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Destination Casablanca: Exile, Espionage, and the Battle for North Africa in World War II by Meredith Hindley 9781541762718
RRP: £15.99£10.14In the summer of 1940, following France's surrender to Germany, Casablanca was transformed from an exotic travel destination to a key military target. Nazi agents and collaborators soon overran the city looking to capitalize on the new Vichy regime. The... -
Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
RRP: £10.99£8.02A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford'An exhilarating journey through the myths, misconceptions and stereotypes of... -
It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time ''We need this book.' SIMON REEVE by Astrid Madimba
RRP: £10.99£7.30'We need this book' SIMON REEVE'Illuminating' FINANCIAL TIMESWhy is Africa often perceived as a single country? What role did African soldiers play in the Second World War?Who else led the charge against Apartheid in South Africa?How did an African man... -
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles by Richard Dowden 9781846277030
RRP: £12.99£8.81Every time you try to say 'Africa is...' the words crumble and break. From every generalisation you must exclude at least five countries. And just as you think you've nailed down a certainty, you find the opposite is also true. Africa is full of... -
Bunny vs Monkey by Jamie Smart 9781788451772
RRP: £9.99£7.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788451772Author Jamie SmartFormat PaperbackImprint David Fickling BooksPublisher David Fickling Books -
The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £10.99£8.02'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy... -
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
RRP: £14.99£10.95Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Cundill History Prize, Fage and Oliver Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award Winner of the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown 2020Winner of the American... -
Mirabelle Gets up to Mischief by Harriet Muncaster 9780192776495
RRP: £6.99£5.70Beautifully illustrated in two colour, this new series of chapter books introduces Isadora Moon's cousin! Meet Mirabelle, half witch, half fairy and totally naughtya| There will be spells, there will be flying but mostly there will be mischief!Half... -
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
RRP: £10.99£7.96Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver.In the late nineteenth century,... -
The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats by Juliet Barnes
RRP: £12.00£8.02Happy Valley was the name given to the Wanjohi Valley in the Kenya Highlands, where a small community of affluent, hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. While Kenya's early colonial days have been immortalised by farming pioneers like... -
I Write What I Like by Steve Biko
RRP: £11.89£11.11On 12th September 1977, Steve Biko was murdered in his prison cell. He was only 31, but his vision and charisma - captured in this collection of his work - had already transformed the agenda of South African politics. This book covers the basic... -
Insight Guides Tanzania & Zanzibar (Travel Guide with Free eBook) by Insight Guides
RRP: £16.99£10.04Insight Guides Tanzania and Zanzibar Travel made easy. Ask local experts. Comprehensive travel guide packed with inspirational photography and fascinating cultural insights, now with free eBook. From deciding when to go, to choosing what to see when... -
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
£14.65The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution,... -
A Short History Of Africa: From the Origins of the Human Race to the Arab Revolts of 2011 by Gordon Kerr 9781842434420
RRP: £12.99£8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781842434420Author Gordon KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pocket EssentialsPublisher Oldcastle Books LtdWeight(grams) 155g -
A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition by Leonard Thompson
RRP: £16.99£15.28A fresh and penetrating exploration of South Africa's history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present"I did not think it was possible for a white person to write a history of South Africa which a black South African would... -
The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Martin Meredith
£8.25'Meredith has given a spectacularly clear view of the African political jungle' - Spectator 'This book is hard to beat... Elegantly written as well as unerringly accurate' - Financial Times The fortunes of Africa have changed dramatically since the... -
Shebeen Tales: Messages from Harare by Chenjerai Hove 9781897959329
£6.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897959329Author Chenjerai HoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint SerifPublisher SerifWeight(grams) 120g -
Mixed-Media Collagraph Prints: Creative Techniques by Vicky Oldfield 9780719841064
£10.78This practical and well-illustrated book gives a full account of how to make bold, dynamic collagraph prints. It explains a range of techniques from drypoint to collagraph, as well as viscosity printing and mixed media. Packed with finished examples, it... -
African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker
RRP: £8.99£6.70Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current... -
Rorke's Drift by Adrian Greaves
RRP: £12.99£8.43The story of the bravest battle ever fought.On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned... -
Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon
RRP: £10.99£8.02The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted... -
Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure by Michael Asher
RRP: £12.99£9.34The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero... -
A Dying Colonialism by Frantz Fanon
RRP: £12.99£8.25Frantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern... -
History of South Africa: 1902 to the Present by Thula Simpson
£19.11South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and... -
Better Brand Health: Brand Measurement and Metrics for a How Brands Grow World by Jenni Romaniuk 9780190340902
RRP: £20.99£19.69The book is about brand health tracking, one of the biggest (and most costly) sources of insights about brand performance and inputs into brand strategy that marketers engage in. But yet most trackers were designed pre-How Brands Grow, and so suffer from... -
Great Kingdoms of Africa by John Parker
RRP: £25.00£16.27An essential overview of great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts. From the ancient Nile Valley to the savannas of medieval West Africa, the highlands of Ethiopia and on to the forests, lakes and grasslands... -
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume I by Ian Knight
RRP: £25.00£17.62The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out - spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift. - Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds V.C., Army Medical Department On 22... -
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa by Jason Stearns
RRP: £14.99£9.57A Best Book of the Year- The Economist & the Wall Street Journal At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal war in which millions have died... -
A Brief History of South Africa: From Earliest Times to the Mandela Presidency by John Pampallis 9781928232957
£10.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928232957Author John PampallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 168g -
It's a Continent: Unravelling Africa's history one country at a time by Astrid Madimba
RRP: £20.00£12.69'. . . we need this book. Of course Africa needs it as well, because no other huge area of the planet is treated as such a singular region, and that has to change. But the rest of the planet needs It's a Continent because we miss out by not recognising... -
A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels
RRP: £19.99£14.68During the West's great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did not believe would deliver proper... -
Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift by Ian Knight
£12.18The battle of iSandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonisation of South Africa. In one bloody day over 800 British troops, 500 of their allies and at least 2000 Zulus were killed in a staggering... -
An Anthology of Somali Poetry by B. W. Andrzejewski
£11.49"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." -Bloomsbury Review" . . . this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the... -
Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: £9.99£7.36'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into... -
Born in Blackness: Africa and the Making of the Modern World by Howard W. French
RRP: £15.99£13.58In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the... -
Formation: The Making of Nigeria, From Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule
RRP: £19.99£13.96Formation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that led to the creation of the modern Nigerian nation: from 1804 when the first Jihadists began their attack on a collection of independent nations to 1914 when the current shape of Nigeria... -
Africa's Tarnished Name by Chinua Achebe
RRP: £3.00£2.74He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by othersElectrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.Penguin Modern: fifty new books... -
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
£7.96With an introduction by Rory StewartWinner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history.All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only... -
Algeria: France's Undeclared War by Martin Evans 9780199669035
RRP: £15.99£12.01Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from... -
Battle on the Lomba 1987: The Day a South African Armoured Battalion Shattered Angola’s Last Mechanized Offensive - a Crew Commander's Account by David Mannall 9781909982024
RRP: £19.95£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982024Author David MannallFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company