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The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £12.99£9.34Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his... -
The Splintered Empires: The Eastern Front 1917-21 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.87At the beginning of 1917, the three empires fighting on the Eastern Front were reaching their breaking points, but none was closer than Russia. After the February Revolution, Russia's ability to wage war faltered and her last desperate gamble, the... -
Russia's Road to War with Ukraine: Invasion amidst the ashes of empires by Samir Puri 9781785907708
RRP: £20.00£14.70When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the bloodshed and slaughter to come had been there for... -
Yugoslav Armies 1941-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £11.99£8.66In March 1941, an anti-German coup in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia prompted Hitler to order an invasion using allied Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian forces. Operation Marita was an invasion of Yugoslavia and simultaneously Greece. At the same... -
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto by Dawid Sierakowiak 9780195122855
RRP: £18.49£14.87"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us."... -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781350360747
RRP: £16.99£16.38Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania -... -
Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood by Demick, Barbara 9780812982763
RRP: £20.00£13.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982763Author Barbara DemickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
History of Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History, Ivan the Terrible, The Russian Revolution and Cambridge Five by Captivating History 9781950922130
RRP: £19.97£14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922130Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Ch PublicationsPublisher Ch PublicationsWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Modern Times: The Biography of a Hungarian-Jewish Family by Stephen Pogany 9780993189647
RRP: £10.00£9.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993189647Author Stephen PoganyFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint BrandramPublisher BrandramWeight(grams) 308g -
The Forest Brotherhood: Baltic Resistance against the Nazis and Soviets by Dan Kaszeta
RRP: £25.00£22.38Stalin's USSR and Hitler's Reich-- the populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had been subjected to a brutal Soviet occupation in 1940, Nazi invasion in 1941, and Soviet re-occupation in 1944, falsely branded as 'liberation'. Variously labelled... -
Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression by Kevin McDermott 9780719089022
RRP: £19.99£17.61This wide-ranging collection of essays, newly available in paperback, is the first book in English to examine the impact of Stalinist terror on Eastern Europe in the years 1940 to 1956. Covering the Baltic states, Moldavia, East Germany, Poland,... -
Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution by Victor Verney
RRP: £14.99£11.11Born in 1360, Jan Zizka was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions - military, religious, political and social - that engulfed medieval Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The leader... -
Dracula, Prince Of Many Faces: His Life and Times by Radu R. Florescu 9780316286565
RRP: £17.00£13.70A 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... -
Light and Shadow: Isolation and Interaction in the Shala Valley of Northern Albania by Michael L. Galaty
RRP: £57.00£52.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931745710Author Michael L. GalatyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLAPublisher Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at... -
The Road To Berlin by John Erickson
RRP: £14.99£10.45A compelling account of the Red Army's epic struggle to drive the Germans out of Russia and back to Berlin.Beginning with the destruction of the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad, THE ROAD TO BERLIN is the story of how the Red Army drove the Germans from... -
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia: A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914 by Alexander Morrison
RRP: £79.99£73.16The Russian conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion, adding 1.5 million square miles and at least 6 million people - most of them Muslims - to the Tsar's domains... -
In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond Robert D. Kaplan 9780812986624
RRP: £14.99£10.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986624Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Rockets and Missiles Over Ukraine: The Changing Face of Battle by Mihajlo S Mihajlović 9781399048101
RRP: £25.00£17.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Under the Devil's Eye: The British Military Experience in Macedonia 1915 - 1918 by Simon Moody
RRP: £14.99£11.79The authors have researched the Salonika Campaign in every detail, from the arrival of the first British troops in 1915 to final victory. During this period large numbers of British and allied troops were tied up in the strategically vital Balkans. ... -
Impossible Country by Brian Hall
RRP: £16.99£12.47'Here is art which conceals art, and intellect which conceals intellect, so that by the end of the book one feels that one understands something one had not understood before. Mr Hall is witty and amusing, but not snide; he has a lightness of touch which... -
Kosovo: a Short History by Noel Malcolm 9781509893591
£20.40By the early-1980s Kosovo had reached a state of permanent crisis and military occupation, and it became the main focus for the revival of Serbian nationalism. This book traces the history of Kosovo, examining the Yugoslavian conflict, and the part... -
1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals: Raleigh Lectures on History, 1944 by Sir Lewis Namier 9780197261118
RRP: £25.00£24.65This famous essay is now republished, with a new Introduction by James Joll, at a time when its discussion of the power of nationalism in European politics seems particularly relevant. Concentrating on the revolutions in central and eastern Europe, and... -
Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk 9781802062915
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The extraordinary writers in this volume articulate the taste, the terror, and the dialect of war; they command their powers of description to face a shameless empire intent on annihilating them' Ellena SavageA selection of Ukraine's leading writers... -
Keys of This Blood: Pope John Paul II Versus Russia and the West for Control of the New World Order by Martin 9780671747237
£32.76Synopsis coming soon.......Book InformationISBN 9780671747237Author MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 790gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 155mm * 50mm -
Polish Armor of the Blitzkrieg by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: £12.99£11.17The 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... -
Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeleine Albright
RRP: £10.99£7.46By turns harrowing and inspiring, "Prague Winter" is Madeleine Albright's account of her early life from 1937 to 1948, a dozen years that witnessed the Nazi invasion of her native Prague, World War II, the Holocaust, the defeat of fascism, the rise of... -
Genocide and Rescue in Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the Poles During World War II by Tadeusz Piotrowski 9780786442454
RRP: £24.99£20.69After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of thousands of Poles were tortured and... -
A Concise History of Albania by Bernd J. Fischer
RRP: £22.99£19.56A Concise History of Albania charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan and European contexts. It shows the country's journey from its ancient past, still shrouded in mystery and controversy, through its difficult transition from a... -
Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption by Ion Mihai Pacepa 9780895267467
RRP: £19.99£13.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895267467Author Ion Mihai PacepaFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Publisher Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Allies in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of British POWs Held Captive in the Nazis' Most Infamous Death Camp by Duncan Little 9781905570218
RRP: £9.99£7.32The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reich's most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration camp - whose horrors are well-documented - but also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Situated close enough... -
A Concise History of Russia by Paul Bushkovitch 9780521543231
RRP: £24.99£20.75Accessible to students, tourists and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history resulting from the end of... -
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present by Serhii Plokhy 9780674268838
RRP: £16.95£14.06The 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... -
A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: £28.00£22.14At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan... -
A History of the Czech Lands Jaroslav Panek 9788024622279
RRP: £40.00£39.85Born January 1, 1993, after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside its modern borders boast an ancient and intricate past. With A... -
Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17 by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.87Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916. After the success of the 1915 Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, which... -
The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen
RRP: £10.99£7.99The '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... -
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 by Joe Sacco
RRP: £18.99£14.72In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb... -
Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy Julian Hayes 9781472146540
RRP: £25.00£14.88The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. 'An extraordinary life . . . a vivid account' Telegraph'Completely absorbing' CAROL ANN LEE, author of The Murders at White House Farm and A Passion For... -
Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War by Ian Ona Johnson
£29.00When Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, launching World War Two, its army seemed an unstoppable force. The Luftwaffe bombed towns and cities across the country, and fifty divisions of the Wehrmacht crossed the border. Yet only two decades... -
Polish Winged Hussar 1556-1775 by Richard Brzezinski 9781841766508
£11.93This book examines the origins and development of the Polish Winged Hussars. Using many years' painstaking research drawn from unpublished Polish sources, the author provides a rounded view of the training, tactics, appearance and experiences of these...