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The U-2 Over the Soviet Union: America’s Famous Cold War Spy Plane from a Soviet Perspective Dmitry Degtev 9781399067393
RRP: £25.00£21.25On 1 May 1960, a traditional military parade was held in Moscow. What stood it out from the previous ones, however, was the number of missiles, and in particular the ground-to-air anti-aircraft variants, that were present. There was perhaps nothing... -
Die Quantifizierung von Widerstand Wayne Geerling 9783658264147
RRP: £44.99£38.24Dieses Buch präsentiert einerseits eine neue und umfangreiche Datenbank, die minutiös aus Prozessakten des nationalsozialistischen Volksgerichtshofes erstellt wurde. Andererseits erläutert es auf dieser Datenbasis und am Beispiel des Widerstandes gegen... -
Art History: A Critical Introduction to its Methods: 2nd Edition Dorothy Price 9781526154767
RRP: £15.99£13.59This popular textbook serves as a lively and stimulating introduction to methodological debates in art history. Offering a lucid account of approaches from Hegel to postcolonialism and decolonialism, it provides a sense of art history's own history as a... -
History Smashers: Salem Witch Trials Kate Messner 9780593705278
RRP: £7.99£6.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593705278Author Kate MessnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Inferno: The Fire Bombing of Japan, March 9–August 15, 1945 Edwin P. Hoyt 9781493086443
RRP: £14.99£12.74Did the bombing of Japan's cities—culminating in the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—hasten the end of World War II? Edwin Hoyt, World War II scholar and author, argues against the U.S. justification of the bombing. In Inferno, Hoyt shows... -
The Battle of Sekigahara: The Greatest, Bloodiest, Most Decisive Samurai Battle Ever Chris Glenn 9781399014175
RRP: £14.99£12.74Sekigahara was the greatest samurai battle in history. Japan had long been at civil war until brought under the rule of Oda Nobunaga, and then, following his death at the hands of a traitorous general, that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It was Hideyoshi who... -
Gestapo Hunter: The Remarkable Wartime Career of Mosquito Navigator Ted Sismore Sean Feast 9781911714118
RRP: £25.00£21.25Gestapo Hunter explores the charmed life and exceptional career of Ted Sismore, widely considered one of the RAF’s very best wartime navigators and leaders. A quiet, unassuming man who was nicknamed ‘Daisy’ on account of his youthful complexion, Ted was... -
Migrant Emotions: Inclusion and Exclusion in Transnational Spaces Sonia Cancian 9781835538050
RRP: £115.00£97.75Migrant Emotions explores the interrelationships and tensions between mobility and immobility, emotions, affects and experiences, inclusion and exclusion, as well as narratives and representations in both local and global discourses. The overall... -
Healthcare and the Troubles: The Conflict Experience of the Northern Ireland Health Service, 1968–1998 Ruth Duffy 9781837641444
RRP: £100.00£85.00This book provides the first detailed study of healthcare during the period of the Troubles in Northern Ireland (1968–1998). While there have been some studies of the effects of conflict in the context of Northern Ireland, to date there have been no... -
England Eats Out: A Social History of Eating Out in England from 1830 to the Present John Burnett 9781138155633
RRP: £90.00£76.50Why do so many people now eat out in England? Food and the culture surrounding how we consume it are high on everyone’s agenda. England Eats Out is the ultimate book for a nation obsessed with food.Today eating out is more than just getting fed; it is an... -
Brief Histories: Ancient Egypt Dr Campbell Price 9781399622585
RRP: £10.99£9.34Journey back in time to explore one the most fascinating and influential periods of ancient history.In this concise and incredibly readable short history, Dr Campbell Price takes us through every aspect of Ancient Egypt, from the incredible architectural... -
Out of the Depths: The First Collection of Holocaust Songs Joseph Toltz 9781526165671
RRP: £25.00£21.25Available for the first time in English translation, this collection of songs is a powerful memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.In June 1945, before the full devastation of the Holocaust had emerged, a team of researchers embarked on a remarkable... -
Birth of the Red Dragon: Wales and the Wars of the Roses Stephen David 9781398112711
RRP: £22.99£19.54This book seeks to explain the importance of Wales in the Wars of the Roses which, the author argues, has never been given the prominence it deserves. From the landing of Richard Duke of York at Denbigh in September 1450 to the death of his youngest son... -
Kent State: An American Tragedy Brian VanDeMark 9781324066255
RRP: £28.99£24.64On 4 May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, political fires that had been burning across America during the 1960s exploded. Antiwar protestors wearing bell-bottom jeans and long hair hurled taunts and rocks at another group of young... -
Arras 1914-1918: A Comprehensive Guide to the Battlefields. Part 2: Arras North Jim Smithson 9781912390625
RRP: £19.95£16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390625Author Jim SmithsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Empire Religiosity: Convent Habits in Colonial and Postcolonial India Tim Allender 9781526159106
RRP: £85.00£72.25This book explores Roman Catholic female missionaries and their placement in colonial and postcolonial India. It offers fascinating insights into their idiomatic activism, juxtaposed with a contrarian Protestant raj and with their own church patriarchies... -
The King's Traitor: Reginald Pole and the Tudors Helen Hyde 9781398111486
RRP: £22.99£19.54Reginald Pole lived through the reigns of three Tudor monarchs, yet is little known to most lovers of Tudor history. This book brings to life a man who became a cardinal and almost Pope; who so angered Henry VIII that a price was set on his head and... -
Needles from the Nile: Obelisks and the Past as Property Chris Elliott 9781835537473
RRP: £29.99£25.49In the hearts of London and New York stand their two oldest public monuments, Cleopatra’s Needles, the last of a series of obelisks from Ancient Egypt to be moved abroad during a period of over two thousand years. This book uses the Needles to examine... -
Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South Thomas Helling 9781496854377
RRP: £27.95£23.76The southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old South, from its early settling through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Vicious illnesses—from malaria and... -
What Lies Beneath Colorado: Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards Eilene Lyon 9781493076185
RRP: £17.99£15.29This book series will feature the stories of pioneer cemeteries in the western states, written by local authors, revealing the tales behind the intriguing, lost, abandoned, forgotten, and earlies pioneer cemeteries. Each book will include photos, essays,... -
Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece Artemis Yagou 9781032620558
RRP: £130.00£110.50This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources.A printed book, a wine jug, an ecclesiastical embroidery, and a pocket watch are... -
The Strand: A Biography Geoff Browell 9781526179111
RRP: £25.00£21.25The first history of one of London’s most extraordinary streets.Running along the Thames’s northern shore and spanning three-quarters of a mile from Trafalgar Square to Temple Bar, the Strand has been a witness to London’s growth and change from the... -
Wonders in the Deep: Extraordinary Shipwreck Discoveries from Spanish Gold to Shackleton's Bible Mensun Bound 9781398507418
RRP: £25.00£21.25An awe-inspiring deep-dive into the treasures found on the sea floor and what they reveal about our past. In Wonders in the Deep Mensun Bound, the renowned archaeologist who was Director of Exploration on the team that discovered Ernest Shackleton’s ship... -
Inventing Laziness: The Culture of Productivity in Late Ottoman Society Melis Hafez 9781108448215
RRP: £29.99£25.49Neither laziness nor its condemnation are new inventions, however, perceiving laziness as a social condition that afflicts a 'nation' is. In the early modern era, Ottoman political treatises did not regard the people as the source of the state's problems...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £29.99£25.49Subtotal: -
Trident: The UK’s Submarine Force After Polaris Keith Hall 9780750992626
RRP: £17.99£15.29Following on from his Polaris: The History of the UK's Submarine Force, Keith Hall turns his attention to the next phase of the story: Trident. After the Polaris subs were decommissioned in the mid-1990s, the four Vanguard class submarines carried on the... -
Pearl: December 7, 1941 Daniel Allen Butler 9781636244525
RRP: £19.95£16.96"The account that Butler lays out is very clear and easy to follow. It provides a series of dramatic moments and hits all the key elements of the story of Pearl Harbor that have appeared in the existing literature."—The Northern Mariner What happened at... -
The Dreadful Word: Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 Kristin A. Olbertson 9781009102865
RRP: £25.99£22.09This book, the first comprehensive study of criminal speech in eighteenth-century New England, traces how the criminalization, prosecution, and punishment of speech offenses in Massachusetts helped to establish and legitimate a social and cultural regime... -
Glacial: The Untold History of Climate Politics Chelsea Henderson 9781684429578
RRP: £26.99£22.94It took nearly sixty years for a meaningful climate change bill to run the political gauntlet from Capitol Hill to the Oval Office. Why?From mavericks to party standard-bearers, U.S. Senators, members of the House of Representatives, and presidential... -
Sickly Vapors: Disease and Doctoring in the Old South Thomas Helling 9781496854360
RRP: £109.00£92.65The southern climate, with its heat, oppressive humidity, and stagnant marshland, accentuated disease and suffering for inhabitants of the Old South, from its early settling through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Vicious illnesses—from malaria and... -
Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study Israel Sanmartín 9781032361796
RRP: £130.00£110.50Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschatology from a global perspective, both geographically and intellectually. The collected contributions analyze texts, authors, social... -
50 Objects from Vindolanda Barbara Birley 9781398116580
RRP: £15.99£13.59The excavations at Vindolanda have revealed some of the most precious and unique artefacts in Roman history. From leather boxing gloves and children’s shoes to wooden hair combs and the first evidence of female writing in Britain, this collection of... -
Bayou Dilemma: Louisiana in Crisis and Change Samuel C. Hyde Jr. 9781496853783
RRP: £29.95£25.46Contributions by Janet Allured, Craig E. Colten, Marcus Cox, Pearson Cross, John Bel Edwards, Adam Fairclough, Keith Finley, Samuel C. Hyde Jr., John Lopez, and Robert Mann In the fall of 2022, a diverse group of scholars including scientists,... -
CLARISSA: Muse to Power, The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon Hugo Vickers 9781399736770
RRP: £30.00£25.50Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon, wife of Prime Minister Anthony Eden, once famously said: 'For the past few weeks I have really felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through my drawing-room.'With her impressive intellect and acerbic wit, she was a highly... -
The Field Armies of the East Roman Empire, 361–630 Anthony Kaldellis 9781009296939
RRP: £22.99£19.54This book presents a new history of the leadership, organization, and disposition of the field armies of the east Roman empire between Julian (361–363) and Herakleios (610–641). To date, scholars studying this topic have privileged a poorly understood...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £22.99£19.54Subtotal: -
Marxistische Geschichtskulturen und soziale Bewegungen während des Kalten Krieges: Fallstudien aus Deutschland, Italien und anderen westeuropäischen Staaten Stefan Berger 9783031512797
RRP: £79.99£67.99In diesem Buch wird die Beziehung zwischen verschiedenen sozialen Bewegungen und marxistischen Geschichtskulturen in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts in Westeuropa untersucht, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Italien... -
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities Caroline Campbell 9780349128498
RRP: £14.99£12.74To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly appreciate art.It's time to look at art in a new way.THE POWER OF ART... -
Pursuing Play: Women’s Leisure in Small-Town Ontario, 1870-1914 Rebecca Beausaert 9781772840773
RRP: £29.95£25.46Levelling the playing fieldLife in the Canadian countryside at the turn of the twentieth century is often generalized as insular, backwards, and defined by drudgery. These assumptions are redressed in Rebecca Beausaert’s Pursuing Play, which highlights... -
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy Rahul Bhatia 9781408717882
RRP: £25.00£21.25The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas to shape the young country's destiny. It reveals a picture of a nation on the precipice of dramatic change.Based on six years of detailed research and... -
Omitted: The Untold Black History Lessons We Need to Change The Future Lavinya Stennett 9780008508197
RRP: £14.99£12.74If we don’t understand the past, how can we understand the now? Why is the teaching of Black history – both in the past and present, and in the UK and beyond – still not only fundamentally flawed, but scarce and inadequate? So many of us have gaps in... -
A Conversation with Luis Barragán Alejandro Ramírez Ugarte 9781595342799
RRP: £11.99£10.19Luis Barragán (1902–1985) was a preeminent Mexican architect known for spare formulations and documentation of his design ideas. He was born in Guadalajara, where he practiced in the early years of his career, and later traveled extensively in Europe,...