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Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent
RRP: $39.00$24.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385338455Author Michael BaigentFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dell Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
War At The End Of The World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945 by James P. Duffy 9780593471722
RRP: $23.38$16.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593471722Author James P. DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580-1690 by Juan Jose Ponce Vazquez
RRP: $60.43$45.26Islanders and Empire examines the role smuggling played in the cultural, economic, and socio-political transformation of Hispaniola from the late sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. With a rare focus on local peoples and communities, the book analyzes... -
The Moral Authority of Nature by Lorraine Daston
$61.44For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human... -
Did Singapore Have to Fall?: Churchill and the Impregnable Fortress by Kevin Blackburn
RRP: $85.78$74.96This book provides a sophisticated summary of up-to-date knowledge on the Fall of Singapore, including the critical tensions between Churchill and local commanders. A focus on the role of Churchill, and on his understanding of the guns and Singapore's... -
When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain: History's Unknown Chapters by Giles Milton 9781250078773
RRP: $37.05$22.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250078773Author Giles MiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm -
Military Forces in 21st Century Peace Operations: No Job for a Soldier? by James V. Arbuckle 9780415544986
RRP: $58.48$51.95A major new study of the realities of contemporary warfare, which presents a range of fresh insights and is essential reading for all students and professionals engaged in the field.This book clearly shows us that: neither military nor civilian agencies... -
Meanwhile, in Russia...: Russian Internet Memes and Viral Video by Professor Eliot Borenstein
RRP: $27.28$24.59The Russian internet is a hotbed for memes and viral videos: the political, satirical and simply absurd compete for attention in Russia while the West turns to it for an endless reserve of humorous content. But how did this powerful cyber community grow... -
The Conquest of Ruins: The Third Reich and the Fall of Rome by Julia Hell
RRP: $60.45$59.65The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations... -
Federal Britain: A History by John Kendle
RRP: $74.08$65.09The United Kingdom faces with two major federal constitutional debates. The first is about the nations which comprise the British state and hence the division of power between Westminster and regional parliaments of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland... -
G-2: Intelligence for Patton by Oscar W. Koch 9780764308000
RRP: $27.28$17.57The enigmatic science of military intelligence is examined in this personal record, written by Brig.Gen. Oscar W. Koch, who served during World War II as chief of intelligence for General George S. Patton, Jr., one of the most colorful military leaders... -
Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy by Paloma Aguilar 9781571814968
RRP: $54.50$44.03"...this excellent history of the Spanish desire for reconciliation is a major contribution to the study of both the Transition and memory." * Journal of Modern History "This book ...is one of the most important research studies written... -
Germany and Propaganda in World War I: Pacifism, Mobilization and Total War by David Welch
$56.26Adolf Hitler, writing in Mein Kampf, was scathing in his condemnation of German propaganda in World War I, declaring that Germany failed to recognise that the mobilization of public opinion was a weapon of the first order. This, despite the fact that... -
Britain and 1940: History, Myth and Popular Memory by Professor Malcolm Smith
RRP: $72.13$63.431940 was the most significant year in European history this century. For Britain it was 'the finest hour', the beginning of the People's War. Britain and 1940 explores what the year meant for the people of Britain then and now.Covering the pre-history of... -
Surfing about Music by Timothy J. Cooley 9780520276642
RRP: $48.75$38.20This first major examination the interrelationships of music and surfing explores different ways that surfers combine surfing with making and listening to music. Tim Cooley uses his knowledge and experience as a practicing musician and avid surfer to... -
Trials from Classical Athens by Christopher Carey
RRP: $77.98$68.37The ancient Athenian legal system is both excitingly familiar and disturbingly alien to the modern reader. It functions within a democracy which shares many of our core values but operates in a disconcertingly different way. Trials from Classical Athens... -
The People of Devon in the First World War by Dr. David Parker
RRP: $33.13$25.82Thematically divided, this fascinating study explores the experiences of many of Devon's people during the First World War: soldiers; aliens and spies (real and imagined); refugees; conscientious objectors; nurses and doctors; churchmen; the changing... -
Witch Hunt: A Traveler's Guide to the Power & Persecution of the Witch by Kristen J. Sollée
RRP: $38.98$29.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578636990Author Kristen J. SolleeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World by Anise K. Strong
RRP: $42.88$38.61Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World is the first substantial account of elite Roman concubines and courtesans. Exploring the blurred line between proper matron and wicked prostitute, it illuminates the lives of sexually promiscuous women like... -
Reshaping Rural England: A Social History 1850-1925 by Alun Howkins
RRP: $74.08$65.09First Published in 1991. Reshaping Rural England covers the crucial period of English rural history from the high point of Britain's agricultural power in the 1850s and 1860s through to the grim years of the inter-war period. Uncovering many of the myths... -
The History of Ochiltree: Village and Parish Dane Love 9781911043102
RRP: $48.75$40.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043102Author Dane LoveFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd -
Beyond Duty: The Reasons Some Soldiers Commit Atrocities by Walter S. Zapotoczny 9781625451125
RRP: $48.75$36.15Accounts of brutality fill the history of warfare. The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, whether in war or in peace. Historians in large part have described in detail the actions of military groups that have committed... -
The Last Dawn: The Royal Oak Tragedy at Scapa Flow by David Turner
RRP: $25.33$17.90On 14 October 1939, HMS Royal Oak, one of the British navy's top battleships, was destroyed at the Royal Navy's main anchorage at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The audacious attack, by a German U-boat, was the first major blow against Britain of the Second World... -
Voices from Barrow and Furness by Alice Leach
RRP: $25.33$19.25Barrow-in-Furness grew from a tiny hamlet into the largest iron and steel centre on the world, as well as a major shipbuilding centre, in just forty years. Still home to the busiest shipyard in England, Barrow retains many of the spacious streets and... -
Whomerley Wood Moat, Stevenage: The House in the Clearing by Philip Wadner 9780993198700
RRP: $11.68$11.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993198700Author Philip WadnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Cade BooksPublisher Cade Books -
Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Sarah E. Kreps
RRP: $21.43$15.99Drones quite possibly represent the most transformative military innovation since jet engines and atomic weaponry. No longer do humans have to engage in close military action or be in the same geographical vicinity as the target. Now, through satellite... -
Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] by Eric Foner 9780062370860
RRP: $37.03$22.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062370860Author Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 265gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust: French Railwaymen and the Second World War by Ludivine Broch
RRP: $60.43$44.56Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen -... -
Flight Craft 27: The Boeing B-17 by Ben Skipper
RRP: $33.13$23.95The B-17 Flying Fortress, a term coined by a Seattle Daily Times report in 1935, was a quantum leap in offensive air power. Designed for a nation whose foreign policy was still deeply isolationist, and an Air Corps whose in-service bomber fleet was... -
We're Doomed. Now What?: Essays on War and Climate Change by Roy Scranton
RRP: $29.23$22.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616959364Author Roy ScrantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Soho Press IncPublisher Soho Press Inc -
The History of Anti-Semitism, Volume 1: From the Time of Christ to the Court Jews by Leon Poliakov
RRP: $60.45$54.54Covering the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany, The History of Anti-Semitism presents in elegant and thoughtful language a balanced, careful assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly... -
Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic by Paul Belonick 9780197662663
RRP: $154.05$139.97Strongly-held values can stabilize a society. They can also splinter it. In Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic, Paul Belonick explores the moral paradoxes of Republican Rome. He describes how aristocrats engaged in "performative... -
The Oxford Handbook of Oral History by Donald A. Ritchie 9780199945061
RRP: $103.35$96.06In the past sixty years, oral history has moved from the periphery to the mainstream of academic studies and is now employed as a research tool by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, medical therapists, documentary film makers, and educators at... -
The Normans and the 'Norman Edge': Peoples, Polities and Identities on the Frontiers of Medieval Europe Keith Stringer 9781032084237
RRP: $77.98$68.89Modern historians of the Normans have tended to treat their enterprises andachievements as a series of separate and discrete histories. Such treatments arevalid and valuable, but historical understanding of the Normans also dependsas much on broader... -
Can Animals Be Persons? by Mark Rowlands 9780190846039
$58.81Can animals be persons? To this question, scientific and philosophical consensus has taken the form of a resounding, 'No!' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. Taking, as his starting point,... -
With My Face to My Bitter Foes: Nana's War 1880-1881 Robert N Watt 9781915113092
RRP: $68.25$47.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113092Author Robert N WattFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A A Year in the Life of Kingston Upon Thames by Joanna Jackson 9780993319372
RRP: $42.88$38.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993319372Author Joanna JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Unity Print and Publishing LtdPublisher Unity Print and Publishing Ltd -
The Spanish Civil War at Sea: Dark and Dangerous Waters by Michael Alpert
$48.91The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 underlined the importance of the sea as the supply route to both General Franco's insurgents and the Spanish Republic. There were attempted blockades by Franco as well as attacks by his Italian and German allies against... -
Abolitionism: A Very Short Introduction by Richard S. Newman
RRP: $17.53$16.01The abolitionist movement launched the global human rights struggle in the 18th and 19th centuries and redefined the meaning of equality throughout the Atlantic world. Even in the 21st century, it remains a touchstone of democratic activism-a timeless... -
The Freedom of Speech: Talk and Slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean World by Miles Ogborn
RRP: $60.45$58.87The institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, no repressive tool has been as pervasive as the...