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Bamboozled!: How America Loses the Intellectual Game with Japan and Its Implications for Our Future in Asia: How America Loses the Intellectual Game with Japan and Its Implications for Our Future in Asia by Bradford J. Hall 9780765610058
RRP: €103.52€89.89As the influence of the United States in Asia declines with the end of the Cold War, America must look more to brains than military might in achieving our objectives in the region. But after repeatedly allowing Japan - our closest ally in Asia - to... -
Ancient Greece: Utopia and Reality by Pierre Leveque 9780500300381 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.46€2.69To understand ancient Greece is to understand our world. Its states numbered Athens, Sparta and Thebes; it founders were men such as Homer, Pythagoras and Socrates. This account explores the invention of philosophy, mathematics, democracy, drama,... -
The Oxford History of Britain by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780192852021 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€3.15This one-volume history of Britain tells the story of Britain and her peoples over two thousand years, from the Roman invasion to the present day. The work contains contributions from several historians who explore the relationship between the political,... -
D - Day: Normandy Revisited by Richard Bougaardt 9781904449294 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€3.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904449294Author Richard BougaardtFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Chaucer PressPublisher Chaucer Press -
A History of Wolverhampton by Chris Upton 9781860770807 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03€4.91The author traces the history of the town from the first grant of land by Wulfruna to the re-development of the 1990s; the first comprehensive account of this ancient town.Book InformationISBN 9781860770807Author Chris UptonFormat HardbackPage Count... -
History of the English Speaking Peoples: v. 4: Great Democracies by Winston S. Churchill 9780304340965 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€3.15Covers the days of peace following the downfall of Napoleon to the death of Queen Victoria and the beginning of the present era, including the British Empire at its highest peak, the creation of the dominions and the first steps towards the British... -
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning by Timothy Snyder 9781847923493 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75€16.95This book is longlisted for the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize. This is the essential new book by the author of Bloodlands - "The most important work of history for years." (Antony Beevor). A radical reframing of the Holocaust that challenges... -
Bygone Alton by Georgia Smith 9780850339475 [USED COPY]
RRP: €8.32€3.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850339475Author Georgia SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
History of Hampshire by Barbara Carpenter Turner 9780850332544 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€3.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850332544Author Barbara Carpenter TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Battles Lost and Won: Great Campaigns of World War II by Hanson W. Baldwin 9780831767068 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79€3.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780831767068Author Hanson W. BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Smithmark,U.S.Publisher Smithmark,U.S. -
The Battle of Britain: June-October 1940 by Matthew Parker 9780747234524 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.73In the summer of 1940, Britain's army had been driven ignominously from France, her allies had collapsed and the population was seized with invasion panic. It seemed only a matter of time before Britain was forced to surrender to Germany's terrifying and... -
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton 9780712674287 [USED COPY]
€4.20This work offers an insight into the rise of Hitler, the lightning dash of his armies to the Channel coast in 1940 and on the debacle of Dunkirk - the crucial and fundamental turning point of World War II.Book InformationISBN 9780712674287Author Len... -
Voices From the Great War by Peter Vansittart 9780712665438 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.90€2.73Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Sigfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain -voices famous and unknown - Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the... -
The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece by Victor Davis Hanson 9780340510582 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.85€12.22Classical scholars and military historians have long held that pitched infantry battle in ancient Greek society evolved as a necessary alternative to the more fundamental but exhausting business of warfare, which was the ravaging and destruction of crops... -
Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans: Britain and European Integration, 1945-63 by W. Kaiser 9780333776353 [USED COPY]
RRP: €54.74€47.87British policy towards European integration has been one of the most divisive issues in British politics since 1945. Based on a detailed evaluation of the newly accessible government records, of the Conservative Party records, private papers and... -
Konin: A Quest by Theo Richmond 9780224038904 [USED COPY]
€3.15In 1987 Theo Richmond, an English-born Jew, decided to take a six-month sabbatical to write a book - his first. It took him seven years. It began as a subject that excited his curiosity. It became an obsession. Eventually it took over his life. A blend... -
In Memoriam by Robin Cross 9780091925307 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€3.33Ninety years after the cessation of gunfire on the Western Front, the Imperial War Museum pays tribute to the memory of those who fought its battles with a major new exhibition. The exhibition focuses on remembrance, honouring the lives of the men and... -
Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands 1850-1950 by Don Kalb 9780822320128 [USED COPY]
RRP: €105.91€1.49Expanding Class is the study and story of industrial class relations in North Brabant, a Catholic province of The Netherlands, over a hundred-year period. In examining the lives of workers in one of Europe's more idiosyncratic industrial regions, Don... -
World War II in Photographs by 9781407574332 [USED COPY]
RRP: €7.13€2.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781407574332Format HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Parragon Book Service LtdPublisher Parragon -
Germany since Unification: The Development of the Berlin Republic by Klaus Larres 9780333919996 [USED COPY]
RRP: €44.03€3.25A decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the GDR and the end of the Cold War, Germany has begun to cope with the political, economic, social and nationalistic challenges unification has posed to its institutions and way of life in both... -
From Neutrality to Commitment: Dutch Foreign Policy, NATO and European Integration by William Mallinson 9781350169432
RRP: €39.26€22.17Until the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch, with their overseas empire, had managed to stay aloof from the machinations of intra-European fighting. However, the beginning of the Cold War found them persuaded by Britain and the US to break with their... -
Religion and Society at the Dawn of Modern Europe: Christianity Transformed, 1750-1850 by Professor Dr Rudolf Schloegl 9781350246775
RRP: €38.07€21.54This book reveals how, in confrontation with secularity, various new forms of Christianity evolved during the time of Europe's crisis of modernisation. Rudolf Schloegl provides a comprehensive overview of the development of religious institutions and... -
A History of Bristol and Gloucestershire by Brian S. Smith 9780850339932 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03€2.50Covering the entire ancient county created in the 11th century, this book includes that southern part incorporated in the short-lived county of Avon between 1974 and 1996. Since the first edition, in 1972, the book has remained in popular demand as the... -
Chronicle of the Roman Republic by Philip Matyszak 9780500051214 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.74€3.33From Romulus to Augustus, the Chronicle of the Roman Republic examines the succession of leaders who took Rome from a small fortified hilltop to the greatest empire of antiquity. Here we meet the builders of Rome - superstitious, brutal and utterly... -
Ten Days to D-Day: Countdown to the Liberation of Europe by David Stafford 9780316724777 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.80€2.73D-Day, 6th June 1944, was the climactic battle of World War II. Allied triumph was anything but inevitable - there was everything to play for and everything to lose. The story of the landings has been told and re-told many times, but no one has revealed... -
A Dictionary of British History by John Cannon 9780198608851 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€2.73When was the first motorway opened? What did the Levellers believe in? What was the book of sports? Where did the Rebecca riots take place? What prompted the Cat and Mouse Act? How long did the Hundred Years War last? When was the treaty of Worms for?... -
Europe, 1648-1815: From the Old Regime to the Age of Revolution by Robin W. Winks 9780195154467
€133.82In 1648, Europe was reeling from the destabilizing effects of religious conflict, economic change, and social upheaval. The issues that divided the Church in the late Middle Ages had forced Europeans to choose sides in a bitter and bloody... -
The Battle by Alessandro Barbero 9781843543107 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€3.15At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero's majestic account combines British and French histories to give voice to all nationions involved. The Battle is a... -
Bizarre London: Discover the Capital's Secrets & Surprises by David Long 9781510742116 [USED COPY]
RRP: €17.84€10.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510742116Author David LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272g -
The Normandy Landings D-Day: The Invasion of Europe 6 June 1944 by Derek Blizard 9780600579052 [USED COPY]
RRP: €15.46€2.73On 6 June 1944, the greatest invasion the world has ever seen took place; involving hundreds of thousands of troops and huge flotillas of boats and ships, the D-Day landings on the Normandy coast were a triumph of strategic planning and management. This... -
The Road to Verdun: France, Nationalism and the First World War by Ian Ousby 9780712664301 [USED COPY]
€2.73Verdun was the largest, the longest and the bloodiest battle between the French and Germans in the First World War, lasting from February 1916 until the end of the year and claiming more than 700,000 casualties. For the French in particular, it was... -
Blood Tub by Jonathan Walker 9781862270220 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.74€4.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781862270220Author Jonathan WalkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Howell PressPublisher Howell PressWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm *... -
Life on a Mediaeval Barony: A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis 9781410219183
RRP: €23.74€20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410219183Author William Stearns DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the... -
Witnesses Of War: Childrens Lives Under The Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt 9780224064798 [USED COPY]
€4.18Even in this most murderous of European wars, children were not merely passive victims of genocide, bombing, mechanised warfare, starvation policies and mass flight. They were also active participants, going out to smuggle food, ply the black market, and... -
Roman Britain by Peter Salway 9780192851437 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.73Reissued in new covers, this is the first volume in the "Oxford History of England". It draws on literary sources and advances in archaeology, charting life in Roman Britain from the first Roman invasion under Julius Caesar to the final collapse of the... -
Citizen Soldiers: From The Normandy Beaches To The Surrender Of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose 9780743450157 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€2.73This sequel to D-DAY opens at 00:01 hours, June 7, 1944 on the Normandy Beaches and ends at 02:45 hours, May 7, 1945. In between comes the battles in the hedgerows of Normandy, the breakout of Saint-Lo, the Falaise gap, Patton tearing through France, the... -
Sovereign Ladies by Maureen Waller 9780719567148 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.27€2.73In the last millennium there have been only six female sovereigns: Mary I and Elizabeth I, Mary II and Anne, Victoria and Elizabeth II, who celebrated her eightieth birthday in 2006. With the exception of Mary I, they are among our most successful... -
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire by Lawrence James 9780316851473 [USED COPY]
RRP: €29.75€3.33Great Britain's geopolitical role in the global scheme of things has undergone many radical changes over the last four centuries. Once a maritime superpower and ruler of half the world, Britain's current position as an isolated, economically fragile... -
Great Tales From English History: Cheddar Man to DNA by Robert Lacey 9780316726740 [USED COPY]
RRP: €19.03€2.73From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage and passion - a rich and vibrant narrative of heroes and villains, kings and rebels, artists and highwaymen, bishops and scientists. Now, in Great... -
Memories of Britain Past: The Illustrated Story of How We Lived, Worked and Played by Juliet Gardiner 9780276446634 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79€3.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780276446634Author Juliet GardinerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Reader's DigestPublisher Reader's Digest