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Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer
RRP: £12.99£8.60"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"Essential reading" History Today"A moving evocation . . . An illuminating if harrowing insight into life in a totalitarian state... -
Roman Standards & Standard-Bearers 1: 112 BC-AD 192 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £14.99£10.95Roman unit standards played a important role, both ceremonially and on the battlefield. With the armies of the late Roman Republic and early Empire continually engaged on the frontiers, the soldiers selected for the dangerous honour of carrying them were... -
Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68Making use of the extensive memoirs of German and Russian soldiers to bring this story to life, Retribution follows on from On A Knife's Edge, which described the encirclement and destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and the offensives and... -
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
RRP: £10.99£7.40FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENTFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern... -
Danube by Claudio Magris
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Neither a travel book, nor a vast prose poem, nor a history, nor philosophy, nor voyage of discovery, but often all at once' Independent on SundayWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD FLANAGAN In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is... -
Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution by Noam Chomsky 9781629634425
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634425Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians by Noel Malcolm
£57.70Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have... -
The Ottoman Empire: 1300-1600 by Halil Inalcik
RRP: £14.99£8.54Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire's growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power.Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the... -
Danube a Cultural History by Andrew Beattie 9781904955665
RRP: £15.00£13.65The Danube is the longest river in western and central Europe. Rising amidst the beautiful wooded hills of Germany s Black Forest, it touches or winds its way through ten countries and four capital cities before emptying into the Black Sea through a vast... -
Battleground Prussia: The Assault on Germany's Eastern Front 1944-45 by Prit Buttar 9781849087902
RRP: £16.99£13.56An engrossing history of the last year of the Second World War, charting the battles fought between the Soviet Red Army and the Nazis across German soil. The terrible months between the arrival of the Red Army on German soil and the final collapse of... -
The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Martyn Rady
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, they ruled much of Central Europe, and for two centuries were also rulers of Spain. Through the Spanish connection, they acquired lands... -
Polish Armor of the Blitzkrieg by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: £12.99£11.01The Polish army during the Blitzkrieg conjures up tragic images of infantry and dashing, but ineffective and ultimately doomed cavalry charges. In actuality the Poles, in the midst of a large-scale re-armament programme, had up to 600 armoured vehicles... -
Dracula, Prince Of Many Faces: His Life and Times by Radu R. Florescu 9780316286565
RRP: £17.00£12.13A biography of the 15th Century Prince of Romania, Vlad Dracula (1431-1476), nicknamed the Impale and on whom Bram Stoker based his fictional character. It covers his career as ruler of Wallachia, terror of Transylvania and crusader against the Turks... -
The Border - A Journey Around Russia: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 by Erika Fatland
RRP: £14.99£9.80"Erika Fatland [is] shaping up to be one of the Nordics' most exciting new travel writers" National Geographic**SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORDS DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020**"A hauntingly lyrical meditation to the contingencies of history" Wall... -
Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle by Dagnija Neimane 9780997553307
RRP: £13.75£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997553307Author Dagnija NeimaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Dagnija NeimanePublisher Dagnija NeimaneWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Faust's Metropolis: A History of Berlin by Alexandra Richie
RRP: £25.99£19.28'Beautifully conceived and marvellously researched. I haven't read a better book on Berlin.' Gordon A. Craig In Berlin, history is tangible. The sense of the past - of Europe, of Germany, and of the 20th-century's myths, depravities, idealism... -
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present by Serhii Plokhy 9780674268838
RRP: £16.95£13.85The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War... -
The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl by Alexander Watson
RRP: £12.99£9.09WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY AND THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019, AND FINANCIAL... -
Croatia: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Marcus Tanner
RRP: £13.99£12.25In this updated edition of his acclaimed history, Marcus Tanner takes us from the first Croat principalities of the Early Middle Ages through to the country's independence in the modern era "Full of absorbing stories and important insights,... -
Polish Legions 1914-19 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £10.99£8.38Due to its partitions and dissolution in the late eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers enlisted in distinct units in the armies of many countries - primarily those of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, but also that of the... -
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
RRP: £18.99£14.01'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasThe epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself.As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives... -
The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama by Nigel Cliff
RRP: £16.99£11.67In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies, opening up access to the fabled wealth of the East. It was the longest voyage known to history; the ships were... -
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon 9780330515795
RRP: £9.99£6.87'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasThe World and All That It Holds is the epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself.As the... -
The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. Newly... -
Ju 87D/G STUKA versus T-34: Eastern Front 1942–45 by Robert Forsyth 9781472854759
RRP: £15.99£11.61An examination of two of the most high-profile air and land weapons to be deployed on the Eastern Front in World War II. In late 1942, as part of its attempts to strike back at ever-increasing numbers of Soviet tanks, the German air ministry... -
The Collapse of Yugoslavia: 1991-99 by Professor Alastair Finlan
RRP: £11.99£8.43An accessible illustrated introduction to the brutal conflict in the former Yugoslavia, one of the greatest yet least understood tragedies of the 20th century. In 1991, an ethnically diverse and peaceful region of Europe descended into violence,... -
Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know® by Serhy Yekelchyk
RRP: £12.99£9.09Conventional wisdom dictates that Ukraine's political crises can be traced to the linguistic differences and divided political loyalties that have long fractured the country. However, this theory obscures the true significance of Ukraine's recent civic... -
For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Nothing I have read is more affecting than Mihail Sebastian's magnificent, haunting 1934 novel, For Two Thousand Years' - Philippe Sands, Guardian Books of the YearA prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time'Absolutely,... -
Romania: An Illustrated History by Nicolae Klepper 9780781809351
RRP: £10.99£8.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
From the Realm of a Dying Sun. Volume 3: Iv. Ss-Panzerkorps from Budapest to Vienna, February-May 1945 by Douglas E. Nash Sr.
RRP: £30.00£21.35In the closing months of World War II, with Budapest's fall on 12 February 1945 and the breakout attempt by the IX SS-Gebirgskorps having failed, the only thing the IV. SS-Panzerkorps could do was fall back to a more defensible line and fortify the key... -
Crown of Thorns: The Reign of King Boris III of Bulgaria, 1918-1943 by Stephane Groueff 9781568331140
RRP: £25.00£18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568331140Author Stephane GroueffFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm... -
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City by Alexandra Richie
RRP: £18.99£12.71The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war... -
The Skripal Files: The only book you need to read on the Salisbury Poisonings by Mark Urban
RRP: £9.99£7.27The Skripal Files tells the full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings, one of the most shocking incidents to occur in Britain in recent memory. Broadcaster and historian Mark Urban interviewed Sergei Skripal in the months before the poisoning and... -
The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi by Daniel Lee 9780316509091
RRP: £28.00£17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316509091Author Daniel LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 30mm -
World War II Croatian Legionaries: Croatian Troops under Axis Command 1941-45 by Vladimir Brnardic
RRP: £11.99£8.43As Europe descended into war the newly formed state of Croatia found itself an ally in Nazi Germany. Tens of thousands of Croatians volunteered for the German Wehrmacht, with Croatian-badged units created within the Army, Navy, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS and... -
Ukraine At War: Street Art, Posters + Poetry by Daoud Sarhandi-Williams 9781623717261
RRP: £35.00£22.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623717261Author Daoud Sarhandi-WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
The British and Cyprus: An Outpost of Empire to Sovereign Bases, 1878-1974 by Mark Simmons
RRP: £17.99£13.64The relationship between Britain and Cyprus over the course of the past 100 years has been a constantly evolving one. Since the First World War, Cyprus has played a key role in British defence strategy, and, after the withdrawal from Egypt, the island... -
The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Fritz Bartel
RRP: £38.95£31.69A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people.Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal... -
Mongol Warrior vs European Knight: Eastern Europe 1237–42 by Stephen Turnbull
RRP: £15.99£11.61Featuring specially commissioned artwork and maps, carefully chosen illustrations and insightful analysis, this book examines the legendary Mongol warriors and their vastly different European opponents. Having conquered much of Central Asia by 1237,... -
No Greater Ally: The Untold Story of Poland's Forces in World War II by Kenneth K. Koskodan 9781849084796
RRP: £10.99£8.38An in-depth history of the Polish soldiers who served in World War 2, with previously unpublished first-hand accounts and rare photographs. There is a chapter of World War II history that remains largely untold; the monumental struggles of an entire...