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The Holocaust Codes: The Untold Story of Decrypting the Final Solution Christian Jennings 9781789467260
RRP: £22.00£14.91Never told in detail before, this is the account of how, for four years, British and Allied codebreakers decrypted secret SS and Gestapo messages detailing the mass killings of the Holocaust, and how the Germans in turn deployed cryptanalysis to try to... -
Authoritarianism in the American South: Beliefs That Led to Slavery and Civil War, 1606-1861 Robert L. Dipboye 9781476695648
RRP: £35.99£29.60The evidence is overwhelming that the protection and expansion of slavery was a primary reason for the secession of the Confederate states and the Civil War that followed. While slavery undoubtedly was important, a more fundamental cause was a belief... -
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class Blair LM Kelley 9781324095576
RRP: £16.99£14.38There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic “white working class,” a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including... -
All the Rage: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty: A History of Pain, Pleasure, and Power: 1860-1960 Virginia Nicholson 9781639367061
£24.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639367061Author Virginia NicholsonFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 685g -
Tickle Your Brain: Mummy Mania! John Townsend 9781800788503
RRP: £5.99£4.35Discover the riotous world of Ancient Egypt with this rip-roaring facts and jokes book, perfect for 7-9 year olds!Laugh along as you learn in this hilarious, fact-packed joke book all about Ancient Egypt. Featuring dozens of gut-busting gags, this book... -
Duchamp’s Endgame: Da Vinci, Dürer, Ingres, Poussin Kendell Geers 9780300278934
RRP: £45.00£37.63Forget everything you have ever heard about Marcel Duchamp and dive into the heart of art history’s most intriguing enigma. “Duchamp’s Endgame” is a passionate tale about the fundamental mysteries of what the work by the Godfather of Dada and Pope of... -
Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England Angus McLaren 9781032279039
RRP: £27.99£24.28The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has... -
The Egyptian Social Contract: A History of State-Middle Class Relations Relli Shechter 9781399510318
RRP: £19.99£18.38The Egyptian Social Contract explores the intricacies of the relationship between the state and its citizens, from the establishment of the semi-independent Egyptian nation in 1922 until the 2011 Uprising. The book studies how and why a social contract... -
Ujamaa’s Army: The Creation and Evolution of the Tanzania People's Defence Force, 1964–1979 Charles G. Thomas 9780821425589
£73.61The immediate postcolonial moment brought both promise and peril for the states of Africa and their security. The process of decolonization generated instability, and the emergent Cold War caught up the still-fragile independent states in a global... -
Chrome Dome 1960–68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation Peter E. Davies 9781472860545
RRP: £16.99£12.28In 1960, SAC’s B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War’s most challenging operations was conceived and flown. Operation Chrome Dome was Strategic Air Command's unprecedented... -
Ottoman Translation: Circulating Texts from Bombay to Paris Marilyn Booth 9781399502580
RRP: £29.99£27.79Studies translation into and amongst the Ottoman Empire's many languages -
US Navy Pacific Fleet 1941: America's mighty last battleship fleet Mark Lardas 9781472859501
RRP: £15.99£12.46The first book to examine the battleship-led 1941 Pacific Fleet as it was intended to fight. Packed with illustrations, this study explains how the US Navy saw the approaching war unfolding. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the Pacific Fleet was... -
Lost Kilmarnock Frank Beattie 9781398118232
RRP: £15.99£10.85Kilmarnock is the largest town in Ayrshire and a major centre for the west of Scotland. It expanded hugely during the Industrial Revolution and in recent decades has rebuilt itself extensively, streets and structures built by Victorian planners being... -
Enemies among Us: The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War John E. Schmitz 9781496238870
RRP: £29.99£26.50Recent decades have drawn more attention to the United States’ treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Few people realize, however, the extent of the country’s relocation, internment, and repatriation of German and Italian Americans, who... -
Ancient Greeks in Their Own Words Matthew Dillon 9781803997902
RRP: £20.00£15.04This volume offers an eyewitness account of life in the classical world. The author has selected a series of telling extracts from Greek literature to provide a picture of the customs, concerns and underlying values of the ancient Greeks. The Greeks... -
Rembrandt's Holland Larry Silver 9781789148732
RRP: £14.95£10.92Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands shared a profound connection. Born in Leiden in 1606, the artist witnessed the birth of the independent Dutch Republic. Settling in Amsterdam, Rembrandt gained renown as the city's leading portraitist. However, his... -
Contemporary Hungarian Society: Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism Tibor Valuch 9781032351636
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines social change in Hungary, commencing with the period of late-stage socialism, the country’s immediate post-communist transition, its subsequent consolidation and the emergence of authoritarian leadership since 2010. The volume seeks to... -
Templars: The Knights Who Made Britain Steve Tibble 9780300279320
RRP: £11.99£10.15A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation—but not one they would recognize. Originally... -
India's Near East: A New History Avinash Paliwal 9781805260615
RRP: £35.00£31.24India's near east encompasses Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Indian states of the 'Northeast'--Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. Celebrated as a theatre of geo-economic connectivity typified by India's 'Act... -
Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship that Fought for Emancipation Stephen Taylor 9780300263992
RRP: £25.00£21.67The dramatic biography of a slaveship turned freedom-fighter—which brings new insights into Britain’s involvement in the end of the trade in enslaved people In 1827 the Royal Navy purchased a Baltimore clipper and renamed her the Black Joke. Assigned to... -
Across The Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440–1640 Sanjay Subrahmanyam 9780863569517
RRP: £45.00£39.49Beginning in the mid-fifteenth century, the regions bordering the western Indian Ocean – ‘the green sea,’ as it was known to Arabic speakers – underwent vast transformation. An era of commercial and cultural exchange blossomed between the Red Sea and... -
Tullahoma: The Forgotten Campaign that Changed the Course of the Civil War, June 23–July 4, 1863 David A Powell 9781611217230
RRP: £19.99£16.36July 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of the Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South. Sandwiched geographically between them—and lost in the heady tumult of events—was news that William... -
Rebel Militias in Eastern Ukraine: From Leaderless Groups to Proxy Army Martin Laryš 9781032710907
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book extends principal-agent theory to the case of pro-Russian rebel militias in Eastern Ukraine.Russia's war in Ukraine demonstrates the much-discussed relations between the principal (Russia) and agent (rebel militias) in Eastern Ukraine. Russia’s... -
Seas of Plenty: Maritime Trade into England and Wales, c. 1400-1540 Iain Soden 9781398122895
RRP: £25.00£16.43This is a book about sea journeys made by brave souls – Italians, Germans, Dutch, and English – who battled storms, pirates and xenophobia to stock our homes and feed this island’s appetite for exotics and whatever we could not grow or make ourselves as... -
History of Economic Management in North Korea: From Planned Economy to Socialist Enterprise System Phillip Park 9781032770567
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book seeks to understand how the economic construction of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) evolved, shaped by the formulation and execution of various economic management systems spanning the years 1949 to 2023, in response to... -
What's in a Name? C Stella Davies 9781032830537
RRP: £85.00£73.86First Published in 1970, What's in a Name is intended for the layman who feels some curiosity about local names and would like to know more about them- their history, the clues they hold to the life of the past, and the methods of discovering what they... -
Hunter, Peasant, Rebel: Colonialism and the British Assam Frontier Manjeet Baruah 9781032620176
RRP: £135.00£117.28British Assam holds an important place in the history of the British Empire in South Asia. This is especially so in the context of colonial frontier-making. It is in this regard that the book examines what it culturally meant to be a hunter, peasant or... -
Creating and Failing the 9/11 Generation: The Real Story of September 11 Matthew Warshauer 9781032503868
RRP: £135.00£117.28Through a chronological and thematical approach, this book examines the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the effect on what President George W. Bush recognized as the 9/11 Generation.By providing cultural and generational context to 9/11 and... -
How to Fight a War Mike Martin 9781911723875
RRP: £15.99£14.47An indispensable guide to understanding modern warfare, especially the decisions made by politicians and generals—both good and bad. Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on... -
Refugees and Population Transfer Management in Europe, 1914–1920s Kamil Ruszała 9781032751627
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book provides a comprehensive study of refugee movements and population transfers across Europe during World War 1 and the early postwar period.Drawing parallels with contemporary migration issues, the book serves a social and educational purpose by... -
Towards a Dialogical History of Modern Architecture: Essays on Otherness and Canon Jorge Francisco Liernur 9781032589497
RRP: £130.00£112.11The book challenges three perspectives on the modern architectural canon: explanations that disregard impacts and effects beyond the North Atlantic (monologic), superficial modifications that simply add "Other" figures to the canon, and views that reject... -
Wake Island Wildcat: A Marine Fighter Pilot's Epic Battle at the Beginning of World War II William L. Ramsey 9780811776677
RRP: £25.00£18.50When the Japanese attacked Wake Island in December 1941—the same day as Pearl Harbor—Marine pilot Henry Elrod took to the skies in his F4F Wildcat fighter to defend the American military base on the tiny Pacific atoll, battling swarms of enemy planes and... -
Prelude to Modern Europe: 1815-1914 Llewellyn Woodward 9781032828640
RRP: £105.00£90.86First Published in 1972, Prelude to Modern Europe provides a political narrative, the social and economic background of events in Europe from 1815- 1914. Woodward's own deep sense for social values and the quality of life emerges conspicuously in his... -
World Order in History: Russia and the West Paul Dukes 9781032377384
RRP: £28.99£25.09World Order in History (1996) argues that historians’ ideas about world order have been influential in transforming nations’ sense of themselves, and it pursues these arguments with particular reference to Russia and the Soviet Union and the Western... -
Renaissance Dream Cultures Alessandro Arcangeli 9781032246727
RRP: £35.99£31.69This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflections and debates on the nature and value of dreams, and frameworks of interpretation. The chapters examine a variety of oneiric... -
A City Runs Through Them: Dublin and its Twenty River Bridges Fergal Tobin 9781838959371
RRP: £10.99£7.32An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges.Dublin started life on the south bank of the River Liffey and for six or seven centuries that is more or less where the town stayed. In all that time,... -
Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914 David Adelman 9781032538235
RRP: £135.00£117.28This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840–1914.Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich... -
Operation Suicide: The Remarkable True Story of WWII’s Most Daring Raid Robert Lyman 9781529440065
RRP: £10.99£7.40During the Second World War, it is hard to imagine a situation where the British High Command could think that one of the only ways they could attack Hitler was to send ten canoeists with limpet mines to paddle one hundred miles up the Gironde estuary,... -
Shackleton's Journey William Grill 9781838741297
RRP: £18.99£12.27This special 10th Anniversary Edition brings us a detailed visual narrative of Shackleton's journey to Antarctica, with new bonus material.Following the bestselling and award winning Shackleton's Journey, this special 10th Anniversary Edition brings you... -
Disability Studies Meets Microhistory: The Secret Life of Bíbí in Berlín Guðrún Valgerður Stefánsdóttir 9781032427263
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume explores the life of Bjargey “Bíbí” Kristjánsdóttir (1927–1999), an Icelandic woman with intellectual disabilities, through analysis of her autobiography and personal archive on the basis of the research disciplines of critical disability...