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Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV Volume 8: The Armies of Sweden and Denmark-Norway, 1665-1690 Bruno Mugnai 9781804515501
RRP: £35.00£29.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515501Author Bruno MugnaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Whiskey-Class Submarines: Soviet Project 613 Submarines in Service with Foreign Navies, 1951-1990 Dmitry Zubkov 9781804515617
RRP: £19.95£16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515617Author Dmitry ZubkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
King George's Army, British Regiments and the Men Who Led Them Volume 3: British Infantry; 31st to 60th Regiments of Foot Steve Brown 9781804515419
RRP: £29.95£25.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515419Author Steve BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Battle of Britain Airfields Under Attack: 19 August 1940 – 6 September 1940 Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781399057967
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The Caribbean Race Reader: From Colonialism to Anticolonial Thought Victoria Collis-Buthelezi 9781509551194
RRP: £60.00£51.00This book is the first critical anthology in English on the history and legacy of race in the Caribbean. It brings together the major debates, lines of inquiry and theories around race and racism that have emerged out of the Caribbean from the beginning... -
What Black Is This You Say? Amanda Williams 9780262049344
RRP: £41.00£34.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049344Author Amanda WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
V13: Chronicle of a Trial Emmanuel Carrère 9781911717058
RRP: £20.00£17.00A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading non-fiction writer‘Forensic and troubling, deeply humane, utterly gripping, a book of singular importance for our times, on law as story and life, superbly rendered for the... -
The Churchill Deception: The True Story of Peter Churchill in World War II Peter Jacobs 9781784389574
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Wartime Entertainment: How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War Anton Rippon 9781399034845
RRP: £20.00£17.00It might have ended 80 years ago, but we still have a warm, nostalgic relationship with the Second World War, due in no small part to the love we have for the entertainment from those turbulent times. Singers like Vera Lynn – the ‘Forces Sweetheart’ –... -
The Bird Cage Theater: The Curtain Rises on Tombstone, Arizona's National Treasure Michael Paul Mihaljevich 9781574419481
RRP: £34.95£29.71Tombstone, Arizona, is forever associated with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, and the legendary OK Corral gunfight that made it a cultural symbol of the Old West. The town’s most iconic and storied original building is the Bird Cage Theater—a... -
Spitfire I: Phoney War and Battle of France Tony Holmes 9781472857675
RRP: £15.99£13.59An illustrated study of the legendary Spitfire and the evolving tactics behind its early defence of Britain’s shores. The Spitfire endures as one of the most iconic aircraft of World War II. Nevertheless, its initial skirmishes and battles yielded as... -
The Magical Langmatt (Bilingual edition): The Story of an Unusual Museum Markus Stegmann 9783775757904
RRP: £40.00£34.00Narrating the history of Museum Langmatt as a captivating time capsule with an exceptional collection of French Impressionism.The Langmatt Museum in Baden, near Zurich, is a fascinating time capsule consisting of an outstanding collection of French... -
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World David K. Randall 9780063371408
RRP: £25.00£20.68Equal parts The Right Stuff and The Boys in the Boat, Into Unknown Skies tells the unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their... -
Smell and the Past: Noses, Archives, Narratives William Tullett 9781350367555
RRP: £28.99£24.64What if researchers interested in ‘the past’ used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more imaginatively interdisciplinary approach to sensory heritage and history, arguing that we can and should engage our noses as a research tool... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 Charles Freeman 9781803281964
RRP: £9.99£8.49A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek... -
Peter Gregory: Publisher and Patron of Modern British Artists Valerie Holman 9781848226999
RRP: £35.00£26.68Peter Gregory (1887-1959), Director and then Chairman of Lund Humphries, was at the heart of the avant-garde British art world for nearly thirty years of major change in society, politics, and culture. A pioneering art publisher who produced scholarly... -
Live Like An Ancient Egyptian: Discovering the Secrets of the Ancient Egyptians Claire Saunders 9781787081543
RRP: £12.99£11.04This beautifully illustrated book takes young explorers on a tour of one of the world's most intriguing civilizations. From the monumental pyramids to life along the mighty River Nile, readers will uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt's rich history and... -
My Fellow Americans: Presidents and Their Inaugural Addresses Yuvraj Singh 9780197644997
RRP: £26.99£22.94Introduced by presidential historian Ted Widmer, this work offers both the original texts and insightful essays by leading historians on each of the presidential inaugural addresses--from George Washington to Joseph Biden. Every four years, the incoming... -
Post Office Women at War, 1939–45: Gender, Conflict and Public Service Employment Mark J. Crowley 9781350022331
RRP: £85.00£72.25The Post Office was central to Britain’s effort to win the Second World War. From sending mail to connecting telephone calls and processing war savings certificates, its functions united a nation in a sense of common purpose and camaraderie, but also... -
The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland Krzysztof Bielawski 9798887195698
RRP: £106.99£90.94The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland offers a comprehensive examination of the history of Jewish cemeteries in Poland, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Holocaust history. Beginning with the settlement of Jewish communities in Poland,...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £106.99£90.94Subtotal: -
Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid Sheilagh Ogilvie 9780691255569
RRP: £38.00£32.30How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.How do societies tackle epidemic disease? In Controlling Contagion, Sheilagh Ogilvie answers... -
Kosciuszko Anthony Sharwood 9780733650970
RRP: £15.99£13.59Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents... -
The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain: Origins, Survival and Recovery Roger Collins 9781785279218
RRP: £80.00£68.00Why did Christianity, which was entrenched in the Iberian Peninsula as the religion of the majority of the population at the time of the Arab conquest of 711, fail to survive under Islamic rule, while other Christian communities of similar antiquity... -
Seven Social Movements That Changed America Linda Gordon 9781631493713
RRP: £32.00£27.20How do social movements arise, wield power, and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a groundbreaking work, narrating the stories of many of America’s most influential twentieth-century social movements. Beginning with... -
The Making of Paris: The Story of How Paris Evolved from a Fishing Village into the World's Most Beautiful City Russell Kelley 9781493071883
RRP: £17.99£15.29Paris has long been the world’s most popular destination and, in the view of many, the world’s most beautiful city – the product of two thousand years of continuous improvement and refinement. The Making of Paris is the story of how Paris evolved from a... -
Donald Rodney: Art, Race and the Body Politic Richard Hylton 9781350228467
RRP: £24.99£21.24Donald Rodney (1961-1998) was one of the most gifted, perceptive, and innovative contemporary British artists of his time. A protagonist from the first generation of Black British-born art students in the early 1980s, Rodney and his peers brought a new... -
Donald Rodney: Art, Race and the Body Politic Richard Hylton 9781350228474
RRP: £75.00£63.75Donald Rodney (1961-1998) was one of the most gifted, perceptive, and innovative contemporary British artists of his time. A protagonist from the first generation of Black British-born art students in the early 1980s, Rodney and his peers brought a new... -
The German 10th Panzer Division and the Battles of Poland and France: A Combat History Albert Schick 9781399003087
RRP: £25.00£21.25Originally written in German by Mr. Albert Schick, this unit history covers the history of an unusual Panzer Division of the German Army in WW II. It describes its establishment shortly before the Polish Campaign and its combat record through the Polish... -
Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 Eric Foner 9780063424470
RRP: £31.99£27.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063424470Author Eric FonerImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland Krzysztof Bielawski 9798887196107
RRP: £21.99£18.69The Destruction of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland offers a comprehensive examination of the history of Jewish cemeteries in Poland, shedding light on an overlooked aspect of Holocaust history. Beginning with the settlement of Jewish communities in Poland,...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £21.99£18.69Subtotal: -
The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500–1800 D. E. Mungello 9798881801052
RRP: £30.00£25.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881801052Author D. E. MungelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers -
The Tradition: A New History of Welsh Art 1400-1990 Peter Lord 9781917140386
RRP: £50.00£42.50Peter Lord surveys the evolution of the visual culture of Wales from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century in this new, single-volume history.The author describes both how the work emerged from its Welsh historical context and was related... -
Disputing Disaster: A Sextet on the Great War Perry Anderson 9781804297674
RRP: £30.00£25.50In A Sextet on the Great War, Perry Anderson picks out from the highly charged historiography on the First World War one leading historian from each of the major powers that survived the conflagration: Fritz Fischer, famous historian of German war-guilt;... -
Pittsburgh Rising: From Frontier Town to Steel City, 1750-1920 Edward K Muller 9780822967323
RRP: £16.00£13.60Over 170 years, Pittsburgh rose from remote outpost to industrial powerhouse. With the formation of the United States, the frontier town located at the confluence of three rivers grew into the linchpin for trade and migration between established eastern... -
Mutiny on the Black Prince: Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World James H. Sweet 9780197692721
RRP: £26.99£22.94The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations. In 1768,... -
East and West in the Early Middle Ages Stefan Esders 9781009563659
RRP: £24.99£21.24From their crystallisation in the late fifth century to their ultimate decline in the eighth, the Merovingian kingdoms were a product of a vibrant Mediterranean society with both a cultural past and a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the member... -
Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire: Alliance, Upheaval, and the Rise of a New East Asian Order David M. Robinson 9781009102032
RRP: £29.99£25.49Korea and the Fall of the Mongol Empire explores the experiences of the enigmatic and controversial King Gongmin of Goryeo, Wang Gi, as he navigated the upheavals of the mid-fourteenth century, including the collapse of the Mongol Empire and the rise of... -
St Petersburg: A History Arthur George 9781803997988
RRP: £20.00£17.00Covers Petersburg's political, social, economic, architectural, cultural and intellectual history, recounting events of world importance, and the often tragic lives of the city's many great citizens. This book focuses on the city's key role as a link to... -
Inventing an African Alphabet: Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC Ramon Sarró 9781009199483
RRP: £29.99£25.49In 1978, Congolese inventor David Wabeladio Payi (1958–2013) proposed a new writing system, called Mandombe. Since then, Mandombe has grown and now has thousands of learners in not only the Democratic Republic of Congo, but also France, Angola and many... -
The Pullman Strike: A Gilded Age Clash between Labor, Capital, and Government Edward T. O'Donnell 9781032473826
RRP: £36.99£31.44This book examines the 1894 Pullman Strike, one of the most consequential clashes between labor and capital that paralyzed America’s railroad system.The Gilded Age saw rapid economic growth, expansion of industrialization, and real wage growth. Yet...