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Zambia: The First 50 Years by Andrew Sardanis
£25.55On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, Andrew Sardanis provides a sympathetic but critical insider's account of Zambia, from independence to the... -
Cuban Migs: The Defenders of Castro's Air Force by Hélio Higuchi
RRP: £28.95£24.55The Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria (FAR), one of the most powerful and little-publicised air forces in the Americas, had Mikoyan-Gurevich (MiG) fighters as its main fighter aircraft, both in the defence of Cuban territory against the threat of US invasion... -
Across the Rhine: January-May 1945 by Simon Forty
RRP: £25.00£18.79The last rites were administered to the Third Reich from the west by a massive concentration of Allied forces and firepower. With France secured, Hitler's vain counterattack in the Ardennes held and the Channel and North Sea ports cleared, little stood... -
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev's Adaptability, Reagan's Engagement, and the End of the Cold War by James Wilson 9780801456831
RRP: £16.99£13.76In The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes a long view of the end of the Cold War, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 to Operation Desert Storm in January 1991. Drawing on deep archival research and recently... -
The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley 9781781391693
£6.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781391693Author Lawrence BeesleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm)... -
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson 9780674241459
RRP: £22.95£16.64Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the Elizabeth Longford PrizeA New Yorker, Financial Times, Spectator, Times, and Telegraph Book of the YearIn this definitive biography of the mythic general who refused to accept the Nazi domination of France,... -
Reporting the Troubles 2: More Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict by Deric Henderson
RRP: £16.99£13.98In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These contributors write powerfully about the victims they have... -
The Vincent van Gogh Atlas by Nienke Denekamp
RRP: £19.99£17.37A fascinating guide to Van Gogh's itinerant life, with vibrant images and stories about the many places where he lived and worked This exciting publication familiarizes readers of all ages with the many fascinating facets of Vincent van Gogh... -
Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved Its Heritage by Simon Thurley
£13.03Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments, and sites and opened them to the public. This engaging book explains why the extraordinary collecting frenzy took place, locating it in the... -
The Last Night on the Titanic: Unsinkable Drinking, Dining, and Style by Veronica Hinke
RRP: £12.99£8.18The Last Night on the Titanic demystifies life in all three classes aboard the world's most beloved ocean liner. Learn why the Titanic still captures the heart of people everywhere even 110 years later.Sailing-and making history-on the cusp of... -
Fire and Steel: The End of World War Two in the West by Lecturer in Military History Peter Caddick-Adams
RRP: £39.99£33.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190601867Author Lecturer in Military History Peter Caddick-AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams)... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody
RRP: £22.49£20.04This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. In this volume, we experience the 1939-1945 World War, and Pound's hubristic involvement in Fascist Italy's part in it; we... -
Rome Then and Now (R) by Federica D'Orazio
RRP: £20.00£14.34A visual historical tour through all the great tourist locations of Rome, with vintage images paired with their modern-day equivalent in this compelling bilingual edition. Rome is 'the eternal city' and was a stopping-off place on the Grand... -
Leicester in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City by Stephen Butt
RRP: £15.99£10.66At the beginning of the 1950s, Leicester was an industrial city picking itself up from the debris of the Second World War. Compared with nearby Coventry, Leicester has been a relatively safe place, but the effects of the Blitz were still very evident in... -
Rising Sun by John Toland 9781848845251
RRP: £19.99£14.68This magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning history, told primarily from the Japanese viewpoint, traces the dramatic fortunes of the Empire of the Sun from the invasion of Manchuria to the dropping of the atomic bombs, demolishing many myths surrounding this... -
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume Two 1979-2014 Kenneth Rose 9781474610599
RRP: £16.99£11.94Kenneth Rose was one of the most astute observers of the post-war Establishment. The wry and amusing journals of the royal biographer and historian made objective observation a sculpted craft. His impeccable social placement located him within the... -
Builders of the Third Reich: The Organisation Todt and Nazi Forced Labour by Dr. Charles Dick
£25.15This is the first comprehensive critical study of the Organisation Todt (OT), a key institution which oversaw the Third Reich's vast slave labour programme together with the SS, Wehrmacht and industry. The book breaks new ground by revealing the full... -
Norwich in the 1950s: Ten Years That Changed a City by Pete Goodrum
RRP: £15.99£10.85Norwich in 1950 was a different place. Still scarred by war the city was coming to terms with itself. Children played in the rubble of bomb sites, and workers strove to build a prosperous peace on building sites. By the end of the decade the retail heart... -
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia by Jonathan Schneer
RRP: £31.49£21.94During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they... -
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind by Rachel Hewitt
RRP: £12.99£8.56In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired by the French Revolution, British radicals concocted new political worlds to enshrine healthier, more... -
The History of the Stasi: East Germany's Secret Police, 1945-1990 by Jens Gieseke
RRP: £23.95£19.49The East German Ministry for State Security stood for Stalinist oppression and all-encompassing surveillance. The "shield and sword of the party," it secured the rule of the Communist Party for more than forty years, and by the 1980s it had... -
The First New Left: British Intellectuals After Stalin by Michael Kenny 9780853157977
RRP: £17.00£16.51In the late 1950s Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams, among others, came together as part of a promising new political formulation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting... -
Iranian F-14 Tomcat Units in Combat by Tom Cooper
RRP: £25.00£14.64So formidable an opponent did the Iraqi airforce consider the F-14 that during the Iran-Iraq war, they ordered their pilots not to engage F-14s and the presence of one in an area was usually enough to empty it of Iraqi aircraft. Officially losses where... -
The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon by Stanley I. Kutler 9780393308273
RRP: £33.50£28.86"The definitive account of Watergate." -St. Louis Post-DispatchAbout the AuthorStanley I. Kutler is E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin and author of several books on American constitutional history.Reviews"A... -
The Port of Liverpool in the 1960s and 1970s by Ian Collard
RRP: £15.99£15.39In the 1960s and 1970s, many of the traditional shipping companies trading or based in Liverpool slowly vanished because of containerisation or competition from passenger aircraft. Many of these shipping lines had been in operation since the early years... -
Diary of a Foreigner in Paris by Curzio Malaparte
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681374161Author Curzio MalaparteFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present by Margaretta Jolly
RRP: £20.99£17.94This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism's 'second wave' mobilized to demand not just equality but social and gender transformation. Oral history testimonies power the work, tracing the arc of a... -
International Relations Since 1945 by John W. Young
RRP: £42.99£41.08International Relations since 1945 is the most student-friendly guide to the history of international relations. In it, Young and Kent provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to key developments in international relations across the world... -
Yesterday's Cardiff by Brian Lee
RRP: £14.99£11.55Cardiff author Brian Lee is well known to Cardiffians through his many best-selling local history books and his popular weekly 'Cardiff Remembered' column in the Cardiff Post. His latest book inlcudes a brand new selection of fascinating photographs that... -
A Crowd Is Not Company Robert Kee 9780753826744
RRP: £9.99£6.80Journalist and broadcaster Robert Kee was an RAF bomber pilot in the Second World War. When his plane was shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, he was captured and spent three years and three months in a German POW camp. From the beginning he was intent... -
Tempest Squadrons of the RAF Chris Thomas (Author) 9781472814548
RRP: £16.99£14.10Hawker's charismatic Tempest V entered RAF service just in time to be the most successful counter to the V1 flying bomb assault on southern England in the summer of 1944. With more than 800 of the robot missiles to its credit, Tempest V units then... -
Airlines at War: British Civil Aviation 1939 - 1944 by Simon Wills 9781473894099
RRP: £19.99£14.68The brave efforts of the pilots and crew of the RAF during the Second World War are well-known but there was another body of aviators that played a significant role in the conflict the men and women of the civilian airlines. The British Overseas Airways... -
The Cambridge History of the First World War 3 Volume Paperback Set by Dr Jay Winter 9781316600665
£107.54The Cambridge History of the First World War is a comprehensive, three-volume work which provides an authoritative account of the military, political, social, economic and cultural history of the Great War. Reflecting the very latest research in the... -
Bradley Fighting Vehicle: The US Army's Combat-Proven Fighting Platform, 1981-2021 David Grummitt 9781399009409
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was developed in the 1970s to counter the new Infantry Fighting Vehicles of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. Designed to survive the imagined high-intensity, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) battlefield of... -
Bitter Freedom: Ireland In A Revolutionary World 1918-1923 by Maurice Walsh
RRP: £12.99£8.56The Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and the newly-formed IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire. This is a vividly-written, compelling narrative placing events in Ireland in the wider... -
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank 9781324002109
RRP: £31.99£28.13In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China and Mongolia). All other peoples in the region endured... -
F3D/EF-10 Skyknight Units of the Korean and Vietnam Wars by Joe Copalman
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Douglas F3D Skyknight was an early but effective attempt at combining new technologies together in a lethal package capable of shipboard operation. Whereas most fighters relied on speed and maneuverability, the portly, straight-winged F3D relied on... -
Sinkable: Obsession, the Deep Sea, and the Shipwreck of the Titanic by Daniel Stone
RRP: £20.99£13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329375Author Daniel StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty by Norman M Naimark
RRP: £16.95£13.85A Financial Times Best Book of the YearWinner of the Norris and Carol Hundley AwardWinner of the US-Russia Relations Book Prize"The achievement of a lifetime."-Stephen Kotkin, author of Stalin"Naimark has few peers as a scholar of Stalinism, the Soviet... -
Paradise Afire Volume 2: The Sri Lankan War, 1987-1990 by Adrien Fontanellaz 9781912866304
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866304Author Adrien FontanellazFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company