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Sex: Lessons From History Fern Riddell 9781473666290
RRP: £10.99£7.40Out now: the new book by Dr Fern Riddell, a powerful and entertaining history of sex. Revised and updated. __________These are the facts: throughout history human beings have had sex. Sexual culture did not begin in the sixties. It has always been... -
The Modern Middle East: A Social and Cultural History Ilan Pappe 9780415829519
RRP: £45.99£40.53This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more... -
Ship Spotter's Guide Angus Konstam 9781472808691
RRP: £6.99£4.71Since the days of the Ancient Greeks, naval ships of all sizes have revolutionized warfare. From the Viking longship, pirate ships and super dreadnoughts to today's nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, naval warfare has proved to be an essential... -
Dark Persuasion: A History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media by Joel E. Dimsdale 9780300271034
RRP: £14.99£13.03A "highly readable and compelling" account (Science) of brainwashing's pervasive role in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"Riveting. . . . Dimsdale . . . shows how the art of dark persuasion a generation ago led almost inevitably to today's... -
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival by David Pilling
RRP: £14.99£10.95The second edition of the definitive book on how modern Japan works, now fully updated up to include the new 'Reiwa' Era and the year of the Olympics'A superb book that, better than any other I have read, manages to get the reader inside the skin of ... -
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £16.99£12.28Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of... -
The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness by Cecil B. Hartley
RRP: £16.95£10.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843915416Author Cecil B. HartleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 192gDimensions(mm)... -
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by James DiEugenio
RRP: £25.00£21.76Based on Oliver Stone's documentary, JFK Revisited, read the transcripts and interviews that will change the way you think about the John F. Kennedy assassination.JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass contains the two working original screenplays for... -
Martin Scorsese: A Journey by Mary Pat Kelly
RRP: £14.99£12.19Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a living legend. Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker Mary Pat... -
Drag: A British History by Jacob Bloomfield 9780520393325
RRP: £25.00£19.59"A must-read for anyone interested in the history of drag performance."- Publishers WeeklyA rich and provocative history of drag's importance in modern British culture. Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and... -
Amstrads and Ataris: UK Home Computers in the 1980s by Andrew Morten
RRP: £15.99£10.85The 1980s was the era when affordable computers came to UK homes. They were known as microcomputers as their 'brain' was a microprocessor chip. Before then, computers were either found in the IT centres of big companies, taking up a whole room, or were... -
State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 by Michael Billington
RRP: £14.99£9.80State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945 looks at post-war Britain from a theatrical perspective. It examines the constant interplay between theatre and society from the resurgent optimism of the Attlee years to the satire boom of the Sixties and... -
Land Rover: Military Versions of the British 4x4 by Ben Skipper
RRP: £16.99£12.28After the Second World War many American military vehicles become surplus stock and soon found their way into the hands of farmers and land owners across Great Britain. The subsequent heavy use and the real possibility of difficulties obtaining spares... -
Thomas MacDonagh: 16Lives by Shane Kenna
RRP: £15.99£12.37Born in Cloughjordan in Co. Tipperary, MacDonagh was a poet and playwright, an educator and political activist. Appointed to the IRB Military Council he became a member of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic and was a signatory of the 1916... -
F-102 Delta Dagger Units by Peter E. Davies
RRP: £14.99£10.95World War II saw the development of the heavy bomber as a decisive weapon which, in sufficient numbers, could overcome defensive fighters and guns and lay waste to strategic targets. The addition of nuclear weapons to the bomber's armament made it even... -
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner 9781786892195
RRP: £16.99£15.51SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKBorn and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her... -
Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker 9780099484332
RRP: £16.99£12.282014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history.Hell's Gorge traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The human cost... -
Modern Minds the twentieth-century world Pupil's Book by Jamie Byrom 9780582295179 [USED COPY]
RRP: £26.99£2.29Invokes curiosity and wonder to engage all pupils through arresting source material, thought-provoking enquiry and clear, vibrant pates. Supports development of thinking skills through progressive steps in each enquiry, which gradually build... -
Modern Minds the twentieth-century world Pupil's Book by Jamie Byrom
£29.13Invokes curiosity and wonder to engage all pupils through arresting source material, thought-provoking enquiry and clear, vibrant pates. Supports development of thinking skills through progressive steps in each enquiry, which gradually build... -
The World Crisis Volume III: 1916-1918 by Sir Winston S. Churchill
£29.47The 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... -
Liam Lynch: To Declare a Republic by Gerard Shannon
RRP: £17.99£17.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788558211Author Gerard ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Hitler's Vienna: A Portrait of the Tyrant as a Young Man by Brigitte Hamann 9781848852778
RRP: £25.00£12.83What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler... -
Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War by Glyn Prysor
RRP: £14.99£10.95During the Second World War the Royal Navy was the most powerful of Britain's armed forces. Its sailors fought across the globe in vast battleships and claustrophobic corvettes, makeshift minesweepers and silent submarines. They endured nerve-wracking... -
The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: £14.99£11.22Signed on 28 June 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious order... -
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil
RRP: £17.99£14.00When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of... -
Kremlin Winter: Russia and the Second Coming of Vladimir Putin by Robert Service 9781509883059
RRP: £10.99£7.93In Kremlin Winter, Robert Service, acclaimed biographer of Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky and one of the finest historians of modern Russia, brings his deep understanding of that country to bear on the man who leads it. 'One of our most accomplished, erudite... -
Yugoslav Armies 1941-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £11.99£8.43In March 1941, an anti-German coup in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia prompted Hitler to order an invasion using allied Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian forces. Operation Marita was an invasion of Yugoslavia and simultaneously Greece. At the same... -
The Polish Resettlement Corps 1946-1949: Britain'S Polish Forces by Wiesław Rogalski 9781912390892
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390892Author Wieslaw RogalskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Three Years in Hell: The Brexit Chronicles by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £9.99£7.11Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure. In 2011 Queen Elizabeth made her first ever state visit to the Irish Republic. It was a great, moving occasion. In settling once and for all its relationship with... -
Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo
RRP: £16.99£16.66The memoir of Charlotte Delbo, a French writer sent to Auschwitz for her resistance activities against the Nazi occupation of France and the Vichy government"Delbo's exquisite and unflinching account of life and death under Nazi atrocity grows fiercer... -
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography by Gregor von Rezzori
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past... -
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac 9780198784593
RRP: £26.49£19.49British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It... -
Mannerheim: President, Soldier, Spy by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £16.99£12.11Gustaf Mannerheim was one of the greatest figures of the 20th century. As a young Finnish officer he witnessed the coronation of the last Tsar and was decorated for bravery in the Russo-Japanese War. He spent two years undercover in Asia as an agent of... -
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
RRP: £12.99£8.56SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six and living in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. She began holding secret meetings in... -
The Revolution Of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604866780Author Raoul VaneigemFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 399g -
1980s London: Portrait of a Decade of Change by Alec Forshaw
RRP: £16.99£11.47The 1980s was a decade of immense change in London as well as across the rest of the country, setting in motion social and economic forces that shaped much that we recognise today in the capital, which experienced considerable upheaval in the process. ... -
Luftwaffe Mistel Composite Bomber Units Robert Forsyth 9781472808462
RRP: £16.99£14.10The striking appearance of Luftwaffe's Mistel Composite attack aircraft might seem ridiculous to modern eyes, but employed correctly, these original 'fire and forget' weapons were devastatingly effective, as Allied sources testify. This book draws on a... -
Women and Children First: Bravery, love and fate: the untold story of the doomed Titanic by Gill Paul 9781847563255
RRP: £14.99£11.66Praise for Gill Paul: 'A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story... A triumph.' DINAH JEFFERIES 'Gripping, romantic and evocative of its time.' LULU TAYLOR It is 1912. Against all odds, the... -
Fair Play: The Moral Dilemmas of Spying by James M. Olson 9781597971539
£17.13Revolutionary War officer Nathan Hale, one of America's first spies, said, "Any kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary." A statue of Hale stands outside CIA headquarters, and the agency often cites his statement... -
Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War by Frank McDonough 9780719048326
RRP: £19.99£17.82Re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement. The text suggests that the mood of the age in British society served to support appeasement, by analyzing the cluster of military, strategic, imperial and economic forces which served to justify it...