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The Baby Boomer Generation: A Lifetime of Memories by Paul Feeney
RRP: £10.99£8.25Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire, using outside lavatories and not having a television? Did you grow up in the 1950s and were you a teenager in the swinging sixties? If the Festival of Britain, food rationing and the Queen's coronation... -
Kitchener: Hero and Anti-Hero by C. Brad Faught
£54.87Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for... -
75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works by James C. Goodall
RRP: £50.00£37.62This pictorial journey takes the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follows the programme through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service. ... -
The White Sniper: Simo HaYha by Tapio Saarelainen
RRP: £14.99£12.21Simo Hayha (1905 - 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers... -
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto by Dawid Sierakowiak 9780195122855
RRP: £18.49£14.87"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us."... -
The Chinese Civil War: 1945-49 Michael Lynch 9781472853141
RRP: £11.99£8.43In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history. Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 1: The American Airborne Missions by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £16.99£13.16In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. The American portion of the airborne mission was to employ two divisions of the US XVIII Airborne Corps to seize key terrain features... -
The Seventies Railway by Greg Morse
RRP: £8.99£6.02For Britain's railways, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when gallows humour about British Rail sandwiches and delayed trains often overshadowed real achievement, like 'parkway' stations and high-speed travel. The Seventies Railway begins with the... -
Peter Moro and Partners by Alistair Fair
RRP: £33.00£29.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800856516Author Alistair FairFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press -
The Supersonic BONE: A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber by Katz, Kenneth 9781399014717
RRP: £35.00£29.16When the B-52 Stratofortress entered operational service with the US Air Force in 1955, work was already underway on defining its successor. The B-70 Valkyrie, a Mach 3 jet bomber, was one option. Although two XB-70A prototypes flew, the B-70 never went... -
Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £12.99£8.60Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India, a Prime Minister's resignation and the... -
George V (Penguin Monarchs): The Unexpected King by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £4.99£3.80The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackFor a man with such conventional tastes and views, George V had a revolutionary impact. Almost despite himself he marked a decisive break with his... -
Psychedelic Celluloid by Simon Matthews 9781843444572
RRP: £20.00£14.69The definitive guide to the decade when swinging London was the film capital of the world After The Beatles stormed America, every Hollywood and European production company descended on London to be part of the new swinging scene... and they didn't leave... -
One Pair of Hands: From Upstairs to Downstairs, in this charming 1930s memoir by Monica Dickens
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Life was a wordless battle of wits between us, with her keeping a sharp look-out for signs of neglect, and me trying to disguise my slovenliness by subterfuge. I became an adept at sweeping dust under the bed, and always used the same few pieces of... -
Holocaust by Imperial War Museum 9781912423408
RRP: £20.00£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJames Bulgin is a lead historian at the Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums.Book InformationISBN 9781912423408Author Imperial War MuseumFormat... -
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto China Mieville 9781786692030
RRP: £18.99£16.78China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: The Communist Manifesto. 'It's thrilling to accompany Mieville... as he wrestles - in critical good faith and incandescent commitment - with a... -
Ireland's War of Independence 1919-21: The IRA's Guerrilla Campaign by Lorcan Collins
RRP: £14.99£11.66An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 January 1919 to the truce in July 1921, the IRA carried out a huge range of attacks on all levels of British... -
To Lose a Battle: France 1940 by Alistair Horne
RRP: £18.99£13.61To Lose a Battle: France 1940 is the final book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Fall of Paris and The Price of Glory and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between France and Germany. In 1940 Hitler sent his troops to... -
German Naval Camouflage Volume II: 1942 - 1945 by Eric Leon 9781848322233
RRP: £35.00£24.69This book completes a highly original and superbly illustrated two-volume survey of German naval camouflage and markings in the Nazi era. On first publication in 2012 the 1939-1941 volume was quickly recognised by warship enthusiasts and modelmakers as a... -
Max Hoffman: Million Dollar Middleman by Myles Kornblatt
RRP: £30.00£21.00This fascinating story charts the career of Max Hoffman, the US car dealer who represented Jaguar, Porsche, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Fiat, Lancia, BMW, and many other European car brands during the decades following WWII. He pushed for distinguished... -
The Mudd Club by Richard Boch 9781627310512
RRP: £30.99£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310512Author Richard BochFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Fascism: The Career of a Concept by Paul Gottfried 9780875807829
RRP: £27.99£24.14"For historians, [Fascism] offers clear and provocative insights and arguments, and the very detailed notes are especially helpful.... Recommended." Choice What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as... -
Norwegian Waffen-SS Legion, 1941-43 Ramiro Bujeiro 9781472834393
RRP: £12.99£11.01Following the Nazi occupation of Norway in 1941, the Waffen-SS began recruiting volunteers to serve in their ranks. Initially formed into small volunteer units, these developed into large divisions by 1943, referred to as 'Legions' in Nazi propaganda... -
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe Monty Halls 9781509866014
RRP: £9.99£2.48'I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .'Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over... -
Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936 by Volker Weidermann
RRP: £10.99£7.32A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week It's as if they're made for each other. Two men, both falling, but holding each other up for a time. Ostend, 1936: the Belgian seaside town is playing host to a coterie of artists, intellectuals and madmen, who find... -
The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945 by Martin Francis 9780199602292
RRP: £40.49£30.15Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin... -
Pacific Carrier War: Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa by Mark Stille
RRP: £30.00£21.95A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea. The defining feature of the... -
To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway by Christian Wolmar
RRP: £16.99£11.58Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial... -
The Children of Craig-y-nos: Life in a Welsh Tuberculosis Sanatorium, 1922-1959 by Anne Shaw 9780854841264
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When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781442253322
RRP: £30.00£23.03When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly... -
Gallipoli: The End of the Myth by Robin Prior
RRP: £14.99£13.03A decisive account of the dramatic Gallipoli campaign of World War I, with a devastating assessment of its pointless losses The Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 was an ill-fated Allied attempt to shorten the war by eliminating Turkey, creating a Balkan... -
Imphal 1944: The Japanese invasion of India by Hemant Singh Katoch
RRP: £15.99£11.61In March 1944, the Japanese Fifteenth Army launched an offensive into India from Burma. Named 'U Go', its main objective was the capture of the town of Imphal, which provided the easiest route between India and Burma. Whoever controlled it, controlled... -
Bristol A Portrait 1970-82 by Stephen Dowle
RRP: £16.99£12.28Stephen Dowle first started taking photographs using a pre-war Coronet Cub given to him by his father. He spent the 1970s and the early 1980s documenting his home city and the lives of the inhabitants who resided there. The photographs in this book are... -
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society by Anna Neima
RRP: £25.00£21.79'Neima's book, impeccably researched and beautifully written, will be an inspiration for anyone looking to an alternative future today.' - Stella Tillyard, author of Aristocrats and The Great Level'Deeply interesting and a pleasure to read, The Utopians... -
A Short History of Brexit: From Brentry to Backstop by Kevin O'Rourke
RRP: £9.99£7.51'Crisp, clear and quietly devastating' Guardian'Excellent, authoritative, highly readable' Irish TimesA succinct, expert guide to how we got to BrexitAfter all the debates, manoeuvrings, recriminations and exaltations, Brexit is upon us. But, as Kevin... -
Berlin 1936: Sixteen Days in August by Oliver Hilmes
RRP: £10.99£7.77WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics - told through the voices and stories of those who were there.'Compelling, suspenseful and beautifully done' Anna Funder, author... -
Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 by Philipp Blom
RRP: £15.99£10.95When the Great War ended in 1918, the West was broken. Religious faith, patriotism and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced by both sides. Shell shocked and traumatized, the West faced a world it... -
Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance by Robert N. Proctor 9780804759014
RRP: £23.99£19.66What don't we know, and why don't we know it? What keeps ignorance alive, or allows it to be used as a political instrument? Agnotology-the study of ignorance-provides a new theoretical perspective to broaden traditional questions about "how we know" to... -
Speakers' Corner: Debate, Democracy and Disturbing the Peace by Philip Wolmuth
RRP: £14.99£11.55Speakers' Corner is a unique look at the people who come to argue, discuss and preach at Speakers' Corner in London's Hyde Park, regarded worldwide as the home of free speech. Many of the photographs, taken on Sunday afternoons stretching back almost... -
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility Taner Akcam 9781845295523
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1915, the Turkish government systematically organised the wholesale slaughter of a complete race, the Armenians. Under the cover of World War I, through the secret organisation of unofficial gangs of Kurds, released prisoners, German officers and...