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Trains in the Southern Region: The Late 1960s and 1970s by David Reed
RRP: €19.03€12.91In this volume of previously unpublished photographs, David Reed takes the reader on a journey around the Southern Region. The Waterloo-Bournemouth and Weymouth line features with Woking, Basingstoke and the New Forest, together with the south coast... -
Going to the Berries: Voices of Perthshire and Angus Seasonal Workers by Roger Leitch
RRP: €13.08€10.64Pickers came from near and far year after year - and from a variety of backgrounds - for the berry-picking season. For local people, adults and children, it was an opportunity to supplement the family income; Glasgow folk combined it with a holiday. For... -
The Age of Uncertainty: how the greatest minds in physics changed the way we see the world by Tobias Hurter
RRP: €29.75€19.74The epic, page-turning history of how a group of physicists toppled the Newtonian universe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Marie Curie, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger, and Albert Einstein didn't only... -
Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars by Lisa Silverman 9780190257811
RRP: €41.04€37.66The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews' former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the... -
Fish versus Power: An Environmental History of the Fraser River by Matthew D. Evenden 9780521041034
RRP: €39.26€32.61Fish versus Power is an environmental history of the Fraser River (British Columbia) and the attempts to dam it for power and to defend it for salmon. Amid contemporary debates over large dam development and declines in fisheries, this book offers a case... -
Challenger 2: British Main Battle Tank of the Gulf War by Robert Griffin 9781526756572
RRP: €20.22€14.61The pioneering tank crew of the First World War would be astonished by the advances made in the design of armoured fighting vehicles over the last 100 years which have resulted in the Challenger 2, the current main battle tank in service with the British... -
The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia by Andrew Harding
RRP: €19.03€17.22The Mayor of Mogadishu tells the story of one family's epic journey through Somalia's turmoil, from the optimism of independence to its spectacular unravelling.Mohamud 'Tarzan' Nur was born a nomad, and became an orphan, then a street brawler in the... -
Strike Of The Sailfish: Two Sister Submarines and the Sinking of a Japanese Aircraft Carrier by Stephen L. Moore 9780593472873
RRP: €34.50€22.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593472873Author Stephen L. MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Special Forces Pilot: A Flying Memoir of the Falkland War by Richard Hutchings
RRP: €15.46€13.03As a Commando helicopter pilot, the author served with 846 Naval Air Squadron in the Falklands War and was decorated for gallantry (DSC). The author re-lives his part in operations, in particular Special Forces intelligence gathering and direct action... -
Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Nechama Tec 9780195035001
RRP: €17.84€13.59This is the true story of Nechama Tec, whose family found refuge with Polish Christians during the Holocaust. Dry Tears is a dramatic tale of how an eleven-year-old child learned to "pass in the forbidding Christian world and a quietly moving... -
The Solomons 1943-44 by Mark Stille
RRP: €19.03€13.82Victory at Guadalcanal for the Allies in February 1943 left them a vital foothold in the Solomon Islands chain, and was the first step in an attempt to isolate and capture the key Japanese base of Rabaul on New Britain. In order to do this they had to... -
Ballymurphy and the Irish War Ciaran de Baroid 9780745315096
RRP: €35.69€23.09'One of the most remarkable books to emerge from the Northern conflict. I can't recall any other book which gives the reader the same accessibility to the streets of Belfast.' Irish Post 'A thrilling people's history of Belfast's most famous housing... -
The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy during the Cold War by David Caute 9780199278831
€83.44The cultural Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West was without precedent. At the outset of this original and wide-ranging historical survey, David Caute establishes the nature of the extraordinary cultural competition set up post-1945 between... -
Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923) by Emmanuel Destenay
RRP: €29.75€28.30Approximately 150, 000 Irish officers and men joined the British Army during the First World War. What happened to them when they returned home? What determining role (if any) did they play? Most importantly, did they fall victims of selective... -
Spies Who Changed History: The Greatest Spies and Agents of the 20th Century by West, Nigel 9781399086325
RRP: €29.75€20.97Spies have made an extraordinary impact on the history of the 20th Century, but fourteen in particular can be said to have been demonstrably important. As one might expect, few are household names, and it is only with the benefit of recently declassified... -
All Against All: The long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War by Paul Jankowski
RRP: €13.08€9.25During a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, so much went wrong: Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the league of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times;... -
Deterrence, Coercion, and Appeasement: British Grand Strategy, 1919-1940 by David French 9780192863355
RRP: €136.85€117.89Deterrence, Coercion, and Appeasement presents a compelling and original survey of British grand strategy in the inter-war period. Whereas most existing accounts privilege either diplomacy and foreign affairs, intelligence, or military affairs more... -
Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator by Oleg V. Khlevniuk
RRP: €20.22€17.86The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written, winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Biography & Autobiography"Enthralling, brilliant, and groundbreaking, this book confirms Khlevniuk as probably the greatest living... -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall by William F. Buckley 9780470496688
RRP: €11.89€11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470496688Author William F. BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Arms Crisis of 1970: The Plot that Never Was by Michael Heney
RRP: €11.89€8.46The number one Irish Times bestseller In 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland. The criminal prosecution that followed was a cause celebre at the time... -
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
RRP: €24.98€14.97In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass... -
Thunderstruck by Erik Larson
RRP: €22.60€13.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400080670Author Erik LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams)... -
Mar Verde: The Portuguese Amphibious Assault on Conakry, 1970 by Jose Augusto Matos 9781914377006
RRP: €20.17€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377006Author Jose Augusto MatosFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Post-War Reconstruction in Europe: International Perspectives, 1945-1949 by Mark Mazower 9780199692743
RRP: €14.28€12.70This collection of essays offers new insights into the aftermath of the Second World War. Rather than treating the years 1945 to 1949 as mere precursors of the Cold War, it takes them to be a crucial period in the reconstruction of European states and... -
Russia 1917-1941 by Martin McCauley 9780951576458
RRP: €9.46€7.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780951576458Author Martin McCauleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint SempringhamPublisher Sempringham -
Russia's Wars in Chechnya 1994-2009 by Mark Galeotti
€19.14In this fully illustrated book an expert on the conflicts traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian advance through to urban battles such as Grozny, and the prolonged guerrilla warfare in the mountainous regions. He assesses... -
Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands by Omer Bartov
RRP: €34.50€30.18Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires... -
Chasing the Moon: The Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo landings by Robert Stone 9780008307882
RRP: €11.89€7.90In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a... -
Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism by Mircea Raianu
RRP: €33.26€26.36An eye-opening portrait of global capitalism spanning 150 years, told through the history of the Tata corporation.Nearly a century old, the grand facade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business district of Mumbai. This is the iconic... -
Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II by William Stevenson
€14.61New York Times Bestseller! By the author of A Man Called Intrepid. The story of Vera Atkins, legendary spy and holder of the Legion of HonorShe was stunning. She was ruthless. She was brilliant and had a will of iron. Born Vera Maria Rosenberg in... -
From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s by David Reynolds 9780199237616
RRP: €48.78€45.67The 1940s was probably the most dramatic and decisive decade of the 20th century. This volume explores the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War from the vantage point of two of the great powers of that era, Britain and the USA, and of their... -
Johnnie Johnson's 1942 Diary: The War Diary of the Spitfire Ace of Aces Dilip Sarkar MBE 9781526791702
RRP: €29.75€20.97Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Siobhra Aiken
€51.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551663Author Siobhra AikenFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi by Alison Pargeter
RRP: €41.65€35.66The entire story of Qaddafi's corrupt and repressive regime, the details of its downfall, and what Libya's future may hold in store For a reader unfamiliar with the history of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi might be mistaken for a character in fiction. His... -
Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World by Gregory Woods
RRP: €19.03€16.92Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks"An avalanche of stories, ribald gossip, and lengthy asides . . ... -
Air Transport Auxiliary at War: 80th Anniversary of its Formation by Stephen Wynn 9781526726049
RRP: €17.84€13.03This book looks at the invaluable work carried out by members of the Air Transport Auxiliary during the course of the Second World War. Comprised of both men and women, it was a civilian organisation tasked with the collection and delivery of military... -
How to Steal a Country: State Capture and Hopes for the Future in South Africa by Robin Renwick 9781785903618
RRP: €22.60€16.43The vertiginous decline in political leadership from Nelson Mandela to Jacob Zuma has engulfed South Africa in a serious crisis over the past `lost decade'. Based on his personal experience of the key protagonists, former British ambassador to South... -
The Spanish Civil War: A Military History Charles J Esdaile (University of Liverpool, UK) 9781138311275
RRP: €52.35€46.22The Spanish Civil War: A Military History takes a new, military approach to the conflict that tore Spain apart from 1936 to 1939.In many histories, the war has been treated as a primarily political event with the military narrative subsumed into a much... -
Life in 1950s London by Mike Hutton 9781445649658
RRP: €13.08€8.63After the trauma of the Blitz and wartime restrictions, London embraced the arrival of a new decade. Austerity was slow to loosen its grip, but the Festival of Britain pointed a tentative way forward. Two years later saw the birth of a new Elizabethan... -
Diaries Volume Two: Power and the People by Alastair Campbell
RRP: €22.60€16.20Power & the People covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. This second voume of Campbell's unexpurgated diaries details the initial challenges faced by Labour as they come to...