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Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall 9781529920017
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.96The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and A GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK FOR APRIL 2024 **'So entertaining' THE TIMES'Cracking' SUNDAY... -
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen 9781911709596
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.54The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.'Essential' New York Times'A stomach-clenching,... -
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels spring-loaded with tension... extraordinary.' The New York TimesThe story of Chernobyl is more complex, more human, and more terrifying than the... -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird 9781838959708
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.33***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu... -
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.96The essential guide to Chomsky and his brilliant ideas on the global state of affairsAn extraordinary collection of Chomsky's speeches and his interviews with David Barsamian, edited by Arthur Naiman. With exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam... -
Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
Booksplease Price: £5.68Who Rules the World is the essential account of geopolitics right now - including an afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our... -
The Precipice: 'A book that seems made for the present moment' New Yorker by Toby Ord
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.96What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future? 'The Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious' Spectator 'Ord's analysis of the science is exemplary . . ... -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30The explosion over Hiroshima of the first nuclear bomb reduced, in an instant, an entire city to rubble and killed over 100,000 men, women and children. It also announced a new era in human history: the Atomic Age. Written only a year after the event,... -
Astute Class Nuclear Submarine Owners' Workshop Manual: The largest, most advanced and most powerful attack submarine ever operated by the Royal Navy by Jonathan Gates 9781785210716
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.60The Astute-class is the largest, most advanced and most powerful attack submarine ever operated by the Royal Navy, combining world-leading sensors, design and weaponry in a versatile vessel. The submarines are nuclear-propelled and fuelled by a nuclear... -
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781471111235
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.83WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few... -
Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.44A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous... -
Chrome Dome 1960–68: The B-52s' high-stakes Cold War nuclear operation Peter E. Davies 9781472860545
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28In 1960, SAC's B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold War's most challenging operations was conceived and flown. Operation Chrome Dome was Strategic Air Command's... -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781451677614
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £18.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451677614Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.88A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of... -
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America by Carol D. Leonnig
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.99THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER * UPDATED WITH NEW REPORTING * 'It's all here in this stunning first draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump' Sydney Morning Herald 'An icy, Iago-like glimpse of the emotional and moral nullity that may... -
Building The H Bomb: A Personal History by Kenneth W. Ford 9789814618793
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.90In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb. He worked with - and relaxed with - scientific giants of that time such as Edward... -
Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.99A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily Telegraph The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous... -
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan 9781784745677
Booksplease Price: £13.28'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' Sunday Times'There's so much . . . in Flanagan's beautiful, unclassifiable... -
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project by Leslie Groves
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.49General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for... -
Red Corona: A Richard Knox Spy Thriller: 'A thriller of true ambition and scope.' Lucie Whitehouse by Tim Glister
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.12WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE! 'Relentless and sleek. This pitch-perfect debut signals the arrival of a remarkable talent.' A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window 'A thoroughly engaging spy thriller that had me gripped from start to... -
Fallout: the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world by Lesley Blume
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES AND VANITY FAIR New York Times bestselling author Lesley Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovered one of the greatest and deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century - the true effects of the atom bomb -... -
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg 9781408889282
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.90From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, the first insider expose of the dangers of America's hidden, seventy-year-long nuclear policy. When former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the Pentagon Papers, he... -
Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk 9780099433538
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.86J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to... -
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story by Dr. Michihiko Hachiya 9781800961517
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.60With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little baby? To conceal the fear and terror in my heart I left her, trying to put up a cheerful... -
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.08Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute story of an accident at a missile silo in rural Arkansas, where a single crew struggled to prevent the explosion of the most powerful nuclear warhead ever built by the United States, with a historical... -
Nuclear Weapons Manual: All models from 1945 David Baker 9781785211393
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £19.091945 onwards (strategic and tactical delivery systems), Much misinformation has been published by those who support, as well as those who are against, the continued deployment of nuclear weapons as instruments of deterrence. This book provides an... -
Attack Warning Red!: How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War by Julie McDowall
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.57*A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo'So entertaining' The Times 'Cracking' Sunday TelegraphThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed war forever... -
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1946-60: Early Cold War armor in Central Europe Steven J. Zaloga (Author) 9781472843296
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.61A study of the Soviet and NATO armored forces that faced each other off in Central Europe in the early Cold War, and how their technology, tactics, and doctrine were all rapidly developed. For 45 years, the most disputed point in the World was the... -
Optimism Over Despair by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.65An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectualWe have two choices. We can be pessimistic, give up, and help ensure that the worst will happen. Or we can... -
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.30Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Desperately important and impossible to put down. It is timeless. . . what shines clear from the testimonies is love - love which can make you do the most spectacular things ' Sheena Patel, Observer'- A new... -
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen 9781911709602
Booksplease Price: £11.18The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for... -
Hardcore History: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze Age to Today by Dan Carlin 9780008340957
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.44THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time,... -
Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses M.G. Sheftall 9781035422685
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.74'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, author of Nuclear War: A ScenarioThe stories of hibakusha - Japanese for atomic bomb survivors - lie at the... -
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1960-75 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.27A new analysis of the technology and tanks that faced off against each other on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, during the very height of the Cold War. From the 1960s onwards, there was a generational shift in tank design and warfare with the... -
Defcon-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis by John D. Gresham 9780471670223
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £24.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471670223Author John D. GreshamFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security Fiona S. Cunningham 9780691261034
Booksplease Price: £24.36How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversariesHow can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war? Among the states facing this dilemma of... -
Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph Siracusa 9780198860532
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.19Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after the Cold War, the Bomb is still the greatest threat facing humankind. As President Bill Clinton's first... -
Shockwave by Stephen Walker
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.44THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At 8:15am on August 6th 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped... -
The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West by Bridget Kendall
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.77The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new... -
The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: Volume I: From the V-Bomber Era to the Arrival of Polaris, 1945-1964 by Matthew Jones
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £38.55Volume I of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government's strategic nuclear policy from 1945 to 1964.Written with full access to the UK documentary record, this...