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The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple 9780552177801
RRP: €13.08€9.25'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: €15.46€10.82'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: €26.18€19.06In 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: €35.70€24.93From 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: €19.03€12.91Before 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: €29.75€19.74In 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: €15.46€10.23'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: €13.08€9.25From 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: €13.08€8.63A 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: €29.75€20.97Admiral 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: €17.84€11.54You’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... -
The Second World War Illustrated: The Final Year by Jack Holroyd 9781399063081
RRP: €23.79€18.59_The Second World War Illustrated: The Final Year_ follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the key battlefields and events of the period from September 1944 until... -
Power and the Maritime Domain: A Global Dialogue by Greg Kennedy 9781032288857
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-national approach to defining key elements required to define power within the maritime domain. The volume engages with the concept that the maritime domain is a multi-dimensional space embracing oceans,... -
How America Gets the News: A History of U.S. Journalism by Ford Risley 9781442235267
RRP: €35.70€32.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442235267Author Ford RisleyFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
German Aircraft of World War II by Bing Chandler 9781838863685
RRP: €29.74€20.74The flyers of the Luftwaffe spearheaded the German blitzkrieg during the early years of World War II, providing a key aerial element to the German war machine that swept all before it. Later in the war, the Luftwaffe concentrated on defence, producing... -
Timelines of World War II by DK 9780744098549
RRP: €47.60€28.16Discover 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... -
The US Eighth Air Force in World War II Volume 8: Ira Eaker, Hap Arnold, and Building American Air Power, 1942-1943 by William J. Daugherty 9781574419276
RRP: €41.59€26.54When America entered World War II in 1941, it was first left to the Army Air Forces to take the fight to Germany. In January 1942 the US Eighth Air Force was created and ordered to England, even though it was without men, equipment, or airplanes. This is... -
Unruly: The Number One Bestseller ‘Horrible Histories for grownups’ The Times by David Mitchell 9781405953191
RRP: €13.08€9.25THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA funny book about a serious subject, Unruly is for anyone who has ever wondered how we got here - and who is to blame.'Clever, amusing, gloriously bizarre and razor sharp. Mitchell - a funny man and skilled historian -... -
Daring Women of D-Day: Bold Spies of World War II by Alessia Trunfio 9781398254725
RRP: €10.70€8.41An action-packed graphic novel about agents who helped the Allies prepare for D-Day and push the Germans out of France during World War II. In 1942, World War II was growing more and more intense. Germany and its allies had occupied a great deal of... -
The Splendour of Modernity: Japanese Arts of the Meiji Era by Rosina Buckland 9781789148558
RRP: €41.65€39.41A comprehensive overview of Japanese art between 1865 and 1915. The Splendour of Modernity presents a comprehensive overview of Japanese art from 1865 to 1915, including painting, calligraphy, sculpture, prints, ceramics, lacquerware, textiles, basketry,... -
Political Reason and the Language of Change: Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe by Adriana Luna-Fabritius 9781032073903
RRP: €47.59€41.72This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was the outcome of "reforms"."Reform" today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and... -
Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London by Joshua Stuart-Bennett 9780367752774
RRP: €47.59€41.72Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and... -
Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Pirates by Richard Blakemore 9781803991733
RRP: €29.75€21.60‘The Laws of all Nations … define & declare a Pirate to be an Enemy of Mankind … He is perhaps the only Criminal on Earth, whose crime cannot be absolutely pardoned … a Pirate is equally an Enemy and dangerous to all Societies … Piracy is in its self a... -
The War We Won Apart: The Untold Story of Two Elite Agents who Became One of the Most Decorated Couples of WWII by Nahlah Ayed 9780735242067
RRP: €26.17€17.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735242067Author Nahlah AyedFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day by Garrett M Graff 9781668027813
RRP: €38.68€23.84Apologies 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
€36.47Originally 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,... -
The Merovingians: Kingship, Institutions, Law, and History by Alexander Murray 9781032054247
RRP: €47.59€41.72The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort to understand the institutions of the Merovingian kingdom and its history. There has long been a predisposition to cast the Merovingian... -
Bf 109E: Battle of Britain by Andy Saunders 9781472862402
RRP: €19.03€13.82An 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: €13.08€8.33WINNER 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: €22.02€17.97Apologies 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 -
A Kids Book About Juneteenth by Garrison Hayes 9780744098877
RRP: €23.79€16.33Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The North Star: Canada and the Civil War Plots Against Lincoln by Julian Sher 9781039000315
RRP: €26.18€16.16Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Proposed Airborne Assaults during Operation Overlord: Cancelled Allied Plans in Normandy and Brittany by James Daly 9781399037433
RRP: €26.18€18.59The airborne landings on D-Day played a major part in the success of the largest amphibious operation ever mounted. Yet just over three months later Operation _Market Garden_, the largest airborne operation ever attempted, failed to take all its... -
Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier by Robert G. Parkinson 9781324091776
RRP: €34.50€25.51Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Frank O. Etheridge: Musician of the African Diaspora by Ben Vinson III 9781032278872
€139.86This 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... -
Hercules by Scott Bateman 9780241655580
RRP: €23.80€17.48Read the legendary story of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft, seen through the eyes of former RAF captain Scott Bateman'An engaging and revealing read' JOHN NICHOL---Anytime, Anywhere, Anyhow. Whether it’s war, natural disaster, or humanitarian... -
Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London by Lynn Hamilton 9781399054546
RRP: €26.18€18.59Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist exposed a brutal but commonplace system of child exploitation to Victorian readers. Conditions in workhouses, factories, and child criminal gangs posed lethal and daily hazards to children born to poverty. Several... -
Indochina Hand: Tales of a CIA Case Officer by Barry Michael Broman 9781636244419
RRP: €35.64€22.36Barry 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... -
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas 9781541601741
RRP: €35.70€21.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541601741Author June ThomasFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Seal Press (CA)Publisher Seal Press (CA)Weight(grams) 413g -
Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove 9780374614072
RRP: €35.70€21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374614072Author QuestloveFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint AuwaPublisher AuwaWeight(grams) 454g