphDressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor... -
Anglo-Indians Abroad: Dreams Built on the Clash of Cultures by Andrea Malam BEM
RRP: $21.43$15.83Curious to find out what it means to be an Anglo-Indian? Join Andrea Malam BEM as she shares the story of her journey from Bombay to London, and the search for her ancestry and identity. Along with her contributors, Andrea reveals the... -
London's Royal Docks in the 1950s: A Memory of the Docks at Work by AE Smith 9781409259565
RRP: $24.94$14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781409259565Author AE SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com -
Haunted Cotswolds by Diz White 9780752454269
RRP: $25.33$19.25Spine-chilling tales of ghosts, ghouls and the undead have been gathered here from every corner of the Cotswolds, revealing in heart-stopping detail this region's unexplained events and the creepy elements that lurk just beneath its rolling hills and... -
6th SS Mountain Division Nord at War 1941-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781526721389
$30.17Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord 1941 - 1945 is the 6th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series compiled by Ian Baxter. The book tells the story of the 6th SS Mountain Division Nord,... -
The Man Who Saved Britain by Simon Winder
RRP: $21.43$16.89Award-winning author Simon Winder takes us through the legacy of one of Britain's most influential and enduring cultural figures, James Bond. 'An entertaining romp through the literary and cinematic heartland of James Bond country' Sunday Times'A... -
Around Leigh by Ashcroft Tont 9780752430218
RRP: $25.33$19.25A history of Leigh & surrounding areasBook InformationISBN 9780752430218Author Tony AshcroftFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Albatros D.I–D.II by James F. Miller 9781780965994
RRP: $29.23$24.47In 1916 German aerial domination had been lost to the French and British fighters. German fighter pilots requested an aircraft that was more powerful and more heavily armed, and the Albatros design bureau set to work on what was to become an iconic... -
Black Arabia & the African Origin of Islam by Wesley Muhammad 9780982161890
RRP: $39.00$32.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982161890Author Wesley MuhammadFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint A-Team Publishing, IncorporatedPublisher A-Team Publishing,... -
Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781914535369
RRP: $48.75$46.37The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been little studied. In this collection of new studies by an international team, ancient visual... -
Puritan Rule Under Cromwell by Jane Hayter-Hames 9781398113534
RRP: $44.83$30.38The execution of Charles I left the Puritans free to rule England and put their beliefs into practice. Once Oliver Cromwell conquered Ireland, they began a process of radical change there, confiscating land, awarding it to British Protestants and... -
After Such Knowledge: A Meditation on the Aftermath of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman
RRP: $31.18$22.64As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. How should we, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its... -
Whetstone & North Finchley by John Heathfield
RRP: $29.23$22.85This fascinating collection of photographs documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last one hundred years in the area around Whetstone and the Great North Road. The book gives a vivid impression of buildings, streets and... -
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
RRP: $39.00$24.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250782069Author Buddy LevyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 206mm... -
Dark Waters, Starry Skies: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: $58.50$37.21Esteemed 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... -
Air War Northern Ireland: Britain's Air Arms and the 'Bandit Country' of South Armagh, Operation Banner 1969 2007 by Taylor, Steven 9781399020374
RRP: $29.23$21.35Famously dubbed 'Bandit Country' by a UK government minister in 1975, South Armagh was considered the most dangerous part of Northern Ireland for the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary during the years of violence known as the 'Troubles' that... -
Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt: How Slavery Was Overthrown by Professor James Walvin
RRP: $15.58$11.13'Walvin synthesises this complex global history with skill and ingenuity. Freedom is beautifully written and clearly organised . . . thought-provoking, rich in detail and imbued with an emotional intelligence that pushes us to imagine what slave life...