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Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists Lily Le Brun 9781529309249
RRP: $29.23$24.84'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de WaalAn alternative history of modern Britain, Looking to Sea is an exquisite work of cultural, artistic and philosophical storytelling.Looking to Sea considers ten pivotal... -
Luftwaffe Bombers Vs British AA Defences: Britain 1940-41 Donald Nijboer 9781472865762
RRP: $31.18$26.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of an Era 1850–1950 Arthur Hylen 9781626401334
RRP: $74.10$62.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401334Author Arthur HylenFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S. -
The Met Knights Discover, Press Out & Play DK 9780241715536
RRP: $29.23$24.84Learn all about knights in this highly-detailed gift book with The Metropolitan Museum of Art.How did you become a knight? How heavy was a suit of armour? Where did knights live? And what was it like to take part in a battle? Discover the answers to... -
The Goths AD 200-700 Raffaele D'Amato 9781472863065
RRP: $29.23$24.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781472863065Author Raffaele D'AmatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Osprey Publishing (UK)Publisher Osprey Publishing (UK)Weight(grams) 454g -
Generals in the Making: How Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Their Peers Became the Commanders Who Won World War II Benjamin Runkle 9780811775465
RRP: $48.75$41.44Shakespeare famously wrote that some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Part military history and part group biography, Generals in the Making tells the amazing true story of how George Marshall, Dwight... -
Henry IV (Penguin Monarchs): The Afflicted King Catherine Nall 9780241188644
RRP: $29.23$24.84When Henry IV seized the throne from his cousin Richard II, people saw it as a hopeful new beginning for England. The first monarch to have English as his mother tongue since the Norman conquest, Henry seemed to embody the ideals of chivalric kingship:... -
1945: The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World Phil Craig 9781399714501
RRP: $29.23$24.84Packed with fresh and surprising stories, 1945: The Reckoning takes readers on a spectacular journey from the deadly jungles of Burma through hospital ships on Indian rivers and copper mines in Formosa to the 'lost trains' of the Belsen concentration... -
The Fiery Spirits: Popular Protest, Parliament and the English Revolution John Rees 9781839763151
RRP: $58.50$49.73At the very start of the English Civil Wars, very few could have imagined that the country would soon become a republic. Yet just a decade later, King Charles I stood trial for treason, and was executed, in one of the most radical and incendiary acts of... -
The Idea of Waste: On the Limits of Human Life John Scanlan 9781836390343
RRP: $48.75$41.44This book starts with the premise that waste is inevitable in human society. The Idea of Waste explores how we have grappled with both the material reality and the spectre of this shape-shifting phenomenon throughout history – utilizing it, dreaming of... -
France 1940: The First Great Clash of World War II Airpower James S Corum 9781472864833
RRP: $33.13$28.16Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
1945: The Reckoning: War, Empire and the Struggle for a New World Phil Craig 9781399714495
RRP: $42.90$36.47Packed with fresh and surprising stories, 1945: The Reckoning takes readers on a spectacular journey from the deadly jungles of Burma through hospital ships on Indian rivers and copper mines in Formosa to the 'lost trains' of the Belsen concentration... -
Living with Risk in the Late Roman World Cam Grey 9781512827392
RRP: $130.65$111.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512827392Author Cam GreyFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania Press -
Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs): Treason and Trust Sean Cunningham 9780141977768
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Tanks in the Gulf War 1991 Steven J Zaloga 9781472864758
RRP: $25.33$21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781472864758Author Steven J ZalogaFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Osprey Publishing (UK)Publisher Osprey Publishing (UK)Weight(grams) 454g -
The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America's Forgotten Origin Story Richard Parker 9780063161917
RRP: $48.75$41.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063161917Author Richard ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g -
Building Dutch Air Power in World War II: The Role of Lend-Lease and Aircrew Training in the United States Nicholas Michael Sambaluk 9781476696133
RRP: $70.18$59.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Andrea di Robilant 9780857891815
RRP: $25.33$21.53DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans was published in Venice under the title Navigationi et Viaggi (Journeys and Navigations). This was closely... -
Remembrance in Clay and Stone: Early Memorial and Funerary Art of Southwest China Hajni Elias 9780231217101
RRP: $107.25$91.16This book explores the memorial and funerary artistic traditions of Southwest China during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE). In early imperial times, the art of this region—present-day Sichuan province—differed in both style and content from tomb and... -
The Greek Pyramids: The Myth That Was Real Robert Temple 9781913378196
RRP: $19.48$16.56An exciting new perspective on the origins of Greek civilisation. The pyramids of Greece pose one of the greatest mysteries of Greek archaeology. -
Scientific Atheism in East Germany (1963-1990): How to Turn a Hare into a Lion Eva Guigo-Patzelt 9781032700960
RRP: $263.25$223.76This book offers an in-depth, archive-based analysis of ‘scientific atheism’, focused on the development of the field in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Scientific atheism was established as a Soviet import in 1963 at Jena University, with a... -
English Collusion and the Norman Conquest Arthur C Wright 9781526797674
RRP: $29.23$24.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The British Aircraft Carrier: Two World Wars and After Norman Friedman 9781399033138
RRP: $97.50$82.88The Royal Navy invented the aircraft carrier and most of the key innovations which have enabled carriers to remain effective, exploiting continuing changes in aircraft technology, from biplanes to supersonic jets. This book tells (and explains) how that... -
Louis XIV's Marshals of France: Servants of the Sun King James Falkner 9781399062664
RRP: $48.75$41.44For over 70 years, from 1643 to 1715, Louis XIV fought a series of increasingly bitter wars with the Dutch, the Spanish, the British and the Austrians. During his long reign France was the foremost power in Europe and the king used his military and... -
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece Carlos Gómez 9781838864132
RRP: $58.50$49.73From the Battle of Marathon to the Minotaur, from the Acropolis to Aristotle, from Theseus to the Theban hegemony, from slavery to Sparta, The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece is a fascinating fully illustrated reference work, spanning both political... -
Ballroom: A People’s History of Dancing Hilary French 9781789149999
RRP: $21.43$18.21In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the country, providing a glamorous setting for dancing. The new English style, defined in the 1920s and... -
We Stormed the Reichstag Vassili Subbotin 9781399078863
RRP: $29.23$24.84In 1941 when Germany invaded the Soviet Union Vassili Subbotin was caught up as an ordinary soldier in the Red Armys great retreat. In 1945, during the final days of the war, as a war correspondent, he went into Berlin with the troops who fought the... -
Fotografie und Terror: Eine kunsthistorische Untersuchung der Bilder der Terroranschläge des 11. September 2001 Linda Marie Kirschey 9783662699584
RRP: $126.73$107.72Bei Fotografien herausragender historischer Ereignisse stellen sich immer bestimmte Bilder heraus, die vornehmlich publiziert und dadurch kollektiv erinnert werden können. Dies verdeutlicht auch die fotografische Präsentation des 11. September... -
Rethinking Feminist History and Theory: Essays on Gender, Class, and Labour Lisa Pasolli 9781487525897
RRP: $50.68$43.08Rethinking Feminist History and Theory considers the past, present, and future of feminist history and theory, emphasizing how feminism has influenced the histories of gender, class, and labour, and their intersections. This vibrant collection, inspired... -
Engendering an Avant-Garde: The Unsettled Landscapes of Vancouver Photo-Conceptualism Leah Modigliani 9781526182494
RRP: $58.50$49.73A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism. The book employs discourse analysis, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory to analyse the landscapes of Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Marian Penner Bancroft, Liz Magor and... -
The Three Rings: The History of the Spanish Jews Poul Borchsenius 9781032911212
RRP: $156.00$132.60Originally published in 1963, this book covers one of the least known parts of Jewish history: the golden age of Jewish culture in Spain with the interaction of Jewish, Muslim and Christian cultures, the horrors of the Inquisition and the final... -
Alexander Graham Bell Invents the Telephone Rachel Werner 9781398259850
RRP: $27.28$23.19Today, we can talk to someone across town or even across the country right away. We just pick up the phone and call them. But it took a lot longer to get in touch with people before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. With historical images and... -
The Godfather Lover's Guide to Sicily Karen M Spence 9781036116590
RRP: $31.18$26.50Honour and dishonour. Loyalty and betrayal. Love and loss. Exile. Revenge. Light and dark. This, set against the background of mountaintop villages, baroque churches, and the sun-drenched landscapes of Sicily, makes The Godfather film series a work of... -
A Marketplace Without Jews: Aryanization and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe Rory Yeomans 9781032767413
RRP: $263.25$223.76This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role that the mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews as well as other undesired population groups from the national... -
A Marketplace Without Jews: Aryanization and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe Rory Yeomans 9781032767444
RRP: $72.13$61.31This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role that the mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews as well as other undesired population groups from the national... -
The History & Fundamentals of Knife Combat Dylan Woods 9781036116309
RRP: $48.75$41.44The History & Fundamentals of Knife Combat is the first installment of the most comprehensive and practical book on knife fighting and edged weapon combat that has ever been written. Spread out over two volumes, it serves to introduce the reader to every... -
The Troubadour Revival: A Study of Social Change and Traditionalism in Late Medieval Spain Roger Boase 9781032904429
RRP: $175.50$149.18First published in 1978, this book argues that the troubadour revival in late medieval Spain was a conservative reaction to social crisis by those who belonged, or were affiliated, to a powerful, expanding and belligerent aristocracy. The crisis was... -
Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline Paul Cooper 9780715655481
RRP: $25.33$21.53Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse. -
Displacing and Displaying the Objects of Others: The Materiality of Identity and Depots of Global History Jürgen Zimmerer 9783110996647
RRP: $133.58$113.55The edited volume Objects of Others brings together contributions from the Hamburg School of Provenance Research, initiated by the research center "Hamburg’s (post-)colonial legacy". By contextualizing the conducted research within a broader field of... -
History Stinks!: Wee, Snot and Slime Through Time Suzie Edge 9781526366528
RRP: $15.58$13.24What's that smell? It's HISTORY - and it STILL STINKS!Did you know that ancient Romans used wee as mouthwash? GROSS! Or that snot was behind some of history's greatest discoveries? HUH?From French kings with boils on their bums to Victorians who liked to...