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Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise by Viktor Meier 9780415185967
RRP: £36.99£32.53Yugoslavia: A History of its Demise is a new history of the disintegration and collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Commencing with the death of Tito, Meier presents an insider's guide to all the regions of Yugoslavia, including Macedonia, and in... -
Leo Wilm's Memories of the Waffen-SS: An SS-Heimwehr Danzig, SS-Totenkopf-Division, and 9. SS-Panzer-Division "Hohenstaufen" Veteran Remembers by Rolf Michaelis 9780764352980
RRP: £22.99£14.65This book is a rare memoir from a Waffen-SS soldier who fought for six years in some of the most savage fighting on the Russian front during WWII. A volunteer, initially in the SS-Heimwehr Danzig, which became part of the SS-Totenkopf-Division in 1939,... -
The Marcel Network: How One French Couple Saved 527 Children from the Holocaust by Fred Coleman 9781612345116
RRP: £31.00£24.26He was a graduate student, and she was recently out of medical school. In 1943, the young Jewish couple found themselves trapped in German-occupied France. They had nothing-no money, no influence, no protection. And yet, improbably, these two deprived... -
Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell by Kevin Jackson
RRP: £7.99£5.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916190870Author Kevin JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TSBPublisher Can of Worms Press -
American Imperialism: The Territorial Expansion of the United States, 1783-2013 by Adam Burns
RRP: £25.99£23.58The United States has been described by many of its foreign and domestic critics as an empire. Providing a wide-ranging analysis of the United States as a territorial, imperial power from its foundation to the present day, this book explores the United... -
Luther and His Progeny: 500 Years of Protestantism and Its Consequences for Church, State, and Society by John C Rao 9781621382546
£17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621382546Author John C. RaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico Press -
Midnight Train to Siberia: A Polish family's courage in surviving the wartime hell created by Stalin by Teri Hartley
RRP: £12.00£8.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909544765Author Teri HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Memoirs PublishingPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 425g -
Stitching Love and Loss: A Gee's Bend Quilt by Lisa Gail Collins
RRP: £23.99£18.82In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time and a seasoned quiltmaker herself,... -
Wing Chun In-Depth: Skills for Combat, Strategies for Life by Munawar Ali Karim
RRP: £33.99£22.39A rare in-depth look at the history, teachings, and wider implications of Wing Chun Wing Chun In-Depth offers an historical overview of the art's development, it examines how to properly approach training for fighting skills that give you an edge in... -
Voices of Geordie Childhood: Growing Up in Tyne and Wear by Jo Bath
RRP: £12.99£9.87Voices of Geordie Childhood is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, revealing what childhood was like as recalled by over one hundred Tynesiders born at the turn of the century and... -
Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution by Rebecca L. Spang
RRP: £26.95£21.74Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize, American Society for Eighteenth-Century StudiesA Financial Times Best History Book of the YearA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearRebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant,... -
Raiders: World War Two True Stories by Ross Kemp 9780099574774
£15.99To the people of Great BritainWorld War II was the deadliest and bloodiest war in history. Never before or since have so many people made such a personal sacrifice in the line of duty.Raiders tells the extraordinary true stories of six of the most daring...Qty in Cart: 0Price:£15.99Subtotal: -
Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness by Nathalie Olah 9780349702254
RRP: £14.99£11.44This book is not a taste, nor an anti-taste, manual.This is an interrogation of the importance we place on seemingly objective ideas of taste in a culture that is saturated by imagery, and the dangerous impact this has on our identities, communities and... -
Messengers of Disaster: Raphael Lemkin, Jan Karski, and Twentieth-Century Genocides by Annette Becker 9780299333201
£40.05Leading up to World War II, two Polish men witnessed the targeted extermination of Jews under Adolf Hitler and the German Reich before the reality of the Holocaust was widely known. Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who coined the term "genocide," and Jan... -
Unmaking Detente: Yugoslavia, the United States, and the Global Cold War, 1968-1980 by Milorad Lazic 9781793649218
RRP: £81.00£71.46This book examines the global history of the Cold War in the 1970s through the perspective of Yugoslavia's activism in the Global South and its relations with the superpowers. The author shows that Yugoslavia's anxiety over a "new Yalta" required a... -
An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Trans-Pacific Trade, 1500-1950 by Xiaolin Duan 9781793614902
RRP: £81.00£71.06In 1573, 712 bales of Chinese silk arrived in New Spain in the cargos of two Manila galleons. The emergence and the subsequent rapid development of this trans-Pacific silk trade reflected the final formation of the global circulation network. The first... -
The Battle of Waterloo Road by Diana Author Forbes-Robertson 9781014764355
RRP: £17.95£15.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014764355Author Diana Author Forbes-RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco by Katarzyna Pieprzak
RRP: £21.99£19.87Imagined Museums examines the intertwined politics surrounding art and modernization in Morocco from 1912 to the present by considering the structure of the museum not only as a modern institution but also as a national monument to modernity, asking what... -
Corpus of Early Accounts of the Sunjata Epic, 1889-1959 by Stephen Bulman
RRP: £85.00£84.96The Sunjata epic is a foundational oral narrative for Manding populations of West Africa and claims to describe the origins of the famed medieval empire of Mali. It is both a historical source and an artistic creation of West African oral specialists,... -
Edexcel International GCSE History Student Book second edition by Jane Shuter
£36.12This second edition is for the latest specification of the International GCSE and the Certificate in History. * Written by highly experienced History teachers. * Clear, engaging style that students will find easy to understand. * Includes learning...Qty in Cart: 0Price:£36.12Subtotal: -
Faith and the Fury: Popular Anticlerical Violence & Iconoclasm in Spain, 1931-1936 by Maria Thomas
£101.61The five-year period following the proclamation of the Republic in April 1931 was marked by physical assaults upon the property and public ritual of the Spanish Catholic Church. These attacks were generally carried out by rural and urban anticlerical... -
From a Persian Kitchen: Authentic recipes and fabulous flavours from Iran by Atoosa Sepehr
RRP: £26.00£16.41An Irish Times Best Food Book of the Year. 'A dream of a cookery book. Sumptuous, tempting with quite beautiful photography.'Irish Examiner'The book is so beautiful, full of [your] own photographs, that look like gorgeous still life paintings.' Suzy...Qty in Cart: 0Price:RRP: £26.00£16.41Subtotal: -
Target: Italy: The Secret War Against Mussolini 1940-1943 by Roderick Bailey
RRP: £12.99£8.80The cloak-and-dagger war fought by British secret agents against Mussolini's Italy has been little known - until now. Target: Italy is the official history of the efforts of Britain's Special Operations Executive to strike at Fascist Italy in the... -
Food Mobilities: Making World Cuisines by Daniel E. Bender 9781487526498
RRP: £15.99£14.64Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food cultures of the world, historically and in contemporary times. The collection offers a range of fascinating... -
New Forest Voices by Mike Turner 9780752416250
RRP: £12.99£9.87This book is part of a series, which combines the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN... -
History and the Law: A Love Story by Carolyn Steedman 9781108736985
RRP: £24.99£21.52Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives in their coverture, History and the Law reveals how people... -
A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg
RRP: £25.00£16.38Gilded Age Americans lived cheek-by-jowl with free range animals. Cities and towns teemed with milk cows in dark tenement alleys, pigs rooting through garbage in the streets, geese and chickens harried by the packs of stray dogs that roamed the 19th... -
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S Jones 9781541600256
RRP: £18.99£14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600256Author Martha S JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 28mm -
Stratford-upon-Avon Murder & Crime by Nick Billingham 9780752451688
RRP: £14.99£11.72Celebrated for its most famous resident, William Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon has a much darker past than many would suspect. This book explores the sinister criminal history of this picturesque Warwickshire town, including cases that made both local... -
The Panzer Killers: The Untold Story of a Fighting General and His Spearhead Tank Division's Charge into the Third Reich by Daniel P. Bolger
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183724Author Daniel P. BolgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Frozen in Time: The Fagel Collection in the Library of Trinity College Dublin by Tim Jackson
RRP: £45.00£39.91'Hendrik Fagel the Younger (1765-1838), Greffier or Chief Minister of Holland, had the misfortune to have his property seized by invading French forces in the winter of 1794-5, but managed to secure the release of his family art collection and library,... -
Hitler: The Memoir of a Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Führer by Ernst Hanfstaengl 9781948924887
RRP: £16.99£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924887Author Ernst HanfstaenglFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Around Market Harborough Between the Wars: Britain in Old Photographs by Mike Hutton
RRP: £13.99£11.01The end of the Great War was a catalyst for change. British youth from all social backgrounds were lost and those returning from the horrors of war knew that life could never be the same again. Back in rural Leicestershire, horses still worked the land... -
Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder
RRP: £20.99£18.36Checkers, backgammon, chess and Go. Poker, Scrabble and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their... -
The Histories: v. V by Polybius
RRP: £24.95£23.76Hellenistic history.The historian Polybius (ca. 200-118 BC) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served the Achaean League in arms and diplomacy for many years, favoring alliance with Rome. From 168 to 151 he... -
Deposition, 1940-1944: A Secret Diary of Life in Vichy France by Leon Werth
RRP: £35.99£26.70Historians agree: the diary of Leon Werth (1878-1955) is one of the most precious--and readable--pieces of testimony ever written about life in France under Nazi occupation and the Vichy regime. Werth was a free-spirited, unclassifiable writer, the... -
The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery: 1776-1848 by Robin Blackburn
RRP: £32.99£32.83In 1770 a handful of European nations ruled the Americas, drawing from them a stream of products, both everyday and exotic. Some two and a half million black slaves, imprisoned in plantation colonies, toiled to produce the sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger... -
Winning Wars: The Enduring Nature and Changing Character of Victory from Antiquity to the 21st Century by Matthias Strohn
RRP: £55.00£51.30While 'winning' might be considered a fundamental part of the human objective, what constitutes winning and how one might achieve it remain somewhat abstract, in war as in any other human endeavour. 'Winning' militarily at the tactical level - in a... -
Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD Peter Brown 9780691152905
RRP: £35.00£30.66Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual... -
Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy by Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
RRP: £27.00£21.06This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts...