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Churchill at the Gallop by Brough Scott 9781910497364
RRP: £34.95£19.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910497364Author Brough ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Racing Post BooksPublisher Racing Post Books -
Maralinga: The chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country Frank Walker 9780733635939
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Utterly gripping. It reads like a thriller.'JON FAINEThis edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication.Investigative journalist Frank Walker's MARALINGA is a... -
With the Paras in Helmand: A Photographic Diary by Allen, Craig 9781399020886
RRP: £14.99£13.61Craig Allen, a Paratrooper for 29 years, returned to 2 PARA as a reservist and unofficial photographer for the Battlegroups dramatic 2008 Tour in Helmand. As both a respected soldier and photographer he had unrivalled access to the fighting and moved... -
Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis by Michael Haas
RRP: £19.99£19.39A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich-and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it... -
Southern and Isle of Wight Railways: The Late 1940s to Late 1960s by Brian Reading
RRP: £15.99£10.85The 1950s and 1960s was a time of profound cultural and technological transformation. With images and vivid recollections, we journey back to post-war southern England. We explore favourite routes and railway places, with many since changed beyond... -
The Farsley Murders by Richard M Jones 9781008971851
RRP: £9.00£7.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008971851Author Richard M JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 148g -
The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930s by James Harris 9780198797869
£30.73Between the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great... -
The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory by Associate Professor Jeffrey S. Hardy 9781350128187
RRP: £12.99£11.62A vivid account of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's infamous penal system, this book charts how Bolshevik visions of a humane alternative to Tsarist exile and Western penitentiaries became a chaotic and violent system of mass incarceration that bore a... -
Chichester in the 1960s by Alan H. J. Green
RRP: £16.99£13.34Chichester is the archetypal Georgian town, with streets of elegant buildings gathered closely around the ancient cathedral. It usually appears to today's first-time visitor that the city has been largely untouched by the hand of time - particularly the... -
In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism by Michael Brenner
RRP: £38.00£30.41From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918-19, the conservative government of... -
Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman by Itamar Rabinovich
RRP: £12.99£11.46An insider's perspective on the life and influence of Israel's first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination in 1995, yet he... -
The Last Tigers of Hong Kong: True Stories of Big Cats That Stalked Britain's Chinese Colony by John Saeki
RRP: £13.99£8.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887554615Author John SaekiFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith BooksWeight(grams) 284g -
German Flak Defences vs Allied Heavy Bombers by Donald Nijboer
RRP: £13.99£9.75Since the end of World War II, the strategic bombing of Germany has inspired numerous studies, countless books and several documentary films, and it is not surprising. With more than one million tons of bombs dropped, close to 300,000 civilians killed,... -
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul M. Kennedy 9780679720195
£28.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679720195Author Paul KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm)... -
Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City by Kate Winkler Dawson 9780316506830
RRP: £14.99£11.66London in 1952 was a still recovering from the devastation wrought by World War II: rationing was still in effect, rates of crime and unemployment were high, and the national economy was in shambles. In an effort to repay its massive war debt, the... -
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World by Kati Marton 9780743261166
£11.50Author Kati Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in England and America, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to... -
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics - Updated Edition by Daniel Stedman Jones
RRP: £20.00£15.89Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since... -
Royal Flying Corps Kitbag: Aircrew Uniforms and Equipment from the War Over the Western Front in WWI by Mark Hillier 9781526752994
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the Military Wing of the new Corps in May. In the days following the outbreak of war in 1914, the programme... -
Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 19081914: Claiming the Homeland by Louis Fishman
RRP: £21.99£20.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474454001Author Louis A FishmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)... -
Patrick Gwynne Neil Bingham 9781802077544
RRP: £30.00£27.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802077544Author Neil BinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Historic EnglandPublisher Liverpool University Press -
The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War by Nicholas Thompson 9780312658861
RRP: £28.00£18.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312658861Author Nicholas ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm *... -
Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History by Rhonda K Garelick
RRP: £22.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981858Author Rhonda K. GarelickFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Irish Diaries (1994-2003): Alastair Campbell by Kathy Gilfillan
£17.36The four volumes of spokesman and strategist Alastair Campbell's diaries were a publishing sensation.As British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man, former journalist and political analyst Campbell played a critical role in every aspect of New... -
The Women's Movement: A Little Welsh History by Daryl Leeworthy 9781786838544
RRP: £11.99£9.00This book tells the compelling and revealing story of the women's movement in modern Wales. Its panoramic sweep takes the reader on a journey from the nineteenth-century campaigns in support of democracy and the right to vote, and in opposition to... -
The Little Book of the 1970s by Stuart Hylton
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Little Book of the 1970s is a fast-paced and entertaining account of life in Britain during an extraordinary decade, as we moved from the swinging sixties to the punk-rock seventies. Here are dramas, tragedies, scandals and characters galore, all... -
Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia by Benjamin Tromly 9780198880691
RRP: £26.99£24.25At the height of the Cold War in the 1950s, the United States government unleashed covert operations intended to weaken the Soviet Union. As part of these efforts, the CIA committed to supporting Russian exiles, populations uprooted either during World... -
Sacred Causes by Michael Burleigh 9780060580964
RRP: £12.99£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060580964Author Michael BurleighFormat PaperbackPage Count 557Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 481g -
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition by Mark Lawrence Schrad
RRP: £32.49£23.01When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, gin runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American event. Yet, as Mark... -
RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War: Thinking the Unthinkable by Nigel Walpole
RRP: £19.99£14.28RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic Republic by a small Anglo/German team of military specialists. Their purpose was to explore the lives of RAF... -
The End of Empire: Cyprus: A Soldier's Story Martin Bell 9781473848184
RRP: £25.00£17.62Martin Bell, the former BBC war reporter and Independent MP, served as a soldier in the British army in Cyprus in the late 1950s during the EOKA rebellion against British rule, and recently he discovered the letters he had written home during the... -
The naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942: Clash for supremacy in the Pacific by Mark Stille
RRP: £15.99£11.61The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counteroffensive against the Japanese in the Pacific. The battle of Savo Island on the night of 9 August 1942, saw the Japanese inflict a sever defeat... -
Victoire: A True Story of Espionage, Resistance and Survival in World War Two by Roland Philipps
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The wartime spy career of Mathilde Carre - aka "the Cat" and "Agent Victoire" - is so extraordinary it almost defies belief' The TimesAn exhilarating true story of espionage, resistance, and one of WW2's most charismatic double-agents.Occupied Paris,... -
Fight To The Finish: Canadians in the Second World War, 1944-45 by Tim Cook
RRP: £19.99£14.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Ottawa Book Award for Non-Fiction 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780143189558Author Tim CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters by Christian Ingrao
RRP: £10.99£8.90The Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and concentration camps and who were believed to have the... -
Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro by Thomas Maier
RRP: £14.99£13.43From bestselling author and the producer of the hit cable series Masters of Sex, Thomas Maier, comes a true story of espionage and mobsters, based on the never-before-released JFK Files.From Vegas to Miami to Havana, the shocking connections between the... -
Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army by Roy Hattersley 9780349112817
RRP: £15.99£15.94An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became)... -
The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Antoine Lilti
RRP: £27.49£24.68The world of the eighteenth-century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, and women created the Enlightenment. In The World of the Salons, historian Antoine Lilti proposes a fresh interpretation of salons in... -
In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 by Francis French 9780803229792
RRP: £19.99£16.59In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. Drawing on interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts, their... -
Master of Deception: The Wartime Adventures of Peter Fleming by Alan Ogden
RRP: £13.99£11.04Master of Deception is a biography of Peter Fleming, elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Peter Fleming worked as a travel writer and journalist, serving with distinction throughout World War II and played a crucial role in British... -
Dornier Do 17 Units of World War 2 by Chris Goss
RRP: £14.99£10.95Initially designed as a high-speed mail aeroplane and airliner, the Do 17 first made an appearance as a military aircraft in the Spanish Civil War, both as a bomber and in reconnaissance roles. In the early stages of World War II, it, together with the...