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Malayan Emergency by Gerry Van Tonder 9781526707864
RRP: €17.84€13.03When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe with the brutal... -
My Century by Aleksander Wat
RRP: €24.99€17.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170656Author Aleksander WatFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Warda: A Novel Sonallah Ibrahim 9780300228656
RRP: €26.78€23.03Sonallah Ibrahim's 2000 masterpiece offers readers a view of twentieth-century world events through the diary pages of his titular character 1950s Cairo: the intersection of conflicting dreams and political destinies. In this classic novel translated... -
Finding a Role?: The United Kingdom 1970-1990 by Brian Harrison 9780199606122
€62.39In 1970 the 'cold war' was still cold, Northern Ireland's troubles were escalating, the UK's relations with the EEC were unclear, and corporatist approaches to the economy precariously persisted. By 1990 Communism was crumbling world-wide, Thatcher's... -
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India by Andrew B. Liu
RRP: €44.63€38.06A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries "Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early... -
Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom Philip Eade 9780753823811
RRP: €13.08€8.81The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'.'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't yet... -
The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran by Robert Steele
RRP: €27.36€27.19In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they... -
Durham Railways Around the End of the Twentieth Century by Richard Allen
RRP: €19.03€12.91The last years of the twentieth century saw considerable changes to the railway scene in County Durham, including ECML electrification, the demise of the coal industry and the introduction of modern rolling stock. This book shows how the railway scene in... -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 9781787302532
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Orwell was the great moral force of his age' SpectatorYou can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business.When he was a struggling writer in his twenties, George Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest... -
The Dead of the Irish Revolution by Eunan O'Halpin
RRP: €65.45€54.37The first comprehensive account to record and analyze all deaths arising from the Irish revolution between 1916 and 1921"A monumental new book [and] an incredible piece of research. . . . Formidable, authoritative and handsomely produced, The Dead of the... -
Harlem Hellfighters: The extraordinary story of the legendary black regiment of World War I by Max Brooks
RRP: €15.46€11.02A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In 1919, the 369th infantry regiment - the Harlem Hellfighters as the Germans called them - marched home triumphantly from World War I. They had spent more time in combat than any other American unit, never losing a foot... -
Journey To The Abyss by Harry Kessler
RRP: €22.60€15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307278432Author Harry KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 960Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 907gDimensions(mm) 232mm *... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume II: The Epic Years by A. David Moody 9780199215584
RRP: €34.50€25.23This second volume of A. David Moody's full-scale portrait, covering Ezra Pound's middle years, weaves together into a single highly readable and challenging narrative, in a way that has not been done before, the illuminating story of his life, his... -
The Best Days of Our Lives: School Life in Post-War Britain by Simon Webb 9780752486376
RRP: €17.84€13.74Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with families at last enjoying peacetime. This new book follows the lives of the nation's schoolchildren through the... -
Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide by Eric Bogosian
RRP: €17.84€12.83In 1921, a small group of self-appointed patriots set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They named their operation Nemesis after the Greek goddess of retribution. Over several years, the men tracked down and... -
Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis by Robert Gellately
€22.00Parsing Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the world of an extremist politics that, over the course of the Third Reich, developed explosive energies culminating in the Second World War and the Holocaust. Too often the theories underlying... -
Leicester in the 1970s: Ten Years that Changed a City by Stephen Butt
RRP: €19.03€12.69The 1970s was a decade of change. Supermarkets began to take over from traditional stores, high-rise office blocks appeared on the skyline, and Leicester's first shopping centre replaced familiar Victorian shops and hotels. It was a time of industrial... -
Nicaragua, 1961-1990, Volume 2: The Contra War by David Francois 9781911628682
RRP: €20.17€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628682Author David FrancoisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Venice: A Literary Guide for Travellers by Marie-Jose Gransard
RRP: €15.46€11.65A unique and captivating guide to the literary heritage of Venice. Venice, La Serenissima, is one of the most breath-taking cities in the world. From its earliest beginnings in the 7th century, Venice has been a magnetic centre of trade and culture,... -
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H Nicholas
RRP: €24.99€15.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Legion of Honor 1999 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 1994.Book InformationISBN 9780679756866Author Lynn H. NicholasFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint... -
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture and the Rise of Hip Consumerism by Thomas Frank 9780226260129
RRP: €22.61€19.28An evocative symbol of the 1960s was its youth counterculture. This study reveals that the youthful revolutionaries were augmented by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men's clothing business. The ad industry celebrated... -
Tarawa 1943: The turning of the tide by Derrick Wright
RRP: €20.22€17.26The island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll was defended by the elite troops of the Special Naval Landing Force, whose commander, Admiral Shibasaki, boasted that "the Americans could not take Tarawa with a million men in a hundred years". In a pioneering... -
J2M Raiden and N1K1/2 Shiden/Shiden-Kai Aces by Yasuho Izawa
RRP: €17.84€13.03Although seen as a replacement for the A6M Zero-sen carrier-based fighter, the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden was actually designed as a land-based naval interceptor optimised for speed rather than manoeuvrability. Engine cooling problems for its Mitsubishi Kasai... -
F-86A Sabre: Korea 1950-51 by Peter E. Davies
RRP: €16.65€11.60Strap in alongside the Sabre pilots as they experienced the world's first large-scale jet-vs-jet combats. Brought to life with innovative tactical artwork and dramatic first-hand accounts from the pilots themselves. The F-86A Sabre had entered USAF... -
Thatcher and Thatcherism Eric J. Evans 9780815353133
RRP: €44.02€38.71This revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of Thatcher and Thatcherism examines the origins and impact of 'Thatcherism' both as a cultural construct and an economic creed from the 1970s to the formation of a coalition government in 2010. New to... -
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic by Richard A. McKay
RRP: €36.89€36.40The search for a "patient zero" popularly understood to be the first infected case in an epidemic has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of... -
Combat Divers: An illustrated history of special forces divers by Michael G. Welham
RRP: €41.65€31.48The full visual history of the special forces combat diver from World War II to the present day. Combat divers are an elite within an elite. Every special forces combat diver is required to pass selection twice - first into the elite military unit and... -
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
RRP: €23.80€14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143111344Author Dava SobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm *... -
Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East by Fawaz A. Gerges 9780691167886
RRP: €29.75€24.50How the conflict between political Islamists and secular nationalists has shaped the history of the modern Middle East In 2013, just two years after the popular overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military ousted the country's first democratically... -
European Counter-Terrorist Units 1972-2017 by Leigh Neville
RRP: €17.84€14.93The Munich Olympics massacre in 1972 was a shock awakening to the public. In the decades since, European countries have faced a wide range of threats from Palestinian and home-grown terrorists, to the more recent world-wide jihadists. The threats they... -
Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel by Mahdi Amel
RRP: €29.75€19.91Mahdi Amel (1936-87) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. For the first time in English, this collection makes available lengthy excerpts from six major works by Mahdi Amel. These include the two founding texts on... -
Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army by Barnaby Phillips 9781780747118
RRP: €14.27€10.03In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100,000 African soldiers were taken from Britain's colonies to fight the Japanese in the Burmese jungles. They performed heroically... -
The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space by Owen Hatherley
RRP: €22.60€15.65The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a place that really existed, but it is long dead. By now, the word "Soviet" should be as meaningless as "Hapsburg". Yet it endures, as in the wave of "de-communisation" in Ukraine or the strange idea that the... -
Lebanese Civil War: Volume 1: Palestinian Diaspora, Syrian and Israeli Interventions, 1970-1978 by Sergio Santana 9781911628200
RRP: €23.74€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628200Author Sergio SantanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Atlantic Realists: Empireand International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States by Matthew Specter
RRP: €29.74€25.79In The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the... -
A World In Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order by Richard Haass
RRP: €20.22€13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562389Author Richard HaassFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Eminent Churchillians Andrew Roberts 9781857992137
RRP: €15.46€10.23A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of SALISBURY tackles six aspects of... -
The Last Days of Empire and the Worlds of Business and Diplomacy: An Inside Account by Charles Cullimore
RRP: €23.79€16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526789044Author Charles CullimoreFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Pen and Sword HistoryPublisher Pen and Sword HistoryWeight(grams) 152g -
RAF WWII Operational and Flying Accident Casualty Files in The National Archives: Exploring their Contents by Mary Hudson 9781526783523
RRP: €29.75€20.97At its height during the Second World War, the RAF totalled 185,000 personnel. Men and women, from home and overseas, served alongside members of Dominion Air Forces, and those members of the air forces of occupied Europe who had escaped to fight on. All... -
The People's Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger 9780674050914
RRP: €30.88€25.04At the Berlin Auto Show in 1938, Adolf Hitler presented the prototype for a small, oddly shaped, inexpensive family car that all good Aryans could enjoy. Decades later, that automobile-the Volkswagen Beetle-was one of the most beloved in the world...