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The Land of the Messiah: A land flowing with milk and honey. by Marcos Enrique Ruiz Rivero (Aviel), II 9789657747179
RRP: $72.15$50.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657747179Author Marcos Enrique Ruiz Rivero (Aviel), IIFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Marcos Enrique Ruiz RiveroPublisher Marcos Enrique Ruiz... -
The Berbers: The Peoples of Africa Michael Brett (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) 9780631207672
RRP: $83.75$73.83The Berbers provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Berber-speaking peoples.About the AuthorMichael Brett is Lecturer in African History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Elizabeth Fentress was formerly a... -
The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa by Ching Kwan Lee
RRP: $50.70$48.46China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Even though Africa has become a popular destination of foreign... -
Reading Primary Sources: The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History Miriam Dobson 9781138393196
RRP: $72.13$63.92Now in its second edition, Reading Primary Sources explores the varied traditions in source criticism and, through specific examples, illustrates how primary sources can be read and used in historical research.Part I of this two-part volume begins by... -
The Devils Will Get No Rest: FDR, Churchill, and the Plan That Won the War by James B. Conroy
RRP: $48.75$31.45The first full account of the Casablanca Conference of January 1943, the secret ten-day parlay in Morocco where FDR, Churchill, and their divided high command hammered out a winning strategy at the tipping point of World War II.The Devils Will Get No... -
Arnhem: Myth and Reality: Airborne Warfare, Air Power and the Failure of Operation Market Garden by Sebastian Ritchie
RRP: $33.13$27.92Operation Market Garden, often depicted as one of the most decisive military actions of the Allied campaign, offered an opportunity to conclude hostilities with Hitler's Germany before 1945 but its disastrous failure left the Allies facing another seven... -
Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns since 1700 by Peter Borsay 9781845411978
RRP: $58.40$52.07Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from... -
Bolt Action: Campaign: D-Day: US Sector by Warlord Games
RRP: $48.75$34.36Covering the fiercely contested US sectors of D-Day, including the beaches of Omaha and Utah, this new Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to refight the fierce American beach landings, beach head breakouts, and Airborne assaults. New, linked... -
Getting Out of Saigon: How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians by Ralph White
RRP: $39.00$25.55The gripping and remarkable true story of author Ralph White's desperate effort to save the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.In April 1975, Ralph White was... -
Tolworth Remembered by Mark Davison 9780953424023
$19.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953424023Author Mark DavisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Mark DavisonPublisher Mark Davison -
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Ms Peggy Mohan 9780670093687
RRP: $38.98$26.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093687Author Peggy MohanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 30mm -
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Colonialism, Conquest, and the Crop That Revived Slavery in Africa by Jori Lewis
RRP: $42.88$28.92Winner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and ScholarshipWinner, Harriet Tubman PrizeA stunning work of popular history-the story of how a crop transformed the history of slavery"A complex story crossing time and oceans" (National... -
The Modern Middle East: A History by James L Gelvin
RRP: $101.38$101.01Extensively revised and updated in this fifth edition, The Modern Middle East explores how the forces associated with global modernity have shaped the social, economic, cultural, and political life in the region over the course of the past 500 years... -
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Discovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi
RRP: $44.83$37.69Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project:... -
In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West by Bruce Gilley
RRP: $42.90$35.82Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its early roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where... -
Lorca, Bunuel, Dali: Forbidden Pleasures and Connected Lives by Gwynne Edwards 9781848850071
$106.16Lorca, Bunuel and Dali were, in their respective fields of poetry and theatre, cinema, and painting, three of the most imaginative creative artists of the twentieth century; their impact was felt far beyond the boundaries of their native Spain. But if... -
English Archives: An Historical Survey by Richard Olney
RRP: $58.48$53.39England is remarkable for the wealth and variety of its archival heritage - the records created and preserved by institutions, organisations and individuals. This is the first book to treat the history of English records creation and record-keeping from... -
Heath Robinson's Home Front: How to Make Do and Mend in Style by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: $19.48$16.50How does one play bridge in a gas mask? Or enjoy motoring without consuming petrol? Or deal with a nationwide shortage of pea-sticks? For this compact little book Heath Robinson joined forces with writer Cecil Hunt to show civilians 'how to make the best... -
The Greek Experience of India: From Alexander to the Indo-Greeks by Richard Stoneman
RRP: $54.60$43.95An exploration of how the Greeks reacted to and interacted with India from the third to first centuries BCEWhen the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new world. The plants were unrecognizable, the customs... -
The Battle of Cambrai 1917: Moeuvres and Bourlon, Cantaing and Graincourt to Flesquieres, Masnieres, Gouzeaucourt and Gonnelieu by Jerry Murland
RRP: $31.18$22.64The 1917 Battle of Cambrai featured the first massed tank attack in military history and provoked the biggest German counter-attack against the British since 1914. The British aimed to break through the German Hindenburg Line, then threaten the rear of... -
And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder: Leo Rawlings: Prisoner of Japan and War Artist 1941-1945 by Leo Rawlings 9781905802944
RRP: $48.75$34.55And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder is the experience of an ordinary soldier captured by the Japanese at Singapore in February 1942. Leo Rawlings' story is told in his own pictures and his own words; a world that is uncompromising, vivid and raw. He pulls... -
The Battle of the Lys 1918: South: Objective Hazebrouck by Chris Baker 9781526716965
$32.25The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaiser's men. Following closely on the heels of the devastating 'Operation Michael' attack in March on the... -
Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir About What Happens After a Miracle by Douglas Michael Day
RRP: $48.75$31.94p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 22.5px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #353535} On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq's Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group of Iraqi scouts were on the hunt for a high-level al Qaeda... -
World War Two: 500 Interesting Facts About Major Events, Battles, and People by Ahoy Publications 9781961217065
RRP: $31.18$21.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961217065Author Ahoy PublicationsFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Legerum ABPublisher Legerum ABWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 4mm -
The Connoisseurs Book Of Japanese Swords by Kokan Nagayama
RRP: $146.25$83.38This comprehensive guide to the appreciation and appraisal of the blades of Japanese swords still offers an English translation of a definitive Japanese text on the subject. Taking the practical historical approach, it discusses each tradition, examining... -
Union Sharpshooter vs Confederate Sharpshooter by Gary Yee
RRP: $31.18$25.27During the American Civil War, the Union and the Confederacy both fielded units of sharpshooters. Sometimes equipped with firearms no better than those of their infantry brethren, they fought in a manner reminiscent of Napoleonic-era light infantry... -
An Introduction to the Blue Humanities by Steve Mentz 9780367763664
RRP: $70.18$61.80An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of... -
Roman History, Volume II by Appian
RRP: $48.65$46.33Rome's foreign wars, nation by nation.Appian (Appianus) is among our principal sources for the history of the Roman Republic, particularly in the second and first centuries BC, and sometimes our only source, as for the Third Punic War and the destruction... -
The Illyrians by John Wilkes
RRP: $72.05$64.66For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the river Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of the peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. This book, now... -
Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt Stephen Quirke (University College London, UK) 9781444332001
RRP: $54.50$47.29Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond the customary boundaries of Egyptology and shedding new light on entrenched assumptions. Discusses the... -
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II by Scott McGaugh
RRP: $48.75$37.19The first major history of the American glider pilots, the forgotten heroes of World War II, by a New York Times bestselling author. A story of no guns, no engines and no second chances. This book distills war down to individual young men climbing... -
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-century England by Steven Shapin 9780226750194
RRP: $70.20$68.70How do we come to trust our knowledge of the world? What are the means by which we distinguish true from false accounts? Why do we credit one observational statement over another? This study engages these universal questions through a recreation of a... -
West Drayton and Yiewsley by Stephen Skinner 9780752428413
RRP: $25.33$19.25A history of West Drayton & YiewsleyBook InformationISBN 9780752428413Author James SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Cabinets and the Bomb by Peter Hennessy 9780197264225
$118.21The nuclear weapons question runs through post-1940 British history like an irradiated thread. It represents part of the hidden history of twentieth-century Britain, given the high level of technical secrecy and political sensitivity in which the bomb... -
The Old Vic: The Story of a Great Theatre from Kean to Olivier to Spacey by Terry Coleman
RRP: $48.75$33.13The Old Vic, one of the world's great theatres, opened in 1818 with rowdy melodrama and continued with Edmund Kean in Richard III howled down by the audience. One impresario, among the first of thirteen to go bankrupt there, fled to Milan and ran La... -
Soryu, Hiryu and Unryu-Class Aircraft Carriers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II by Lars Ahlberg
RRP: $44.83$29.35This book covers the design and construction of the two well-known Soryu and Hiryu carriers, and the lesser-known ships of the Unryu class, and relies on original Japanese source material, including numerous photos, drawings, and specifications. How and... -
A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century: Updated and Revised Edition by James P. Brennan
RRP: $74.00$66.65A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the general public, it is a profound reflection on the... -
The March of the Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866-1914 by Martin Pugh 9780199250226
$119.54This book is the first comprehensive study of the campaign for women's suffrage to appear for over thirty years. It challenges the widely-held assumption that the Victorian suffragists underwent a decline during the 1890s, and sets out to prove that, on... -
Thatcher's Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town by Guy Ortolano
RRP: $68.23$59.90During the quarter of a century after the Second World War, the United Kingdom designated thirty-two new towns across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Why, even before selling council houses or denationalising public industries, did... -
Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
RRP: $48.65$46.33Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign...