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The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Leverhulme by Roger Hutchinson 9781839830594
RRP: £10.99£7.64In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhulme bought - lock, stock and barrel - the Hebridean island of Lewis. His intention was to revolutionise the lives and environments of its 30,000 people,... -
Apartheid: A Documentary Study of Modern South Africa by Edgar H. Brookes 9781032310558
£31.79Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which... -
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan 9780735225282
RRP: £16.99£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225282Author Timothy EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Shaping the Past: Counterfactual History and Game Design Practice in Digital Strategy Games by Ylva Grufstedt 9783111520742
£18.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111520742Author Ylva GrufstedtFormat PaperbackPage Count 241Imprint Walter de Gruyter & CoPublisher De Gruyter -
Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy by Andrea Benvenuti 9781911723189
RRP: £40.00£34.88This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of India’s Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Congress government in organising the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung in April 1955. Andrea... -
The Sculpture of Alfred Gruber and Jacqueline Stieger: A Shared Language by Gerardine Mulcahy-Parker 9781848225855
RRP: £45.00£34.00For sculptors Alfred Gruber (1931-1972) and Jacqueline Stieger (b.1936), their meeting in 1962 marked the start of a bountiful partnership - their artistic chemistry conjuring works that exploited the transformative qualities of common and precious... -
Too Far on a Whim: The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy by Tyler A. Pitrof 9780817361402
RRP: £33.95£27.99In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay of its World War II fleets. Pitrof’s research persuasively demonstrates that in its war against the... -
Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature by Nicholas Peter Legh Allen 9781032474557
RRP: £37.99£33.38This volume examines Jewish literature produced from c. 700 B.C.E. to c. 200 C.E. from a socio-theological perspective. In this context, it offers a scholarly attempt to understand how the ancient Jewish psyche dealt with times of extreme turmoil and how... -
Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900-1200 by Katherine Weikert 9781837651641
RRP: £29.99£24.83An interdisciplinary approach to the medieval manor pre- and post-Conquest. SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Hitchcock Medallion. SHORTLISTED for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain's... -
One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 Wto Protests by Dw Gibson 9781668033562
RRP: £19.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668033562Author Dw GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272g -
The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple 9780552177801
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Deeply researched and engagingly written' The Times'Has the pace and style of a well-crafted thriller' Mail on Sunday'Chock full of memorable characters and written with all the drama and pace of a Robert Harris thriller' Rowland White, author of... -
Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe by Rachel Chrastil 9780141991610
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily TelegraphLess than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated... -
The Other Olympians: A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport by Michael Waters 9781529910193
RRP: £22.00£16.02In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he,... -
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I by Susan Doran 9780198754640
RRP: £30.00£20.95From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of the seventeenth century... -
The Pocket Calculator Story by Andrew Morten 9781398116863
RRP: £15.99£10.85Before the 1970s, for anything but basic arithmetic, a pen and paper was needed, and complex calculations required a slide rule or logarithm tables. Electronic calculators were in use in the 1960s, but they were based on valve or transistor technology,... -
The Kremlin's Noose: Vladimir Putin’s Bitter Feud with the Oligarch Who Made Him Ruler of Russia by Amy Knight 9781837732203
RRP: £25.00£16.59In The Kremlin's Noose Amy Knight tells the riveting story of Vladimir Putin and the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who forged a relationship in the early years of the Yeltsin era. Berezovsky later played a crucial role in Putin's rise to the Russian... -
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong by Vaudine England 9781472157133
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Vivid, atmospheric, packed with brilliant story-telling' - Humphrey Hawksley, former BBC Beijing, Hong Kong and Asia Correspondent'[An] entertaining guide, rich in anecdote and understanding for an early globalised world that has gone' - Michael... -
How to Survive a Crisis: Lessons in Resilience and Avoiding Disaster by David Omand 9780241995402
RRP: £10.99£7.77From the former Director of GCHQ comes an invaluable guide to surviving crises - how to spot them early and lessen their devastating consequences - using the latest intelligence strategies'David Omand is exactly the man you need in a crisis' RORY... -
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger 9780008100773
RRP: £10.99£7.25A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war” (Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain) ‘The book we need right... -
Admiral Canaris: How Hitler's Chief of Intelligence Betrayed the Nazis by David Alan Johnson 9781633889989
RRP: £25.00£21.10Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Adolf Hitler’s chief of military intelligence, accomplished something that neither President Franklin D. Roosevelt nor Prime Minister Winston Churchill could ever achieve – he saved the lives of hundreds Jewish refugees and other... -
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all by Lizzy Tiffin 9780008687083
RRP: £14.99£9.70You’ve heard all about the ‘brilliant men’ of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient Greece contains profiles of wayward wives, mad mothers, scandalous sisters and... -
Timelines of World War II by DK 9780744098549
RRP: £40.00£23.66Discover the key events in the war that shaped the modern world - moment by moment.An accessible overview of the moments and milestones of the Second World War, Timelines of World War II offers a fresh angle on the subject, bringing the conflict to life... -
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M Graff 9781668027813
RRP: £32.50£20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668027813Author Garrett M GraffFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Avid Reader PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 581g -
The Imperial Factor in South Africa: A Study in Politics and Economics by Cornelis W. de Kiewiet 9781032308197
£33.99Originally published in 1937 and written by de Kiewiet who in his lifetime was recognized as one of the premier historians of British imperial policy and African history, this book covers the years 1871-1885 in South Africa’s history, discussing racial,... -
Bf 109E: Battle of Britain by Andy Saunders 9781472862402
RRP: £15.99£11.61An illustrated account of the Bf 109E's evolving role during the fateful first stages of the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe’s famous Bf 109 Emil saw considerable combat across the first stages of World War 2, but it was 1940’s Battle of Britain that... -
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann 9781398540651
RRP: £10.99£7.00WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO... -
The Russian Empire, Slaving and Liberation, 1480-1725: Trans-Cultural Worldviews in Eurasia by Christoph Witzenrath 9783111520964
RRP: £18.50£15.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111520964Author Christoph WitzenrathFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter -
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier by Robert G. Parkinson 9781324091776
RRP: £28.99£21.63Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Frank O. Etheridge: Musician of the African Diaspora by Ben Vinson III 9781032278872
£117.53This is a book by and about Frank O. Etheridge, an African-American musician from an age of cultural explosion. The decade after World War II saw the coming-of-age of marginalized cultures, and in North America a new voice emerged among peoples of... -
Indochina Hand: Tales of a CIA Case Officer by Barry Michael Broman 9781636244419
RRP: £29.95£18.79Barry Broman joined the CIA in 1971 straight out of the Marine Corps, choosing a career in intelligence largely because he wanted to spend his working life in Southeast Asia. Over the next thirty years, he had the privilege of working with brave men and... -
Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove 9780374614072
RRP: £30.00£17.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374614072Author QuestloveFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint AuwaPublisher AuwaWeight(grams) 454g -
Mawson in Antarctica: To the Ends of the Earth by Joanna Grochowicz 9781761181085
RRP: £9.99£7.11Antarctica. Winter 1912.Hunkering down in the windiest place on earth, eighteen young Australians eagerly await a chance to prove themselves as polar explorers and scientists. The spring sledging season will bring adventure, danger, and the discovery of... -
A Mirror for History: How Novels and Art Reflect the Evolution of Middle-Class America by Marc Egnal 9781621909040
RRP: £32.95£29.59In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the American economy from the near-subsistence agriculture... -
The CIA: An Imperial History by Hugh Wilford 9781541645912
RRP: £35.00£20.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541645912Author Hugh WilfordFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 590g -
Too Far on a Whim: The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy by Tyler A. Pitrof 9780817321918
RRP: £94.00£76.48In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay of its World War II fleets. Pitrof’s research persuasively demonstrates that in its war against the... -
South Africa in Crisis by Jesmond Blumenfeld 9781032323596
£31.79Originally published in 1987, South Africa in Crisis documents the perceptions and policies of all the major interest groups in South Africa during the 1980s when the long-running struggle for ultimate political power in South Africa entered a new phase... -
The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 by Borbala Zsuzsanna Török 9781805395546
RRP: £99.00£80.47The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on... -
Portrait of a Racist: Byron De La Beckwith and the Assassination of Medgar Evers by Reed Massengill 9781621908302
RRP: £32.95£27.19Originally published in 1994, Portrait of a Racist is an astonishing biography of Byron De La Beckwith (1920–2001), who murdered Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers in June 1963. Written by Beckwith’s nephew by marriage, the book is based on dozens of... -
Why South Africa Will Survive: A Historical Analysis by L. H. Gann 9781032315010
£33.99Originally published in 1981, this book took a position which was unpopular within the academic establishment at the time of its publication. It argued that the extraordinary social and economic changes that came over South Africa in the 20th Century... -
Palestine: A Policy by Albert M. Hyamson 9781032309750
RRP: £27.99£24.28First published in 1942, Palestine is a brief history of Zionism, interspersed with a wealth of observation stimulation for the seeker of objective truth. The author develops his own theories of Jewish racialism, nationalism and colonization, and...