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Marxists In The Face Of Fascism: Writings by Marxists on Fascism From the Inter-war Period by David Beetham 9781608469765
RRP: €26.17€17.09Fascism's ascent to power across Europe in the 1920s & 30s marks one of the greatest historical defeats of the left in history. Far from inevitable, this catastrophic defeat was resisted at every turn by Marxists of varying stripes who tried,... -
France's War in Indochina: Volume 1 - The Tiger Versus the Elephant, 1946-1949 by Stephen Rookes 9781804510148
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510148Author Stephen RookesFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Angolan War of Liberation: Colonial-Communist Clash, 1961-1974 by Al J. Venter 9781526728418
RRP: €17.84€16.64When a large group of rebels invaded Angola from a recently independent Congo in 1961, it heralded the opening shots in another African war of independence. Between 1961 and 1974, Portugal faced the extremely ambitious task of conducting three... -
The Just: how six unlikely heroes saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by Jan Brokken
RRP: €29.75€21.44The remarkable story of how a consul and his allies helped save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in one of the greatest rescue operations of the twentieth century. In May 1940, desperate Jewish refugees in Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, faced... -
Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire by Erik Linstrum
RRP: €32.12€27.61An eye-opening account of how violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain. When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and... -
A Sword for Peace and Liberty Volume 1: Force de Frappe - The French Nuclear Strike Force and the First Cold War 1945-1990 by Philippe Wodka-Gallien 9781804512135
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512135Author Philippe Wodka-GallienFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Major Farran's Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain's War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-1948 by David Cesarani
RRP: €20.22€14.61In May 1947 a Jewish teenager was mysteriously abducted in Jerusalem. He was never seen alive again. A grey felt hat found at the scene was traced to Major Roy Farran, a highly decorated ex-SAS officer leading a covert counter-terrorist squad. Farran was... -
French Battleships, 1922-1956 John Jordan 9781526793829
RRP: €23.79€16.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman 9780691163499
RRP: €29.75€24.50Worldly Philosopher chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a... -
The War on Paper: 20 Documents that Defined the Second World War by Tony Richards 9781912423002
RRP: €29.75€20.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAnthony Richards is the head of Documents and Sound at IWM. Since 1995, he has worked on the diaries, letters and memoirs in the museum's care and is responsible... -
Cosmopolis: Hidden Agenda of Modernity by Stephen E. Toulmin 9780226808383
RRP: €27.37€26.33In the 17th century, a vision arose which was to captivate the Western imagination for the next 300 years: the vision of Cosmopolis, a society as rationally ordered as the Newtonian view of nature. While fueling extraordinary advances in all fields of... -
The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present - Revised Edition by David Runciman 9780691178134
RRP: €15.46€12.08Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book,... -
I Am Spain by David Boyd Haycock 9781908699312
RRP: €11.89€8.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908699312Author David Boyd HaycockFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race by Kennetta Hammond Perry 9780190909949
RRP: €36.28€27.10Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity... -
250 Days: Cantona's Kung Fu and the Making of Man U by Daniel Storey 9780008400620
RRP: €10.70€8.65An incredibly entertaining and perceptive look at the most controversial moment in Premier League history. 25th January 1995 A cold winter's evening. Manchester United away against Crystal Palace at a packed-out Selhurst Park. Eric Cantona, United's... -
The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East by Guy Laron
RRP: €20.22€17.39An enthralling, big-picture history that examines the Six-Day War, its causes, and its enduring consequences against its global context One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War... -
Alicia: My Story by APPLEMAN
RRP: €10.70€5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553282184Author Alicia ApplemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 170mm... -
Victoire: A Wartime Story of Resistance, Collaboration and Betrayal by Roland Philipps
RRP: €23.80€16.07'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The Times'A truly astonishing story, meticulously and brilliantly told' Philippe Sands, author of The RatlineRESISTANCE,... -
A Certain Amount of Madness: The Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara Amber Murrey 9780745337579
RRP: €33.31€21.65Thomas Sankara was one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist leaders of the late 20th Century. His declaration that fundamental socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness' drove the Burkinabe Revolution and resurfaced in the... -
Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in our Time by Bernard Wasserstein 9780198730736
RRP: €41.04€29.68The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically... -
1917: War, Peace, and Revolution by David Stevenson
RRP: €20.22€15.091917 was a year of calamitous events, and one of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War. In 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution, leading historian of World War One, David Stevenson, examines this crucial year in context and illuminates... -
Men, Ideas and Tanks: British Military Thought and Armoured Forces, 1903?39 by J. P. Harris 9780719048142
RRP: €23.79€20.96Men, ideas and tanks reviews the development of British military ideas on armoured forces from 1903 to 1939. Great Britain was the nation which first developed the tank, first used it in action and first gained dramatic results by employment. The British... -
Elizabeth II (Penguin Monarchs): The Steadfast by Douglas Hurd
RRP: €9.51€6.89The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackElizabeth II is the longest-serving monarch who ever sat on the English or British throne. Yet her personality and influence remain elusive. This... -
Broken Icarus: The 1933 Chicago World's Fair, the Golden Age of Aviation, and the Rise of Fascism by David Hanna
RRP: €29.75€22.54The 1930s still conjure painful images: the great want of the Depression, and overseas, the exuberant crowds motivated by self-appointed national saviors dressing up old hatreds as new ideas. But there was another story that embodied mankind in that... -
The Other Windrush: Legacies of Indenture in Britain's Caribbean Empire by Maria del Pilar Kaladeen
RRP: €17.84€11.66'This illuminating, vivid volume is a fitting tribute to the experiences of migration' - Hanif Kureishi Between the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 and the passing of the 1971 Immigration Act, half a million people came to the UK from... -
Real Lace: America's Irish Rich by Stephen Birmingham 9781493024704
RRP: €16.65€12.90America's Irish Catholic rich have long enjoyed the designation of F.I.F., or First Irish Family or "Real Lace", as it delineates their place in the "Irishtocracy", where names such as Cuddihy, Murray, Doheny, and McDonnell inspire respect and awe. Yet,... -
Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great Escapes in Nazi Europe by Monty Halls 9781509865826
RRP: €23.80€18.37'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... -
The Assassination of Lumumba by Ludo de Witte 9781859844106
RRP: €22.60€20.84Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered on 17 January 1961.Democratically elected to lead the Mouvement National Congolais, the party he founded in 1958, Lumumba was at the centre of the... -
Battle of the Four Courts: The First Three Days of the Irish Civil War by Michael Fewer
RRP: €11.89€8.46A meticulous, compellingly readable reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the civil war - the defining event of modern Irish politics. The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder... -
The Final Days by Bob Woodward
RRP: €23.80€15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743274067Author Bob WoodwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 214mm *... -
Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games by Philip Sabin
RRP: €32.12€28.37Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life. In this book, Philip Sabin explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in... -
The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists David Burke 9781783274703
RRP: €23.79€20.67The story of a modernist building with a significant place in the history of Soviet espionage in Britain, where communist spies rubbed shoulders with British artists, sculptors and writers The Isokon building, also know as Lawn Road Flats, in London... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White
€38.44During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his... -
There's A Riot Going On: Revolutionaries, Rock Stars, and the Rise and Fall of '60s Counter-Culture Peter Doggett 9781847671141
RRP: €20.22€14.26Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution, from the Black Panthers to the Gay Liberation Front, from the Yippies to the IRA. Rock and soul music supplied the revolutionary tide with anthems and iconic... -
Photographs and the Practice of History: A Short Primer by Professor Elizabeth Edwards 9781350120655
RRP: €26.17€22.94What is it to practice history in an age in which photographs exist? What is the impact of photographs on the core historiographical practices which define the discipline and shape its enquiry and methods? In Photographs and the Practice of History,... -
Inside the GPO 1916: A First-hand Account Joe Good 9781847177186
RRP: €19.03€14.72A first-hand account of the 1916 Rising and its aftermath brings alive the historic events that ushered in the beginnings of an independent Irish state. A Londoner and a member of the Irish Volunteers, Joe Good guarded the approach across O'Connell... -
Kidnapping Ronnie: The Incredible Story Behind the Capture of One of the World's Most Wanted Criminals by Patrick King 9781739695828
RRP: €11.89€10.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739695828Author Patrick KingFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Highland ClassicsPublisher Highland Classics -
Downfall 1945: The Fall of Hitler's Third Reich by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: €20.22€14.61As the final month of fighting in Europe in 1945 dawned the Allies embarked upon a series of mopping up operations, destroying the last centres of German resistance as the essentially defeated Wehrmacht fought on in increasingly desperate conditions,... -
The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire by Dominique Kirchner Reill 9780674244245
RRP: €36.83€29.54Recasting the birth of fascism, nationalism, and the fall of empire after World War I, Dominique Kirchner Reill recounts how the people of Fiume tried to recreate empire in the guise of the nation.The Fiume Crisis recasts what we know about the birth of... -
Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World by Gary Wilder
RRP: €28.55€25.28Freedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aime Cesaire (Martinique) and Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets...