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Twentieth Century British and World History 1900-2020 (Knowing History) by Robert Peal
RRP: €14.27€13.88Deliver 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... -
The Boer War by Martin Bossenbroek
RRP: €29.75€19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807474Author Martin BossenbroekFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Edwardians by Roy Hattersley
RRP: €17.84€11.66Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in... -
Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen 9780807849323
RRP: €51.11€47.80This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist... -
Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall by Hester Vaizey
RRP: €17.84€13.03The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune... -
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin
RRP: €13.08€8.71Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008As the day of the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup dawned, and the Springboks... -
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars Daisy Dunn 9781474615570
RRP: €23.80€15.89Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and... -
The Last of the Tsars: Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution by Robert Service
RRP: €17.84€13.24'A timely and important book . . . he brings to it rare clarity and common sense. His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar's life; brief, sharp, but laced with well-judged feeling for the dramas of the time.' Catherine... -
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen 9781847923073
RRP: €29.75€19.67**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023** A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world.'The real feat of this book is that it takes us on a ride-across the... -
The War That Never Ended: A Short History of the Korean War Gordon Kerr 9780857303882
RRP: €11.89€8.09The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War in which forces of major nations of the two opposing systems - capitalism and communism - confronted each... -
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire Peter Hopkirk 9780719564512
RRP: €15.46€10.23Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and... -
The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century by Michael Howard 9780198204282
€60.50Victoria still ruled over the British Empire, the imperial Manchu dynasty over China, and the Romanov Tsars over Russia. The cinema was in its infancy, with radio and television still to be developed. The earliest cars were on the road, but air travel... -
The Invisible Man: The Story of Rod Temperton, the 'Thriller' Songwriter by Jed Pitman
RRP: €15.46€11.45'My favourite moment is when I finish a song, that is the moment I cherish.' - Rod TempertonThe Invisible Man tells the remarkable story of how Rod Temperton worked his way up from a Grimsby fish factory to become one of the most successful songwriters... -
The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream by Marc Burrows
RRP: €23.80€17.01Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths. From the day they met in 1965 as Davie Jones and Mark Feld, rock... -
People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me by Caroline Slocock 9781785904608
RRP: €11.89€8.65As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, and was at Margaret Thatcher's side for the final eighteen months of her premiership. A left-wing feminist, Slocock was no natural... -
Palestinians and Israelis: A Short History of Conflict by Michael Scott-Baumann 9781803996769
RRP: €15.46€11.45Newly updated, this accessible history explores the origins and development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Why has it proved so intractable, and what are the implications of escalating tensions for both the Middle East and the world? The ongoing... -
Promised You A Miracle: Why 1980-82 Made Modern Britain by Andy Beckett
RRP: €15.46€10.82A vivid, seminal portrait of early 1980s Britain: a period that changed Britain foreverThe early 1980s in Britain were a time of hope, and of dread: of Cold War tension and imminent conflict, when crowds in the street could mean an ecstatic national... -
Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: €22.60€15.65The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the HolocaustWith THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the history of the persecution and... -
Britain's Railways in the 1970s by David Hayes
RRP: €19.03€12.91The 1970s was a unique period for Britain's railways. Steam had not long been replaced by diesel traction, the West Coast Main Line electrification was well underway with new and more powerful locomotives, and the colourful 'rail blue' livery projected... -
Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett
RRP: €13.08€9.25'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist)Selected as a Book of... -
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s Anne Sebba 9781780226613
RRP: €13.08€8.81WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016June, 1940. German troops enter Paris and hoist the swastika over the Arc de Triomphe. The dark days of Occupation begin. How would you have survived? By collaborating with the Nazis, or risking the... -
Cold War: East Anglia by Jim Wilson
RRP: €19.03€14.58This is the story of how the Cold War impacted on the people of East Anglia. Had nuclear conflict broken out, the region would have found itself as the target of a Soviet strike for the simple reason that it housed the launch pad for not only the British... -
OCR A Level History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919-63 Nicholas Fellows 9781510416543
€37.47Exam board: OCRLevel: A LevelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: AS: Summer 2016, A Level: Summer 2017An OCR endorsed resourceSuccessfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the... -
Blohm & Voss Bv 155 by Dan Sharp
RRP: €15.46€10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658320Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 245mm *... -
Britain's War: A New World, 1942-1947 by Daniel Todman
RRP: €20.22€15.09WINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2020A SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'A stunning achievement' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesPart Two of Daniel Todman's epic history of the Second World War opens with one of the... -
Now That's What I Call a History of the 1980s: Pop Culture and Politics in the Decade That Shaped Modern Britain by Lucy Robinson
RRP: €17.84€13.23Now that's what I call a history of the 1980s tells the story of eighties Britain through its popular culture. Charting era-defining moments from Lady Diana's legs and the miners' strike to Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage and Adam and the Ants, Lucy Robinson... -
Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and the Ties that Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination by Mark Shaw
RRP: €26.18€17.20If there had been no cover-up of Robert Kennedy's complicity in the murder of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and he had been prosecuted based on compelling evidence at the time, the assassination of JFK by Bobby's enemies would not have happened-changing the... -
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World’s Highest Mountain by Mick Conefrey
RRP: €13.08€8.71Though it remains by far the world's most famous mountain, in recent years Everest's reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses and piles of high altitude trash. It wasn't always like... -
Formation: The Making of Nigeria, From Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule
RRP: €23.79€16.61Formation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that led to the creation of the modern Nigerian nation: from 1804 when the first Jihadists began their attack on a collection of independent nations to 1914 when the current shape of Nigeria... -
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Christian B. Appy
RRP: €32.12€20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128342Author Christian B. AppyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 328g -
The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi by Daniel Lee 9780316509091
RRP: €33.32€20.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316509091Author Daniel LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 155mm * 30mm -
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: €19.03€13.82Virginia Nicholson's Among the Bohemians is a portrait of England's artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century, engaged in a grand experiment.Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant - the Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they... -
100 Best Selling Albums of the 70s by Hamish Champ
RRP: €15.46€10.86Ever since the birth of rock & roll, popular music has done more to define the spirit of each passing decade than any other form of popular culture. As each new generation has come to embrace new bands and adopted new musical heroes, certain albums have... -
Connecting History: Higher Migration and Empire, 1830-1939 Euan M. Duncan 9781398345355
€26.10Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
I Could Be So Good for You: A Portrait of the North London Working Class John Medhurst 9781914420344
RRP: €22.60€15.65I Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no "real" working class in comparison to a more "authentic" working class in a place called "the North". In doing... -
The Battle of the Lys 1918: South: Objective Hazebrouck by Chris Baker 9781526716965
€19.31The German offensive in Flanders in April 1918 came close to catastrophe for the British Armies, but ultimately ended in strategic defeat for the Kaiser's men. Following closely on the heels of the devastating 'Operation Michael' attack in March on the... -
Mr Nice: 21st Anniversary Edition by Howard Marks
RRP: €15.46€10.8221ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and... -
Armies in Southern Russia 1918-19 by Phoebus Athanassiou
RRP: €14.27€10.03An important aspect of the Russian Civil War were the several Allied expeditions immediately following World War I in support of the disunited Russian 'White' armies resisting the Bolshevik Revolution. Although they ended in failure, these ventures were... -
Mirrored Loss: A Yemeni Woman's Life Story by Gabriele Vom Bruck
RRP: €41.65€37.18Mirrored Loss tells the story of Amat al-Latif al Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relationship with her adored... -
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies
RRP: €36.89€31.81Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data...