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Us Combat Aircraft Colors Over Vietnam 1964 - 1975. Vol. 2 US Navy and US Marine Corps Jaroslaw Dobrzynski 9788365958440
RRP: $51.60$43.86This 2-title series covers all fixed-wing combat aircraft operated by the US military during the Vietnam War, from 1964 to 1975. Volume 2 covers aircraft operated by the US Navy and US Marine Corps. The book is illustrated with numerous colour and... -
Raising Philadelphia: The Making of America's First Great City, 1750-1775 Justin McHenry 9781955041201
RRP: $38.64$32.84Riots and revolutions. Relationships and rivalries. Freedom and enslavement.The generation of Philadelphians prior to the American Revolution propelled the meteoric rise of the city into the thriving cultural heart of Colonial America. This is the... -
CLARISSA: Muse to Power, The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon Hugo Vickers 9781399736787
RRP: $21.92$18.63Clarissa 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... -
Indianizing India: Thinkers Whose Ideas Shaped a Nation Bidyut Chakrabarty 9781032831046
RRP: $45.14$38.36This book presents a comprehensive portrait of how Indians conceived of the idea of India. It highlights the diverse traditions and intellectual threads that contributed to the making of vibrant a democracy.The book:Examines the different ideas of India... -
Victorian and Early 20th Century Baby Farming: The Darkest Business Eve Bacon 9781036110567
RRP: $32.25$27.41Mrs. Amelia Dyer was probably the most notorious baby farmer, but she was not working in isolation. The wider story of the myriad of others also classed as baby farmers is told here. Detailing the stories of over 100 baby farmers, the good, the bad and... -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI Yuval Noah Harari 9781529919240
RRP: $23.22$19.74Brought to you by Penguin.The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens.For the last 100,000 years, humans have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discoveries,... -
99 Questions About: The Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages Annabel Stones 9781445187051
RRP: $16.76$14.24Discover the fascinating world of Stone, Bronze and Iron Age Britain through 99 questions and answersWhen were the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages? How was Stonehenge built? And just who was Cheddar Man? Find out the answers to all these questions and many,... -
The Medieval Irish Kings and the English Invasion Seán Ó Hoireabhárd 9781835538449
RRP: $161.25$137.06When Henry II accepted the Leinster king Diarmait Mac Murchada as his liegeman in 1166, he forged a bond between the English crown and Ireland that has never been undone. Ireland was to be changed forever as a result of the momentous events that followed... -
A Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic Congressman John Morris Knapp 9780817361754
RRP: $38.64$32.84A long overdue reexamination of Mitchell and his accomplishments highlights his controversial personality, politics, and beliefs and calls for a reinterpretation of his importance to American history.Book InformationISBN 9780817361754Author John Morris... -
The Lost Chapel of Westminster: How a Royal Chapel Became the House of Commons John Cooper 9781801104517
RRP: $32.25$27.41The fascinating history of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, a building at the heart of British life for over 700 years. Begun in 1292, the royal chapel of St Stephen was the crowning glory of the old palace of Westminster – a place of... -
Cosmologies and Biologies: Illuminated Siamese Manuscripts of Death, Time and the Body Justin McDaniel 9781912168286
RRP: $51.60$43.86This is a fascinating study of rare Siamese illuminated manuscripts of two kinds, biological and cosmological. Beautiful in themselves, they are produced under unusual conditions and no one of these manuscripts is like another, though they draw on a... -
The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution Christian Jennings 9781789467260
RRP: $28.38$24.12Never told in detail before, this is the account of how, for four years, British and Allied codebreakers decrypted secret SS and Gestapo messages detailing the mass killings of the Holocaust, and how the Germans in turn deployed cryptanalysis to try to... -
Generic Enrichment in Plutarch’s Lives Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou 9780367135355
RRP: $174.15$148.03This volume addresses the important literary phenomenon of ‘generic enrichment’ in Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, examining the ways in which features of other genres are deployed and incorporated in Plutarch’s biographies and the effects of this on the... -
Authoritarianism in the American South: Beliefs That Led to Slavery and Civil War, 1606-1861 Robert L. Dipboye 9781476695648
RRP: $46.43$39.46The evidence is overwhelming that the protection and expansion of slavery was a primary reason for the secession of the Confederate states and the Civil War that followed. While slavery undoubtedly was important, a more fundamental cause was a belief... -
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class Blair LM Kelley 9781324095576
RRP: $21.92$18.63There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic “white working class,” a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including... -
Crossings: Women on the Santa Fe Trail Frances Levine 9780700637812
RRP: $48.96$41.62The Santa Fe Trail has a special allure in southwestern history—it was a road of lucrative commerce, military expansion, and great adventure. Because these themes are connected with the Santa Fe Trail in the American imagination, however, the trail is... -
Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery Mary E. Hicks 9781469671468
RRP: $57.99$49.29From the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterways of Bahia, Black mariners were integral to every space of the commercial South Atlantic. Navigating this kaleidoscopic world required a remarkable... -
The Business of Birth Control: Contraception and Commerce in Britain Before the Sexual Revolution Claire L. Jones 9781526182326
RRP: $25.80$21.93The business of birth control is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities in Britain before the pill. Drawing on new archives and neglected promotional and commercial material, the book demonstrates how hundreds of companies... -
The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery Jenny Shaw 9781469682761
RRP: $38.64$32.84The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved, and one was a servant in his household. All were... -
Killing the Elites: Haiti, 1964 Jean-Philippe Belleau 9780231213790
RRP: $36.12$30.70In the summer and fall of 1964, a massacre took place in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti. After an ill-fated uprising, the brutal regime of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier ordered reprisals against the town that some of the insurgents were allegedly from... -
Riverine and Helicopter Warfare in the Vietnam War David Doyle 9781526743688
RRP: $32.25$27.41The watery, heavily vegetated marshlands of the Mekong Delta served as a formidable natural defense for Viet Cong units in the region, and the waterways served as the transportation corridor for Communist forces.. The Mobile Riverine Force formed the... -
Imprisoning the Enemy: How 12 million Axis POWs were held in captivity during WW2 and after Nikolaos Theotokis 9781036100018
RRP: $32.25$27.41Prisoners of war (POWs) are an important part in the history of the Second World War. Nikolaos Theotokis, in this vividly written book, examines the subject, taking a closer look at the hundreds of thousands of Axis military personnel, including women... -
In Battle and Captivity 1916-1918: A British Officer's Memoirs of the Trenches and a German Prison Camp Henry Gilbert Nobbs 9781399024402
RRP: $19.34$16.43Initially published in 1917 under the title On the Right of the British Line, this is the first book written by the extraordinary Captain Gilbert Nobbs. Dedicated to his ever loving wife, the harrowing memories and experiences of Nobbs at the Battle of... -
Mexican Muralist, International Marxist: David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1941–74 Curtis Swope 9781526172655
RRP: $109.65$93.20David Alfaro Siqueiros was perhaps the most important communist painter of the twentieth century. This book, the first sustained engagement with Siqueiros’s work in the English language, focuses on the artist’s late murals, which are both aesthetically... -
The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance John Nichol 9781398509443
RRP: $28.38$24.12'It is rare to find a tale so strange, intimate and human yet at the same time so enormous, so global in its importance. Yet again John Nichol impresses us with his ability to weave together the little details and the grand narrative' Dan Snow *** Over... -
Isle of Man Steam Packet in the Second World War Matthew Richardson 9781399051576
RRP: $25.80$21.93Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country Paul M. Pressly 9780820366326
RRP: $126.42$107.46Despite its apparent isolation as an older region of the country, the Southeast provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that occurred during the American Revolution and the growth of the Underground Railroad in the final... -
A History of Christchurch Muslims: Integration and Harmony Abdullah Drury 9781032771823
RRP: $174.15$148.03This book examines a significant part of New Zealand history through a critical analysis of the Muslim community in Christchurch, a neglected but important aspect of the past in this South Pacific nation-state.Islam is one of the fastest growing... -
All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960 Virginia Nicholson 9781639367061
RRP: $28.38$24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639367061Author Virginia NicholsonFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 685g -
Tickle Your Brain: Mummy Mania! John Townsend 9781800788503
RRP: $7.73$6.57Discover the riotous world of Ancient Egypt with this rip-roaring facts and jokes book, perfect for 7-9 year olds!Laugh along as you learn in this hilarious, fact-packed joke book all about Ancient Egypt. Featuring dozens of gut-busting gags, this book... -
Duchamp’s Endgame: Da Vinci, Dürer, Ingres, Poussin Kendell Geers 9780300278934
RRP: $58.05$49.34Forget everything you have ever heard about Marcel Duchamp and dive into the heart of art history’s most intriguing enigma. “Duchamp’s Endgame” is a passionate tale about the fundamental mysteries of what the work by the Godfather of Dada and Pope of... -
US Air Power, 1945-1990 Volume 2: US Bombers, 1945-1949 David Baker 9781804513767
RRP: $25.74$21.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513767Author David BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Red Baron of IBEW Local 213: Les McDonald, Union Politics, and the 1966 Wildcat Strike at Lenkurt Electric Ian McDonald 9781771993470
RRP: $43.86$37.28The “Red Baron” from Local 213 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) was Les McDonald, once a firebrand Communist activist and the youthful leader of the left faction within the Vancouver electrical workers’ union. His fate would... -
Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England Angus McLaren 9781032279039
RRP: $36.11$30.69The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has... -
The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State-Middle Class Relations Relli Shechter 9781399510318
RRP: $25.79$21.92The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the state and its citizens, from the establishment of the semi-independent Egyptian nation in 1922 until the 2011 Uprising. The book studies how and why a social contract... -
The Settlement of the Poor in England, c.1660–1780: Law, Society, and State Formation Naomi Tadmor 9781108499194
RRP: $109.65$93.20In 1662, in the aftermath of the Restoration, parliament passed new legislation for the settlement and removal of the poor. Important provisions were finalised in no more than a few days. But once the settlement of the poor was set in law it became an... -
Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964–1979 Charles G. Thomas 9780821425589
RRP: $92.88$78.95The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and peril for the states of Africa and their security. The process of decolonization generated instability, and the emergent Cold War caught up the still-fragile independent states in a global... -
Black Americans in Mourning: Reactions to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln Leonne M. Hudson 9780809339549
RRP: $34.77$29.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809339549Author Leonne M. HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Southern Illinois University PressPublisher Southern Illinois University... -
Chrome Dome 1960–68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation Peter E. Davies 9781472860545
RRP: $21.92$18.63In 1960, SAC’s B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War’s most challenging operations was conceived and flown. Operation Chrome Dome was Strategic Air Command's unprecedented... -
Urban Terrorism in Contemporary Europe: Remembering, Imagining and Anticipating Violence Katharina Karcher 9783031537912
RRP: $45.14$38.36This open access book sheds light on collective practices of remembering, imagining and anticipating in relation to recent acts of urban terrorism in Europe. Analysing a range of personal and collective responses to urban terrorism in contemporary...