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Bicester and Chesterton by Bicester Local History Society
RRP: £12.99£9.87This fascinating book of over 200 old photographs provides a glimpse of life in the market town of Bicester and the nearby village of Chesterton over the last 100 years. The quieter pace of village life in the last years of the nineteenth century is also... -
Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margin by Sonia Ryang 9780415379397
RRP: £41.99£36.75Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. The... -
Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: The Capture of the Nazi who put Adolf Hitler into Power by Marcus Nannini
RRP: £20.00£14.29This is the story of an American C-47 'Dakota' pilot who earned three Air Medals, seven Battle Stars and flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Second World War. As a young U.S. pilot, Harry Watson, arrived in Britain as the Battle of Normandy was... -
Waging a Good War: How the Civil Rights Movement Won Its Battles, 1954-1968 by Thomas E Ricks 9781250872524
RRP: £20.00£16.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250872524Author Thomas E RicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g -
From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover by Athan Theoharis 9780929587677
RRP: £18.99£14.72Documents from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in spying on prominent Americans and political groups. A grimly fascinating-and profoundly disturbing-self-exposure by one of the false... -
Kiev, Jewish Metropolis: A History, 1859-1914 by Natan M. Meir
RRP: £23.99£21.24Populated by urbane Jewish merchants and professionals as well as new arrivals from the shtetl, imperial Kiev was acclaimed for its opportunities for education, culture, employment, and entrepreneurship but cursed for the often pitiless persecution of... -
F-4b Phantom II by Przemyslaw Skulski
RRP: £9.00£7.86This book compiles the 4-view color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the McDonnel F-4B Phantom II. Scale plans are in 1/72 scale, plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. It also includes photos of the details in B&W... -
Modern Spain: A Documentary History by Jon Cowans
RRP: £27.99£24.52While the Civil War of 1936-39 dominated Spain's twentieth-century history, the country's fateful and bloody division into left and right had its roots in the events of the Napoleonic era. In Modern Spain: A Documentary History, the first broad-ranging... -
Lee Harvey Oswald, Lyndon Johnson & the JFK Assassination by John Delane Williams 9781634242684
RRP: £21.95£16.48Incorporating the work of Ernst Titovets, this book explores the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, painting him as a real person-not as the straw man concocted to match the image of a lone assassin in search of greatness or infamy. Among other facets of his... -
The Political Writings of EVA Gore-Booth by Sonja Tiernan
RRP: £19.99£14.52The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth brings together a fascinating array of material from this important Irish author and political activist. The volume includes a selection of letters, political pamphlets, newspaper articles and poetry relating to... -
Historical Fencing Manual: Rapier-Fencing in the 17th and 18th Centuries by Francesco Loda
RRP: £31.50£28.83Modern fencing's origins come from the elegant, and deadly rapier of the late Italian Renaissance. Several schools of rapier fencing existed, amongst which one of the strongest and longest lasting was the Roman-Neapolitan-Sicilian School of swordsmanship... -
Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences by Nobutaka Ike
RRP: £66.00£57.78A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804703055Author Nobutaka IkeFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press -
Describing Women’s Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England by Dr Elizabeth Spencer 9781837650347
RRP: £80.00£78.69Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century. Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in... -
Mapping Black Europe – Monuments, Markers, Memories by Natasha A. Kelly
RRP: £32.99£27.22Black communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievements largely remain unrecognized by the dominant societies, as their perspectives are excluded from... -
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations by Suzan Shown Harjo
RRP: £35.00£27.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344786Author Suzan Shown HarjoFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
Not a Gentleman's Work: The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth by Gerard Koeppel
RRP: £22.99£14.26The Herbert Fuller, a three-masted sailing ship loaded with New England lumber, left Boston bound for Buenos Aires on July 8, 1896 with twelve people on board: captain-owner Charles Nash, his wife and Maine childhood-sweetheart Laura, two mates, the... -
The Truth of the Russian Revolution: The Memoirs of the Tsar's Chief of Security and His Wife by Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev 9781438464626
RRP: £24.78£22.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438464626Author Konstantin Ivanovich GlobachevFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New... -
Mobilizing Islam: Religion, Activism and Political Change in Egypt by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham 9780231125734
RRP: £30.00£23.29Mobilizing Islam explores how and why Islamic groups succeeded in galvanizing educated youth into politics under the shadow of Egypt's authoritarian state, offering important and surprising answers to a series of pressing questions. Under what conditions... -
The Turbulent World of Franz Goll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century by Peter Fritzsche 9780674055315
RRP: £56.95£37.02Franz Goell was a thoroughly typical Berliner. He worked as a clerk, sometimes as a postal employee, night watchman, or publisher's assistant. He enjoyed the movies, ate spice cake, wore a fedora, tamed sparrows, and drank beer or schnapps. He lived his... -
The Visitation of Hereford Diocese in 1397 Professor Ian Forrest 9780907239871
RRP: £24.99£23.92Text with facing English translation provides fascinating insights into medieval religious life. JOINT WINNER: 2023 BRITISH RECORD ASSOCIATION HARLEY PRIZE In 1397 the bishop of Hereford toured his diocese asking questions about its churches... -
We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements by Lynn M. Stephen
RRP: £23.99£20.84A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six... -
The Rome that Did Not Fall: The Survival of the East in the Fifth Century Gerard Friell 9781138007031
RRP: £49.99£43.84The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated, comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It... -
Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770–1859 by Christian Michael Gonzales
RRP: £37.99£33.38Native American Roots: Relationality and Indigenous Regeneration Under Empire, 1770-1859 explores the development of modern Indigenous identities within the settler colonial context of the early United States.With an aggressively expanding United States... -
The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America by T H Breen
RRP: £17.95£14.82"Important and lucidly written...The American Revolution involved not simply the wisdom of a few great men but the passions, fears, and religiosity of ordinary people."-Gordon S. WoodIn this boldly innovative work, T. H. Breen spotlights a crucial... -
The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit by George Smeaton 9781498294942
RRP: £36.00£27.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498294942Author George SmeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Shakespeare and Game of Thrones by Jeffrey R. Wilson 9780367632748
RRP: £21.99£19.34It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding English families. In this book, Jeffrey R. Wilson shows how that connection was mediated by... -
The Crusades in the Modern World: Engaging the Crusades, Volume Two by Mike Horswell 9781032091884
RRP: £21.99£19.64Engaging the Crusades is a series of volumes which offer windows into a newly-emerging field of historical study: the memory and legacy of the crusades. Together these volumes examine the reasons behind the enduring resonance of the crusades and present... -
British Civic Society at the End of Empire: Decolonisation, Globalisation, and International Responsibility by Anna Bocking-Welch 9781526151674
RRP: £30.00£26.68This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s. It shows how participants in middle class associational life developed optimistic visions for a post-imperial global role. Through the pursuit of international... -
Encounters at the Heart of the World by Elizabeth A. Fenn 9780374535117
£14.43Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the centre of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark... -
Prophecy without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square by Cathleen Kaveny
RRP: £25.95£20.64American culture warriors have plenty to argue about, but battles over such issues as abortion and torture have as much to do with rhetorical style as moral substance. Cathleen Kaveny reframes the debate about religion in the public square by focusing on... -
The Easter Rising: Revolution and Irish Nationalism by Alan J. Ward
RRP: £19.95£17.94In this innovative work, Alan Ward uses the pivotal event in twentieth-century Irish history as a prism through which to survey Irish history from the twelfth century to the present. By asking why the Easter Rising occurred, Ward is able to review the... -
The Forest of Taboos: Morality, Hunting and Identity Among the Huaulu of the Moluccas by Valerio Valeri 9780299162146
RRP: £29.95£27.59Contends that the ambivalence felt by all humans about sex, death and eating other animals can be explained by a set of coordinated principles that are expressed in taboos. Valeri evokes the world of the Huaulu, to show the attractions of the animal... -
Exploring Intelligence Archives: Enquiries into the Secret State by R. Gerald Hughes
RRP: £54.99£47.72This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a... -
South Africans versus Rommel: The Untold Story of the Desert War in World War II by David Brock Katz
RRP: £30.00£24.00After bitter debate, South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire at the time, declared war on Germany five days after the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Thrust by the British into the campaign against Erwin Rommel's German Afrika Korps in North... -
Unmanned: Drone Warfare and Global Security Ann Rogers 9780745333342
RRP: £24.99£16.63Drones have become the controversial new weapon of choice for the US military abroad. Unmanned details the causes and deadly consequences of this terrifying new development in warfare, and explores the implications for international law and global peace... -
Nothing But Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas - Volume 2 1780 by Patrick O'Kelley 9781591135883
£22.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591135883Author Patrick O'KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 564Imprint Booklocker Inc.,USPublisher Booklocker Inc.,USWeight(grams) 709gDimensions(mm)... -
Single 16: PZL Karas II (PZL.23B) by Dariusz Karnas
RRP: £9.00£7.86This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the PZL Karas II.Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W and color... -
Transforming the Dead in Graeco-Roman Egypt: The Spells of P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162 by Ann-Katrin Gill 9783111079837
RRP: £97.50£90.14The belief that dead people could assume non-human forms is attested in Egyptian texts of all periods, from the Old Kingdom down to Graeco-Roman times. It was thought that assuming such forms enhanced their freedom of movement and access to nourishment... -
The Greatest Explorers: The brave adventurers who risked their lives to understand how our planet works by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
RRP: £9.99£7.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911187868Author Robin Hanbury-TenisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome by Patrick J. Gallo 9781612497860
£99.04On October 16, 1943, the Jews of Rome were targeted for arrest and deportation. The Nazis, the Vatican, and the Jews of Rome examines why-and more importantly how-it could have been avoided, featuring new evidence and insight into the Vatican's...