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Lords of the Desert: Britain's Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East by James Barr 9781471139802
RRP: $12.89$8.27'Beautifully written and deeply researched' The Observer Upon victory in 1945, Britain still dominated the Middle East. But her motives for wanting to dominate this crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa were changing. Where 'imperial security' -... -
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Just incredible' Naomi Klein'Gripping and shocking...with the pace of a thriller' The TimesA New York Times bestseller, The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the... -
World War II Abandoned Places by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: $25.79$19.67A rusting anti-aircraft fort in the North Sea. A German submarine base in France. A Flak tower in a Viennese park - more than 70 years after the end of World War II, its legacy can still be seen from Europe to Japan. World War II Abandoned Places... -
Voices from the Workhouse by Peter Higginbotham 9780752467498
RRP: $19.34$14.90Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution. Using a wide variety of sources -... -
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $32.25$23.25Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary... -
Battleship Dreadnought by John Roberts
RRP: $24.50$20.11Launched in 1906, HMS Dreadnought was the first 'all-big-gun' battleship and as such revolutionised battleship design for more than a generation. She was built at Portsmouth in 14 months, a record which has never been equalled, and when she was launched... -
Lancaster And York: The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
RRP: $19.34$12.29A lucid, gripping account of the human side of one of the bloodiest chapters of British history. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was characterised by treachery, deceit and - at St Albans, Blore Hill and Towton,... -
Churchill: The Power of Words by Winston Churchill
RRP: $19.34$14.13Winston Churchill understood and wielded the power of words throughout his six decades in the public eye. His wartime writings and speeches revealed both his vision for the future and his own personal feelings, fascinating generation after generation... -
Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare by Philip Short 9780719565694
RRP: $19.34$12.64Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for... -
Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar by Henri Troyat
RRP: $30.95$26.88This book is a vivid account of life in Moscow, "the most Russian of Russian cities," in the year 1903, a year before Russia's disastrous war with Japan and two years before the momentous Revolution of 1905. Though the undercurrents of social change were... -
Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain by Robert Winder
RRP: $19.34$12.64The story of the way Britain has been settled and influenced by foreign people and ideas is as old as the land itself. In this original, important and inspiring book, Robert Winder tells of the remarkable migrations that have founded and defined a nation... -
Pop Goes the Weasel: The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes by Albert Jack
RRP: $14.18$10.02In Pop Goes the Weasel, Albert Jack explores the strange and fascinating histories behind the nursery rhymes we thought we knew, showing that their real meanings are far from innocent.Who were Mary Quite Contrary and Georgie Porgie? How could Hey Diddle... -
Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic by Mike Chinoy
RRP: $38.70$30.56Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, revolution, isolation, internal upheaval, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of... -
DK Eyewitness Hungary by DK Eyewitness
RRP: $19.34$14.13The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Hungary.Experience luxurious spas, wander the historic Castle District in Budapest or explore the immense Hortobagy... -
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton
RRP: $16.76$14.78Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history"Traces the idea of witches far beyond the Salem witch trials to beliefs and attitudes about witches around the... -
Going Downtown: The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961–75 by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver 9781472848758
RRP: $19.34$14.13This vivid narrative history tells the full story of the US Air Force's involvement in the wars in the air over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The involvement of the US Air Force in the Southeast Asian Wars began in 1962 with crews sent to train... -
F-8 Crusader: Vietnam 1963–73 by Peter E. Davies
RRP: $20.63$14.98With specially commissioned artworks and dynamic combat ribbon diagrams, this volume reveals how the 'last of the gunfighters', as the F-8 was dubbed by its pilots, prevailed against the growing MiG threat of the Vietnamese People's Air Force. When... -
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $12.89$9.17In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's... -
SS Charlemagne: The 33rd Waffen-Grenadier Division of the SS by Tissier, Tony Le 9781526756640
RRP: $16.76$11.73In May 1945, as the triumphant Red Army crushed the last pockets of German resistance in central Berlin, French soldiers fought back. They were the last surviving members of SS Charlemagne, the Waffen SS division made up of French volunteers. They were... -
The Indian Mutiny: 1857 by Saul David
RRP: $19.34$14.13In The Indian Mutiny: 1857 Saul David explores one of Britain's most harrowing colonial battles.In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing insurrection was to become the bloodiest in the history of the... -
The Seventh Shrine: Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop by Orland Bishop 9781584209645
RRP: $25.80$16.91Orland Bishop is a remarkable man who has combined extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies with a deep dedication to human rights, Founder of the ShadeTree foundation which works with at-risk young people in Los... -
Anna Komnene and the Alexiad: The Byzantine Princess and the First Crusade by Ioulia Kolovou 9781526733016
RRP: $32.25$23.25Anna Komnene is one of the most curious ?gures in the history of an intriguing empire. A woman of extraordinary education and intellect, she was the only Byzantine female historian and one of the ?rst and foremost historians in medieval Europe. Yet few... -
The Case for Kosova: Passage to Independence by Anna di Lellio 9781843312451
RRP: $19.34$18.94This book makes the case for the independence of Kosova - the former province of 'old-Yugoslavia' and now temporarily a United Nations-led International protectorate - at a time in which international diplomacy is deeply involved in solving the contested... -
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Giles Whittell
RRP: $14.18$10.02'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . . a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times'Absorbing . . . The extraordinary bravery of the participants... -
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women' s Rights Worldwide by Hawon Jung
RRP: $20.63$14.10Listed in the best books of 2023 by The Economist"Invigorating debut . . . [a] full-throated rallying cry." -Publishers WeeklyOne of Ms. Magazine's "most-anticipated feminist books of 2023"An eye-opening firsthand account of the ongoing and trailblazing... -
Kings & Queens of England and Scotland by Plantagenet Somerset Fry
RRP: $12.89$8.41Discover the vivid stories of Britain's iconic rulers, from 600 CE to the present day.From the Saxons to the Windsors, Britain's royal lineage is brought to life in the pages of this visual guide. Confused about which Henry had six wives and which was... -
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell 9781108971454
RRP: $19.34$15.39Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, and a Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year. On the night of 23 February 1820, twenty-five impoverished craftsmen assembled in an obscure stable in Cato Street, London, with a plan to massacre... -
The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
RRP: $16.76$11.73In The Book of the Courtier (1528), Baldesar Castiglione, a diplomat and Papal Nuncio to Rome, sets out to define the essential virtues for those at Court. In a lively series of imaginary conversations between the real-life courtiers to the Duke of... -
Hodder GCSE (9-1) History for Pearson Edexcel: Migrants in Britain, c800-present and Notting Hill c1948-c1970 by Robin Whitburn
$34.26Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2021First exam: Summer 2022Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel qualificationsLet Justice to History - one of the most respected organisations in the teaching community - guide... -
A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and six centuries) of Magic by Alice Tarbuck
RRP: $16.76$11.09'Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination. We can see them, shadowy, in the corners of the past: mad, glamorous, difficult, strange. They haunt the footnotes of history - from medieval witches burning at the stake to the lurid glamour of... -
All Around the Year by Michael Morpurgo 9781915068224
RRP: $20.64$14.99Originally published in 1979, All Around the Year is a diary following a year at Parsonage Farm, a mixed farm in Devon, close to Dartmoor. The book documented a way of life unchanged for centuries, but which was already remote to most people. In All... -
Sniper's Conflict by Monty B 9781783462209
RRP: $25.79$18.42The Author sets the scene with his early experiences as a sniper during his 2004 Cimic House Al-Amarah tour in Iraq where hard lessons were learnt. Next stop after rigorous training came participation on Op HERRICK 8/9 in Helmand District, Afghanistan. ... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $16.76$11.73Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like.How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did Bottom's dream rewrite the Bible? How did Shakespeare's... -
The Project by David Souden
RRP: $28.38$20.15An official BBC book that celebrates the life of Queen Elizabeth II through photographs, some rarely seen, drawn largely from archives of the BBC.The longest-reigning monarch in British history, Queen Elizabeth II has been at the centre of British life... -
The Italian Executioners: The Genocide of the Jews of Italy by Simon Levis Sullam 9780691209203
RRP: $19.34$15.67A gripping revisionist history that shows how ordinary Italians played a central role in the genocide of Italian Jews during the Second World WarIn this brief history of Italy's role in the Holocaust, Simon Levis Sullam presents an unforgettable account... -
Germany 1918-1945: A depth study by Greg Lacey
$39.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719570599Author Greg LaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 460gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 212mm *... -
A Bridge Too Far: The true story of the Battle of Arnhem by Cornelius Ryan
RRP: $14.18$9.55Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over the Rhine.The true story of the greatest battle of World War II and the basis of the 1977 film of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough.The Battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles... -
Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour by Ralph Miliband 9780850361353
RRP: $25.80$23.01One of the seminal texts of the British New Left Leo Panitch Parliamentary Socialism presents a detailed and scholarly record of the Labour Party's thinking and of its role in British politics from 1900 until the 1960s. A postscript reflects on the... -
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A remarkable oral history of black postwar British life... Homecoming is an extraordinary and compelling book' Daily TelegraphHomecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to... -
The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels and Vikings by Tim Clarkson 9781780271736
RRP: $12.89$8.64During the first millennium AD the most northerly part of Britain evolved into the country known today as Scotland. The transition was a long process of social and political change driven by the ambitions of powerful warlords. At first these men were...