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Making a Noise: Getting It Right, Getting It Wrong in Life, Arts and Broadcasting Sir John Tusa 9781474607087
RRP: $32.25$28.63In almost sixty years of professional life, John Tusa has fought for and sometimes against the major arts and political institutions in the country. A distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, he has stood up publicly for... -
Voices of the Forest: A Social History of Scottish Forestry in the Twentieth Century by Mairi Stewart
RRP: $32.25$24.41The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and landscape... -
England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-42 Colin Smith 9780753827055
RRP: $19.34$13.16Genuinely new story of the Second World War - the full account of England's last war against France in 1940-42.Most people think that England's last war with France involved point-blank broadsides from sailing ships and breastplated Napoleonic cavalry... -
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511854Author Jason StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Bear in Mind These Dead by Susan McKay
RRP: $16.76$11.04Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. And the killings were as intimate as they were brutal. Neighbours murdered neighbours. Susan McKay's book explores the difficult legacy of this conflict for... -
Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Rebels and the Spanish Civil War by Sarah Watling 9781529920772
RRP: $16.76$11.73In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance.'Glorious... so beautifully rendered, so powerful'ANNA FUNDER, author of WifedomIn the 1930s, women... -
A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma 9781782398028
RRP: $11.60$7.84'The whole thing sparks astonishingly to life' ObserverWhen Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
RRP: $32.25$21.32A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw 9780141998237
RRP: $19.34$14.13One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies... -
Aircraft Carriers: The World's Greatest Carriers of the last 100 Years by David Ross
RRP: $32.24$22.95On 9 May 1912 the first airplane take-off from a ship was made from the deck of the HMS Hibernia. In July 1918, seven Sopwith Camels launched from the converted battlecruiser HMS Furious damaged the German airbase at Tonder and destroyed two zeppelins... -
Memory and Amnesia: The Role of the Spanish Civil War in the Transition to Democracy by Paloma Aguilar 9781571814968
RRP: $36.06$29.13"...this excellent history of the Spanish desire for reconciliation is a major contribution to the study of both the Transition and memory." * Journal of Modern History "This book ...is one of the most important research studies written... -
The People's Songs: The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records by Stuart Maconie
RRP: $21.92$15.84These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to. Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and - just sometimes... -
Hitler's Winter: The German Battle of the Bulge by Anthony Tucker-Jones
RRP: $25.80$18.95'What a brilliant book this is... a terrific narrative of Hitler's Ardennes offensive of December 1944 - superb storytelling that achieves a skilful balance between drama and detail.' - James Holland The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German... -
Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach 9780691165844
RRP: $28.38$23.68This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which... -
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine by Jisheng Yang
RRP: $19.34$14.13Yang Jisheng's Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history's most terrible crimesMore people died in Mao's Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in... -
Miracle at the Litza: Hitler'S First Defeat on the Eastern Front by Alf R. Jacobsen 9781612005065
RRP: $32.25$26.43In the early summer of 1941 German mountain soldiers under the command of General Eduard Dietl set out in northern Norway up through Finland to the Russian border. Operation Silberfuchs was underway. The northernmost section of the Eastern Front would... -
The Yompers: With 45 Commando in the Falklands War by Ian R. Gardiner
RRP: $16.76$14.13Called to action on 2 April 1982, the men of 45 Commando Royal Marines assembled from around the world to sail 8,000 miles to recover the Falkland Islands from Argentine invasion. Lacking helicopters and short of food, they 'yomped' in appalling weather... -
Korea: A New History of South and North by Victor Cha
RRP: $25.80$22.14A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day "Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and balanced account."-Christopher Harding, The Telegraph ... -
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy
$34.91A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II "When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling."-Ian W. Toll, New York Times "The book makes for enjoyable... -
Steam Around Leeds in the 1960s by Keith W. Platt
RRP: $20.63$14.00The 1960s saw the final hurrah of steam on the railways - the final period of steam-powered locomotives dominating the main line. This meant that a colourful array of traffic could be found across the length and breadth of Great Britain, and an army of... -
The Last Shah: America, Iran, and the Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty by Ray Takeyh
RRP: $19.34$16.81The surprising story of Iran's transformation from America's ally in the Middle East into one of its staunchest adversaries"An original interpretation that puts Iranian actors where they belong: at center stage."-Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal"An... -
Life in the Third Reich by Richard Bessel
RRP: $24.50$23.34The Third Reich, a regime which instigated the most destructive war in modern history, still evokes fascination and horror today. Yet how were the lives of ordinary German people of the 1930s and 1940s affected by the politics of Hitler and his... -
A People Betrayed: A History of 20th Century Spain by Paul Preston
RRP: $16.76$10.94From the foremost historian of 20th century Spain, A People Betrayed is the story of the devastating betrayal of Spain by its political class, its military and its Church. This comprehensive history of modern Spain... -
The Secret Listeners: The Men and Women Posted Across the World to Intercept the German Codes for Bletchley Park by Sinclair McKay
RRP: $18.06$11.87Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret...The men and women of the ' Y' (for Wireless' ) Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military's... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice
RRP: $14.18$10.02A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
The Cold War Norman Friedman 9780233005911
RRP: $10.31$7.22A graphic account of this long-running global drama, The Compact Guide: The Cold War is published in a new era of fear and uncertainty. It encompasses moments of high tension, such as the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the... -
Portugal's Bush War in Mozambique by Al J Venter
RRP: $38.69$27.01Portugal fought a bush war in Mozambique - one of the most beautiful countries in the world - for over a decade. The small European nation was ranged against formidable odds and in the end was unable to muster the resources required to effectively take... -
Bases of Bomber Command Then and Now by Roger A. Freeman
RRP: $51.60$43.05Sixty years ago over 100 aerodromes in east and north-eastern England were occupied by the men and machines of RAF Bomber Command. The tenure of the majority of the bases was brief - some six years - but during that time more than 55,000 men lost their... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Cold War c1945-1991 by John Aldred
$43.56Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions,The Cold War has been approved... -
Le Mans Winning Colours: A Visual History of 100 Years of the 24-Hour Race by Mick Hill
RRP: $32.25$24.43Celebrating 100 years of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, motorsport's iconic endurance race, technical illustrator Mick Hill takes us on a potted history of this world-famous event. The follow-on book to his successful Grand Prix's Winning Colours, Mick once... -
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by Richard J. B. Bosworth
RRP: $24.50$17.56For almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire... -
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller by Judy Batalion
RRP: $14.18$8.35One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland's Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis... -
Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler by Roger Howard 9780192862990
RRP: $40.62$28.30Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler. From 1933, these spy services watched with growing alarm... -
Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches by Kirsten Innes 9781913630980
RRP: $16.76$11.13Nightclub, theatre, creative hub, party place, and one of the most important venues in Scotland, Britain and Europe: for almost 25 years, The Arches was the beating heart of Glasgow. In 1991, former punk-turned-theatre director Andy Arnold walked... -
A House Unlocked by Penelope Lively
RRP: $20.63$14.98A House Unlocked is Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively's classic memoir.The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golsoncott. Years later, as the house was sold out of the... -
Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: The Capture of the Nazi who put Adolf Hitler into Power by Marcus Nannini
RRP: $25.80$18.43This is the story of an American C-47 'Dakota' pilot who earned three Air Medals, seven Battle Stars and flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Second World War. As a young U.S. pilot, Harry Watson, arrived in Britain as the Battle of Normandy was... -
UDR: Declassified by Micheal Smith
RRP: $21.92$18.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374272Author Micheal SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Bletchley Park and D-Day by David Kenyon
RRP: $14.18$12.60The untold story of Bletchley Park's key role in the success of the Normandy campaign Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become one of the most famous stories of the Second World War. But... -
On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: $25.80$20.50Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a... -
Twentieth Century British and World History 1900-2020 (Knowing History) by Robert Peal
RRP: $15.47$15.04Deliver an ambitious, knowledge-rich and global KS3 History curriculum to develop pupils' knowledge of the past, build their skills and equip them to progress through to GCSE 9-1 History. Provide a coherent...