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Comet Madness: How the 1910 Return of Halley's Comet (Almost) Destroyed Civilization by Richard J. Goodrich
RRP: €23.79€16.99Halley's Comet visits the earth every seventy-five years. Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed comets were evil portents. In 1705, Edmond Halley liberated humanity from these primordial superstitions (or so it was thought), proving that... -
John Houbolt: The Unsung Hero of the Apollo Moon Landings by William F. Causey 9781612496573
RRP: €26.12€19.69In May 1961, President Kennedy announced that the United States would attempt to land a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth before the end of that decade. Yet NASA did not have a specific plan for how to accomplish that goal. Over the next... -
Hezbollah: Mobilisation and Power by Aurelie Daher
RRP: €35.70€32.55Forty years after its foundation, Lebanese Hezbollah remains an organization difficult to understand. An Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national Resistance to have ever defeated Tel-Aviv's troops, a patriotic... -
Walter Benjamin by Gershom Gerhard Scholem
RRP: €21.41€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590170328Author Gershom ScholemFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
We Were Never There: Volume 1: CIA U-2 Operations Over Europe, USSR, and the Middle East, 1956-1960 by Kevin Wright
RRP: €20.17€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377129Author Kevin WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Occupied France: Collaboration And Resistance 1940-1944 by Roderick Kedward 9780631139270
RRP: €47.54€45.64This concise history of France from the occupation in 1940 to liberation in 1944 focuses on the struggle between those who favoured collaboration with the occupying Germans and those who opted to resist. Roderick Kedward shows how ordinary people... -
Eagles of Destiny: Volume 1: Birth and Growth of the Royal Pakistan Air Force and Pakistan Air Force, 1947-1971 by Usman Shabbir
RRP: €20.17€16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377037Author Usman ShabbirFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
USAF F-105 Thunderchief vs VPAF MiG-17: Vietnam 1965-68 by Peter E. Davies
RRP: €16.65€11.60The F-105D Thunderchief was originally designed as a low-altitude nuclear strike aircraft, but the outbreak of the Vietnam War led to it being used instead as the USAF's primary conventional striker against the exceptionally well-defended targets in... -
The Second World War: A Marxist History by Chris Bambery 9780745333014
RRP: €32.12€20.93The Second World War casts a long shadow, portrayed as a necessary and paradigmatic war that defeated fascism. During recent wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, US presidents and British prime ministers have tried to claim they were following in the... -
Scottish Gods: Religion in Modern Scotland 1900-2012 by Steve Bruce
RRP: €28.55€26.00Steve Bruce explores Scotland's transformation from the largely devout Presbyterian country of 1900, with the church as a major social force, to the diverse, more secular society of today, when less than 10 per cent of Scots attend church. He bases his... -
Black Tulip: The Life and Myth of Erich Hartmann, the World's Top Fighter Ace by Erik Schmidt 9781612008240
RRP: €29.75€24.17Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology during the Cold War.Over 1,404 wartime missions, Hartmann... -
The Politics of Regret: On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility by Jeffrey K. Olick
RRP: €54.73€47.75In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the... -
1916: The Rising Handbook by Lorcan Collins 9781847175991
RRP: €16.65€13.03A handbook to the events and locations of the Easter 1916 Rising. There are so many different versions of the story of Easter Week 1916. Lorcan Collins, an acknowledged expert on the subject and founder of the 1916 Rebellion Walking Tour, decided that... -
Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train by Jessamyn Abel 9781503629943
RRP: €28.55€24.80A symbol of the "new Japan" displayed at World's Fairs, depicted in travel posters, and celebrated as the product of a national spirit of innovation, the Tokaido Shinkansen-the first bullet train, dubbed the "dream super-express"-represents the bold... -
Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family by Amber Hunt 9781493009602
RRP: €15.46€11.44The Kennedys endure as American icons because of the mix between power and vulnerability that so many of them embodied. Our fascination and connection to them comes most strongly through the wives, whose pain, heartbreak, and grief seemed immensely... -
The Dangers of Poetry: Culture, Politics, and Revolution in Iraq by Kevin M. Jones
RRP: €69.02€60.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503613393Author Kevin M. JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
De Valera: Rise 1882–1932 by David McCullagh 9780717155866
RRP: €40.45€36.34From the host of RTE's Primetime and author of The Reluctant Taoiseach, the widely acclaimed biography of John A. Costello, Rise 1882-1932 is the first volume of a major two-part reassessment of the man who shaped modern Ireland. Eamon de Valera is... -
Tay Bridge Disaster: The People's Story by Robin Lumley 9780752499468
RRP: €19.03€14.58On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the world's longest bridge on a black, fierce night, only to be dashed to pieces in the River Tay as the bridge collapsed during one of the worst... -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Alan Brinkley 9780199732029
RRP: €13.67€11.39"No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no president since Lincoln has served through darker or more... -
Forgotten Heroes of the Battle of Britain by Sarkar, Dilip 9781399075725
€34.96Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victory that Hitler had demanded. Whilst the technical details of the aircraft and weapons involved are, of... -
The Ace Cafe Then and Now by Winston G. Ramsey
€22.31During the 1960s swarms of motorcyclists roamed along London's North Circular Road in nightly burn ups. Their pit stop was the Ace Cafe at Stonebridge Park. This is their story as told by the boys who raced and the policemen who chased, woven against a... -
Nightmare at Scapa Flow: The Truth About the Sinking of HMS "Royal Oak" by H.J. Weaver
RRP: €9.51€6.77"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds incredible..." - William L Shirer, journalist, 18 October 1939 Sinking the battleship HMS... -
Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East by Adam Mestyan 9780691190976
RRP: €41.65€33.01How the "recycling" of the Ottoman Empire's uses of genealogy and religion created new political orders in the Middle EastIn this groundbreaking book, Adam Mestyan argues that post-Ottoman Arab political orders were not, as many historians believe,... -
Heterosexual Africa?: The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS by Marc Epprecht 9780821417997
RRP: €33.31€28.73Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht's previous book, Hungochani (which focuses explicitly on same-sex desire in southern Africa), to explore the historical processes by... -
The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume 3, Civil Society by Dr Jay Winter 9781316601433
€52.38Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which... -
Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics by Sarah Shortall
RRP: €51.11€40.90Winner of a Catholic Media Association Book AwardA revelatory account of the nouvelle theologie, a clerical movement that revitalized the Catholic Church's role in twentieth-century French political life.Secularism has been a cornerstone of French... -
Luzon 1945: The final liberation of the Philippines by Clayton K. S. Chun 9781472816283
RRP: €20.22€17.36Driven from the Philippines in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur returned three years later to force the Japanese off of its main island of Luzon. Containing the capital of Manila, vital natural resources as well as thousands of Allied prisoners of war,... -
Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica, Europe's Worst Massacre Since World War II by MR David Rohde 9780143120315
RRP: €35.70€24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120315Author David RohdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy 9781324064558
€14.42Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had gone into partial... -
The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History by Robert Darnton 9780393307528
RRP: €26.78€22.55At home in the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries, Robert Darnton is a shrewd and entertaining guide to the shifting borderlands of history and culture. These wide-ranging essays appear under various headings: "Current Events" -this section includes... -
The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations Executive Derwin Gregory (Bishop Grosseteste University, UK) 9781032168074
RRP: €47.59€41.72During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating 'all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas'. Although the overseas operations of this... -
The Nuremberg Trial by Ann Tusa 9781616080211
RRP: €15.46€15.35Here is a gripping account of the major postwar trial of the Nazi hierarchy in World War II. The Nuremberg Trial brilliantly recreates the trial proceedings and offers a reasoned, often profound examination of the processes that created international law... -
National Bus Company Service Vehicles 1972-1986 by Michael Hitchen
RRP: €17.84€12.73Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s the state-owned National Bus Company, with its familiar corporate livery, was a common sight across much of England and Wales. The huge variety of the various buses is well documented, but alongside there was a much... -
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird 9780375726262
RRP: €21.41€12.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of National Book Critics Circle Awards and Pulitzer Prize 2006. Short-listed for J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780375726262Author Kai... -
The Stalin Years: The Soviet Union, 1929-53 by Helen Skelton 9780719063770
RRP: €17.84€16.23This is a penetrating and up-to-date account of one of the dramatic aspects of 20th-century history. Published fifty years after Stalin's death, and fully revised and expanded, this second edition looks at the entire period of his rule and includes... -
Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt
RRP: €23.79€18.61From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole... -
The Hot 'Cold War': The USSR in Southern Africa by Vladimir Shubin 9780745324722
RRP: €35.69€23.09This book analyses the causes of armed conflicts in Southern Africa during the Cold War. It examines the influence of the various external forces in the region during this period and their relationship to local movements and governments. The book... -
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village by John Strausbaugh 9780062078216
€14.35Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh's The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square patricians, to the Triangle... -
The People's Army in the Spanish Civil War: A Military History of the Republic and International Brigades 1936-1939 by Alexander Clifford 9781526760920
RRP: €29.75€20.97Why did the Spanish Republic lose the Spanish Civil War - and could the Republic have won? These are the key questions Alexander Clifford addresses in this in-depth study of the People's Army and the critical battles of Brunete, Belchite and Teruel... -
Small Wars, Far Away Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945-65 by Michael Burleigh 9780330529488 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79€3.15The collapse of Western colonial empires in the twenty years after the Second World War led to a series of vicious struggles for power - in Africa, Asia and the Middle East - whose bloody consequences haunt us still.Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's...