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Knights of the Skull, Vol. 2: Germany's Panzer Forces in WWII, Barbarossa by Wayne Vansant 9780764353789
RRP: $31.18$23.71Knights of the Skull is a full-color, graphic non-fiction series chronicling the development of the German Panzer (armored) forces in World War II. Volume 2 starts with the April 1941 Balkans and Greece campaigns, then moves into the planning and early... -
Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics Yannis Hamilakis 9781598742718
RRP: $74.08$64.58The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they... -
Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City by Julia Wertz
RRP: $48.75$38.59Here is New York as you've never seen it before; the New York behind the New York that you think you know so well. With drawings and comics in her signature style, Julia Wertz regales us with dozens of street scenes that show exactly what the city looked... -
British Parachutes: Special Forces by Jean-Louis Perquin 9782352504429
RRP: $44.85$37.97This is the first volume of a new collection dedicated to the evolution of techniques and materials used by special services and special forces. To open this new collection dedicated to the evolution of technics and materials used by Special services and... -
Skepticism in Philosophy: A Comprehensive, Historical Introduction by Henrik Lagerlund
RRP: $74.08$65.60In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers students, researchers, and advanced general readers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism. As the first of its kind, the book traces the influence of... -
V1: Flying Bomb: The Flying Bomb by Joachim Engelmann
RRP: $19.48$17.49One of the true land-marks of flight, this book covers its limited yet devastating use during WWII.Book InformationISBN 9780887404085Author Joachim EngelmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Schiffer Publishing LtdPublisher Schiffer Publishing... -
How Thor Lost His Thunder: The Changing Faces of an Old Norse God by Declan Taggart
RRP: $81.88$71.66How Thor Lost his Thunder is the first major English-language study of early medieval evidence for the Old Norse god, Thor. In this book, the most common modern representations of Thor are examined, such as images of him wreathed in lightning, and... -
Reformation of the Senses: The Paradox of Religious Belief and Practice in Germany by Jacob M. Baum
RRP: $54.58$47.07We see the Protestant Reformation as the dawn of an austere, intellectual Christianity that uprooted a ritualized religion steeped in stimulating the senses--and by extension the faith--of its flock. Historians continue to use the idea as a potent... -
Britain, America, and the Special Relationship since 1941 B. J. C McKercher 9781138800014
RRP: $77.98$68.89Britain, America and the Special Relationship since 1941 examines the Anglo-American strategic and military relationship that developed during the Second World War and continued until recent years. Forged on a common ground of social, cultural, and... -
The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery by Noel Rae 9781468315134
RRP: $78.00$49.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468315134Author Noel RaeFormat HardbackPage Count 591Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 44mm -
"Pedlar in Divinity": George Whitefield and the Transatlantic Revivals, 1737-1770 by Frank Lambert 9780691096162
RRP: $68.25$54.09A pioneer in the commercialization of religion, George Whitefield (1714-1770) is seen by many as the most powerful leader of the Great Awakening in America: through his passionate ministry he united local religious revivals into a national movement... -
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War by Julie Mertus
RRP: $52.65$41.85Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and... -
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy: A True Account of Life on the Last Great Cattle Frontier by Richmond P Hobson
RRP: $15.58$10.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400026630Author Richmond P. HobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint McClelland & StewartPublisher McClelland & StewartWeight(grams)... -
Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon by Marwan Iskandar 9780863563706
RRP: $33.13$22.83On Valentine's Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people subsequently took to the streets, and the United Nations Security... -
Irish Political Prisoners 1960-2000: Braiding Rage and Sorrow by Sean McConville
RRP: $85.78$74.96This is a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum security prisons.Erupting in... -
The Dissolution of the Monasteries Joyce Youings 9781032038506
RRP: $56.53$48.93Originally published in 1971 this book begins with the assumption that the Dissolution of the Monasteries was neither an integral nor an essential part of the English reformation. This book pursues the story chronologically and thus helps students... -
Bloody Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of World War II by Joseph Wheelan
RRP: $29.23$21.31The last great battle of World War II began on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945, when more than 184,000 began landing on the only Japanese home soil invaded during the Pacific war. The island of Okinawa was just 350 miles from mainland Japan, and the Allies... -
History of Japanese Art after 1945: Institutions, Discourse, Practice by Kitazawa Noriaki 9789462703544
RRP: $79.95$65.48History of Japanese Art after 1945 is a compilation of essays that surveys the development of art in Japan since WWII. The original Japanese work, which has become essential reading for those with an interest in modern and contemporary Japanese art and... -
Medieval Women and the Law by Noel James Menuge
RRP: $38.98$32.53Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside... -
From Norman Conquest to Magna Carta: England 1066-1215 by Christopher Daniell 9780415222167
RRP: $74.08$65.09Using a combination of original sources and sharp analysis, this book is sheds new light on a crucial period in England's development. From Norman Conquest to Magna Carta is a wide-ranging history of England from 1066 to 1215 ideal for students and... -
A History of Wales 1485-1660 by Thomas Hugh 9780708324875
RRP: $9.73$8.19The events of the period 1485 - 1660 were decisive in the development of modern Wales and, in Hugh Thomas' first in the four-volume "Welsh History Text Books" series, students are presented with a scholarly, balanced and informative discussion. From the... -
German Song Onstage: Lieder Performance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Natasha Loges
RRP: $48.73$42.26A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these... -
Modernism without Jews?: German-Jewish Subjects and Histories by Scott Spector
RRP: $38.98$34.20Nowhere else have Jews contributed so massively and consequentially to the general culture than in Germany. From Mendelssohn to Marx, from Freud to Einstein, Jewish contributions to secular German thought have been both wide-ranging in scope and profound... -
I am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck by James Baldwin
RRP: $25.33$18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434696Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 by Rudi Matthee
RRP: $68.25$54.50From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphael du... -
Miracle at the Litza: Hitler'S First Defeat on the Eastern Front by Alf R. Jacobsen 9781612005065
RRP: $48.75$40.68In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would... -
An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia by Dr. Jonathan Z. Brack
RRP: $156.00$120.69In the Mongol Empire, the interfaith court provided a contested arena for a performance of the Mongol ruler's sacred kingship, and the debate was fiercely ideological and religious. At the court of the newly established Ilkhanate, Muslim administrators,... -
The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice by Author David Hill 9781250782748
RRP: $37.05$29.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250782748Author Author David HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 135mm *... -
Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq: British and American Perspectives by James P. Pfiffner 9780719077470
RRP: $38.98$35.30The decision to go to war in Iraq has had historic repercussions throughout the world. The editors of this volume bring together scholarly analysis of the decision-making in the U.S and U.K. that led to the war, inside accounts of CIA decision-making,... -
The Star in the Branches by James Peake 9781909747951
RRP: $19.48$14.04The Star in the Branches, James Peake's second collection, is an intense and heartfelt examination of memory, how it pains and consoles, deepens and shrinks, is both equal to, and less than, the objects and people who come to reside there. At either end... -
Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation by Christopher M Elias
RRP: $60.45$58.87J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover's FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal... -
How the Cold War Ended: Debating and Doing History by John Prados 9781597971751
RRP: $38.98$34.20The Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of... -
Why the New Deal Matters by Eric Rauchway 9780300252002
$39.00A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today"A must-read for those who've read nothing about the New Deal before, those who've read everything about it, and anyone in between. With timeless prose and... -
Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany by Walter Laqueur 9781860648854
$56.26This text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these... -
Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan by Gerald Figal
RRP: $44.83$39.62Monsters, ghosts, the supernatural, the fantastic, the mysterious. These are not usually considered the "stuff" of modernism. More often they are regarded as inconsequential to the study of the modern, or, at best, seen as representative of traditional... -
Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary by Giuseppe Fiori 9780860915331
RRP: $40.93$35.28Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia in 1891, became the leader of the Italian Communist Party in his early thirties, was arrested by Mussolini's police in 1927, and remained imprisoned until shortly before his death ten years later. The posthumous... -
Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and World War II's Greatest Kamikaze Attack by John Wukovits 9780306824548
$32.16On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey heroically withstood twenty-two kamikaze attacks at Okinawa in what the US Navy called "one of the great sea epics of the war." Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew... -
Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos 9780300274264
RRP: $25.33$22.35A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "[Petropoulos] brings Lohse into sharper focus, as a personality and axis point from which to explore a network of art dealers, collectors and museum curators... -
Modern Germany Reconsidered: 1870-1945 by Gordon Martel
RRP: $81.88$71.66First Published in 2004. In this major textbook, leading international scholars provide clear, concise summaries of many of the most important controversies and developments in German history from 1870-1945. Twelve contributors, distinguished for their... -
Last Mission of Lady Jane II: The Life and Death of an 8th Air Force B-17 and Her Crew by Lisa A. Vans
RRP: $44.83$28.57On March 18, 1945, the B-17G "Lady Jane II" lifted off from her base at Deenethorpe, England; she never returned. The story is one of deep tragedy and survival, of sacrifice, and of the love the crew had for each other as brothers in arms. The bomber was...