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In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West by Bruce Gilley
RRP: $42.90$35.35Famed historian and author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its early roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where... -
HST: The Train That Saved Britain's Railways by Andrew Royle 9781910809983
RRP: $39.00$29.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809983Author Andrew RoyleFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingWeight(grams) 215g -
Carshalton, Wallington and Beddington by John Phillips 9780752403410
RRP: $25.33$18.76Carshalton, Wallington and BeddingtonBook InformationISBN 9780752403410Author John PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
3 Commando Brigade in the Falklands: No Picnic by Julian Thompson
RRP: $31.18$22.64Major General Julian Thompson first wrote No Picnic when the momentous events of April - June 1982 were fresh in his mind. As Commander of 3 Commando Brigade, he was at the heart of the planning and conduct of the War. Under his direct command had been... -
Battersea and Clapham by Patrick Loobey 9780752416502
RRP: $29.23$22.52This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN 9780752416502Author Patrick... -
Bloc Life: Stories from the Lost World of Communism by Peter Molloy
RRP: $31.18$22.64There was life before the fall.1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Bloc Life... -
The Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $50.68$47.11'Unquestionably the most authoritative, balanced, readable, and meticulously documented introduction to the Third Reich.' - International History Review Sir Ian Kershaw is regarded by many as the world's leading authority on Hitler and the Third... -
The Fabrication of Louis XIV by Peter Burke 9780300059434
RRP: $29.15$25.37Louis XIV was a man like any other, but the money and attention lavished on his public image by the French government transformed him into a godlike figure. In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary... -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781350360747
RRP: $33.13$27.40Stalinism, 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 -... -
Emperors of Rome by David Potter
RRP: $25.33$16.77The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the... -
Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935 by Martin Windrow
RRP: $33.13$24.45The gripping true story of the French Foreign Legion in the Sahara.Ever since the 1920s the popular legend of the French Foreign Legion has been formed by P.C. Wren's novel BEAU GESTE - a world of remote forts, warrior tribes, and desperate men of all... -
English History: Strange but True by Richard Smyth 9780750983648
RRP: $19.48$14.72This book is a treasure trove of English oddities, crammed with the most curious stories, remarkable facts and unexpected goings-on from the country's long and convoluted history. From frogs' legs at Stonehenge to knicker elastic in the Blitz, this is... -
Cromwell Was Framed: Ireland 1649 by Tom Reilly 9781782795162
RRP: $29.23$25.41The publication of "Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy" fifteen years ago sparked off a storm of controversy with many historians publically deriding the divisive and groundbreaking study. Dissatisfied with the counter-explanations of these... -
The Great Turning Points of British History: The 20 Events That Made the Nation by Michael Wood
RRP: $21.43$12.62Twenty of the most crucial moments in Britain's history.BBC History Magazine asked a selection of leading historians to choose and describe the twenty most important turning points in British history from AD 1000 to 2000. Collected together, their... -
On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) by Nora Krug
RRP: $33.13$24.73A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in... -
Roman Britain: Life at the Edge of Empire by Ralph Jackson
RRP: $25.33$16.77For nearly four centuries Britain was a province on the outer edge of the Roman Empire and developed a distinctively Romano-British culture and way of life. Using the archaeological evidence, ancient written sources and the latest research on surviving... -
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 by Julian Jackson
RRP: $27.28$19.01On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere, only five days after launching their attack. Churchill,... -
Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled by Tim Heald
RRP: $21.43$14.43Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinating insight into the life of the party girl who became an icon in postwar Britain' DAILY EXPRESS'She was a... -
To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
RRP: $35.08$34.92Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic... -
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty by Norman M Naimark
RRP: $33.05$27.01A Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the Norris and Carol Hundley AwardWinner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize"The achievement of a lifetime."-Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin"Naimark has few peers as a scholar of Stalinism, the Soviet... -
A Storm in Flanders: Triumph and Tragedy on the Western Front by Winston Groom
RRP: $19.48$13.26A vivid page-turning narrative of the most horrific battle in history by a soldier turned bestselling novelistA fast-paced and vivid narrative of the most horrific campaign in history: the four-year slaughter around the Belgian town of Ypres 1914-18... -
Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts by James Anderson Winn 9780199372195
RRP: $83.83$62.46As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the... -
The Next Moon by Andre Hue 9780141042800
RRP: $31.18$22.64Andre Hue was a daredevil. By the age of twenty the Anglo-Frenchman had survived shipwreck and years undercover in France, sabotaging German supply lines. Returning to Britain, he was recruited by SOE to parachute behind enemy lines on 5 June 1944, to... -
Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi
RRP: $25.33$22.35The first history of London to show how immigrants have built, shaped and made a great success of the capital city London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages are spoken. But the history of London has... -
Hitler's Attack U-Boats: The Kriegsmarine's Submarine Strike Force by Showell, Jak P Mallmann 9781526797667
RRP: $29.23$22.13The success of German submarines during the First World War in almost cutting off Britain's vital imports had not been forgotten by Adolf Hitler and when, in March 1935, he repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, Britain, magnanimously, signed up to an... -
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World by Anthony Sattin 9781473677791
RRP: $48.75$32.72A Sunday Times Best History Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year'A book of beauty and beguiling rhythm that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders' The Times'Thoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic . . . an... -
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin van Creveld
RRP: $60.43$49.98Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only two of the many questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively book. Drawing on a very wide... -
Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa by Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri 9780520390454
RRP: $48.75$38.20The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism reformulates our understanding of the early modern Mediterranean through the remarkable life and career of... -
Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-18 by Anthony Clayton
RRP: $19.48$13.26World War I from the French point of view: the first ever account in EnglishAnthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military and his book is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the First World War. He reveals why and... -
The Annals by Cornelius Tacitus 9780872205581
RRP: $40.93$34.34A.J. Woodman's translation combines accuracy and Tacitean invention, masterfully conveying Tacitus' distinctive and powerful manner of expression, and reflecting the best of current scholarship. An introductory essay discusses Tacitus' career, the period... -
Roath, Splott and Adamsdown by Roath Local History Society 9780752401997
RRP: $25.33$18.76Over 250 old photographs, many published for the first time, appear in this new collection covering the districts of Roath, Splott and Adamsdown. This area, along with Penylan, Tremorfa and part of Cathays, once had a collective unity as the... -
No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923 by Sinead McCoole
RRP: $44.83$34.65Updated edition with many more biographies and a new introduction by the author. Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom, risking loss of life and family for a cause to which they... -
All the Queen's Jewels, 1445-1548: Power, Majesty and Display by Nicola Tallis
RRP: $50.68$42.72From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queen's Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 1445-1548 and investigates the collections of jewels a queen had access to, as well as the varying contexts... -
Massacre of Glencoe by John Buchan 9781852171643
RRP: $13.63$7.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852171643Author John BuchanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
The Ancient Olympic Games by Judith Swaddling
RRP: $19.48$13.26In this revised and all-colour edition of her indispensable guide to the ancient Games, Judith Swaddling traces their mythological and religious origins, and describes the events, the sacred ceremony and the celebrations that were an essential part of... -
Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 by Rosa Magnusdottir 9780190681463
RRP: $159.90$115.56Enemy Number One tells the story of the Soviet cultural and propaganda apparatus and its efforts to control information about the United States in the postwar landscape. Beginning with the 1945 meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe, this... -
A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France by William Beik
RRP: $60.43$52.32A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the... -
Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985 by Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite 9780192843098
RRP: $68.25$59.48Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately... -
Sacred Springs - Holy Wells in Great Britain by Christina Martin
RRP: $11.68$8.01What is so special about spring water? How are wells holy? Why are so many known for 'the healing of eyes'? The ancient holy wells of the British Isles are amongst the most beautiful and magical places anyone can visit. Often untouched by all but the... -
Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History by Hugh Williams
RRP: $29.23$18.92What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through...