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On Tyranny (Graphic Edition) by Nora Krug
RRP: €20.22€15.09A captivating graphic edition of Timothy Snyder's bestselling book of lessons for surviving and resisting the arc toward authoritarianism. Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny is one of the essential books of recent years, using the darkest moments in... -
The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn David Okuefuna 9781846074585
RRP: €53.55€39.76In 1909 the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn embarked on an ambitious project to create a colour photographic record of, and for, the peoples of the world. As an idealist and an internationalist, Kahn believed that he could use... -
British Rail Motive Power in the 1980s by Andrew Walker
RRP: €19.03€12.91The 1980s were years of momentous change on Britain's railways. At the dawn of the decade it was still possible to travel on a Sundays-only St Pancras to Manchester Piccadilly service that traversed the Woodhead route, or catch a Deltic-hauled express... -
The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960 by Dan Jones
RRP: €11.89€8.46The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science,... -
Kut 1916: The Forgotten British Disaster in Iraq by Patrick Crowley
RRP: €22.60€17.52The siege of Kut is a story of blunders, sacrifice, imprisonment and escape. The allied campaign in Mesopotamia began in 1914 as a relatively simple operation to secure the oilfields in the Shatt-al-Arab delta and Basra area. Initially it was a great... -
To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
RRP: €21.41€17.70Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service
RRP: €29.75€26.41Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants by Charles Moore 9780241573587
RRP: €47.60€35.69The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron LadyIn June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as... -
Rome - City in Terror: The Nazi Occupation 1943-44 Victor Failmezger 9781472841285
RRP: €29.75€26.41'Victor Failmezger's passion for the city of Rome is matched by his extensive knowledge of its dark recent past.' - Joshua Levine, author of Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture In September 1943, following wave upon wave of Allied... -
The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers 9781451651140
RRP: €24.98€17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451651140Author Thomas ChildersFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain's Rush to War, 1914 Douglas Newton 9781781688168
RRP: €11.89€9.72The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War may be commemorated by some as a great moment of national history. But the standard history of Britain's choice for war is far from the truth. Using a wide range of sources, including the personal ... -
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not For Turning by Charles Moore 9780241573570
RRP: €47.60€35.69Not For Turning is the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher, the longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century and one of the most influential political figures of the postwar era.Charles Moore's biography... -
The Kidnapping: A hostage, a desperate manhunt and a bloody rescue that shocked Ireland by Tommy Conlon 9781844886630
RRP: €20.22€18.46'Riveting . . . a triumph . . . intertwining personal narratives with wider themes of remembrance, loss, courage and blame' Gary Murphy, Irish ExaminerNovember 1983. Early morning in suburban south Dublin. Businessman Don Tidey is snatched from his car... -
Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia by Tobias Becker 9780674251755
RRP: €35.64€28.16A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of "retro" to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity... -
Chernobyl by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: €23.79€16.72On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat: two massive steam explosions ruptured No. 4 Reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, immediately killing 30 people and setting off the worst nuclear accident in history... -
Peaks and Bandits: The classic of Norwegian literature by Alf Bonnevie Bryn 9781839810862
RRP: €11.89€8.65In 1909, while dreaming of the Himalaya, Norwegian mountaineer Alf Bonnevie Bryn and a fellow young climber, the Australian George Ingle Finch, set their sights on Corsica to build their experience. The events of this memorable trip form the basis of... -
Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State by Chris Renwick
RRP: €13.08€9.25SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most progressive policy achievement of any government in the history of the world ... the welfare state deserves... -
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
RRP: €15.46€10.82WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a local Johannesburg rag. There he encountered first-hand... -
The Houses of History: A Critical Reader in History and Theory, by Anna Green 9780719096211
RRP: €23.79€17.75The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the... -
Access to History: War and Peace: International Relations 1890-1945 Fourth Edition David Williamson 9781471838286
€30.00Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
The World Crisis Volume IV: 1918-1928: The Aftermath by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781472586957
€35.07The World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following... -
The SAS in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: €15.46€10.82A gripping history of the SAS in World War II, supported by a collection of rare images from the SAS Regimental Association. The SAS are among the best-trained and most effective Special Forces units in existence. This book is the incredible story of... -
White Rajah: A Biography of Sir James Brooke by Nigel Barley
RRP: €13.08€8.81Sir James Brooke was an extraordinary 'eminent' Victorian, whose life was the stuff of legend.His curious career began in 1841 when he was caught up in a war in Brunei which had started because a party of local Dayaks had refused to furl their umbrellas... -
Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959 by Rosa Magnusdottir 9780190681463
RRP: €97.58€70.52Enemy Number One tells the story of the Soviet cultural and propaganda apparatus and its efforts to control information about the United States in the postwar landscape. Beginning with the 1945 meeting of American and Soviet troops on the Elbe, this... -
A Party with Socialists in It: A History of the Labour Left Simon Hannah 9780745345574
RRP: €17.84€11.66*A Guardian Book of the Day* The defeat of socialist firebrand Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader in 2019 confirmed Tony Benn's famous retort 'the Labour party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it.' For... -
Black Tulip: The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann, the World’s Top Fighter Ace by Erik Schmidt
RRP: €21.36€15.37Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology during the Cold War. Over 1,404 wartime missions,... -
The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together by Michael Smith 9781471186813
RRP: €15.46€9.73'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative' Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read' John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former MI6... -
T-80 Standard Tank: The Soviet Army's Last Armored Champion Steven J. Zaloga (Author) 9781846032448
RRP: €15.46€13.10The history of the little-known yet controversial T-80 and its subsequent variants. The Soviet T-80 Standard Tank was the last tank fielded before the Soviet collapse, and the most controversial. Despite having the most sophisticated fire controls and... -
11:40: Analysis of Evasive Manoeuvres & Damage Assessment on RMS Titanic by Brad Payne
RRP: €35.70€26.22From the moment the iceberg was spotted to the moment Titanic's fate was realised, it was a race against time for the 2,208 souls on board.At 11:40 p.m. on 14 April 1912, Titanic collided with an iceberg in the middle of the North Atlantic. Less than... -
America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity, Second Edition by Campbell Craig
RRP: €24.93€20.09"A creative, carefully researched, and incisive analysis of U.S. strategy during the long struggle against the Soviet Union."-Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Policy"Craig and Logevall remind us that American foreign policy is decided as much by domestic... -
The Shape of Battle: Six Campaigns from Hastings to Helmand by Allan Mallinson
RRP: €29.75€19.67One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining battles . . .Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapons. However, battles across the centuries, whether fought... -
1941: Politics, Espionage and the Secret Pact between Churchill and Roosevelt by Marc Wortman
RRP: €13.08€8.71Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Throughout 1941, President Roosevelt concocted ingenious ways to come to Winston Churchill's aid, without breaking the Neutrality Acts. Conducting espionage at home and... -
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla
RRP: €17.84€13.03A SUNDAY TELEGRAPH AND GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEARWINNER OF SWEDEN'S AUGUST PRIZEWINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE'Osebol is a magnificent success; it is hard to imagine it better ... Kapla... -
Collision of Empires by Prit Buttar
RRP: €20.22€15.09Collision of Empires is the first major historical work on the Eastern Front during World War I since the 1970s. One of the primary triggers of the outbreak of World War I was undoubtedly the myriad alliances and suspicions that existed between the... -
A Short History of the Irish Revolution: 1912 -1927 by Richard Killeen
RRP: €14.27€10.03The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great War had broken out: the Act was suspended for the duration of the war, with... -
London's New Scene: Art and Culture in the 1960s Lisa Tickner 9781913107109
RRP: €41.65€37.09A groundbreaking and extensively researched account of the 1960s London art scene In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of... -
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue Russia's Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport
RRP: €13.08€9.25Shortlisted for the HWA Sharpe Books Non-Fiction Crown AwardA work of investigative history that will completely change the way in which we see the Romanov story. Finally, here is the truth about the secret plans to rescue Russia's last imperial family... -
Thomas Clarke: 16Lives Helen Litton 9781847172617
RRP: €19.03€14.72A fascinating examination of the life of Thomas Clarke, a member of the Fenians and a key leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1916. Clarke spent fifteen years in penal labour for his role in a bombing campaign in London between 1883 and... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 3: The British XXX Corps Missions by Ken Ford
RRP: €20.22€14.61Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to... -
Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati 9780804759649
RRP: €23.79€19.15Winner of the 2007 Marshall Shulman Prize The 1956 Hungarian revolution, and its suppression by the U.S.S.R., was a key event in the cold war, demonstrating deep dissatisfaction with both the communist system and old-fashioned Soviet imperialism. But...