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The Trojan War by Barry Strauss
RRP: £12.99£9.09Did the Trojan War really happen?Spectacular new archaeological evidence suggests that it did. Recent excavations and newly translated Hittite texts reveal that Troy was a large, wealthy city allied with the Hittite Empire. Located at the strategic... -
The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083342Author John ZubrzyckiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street PublishingDimensions(mm) 230mm * 145mm * 22mm -
Operation Pineapple Express: The Incredible Story of a Group of Americans Who Undertook One Last Mission and Honored a Promise in Afghanistan by LT Col Scott Mann 9781668003640
RRP: £19.99£12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668003640Author LT Col Scott MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Japan: A Short History by Mikiso Hane
RRP: £10.99£7.77What is a shogun? Who were the samurai and what is the warrior code? What lies behind the Japanese work ethic? From the ancient tea ceremony to the boom and subsequent downturn of its economic prosperity, this uniquely concise introduction to Japan and... -
Horror In The East by Laurence Rees
RRP: £10.99£7.77The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of the greatest horrors of the Twentieth Century. Here Laurence Rees, award-winning historian and author of... -
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk
RRP: £10.99£7.05The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of... -
Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem by Gary Snyder
RRP: £15.99£10.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434070Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 249g -
Colonial Emigration From The Bengal Presidency by Basdeo Mangru 9781906190880
RRP: £9.99£6.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190880Author Basdeo MangruFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 205g -
Wing Chun In-Depth: Skills for Combat, Strategies for Life by Munawar Ali Karim
RRP: £33.99£22.39A rare in-depth look at the history, teachings, and wider implications of Wing Chun Wing Chun In-Depth offers an historical overview of the art's development, it examines how to properly approach training for fighting skills that give you an edge in... -
The Way of the Samurai by Inazo Nitobe 9781788885072
RRP: £6.99£5.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788885072Author Inazo NitobeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
Republic of Religion: The Rise and Fall of Colonial Secularism in India by Abhinav Chandrachud 9780670092451
RRP: £23.99£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670092451Author Abhinav ChandrachudFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House India -
China's Last Empire: The Great Qing by William T. Rowe
£29.38In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three... -
Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide by Alexander Laban Hinton 9780520241794
RRP: £30.00£22.82Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it,... -
A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology by Pamela Kyle Crossley
RRP: £30.00£23.22In this landmark exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, Pamela Kyle Crossley traces the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing (1636-1912), incorporated neighboring, but disparate, political... -
Sog Medic: Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence by Joe Parnar 9781612006338
RRP: £25.00£16.24Elite units carried out many dangerous operations during the Vietnam War, the most secret and hazardous of which were conducted by the Studies and Observations Group, formed in 1964. In the years since the Vietnam War, the elite unit known as SOG has... -
Hong Kong Then and Now (R) by Vaughan Grylls
RRP: £14.99£12.10Hong Kong was first captured on camera when the British arrived to lay claim to its 'fragrant harbour' in 1841. Its fascinating history has been documented through photography ever since - from its rapid expansion as a Crown Colony to its handover to... -
The Underground Village by Kyeong-ae Kang 9781915829054
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915829054Author Kyeong-ae KangFormat PaperbackImprint Honford StarPublisher Honford Star -
Empires of the Indus: 10th Anniversary Edition by Alice Albinia
RRP: £12.99£9.0910th anniversary edition with new PrefaceOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a... -
Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land by Patrick French
RRP: £14.99£10.95From the author of India: A Portrait, Patrick French's Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land has been acclaimed as the book that showed the real Tibet for the first time. Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our... -
History of the Caucasus: Volume 1: At the Crossroads of Empires by Christoph Baumer
RRP: £30.00£24.39"Magnificent [and] wondrous." The Spectator "Rich and illuminating." Literary Review "Phenomenally accurate." History Today "Stunning." The Morning Star "Sweeping." The New European "A wonderful book." Current World Archaeology "In a class of... -
History of the Caucasus: Volume 2: In the Shadow of Great Powers by Christoph Baumer 9780755636280
RRP: £35.00£30.34In the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer's History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk domination of the Southern Caucasus around 1050 CE to the present day. After the Kingdom of Georgia's golden age of... -
A Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People by Michael J. Seth
RRP: £13.99£8.93Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times-one isolated and secretive and the other among the world's... -
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation by Declan Walsh
RRP: £10.99£7.77'All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read this book' - Pankaj MishraThe demise of Pakistan - a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam - is regularly predicted. But things rarely... -
Razor 03: A Night Stalker s Wars by Mack, Alan 9781399018692
RRP: £25.00£18.02The US Army's Special Operations Aviation Regiment fields the best helicopter pilots in the world. Alan Mack was one of these intrepid Night Stalkers, proving his mettle through the rigors of training, endless deployments, and decades of war, during... -
The First Emperor: Selections from the Historical Records by Sima Qian
RRP: £7.99£5.79'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.' The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First... -
Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975 by Alexander V. Pantsov
RRP: £30.00£26.03An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years,... -
Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century by Sugata Bose 9780674423497
RRP: £29.95£23.59A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism.The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and... -
Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History by Scott Nygren 9780816647088
RRP: £21.99£19.19Until 1951, when Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema... -
A Brief History of the Dynasties of China by Bamber Gascoigne
RRP: £12.99£3.51Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between the fame of its art and obscurity of its history. The names of the great dynasties are familiar, yet who can actually locate a T'ang... -
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon
RRP: £30.00£21.35The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the... -
Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World by Justin Marozzi
RRP: £14.99£9.70A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history's most extreme tyrants, and the subject of Marlowe's famous play. Marozzi travelled in the footsteps of the great Mogul Emperor of Samarkland... -
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction by James A. Millward
RRP: £10.49£7.44The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid images: of merchants leading camel caravans over deserts and steppes to trade exotic goods in the bazaars of glittering Oriental cities, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to gather scriptures and... -
Ninja: The (Unofficial) Secret Manual by Stephen Turnbull
RRP: £12.95£9.07The ninja, Japan's famous black-clad spies and assassins renowned for their superb martial arts skills, are the stuff of legend, their shadowy dealings inspiring countless tales in Japanese folklore. No other military figure in the world has captured the... -
A History of Korea: An Episodic Narrative by Kyung Moon Hwang
RRP: £23.99£22.37Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern... -
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe by Barry Cunliffe 9780198820130
RRP: £18.99£14.01Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland... -
The Armed Forces of North Korea: On the Path of Songun by Stijn Mitzer 9781910777145
RRP: £45.00£42.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910777145Author Stijn MitzerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography by Ralf Ruckus
RRP: £16.99£13.80'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian
RRP: £30.49£21.68The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding... -
The Ahoms: A Reimagined History by Arup Kumar Dutta
£21.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356294141Author Arup Kumar DuttaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 487gDimensions(mm)... -
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery 9781907994692
RRP: £24.50£21.57This is a book about Sir John Cowperthwaite - the man Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman identified as being behind Hong Kong's remarkable post-war economic transformation. Despite there being some articles about him and effusive obituaries...