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Through Hell to Dunkirk: A Frontline Story of the Miraculous Evacuation of France in World War II Henry de la Falaise 9780811776608
RRP: $37.78$32.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811776608Author Henry de la FalaiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books -
Illuminating a Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Nees Lynley Anne Herbert 9783111435916
RRP: $191.10$162.44This anthology honors Lawrence Nees’ expansive contributions to medieval art historical inquiry and teaching on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Delaware. These essays present a cross-section of recent research by students,... -
USN Submarine vs IJN Aircraft Carrier: The Pacific 1942–44 Mark Lardas 9781472862204
RRP: $33.58$28.54Fully illustrated, this book pits US Navy submarines against the aircraft carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy at the height of World War II. Before World War II the world’s navies envisioned the submarine as a tool to hunt and kill cruisers and... -
A century of courts: The Courts of Justice Act 1924 Niamh Howlin 9781801511377
RRP: $105.00$89.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511377Author Niamh HowlinFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II Shannon Monaghan 9780593491225
RRP: $52.50$44.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491225Author Shannon MonaghanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
With the Kaiser's Army in 1914: A Neutral Observer in Belgium & France Sven Hardin 9781399024440
RRP: $31.48$26.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck Gary Kinder 9780802128928
RRP: $31.48$26.75The 20th-anniversary edition of Gary Kinder's bestselling dramatic story of shipwreck, treasure lost and found, and a new chapter in deep-sea technologyFrom bestselling author Gary Kinder, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is a “ripping true tale of... -
Cassino '44 James Holland 9781529935875
RRP: $33.60$28.56Brought to you by Penguin.There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas... -
Operation North Pole: Unravelling the Truth Behind the Execution of 50 SOE Agents in the Second World War Stephen Wynn 9781399000130
RRP: $42.00$35.70Englandspiel Nordpol, or Operation North Pole, was a successful Second World War counterintelligence operation conducted by Germany's military intelligence (the Abwehr) between 1942 and 1944. On the night of 6-7 November 1941 two SOE agents, Huub Lauwers... -
Staying in the Fight: How War on Terror Veterans in Congress Are Shaping US Defense Policy Jeffrey S. Lantis 9781985900394
RRP: $132.30$112.46During the chaotic evacuation of the United States from Afghanistan in 2021, a group of Congress members who were also military veterans of the War on Terror leapt into action to assist vulnerable people in Afghanistan who had aided the American war... -
Staying in the Fight: How War on Terror Veterans in Congress Are Shaping US Defense Policy Jeffrey S. Lantis 9781985900400
RRP: $67.20$57.12During the chaotic evacuation of the United States from Afghanistan in 2021, a group of Congress members who were also military veterans of the War on Terror leapt into action to assist vulnerable people in Afghanistan who had aided the American war... -
Rhythms of Resistance and Resilience: How Black Washingtonians Used Music and Sports in the Fight for Equality Maurice Jackson 9781647125219
RRP: $42.00$35.70The stories of the Black men and women who combated racial prejudice in Washington, DC, with sports and music In the Nation's Capital, music and sports have played a central role in the lives of African Americans, often serving as a barometer of social... -
Zeugnis. Zweifel. Zeichen: Zeitgeschichte in der abstrakten Malerei in Deutschland nach 1945 Anne-Kathrin Hinz 9783422802001
RRP: $108.15$91.94Abstract paintings along with their often ambiguous visual language are not only difficult to grasp for viewers, but also for art historians to interpret. This is because an abstract work requires a more intensive examination than for example... -
Lucian and the Atticists: Linguistic Satire in the Second Sophistic Dr David W.F. Stifler 9781350357600
RRP: $178.50$151.73This book focuses on Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian writer of the Greek language in the second century CE, and his engagement with contemporary debates regarding the form and register of language best suited to Greek literature in the Roman Empire. Many... -
Forgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers in Egypt: Suzanne Voilquin, Ismayl Urbain, and Jehan d'Ivray John David Ragan 9781649033857
RRP: $136.50$116.03The paradoxes of nineteenth-century colonialism in the Middle East revealed through the accounts of three working class European travelers to Egypt This book tells the stories of two French women and a French African man, travelers connected to the... -
Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific: Built Traces of Intercolonial Trade, Industry and Labour, 1800s-1950s Amanda Achmadi 9781350421363
RRP: $178.50$151.73Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational connections across the built heritage of the world’s most dispersed and culturally diverse region. A... -
Understanding Syria through 40 Monuments: A Story of Survival Ross Burns 9780755645282
RRP: $46.18$39.25How can a nation's archaeological treasures help explain its history, especially one as richly complex as Syria's? Ross Burns chooses 40 among Syria's outstanding range of sites to take the reader through the tangled paths of this crossroads of the... -
Corsairs and Captives: Narratives from the Age of the Barbary Pirates Adam Nichols 9781036106072
RRP: $52.50$44.63From the mid-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Barbary corsairs from North Africa swarmed the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, seizing enormous amounts of booty and tens of thousands of captives, hauling them back to the slave markets in their... -
Arming the Warship: Naval Weapons Technology and Gunnery from the Spanish Armada to the Cold War Iver P. Cooper 9781476694993
RRP: $75.58$64.24In the 16th century warships engaged at close range, sometimes with yards touching, and small arms fire and hand-to-hand combat were at least as important as the "great guns." As time went on, the big guns became more decisive and increased in... -
The Athenian Army 507–322 BC Nicholas Sekunda 9781472862808
RRP: $31.48$26.75This fully illustrated study explores the formidable Athenian army, rivalled only by the Spartan army in terms of battlefield prowess and influence. In 508 BC, the reforms of Kleisthenes established the ten tribes of Athens, inaugurating a system of... -
I... am a veteran: A positive veteran self representation project Ben Skipper 9781739484194
RRP: $31.50$26.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739484194Author Ben SkipperFormat PaperbackImprint Forester Green PublishingPublisher Forester Green Publishing -
Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History Mary E. Mendoza 9781496241733
RRP: $62.98$53.53Not Just Green, Not Just White brings together a group of diverse contributors to explore the rich intersections between race and environment. Together these contributors demonstrate that the field of environmental history, with its core questions and... -
Plumes of Smoke: The Destruction of Montecassino 1944 Derek James 9781804515365
RRP: $73.50$62.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515365Author Derek JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Energy Citizenship: Coal and Democracy in the American Century Trish Kahle 9780231215459
RRP: $63.00$53.55The history of the modern United States is the history of coal—and of coal miners. Trish Kahle reveals miners as forgers of a coal-fired social contract that was contested throughout the twentieth century as Americans sought to define the meaning of... -
Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Early Modern Holy Roman Empire Katrin Keller 9781032181042
RRP: $273.00$232.05Challenging the conception that only men shaped the Holy Roman Empire, this book provides students and general readers with biographies of preachers, nuns, princesses, businesswomen, artists, scientists, writers, and social movers who exercised agency in... -
Secret Warriors: British Submarines in the Cold War Dr Paul Brown 9781472865120
RRP: $94.50$80.33A highly illustrated history of the Cold War operations of the submarines of the Royal Navy from 1948 to 1990. The Cold War was a period of intense activity for submarines of the Royal Navy, with many hair-raising incidents involving Soviet vessels... -
Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies Terrence Petty 9781640125698
RRP: $62.98$53.53After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants were hired to work for newly formed government agencies to get the new republic quickly on its feet. But... -
Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa Rosalind C. Morris 9780231216111
RRP: $228.90$194.57What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world’s richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal miners known as zama zamas venture in an illicit—often... -
Building the Worlds That Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History David Rosner 9780231200851
RRP: $52.50$44.63Across American history, the question of whose lives are long and healthy and whose lives are short and sick has always been shaped by the social and economic order. From the dispossession of Indigenous people and the horrors of slavery to infectious... -
Modern British Army: The Path to Future Soldier, 2010s and Beyond Richard A Rinaldi 9781804515853
RRP: $41.90$35.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515853Author Richard A RinaldiFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Environmental Poetry of Augustan Rome Erik Pugh Fredericksen 9781009476171
RRP: $189.00$160.65This book reveals central texts of Augustan poetry-Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics, and Horace's Odes-to be environmental poetry. In contrast to readings that assume forms of nature poetry are mere Romantic projections, that suggest Roman authors did not... -
Beyond Icons: Theories and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology in North America William R. Caraher 9781032351179
RRP: $283.50$240.98This book is a collective reflection on the relationship between theory and methods, as practiced by American archaeologists of the Byzantine period in Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, and Egypt between the 1990s and 2020s. The eleven authors represent a... -
Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Theologians on the Boundary Between Humans and Animals Ian P. Wei 9781108821728
RRP: $52.48$44.60Exploring what theologians at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century understood about the boundary between humans and animals, this book demonstrates the great variety of ways in which they held similarity and difference in productive tension... -
The Mobile River John S. Sledge 9781643365275
RRP: $62.90$53.47Winner of the Clinton Jackson Coley Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association In the first-ever narrative history of this important American watercourse, John S. Sledge weaves chronological and thematic elements together with personal... -
On the Backs of Others: Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration Edward Armston-Sheret 9781496230973
RRP: $121.80$103.53In the Victorian and Edwardian eras British explorers sought to become respected geographers and popular public figures, downplaying or reframing their reliance on others for survival. Far from being solitary heroes, these explorers were in reality... -
A History of Britain in Ten Enemies Terry Deary 9780857506962
RRP: $35.68$30.32Discover British history as you have never seen it before in this unique and funny history book for adults, brought to you from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories series.Ah, Britain. So special. The greatest nation on... -
Men of God: Mendicant Orders in Colonial Mexico Asunción Lavrin 9781496240446
RRP: $84.00$71.40A broadly researched cultural history, Men of God offers a path to understanding the concept of religious masculinity through an intimate approach to the study of friars and lay brothers in colonial Mexico. Though other scholars have focused on the... -
American Castle: The Notorious Legacy of Mar-a-Lago Mary Shanklin 9781635769869
RRP: $35.68$30.32The unvarnished history of America's most notorious palace, its original American queen, and its current controversial king.Moments between the Roaring Twenties sunk into the Great Depression, socialite heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post and financier E... -
A History of Muslims in the Australian Military from 1885 to 1945: Loyalty, Patriotism, Contribution Dzavid Haveric 9781036403829
RRP: $136.48$116.00This book is at the forefront of a new chapter in Australian military history. It is a fascinating collection of social-military stories that record Muslim involvement in Australian military forces from the Sudan and Boer wars to the Great War and Second... -
States of Mind: Two Centuries of Anglo-Irish Conflict, 1780-1980 Oliver MacDonagh 9781032861777
RRP: $147.00$124.95Originally published in 1983 and slightly revised in 1985, joint winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, States of Mind is an exploration f the ideas underlying Anglo-Irish conflict over the past two centuries. This is a book about...