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The Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen SS Wilhelm Tieke 9781399002981
RRP: $52.50$44.63The Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS was a formation with a very unique history. Its members volunteered and were spirited out of Finland to Germany under watchful Russian eyes. Unlike other legions from various countries, the battalion did... -
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 3: 1961–1964 Yaacov Ro'i 9781032806723
RRP: $283.50$240.98This book, spanning the years 1961–1964, is the third in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the... -
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 2: 1957–1961 Yaacov Ro'i 9781032806716
RRP: $283.50$240.98This book, spanning the years 1957–1961, is the second in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the... -
Documents on Israeli-Soviet Relations, 1954–1967: Part 1: 1954–1957 Yaacov Ro'i 9781032806686
RRP: $283.50$240.98This book, spanning the years 1954–1957, is the first in a four-part collection of documents from the archives of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israel State Archives portraying relations between the Soviet Union and the... -
Vasco da Gama and his Successors, 1460–1580 K.G. Jayne 9781032436944
RRP: $62.98$53.53Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and... -
Class, Servitude, and the Criminal Justice System in Early Victorian London: The Russell Murder Allyson N. May 9781032771700
RRP: $283.50$240.98This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the... -
Unmentionables: Textiles, Garment Work, and the Syrian American Working Class Stacy Fahrenthold 9781503638082
RRP: $226.80$192.78As weavers, garment workers, and peddlers, Syrian immigrants in the Americas fed the early twentieth-century transnational textile trade. These migrants and the commodities they produced—silk, linen, and cotton; lace and embroidery; undergarments and... -
The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the 'Third Reich' Baijayanti Roy 9780192887542
RRP: $176.40$149.94The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that existed between some German scholars specializing on India, non-academic 'India experts,' Indian... -
Beyond Control Kate Fowle 9788090671447
RRP: $63.00$53.55A revolution in culture took place in the fervid atmosphere of the decade preceding the Russian revolution of 1917. Russian artists, writers, and theater directors were among those experimenting with new forms, and the field of visual art broadened to... -
Hitler's Forgotten Field Marshall: The Life and Campaigns of General Hermann Balck Philip Bujak 9781398109674
RRP: $48.28$41.03Before the Second World War ended the British were interviewing captured German general staff officers at Trent Park. Large numbers of General staff offices from all arms were interrogated – many relished their chance to portray their roles as successful... -
Winston Churchill's Illnesses, 1886-1965 Allister Vale 9781526797728
RRP: $42.00$35.70Allister Vale and John Scadding have written the definitive account of Churchill's illnesses. Their expertise as physicians has been brought to bear on the interpretation of the evidence, much of it available for the first time Vale and Scadding have... -
Jacopo Bassano: Renaissance Painter of Venetian Country Life Luisa Attardi 9780300278736
RRP: $94.50$80.33This publication presents a new perspective on Jacopo Bassano (c. 1515–1592) and the remarkable success of his workshop. Bassano, although widely appreciated in his lifetime, was later overshadowed by the immense fame of the Venetian masters Titian,... -
99 Questions About: The Ancient Egyptians Annabel Stones 9781445186924
RRP: $27.28$23.18Discover the fascinating world of the ancient Egyptians through 99 questions and answersWhy is Tutankhamun so famous? What was inside a pyramid? And did the ancient Egyptians really love cats? Find out the answers to all these questions and many, many... -
The British Takeover of Assam: Tea, Hill Tribes and Transportation in the Nineteenth Century Caroline Keen 9781398122727
RRP: $52.50$44.63The book follows the huge British expansion into the Indian territory of Assam during the nineteenth century and the impact of colonial policymaking upon the population of both the hill areas and the Brahmaputra plain. British industrial activity in the... -
Charlotte Salomon. Life? or Theatre? Evelyn Benesch 9783836598651
RRP: $42.00$35.70When German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) handed her gouache series Life? or Theater? over to a friend, she beseeched him to “take good care of it, it is my entire life.” A few months later, the five-months pregnant Charlotte was picked up by a... -
Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region Kate Masur 9781469680187
RRP: $50.30$42.76The Reconstruction era was born from the tumult and violence of the Civil War and delivered the most powerful changes the United States had seen since its founding. Black Americans in Washington, D.C., and its surrounding region were at the heart of... -
Explorers: A New History Matthew Lockwood 9781324073871
RRP: $35.68$30.32The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures—including Sacagawea, Pocahontas and Dr Livingstone—with tales of individuals who... -
Peter Williamson, French and Indian Cruelty: A Modern Critical Edition Timothy Shannon 9781399503426
RRP: $41.98$35.68This book is the first scholarly edition of the most popular Native American captivity narrative published in eighteenth-century Britain. In this fully annotated modern version, Timothy J. Shannon re-acquaints modern readers with this popular North... -
Ancient Roman Literary Gardens: Gender, Genre, and Geopoetics K. Sara Myers 9780197773208
RRP: $123.90$105.32Gardens are not central in Latin literature, but usually somewhere off to the side, as was often the real garden. They appear, however, in some form in nearly all literary genres of Latin literature--history, satire, epigrams, epics, letters, lyric... -
RAF Tangmere in 100 Objects: The History of a Battle of Britain Fighter Base Mark Hillier 9781526706416
RRP: $52.50$44.63On 16 November 1916, Lieutenant Geoffrey Dorman took off from Shoreham in a Royal Aircraft Factory FE2b with the intention of heading West along the South Coast to the airfield at Gosport. Not long into the flight, however, a dense sea fog formed and as... -
Bound Labor in the Turpentine Belt: Kinderlou Camp and Misdemeanor Convict Leasing in Georgia Thomas Aiello 9780813079189
RRP: $228.90$194.57Uncovering a little-known system of bound labor in the post-Reconstruction South After the constitutional end to slavery in the United States, southern white landowners replaced labor by enslaved people with systems of bound labor in which people worked... -
Grey Wars: A Contemporary History of U.S. Special Operations N. W. Collins 9780300280067
RRP: $31.48$26.75An analysis of U.S. Special Operations, at the center of America’s twenty-first-century wars “Grey Wars is for anyone who wants to understand today’s fights. Collins has done a great service by providing a well-sourced, clear, and insightful look into... -
Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960 Admire Mseba 9780821425886
RRP: $170.10$144.59A little over two decades ago, Zimbabwe undertook its Fast Track Land Reform Programme. Critics saw it as nothing more than an assault on human and property rights for political expedience by a ruling elite that was fast losing its power. In contrast,... -
The Spirit and Purpose of Geography S. W. Wooldridge 9781032861760
RRP: $178.50$151.73First published in 1951, The Spirit and Purpose of Geography offers an introduction to the scope and spirit of geography. This undertakes a no less ambitious task than that of discovering the spatial relationships of the manifold features, physical and... -
Miners in the Great War Brian Elliott 9781473827264
RRP: $41.98$35.68At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, despite many difficulties and falling manpower, coalmining was the most important industry in Great Britain. It employed around a million persons in well over 3,000 pits ranging from small hillside drift mines... -
High Pasture Cave: Ritual, Memory and Identity in the Iron Age of Skye S.A. Birch 9781785709500
RRP: $100.80$85.68High Pasture Cave, located on the island of Skye, Scotland, occupies a liminal location on the very edge of a settlement, and appears to have been a focus for specific and special activities. Its extended period of use is indicated by ephemeral signs of... -
The Life and Death of Mary, Queen of Scots Jan-Marie Knights 9781398117655
RRP: $52.50$44.63Queen of Scots at six days old; married at fifteen in Paris to the Dauphin of France; Queen of France at sixteen; widowed at eighteen; dead at forty-four. Mary Stuart’s tumultuous life and tragic death continues to enthral us today. Utilising... -
Coping with Religious Change in the Late-Antique Eastern Mediterranean Eduard Iricinschi 9783161539206
RRP: $149.10$126.74The authors of this volume explore the variety of religious responses to political, social, textual and ritual changes that occurred in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean. The volume addresses the issue of "coping with religious change" from the... -
Black Flight: The Untold Story of Macsog's Covert First Flight Detachment in the Vietnam War Bernard V. Moore II 9781636242958
RRP: $69.20$58.82This is the story of the First Flight Detachment, the most secret air unit of the Vietnam war. In January 1964, American president Lyndon Johnson approved a top-secret proposal for the US Department of Defense to execute a campaign of guerrilla warfare,... -
The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance John Nichol 9781398509450
RRP: $31.48$26.75The unprecedented scale and destruction of the First World War meant that hundreds of thousands of soldiers perished without being properly identified in death. Over 300,000 names were left without bodies to match; bodies, or fragments of bodies, were... -
Music, Muscle, and Masterful Arts: Black and Indigenous Performers of the Circus Age Sakina M. Hughes 9781469676265
RRP: $205.80$174.93Before the heyday of the Chitlin Circuit and the Harlem Renaissance, African American performing artists and creative entrepreneurs—sometimes called Black Bohemians—seized their limited freedoms and gained both fame and fortune with their work in a... -
Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings Ghassan Kanafani 9780745349374
RRP: $39.88$33.89Ghassan Kanafani (1936 – 1972) is perhaps the greatest Palestinian novelist, whose books including Men in the Sun and Returning to Haifa documented the horrors of war and occupation. His literature was deeply inspired by his life as a political thinker,... -
Eyewitness Knight DK 9780241682531
RRP: $20.98$17.83Enter the world of a medieval horseback warrior and learn what it takes to become a knight.Eyewitness Knight follows the journey of a knight in making, from being a page or a squire at an early age undergoing rigorous training before making it to the... -
Johnsonville: Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864 Jerry T. Wooten 9781611215410
RRP: $31.48$26.75"Johnsonville" doesn't mean much to most students of the Civil War. Its contribution to Union victory in the Western Theater, however, is difficult to overstate, and its history is complex, fascinating, and heretofore mostly untold. Johnsonville: Union... -
Clausewitz Myth, The: Or the Emperor's New Clothes Azar Gat 9781803416212
RRP: $29.38$24.97Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is, by far, the most celebrated military theorist, whose prestige has reached new heights. However, this book argues that his reputation has been largely inflated because of the notorious difficulties of understanding his... -
Tank Craft 44 Stug III & Stug IV Assault Gun: German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe Units Eastern Front, 1944 Dennis Oliver 9781399033886
RRP: $39.88$33.89Technical details as well as modifications introduced during production and in the field are also examined, providing everything the modeller needs to recreate an accurate representation of these historic vehicles. -
Prison and Workhouse Reform in 19th-Century England Dr. Lewis Darwen 9781350083974
RRP: $178.50$151.73This is the first study to analyse the joint development of the prison and the workhouse in 19th-century England, focusing on the roles played by key local reformers in shaping their design, form and function. Although the introduction of the Gaol Act in... -
Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe: Small State Responses to Economic Changes, 1960s-1980s Dr Adrian Brisku 9781350428645
RRP: $178.50$151.73Investigating the trajectories of economic nationalisms in Cold War Europe, this open access book explores the scope and limits of small (nation-)state actors pursuing and defending national economic interests in a globalizing world. In so doing, it... -
Punching Above Our Weight: The Canadian Military at War Since 1867 David A. Borys 9781459754126
RRP: $52.50$44.63Punching Above Our Weight takes readers on a riveting exploration spanning one hundred and fifty years of Canadian forces. This photograph-rich history of 150 years of the Canadian military traces the evolution of the country’s armed forces from a small,... -
Cossacks, Cossacks: Russian Cavalry Attacks in the First World War Aleksey Oleinikov 9781804512623
RRP: $62.90$53.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512623Author Aleksey OleinikovFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company