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First Burma Campaign: The Japanese Conquest of 1942 Colonel E C V Foucar MC 9781526797643
RRP: $33.13$23.95Shortly after the British and Indian forces had withdrawn from Burma in the face of the Japanese onslaught in 1942, Colonel E.C.V. Foucar MC was instructed to undertake a ‘special duty’, namely seek out documentary material and information from the... -
The Camp 100: Glorious flamboyance, from Louis XIV to Lil Nas X Simon Doonan 9780711289963
RRP: $33.13$23.71'Simon Doonan’s CAMP 100 is majestic, life-enhancing, packed with info and bang up to date. And, yes, I am featured. Surprised?' - Alan CarrCelebrate the unapologetically, outrageously CAMP with this vivacious party of 100 people, objects, art movements... -
American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America Martyn Whittock 9781639367849
RRP: $29.23$23.05A vivid and illuminating new history—separate fact from fiction, myth from legend—exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration... -
SOE in The Netherlands: The Special Operations Executive’s Dutch Section in WW2 An Official History 9781036110857
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles Elsa Devienne 9780197539750
RRP: $52.63$44.46The first history of the formidable campaign that transformed Los Angeles into one of the world's greatest coastal metropolises, revealing how the city's man-made shores became the site for the reinvention of seaside leisure and the triumph of modern... -
The Process of Enlightenment: Essays by and inspired by Hans Erich Bödeker Ere Nokkala 9781802071863
$167.68The historiographical concept “Enlightenment” has for a long time wavered between the idea of a single unified Enlightenment and the notion of multiple competing enlightenments. This volume revisits this seeming contradiction by asserting that the... -
Brutalist Japan: A Photographic Tour of Post-War Japanese Architecture Paul Tulett 9783791393100
RRP: $78.00$56.14Featuring striking photography by an expert in the field, this exploration of Japanese Brutalist architecture celebrates the surprising beauty and grace of buildings forged in concrete. Emerging in the devastating aftermath of World War II, Brutalist... -
The Plot to Perpetuate Slavery: How George McClellan, Southern Spies and a Confidence Man Nearly Derailed Emancipation Phil Roycraft 9781476694955
RRP: $56.53$45.59In the aftermath of the September 1862 Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued the most significant presidential decree in American history, the Emancipation Proclamation, which would forever free all slaves in territory not under Union... -
Paul Huxley Jeremy Lewison 9781848226548
RRP: $97.48$73.42Paul Huxley RA (b.1938) has enjoyed a distinguished career both as a painter and a teacher. Huxley's fascinating artistic life, expertly surveyed by Jeremy Lewison, is at last given the attention that it deserves in this, the first monograph on the... -
Turkey’s Violent Formation: New Social Contracts at the End of the Ottoman Empire Hans-Lukas Kieser 9780755649556
$146.48The decade of war and violence culminating in the Conference of Lausanne was formative for the modern state of Turkey, as it was for interwar Europe’s diplomacy and appeasement. Yet the currents that gave rise to the defining events of the period –... -
The Worst Songs in the World: The Terrible Truth About National Anthems David Pate 9781459754560
RRP: $35.08$27.46The best-known songs in the world are violent, sexist, and religious — so why do we celebrate national anthems when we should be rewriting them? This fascinating popular history of national anthems begins in a London theatre in 1745 when the modern idea... -
Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars Richard Heppner 9781438499321
RRP: $42.63$31.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438499321Author Richard HeppnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 227g -
Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They Made Michael Mandelbaum 9780197782477
RRP: $52.63$47.97An engaging and original historical portrait of eight of the most influential political figures of the twentieth century: Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, and Mao. The Titans of the Twentieth Century addresses an... -
Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea Andrea Wright 9781503639423
RRP: $42.88$38.75In the mid-twentieth century, the Arabian Peninsula emerged as a key site of oil production. International companies recruited workers from across the Middle East and Asia to staff their expanding oil projects. Unruly Labor considers the working... -
Daily Life in Colonial Africa Dr. Toyin Falola 9781440881169
$117.45Discover how European colonization across the many regions in Africa dramatically altered the continent and the daily lived experiences of its peoples. Daily Life in Colonial Africa explores nine facets of daily life in the European-colonized African... -
Yugoslavia and Greece 1940–41: The Axis' aerial assault in the Balkans Pier Paolo Battistelli 9781472859242
RRP: $33.13$25.66A new illustrated history of the German and Italian air campaigns in the invasions of Greece and Yugoslavia, the last full-scale Axis air offensives before Operation Barbarossa. The Greece campaign was launched by Italy in October 1940, the first... -
A Veteran's Toughest Fight: Finding Peace After Vietnam David T. Klein 9781476695419
RRP: $56.53$45.59They survived the insanity of the Vietnam War by telling themselves, "It don't mean nuthin'." But it did. This collection of nonfiction short works tells the story of how war damages our soldiers, and then pulls back the curtain of trauma treatment to... -
Most Honorable Son: A Forgotten Hero’s Fight Against Fascism and Hate During World War II Gregg Jones 9780806542935
RRP: $52.63$33.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806542935Author Gregg JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground Dr Marek Kohn 9781803511634
RRP: $21.43$14.2727th November 1918, London. Just 16 days after the end of the Great War, with the nation on its knees, Billie Carleton takes to the stage for the last time. She is found dead the next day in her bedroom. The cause of death: a cocaine overdose. The drugs... -
Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period Stéfan Winter 9781487554408
RRP: $134.55$111.01Syrian-Kurdish Intersections in the Ottoman Period is a collection of essays on different aspects of the history of the Kurdish people in Syria under the Ottoman Empire, by specialists from Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, the... -
Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina D. Andrew Johnson 9781421449807
RRP: $88.73$78.51A compelling study into the history and lasting influence of enslaved Native people in early South Carolina.In 1708, the governor of South Carolina responded to a request from London to describe the population of the colony. This response included an... -
Freud’s British Family: Reclaiming Lost Lives in Manchester and London Roger Willoughby 9781032651989
$70.57Freud’s British Family presents ground-breaking research into the lives of the British branch of the Freud family, their connections to the founder of psychoanalysis, and into Freud’s relationship to Britain.Documenting the complex relationships the... -
The Forgers: The True Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation Roger Moorhouse 9781529923667
RRP: $21.43$15.15**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that saved thousands of Jewish lives in World War Two.'Powerful ... gripping ... inspiring' JONATHAN... -
Antisemitism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Time to Confront the Elephant in the Room David H Stone 9781803710549
RRP: $33.05$32.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710549Author David H StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese America Sonia C. Gomez 9781479803071
$65.50Examines the role marriage played in the lives of Japanese women during periods of racial exclusion in the United States In 1908 the United States and Japan agreed to limit the migration of Japanese laborers to the US. The Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1908... -
Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough Prithi Kanakamedala 9781479833092
RRP: $46.78$35.63Meet the Black Brooklynites who defined New York City’s most populous borough through their search for social justice Before it was a borough, Brooklyn was our nation’s third largest city. Its free Black community attracted people from all walks of... -
First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll, America's First Jewish Woman Stand-Up Comedian Grace Kessler Overbeke 9781479818150
$68.21Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it all First Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned among... -
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape Dr Stejarel Olaru 9781350511507
RRP: $29.23$22.91Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the... -
Beyond the Timeline: Resetting Historiography Julia Seeberger 9783111154749
RRP: $142.35$128.93Different from literary works (prose, drama etc.) with techniques like montage and contemporary media (film, documentaries, video games, internet) where time-lines are being questioned through flashbacks and flashwords, historiography seems to have... -
Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia Laura Frances Goffman 9781503640818
RRP: $46.78$42.06Disorder and Diagnosis offers a social and political history of medicine, disease, and public health in the Persian Gulf from the late nineteenth century until the 1973 oil boom. Foregrounding the everyday practices of Gulf residents—hospital patients,... -
The Jews of Lithuania: A Journey Through the long Twentieth Century Nicholas Sayers 9781803710655
RRP: $38.90$29.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781803710655Author Nicholas SayersFormat PaperbackPage Count 324Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide, Revised and Expanded Edition Linda Melvern 9781350409637
RRP: $33.13$25.66Following thirty years of research, including research into recently declassified government archives, this newly revised and expanded edition of Linda Melvern’s classic of investigative journalism reveals how policymakers continue to refuse to properly... -
Faithful unto Death: Pet cemeteries, animal graves and eternal devotion Paul Koudounaris 9780500027516
RRP: $48.75$31.94The remarkable stories of beloved pets – from the famous and unusual to the everyday – memorialized at burial sites around the world, accompanied by a rich selection of archival photos and the author’s evocative images of their final resting places. ... -
Catholics across Borders: Canadian Immigrants in the North Country, Plattsburgh, New York, 1850–1950 Mark Paul Richard 9781438496221
$53.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438496221Author Mark Paul RichardFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Picnics and Porcupines: Eating in the Wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula Candice Goucher 9780814351543
RRP: $52.55$39.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814351543Author Candice GoucherFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Wayne State University PressPublisher Wayne State University Press -
The Big, Big Treasure Dig Autumn Publishing 9781835440636
RRP: $25.33$16.22Join an archaeological dig with a difference on this interactive treasure huntBook InformationISBN 9781835440636Author Autumn PublishingPage Count 12Imprint Autumn PublishingPublisher Bonnier Books LtdWeight(grams) 472g -
Making Republicans Liberal: Social Struggle and the Politics of Compromise Kristoffer Smemo 9781512826234
RRP: $76.05$66.53Mass movements and social protest forced mid-century Republicans to articulate their own form of liberalism As poor and working people organized themselves on the job, in the streets, and at the polls during the mid-twentieth century, they forced... -
The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin Lucy Ash 9781837731831
RRP: $48.75$32.35For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills - from the Mongol yoke, to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, Soviet atheism, the chaotic 1990s and now two decades of Vladimir Putin.In this provocative... -
Join the Conspiracy: How a Brooklyn Eccentric Got Lost on the Right, Infiltrated the Left, and Brought Down the Biggest Bombing Network in New York Jonathan Butler 9781531508159
RRP: $54.58$40.60Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremes. In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of division and... -
Global Economic History Professor Tirthankar Roy 9781350290082
RRP: $52.63$50.23Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, it delves into the economic histories of Africa, Europe, Asia and...