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A Girls' Guide to Winning the War: The most heartwarming, uplifting novel of courage and friendship in WW2 Annie Lyons 9781035401079
RRP: $46.20$32.80'A heart-warming tale about resilience, friendships and family, and the inestimable power of the written word' RUTH HOGAN'A heart-warming depiction of strong female friendships tested by suffering - Annie Lyons really is the queen of the wartime saga'... -
The Evolution of Gun Making: Machine made weapons, 1700–1820 Peter G. Smithurst 9781036107789
RRP: $52.50$37.00A variety of factors surround military firearms – they needed to be produced in large numbers to a standardised pattern at an affordable price. This books examines the transition from traditional hand-craft methods to the beginnings of mechanised... -
Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great by Rachel Kousser 9780062869685
RRP: $73.50$42.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062869685Author Rachel KousserFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g -
Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age by Simeon Koole 9780226834344
RRP: $58.80$57.52An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain told through a single sense: touch. When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push... -
The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present Allen James Fromherz 9780520398559
RRP: $52.50$38.28This sweeping history reorients our understanding of the Middle East, placing the Gulf at the heart of globalized trade and cross-cultural encounters. World history began in the Persian Gulf. The ancient port cities that dotted its coastlines created... -
The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction Aziz Z. Huq 9780197657423
$18.94Politicians, judges, and citizens commonly use the phrase "rule of law" to describe some good that flows from a legal system. But what precisely is that good? Even in Aristotle's time, there was no agreement on either its nature, and on whether it... -
Confessions of a Thug by Philip Meadows Taylor 9780198854647
RRP: $23.08$16.32'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most... -
History Smashers: Salem Witch Trials Kate Messner 9780593705278
RRP: $16.78$11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593705278Author Kate MessnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe Nancy S. Kollmann 9781009418683
RRP: $63.00$54.50In early modern Europe, the emergence and development of print culture proved a powerful new method for producing and disseminating knowledge of Russia through visual means. By examining the images of Russia found in travel accounts, pamphlets, maps and... -
The Lucky Ones: A Memoir by Zara Chowdhary 9780593727430
RRP: $52.50$35.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593727430Author Zara ChowdharyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Air War in Ukraine: The First Year of Conflict Dag Henriksen 9781032593111
RRP: $273.00$235.43This book provides a comprehensive account of the use of airpower in the first year of the Ukraine conflict.Owing to the need to avoid direct war with Russia, NATO did not create a No-Fly Zone over Ukraine and the initial contest for air superiority... -
Byzantium: Economy, Society, Institutions 600-1100 James Howard-Johnston 9780198897880
RRP: $189.00$171.32Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages. Drawing on a lifetime's work in the field of Byzantine studies, James Howard-Johnston aims to explain Byzantium's longevity, first as a state geared... -
A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Africa, Ukraine and France Kevin Anderson 9781032761503
RRP: $81.88$71.86This book examines the possibilities – and realities – of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.Kevin B. Anderson critically examines the revolutions, uprisings, social movements, and forms of... -
Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation by Brenda Wineapple 9780593229927
RRP: $79.80$47.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593229927Author Brenda WineappleFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 839g -
America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War H. W. Brands 9780385550413
RRP: $63.00$41.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385550413Author H. W. BrandsFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
The Incorruptibles: A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld by Dan Slater 9780316427715
RRP: $68.25$40.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316427715Author Dan SlaterFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company -
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie Michael Patrick MacDonald 9780807020531
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807020531Author Michael Patrick MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
Land of Refuge: Immigration to Palestine, 1919–1927 Gur Alroey 9780253070074
RRP: $52.48$45.51After the First World War, tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Palestine. They went there not to found a Zionist state but primarily to seek refuge from the violence and persecution of the Russian Civil War and its aftermath. Fleeing to the United... -
The Book of Yerba Mate: A Stimulating History Professor Christine Folch 9780691246390
$65.29The untold story of South America’s most interesting beverageBrewed from the dried leaves and tender shoots of an evergreen tree native to South America, yerba mate gives its drinkers the jolt of liquid effervescence many of us get from coffee or tea. In... -
Castles and Strongholds of Northumberland: A History and Gazetteer Brian Long 9780750994095
RRP: $42.00$31.58Much more than an excellent gazetteer, an engaging history using contemporary sources shows whose hands the defence of the Anglo-Scottish border was in while Henry V was at Agincourt.Subsequent surveys show how Christopher Dacre forwarded a bold project... -
Written in Water: The Ephemeral Life of the Classic in Art by Rochelle Gurstein 9780300215489
RRP: $63.00$49.92A deeply personal yet broadly relevant exploration of the ephemeral life of the classic in art, from the eighteenth century to our own day Is there such a thing as a timeless classic? More than a decade ago, Rochelle Gurstein set out to explore and... -
Disease, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Western Medicine and the Experience of European Expansion by Roy Macleod 9781032235547
RRP: $67.18$59.49Originally published in 1988, the essays in this book focus primarily on colonial medicine in the British Empire but comparative material on the experience of France and Germany is also included. The authors show how medicine served as an instrument of... -
An Era of Value Change: The Long 1970s in Europe Fiammetta Balestracci 9780198928997
$168.08The long 1970s have recently emerged as the start of a new epoch in which we still live. This volume asks whether the accelerated value change of these years can be explained with the rise of a new kind of post-rationalism, and presents case studies from... -
The Silent Attack: The Fallschirmj�ger Capture the Bridges of Veldwezelt, Vroenhoven and Kanne 1940 by �scar Gonz�lez 9781036150020
$55.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036150020Author �scar Gonz�lezFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword Military -
Alum, More Precious than Gold: The Amazing Influence and Trade of Alum Across the Ages by Sydney Thorne 9781036101084
RRP: $46.20$32.80Never heard of alum? You’re not alone. Yet, for centuries, alum was vital to the production of coloured cloth. Alum was needed to fix dyes and colours to the cloth. Without alum, the colours ran and faded. With alum, they shone and were fast. As a... -
The Hidden Victims: Civilian Casualties of the Two World Wars Cormac Ó Gráda 9780691258751
$118.38A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars—and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern warSoldiers have never been the only casualties of wars. But the armies that fought World Wars I and II killed far more... -
Hitler's Atomic Bomb: History, Legend, and the Twin Legacies of Auschwitz and Hiroshima Mark Walker 9781009479288
RRP: $63.00$47.54Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards? Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and postwar reactions to the scientists involved,... -
The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941 Rosemary Wakeman 9780226834184
RRP: $63.00$52.19An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon. In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied,... -
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar by Max Hastings 9780063341081
RRP: $73.50$44.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063341081Author Max HastingsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 646g -
Business as Usual: How Sponsored Media Sold American Capitalism in the Twentieth Century by Caroline Jack 9780226835129
RRP: $193.20$184.51How corporations used mass media to teach Americans that capitalism was natural and patriotic, exposing the porous line between propaganda and public service. Business as Usual reveals how American capitalism has been promoted in the most ephemeral of... -
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari 9780593734223
RRP: $73.50$43.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593734223Author Yuval Noah HarariFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 819g -
Those about to Die by Daniel P Mannix 9781504098441
RRP: $35.60$29.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504098441Author Daniel P MannixFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media -
Western Europe 2024–2025 by Wayne C. Thompson 9781538185940
$44.73The World Today Series: Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country expertly covering the region’s geography, people, history,... -
Operation Dragoon: The Liberation of Southern France 1944 by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781036150174
RRP: $56.60$36.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036150174Author Anthony Tucker-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pen & Sword MilitaryPublisher Pen & Sword Military -
The Hour of Absinthe: A Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink by Nina S. Studer 9780228022206
RRP: $50.38$39.33At the height of its popularity in the late nineteenth century, absinthe reigned in the bars, cafés, and restaurants of France and its colonial empire. Yet by the time it was banned in 1915, the famous green fairy had become the green peril, feared for... -
Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the Politics of Urban Space, 1840–2010 Jon Winder 9781914477492
$63.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914477492Author Jon WinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London -
The Grand Collaboration: Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Invention of American Religious Freedom Steven K. Green 9780813951843
RRP: $205.80$163.70How Jefferson and Madison ensured religious freedom in the United States Thomas Jefferson considered the establishment of religious freedom as a governing principle in the United States to be one of the great accomplishments of his life. It was not his... -
Warrior's Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Easting Douglas Macgregor 9781682478653
RRP: $83.90$76.00On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of “Cougar Squadron,” the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South... -
Community Archaeology in Israel / Palestine Raz Kletter 9781800504820
RRP: $94.50$88.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800504820Author Raz KletterFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Equinox Publishing LtdPublisher Equinox Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 263g -
Moses, Muhammad and Nature’s God in Early American Religious-Legal History, 1640-1830: A Global Crosscultural Perspective R. Charles Weller 9783031601873
RRP: $230.98$230.06This is the first comparative study of Mosaic and Islamic law in American history. Constructing a complex picture in trans-Atlantic, trans-European and world historical perspective, this book elucidates the deeper intersecting storylines which lie...