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The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times Robert Cooper 9781780228365
RRP: €17.84€11.66History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic... -
Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers by Nick McCamley 9781783030101
€23.84"Nuclear Bunkers" tells the previously undisclosed story of the secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of radar stations that spanned the North American continent... -
The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won by Victor Davis Hanson
RRP: €35.69€30.24A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket... -
The Way It Was: Life in Elizabeth’s Britain, 1952-1979 by Matthew Engel 9781786496690
RRP: €15.46€10.19Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of living memory.' Simon Heffer, 'Books of the Year' , Daily Telegraph'A joyous new book on post-war Britain.' Daily... -
A Narrow Sea: The Irish-Scottish Connection in 120 Episodes - as heard on BBC Radio by Jonathan Bardon 9780717180592
RRP: €32.12€23.01The first history of the special relationship between Ireland and Scotland from acclaimed historian Jonathan Bardon, based on his BBC Radio series Based on the popular BBC Ulster radio series of the same name, A Narrow Sea traces the epic sweep of... -
Deep In A Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker by James Gavin 9780099590514
RRP: €17.84€13.03From his emergence in the 1950s - when an uncannily beautiful young man from Oklahoma appeared in the West Coast and became, seemingly overnight, the prince of 'cool' jazz - until his violent, drug-related death in Amsterdam in 1988, Chet Baker lived a... -
Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire by Thomas F. Martin
RRP: €34.50€25.85Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French... -
In Spies We Trust: The Story of Western Intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones 9780198701903
RRP: €17.84€13.72In Spies We Trust reveals the full story of the Anglo-American intelligence relationship - ranging from the deceits of World War I to the mendacities of 9/11 - for the first time. Why did we ever start trusting spies? It all started a hundred years... -
The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union by Peter Savodnik 9780465021819
€44.39Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 remains one of the most horrifying and hotly debated crimes in American history. Just as perplexing as the assassination is the assassin himself the 24-year-old Oswald's hazy background and... -
East Anglia and the East Coast Railways: The Late 1940s to Late 1960s by Ian Reading
RRP: €19.03€12.91The 1950s and 1960s was a time of profound cultural and technological transformation. With images and vivid recollections, we journey back to post-war East Anglia and the East Coast Main Line with many locations changed beyond recognition. Trackside, at... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice 9781800241589
RRP: €29.75€25.93A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: €17.84€13.51How the Cold War ended - and the people who made it happen In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet... -
Military Jet Aircraft: 300 of the World's Greatest Military Jet Aircraft by Michael Sharpe
RRP: €15.46€10.39Military Jet Aircraft contains 300 of the most important and influential military jet aircraft that have flown since World War II, including such famous aircraft as the Messerschmitt Me 262, English Electric Lightning, and North American F-86 Sabre. Each... -
The Russian Economy: A Very Short Introduction by Richard Connolly 9780198848905
RRP: €10.70€7.68Russia today is as prominent in international affairs as it was at the height of the Cold War. Yet the role that the economy plays in supporting Russia's position as a 'great power' on the international stage is poorly understood. For many, Russia's... -
Europe's Troubled Peace: 1945 to the Present by Tom Buchanan 9780470655788
RRP: €34.45€29.83This revised second edition now extends to the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, covering the financial crisis and the related crisis in European integration, the impact of the "War on Terror" on Europe, and the redefinition of Europe... -
Fallout: A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From the Atom Bomb to Radioactive Waste by Fred Pearce 9781846276262
RRP: €11.89€7.97At a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most misunderstood energy source and asks: what can we learn from our past mistakes, and what role should... -
1997: The Future that Never Happened by Richard Power Sayeed 9781786991997
RRP: €15.46€11.65'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchi's YBAs setting the international art world aflame. Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack dress. A time of vibrancy and optimism: when the... -
The Last Train: A Family History of the Final Solution by Peter Bradley 9780008475000
RRP: €11.89€7.76'Haunting.' Jonathan Freedland 'Powerful.' Daniel Finkelstein The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany to Latvia and to Britain. ... -
Classic Supercars: 300 Amazing Automobiles by Richard Nicholls
RRP: €11.89€8.15Supercars are exotic, powerful and expensive. Representing the ultimate in performance, styling and unadulterated driving thrills, a supercar encapsulates the romance, power and freedom of the motor car in one beautifully designed package. Classic... -
Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 by Donald Keene 9780231123419
RRP: €29.75€24.50When Emperor Meiji began his rule, in 1867, Japan was a splintered empire, dominated by the shogun and the daimyos, who ruled over the country's more than 250 decentralized domains and who were, in the main, cut off from the outside world, staunchly... -
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 by Professor J. R. McNeill
RRP: €24.93€20.09The Earth has entered a new age-the Anthropocene-in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the... -
Zeppelin Inferno: The Forgotten Blitz 1916 by Castle, Ian 9781399093927
RRP: €29.75€20.97At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay vulnerable to aerial bombardment. Throughout that period German Zeppelin airships and seaplanes had come... -
Surviving the Bosnian Genocide: The Women of Srebrenica Speak by Selma Leydesdorff
RRP: €24.98€21.86In July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica-the largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female... -
An International Civil War: Greece, 1943-1949 by Andre Gerolymatos
RRP: €26.78€25.80An authoritative history of the Greek Civil War and its profound influence on American foreign policy and the post-Second World War period In his comprehensive history Andre Gerolymatos demonstrates how the Greek Civil War played a pivotal role in the... -
Finland at War: The Continuation and Lapland Wars 1941-45 by Vesa Nenye
RRP: €29.75€22.16The follow-up to Finland at War: The Winter War, this is the astonishing David and Goliath story of Finland's military history during World War II as, heavily outnumbered, they held off the Soviet invaders In the aftermath of the Winter War, Finland... -
Yalta: The Price of Peace by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: €13.08€9.25Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room with Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt as they meet at a climactic... -
The Vertigo Years: Change And Culture In The West, 1900-1914 Philipp Blom 9780753825983
RRP: €15.46€10.23Europe, early in the twentieth century: a world adrift, a pulsating era of creativity and contradictions. But did this era vanish in the trenches of the Somme, of Ypres, and of Passchendaele? Look closer and the more this world seems like ours: feminism,... -
Ju 87 Stuka vs Royal Navy Carriers: Mediterranean by Robert Forsyth
RRP: €16.65€11.60Ju 87 dive-bombers, originally developed for pin-pointing bombing missions against land targets and Allied naval vessels were deployed by both the Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica against the Allied forces. Included in such a target were perhaps the... -
Zeppelin vs British Home Defence 1916-18 by Jon Guttman
RRP: €19.03€15.86When Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin's rigid airship LZ 1 flew over Lake Constance in 1900, it was the most advanced and impressive flying machine in the world: a colossal, lighter-than-air craft capable of controlled flight. In World War I, Zeppelins were... -
Leicester in the 1960s: Ten Years that Changed a City by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03€12.69For the people of Leicester, the 1960s was a decade of great social and economic change. It was to see a revolution in social attitudes reflected in the popular music of the time, in fashion, and in the print and broadcast media. Life changed for... -
The Maisky Diaries: The Wartime Revelations of Stalin's Ambassador in London by Ivan Maisky
RRP: €17.84€15.98Highlights of the extraordinary wartime diaries of Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to London The terror and purges of Stalin's Russia in the 1930s discouraged Soviet officials from leaving documentary records let alone keeping personal diaries. A... -
Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, Convergence by Shoshana Keller 9781487594343
RRP: €47.60€41.61Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which Russia and Central Asia have influenced and been influenced by Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This readable synthesis,... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe
RRP: €23.80€15.87A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be... -
Wilfred Owen by Guy Cuthbertson 9780300216158
RRP: €23.79€23.07One of Britain's best-known and most loved poets, Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was killed at age 25 on one of the last days of the First World War, having acted heroically as soldier and officer despite his famous misgivings about the war's rationale and... -
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
RRP: €11.89€9.25SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Fascinating, vast and rich ... a dramatic family memoir' GuardianUncovering... -
Lenin's Tomb: the Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick
RRP: €26.18€17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679751250Author David RemnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949 by Martin McCauley
RRP: €44.02€38.71Now in its fifth edition, Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949 covers the formative years of the momentous struggle that developed between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.This accessible text explains how the Cold War originated and... -
Bletchley Park: The Code-breakers of Station X by Michael Smith
RRP: €9.51€7.44Bletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The breaking of the Nazi Enigma cyphers by Britain's wartime code-breakers continues to fascinate, with well over... -
Wings of Iraq Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force 1931-1970 by Tom Cooper 9781913118747
RRP: €20.17€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118747Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris L. Bergen 9781442242289
RRP: €52.36€43.26In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L. Bergen situates the Holocaust in its historical, political, social, cultural, and military contexts. Unlike many other treatments of the Holocaust, this revised, third edition...