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Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War Andrew T. Jarboe 9781496241368
RRP: €35.69€30.33Britain deployed more than one million Indian soldiers in its Indian Army during World War I. These men fought in Britain’s imperial war effort in France and Belgium, Egypt and East Africa, and Gallipoli, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. In Indian Soldiers in... -
The Vicksburg Campaign, 1863: The Inland Battles, Siege and Surrender Chris Mackowski 9781636243900
RRP: €29.69€25.24By the end of March 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant was at a crossroads in his military career. His bold attempts in the late fall 1862 and winter of 1862/63 had all come up fall short of his objective: get his army on high ground north and east of... -
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Prof. Martin Shaw 9781788217774
RRP: €89.25€75.86The launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw details CND's rise, the activists involved, the tensions with the Committee of 100 around direct action, and the culture,... -
Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia North Africa Anne Marie Butler 9781835950265
RRP: €118.94€101.10Presents new perspectives on queer visual culture in the Southwest Asia North Africa region from queer artists as well as scholars who work on queer themes. With contributions from both scholars and artists, this volume demonstrates that queer visual... -
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament Prof. Martin Shaw 9781788217781
RRP: €23.79€20.22The launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw details CND's rise, the activists involved, the tensions with the Committee of 100 around direct action, and the culture,... -
Fou Lai: Un heros vaincu Mingyuan Hu 9781739389727
RRP: €44.02€37.41Ami de Danielou, de Maritain et d'Etiemble, Fou Lai appartient a l'histoire intellectuelle de la France autant qu'a celle de la Chine. Spectateur engage des tourments politiques, il voua sa vie a la traduction au point d'incarner en Chine la litterature... -
The Queens and Royal Women of Sweden, c. 970–1330: Their Lives, Power, and Legacy Caroline Wilhelmsson 9781032491158
RRP: €160.65€136.55This is the first major piece of scholarship to provide an overview of the lives of Sweden’s earliest documented queens, together with some of their most influential female relatives, who lived between 970 and 1330.Spanning a period over 350 years,... -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun: Volume I - IV. SS-Panzerkorps and the Battles for Warsaw, July–November 1944 Douglas E Nash 9781636244877
RRP: €26.78€22.76A detailed account of Herbert Otto Gille’s IV SS-Panzerkorps that participated in many of the key battles fought on the Eastern Front during the last year of WWII. During World War Two, the armed or Waffen-SS branch of the Third Reich’s dreaded security... -
Africa: in the Line of Fire Al J. Venter 9781636243276
RRP: €39.21€33.33Africa currently faces more wars, insurgencies, army mutinies, coups d’état and rebellions than at any time since World War II. Conflict in all forms has become endemic, now accentuated by a relative newcomer: Jihadism, increasingly linked to either... -
Books on the American Civil War Era: A Critical Bibliography Walter Westcote 9781611212709
RRP: €27.36€23.25Tens of thousands of books have been published on the Civil War. In an effort to list some of the most important titles, in 1997 the University of Illinois Press published The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography, by David J. Eicher. This... -
Plato: A Civic Life Carol Atack 9781789149463
RRP: €19.03€16.17Plato is a key figure from the beginnings of Western philosophy, yet the impact of his lived experience on his thought has rarely been explored. Plato lived in turbulent times, born during a war that led to Athens’ defeat and decline. A restored... -
A Grand Opening Squandered: The Battle for Petersburg, June 6-18, 1864 Sean Michael Chick 9781611217216
RRP: €16.65€14.15May and June 1864 in Virginia witnessed some of the most brutal and bloody fighting of the Civil War. After the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, and Cold Harbor, combined losses for the two armies exceeded 80,000 men killed, wounded, and... -
Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803-1840: A Creole Community on the American Frontier Kathleen M. Byrd 9780807182192
RRP: €35.64€30.30Kathleen M. Byrd's Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1803-1840 is an examination of one French Creole community as it transitioned from a fur-trading and agricultural settlement under the control of Spain to a critical American outpost on the Spanish/American... -
The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bulls: A Decade-by-Decade History Chicago Tribune Staff 9781572843448
RRP: €34.50€29.32An in-depth look at the history of the Chicago Bulls franchise, featuring profiles, photography, box scores, and more from the archives of the Chicago Tribune.The Chicago Bulls, one of the NBA’s most storied and valuable franchises, have been building... -
Atlantic Cataclysm: Rethinking the Atlantic Slave Trades David Eltis 9781009518970
RRP: €35.70€30.35In this comprehensive work, David Eltis offers a two-thousand-year perspective on the trafficking of people, and boldly intervenes in the expansive discussions about slavery in the last half-century. Using new and underexplored data made available by...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: €35.70€30.35Subtotal: -
The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations Martin Hewitt 9780192890993
RRP: €154.70€131.50The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism's Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) in the 50 years after its publication to demonstrate the effectiveness of a generational framework for... -
Fighting Ships of the U.S. Navy 1883-2019: Volume 4, Part 5 - Destroyers (1943-1945) Venner F. Milewski 9788366549661
RRP: €41.65€35.40This series of books provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing details of the procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each ship's history and... -
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary Nora Berend 9781399709620
RRP: €29.75€25.29Rodrigo Díaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. By turns an ambitious military leader, exile and brutal mercenary, he served Christian kings, fought against Christian princes, massacred Muslims and eventually struck out on his... -
Britain's Cold War Heritage Dr Peter Robinson 9781398121454
RRP: €19.03€16.17This book narrates Britain’s Cold War through its rich Cold War heritage. Taking a chronological approach, key events, technologies and social impacts are illustrated and explained through the many sites, collections and artefacts that are publicly... -
Military Design Thinking: An Historical and Paradigmatic Analysis Aaron P. Jackson 9781032183169
RRP: €160.65€136.55This book examines the evolution of military design thinking, which is an emergent discipline within the field of military and defence studies.This discipline first emerged in the late 1990s, and its development has rapidly accelerated since the... -
El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary Nora Berend 9781399709637
RRP: €20.22€17.18Rodrigo Díaz lived a violently colourful life in eleventh-century Spain. By turns an ambitious military leader, exile and brutal mercenary, he served Christian kings, fought against Christian princes, massacred Muslims and eventually struck out on his... -
The Luftwaffe's Secret WWII Missions Dmitry Degtev 9781526798053
RRP: €20.22€17.18On the night of 14/15 August 1944, the roar of an unknown aircraft was heard over the dense forests to the south-east of Moscow. Flying past the Soviet capital, the aircraft turned towards a secret' landing site at Yegoryevsk on the outskirts of the city... -
Mapping Diversity in Latin America: Race and Ethnicity from Colonial Times to the Present Mabel Moraña 9780826507259
RRP: €122.57€104.18Mapping Diversity in Latin America offers ample critical coverage of recent approaches to the historical study of race and ethnicity in Latin America since the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to the present. Bringing together the work of... -
At the Origins of Politics: Formation and Growth of the State in Syro-Mesopotamia Giorgio Buccellati 9780367256692
RRP: €160.65€136.55This volume, now available in English, explores how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality, leading to new forms of social interaction, and the development of the state, its laws and its religion to... -
Let's Make Things Better: Finding Hope in the Darkest Days Gidon Lev 9781035043996
RRP: €20.22€17.18“To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are just waiting to be found.” Gidon Lev, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, has lived an extraordinary life... -
The Life of Richard Cadbury: Socialist, Philanthropist & Chocolatier Diane Wordsworth 9781526768292
RRP: €15.46€13.14In 1824, John Cadbury opened a grocer's shop in Bull Street in Birmingham and started to sell tea, coffee and drinking chocolate alongside everything else. In 1831, he opened a factory and started to manufacture his own product, and by 1842 the company... -
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege Simon Parkin 9781399714556
RRP: €29.75€25.29From the winner of the 2023 Wingate Literary Prize comes a fascinating and moving untold story of the Leningrad scientists who risked everything for the future of humanityIn the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad - now... -
Desert Knight: The Memoirs of Leutnant Gunter Halm, Knight's Cross Holder, Panzergrenadier: From El Alamein to Normandy Gunter Halm 9781526706249
RRP: €29.75€25.29An extremely rare memoir of a Knights Cross holder. -
The Final Mission of Bottoms Up Volume 1: A World War II Pilot's Story Dennis R. Okerstrom 9780826223142
RRP: €35.64€30.30On November 18, 1944, the end of the war in Europe finally in sight, American copilot Lieutenant Lee Lamar struggled alongside pilot Randall Darden to keep Bottoms Up, their B-24J Liberator, in the air. They and their crew of eight young men had believed... -
Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and Deconstruct Kim Hong-hee 9781838667054
RRP: €71.34€60.64Explore the vibrant history and profound cultural resonance of feminist art from Korea and the diaspora Renowned curator and scholar Dr. Kim Hong-hee’s book is the first to delve into Korean feminist artists’ impact on the East Asian cultural landscape... -
The Gathering Storm: The Countdown to the Second World War Michael Jones 9781473653573
RRP: €17.84€15.16The thrilling, revelatory account of the countdown to the outbreak of World War II.Book InformationISBN 9781473653573Author Michael JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint John Murray Publishers LtdPublisher John Murray Press -
Fire and Steam: How the Railways Transformed Britain Christian Wolmar 9781805462699
RRP: €29.75€25.29A new and updated edition of the classic history of the British railway, published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of train travel in 2025.The opening of the pioneering Stockton and Darlington railway, the world's first passenger line, in 1825... -
Ireland in Crisis: War, Politics and Religion, 1641–50 Patrick Little 9781526182487
RRP: €29.75€25.29The crisis that befell Ireland in the 1640s has always fascinated historians. This volume of essays presents cutting-edge research on various aspects of the Irish wars, notably regionalism, the nature of English interventions, popular politics and the... -
Small Wars: An Interpretive Analysis of Theory and Practice Ahmed S. Hashim 9781849040822
RRP: €29.75€25.29The end of the Cold War and the (then) receding threat of global nuclear conflagration were meant to usher in a 'peace dividend': concomitantly warfare would decline as states devoted themselves to making money and providing for their respective... -
Golden Gate: Building the Mighty Bridge Elizabeth Partridge 9781452135144
RRP: €17.84€15.16The Golden Gate Bridge, beloved landmark and symbol of San Francisco, finally gets a gorgeous picture book that tells the thrilling story of how it was built! Written by National Book Award finalist and Sibert Medal winner Elizabeth Partridge. Across a... -
The Gathering Storm: The Countdown to the Second World War Michael Jones 9781473653566
RRP: €29.75€25.29The thrilling account of the countdown to the outbreak of World War II.Book InformationISBN 9781473653566Author Michael JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint John Murray Publishers LtdPublisher John Murray Press -
Pedigrees, Power and Clanship: Essays on Medieval Scotland David Sellar 9780859767262
RRP: €35.70€30.35This book brings together the major writings of David Sellar (1941–2019) on the genealogies (pedigrees) claimed by some of the major clans of medieval Highland and Island Scotland, especially the descendants of their twelfth-century king Somerled. The... -
The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine's Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World Iuliia Mendel 9781668012727
RRP: €11.89€10.10When Ukrainian journalist Iuliia Mendel got the call she had been hired to work for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, she had no idea what was to come.In this frank and “moving” (The Washington Post) insider account, Zelenskyy’s former press secretary tells... -
A Madman's Will: John Randolph, Four Hundred Slaves, and the Mirage of Freedom Gregory May 9781324095620
RRP: €21.41€18.20Few legal cases in American history are as riveting as the controversy surrounding the will of Virginia Senator John Randolph (1773–1833), which—almost inexplicably—freed all 383 of his slaves in one of the largest and most publicized manumissions in... -
Making Mexican Rock: Censorship, Journalism, and Popular Music after Avándaro Andrew Green 9780826507280
RRP: €35.64€30.30Mexican rock history has tended to end as Mexican democracy begins. The history of the genre has often been narrated teleologically: apparently censored under single‑party rule after the scandalous AvÁndaro Festival of 1971, rock constituted a potent...