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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
RRP: $27.28$19.09From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world order for mankind. The end of the First World War saw old... -
State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: $39.88$28.58State 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... -
The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A compelling story of courage and endurance in the Second World War by David M. Guss
RRP: $20.98$15.27A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram by David M. Guss is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of the Scotsman. It is a tale of courage in the face of extraordinary odds and a testament to one man's dogged... -
The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction by Robert J. McMahon
RRP: $18.88$13.55Very 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... -
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: $27.28$17.98In 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 Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten
RRP: $63.00$46.10The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for... -
The Gathering Storm: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: $39.88$23.90Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the Second World War.About the AuthorWinston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. A prolific writer, whose works include The Second World War and A... -
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
RRP: $23.08$16.32The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most... -
Thetis: Submarine Disaster by David Paul 9781781552711
RRP: $35.68$27.17The true story of loss of His Majesty's Submarine Thetis is still shrouded in mystery, even now, some seventy-five years after her sinking. On 1st June 1939, HMS Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay on her maiden dive, with the loss of ninety-nine lives; the... -
Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences by Jack Roth
RRP: $58.78$46.49Startling new insights into the JFK assassination In Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of... -
The Origins of the Second World War by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: $23.08$16.32A.J.P. Taylor's bestselling The Origins of the Second World War overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war.One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor... -
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War by Philip Oltermann
RRP: $23.08$15.37The 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... -
Inside The Third Reich Albert Speer 9781842127353
RRP: $35.68$25.07The classic eye-witness account of Nazi Germany, by Hitler's Armaments Minister and right-hand man.'Inside the Third Reich is not only the most significant personal German account to come out of the war but the most revealing document on the Hitler... -
The Rest is History: The official book from the makers of the hit podcast by Goalhanger Podcasts 9781526667694
RRP: $39.88$26.21Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys - there's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to... -
Half Century, Baby! - Fifty Years of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat by David Parsons 9781911658924
RRP: $84.00$59.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658924Author David ParsonsFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1357g -
Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds
RRP: $23.08$15.37PERFECT 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... -
1970s Childhood by Liza Hollinghurst
RRP: $18.88$14.62A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from the handlebars of a Raleigh Chopper. It was a playground battlefield of Sindy versus Action Man or a... -
Escaping Hitler: A Jewish Boy's Quest for Freedom and His Future by Phyllida Scrivens 9781473843646
RRP: $52.50$37.84Escaping Hitler is the true story, covering ninety years, of a fourteen-year-old boy Gunter Stern who, when Adolf Hitler threatened hisfamily, education and future, resolved to escape from his rural village of Nickenich in the German Rhineland. In July... -
The Cambridge History of the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler 9781107602304
RRP: $71.38$63.55Volume II of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the developments that made the Cold War a long-lasting international system during the 1960s and 1970s. A team of leading scholars explains how the Cold War seemed to stabilize after the Cuban... -
Nuclear War In The UK Taras Young 9781909829169
$23.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909829169Author Taras YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 126Imprint Four Corners BooksPublisher Four Corners BooksDimensions(mm) 220mm * 160mm * 14mm -
Death in the Fields: The IRA and East Tyrone by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: $35.68$29.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374432Author Jonathan TriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $35.68$25.79'Superb ... likely to become a classic' ObserverIn the summer of 1914 most of Europe plunged into a war so catastrophic that it unhinged the continent's politics and beliefs in a way that took generations to recover from. The disaster terrified its... -
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: ‘Far away from Myself’ by Clinton Heylin 9781847925893
RRP: $73.50$51.85The second volume of Clinton Heylin's magisterial biography takes us from Dylan's 1966 motorcycle accident to the present day. We meet a man who is determined to confound expectations; yet whatever he does only seems to confirm his iconic status to fans... -
On China by Henry Kissinger
RRP: $35.68$25.79In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic step of reopening relations between China and the West, and since then has been more intimately connected with the country at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique... -
The Eyes of Malta: The Crucial Role of Aerial Reconnaissance and Ultra Intelligence, 1940-1943 by Salvo Fagone 9781804512418
RRP: $73.50$51.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512418Author Salvo FagoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
RRP: $20.98$14.93'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut off from history and the state, hedged in by custom and sorrow, without comfort... -
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World Laura Spinney 9781784702403
RRP: $23.08$16.32Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer - and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.'Both a saga of tragedies and a detective story... Pale Rider is not just an excavation but a... -
Donegal and the Civil War by Liam O'Duibhir 9781856357203
RRP: $39.88$36.25Donegal was one of the counties used to launch this offensive against the newly established government in the six counties. The bulk of the anti-Treaty IRA men who took part were from the southern counties including Cork and Kerry. Donegal became the... -
Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O'Hara 9781472144447
RRP: $23.08$16.34'A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times 'A powerful, sobering and vital work' The Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning read, peppered with humour' Sight & Sound'A must read' Edgar WrightA call to arms from Empire magazine's 'geek queen', Helen O'Hara, that... -
The Shortest History of England James Hawes 9781910400999
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies 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 -
The Meddlers: Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance by Jamie Martin
RRP: $73.40$60.04"The Meddlers is an eye-opening, essential new history that places our international financial institutions in the transition from a world defined by empire to one of nation states enmeshed in the world economy."-Adam Tooze, Columbia UniversityAn... -
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
RRP: $35.68$25.79Illuminations contains the most celebrated work of Walter Benjamin, one of the most original and influential thinkers of the 20th Century: 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy... -
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
RRP: $35.68$26.63FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER AWARD A magisterial and acclaimed history of post-war Europe, from Germany to Poland, from Western Europe to Eastern Europe, selected as one of New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year Europe in 1945 was drained. Much of the... -
Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose: The Story of the HK-1 Hercules by Simons, Graham M 9781399014410
RRP: $31.48$23.00Howard Hughes' life ambition was to make a significant contribution to the field of aviation development. But the monumental folly of his endeavours on the HK-I Hercules meant that he came to be known and remembered to a great extent for all the wrong... -
Military Aircraft: World's Greatest Fighters, Bombers and Transport Aircraft from World War I to the Present by Thomas Newdick
RRP: $52.48$37.36Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of... -
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb 9781529007626
RRP: $52.50$39.10A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of the Year'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' Spectator'A fresh way to write history' Alan Johnson'A quirky, amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' The Times_____France: An... -
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: $52.50$37.84BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times 'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes More than any other conflict,... -
The Korean War: An Epic Conflict 1950-1953 by Max Hastings
RRP: $39.88$27.64The Korean War is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of the forgotten war.'The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' - GuardianOn 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of... -
The Hitler Years ~ Disaster 1940-1945 by Frank McDonough 9781789544688
RRP: $25.20$17.72The second volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. 'This book is like a time machine because McDonough writes so vividly' History of War 'McDonough writes clearly and readably with... -
Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 by David Mccullough
$33.71Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.Book InformationISBN 9780671244095Author David McculloughFormat PaperbackPage...