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The Third Reich in Power, 1933 - 1939: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.02The second book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans' The Third Reich in Power: How the Nazis Won Over the Hearts and Minds of a Nation explores how Hitler turned Germany from a vibrant democracy into a... -
We Dared to Win: The SAS in Rhodesia by Hannes Wessels 9781612005874
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.76In his own words Andre Scheepers describes his childhood on a farm, learning about the bush from his African friends, and becoming a soldier. The family had to leave the farm after being ambushed by terrorists.A quiet, introspective, deep thinker Andre... -
Republic of Shame: Stories from Ireland's Institutions for 'Fallen Women' by Caelainn Hogan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here' Margaret Atwood '[A] furious, necessary book' Sinead GleesonUntil alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a... -
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.26AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand... -
Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult by Richard B. Spence 9781932595338
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932595338Author Richard B SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 430g -
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.02SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, LONDON EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more... -
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019*'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer'A riveting account of human error and state duplicity. . ... -
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.57Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a... -
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century, Fifth Edition by Robert Service
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.72Robert Service's The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-first Century provides a superb panorama of Russia in the modern age. Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the... -
Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller by Carl Chinn
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.91THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety... -
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre 9781101904213
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101904213Author Ben MacintyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Martin Scorsese: A Journey by Mary Pat Kelly
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.01Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of every prestigious film award, including the Oscar, Scorsese is a living legend. Bestselling author and award-winning filmmaker Mary Pat... -
A Little History of the United States by James West Davidson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.83A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages "This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn... -
The Shortest History of England James Hawes 9781910400999
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400999Author James HawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Into the Black: The electrifying true story of how the first flight of the Space Shuttle nearly ended in disaster by Rowland White 9780552160223
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56On 12th April 1981 a revolutionary new spacecraft blasted off from Florida on her maiden flight. NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia was the most advanced flying machine ever built - the high watermark of post-war aviation development. A direct descendant of... -
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick 9781913083151
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083151Author Sheila FitzpatrickFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by Max Hastings
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £13.45'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers,... -
Hunting Evil by Guy Walters
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus Barbie - not just... -
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, told by a former British Ambassador Twenty-five years ago, when the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan after a gruelling nine-year occupation, they left a legacy obscured by distortion and distrust. Fuelled by Cold War... -
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37Chosen 16 times as a 'Book of the Year' - the top non-fiction pick of 2012'The best work of modern history I have ever read' A. N. Wilson, Financial TimesAt the end of the Second World War, the Soviet Union unexpectedly found itself in control of a huge... -
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.02In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947 through to the last commercial flight of the supersonic... -
The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. McMahon
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.04Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar... -
One Hundred Days by Sandy Woodward
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.56Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force. On 5 April 1982, three days after the invasion of the... -
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain by Leyla Daybelge
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.07In the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn... -
The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: The Story of Bela Guttman by David Bolchover
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.70Before Pep Guardiola and before Jose Mourinho, there was Bela Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the celebrated coaches of the modern age. He was also a Holocaust survivor. In 1944, much of Europe had... -
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip Oltermann
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry club: Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with Dead Poets Society.'Engrossing.' Observer'Remarkable.' The Times'Magnificent.' Phillipe Sands'Gripping.' Literary Review'A history so outlandish and... -
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.57The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted... -
Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine) by Margaret Humphreys
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.88THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE HEARTBREAKING SCANDAL OF BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN AND ABUSED CHILD MIGRANTS - now a film, Oranges and Sunshine, starring Emily Watson.In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged... -
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511830Author Jason StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.02PERFECT FOR FANS OF NETFLIX'S THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT'Gripping.' SUNDAY TIMES'Pure drama.'INDEPENDENT'Compelling.'NEW YORK TIMESBobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow details the occasion when Bobby Fischer met Boris Spassky in one of the... -
The Blunders of Our Governments by Anthony King 9781780744056
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.88With unrivalled political savvy and a keen sense of irony, distinguished political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe open our eyes to the worst government horror stories and explain why the British political system is quite so prone to appalling... -
The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study of the myth that sustained one of the most notorious dictators, and delves into Hitler's extraordinarily... -
One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became... -
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The TimesA century... -
The Morbid Age: Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939 by Richard Overy
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.37Richard Overy's The Morbid Age opens a window onto the creative but anxious period between the First and Second World Wars. British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity; it was the golden age of the public intellectual and... -
RAF West Malling: The RAF's First Night Fighter Airfield - WWII to the Cold War by Anthony J. Moor 9781526753236
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.56This is the story of West Malling airfield, from its earliest days through its role in the Second World War - when several dramatic and tragic events occurred - and beyond into the Cold War. Opened as a private landing ground after the First World War,... -
The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story Ramzy Baroud 9780745337999
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.50Spanning decades and encompassing war, mass exodus, epic migrations and the search for individual and collective identity, The Last Earth tells the story of modern Palestine through the memories of those who have lived it. Ordinary Palestinians have... -
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.31The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible to step back and see the full picture. Starting... -
The Great War on the Western Front: 1914 - 1918 by Mike Lepine 9781915343536
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915343536Author Mike LepineFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Sona BooksPublisher Danann Media Publishing LimitedWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 272mm... -
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.72State of Emergency : Britain 1970-74 is a brilliant history of the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies. The early 1970s were the age of gloom and glam. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now...