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Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa by Susan Williams
RRP: $23.21$21.34One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. Just minutes after midnight, his aircraft plunged into thick... -
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music by Darryl W. Bullock 9780715654927
RRP: $14.18$9.52'Lovingly detailed and exhaustively researched - easily the most readable and comprehensive guide I've seen to this fascinating hidden history' Tom Robinson, musician, broadcaster and long-time LGBT rights activist From Sia to Elton John, Dusty... -
Hunting Eichmann: Chasing down the world's most notorious Nazi Neal Bascomb 9781849162340
RRP: $14.18$9.55Adolf Eichmann was the operational manager of the genocide that dispatched six million European Jews to the gas chambers. Escaping US custody in 1946, he hid in various locations in Germany before absconding in 1950 via a 'ratline' escape route to... -
Family Cars of the 1960s by James Taylor
RRP: $12.89$8.57The 1960s saw car ownership take off in Britain, as the newly opened motorways created new opportunities for travel - on family holidays, to visit relatives, or for work. The kinds of cars the British drove also changed. Small economy cars in particular... -
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: $19.34$14.13'A breathtaking, magisterial panorama, telling the epic story of post-war anarchy, dying empires and rising nation states. It makes us rethink our understanding of Europe's twentieth century' David Motadel, The Times Literary SupplementFor the Western... -
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
RRP: $32.25$22.48Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by... -
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab Marina Wheeler 9781473677746
RRP: $32.25$21.65SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE'The Lost Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which turns out to be so much more than that... it takes the reader into the contested history of India and Pakistan in the 1940s, and... -
The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $15.47$13.09The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the... -
Former People: The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
$11.95Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of Stalin's Russia. Historian Douglas Smith's Former... -
Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order by Timothy Andrews Sayle
RRP: $36.11$29.09Born from necessity, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has always seemed on the verge of collapse. Even now, some seventy years after its inception, some consider its foundation uncertain and its structure weak. At this moment of incipient... -
Love And War In The Pyrenees: A Story Of Courage, Fear And Hope, 1939-1944 Rosemary Bailey 9780753825914
RRP: $14.18$9.55A vivid blend of history and travel and a sweeping story of collaboration and resistance, fear and heroism, pacifism and sacrifice all set against the backdrop of the Pyrenees.'A beguiling mix of travel, memoir, history and good old-fashioned... -
Syria: A Recent History by John McHugo 9780863561603
RRP: $14.18$9.55Syria's descent into chaos since 2011 has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, while more than nine million people have fled their homes. In this timely account, John McHugo charts the history of Syria from the First World War to the present and... -
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Dan Jones 9781788547789 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25$6.14'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' Observer The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global conflict... -
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Dan Jones 9781788547789
RRP: $32.25$24.79'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' Observer The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global conflict... -
Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp by Helga Weiss 9780241959503
RRP: $14.18$10.02'The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank' Daily TelegraphFirst they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I... -
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 by A. J. P. Taylor 9780198812708
RRP: $46.43$43.85The system of international repression ended with the fall of Metternich in 1848. The conflicting ideals of international revolution and collective security came into being with Lenin and Wilson in 1918. Nationalism, tempered by the Balance of Power,... -
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
RRP: $38.70$29.09**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.'This book is dynamite' ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindSprawling... -
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire Victor Sebestyen 9780753827093
RRP: $16.76$11.09'A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world' Jonathan Dimbleby, MAIL ON SUNDAYFor more than 40 years after the Second World War the... -
Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $21.92$15.84POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the... -
Modern Small Arms: 300 of the World's Greatest Small Arms by Chris McNab
RRP: $16.76$11.26Modern Small Arms looks in detail at 300 of the most widely used pistols, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and other small arms of the last 100 years. It includes famous small arms such as the AK-47, the M16, the SA80, the Lee Enfield, the MP40, the... -
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory Keggie Carew 9781784703158
RRP: $14.18$10.02Discover a daughter's journey into her father's past in this Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.Keggie Carew grew up under the spell of an unorthodox, enigmatic father. An undercover guerrilla agent during the Second... -
A Short History Of The Vietnam War by Gordon Kerr 9781843442134
RRP: $19.34$12.64On 8 March, 1965, 3,500 United States Marines of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade made an amphibious landing at Da Nang on the south central coast of South Vietnam, marking the beginning of a conflict that would haunt American politics and society... -
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle (Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023) by Jody Rosen 9780099593591
RRP: $14.18$10.02**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on SundayA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.A toy, a tool, a... -
Operation Allied Force Volume 2: Air War Over Serbia, 1999 by Bojan Dimitrejevic
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070654Author Bojan DimitrejevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
U-Boat Owners' Workshop Manual: An insight into the design, construction and operation of the most advanced attack submarine ever operated by the Royal Navy by Alan Gallop 9780857334046
RRP: $38.70$27.54ALAN GALLOP is an author, journalist and public relations consultant. His books include Buffalo Bill's British Wild West (2001), Children of the Dark (2002), Mr Stanley I Presume (2004), Time Flies: Heathrow at 60 (2005), Subsmash (2007), The Martians... -
Life of Picasso: v. 4 by John Richardson
RRP: $45.15$32.62'A masterpiece' Sunday Times'Magisterial... thrilling' Guardian'Terrifically enjoyable' Daily TelegraphThe beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso, drawing on original research from interviews... -
Cambodia: From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond by Sebastian Strangio
RRP: $16.76$14.78A fascinating look at the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia"A richly detailed study that goes a long way toward explaining the contradictions, corruption and complexity of Cambodia."-Ron Gluckman, Wall Street... -
Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot by Helmut Mahlke 9781526760784
RRP: $21.92$16.36After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser _K ln_, and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship _Admiral Scheer_ during the Spanish Civil War, the author... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121801
RRP: $19.34$14.64When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly... -
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground was Built and How it Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar 9780857890696
RRP: $15.47$10.87Reissued in a new paperback package to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the London Underground.'I can think of few better ways to while away those elastic periods awaiting the arrival of the next eastbound Circle Line train than by reading [this... -
The Children's Nurse: The True Story of a Great Ormond Street Nurse Susan Macqueen 9781409129172
RRP: $11.60$8.00The memoir of a Great Ormond Street nurse.This is the inspirational story of life as a nurse during the 1960s, 70s and 80s, most of which was spent at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Susan Macqueen was 12 years old when she accompanied her mum... -
Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country by Michael Reid
$25.08An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a... -
Colonel Paddy: The Man Who Dared by Patrick Marrinan
RRP: $12.89$11.30This, the original biography of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO (3 Bars), Legion d Honneur, Croix De Guerre and Colonel Paddy to his contemporaries, is a lively account of his life and wartime exploits with the SAS. The classic story of... -
Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians by Noel Malcolm
$74.43Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have... -
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster
RRP: $38.70$26.32'Literally changed the course of my life' James Murphy'The chapter on Larry Levan alone transformed me into wanting to be your favorite DJ' Questlove'The original and still the best' Gilles Peterson'We can't tell the story of dance music without speaking... -
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen
RRP: $21.92$17.21The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific colonies, and the Ottoman provinces in the Middle East fell into allied hands. Britain, France,... -
International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Anthony Best 9780415656429
RRP: $61.91$56.00This hugely successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward.Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have produced an authoritative yet... -
British Rail by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $38.70$27.54The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail'Wolmar's book is impeccably organized and makes a fast, enjoyable read' THE TIMES Literary Supplement________You think you know British Rail. But you don't... -
The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939 by Richard Overy
RRP: $21.92$15.84Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and... -
Britain in the 1920s by Fiona McDonald
RRP: $24.50$18.07The war was over, new technologies and fashions were springing up; it was to be the beginning of a new and prosperous era and all was to be bright and joyous in Britain again. In many ways it was: women were granted new freedoms and rights, motorcars...