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Melody in the Dark: British Musical Films, 1946-1972 Adrian Wright 9781783277490
RRP: €35.70€29.57A comprehensive reassessment of British musical films 1946-1972 including King's Rhapsody, Beat Girl, The Tommy Steele Story, Rock You Sinners, The Golden Disc, and Oliver! Acting as a sequel to Adrian Wright's Cheer Up! British Musical Films,... -
The Boys: The true story of children who survived the concentration camps Sir Martin Gilbert 9781474626392
RRP: €13.08€8.81'Impossible to put down ... This is a book about coming out of hell, about great evil, about the triumph of the human spirit, and about the great goodness on the part of those who helped. One is left with hope, and admiration' Julia Neuberger, THE... -
Ezra Pound: Poet: Volume III: The Tragic Years 1939-1972 by A. David Moody 9780198704362
RRP: €41.04€30.42This third and final volume of A. David Moody's critical life of Ezra Pound presents Pound's personal tragedy in a tragic time. The first volumes of Moody's biography have been acclaimed as 'masterly' (Daily Telegraph), 'exceptional' (Literary Review),... -
We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz by Gideon Greif 9780300211979
RRP: €29.75€28.96The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi... -
The White Cities: Reports From France 1925-1939 by Joseph Roth
RRP: €13.08€8.71Joseph Roth, the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925 and, as an Austrian Jew, was exiled there for the rest of his life. Collected together here for the first time in English, these... -
Tank Combat in Spain: Armored Warfare During the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Anthony Candil
RRP: €29.75€21.44Although Spain had been for many years on the periphery of the great affairs of Europe, within a few months of the Civil War breaking out in 1936, three out of the four major European powers - Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union - decided to intervene... -
Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins 9780395937587
€15.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395937587Author Modris EksteinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Ghosts of War in Vietnam by Heonik Kwon
RRP: €27.36€20.86This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical... -
Liverpool's Children in the 1950s by Pamela Russell
RRP: €20.22€18.04Full of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, games,... -
Misfire: The Sarajevo Assassination and the Winding Road to World War I by Paul Miller-Melamed
RRP: €33.31€28.10A new interpretation of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins of World War I that places focus on the Balkans and the prewar period. The story has so often been told: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, was shot... -
The Bay of Pigs by Howard Jones 9780199754250
RRP: €16.65€12.90In January 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Americans hailed the revolutionary as a hero. Then came Castro's increasingly anti-American talk, the rise in his regime of the openly Marxist Che Guevara and Raul Castro, and seizures of... -
Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band by Simon Callow
RRP: €20.22€15.37In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles' life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the twentieth century, looking closely at the triumphs and... -
South Wales Railways in the 1980s by Kevin Redwood 9781445695815
RRP: €19.03€12.91The South Wales Division was one of the three operating divisions of the Western Region. The division included the South Wales Main Line from Severn Tunnel Junction to Fishguard Harbour, as well as numerous branches in the Valleys and West Wales. The... -
Ultimate Allied Fighters of the Second World War Justo Miranda 9781781558881
RRP: €47.60€34.26During the five years of the Second World War, the power of engines and speed of aircraft increased as much as it did during twenty years of peacetime. Conventional aircraft and engines reached the limits marked in the original design and surpassed them,... -
24 Hours at the Somme by Robert J. Kershaw
RRP: €17.84€13.03The first day of the Somme has had more of a widespread emotional impact on the psyche of the British public than any other battle in history. Now, 100 years later, Robert Kershaw attempts to understand the carnage, using the voices of the British and... -
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner 9780143116721 [USED COPY]
RRP: €26.17€8.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116721Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g -
Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World by Tom Zoellner
RRP: €26.17€17.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143116721Author Tom ZoellnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g -
The Eastern Region in the 1970s and 1980s by Andy Gibbs
RRP: €19.03€12.91Travelling around the Eastern Region in the 1970s and 1980s meant Deltics and then HSTs on the East Coast Main Line; long and slow freight trains crawling across an industrial landscape; rattling DMUs running between large grey cities or picturesque... -
Belgium in the Second World War by Watervliet, Jean-Michel Veranneman de 9781399011419
RRP: €17.84€13.03When the Nazis invaded neutral Belgium in May 1940, defeat and occupation were inevitable but Belgian armed forces held out against a vastly superior enemy for 18 days. The elected Government went into exile in London but King Leopold III controversially... -
The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op: Melita Norwood and the Ending of Cold War Espionage David Burke 9781843838876
RRP: €23.79€20.19A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood. On September 11th 1999 The Times newspaper carried the front page article "Revealed: the quiet woman who betrayed... -
European Integration: A Political History by Mark Gilbert 9781538106815
RRP: €41.65€38.66Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this book remains the standard for concise histories of the European Union. Mark Gilbert offers a clear and balanced narrative of European integration since its inception to the present, set in the wider... -
P-39/P-400 Airacobra vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen by Mr Michael John Claringbould
RRP: €16.65€11.60After the huge advances made in the early months of the Pacific war, it was in remote New Guinea where the advance of Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force (IJNAF) A6M Zero-sen fighters was first halted due to a series of offensive and defensive aerial... -
Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain Jeremy Seabrook 9780745348421
RRP: €17.84€11.66'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning - the merging of senseless subjectivities.' In 1950s... -
In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power by Alfred W. McCoy
RRP: €13.08€9.25For a decade America's share of the global economy has been in decline. Its diplomatic alliances are under immense strain, and any claim of moral leadership has been abandoned. America is still a colossus, possessing half the world's manufacturing... -
Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths by Taylor C. Sherman
RRP: €41.65€33.01An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two... -
A Century of Ilford: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Brian Evans 9780752479668
RRP: €15.46€11.45This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Ilford during the twentieth century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us About Humanity by Jonathan Purkis
RRP: €29.75€20.97At a time of climate crisis, isolation and social breakdown, Driving with strangers is a manifesto to alter how we think about our place in the world. Veteran hitchhiker and lifelong aficionado of hitchhiking culture, Purkis journeys through the history... -
Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century by Brandon Taylor
RRP: €41.65€35.19A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world From the chaos of the First World War to the ravages of the Second, from the Great... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 Red Flag: Lenin and the Russian Revolution, 1894-1921 Alec Jessop 9781398345447
€24.80Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
Life Below Stairs: The Real Lives of Servants, 1939 to the Present by Pamela Horn
RRP: €11.89€7.90We view domestic service today as an undesirable job, owing to the class divide it has come to represent, and this is reflected in the portrayals of mistresses and servants in books and on the screen. But what do we really know about how girls felt when... -
In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order by Gerard Daniel Cohen 9780190840808
RRP: €41.04€30.65The end of the Second World War in Europe gave way to a gigantic refugee crisis. Thoroughly prepared by Allied military planners, the swift repatriation of millions of former forced laborers, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war nearly brought... -
Moscow Rules: Secret Police, Spies, Sleepers, Assassins by Douglas Boyd 9780750989367
RRP: €13.08€9.82After the guns fell silent in May 1945, the USSR resumed its clandestine warfare against the western democracies. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin installed secret police services in all the satellite countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Trained by his... -
Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance by Frank McDonough
€66.68The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt -- with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in... -
The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa by Gebru Tareke 9780300204148
RRP: €35.70€35.28Revolution, civil wars, and guerilla warfare wracked Ethiopia during three turbulent decades at the end of the twentieth century. This book is a pioneering study of the military history and political significance of this crucial Horn of Africa region... -
We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War Paul Preston 9781845299460
RRP: €17.84€11.66The war in Spain and those who wrote at first hand of its horrors.From 1936 to 1939 the eyes of the world were fixed on the devastating Spanish conflict that drew both professional war correspondents and great writers. Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos,... -
Politics by Other Means: The Free German League of Culture in London 1939-1946 by Charmian Brinson
RRP: €29.75€28.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912676613Author Charmian BrinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd -
Hellcat vs Shiden/Shiden-Kai by Tony Holmes
RRP: €16.65€11.60By the early months of 1944 in the Pacific, the US Navy's burgeoning force of carrier-based F6F-3/5 Hellcats had pretty much wiped the skies clear of Japanese fighters during a series of one-sided aerial engagements. However, starting in October they... -
Oceans Ventured: Winning the Cold War at Sea by John Lehman 9780393254259
RRP: €26.17€22.55When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and had embarked on a construction programme to gain naval pre-eminence. But Reagan had... -
Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1939-42 by Neil Page
RRP: €23.79€16.99Military and aviation history enthusiasts have always been interested in the fighter pilots of Hitler's Luftwaffe. Some of their stories are extraordinary. Fighting from the Arctic Circle to the North African deserts, from the Caucasus in the East to... -
The Habsburgs: The History of a Dynasty by Benjamin Curtis
RRP: €32.12€31.75The Habsburgs rank among the most celebrated ruling dynasties in history. At one point, their territories stretched not only across Europe but across the globe, into Asia, Africa and the Americas. By virtue of their long pre-eminence, the family made an...