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Storm Front by Rowland White
RRP: £8.99£6.45____________________'As vivid and compelling as the best adventure thriller, and a fitting tribute to a small band of men who became heroes' ANDY MCNAB 'Gripping, revealing and extraordinarily well-researched, this is a riveting new account of a little... -
Three Days In June: The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands Battle by James O'Connell 9781913183592
RRP: £25.00£18.02***'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.' - Soldier magazine'An extraordinarily detailed account of the bloodiest battle of the Falklands war.' - Major General Jonathan Shaw CB CBEWhen 3 Para began their assault under... -
In Europe (Vintage Classic Europeans Series) Geert Mak 9781784874995
RRP: £12.99£9.49The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury.In 1999, journalist and historian Geert... -
Hong Kong Then and Now (R) by Vaughan Grylls
RRP: £14.99£13.35Hong Kong was first captured on camera when the British arrived to lay claim to its 'fragrant harbour' in 1841. Its fascinating history has been documented through photography ever since - from its rapid expansion as a Crown Colony to its handover to... -
Jet Man: Frank Whittle's Battle to Revolutionise Flight by Duncan Campbell-Smith
RRP: £30.00£21.35The story of Frank Whittle - RAF pilot, mathematician of genius, inventor of the jet engine and British hero. 'Wonderful' David Edgerton, TLS 'A fascinating account' Aeroplane Monthly 'Casts new light on the intense, heroic character of Frank... -
A Bitter Winter: The Irish Civil War, 1922-23: 2022 by Colum Kenny
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934378Author Colum KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
No Wider War: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965-75 by Sergio Miller
RRP: £30.00£22.84No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender... -
Latin America's Democratic Crusade: The Transnational Struggle against Dictatorship, 1920s-1960s by Allen Wells 9780300264401
RRP: £50.00£47.85By emphasizing Latin American reformers’ decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region’s political evolution Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a... -
Atlas of the Eastern Front: 1941-45 by Robert Kirchubel
RRP: £50.00£37.62The Eastern Front was the most significant theatre of World War II. Here the bulk of the Wehrmacht was committed and eventually shattered by the Red Army in a campaign of unmatched intensity. From Operation Barbarossa in 1941 through to the final fall of... -
Charles & Camilla by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary stories of our time. Gyles Brandreth, acclaimed biographer of the Queen and Prince Philip, presents a unique portrait of their son, Charles, Prince of Wales, and of the one 'non-negotiable'... -
Berlin Then and Now (R): Damals und Heute by Nick Gay
RRP: £20.00£14.34Berlin Then and Now captures the stark contrast between what came before and after the great conflicts of the twentieth century, using archival photographs of the city's grand buildings, monuments, and boulevards alongside modern views of the same scenes... -
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition by Czeslaw Milosz
RRP: £10.99£7.77After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation... -
In Good Faith: A history of the Vietnam War Volume 1: 1945-65 by Sergio Miller 9781472838469
RRP: £25.00£19.28In Good Faith is the first of a two-volume, accessible narrative history of America's involvement in Indochina, from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon in 1975. The books chart the course of America's engagement with the region, from its... -
The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy by Larry Wolff
RRP: £20.99£17.77A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau... -
Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railways: The Late 1940s to Late 1960s by Brian Reading
RRP: £15.99£10.85With images and vivid recollections, we journey away from the main line to valleys, quarries and factories. Industries as diverse as slate, iron, paper, glass, food and tourism relied on dozens of small railways to keep people and goods moving. At... -
Edie: An American Biography by Jean Stein
RRP: £12.99£9.09A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol's tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick'Exceptionally seductive... You can't put it down' LA TimesOutrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and... -
A Small Town in Ukraine: Krakowiec and the Storm of History by Bernard Wasserstein
RRP: £25.00£17.62'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In... -
The Last Man in Russia: And The Struggle To Save A Dying Nation by Oliver Bullough
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Wonderful ... These are the chronicles of a writer who truly knows Russia' New York TimesAward-winning writer Oliver Bullough travels the country from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept village, following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man,... -
Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S. A. Smith 9780198734833
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Historian S. A. Smith presents... -
First in Last out: The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos by Paul Winter
£21.44The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of post-war Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length.Prepared in 1951 at the height of... -
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War by Nicholas Mulder
RRP: £14.99£13.03The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022 "Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy makers today."-Paul... -
Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Morton 9781789293739
RRP: £9.99£6.85'The best account so far of the most notorious woman... Andrew Morton presents a convincing picture of Wallis Simpson's rip-roaring sexual and social adventures and her curious marriage to the Duke of Windsor... His new research adds to our knowledge of... -
Woodbrook by David Thomson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a... -
Rasputin's Killer and his Romanov Princess by Coryne Hall
RRP: £22.99£15.58When the Tsar's eighteen-year-old niece Princess Irina Romanov announced her marriage to Prince Felix Youssoupov, heir to the richest fortune in Russia, the Imperial family were shocked. Prince Felix and his wife Princess Irina had it all. When they... -
Cyprus Emergency: The Divided Island 1955-1974 by Nik Van Der Bijl 9781783462162
RRP: £14.99£10.95The UK has been involved in Cyprus for over 125 years. Strategically placed in the Eastern Mediterranean, it was initially ideal for protection of the Suez Canal and more recently as a 'listening post' for the troubled Middle East and southern flank of... -
Spitfire VC vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen by Peter Ingman
RRP: £13.99£9.75Just weeks after Pearl Harbor, Darwin was mauled by a massive Japanese attack. Without a single fighter to defend Australian soil, the Australian government made a special appeal to Britain for Spitfires. A year later the Spitfire VC-equipped No 1... -
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India by Katie Hickman
RRP: £9.99£7.40'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the stereotype of the snobbish, matron-like memsahib by... -
Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters by Sarah Watling
RRP: £12.99£9.09*A NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR**WINNER OF THE TONY LOTHIAN PRIZE*'Interesting women have secrets. They also ought to have sisters.'From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly... -
Making Movie Magic: The Photographs by John Richardson
RRP: £30.00£22.03In 2019, Oscar-winning special effects supremo John Richardson released his first book, the bestselling Making Movie Magic, which chronicled his remarkable career in the film industry. A year later, during a house clear-out as the UK was stuck in a... -
Look Back in Anger: The Miners' Strike in Nottinghamshire 30 Years on by Harry Paterson 9781907869952
RRP: £9.99£8.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907869952Author Harry PatersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Munich 1919: Diary of a Revolution Victor Klemperer 9781509510597
RRP: £12.99£11.94Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history. Victor Klemperer provides a moving and thrilling account of what turned... -
Yellow Earl by Douglas Sutherland
RRP: £20.00£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723036Author Douglas SutherlandFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 797g -
Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship by Andrew Wilson
RRP: £11.99£10.15A comprehensive and revelatory history of modern Belarus-from independence to Lukashenka's contested 2020 re-election"Andrew Wilson has done all students of European politics a great service by making the history of Belarus comprehensible, and by showing... -
Historopedia - The Story of Ireland From Then Until Now by Kathi Burke
RRP: £25.99£19.28It's A Time-Travelling Journey Through Ireland ... It's A Historopedia! Buckle up and get ready to travel back in time with John and Fatti Burke's new adventure through Ireland's history. This breathtakingly exciting book discovers Ireland, era by... -
Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: £12.99£9.09From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the paperback edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it. With the end of the Cold War... -
Shot Down and on the Run: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII by Air Commodore Graham Pitchfork
RRP: £10.99£8.38First hand accounts of adventure and bravery from RAF pilots shot down and forced to flee enemy forces. Thousands of airmen shot down over enemy soil between 1940 and 1945 miraculously escaped capture. This compelling narrative reveals their... -
Defending Rodinu Volume 1: Creation and Operational History of the Soviet Air Defence Force, 1945-1960 by Krzysztof Dabrowski
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070715Author Krzysztof DabrowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Reinventing Human Rights by Mark Goodale
RRP: £21.99£19.19A radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront... -
Fallschirmjager: German Paratroopers - 1942-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Francois Cochet
RRP: £14.99£10.95As elite troops, the German Fallschirmjager (paratroopers) were regularly engaged in front line combat during the Second World War. Their famed actions such as the fighting in Scandinavia, the taking of the Belgian fortress Eden-Emal in May 1940, and the... -
Ever the Diplomat: Confessions of a Foreign Office Mandarin by Sherard Cowper-Coles
RRP: £12.99£8.48In this entertaining and engaging memoir, former ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles lifts the lid on embassy life throughout the world. In 1977 fresh-faced Oxford graduate Sherard Cowper-Coles entered the hallowed portals of the Foreign Office...