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Barbed Wire University: The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World by Dave Hannigan
RRP: $38.98$27.85Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill's internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. These were men... -
The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Womanhood by Catherine E McKinley
RRP: $58.50$37.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620403532Author Catherine E. McKinleyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 730g -
The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570): L'arte et prudenza d'un maestro cuoco (The Art and Craft of a Master Cook) by Terence Scully
RRP: $78.00$69.62Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500-1577) was arguably the most famous chef of the Italian Renaissance. He oversaw the preparation of meals for several Cardinals and was such a master of his profession that he became the personal cook for two Popes. At the... -
Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period by Campbell Price
RRP: $58.50$44.67Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE-200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781442253322
RRP: $58.50$44.91When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly... -
Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions by Dr Robin Darwall-Smith
RRP: $156.00$148.22The first book-length study of musical education and culture in twentieth-century Oxford. Music has always played a central role in the life of Oxford, in both the city and university, through the great collegiate choral foundations, the many amateur... -
The Intimate Rembrandt by Christopher White 9781838395353
RRP: $78.00$53.78The merchant, Paul Brandt, moved from Stettin (now in Poland) to Hamburg in 1686. His business prospered and four generations later, fifteen-year-old Wilhelm Brandt was apprenticed to the merchant Alexander Christian Becker in Archangel. Trading... -
Southern Irish Loyalism, 1912-1949 by Brian Hughes
RRP: $64.33$58.01This book brings together new research on loyalism in the 26 counties that would become the Irish Free State. It covers a range of topics and experiences, including the Third Home Rule crisis in 1912, the revolutionary period, partition, independence... -
Shebeen Tales: Messages from Harare by Chenjerai Hove 9781897959329
RRP: $13.63$11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897959329Author Chenjerai HoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint SerifPublisher SerifWeight(grams) 120g -
Eagles of Destiny: Volume 1: Birth and Growth of the Royal Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan Air Force, 1947-1971 by Usman Shabbir
RRP: $33.05$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377037Author Usman ShabbirFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Bombing of Bath by Niall Rothnie 9780956440518
RRP: $19.48$18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956440518Author Niall RothnieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Folly Books LtdPublisher Folly Books LtdDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm -
Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity by James J O'Donnell 9780061845390
RRP: $33.13$24.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061845390Author James J O'DonnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits, Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix by Brian Doherty
RRP: $25.33$19.66A complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix-now in paperback! In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of... -
The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova (1531) Tom Leoni 9780982591130
RRP: $64.35$60.43Dating from the 1520's, Bolognese swordsmaster's Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova is the earliest surviving printed book on Italian martial arts. This seminal and eclectic Renaissance work contains clear and systematic instruction on the use of the sword... -
Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe: Proceedings of a Conference held at King's College London, April 1995 Anne J. Duggan 9780851158815
$58.03The image, status and function of queens and empresses, regnant and consort, in kingdoms stretching from England to Jerusalem in the European middle ages. Did queens exercise real or counterfeit power? Did the promotion of the cult of the Virgin... -
Catastrophes, Crashes and Crimes in the UAE: Newspaper Articles from the 1970s by Dr Athol Yates 9781909339903
RRP: $19.40$18.90Like any country, the United Arab Emirates have had their share of criminals, accidents, natural disasters and downright weird incidents. Most of these events merit a few pages in the newspapers before disappearing from history. This book brings the... -
Hanged at Lincoln by Stephen Wade
RRP: $25.33$19.25This intriguing book gathers together the stories of 120 criminals hanged at both Lincoln Castle Prison and HMP Lincoln on Greetwell Road between 1203 and 1961. The condemned featured here range from coiners and forgers, to thieves, highwamen and... -
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
$25.99In 1943, Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men,... -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: The move to global war by Andy Dailey
RRP: $54.60$51.62A new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 3: The Move to Global WarThe renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level,... -
Iraqi Mirages: Dassault Mirage Family in Service with Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988 by Tom Cooper
$35.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390311Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster by John O'Connor 9781464216633
RRP: $52.63$33.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464216633Author John O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm * 23mm -
The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future by Geoffrey Cain
RRP: $48.75$31.94An in-depth, on-the ground view of how Chinese officials have co-opted technology, infrastructure and the minds of their people to establish the definitive police state.When blocked from facts and truth, and constantly under surveillance, most citizens... -
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson
RRP: $46.78$42.04A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have... -
Wilfred Owen by Guy Cuthbertson 9780300216158
RRP: $38.98$37.81One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's rationale and... -
12th Ss Panzer Division Hitlerjugend: From Operation Goodwood to April 1945 by Massimiliano Afiero 9781636243146
RRP: $48.65$34.24Formed in 1943 with the express purpose of blocking the forthcoming Allied invasion in the West, the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend carved out a reputation as one of the Wehrmacht's foremost panzer divisions, as witnessed by its tenacious defense... -
To Settle the Crown: Waging Civil War in Shropshire 1642-1648 by Jonathan Worton
RRP: $48.75$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070944Author Jonathan WortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Steep Atlantick Stream by Robert Harling
RRP: $29.23$21.35First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic. The author, an RNVR lieutenant, experienced... -
Algerian White by Assia Djebar 9781583225165
RRP: $25.33$16.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225165Author Assia DjebarFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 326g -
Haunted War Tales: True Military Encounters with the Bizarre, Paranormal, and Unexplained by R.C. Bramhall 9781493075768
RRP: $35.08$26.60Some battlefields - such as Gettysburg - are known to be haunted. This book focuses on multiple tales of truly odd, and often bizarre, paranormal events on the battlefields of the world. Some popular stories are de-bunked, but most of these reports - all... -
Vietnam: A View from the Front Lines by Andrew Wiest
RRP: $21.43$16.54From Andrew Wiest, the bestselling author of The Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam and one of the leading scholars in the study of the Vietnam War, comes a frank exploration of the human experience during the conflict. Vietnam allows the... -
Kettenkrad by Friehelm Abel 9780887403156
RRP: $19.48$19.03This book offers numerous photographs and detailed text concerning one of the more unique German vehicles to be developed.Book InformationISBN 9780887403156Author Friehelm AbelFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer... -
Havant & Hayling Island by Robert Cook
RRP: $29.23$22.85This fascinating collection of photographs, many of which are from private collections and never previously published, documents dramatic changes around Havant, Langstone and Hayling over the last hundred years. Robert Cook has created a memorable... -
The Canary Keeper Clare Carson 9781786690586
RRP: $37.03$32.72'Historical fiction at its very best' ELLY GRIFFITHS. A Times Historical Fiction Book of the Month. They will see me hang for this. London, 1855. In the grey mist of the early morning a body is dumped on the shore of the Thames by a boatman in... -
Death in Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook by Valerie Hope
RRP: $74.08$65.09Presenting a wide range of relevant, translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world,this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of recent scholarship. The breadth of material included ensures that this... -
US Navy Escort Carriers 1942-45 by Mark Stille
RRP: $25.33$21.47While not as famous as their larger and faster sister ships such as the Essex- and Yorktown-class carriers, escort carriers made an enormous contribution towards Allied victory both in the Pacific and Atlantic theatres. Rather than relying on size or... -
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: $54.58$48.59"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in... -
Ultimate Piston Fighters of the Luftwaffe by Justo Miranda 9781781552490
RRP: $43.88$31.90The development of aviation engines in Germany was revolutionary during closing stages of the Second World War. In 1945, the Daimler Benz, Jumo and BMW engines in service, equipped with power boosting systems, generated 2,000 hp. There were prototypes... -
The Little Book of Carmarthenshire by Dr Russell Grigg
RRP: $21.43$16.52Fast-paced and fact-packed, this compendium revels in Carmarthenshire's rich heritage and what makes it special in areas such as culture, landscape, wildlife, food and sport.This whistle-stop tour through the 'Garden of Wales' covers both celebrated... -
The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton 9780486496368
RRP: $12.66$10.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486496368Author Alexander HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Our People: Discovering Lithuania's Hidden Holocaust by Ruta Vanagaite 9781538133033
RRP: $37.03$29.43This remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Ruta a descendant of the perpetrators, Efraim a descendant of the victims. Ruta Vanagaite, a best-selling Lithuanian writer, was motivated by...