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The Reign: The Story of Elizabeth's Britain, Part One: 1952-1979 by Matthew Engel
RRP: €29.75€19.74***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.' Simon Heffer, 'Books of the Year' , Daily Telegraph'A... -
Beyond by Stephen Walker
RRP: €23.80€21.44'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW 9.07 a.m., April 12, 1961. A... -
Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Weimar Centennial Edition by Eric D. Weitz
RRP: €26.18€21.13The definitive history of Weimar politics, culture, and societyA New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceA Financial Times Best Book of the YearThoroughly up-to-date, skillfully written, and strikingly illustrated, Weimar Germany brings to life an era... -
The Origins of the Final Solution by Christopher Browning
RRP: €15.46€11.29The Origins of the Final Solution is the most detailed, careful, and comprehensive analysis to date of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder: the Holocaust. Arguing that genocide was not a preconceived plan but rather a... -
Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich by Eric Kurlander
RRP: €19.03€18.75The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany-the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power"[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before... -
The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931 by Adam Tooze
RRP: €22.60€16.20WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES PRIZE FOR HISTORY FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014On the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, Deluge is a powerful explanation of why the war's legacy continues to shape our world -... -
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511830Author Jason StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews by Mark Mazower
RRP: €20.22€13.65The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and... -
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780141992778
RRP: €15.46€10.82'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history... -
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long 9781399803434
RRP: €17.84€11.66AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world's leading economists, a... -
Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Morton
RRP: €23.80€6.62A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.Sunday Times bestselling author Andrew Morton reveals new information and sources that totally transform our perception of Wallis Simpson.Wallis in Love brings a fascinating new perspective on the 20th century's most... -
Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics by Francis Parker Yockey
RRP: €22.79€20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615505978Author Francis Parker YockeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Invictus BooksPublisher Invictus BooksWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Hurrah For The Blackshirts!: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars Martin Pugh 9781844130870
RRP: €15.46€10.82Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary... -
1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: €22.60€16.20'A fascinating account...combining the rigour of the historian with the powerful emotions of someone who was a twenty-year-old student at the time' UncutIt was the year of sex and drugs and rock and roll. But what impact did it have on today's political... -
Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History by Tony Perrottet
€33.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735218161Author Tony PerrottetFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission Mike Coburn 9781840189070
RRP: €13.08€9.25SOLDIER FIVE is an elite soldier's explosive memoir of his time within the Special Air Service (SAS) and, in particular, his experiences during the 1991 Gulf War. As a member of the Special Forces patrol now famously known by its call sign Bravo Two... -
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick 9781913083151
RRP: €15.46€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083151Author Sheila FitzpatrickFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith 9781781259139
RRP: €15.46€11.25'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet... -
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century John Higgs 9781780226576
RRP: €11.89€8.09'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus HoundIt is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With disorientating ideas such as relativity, cubism, the id,... -
The Saturn I/IB Rocket: NASA's First Apollo Launch Vehicle by David Baker 9781800350281
RRP: €33.26€23.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350281Author David BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Singapore Then and Now (R) by Vaughan Grylls
RRP: €17.84€12.73Singapore Then and Now brings together rare archival images of this global city-state and matches them with specially commissioned photos of the same sites as they appear today. Vaughan Grylls (author/photographer of Oxford Then and Now, Cambridge Then... -
The Green Shirts and the Others by Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera 9781592110940
RRP: €37.49€34.57This book is a newly revised edition of Nicholas M. Nagy-Talavera's classic work The Green Shirts and the Others published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1970. This book is the standard work in English on the history of fascism in Romania and Hungary... -
Spitfire Photo-Recce Units of World War 2 by Andrew Fletcher 9781472854612
RRP: €20.22€14.61A fascinating exploration of the feats of the RAF's photographic reconnaissance aircraft. The photographic reconnaissance (PR) versions of the Supermarine Spitfire saw service against the Axis Tripartite throughout World War 2. Its superior... -
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis Sir Alan Lascelles 9781474618205
RRP: €20.22€14.21The diaries of 'Tommy' Lascelles - as featured in the Netflix hit THE CROWN 'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator'Fascinating ... as much a contribution to royal legend as to the history of the war' Daily TelegraphAs Assistant... -
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
RRP: €13.08€9.25From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many... -
The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: The Story of Bela Guttman by David Bolchover
RRP: €11.89€8.65Before Pep Guardiola and before Jose Mourinho, there was Bela Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the celebrated coaches of the modern age. He was also a Holocaust survivor. In 1944, much of Europe had... -
The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945 - 2010 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: €17.84€13.03Peter Hennessy's The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010 is the story of secret government plans for combatting attacks on Britain, from the Cold War to modern counter-terrorism. Now completely revised and updated, Peter Hennessy's acclaimed... -
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine by Yaroslav Trofimov
RRP: €13.08€9.2520 November 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smuggled in coffins, stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca. With thousands of terrified worshippers trapped inside, the result was a bloody siege that lasted... -
Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles by Tom Bower
RRP: €11.89€7.90No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller Bestselling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch - King Charles III King Charles faces many challenges as he succeeds his mother to the throne. Despite... -
Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin
RRP: €23.79€17.47SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Gripping, authoritative, accessible and always bracingly revisionist' Simon... -
A Foreign Field by Ben Macintyre
RRP: €13.08€8.22A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy... -
Agents of Influence: How the KGB Subverted Western Democracies by Mark Hollingsworth
RRP: €23.80€17.01There's no such thing as a former KGB man... 'A gripping story filled with remarkable revelations.' Tom Bower, author of Revenge Agents of Influence reveals the secret history of an intelligence agency gone out of control, accountable to no one but... -
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
RRP: €20.22€14.84'A brilliant tour-de-force' - Times Literary SupplementBomber Command is acclaimed historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War.RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of... -
Christian Homeland: Episcopalians and the Middle East, 1820-1958 by Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr. 9780197665039
RRP: €115.43€104.52Christian Homeland focuses on the involvement of clergy and prominent laity of the Episcopal Church in Middle Eastern affairs, both religious and political, between the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) and the Second Arab-Israeli War (1956-1957),... -
The Russian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: €33.31€23.34An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history - the Russian revolution of 1917. In the early years of the twentieth century, Imperial Russia was an ethnically diverse empire, stretching from Ukraine and Belarus in the west... -
The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group by Derek Ryan
€43.54The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group is the most comprehensive available survey of contemporary scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group - the set of influential writers, artists and thinkers whose members included Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster,... -
Sexual Politics: Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left from the 1880s to the Present Day by Stephen Brooke 9780199680979
€35.89Sexual Politics explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain between the 1880s and the present day. Looking at birth control, abortion law reform, and gay rights, this is a timely examination of the relationship... -
Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia by Dominic Lieven
RRP: €15.46€10.82TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2016 'Magisterial... reveals how much is at stake for world order in Ukraine and Syria.' Rachel Polonsky'As much as anything, World War I... -
The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: €22.60€16.67As 'Wartime' did for the 1940s, this book will grasp the broad spectrum of events in the 1930s in the words of contemporary witnesses drawn from metropolitan and provincial letters and diaries, newspapers, periodicals, books and the range of rich... -
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: €11.89€8.46'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late...