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Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story by Nicola Tyrer
RRP: £10.99£7.40The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remain... -
Renaissance Florence, Updated edition by Gene A. Brucker
RRP: £25.00£19.59In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the... -
Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona by Temma Kaplan 9780520084407
RRP: £27.00£21.06In Red City, Blue Period, Kaplan combines the methods of anthropology and the new cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939. She analyzes the peculiar sense of solidarity the citizens forged and explains why shared... -
Interrogator: The Story of Hanns Joachim Scharff, Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe by Raymond F. Toliver
RRP: £31.99£22.14The story of Hanns Scharff, the master interrogator of the Luftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War II. Scharff, a German Intelligence Officer, gained the reputation as the man who... -
Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe by Emily Greble
RRP: £30.49£26.75Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe shows that Muslims were citizens of modern Europe from its beginning and, in the process, rethinks Europe itself. Muslims are neither newcomers nor outsiders in Europe. In the twentieth century, they have been... -
Restless Empire by Ian Barnes 9780674504677
RRP: £51.95£42.34From the first Slavic migrations to the Romanovs' rise to the Putin era, Russia has endured for centuries as a nation whose sheer size and diversity have challenged its rulers and shaped its identity. Restless Empire illuminates the epic sweep of Russian... -
The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays by Nestor Makhno 9781873176788
RRP: £7.95£5.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873176788Author Nestor MakhnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 200g -
The Invention of International Order: Remaking Europe after Napoleon by Professor Glenda Sluga
RRP: £30.00£23.69The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global order In 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating... -
The End of Roman Britain by Michael E. Jones
RRP: £28.99£24.96Among the provinces long occupied by Rome, Britain retained the slightest imprint of the invading civilization. To explain why this was true, Jones offers a lucid and thorough analysis of the economic, social, military, and environmental problems that... -
Heinemann Advanced History: France in Revolution 1776-1830 by Sally Waller
£32.42France in Revolution is the ideal book for students studying France in the period 1776-1830, including the origins and events of the French Revolution, Napoleon's rise to power, his rule and the subsequent restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy in 1814.Book... -
Black Star: the African Presence in Early Europe by Runoko Rashidi 9780956638021
RRP: £19.99£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956638021Author Runoko RashidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Books of Africa LtdPublisher Books of Africa Ltd -
The Woman Before Wallis: Prince Edward, the Parisian Courtesan, and the Perfect Murder by Andrew Rose 9781250050069
RRP: £28.00£17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250050069Author Andrew RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 331g -
The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe by David Parrott
RRP: £30.99£23.25This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whereas previous accounts have emphasised the growth of state-run armies during this period, David Parrott... -
The War in the Channel Islands: Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
RRP: £28.00£20.62Besides being the only British territory occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, it is perhaps less generally known that the Channel Islands were fortified out of all proportion to the rest of Hitler's Atlantic Wall: a legacy that is explored in... -
Cathedrals: Masterpieces of Architecture, Feats of Engineering, Icons of Faith by Simon Jenkins
£30.10The acclaimed best-selling author and popular historian explores the history of Europe via its cathedrals.Beautifully illustrated with color photographs throughout, this joyous exploration of the history of Western civilization ... -
De Havilland in Hatfield: The Golden Years 1930-35 by John Clifford 9781781553602
RRP: £16.99£12.94The de Havilland Aircraft Co opened an aerodrome in 1930 on farmland that it acquired outside Hatfield. The company's School of Flying was the first operation to take up residence. Flying clubs moved in and recreational facilities were developed. Garden... -
A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis by Jurgen Tampke 9781911617280
RRP: £9.99£6.70An Irish Independent book of the year. Did the Versailles Peace Treaty cause World War II? The Versailles Peace Treaty - the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies - has long been regarded as one of the key causes of... -
Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia's New Nationalism by Charles Clover
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fascinating study of the motivations behind the political activities and philosophies of Putin's government in Russia"Part intellectual history, part portrait gallery . . . Black Wind, White Snow traces the background to Putin's ideas with verve and... -
Like a Brazen Wall: The Battle of Minden, 1759, and its Place in the Seven Years War by Ewan Carmichael 9781913336585
RRP: £35.00£24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913336585Author Ewan CarmichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Bader's War: 'Have a Go at Everything' by S. P. Mackenzie 9780752455341
RRP: £9.99£7.55More than a quarter of a century after his death, Douglas Bader remains the most famous fighter pilot Britain has every known. He lost both of his legs a flying accident in 1931, but overcame his disability and returned to the RAF in 1939, rising to... -
The Beau Street Hoard by Eleanor Ghey
£4.99In 2007 during an archaeological excavation in advance of a hotel development situated 150 metres from the Roman Baths in Bath, a Roman silver coin hoard was unearthed. This hoard was an exceptional find, not only because of its size - 17,500 coins in... -
Marx and Engels on Bonapartism: Selected Journalism, 1851-59 by Spencer A. Leonard
RRP: £104.00£91.27For a little over a decade after the ignominious collapse of the Revolution of 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels worked as professional journalists. Writing from London for newspapers in the United States and, eventually, on the Continent, Marx... -
Labour in Power 1945-1951 by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780192851505
£43.15This is the only detailed and comprehensive account of the policies, programs, and personalities of the powerful and influential Attlee government. Based on a vast range of previously unpublished material, personal papers, and recently released public... -
Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923) by Emmanuel Destenay
RRP: £25.00£23.78Approximately 150, 000 Irish officers and men joined the British Army during the First World War. What happened to them when they returned home? What determining role (if any) did they play? Most importantly, did they fall victims of selective... -
Freud: In His Time and Ours by Elisabeth Roudinesco 9780674659568
RRP: £35.95£35.04Elisabeth Roudinesco offers a bold and modern reinterpretation of the iconic founder of psychoanalysis. Based on new archival sources, this is Freud's biography for the twenty-first century-a critical appraisal, at once sympathetic and impartial, of a... -
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War by Paul Jankowski
RRP: £10.99£7.77During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times;... -
Europe's Reformations, 1450-1650: Doctrine, Politics, and Community by James D. Tracy 9780742537897
RRP: £40.00£35.22In this widely praised history, noted scholar James D. Tracy offers a comprehensive, lucid, and masterful exploration of early modern Europe's key turning point. Establishing a new standard for histories of the Reformation, Tracy explores the complex... -
A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain by Chris Williams 9781405156790
RRP: £45.95£41.11A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. Truly British, rather than English,... -
The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain by Bernard Porter 9780199299591
£59.71The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for... -
The Spanish Civil War by Stanley G. Payne 9780521174701
RRP: £22.99£17.84This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker... -
Science of Arms: The Art of War in the Century of the Soldier 1672 to 1699 Volume 1: Preparation for War & the Infantry by Stephen M. Carter
RRP: £37.50£26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510018Author Stephen M. CarterFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World by Alexandre A. Bennigsen
RRP: £30.00£29.25In this study, Bennigsen and Wimbush trace the development of the doctrine of national communism in Central Asia and the Caucasus. At the heart of this doctrine-as elaborated by the Volga Tatar, Mir-Said Sultan Galiev-was the concept of "proletarian... -
The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929-53 by Helen Skelton 9780719063770
RRP: £14.99£13.64This is a penetrating and up-to-date account of one of the dramatic aspects of 20th-century history. Published fifty years after Stalin's death, and fully revised and expanded, this second edition looks at the entire period of his rule and includes... -
The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society by Gillian Rose 9780631182214
RRP: £36.95£32.51The Broken Middle offers a startlingly original rethinking of the modern philosophical tradition and fundamentally rejects the anti-philosophy and anti-theory of post-modernity. Extending across the disciplines from philosophy to theology, Judaica, law,... -
Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921 by Colin Darch
RRP: £19.99£15.76Histories of the Russian Revolution often present the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as the central event, neglecting the diverse struggles of urban and rural revolutionaries across the heartlands of the Russian Empire. This book takes as its subject... -
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
RRP: £18.99£11.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400080670Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune 1871 by Alistair Horne
RRP: £8.99£6.20A bestselling historian on a crucial episode in French history.Beneath the glittering facade of Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire there were forces of seething social and political unrest. When France succumbed to the Prussian invaders these forces came to... -
By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire by Ian Worthington 9780199929863
RRP: £30.49£21.68Alexander the Great, arguably the most exciting figure from antiquity, waged war as a Homeric hero and lived as one, conquering native peoples and territories on a superhuman scale. From the time he invaded Asia in 334 to his death in 323, he expanded... -
Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 39: 2019 by Myrzinn Boucher-Durand 9780674257795
RRP: £27.95£22.15This volume of the Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium offers a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies. It includes the Colloquium keynote given by Prof. Barbara Hillers which studied the literary use of folklore,... -
Trials of Nature: The Infinite Law Court of Milton's Paradise Lost by Bjoern Quiring
RRP: £39.99£35.06Focusing on John Milton's Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law - an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the intersection of jurisprudence, philosophy and literature. In...