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Sign Here for Sacrifice: The Untold Story of the Third Battalion, 506th Airborne, Vietnam 1968 by Ian Gardner
RRP: $48.75$32.94A hard-hitting history of the U.S. airborne unit who made a name for themselves in the unforgiving jungles of South Vietnam. "It was easier killing than living." Third Battalion 506th Airborne veteran Drawing on interviews with veterans, many of... -
Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy
RRP: $48.75$38.81The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and... -
Bomber Command: Men, Machines and Missions: 1936-68 by Gordon A. A. Wilson 9781398117280
RRP: $21.43$14.55Bomber Command is a richly illustrated account of the Royal Air Force organisation from its inception prior to the Second World War in 1936 to its final years during the Cold War. The book covers the reasons for Bomber Command and the personnel that... -
Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy by Caroline Kennedy
RRP: $56.53$44.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401324568Author Ted WidmerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint HyperionPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 660gDimensions(mm) 238mm * 164mm * 30mm -
Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor by Steve Kemper
RRP: $42.90$29.21"Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense." -Wall Street JournalA riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the... -
Operation Underworld: How the Mafia and U.S. Government Teamed Up to Win World War II by Matthew Black
RRP: $52.63$34.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542157Author Matthew BlackFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
The Revolutions of 1848: Pt. 1 by Karl Marx 9781844676033
RRP: $44.83$40.46Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism; he was above all else a revolutionary. In Paris in 1844 he made the connection between radical philosophy and the proletariat that would guide his future work, first with the Communist League and... -
The First Royal Media War: Edward VIII, The Abdication and the Press by Adrian Phillips 9781399065412
RRP: $48.75$34.36The abdication crisis of 1936 demolished the wall of silent deference that had protected the British royal family from press comment and intrusion since the days of Queen Victoria. King Edward VIII was a child of the burgeoning age of media and the first... -
The Labyrinth of Solitude ; the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; the Philanthropic Ogre by Octavio Paz 9780802150424
$25.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150424Author Octavio PazFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Avalon Travel PublishingPublisher Avalon Travel PublishingWeight(grams) 442g -
Chinese Air Power: Current Organisation and Aircraft of all Chinese Air Forces by Yefim Gordon
$81.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809464Author Yefim GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction by Emma Nicholson 9780192866769
RRP: $229.13$206.91Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both the Macedonian king and the historian. It takes a... -
Wellington's Spies by Mary McGrigor 9781526766960
RRP: $31.18$21.35Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. Then there was only one way of obtaining it by spies and informers. The Author uses first hand accounts of three of Wellingtons most daring and successful Intelligence Officers... -
My Heart My Mother: Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt by Alison Roberts
RRP: $33.13$22.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952423317Author Alison RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Northgate PublishersPublisher Northgate PublishersWeight(grams) 707g -
Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman's Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front by Mary Jennings Hegar
RRP: $21.43$15.58On July 29, 2009, Air National Guard major Mary Jennings 'MJ' Hegar was shot down while on a Medevac mission on her third tour in Afghanistan. Despite being wounded, she continued to fight and saved the lives of her crew and their patients. But soon she... -
Smuggling by Chris McCooey
RRP: $21.43$14.29A smuggler ... 'honest thief' or 'wretch'? Opinion was divided some 200 years ago when smuggling was in its heyday and known as 'that infamous traffick'. Charles Lamb, the essayist, was in favour when he wrote in the early 1800s, 'I like a smuggler;... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780195397932
RRP: $45.81$38.92There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity by Alberto Angela
RRP: $25.33$16.98"The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a real-world game of thrones." -- Booklist One of Italy's most revered cultural figures... -
Legion of the Lancasters by Martin W Bowman
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sothe had already decided to use his nose armament against the 4-mot [four engined bomber]. He looked out and focused on a black shape of the Britisher. Small, bluish exhaust flames made it easier to keep the target in sight. Four engines, twin tail were... -
The Wild East: Gunfights, Massacres and Race Riots Far From America's Frontier by Ian Hernon 9781445689272
RRP: $39.00$28.65The 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... -
Dust Bowls of Empire: Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism by Hannah Holleman 9780300230208
RRP: $53.63$52.51A profound reinterpretation of the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains and its relevance for today The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the... -
Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants by Hsiao-Hung Pai
$41.73Each year, 200 million workers from China's vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China's GDP, but is an unorganized... -
Seventies Spotting Days Around the Western Region by Kevin Derrick
RRP: $31.18$20.79Seventies Spotting Days in the Western Region is a full-colour photographic album depicting the 1970s with coverage of both diesel-electric and diesel-hydraulics from that great period of change on our railways. The captions include items of news,... -
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most by Marcel Gauchet
RRP: $74.10$50.99How Robespierre's career and legacy embody the dangerous contradictions of democracyMaximilien Robespierre (1758-1794) is arguably the most controversial and contradictory figure of the French Revolution, inspiring passionate debate like no other... -
The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present by Shannon E. French
RRP: $74.10$65.34This revised and expanded second edition of The Code of the Warrior-a book George R. Lucas has described as "groundbreaking" and "now part of the Military Ethics canon"-takes the reader on a tour of warrior cultures and their values, from the ancient... -
The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties by Shaye J. D. Cohen 9780520226937
RRP: $52.65$41.85In modern times, various Jewish groups have argued whether Jewishness is a function of ethnicity, of nationality, of religion, or of all three. These fundamental conceptions were already in place in antiquity. The peculiar combination of ethnicity,... -
The Great Scuttle: The End of the German High Seas Fleet: Witnessing History by David Meara
RRP: $31.18$21.16After the German surrender in November 1918, the German High Seas Fleet was interned at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, the anchorage for the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet throughout the First World War. Determined not to see his ships fall into the hands... -
The Afterlife of the 'Soviet Man': Rethinking Homo Sovieticus Dr Gulnaz Sharafutdinova 9781350167728
RRP: $25.33$21.63Almost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to... -
Delacroix: New and Expanded Edition by Barthelemy Jobert 9780691182360
RRP: $107.25$87.46A newly expanded edition of the defining book on one of French Romanticism's most influential and elusive paintersEugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was a solitary genius who produced stormy Romantic works like The Death of Sardanapalus as well as more... -
Western Europe's Democratic Age: 1945-1968 by Professor Martin Conway 9780691203485
RRP: $81.90$65.72A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the second half of the twentieth centuryWhat happened in the years following World War II to create a democratic revolution in the western half of Europe? In Western... -
Bell 47/H-13 Sioux Helicopter: Military and Civilian Use, 1946 to the Present by Wayne Mutza 9780764353765
RRP: $37.03$24.71Famously pictured in the opening credits of the popular television series M.A.S.H., Bell's Model 47 helicopter was the first helicopter certified for civilian use in March 1946 and went on to serve a wide variety of military and civilian applications... -
King's Lynn by Paul Richards 9781860774287
RRP: $35.08$26.60A history of King's Lynn.Book InformationISBN 9781860774287Author Paul RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 185mm * 20mm -
Combined Arms Warfare in the Twentieth Century by Jonathan M. House 9780700610983
RRP: $64.25$51.29For centuries, the world has witnessed the development and use of increasingly complex and powerful military systems and technologies. In the process, the ""art of war"" has truly become the art of combined arms warfare, in which... -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others by Frank Cottrell Boyce
RRP: $21.43$15.17How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic... -
USS New Jersey (BB62): From World War II, Korea and Vietnam to Museum Ship by David Doyle 9780764356636
RRP: $37.03$24.71Preserved today as a museum in its namesake state, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) saw combat during WWII and the Korean War and was the only battleship of any nation to see service during the Vietnam War. Following service in Vietnam, New Jersey... -
Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593): The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) by Dr. Timothy Ashby
RRP: $48.73$34.53Elizabethan Secret Agent: The Untold Story of William Ashby (1536-1593) is the biography of William Ashby, Elizabethan intelligence agent and diplomat who served as ambassador to Scotland during the Spanish Armada crisis. It provides a fresh social,... -
The Pursuit of Dominance: 2000 Years of Superpower Grand Strategy by Christopher J. Fettweis 9780197646649
RRP: $54.58$46.78A sweeping yet concise account of history's empires that managed to maintain dominance for long stretches. What should the United States do with its power? What goals should it have, and how should it pursue them? Ultimately, what do Americans want... -
The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett
RRP: $40.85$40.29Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of... -
The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick 9781493049448
RRP: $25.33$18.93"That is the thing about New York," wrote Dorothy Parker in 1928. "It is always a little more than you had hoped for. Each day, there, is so definitely a new day." Now you can journey back there, in time, to a grand city teeming with hidden bars,... -
Big Jim Larkin: Hero or Wrecker? by Emmet O'Connor 9781906359935
RRP: $82.88$79.56Much has been written about 'Big Jim' Larkin but, remarkably, this is the first full-length biography. Through the research of leading Labour historian Emmet O'Connor, Larkin - Labour leader and agitator - is thoroughly evaluated. Based on newly... -
Crimes of War 2.0: What the Public Should Know by Anthony Dworkin 9780393328462
RRP: $38.98$33.87Originally published in 1999, this A-to-Z guidebook of wartime atrocities has received worldwide acclaim and has been translated into eleven languages. Now substantially updated, with sixteen new entries, this concise guide to the broken rules of war...