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Making Makers: The Past, the Present, and the Study of War by Michael P. M. Finch 9780192867124
RRP: £90.00£81.58Making Makers presents a comprehensive history of a seminal work of scholarship which has exerted a persistent attraction for scholars of war and strategy: Makers of Modern Strategy. It reveals the processes by which scholars conceived and devised the... -
Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank by Richard Kent 9788367227650
RRP: £9.00£5.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788367227650Author Richard KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Mushroom Model PublicationsPublisher Wydawnictwo STRATUS, Artur Juszczak -
Titanic: Ship of Dreams: Ship of Dreams by Scholastic 9781338794779
RRP: £19.99£13.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338794779Author ScholasticPage Count 64Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic US -
The Belgian Congo as a Developmental State: Revisiting Colonialism by Emizet François Kisangani 9781032254319
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism by reconsidering the Belgian Congo (1908–1959) as a developmental state.The book demonstrates that despite the colonial system’s... -
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh 9781635425352
RRP: £15.99£9.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635425352Author Raja ShehadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 136g -
This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America's Revolutionary War in the South by Alan Pell Crawford 9780593318508
RRP: £27.00£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318508Author Alan Pell CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Journal of the American Revolution 2024: Annual Volume by Don N Hagist 9781594164279
RRP: £40.00£24.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164279Author Don N HagistFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 680g -
Bristol and the Birth of the Atlantic Economy, 1500-1700 by Richard Stone 9781837650538
RRP: £85.00£70.68Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a transformative period for global commerce, with the... -
Religious Conflict at Canterbury Cathedral in the Late Twelfth Century: The Dispute between the Monks and the Archbishops, 1184-1200 by James Barnaby 9781783277667
RRP: £70.00£67.24Documents a long-running dispute between the archbishops and monks of Canterbury throughout the 1180s and 1190s. For fifteen years the monks of Christ Church Canterbury waged a war against their archbishop, over a plan to build a church to provide funds... -
How Drones Fight: How Small Drones are Revolutionizing Warfare by Lars Celander 9781636244587
RRP: £19.95£12.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture by Shengqing Wu 9781032008837
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap in sensory research while offering new approaches to Chinese Studies.Bringing together 12 chapters by literary scholars and historians, this... -
The Naughty Nineties: The Decade that Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web by David Friend 9781538767498
RRP: £20.00£13.35Featuring a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue.THE NAUGHTY NINETIES examines the scandal-ridden... -
Art History 101: The Essential Guide to Understanding the Creative World by Art Historian John Finlay 9781398836891
RRP: £16.99£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398836891Author Art Historian John FinlayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius Entertainment -
A-Z of Macclesfield: Places-People-History by Jean & John Bradburn 9781398115781
RRP: £15.99£10.85The history of Macclesfield goes back to a Saxon settlement once held by Edwin, Earl of Mercia. It became a centre for silk-button making and by the eighteenth century had become one of the world’s largest manufacturers of finished silk. Several imposing... -
History of Britain and Ireland: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK 9780241666661
RRP: £30.00£20.95Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with... -
On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar by Clare Hammond 9780241623893
RRP: £25.00£17.62'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement’Joanna LumleyIn 2016, while working as a... -
Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew's Defiance in a Time of Terror by Bruce Neuburger 9781685900540
RRP: £25.00£19.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900540Author Bruce NeuburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
Mission Iran: Special Forces Berlin & Operation Eagle Claw, Jtf 1-79 by James Stejskal 9781636243337
RRP: £22.50£14.35On 4 November 1979, "student" supporters of the Ayatollah seized the U.S. Embassy with over 60 hostages. Although the Cold War was in full swing, the Iran hostage crisis was a watershed for the United States. The counterterrorism learning curve, both... -
Geographers of the Ancient Greek World: Volume 1: Selected Texts in Translation by D. Graham J. Shipley 9781009194204
RRP: £110.00£109.56Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic to the Late Antique period. Most of these texts are, however,... -
India after the 1857 Revolt: Decolonizing the Mind by M. Christhu Doss 9781032349237
RRP: £39.99£35.06Weaving together the varied and complex strands of anti-colonial nationalism into one compact narrative, Christhu Doss takes an incisive look at the deeper and wider historical process of decolonization in India.In India after the 1857 Revolt, Doss... -
On the Trail of Scotland's History by David R. Ross 9781913025144
RRP: £8.99£6.40From coast to coast on a motorbike...on the trail of the people, places and events that created Scottish history. Covering moor, mountain and battleground as well as film locations and place names, this book provides an intelligent, passionate... -
Democratic Passions: The Politics of Feeling in British Popular Radicalism, 1809-48 by Matthew Roberts 9781526178862
RRP: £25.00£21.58This book challenges the assumption – just as alive today as it was in the nineteenth century – that the political sphere was an arena of reason in which feelings had no part to play. It shows that feelings were a central, albeit contested, aspect of the... -
The Imperial Underbelly: Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia by Gunnel Cederlöf 9781032328928
RRP: £39.99£35.06The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor’s private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and... -
Apocalypse Now: Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries by Damien Tricoire 9780367532352
RRP: £39.99£35.06Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their... -
Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s by Aaron J. Leonard 9781978836464
RRP: £23.99£18.30In January 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed that “There is all across our land a growing sense of peace and a sense of common purpose.” Yet in the ensuing months, a series of crises disturbed that fragile sense of peace, ultimately setting the... -
Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh—and the Battle to Save Democracy by Paul M. Sparrow 9781639366675
RRP: £22.00£18.16A powerful new work of history that brings President Roosevelt, his allies, and his adversaries to life as he fought to transform America from an isolationist bystander into the world’s first superpower. “In today’s troubled times, with authoritarianism... -
Traitor By Default: The Trials of Kanao Inouye, the Kamloops Kid by Patrick Brode 9781459753693
RRP: £17.99£15.68At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre stories to emerge at the end of the Second World War was that of Kanao Inouye... -
Artemisia Gentileschi and the Business of Art by Christopher R. Marshall 9780691253886
RRP: £55.00£46.69A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacyArt has long been viewed as a calling—a quasi-religious vocation that drives artists to seek answers to humanity’s deepest... -
The Lofts of SoHo: Gentrification, Art, and Industry in New York, 1950–1980 by Aaron Shkuda 9780226833415
RRP: £28.00£27.39A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo. American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax... -
The Battle Rhetoric of Crusade and Holy War, c. 1099–c. 1222 by Connor Christopher Wilson 9781032365305
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade and challenges the narrative of supposed brutality and amorality of warfare in this period--instead focusing on the moral and didactic concerns surrounding warfare and... -
The Dambusters - 'Was the Raid Worthwhile?': Barnes Wallis and the Men Behind the Operation in Their Own Words by John Sweetman 9781399063814
RRP: £25.00£17.62On the evening of 16 May 1943, nineteen Avro Lancasters took off from RAF Scampton to undertake 617 Squadron's first offensive attack since its formation a few weeks earlier. Loaded with Barnes Wallis' newly designed bouncing bombs, the Bomber Command... -
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China by Edward Wong 9781984877406
RRP: £32.00£20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984877406Author Edward WongFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 680g -
Print, Politics and Trade in the French Atlantic: The Labottière Family as Eighteenth-Century Cultural Brokers by Professor Jane McLeod 9781837650866
RRP: £95.00£78.80The Labottières were the largest printing and bookselling dynasty in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. From the 1680s to the sale of their business in 1794 three generations of this family acted as major cultural brokers in this booming Atlantic port, serving... -
Airborne to Arnhem Volume 2: Personal Reminiscences of the Battle of Arnhem, Operation Market, 17th-26th September 1944 by Grant Newell 9781804512388
RRP: £59.95£42.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512388Author Grant NewellFormat HardbackPage Count 616Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century by Laura Beers 9781911723028
RRP: £20.00£17.46Seventy-five years after 1984 first published, George Orwell is back. Progressives denounce ‘Orwellian’ untruths by Trump, Johnson, Putin et al, while conservatives accuse governments and mainstream media of ‘Orwellian’ censorship. But what does... -
The Secrets of Rosslyn by Roddy Martine 9781839830631
RRP: £10.99£7.64Nestling in an exquisite glen just seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel is one of the world's most extraordinary places. Ever since it was built in the mid fifteenth century it has cast a mesmerising spell over all who have visited... -
The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy's First Carrier Into Tokyo Bay by Nathan Canestaro 9781538742716
RRP: £35.00£20.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538742716Author Nathan CanestaroFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central Publishing -
Spectacular Visual Guides: A Medieval Castle by Mark Bergin 9781800787759
RRP: £6.99£4.64A Medieval Castle examines the architectural achievements and hidden secrets held within the walls of some of history's greatest fortifications.Explore the motives behind medieval castle building in this informative visual guide to the most fascinating... -
Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages by Delfi I Nieto-Isabel 9781501523076
RRP: £18.50£15.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501523076Author Delfi I Nieto-IsabelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Medieval Institute PublicationsPublisher Medieval Institute Publications -
Gizeh and Rifeh by W.M. Flinders Petrie 9798888570814
RRP: £34.95£28.78This is a facsimile reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1907 account of excavations at Gizeh and at Dier Rifeh in Upper Egypt, just south of Asyut. At Gizeh excavations focused on a cemetery lying on a ridge about 1 km south of the Great Pyramid while work at...