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The Jewish Century, New Edition by Yuri Slezkine 9780691192826
RRP: £28.00£21.80This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: "The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century." The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it drives home Yuri Slezkine's... -
Phantom in the Cold War: RAF Wildenrath 1977 - 1992 by David Gledhill 9781526704085
RRP: £25.00£18.62The McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom was a true multi-role combat aircraft. Introduced into the RAF in 1968, it was employed in ground attack, air reconnaissance and air defence roles. Later, with the arrival of the Jaguar in the early 1970s, it changed over... -
The History and Politics of Star Wars: Death Stars and Democracy by Chris Kempshall
RRP: £37.99£33.38This book provides the first detailed and comprehensive examination of all the materials making up the Star Wars franchise relating to the portrayal and representation of real-world history and politics.Drawing on a variety of sources, including films,... -
Code-Breaker: The untold story of Richard Hayes, the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII by Marc McMenamin 9780717181612
RRP: £17.99£12.95The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War II When unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track... -
The Bettencourt Affair Tom Sancton 9781101984499
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101984499Author Tom SanctonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
MiG-21 Aces of the Vietnam War by Istvan Toperczer
RRP: £17.99£14.87Having learned their trade on the subsonic MiG-17, pilots of the Vietnamese People's Air Force (VPAF) received their first examples of the legendary MiG-21 supersonic fighter in 1966. Soon thrown into combat over North Vietnam, the guided-missile... -
The Home Front in Britain Then and Now by Winston and Gail Ramsey 9781870067973
RRP: £29.95£24.24For nigh-on half a century, After the Battle has been exploring and photographing the battlefields of the Second World War, but now it is time to look at events nearer to home. Following the fall of France in June 1940, Britain stood alone against... -
Red on Red: Liverpool, Manchester United and the fiercest rivalry in world football by Phil McNulty 9780008489199
RRP: £9.99£6.64The untold story of the most contested fixture in world football 'A must read.' Henry Winter 'Superb.' Daniel Taylor Liverpool and Manchester... -
Kos and Leros 1943: The German Conquest of the Dodecanese by Anthony Rogers
RRP: £15.99£11.61This title is an illustrated account of the autumn 1943 battle for the Dodecanese, as Winston Churchill attempted to secure the Aegean islands in the wake of the Italian armistice. The occupation was a gamble intended to increase pressure against Germany... -
Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest
RRP: £20.00£16.49Robert Conquest has been called by Paul Johnson "our greatest living modern historian." As a new century begins, Conquest offers an illuminating examination of our past failures and a guide to where we should go next. Graced with one of the most acute... -
Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War by Micah Goodman
RRP: £12.99£11.46A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a best-selling Israeli author"A must for anyone who wants to understand the tectonic forces underlying Israeli politics."-Rabbi Robert Orkand, Reform... -
The Luckiest Thirteen: A True Story of a Battle for Survival in the North Atlantic by Brian W. Lavery 9781909954861
RRP: £12.99£8.63A relentless nautical drama that would define, or end, men's lives.The English port city of Hull was home to 'three day millionaires' - trawlermen on brief shore leave. They were spilling cash from record catches. With months out working fierce seas, who... -
The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski by Tim Tate
RRP: £10.99£7.77Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most important, yet least known and most misunderstood spies of... -
Glamour Ghoul by Sandra Niemi
RRP: £20.99£14.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311007Author Sandra NiemiFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe 9780008339586
RRP: £9.99£6.64A 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... -
Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe by Jan-Werner Muller
RRP: £16.99£16.66In this brilliant guide to modern European political ideas and thinkers spans the twentieth century, the author illuminates both the twentieth-century's ideological extremes and how Europeans built lasting liberal democracies in the second half of the... -
Air War on the Eastern Front by Mike Guardia
RRP: £19.99£14.28The Red Air Force versus the Luftwaffe in the skies over Eastern Europe. June 1941: Having conquered most of Western Europe, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the vast Soviet Union. Disregarding his Non-Aggression Pact with Joseph Stalin, Hitler... -
Vietnam War US & Allied Combat Equipments Gordon L. Rottman 9781472819055
RRP: £14.99£10.95Over the eight years of the Vietnam War, US forces used three major types of equipment sets, with numerous modifications for particular circumstances. Different equipments were also used by Special Forces, the South Vietnamese, and other allied ground... -
Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh
£15.23A searing account of the UN resolution to partition Palestine, and its bloody aftermath "[A] tour de force. . . . With his customary in-depth archival research . . . clear presentation, and meticulous historical sensibility, Karsh argues . . . that... -
A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World Thomas Crump 9781845298975
RRP: £10.99£7.40From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution the like of which had never been seen before. Inventors, businessmen, scientists, explorers all had their... -
Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975 by Alexander V. Pantsov
RRP: £30.00£24.85An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years,... -
Armoured Farmer: A Tankie's Tales - My Adventures with 3rd Royal Tank Regiment 1976-90 by Malcolm Cleverley 9781846830297
RRP: £16.00£15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846830297Author Malcolm CleverleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Secret Agent's Bedside Reader: A Compendium of Spy Writing by Michael Smith 9781785904813
£11.62Espionage fact and fiction collide in this thrilling compendium of spy writing, where some of the greatest spy stories ever told meet the genuine agent records and instructions that altered history. Ian Fleming's genre-defining genius and John le... -
Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties by Tariq Ali
RRP: £9.99£6.99Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. Reissued for the 1968 anniversary, Street-Fighting Years captures the mood and energy of the era of hope and passion as Ali tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement.Through... -
Sea Harrier FRS 1 vs Mirage III/Dagger: South Atlantic 1982 Douglas C. Dildy 9781472818898
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following Argentina's military operation to take possession of the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's government launched a major naval operation to return them to British rule. Defending the Royal Navy task force... -
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer 9780393357790
RRP: £14.99£11.42In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as compassionate and devoted, Asperger was in fact deeply... -
Special Operations Consolidated B-24 Liberators: The Unknown Secret and Specialized Duties Aircraft by William Wolf 9781399057769
RRP: £25.00£17.62Despite being America's most produced bomber, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator has forever flown in the shadow of its more famous and glamorous B-17 rival. The workmanlike B-24 performed multiple unheralded roles in all theatres beyond its also multiple... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War: New Edition by Sir Hew Strachan
RRP: £25.49£18.81The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead. Three major empires lay... -
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker
RRP: £17.99£12.95In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence under Putin. By cleverly exploiting the memory of the Soviet victory over fascism in World War II, Putin's regime has made ordinary Russians feel... -
Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to the Muslim Brotherhood, Revised and Updated by Tarek Osman
RRP: £12.99£11.46A lively and informed account of Egypt's recent history and current situation In this immensely readable and thoroughly researched book, Tarek Osman explores what has happened to the biggest Arab nation since President Nasser took control of the... -
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe by John Connelly 9780691167121
RRP: £30.00£24.89A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his... -
Constructing Industrial Pasts: Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation by Stefan Berger 9781789202908
RRP: £99.00£80.47Since the 1960s, nations across the "developed world" have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization and other kinds of significant economic transformation. In regions in which previously dominant industries face crisis or have disappeared... -
Norwich in the 1970s: Ten Years in the Life of a City by Pete Goodrum
RRP: £15.99£10.85For some the 1970s meant punk rock and political unrest. For others it was a time of ABBA and affluence. The decade's dual identity was as striking in Norwich as it was nationally. While once-familiar streets were demolished, new buildings sprang up... -
This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime by Stephen Ellis
RRP: £19.99£17.82Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American... -
Life and Death in the Battle of Britain by Carl Warner 9781904897316
RRP: £9.99£7.06This book offers a powerfully intimate account of the Battle of Britain, related by young pilots in their most unguarded moments, talking with their chaplain. Guy Mayfield was the Station Chaplain at the Royal Air Force's Duxford base in the summer of... -
Black Square: Malevich and the Origin of Suprematism by Aleksandra Shatskikh 9780300140897
£59.66An in-depth exploration of Malevich's pivotal painting, its context and its significance Kazimir Malevich's painting Black Square is one of the twentieth century's emblematic paintings, the visual manifestation of a new period in world artistic culture... -
FOCKE-WULF Fw 190: The Latter Years - Prototypes to the Fall of Germany by Chris Goss 9781473899407
RRP: £16.99£12.28As the war began to turn against Germany, the Luftwaffe was forced to defend the Reich against increasingly overwhelming numbers of Allied fighters and bombers. The Focke-Wulf Fw 190, together with the Bf 109G, was the mainstay of the Luftwaffe's... -
Crash Boats of Gorleston: The Exploits of No.24 Air Sea Rescue Unit of the Royal Air Force During World War 2 by Tony Overill 9781903953846
£12.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903953846Author Tony OverillFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Woodfield PublishingPublisher Woodfield PublishingWeight(grams) 350gDimensions(mm)... -
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian
RRP: £19.95£16.12George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual history at its best."-Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the... -
Safe Haven: The United Kingdom's Investigations into Nazi Collaborators and the Failure of Justice by Jon Silverman 9780192855176
RRP: £30.00£28.00The controversial 1991 War Crimes Act gave new powers to courts to try non-British citizens resident in the UK for war crimes committed during WWII. But in spite of the extensive investigative and legal work that followed, and the expense of some GBP11...