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Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu by Bernard B. Fall 9780306811579
RRP: £25.99£18.16The 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu ranks with Stalingrad and Tet for what it ended (imperial ambitions), what it foretold (American involvement), and what it symbolized: A guerrilla force of Viet Minh destroyed a technologically superior French army,... -
Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics by Marjorie J. Spruill
RRP: £10.99£8.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632863164Author Marjorie J. SpruillFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 482g -
Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 by R. F. Foster
RRP: £10.99£7.77R.F. Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 examines how the country has weathered thirty years of rapid transformation, and what these changes may mean in the long run. From 1970, things were changing in Ireland - the Celtic... -
Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire by Joshua A. Sanborn 9780198745686
RRP: £35.49£31.31Imperial Apocalypse describes the collapse of the Russian Empire during World War One. Drawing material from nine different archives and hundreds of published sources, this study ties together state failure, military violence, and decolonization in a... -
Destination Shanghai Paul French 9789887792758
RRP: £13.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792758Author Paul FrenchFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 426g -
Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire by Janam Mukherjee
RRP: £18.99£16.98The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the... -
The Soviet Sixties by Robert Hornsby 9780300250527
RRP: £25.00£20.93The story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet Union Beginning with the death of Stalin in 1953, the "sixties" era in the Soviet Union was just as vibrant and transformative as in the West. The... -
Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £17.99£15.79A wealth of new research and thinking on Lawrence, the Arab Revolt, and World War One in the Middle East, providing essential background to today's violent conflicts Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and... -
The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen by Julia Parry
RRP: £10.99£7.38Uncovering the hidden love triangle between novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the author's grandparents - the critically acclaimed biography with never-before-seen letters detailing the affair. For readers who were swept up in Laura Cumming's On Chapel... -
Bombers at Suez: The RAF Bombing Campaign During the Suez War, 1956 by John Dillon 9781914377167
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377167Author John DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion: Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire by Alex Lochrie 9781783376155
£13.11The author describes how he joined the French Foreign Legion, without being able to speak any French and very close to the age limit. He takes the reader through the vigorous selection procedure, the relentless recruit regime and then elite Second... -
London Fog: The Biography by Christine L. Corton
RRP: £19.95£16.12A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Telegraph Editor's ChoiceAn Evening Standard "Best Books about London" SelectionIn popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow "pea-soupers," were born in the... -
The Borneo Confrontation: Volume 1 - Indonesian-Malaysian Confrontation, 1963-1966 by Adam Davis 9781804510193
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510193Author Adam DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo 9780061791048
RRP: £9.99£6.64Set against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of World War II, The Hotel on Place Vendome is the captivating history of Paris's world-famous Hotel Ritz-a breathtaking tale of glamour, opulence, and celebrity; dangerous liaisons, espionage, and... -
The Korean War: 1950-53 Carter Malkasian 9781472853172
RRP: £12.99£9.09In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Carter Malkasian provides a concise overview of the so-called "Forgotten War" in Korea. From 1950 to 1953, the most powerful countries in the world engaged in a major conventional war in Korea. Yet ironically... -
La Vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 by Rod Kedward 9780140130959 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99£2.29Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars, the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968 - but also explores the special worlds of the workplace, immigration, minorities,... -
La Vie en bleu: France and the French since 1900 by Rod Kedward
RRP: £17.99£12.95Rod Kedward brings to life the great, and often terrible, dramas of modern France - the two cataclysmic wars, the Algerian disaster, the student and worker revolt of 1968 - but also explores the special worlds of the workplace, immigration, minorities,... -
Otto Skorzeny: The Devil's Disciple by Stuart Smith
RRP: £25.00£18.02SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. 'Hitler's favourite commando' acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison. Skorzeny's influence... -
The Passionate Spies: How Gertrude Bell, St. John Philby and Lawrence of Arabia Led the Arab Revolt. And How Saudi Arabia Was Founded by John Harte
RRP: £16.99£14.10This is the true story of how three British Secret Service agents from the Arab Bureau in Cairo helped General Allenby defeat Germany's ally, the Turks, and end World War One. Lawrence of Arabia reignited a failing Arab Revolt by training and leading a... -
Tunnel 29: Love, Espionage and Betrayal: the True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman 9781529333961
RRP: £14.99£11.70Economist Book of the Year 2021'A captivating retelling of one of the most astonishing episodes in East Germany's grim history.' Economist'Merriman excels at recreating the physicality of their experiences: the smell of dense clay, the click-clack of a... -
Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 by Kristina Spohr 9780008280086 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00£3.68'A gripping and compelling account.... The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, Literary Review This... -
Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 by Kristina Spohr
RRP: £30.00£27.68'A gripping and compelling account.... The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, Literary Review This... -
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s by Julian Gewirtz
RRP: £27.95£22.55A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearThe history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could have put China on a path to greater openness.On a hike... -
Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £14.99£9.80'His book is timely and a triumph. Roberts manages to convey all the reader needs to know about two men to whom battalions of biographies have been devoted' EVENING STANDARDAdolf Hitler and Winston Churchill were two totally opposite leaders - both in... -
Nancy Mitford by Selina Hastings
RRP: £15.99£11.61Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing, she became a huge... -
SBD Dauntless vs A6M Zero-sen: Pacific Theater 1941-44 by Donald Nijboer
RRP: £13.99£9.75The SBD Dauntless dive-bomber was a key cog in the US Navy's aerial arsenal throughout the Pacific War. Although a product of aviation design in the mid to late 1930s, the type soldiered on even as more advanced aircraft were appearing from American... -
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer's Awakening by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time' Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong'o arrives at the prestigious... -
Infantrymen of the Air: An Operational History of the Royal Italian Airborne Forces in the Second World War, 1936-1943 by Jeffrey W S Leser 9781915113702
RRP: £49.95£35.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113702Author Jeffrey W S LeserFormat PaperbackPage Count 542Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
B-25 Mitchell vs Japanese Destroyer Mark Lardas 9781472845177
RRP: £13.99£9.75Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships. Indeed, warships in particular proved to be too elusive for conventional medium-level bombing. High-level attacks wasted bombs,... -
The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People by James A. Michener 9780812986747
RRP: £13.99£10.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986747Author James A. MichenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
FV430 Series: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Robert Griffin
RRP: £16.99£12.68During the Second World War the British infantry found itself lacking suitable transport to cope with the fast moving German Blitzkrieg tactics. Various stop-gap measures were introduced with mixed success but, with the pots-war nuclear biological and... -
Cold War Interceptor: The RAF's F.155T/O.R. 329 Fighter Projects: 2019 by Dan Sharp
RRP: £27.50£20.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658030Author Dan SharpFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 959gDimensions(mm) 210mm *... -
Pandora's Box: A History of the First World War by Joern Leonhard
RRP: £23.95£20.14Winner of the Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Prize"The best large-scale synthesis in any language of what we currently know and understand about this multidimensional, cataclysmic conflict."-Richard J. Evans, Times Literary SupplementIn this monumental history... -
Britain since 1945: A Political History by David Childs 9780415519526
RRP: £39.99£35.46Britain since 1945 is the established textbook on contemporary British political history since the end of the Second World War. David Childs' authoritative chronological survey discusses domestic policy and politics in particular, but also covers... -
Hong Kong by Jan Morris 9780679776482
RRP: £16.99£12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679776482Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm... -
Rebuilding London: Irish Migrants in Post-War Britain by Miki Garcia 9781845888770
RRP: £12.99£9.62The years immediately after the Second World War were known as the decade of disappearing Irish - the peak period of emigration since the Great Famine. Many of these migrants went to Britain and played a key role in the rebuilding the country after the... -
Contemporary China: 1949 to the Present by Gilles Guiheux
RRP: £25.00£16.78With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world's second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This book provides a clear, authoritative and up-to-date... -
Hot Skies of the Cold War: The Bulgarian Air Force in the 1950s by Alexander Mladenov 9781912866915
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866915Author Alexander MladenovFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Later Years of British Rail 1980-1995: The North of England and Scotland by Patrick Bennett
RRP: £15.99£11.61The railway in 1980 had not changed much since the 1960s. There were certainly no more steam locomotives, but passenger trains consisted largely of carriages hauled by locomotives, which had mostly been constructed in the 1950s or early 1960s. Secondary... -
Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015: Global Connections and Comparisons C. A. Bayly 9781405187169
RRP: £27.95£24.65The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of...