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Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War by Philip Bell
RRP: €17.84€15.51A fresh exploration of the Second World War through twelve key events that shaped the conflict The Battle of Britain. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. D-Day. These defining events of the Second World War exemplify both the immense heroism and the grievous costs... -
The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History by William C. Rempel
RRP: €14.27€9.35NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Offers an entertaining look at Kerkorian's outsize life... an interesting portrait of a billionaire." - Wall Street Journal The rags-to-riches story of one of America's wealthiest and least-known financial giants, self-made... -
Modern African Wars 5: The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70 by Philip Jowett
RRP: €15.46€10.82With decades of research to draw from Philip Jowett explores this extraordinary David-and-Goliath conflict, where the rag-tag Igbo tribal army of secessionist Biafra faced off against the Nigerian Federal forces. It was an African war that captured the... -
Scotland's Railways in the 1980s and 1990s: A Snapshot in Time Peter J Green 9781526773548
RRP: €29.75€22.16Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
State Secrets: A Documentation of the Secret Revolutionary Mainspring Governing Anglo-American Politics by Leon De Poncins 9780993399305
€17.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993399305Author Leon De PoncinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Reconquista PressPublisher Reconquista Press -
The Long Hangover: Putin's New Russia and the Ghosts of the Past by Shaun Walker 9780190659240
RRP: €29.74€21.49In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker provides 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... -
The Book Smugglers - Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis by David Fishman 9781512603309
RRP: €23.80€20.21Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, Holocaust category (2017) Runner-up for the National Jewish Book Award, history category (2017) The Book Smugglers is the nearly unbelievable story of ghetto residents who rescued thousands of rare books... -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780198757917
RRP: €37.47€27.30With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism. Their massive, costly, and ambitious... -
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
RRP: €17.84€15.51A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nationsAbout the AuthorMancur Lloyd Olson Jr. was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and... -
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil 9780691149097
RRP: €29.75€23.79When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of... -
Europe Since Napoleon by David Thomson
RRP: €22.60€16.67A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.About the AuthorDavid Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire. After the period described in Woodbrook he developed a... -
A History of Modern Sudan by Robert O. Collins
RRP: €32.12€26.86Sudan's modern history has been consumed by revolution and civil war. The country attracted international attention in the 1990s as a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism and recently tensions between the prosperous centre and the periphery, between... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Cold War in Europe and Asia by Steve Phillips
€38.58Heinemann Advanced History is a series which supports the AS and A-Levels starting September 2000. The series provides coverage of all the most popular topics, so you can cover the whole of the specification with up-to-date resources. Each book begins... -
Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome by Shawn Levy
RRP: €15.46€10.23SUNDAY TIMES FILM BOOK OF THE YEAR'Uproariously readable ... Levy is a master of the group biography' Sunday Times'Teeming with satisfying gossipy details' Guardian'Exalts the intoxicating, beguiling dreaminess of Rome in its celluloid heyday' TLS1950s... -
Asperger's Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer
RRP: €26.17€22.55In 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... -
The Origins of Surface-To-Air Guided Missile Technology: German Flak Rockets and the Onset of the Cold War by James Mills
RRP: €35.64€24.89World War II saw the appearance of numerous revolutionary armaments on both sides of the conflict that would radically change the nature of warfare, from jet aircraft to the ballistic missile and the atomic bomb. The greatest conflagration in history... -
USAFE Tactical Units in the United Kingdom in the Cold War by Doug Gordon 9781781558607
RRP: €47.60€34.97This book contains a history of all United States Air Force Tactical Air Command flying units that were resident in the United Kingdom during the period 1950 to 1992. 'From the cockpit' testimony from aircrew who were assigned to the individual squadrons... -
Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed by Mary Heimann
RRP: €23.79€20.19This book, the most thoroughly researched and accurate history of Czechoslovakia to appear in English, tells the story of the country from its founding in 1918 to partition in 1992-from fledgling democracy through Nazi occupation, Communist rule, and... -
US Air Force Bases in the UK by Paul Bingley
RRP: €19.03€12.91When Winston Churchill delivered his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in 1946, he mentioned two words now engrained in Anglo-American terminology - 'special relationship'. Nowhere is the 'special relationship' more evident than in the scores of airfields... -
Mazda Rotary-engined Cars: From Cosmo 110S to RX-8 by Marc Cranswick
RRP: €32.73€23.05An in-depth look at the development history of Mazda's rotary power plant, and the model timelines of the vehicles these engines powered. You will discover how one small Japanese automaker remained independent and became famous by using a unique and... -
Con Colbert: 16Lives by John O'Callaghan
RRP: €19.03€14.72Con Colbert was one of the lesser-known leaders of the 1916 Rising. From a comfortable background in Newcastlewest, County Limerick, he moved to Dublin aged fifteen and worked as a junior clerk in a bakery. Already politically radicalised, he became... -
Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe by Joachim C. Häberlen 9780241479377
RRP: €41.65€29.38'A rich and readable account of left-wing activism in the West and opposition to Soviet-style communism in the East' Katja Hoyer, The Spectator'A dream, perhaps, but one that still sounds worth fighting for, even beautiful' Stuart Jeffries, The... -
Early Jet Bombers 1944-1954: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Leo Marriott 9781526753892
RRP: €17.84€13.03In a companion volume to his Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954, Leo Marriott describes, using over 200 archive photographs, the first decade in the development of the jet bomber. This was a time of intense technical innovation which... -
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing by Anthony R Wells
RRP: €29.75€20.97"Few people are as uniquely well equipped as Anthony Wells to write an account of these close and special relationships. His penetrating and informed analysis offers us all hope for the continuance of an alliance which makes the world a safer place." -... -
Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu Kevin Boylan 9781472824417
RRP: €17.84€13.03Following the end of World War II, France attempted to reassert control over its colonies in Indochina. In Vietnam, this was resisted by the Viet Minh leading to the First Indochina War. By 1954, the French army was on the defensive and determined to... -
Britain under Thatcher by Anthony Seldon 9780582317147
€42.53This concise, accessible, and balanced historical analysis of the Thatcher years and their consequences analyzes many controversial aspects of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, including the Falklands War, the miner's strike, bitter relations with Europe... -
Dublin Tenement Life by Kevin C. Kearns 9780717140749
RRP: €22.60€16.20This book is totally unique. It is based on the original and wholly authentic testimonies of survivors of the old Dublin tenements. For nearly 150 years, the wretched, squalid tenements of Dublin were widely judged to be the worst slums in all of Europe... -
A Spy in the Sky: A Photographic Reconnaissance Spitfire Pilot in WWII by Kenneth B. Johnson 9781526761569
RRP: €23.79€16.99Many stories abound of the daring exploits of the RAF's young fighter pilots defying the might of Hitler's Luftwaffe, and of the dogged courage of the men of Bomber Command flying night after night over Germany in the face of flak and Focke-Wulfs, yet... -
Tsushima: Great Battles Series by Rotem Kowner 9780198831075
RRP: €31.52€22.15The Battle of Tsushima was the most decisive naval engagement in the century that elapsed since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Although these two battles are often compared, the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Imperial Navy defeated the... -
Salvation and Catastrophe: The Greek-Turkish War, 1919-1922 by Konstantinos Travlos 9781498585095
RRP: €45.22€40.35The Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1923-also known as the Western Front of the Turkish War of Liberation and the Asia Minor Campaign-was one of the key aftershocks of the First World War. Internationally better known for its aftermath, the Compulsory... -
Remaking History: The Past in Contemporary Historical Fictions by Jerome de Groot
RRP: €49.97€43.73Remaking History considers the ways that historical fictions of all kinds enable a complex engagement with the past. Popular historical texts including films, television and novels, along with cultural phenomena such as superheroes and vampires, broker... -
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world by Sean Connolly
RRP: €15.46€10.23An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times'Impressive, provocative and perception-tilting... it's indispensable' Irish Independent'Essential reading for... -
The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht Uta Gerhardt 9780745650852
RRP: €17.84€16.64November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany's assault on the Jews. An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were... -
Britain's Cold War Bombers by Tim McLelland 9781781555347
RRP: €22.60€16.67Britain's Cold War Bombers explores the creation and development of the jet bomber, tracing the emergence of the first jet designs (the Valiant and Vulcan) through to the first-generation jets which entered service with the RAF and Fleet Air Arm. Each... -
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian Buruma
RRP: €17.84€11.66Many books have been written, and continue to be written, about the Second World War: military histories, histories of the Holocaust, the war in Asia, or collaboration and resistance in Europe. Few books have taken a close look at the immediate aftermath... -
Edward Daly: 16Lives by Helen Litton
RRP: €19.03€14.72Born in Limerick in 1891, John Edward or 'Ned' Daly was the only son in a family of nine. Ned's father, Edward, an ardent Fenian, died before his son was born, but Ned's Uncle John, also a radical Fenian, was a formative influence. John Daly was prepared... -
Tibet: An Unfinished Story by Lezlee Brown Halper
RRP: €23.80€21.71Tibet's enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subdue the human spirit. Tibet... -
Annihilation: Volume II: The European Rimlands 1939-1953 by Mark Levene 9780198791775
€58.51From the years leading up to the First World War to the aftermath of the Second, Europe experienced an era of genocide. As well as the Holocaust, this period also witnessed the Armenian genocide in 1915, mass killings in Bolshevik and Stalinist Russia,... -
At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort by Nicole C. Rudolph 9781789208047
RRP: €33.26€26.87After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors - state officials, architects, sociologists and tastemakers - arguing that... -
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present by J. M. Roberts 9780140276312 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.22€2.73This dazzling overview of a turbulent century explores both dramatic events and underlying trends. Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-fold...