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The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to the Present by J. M. Roberts
RRP: £16.99£12.68This 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... -
In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century by Omer Bartov 9781571813022
RRP: £27.95£22.58Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern... -
Pearl Harbor: Japan's Attack and America's Entry into World War II Takuma Melber (Heidelberg University) 9781509537204
RRP: £20.00£13.35Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The devastating attack claims the lives of over 2,400 American soldiers, sinks or damages 18... -
Fighting to Lose: How the German Secret Intelligence Service Helped the Allies Win the Second World War by John Bryden
RRP: £17.99£12.70Startling new revelations about collaboration between the Allies and the German Secret Service. Based on extensive primary source research, John Bryden's Fighting to Lose presents compelling evidence that the German intelligence service - the Abwehr -... -
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: An Untold Story of World War II by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A riveting story of World War II from the author of Chernobyl,... -
In Cold War Skies: NATO and Soviet Air Power, 1949-89 by Michael Napier
RRP: £35.00£24.17Throughout the second half of the 20th century, international relations across the globe were dominated by the Cold War. From 1949 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, US and Soviet strategic forces were deployed across the Arctic Ocean in North... -
Shame: Confessionas of the Father of the Neutron Bomb by Sam Cohen 9780738822303
£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738822303Author Sam CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 141g -
Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: £20.00£15.89When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself--would reign... -
Hawker's Secret Cold War Airfield: Dunsfold: Home of the Hunter and Harrier by Christopher Budgen 9781526771759
RRP: £25.00£18.02In 1948, Hawker Aircraft, faced with new jet projects that could not use their existing airfield at Langley, began the process of searching for alternative accommodation for their flight-testing requirements. It would, however, take three hard years... -
China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter
RRP: £15.95£13.10A Foreign Affairs Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year"Insightful...a deft, textured work of intellectual history."-Foreign Affairs"A timely insight into how memories and ideas about the second world war play a hugely important role in... -
The Afghanistan File by Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al-Saud
RRP: £20.00£16.43The Afghanistan File, written by the former head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence, tells the story of his Department's involvement in Afghanistan from the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979 to Nine Eleven 2001. It begins with the backing given by Saudi... -
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey's Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924 Benny Morris 9780674916456
£32.66A reappraisal of the giant massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire, and then the Turkish Republic, against their Christian minorities.Between 1894 and 1924, three waves of violence swept across Anatolia, targeting the region's Christian minorities,... -
Bay of Pigs: CIA's Cuban Disaster, April 1961 by Phil Carradice 9781526728296
RRP: £14.99£10.95Perhaps not in casualties but as far as prestige and standing in the world were concerned, the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961 was the worst disaster to befall the USA since the War of 1812 when British forces burned the White House. Badly planned, badly... -
Battle for Grozny, Volume 1: Prelude and the First Assault on the Capital of Chechnya, 1994-1995 by Efim Sandler 9781804512142
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512142Author Efim SandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Road to Passchendaele: The Heroic Year in Soldiers' Own Words and Photographs by Richard Van Emden 9781526724960
RRP: £14.99£11.95Passchendaele is the next volume in the highly-regarded series of books from the best-selling First World War historian Richard van Emden. Once again, using the winning formula of diaries and memoirs, and above all original photographs taken on... -
Flight from Latvia: A Six-Year Chronicle by Dagnija Neimane 9780997553307
RRP: £13.75£12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997553307Author Dagnija NeimaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Dagnija NeimanePublisher Dagnija NeimaneWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain by Otto Saumarez Smith
RRP: £30.49£28.04Boom Cities is the first published history of the profound transformations of British city centres in the 1960s. It has often been said that urban planners did more damage to Britain's cities than even the Luftwaffe had managed, and this study... -
The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II by Jonathan Haslam 9780691233765
RRP: £22.00£16.52A bold new history showing that the fear of Communism was a major factor in the outbreak of World War IIThe Spectre of War looks at a subject we thought we knew-the roots of the Second World War-and upends our assumptions with a masterful new... -
World War II US Army Combat Equipments by Gordon L. Rottman 9781472814241
RRP: £14.99£12.97A soldier's "web gear" is as important to his ability to live and fight on the battlefield as are his clothing and weapons. In World War II the US Army issued equipment items that had originated in 1910, though modified and augmented in the 1920s and... -
Centurion: Armoured Hero of Post-War Tank Battles by Jackson, Robert 9781526741349
RRP: £14.99£10.95The fifty-ton British Centurion tank, developed during the darkest days of the Second World War, was designed to out-gun and out-perform the latest German tanks, such as the formidable Panzer V Panther. It was one of the most successful tanks ever... -
Madness Visible: A Memoir of War by Janine Di Giovanni 9780375724558
RRP: £19.00£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375724558Author Janine di GiovanniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
No Wider War: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965-75 by Sergio Miller 9781472838520
RRP: £16.99£12.68No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender in... -
The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century by John Mauceri
RRP: £25.00£20.24A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the "sound of Hollywood," and excluding hundreds of composers"[Mauceri's] writing is more exhilarating than any helicopter ride we have been... -
Soviet T-54 Main Battle Tank by James Kinnear
RRP: £30.00£21.35A highly illustrated study of the T-54 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War. The menacing silhouette of the T-54 tank prowling down streets of Eastern European capitals or... -
Dracula: The Origins and Influence of the Legendary Vampire Count by Giles Morgan 9780857304438
RRP: £9.99£6.80Few fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. First published in 1897, Bram Stoker's gothic masterpiece thrilled and disturbed Victorian society with its dark and compelling themes of violence, lust,... -
The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921 by Eric Lee
RRP: £16.99£15.11For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very... -
No Way But This: in search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow 9781911617204
RRP: £9.99£6.70Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer, travelling from Hollywood to the West End, and even to... -
Fleet Air Arm Legends: Supermarine Seafire by Matthew Willis
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658290Author Mathew WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 366gDimensions(mm) 196mm... -
Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-18 by Dennis Showalter
RRP: £10.99£8.38Drawing on more than a half-century of research and teaching, Dennis Showalter presents a fresh perspective on the German Army during World War I. Showalter surveys an army at the heart of a national identity, driven by - yet also defeated by -... -
Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951—1970 by Brian Harrison 9780199605132
£46.62In this, the first of two self-standing volumes bringing The New Oxford History of England up to the present, Brian Harrison begins in 1951 with much of the empire intact and Britain enjoying high prestige in Europe. The United Kingdom could still then... -
The Pursuit of Europe: A History by Anthony Pagden 9780198757665
RRP: £31.49£21.94The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and why, it became possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of Europe might be united in a single political community. ... -
The Great Famine & Genocide in Iran: 1917-1919 by Mohammad Gholi Majd 9780761861676
RRP: £35.00£30.95At least 8-10 million Iranians out of a population of 18-20 million died of starvation and disease during the famine of 1917-1919. The Iranian holocaust was the biggest calamity of World War I and one of the worst genocides of the 20th century, yet it... -
Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II Wilhelm Johnen 9781784385644
RRP: £9.99£7.11"The enemy bomber grew larger in my sights and the rear gunner was sprayed by my guns just as he opened fire. The rest was merely a matter of seconds. The bomber fell like a stone out of the sky and exploded on the ground. The nightmare came to an... -
Kursk 1943: The Northern Front by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £16.99£14.10In the summer of 1943, recoiling from defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler conducted a limited objective offensive to eliminate the Soviet Kursk salient. Operating a classic pincer attack of the kind that succeeded during the 1942 Kharkov campaign he hoped that... -
Red Ellen: The life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist by Laura Beers
RRP: £35.95£29.96In 1908 Ellen Wilkinson, a fiery adolescent from a working-class family in Manchester, was "the only girl who talks in school debates." By midcentury, Wilkinson had helped found Britain's Communist Party, earned a seat in Parliament, and become a... -
Children's Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport by Vera K. Fast
£54.87In the months leading up to the outbreak of World War Two, Britain rushed to evacuate nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi occupied territories. Through the unprecedented cooperation of religious and governmental organizations, the Kindertransport... -
Beagle Conflict Volume 1: Argentina and Chile on the Brink of War in 1978 by Antonio Luis Sapienza Fracchia 9781804513736
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513736Author Antonio Luis Sapienza FracchiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
London's West End: Creating the Pleasure District, 1800-1914 by Rohan McWilliam 9780198823414
RRP: £38.49£33.39How did the West End of London become the world's leading pleasure district? What is the source of its magnetic appeal? How did the centre of London become Theatreland? London's West End, 1800-1914 is the first ever history of the area which has... -
Freight Trains of the Western Region in the 1980s by Kevin Redwood
RRP: £15.99£10.85From coal trains in South Wales to clay trains in Cornwall, there were still large numbers of unfitted and vacuum-braked wagons of various types in use across the Western Region at the start of the 1980s. However changes were taking place, and by 1984... -
Dambuster-in-Chief: The Life of Air Chief Marshal Sir Ralph Cochrane by Richard Mead 9781526765079
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.