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The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow Karl Schloegel (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt) 9781509546596
RRP: £20.00£13.35Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, Karl Schloegel unravels the... -
Malta's Greater Siege and Adrian Warburton by Paul McDonald 9781473860087
RRP: £25.00£18.62This is a true historical account of war in the air, at sea and on land in the battle for Malta's survival in the Second World War. It was a battle which decided the outcome of the war in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Adrian Warburton, the airman... -
Heinkel He 177 Units of World War 2 Robert Forsyth 9781472820396
RRP: £16.99£14.10In many ways, the Heinkel He 177 'Greif' (Griffon) was Nazi Germany's 'lost' strategic bomber. With some fundamental creases ironed out, and built in large numbers, the He 177 would have offered the Luftwaffe the means with which to carry out long-range,... -
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis by Ernest R. May
RRP: £29.00£24.95For sheer drama, this work of history may never be duplicated. The events of the Cuban Missile Crisis unfold in the actual words of President John F. Kennedy and his top advisers. Now available in a new, concise edition, this book retains its gripping... -
Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History by Catharine Arnold
RRP: £10.99£7.47In the dying months of the First World War, Spanish Flu suddenly overwhelmed the globe, killing up to 100 million people. it was one of the most devastating natural disasters in world history ...___________'Offers us a coherent, well-researched and... -
Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Gide, Sylvia Beach, Leon Blum, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121795
RRP: £14.99£11.53Paris on the Brink vividly portrays the City of Light during the tumultuous 1930s, from the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to war and German Occupation. This was a dangerous and turbulent decade, during which workers flexed their economic muscle and their... -
Culture in Nazi Germany by Michael H. Kater
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a... -
Painting for My Life Painting for My Life: The Holocaust artworks of Marianne Grant: The Holocaust artworks of Marianne Grant by Dr. Joanna Meacock
RRP: £14.99£12.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638304Author Dr. Joanna MeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Tremors in the Blood by Amit Katwala
RRP: £20.00£13.74Nominated for the CWA Dagger Award 2023 'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detector Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the... -
Kafka: The Decisive Years by Reiner Stach
RRP: £22.00£17.76This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the... -
Islam in Modern Turkey Kim Shively 9781474440158
RRP: £27.99£22.61This book provides a survey of Islam in Turkey since the founding of the modern republic in 1923. It examines the secularising policies of Turkey's founders and how these policies have shaped the development of religious institutions and social... -
The Surfing Tribe: A History of Surfing in Britain by Roger Mansfield 9780952364603
RRP: £22.99£19.73"The Surfing Tribe" is the definitive story of the history of surfing in Britain. First published in 2009, this second edition has been significantly updated and expanded with an additional 32 pages and 60 new photos. Written by renowned surf historian... -
World War II German Motorized Infantry & Panzergrenadiers by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £14.99£10.95In World War II Germany's doctrine of mobile warfare dominated the battlefield. By trial and error, the Germans were the first to correctly combine the strength in tanks and in mobile infantry and artillery. This integration of mobile units, equipment... -
Farming in the 1920s and 30s by Jonathan Brown
RRP: £8.99£7.40With world markets upset and economies in recession, the 1920s and '30s were not an easy time for farmers, who required great resilience to survive. Jonathan Brown here examines the challenges that farmers faced and the ways in which they responded. Some... -
The Rotten Heart of Europe by Bernard Connolly
RRP: £15.99£10.95'The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be lauded as a prophet.' Observer, Editorial, 1 October... -
The Road From Sarajevo: British Army Operations In Bosnia, 1995-1996 by Ben Barry
RRP: £14.99£11.55In 1992 Bosnia descended into a savage and bitter civil war, which by 1995 had claimed over a quarter of a million lives. Following the Dayton Peace Agreement between the warring Bosnian Serbs, Muslims and Croats, NATO began its first land operation,... -
The Road To 1945: British Politics and the Second World War Revised Edition by Paul Addison
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Road to 1945 is a rigorously researched study of the crucial moment when political parties put aside their differences to unite under Churchill and focus on the task of war. But the war years witnessed a radical shift in political power -... -
London Routemasters in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s by Mike Rhodes 9781445693880
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Routemaster is the iconic London bus, recognised around the world. This pictorial account features previously unseen pictures of the ubiquitous RM far and wide throughout the network during the period 1976-83, which included the year of the... -
The Panjshir Valley 1980-86: The Lion Tames the Bear in Afghanistan Mark Galeotti (New York University, New York, USA) 9781472844736
RRP: £15.99£11.61An in-depth look at the struggle between the charismatic rebel commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, 'The Lion of Panjshir', and the Soviet forces who fought to control the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan. When the Soviets rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, they... -
A Short History of Mozambique by Professor Malyn Newitt
RRP: £22.99£20.34This comprehensive overview traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire to the fifteen-year civil war that followed independence and its continued... -
In Our Day: An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days by Kevin C. Kearns
RRP: £23.99£16.94For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered - street traders,... -
A Tokyo Romance by Ian Buruma
RRP: £16.99£11.98When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo as a young film student in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of... -
On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought by Musab Younis
RRP: £25.00£19.59This expansive history of Black political thought shows us the origins-and the echoes-of anticolonial liberation on a global scale.On the Scale of the World examines the reverberations of anticolonial ideas that spread across the Atlantic between the two... -
Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire by Prashant Kidambi 9780198843139
RRP: £31.49£22.34Cricket is an Indian game accidentally invented by the English, it has famously been said. Today, the Indian cricket team is a powerful national symbol, a unifying force in a country riven by conflicts. But India was represented by a cricket team long... -
Atomic Thunder: British Nuclear testing in Australia by Dr Elizabeth Tynan 9781526727572
RRP: £16.99£12.68British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people... -
Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired... -
Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow by Gunnar Decker
RRP: £33.95£28.41A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of readers.Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread disillusionment with the forces of mass culture and consumerism,... -
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
RRP: £9.99£7.11What was mothering like in the past? When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and... -
Shooting Vietnam: The War By Its Military Photographers by Brookes, Dan 9781526744005
RRP: £25.00£18.62What was it like to be a military combat photographer in the most photographed war in history the Vietnam War? Shooting Vietnam takes you there as you read the firsthand accounts and view the hundreds of photographs by men who lived the war through... -
Nazis and Nobles: The History of a Misalliance by Stephan Malinowski
RRP: £36.99£26.73In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the... -
1919: Britain's Year of Revolution by Webb, Simon 9781399011396
RRP: £15.99£11.611919; Britain's Year of Revolution tells the story of an almost unknown passage in British history. On the August Bank Holiday that year, the government in London despatched warships to the northern city of Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force... -
World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about like shrapnel' Literary ReviewIn 1914 a new kind of war,... -
The Red Army 1922-41: From Civil War to 'Barbarossa' Philip Jowett 9781472850454
RRP: £11.99£8.43This study explores the organization, history and uniforms of the Soviet Red Army during the 20 years between its victory in the Civil War and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in 1941. The two decades following the Bolshevik victory over the... -
Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991 by Salman Rushdie
RRP: £12.99£9.09Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rushdie's remarkable imaginative and observational powers. With candour,... -
The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal
RRP: £45.00£44.65Winner of the STR Theatre Book Prize 2014 The National Theatre Story is filled with artistic, financial and political battles, onstage triumphs - and the occasional disaster. This definitive account takes readers from the National Theatre's... -
Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today by Anna Feigenbaum
RRP: £12.99£11.01One hundred years ago, French troops fired tear gas grenades into German trenches. Designed to force people out from behind barricades and trenches, tear gas causes burning of the eyes and skin, tearing, and gagging. Chemical weapons are now banned from... -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography Ralf Ruckus 9780745342955
RRP: £16.99£11.54'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey 9780809030750
£12.52The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German Kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency... -
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway
RRP: £14.99£10.95'It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker'A clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet' Philippe Sands'A fascinating and important book ... given the state of the world, The... -
Blown: The Incredible Story of John Goldsmith: Racehorse Trainer, Gambler and Wartime Secret Agent by Jamie Reid 9781910498453
RRP: £15.95£7.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910498453Author Jamie ReidFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Racing Post BooksPublisher Racing Post Books