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Invisible by Paul Auster
RRP: $20.98$14.07Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and... -
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
RRP: $23.08$15.23The worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high... -
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
RRP: $49.33$45.57For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an... -
Twelve Years a Slave: The Anti-Slavery Classic by Solomon Northup 9780857089069
RRP: $20.98$14.28DISCOVER A TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE ADVERSITY Twelve Years a Slave tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free-born man of colour who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South in 1841. His true tale of captivity, torture and abuse brings to... -
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
RRP: $56.68$37.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735225268Author Timothy EganFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
RRP: $37.80$23.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122029Author Colin WoodardFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm... -
Devil Dogs: First In, Last Out – King Company from Guadalcanal to the Shores of Japan by Saul David
RRP: $20.98$13.69A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From Sunday Times bestselling historian Saul David, the dramatic tale of the first American troops to take the fight to the enemy in the Second World War, and also the last. ... -
A Brutal Reckoning: The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens
RRP: $52.50$34.71'Cozzens is a master storyteller' The Times'Extremely well researched' Times Literary SupplementFrom the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressure from white settlers 150 years later, A Brutal... -
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage 9780857201058
RRP: $73.50$68.90Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyWinner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and DiplomacyWinner of the American History Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2023... -
The North American Indian. The Complete Portfolios by Edward S. Curtis
RRP: $42.00$35.72At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically... -
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke 9780008189341
RRP: $23.08$7.37From the #1 international bestselling author of THE REVENANT - the book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes the fascinating story of America's first battle over the environment. In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an... -
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
RRP: $63.00$42.84The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big... -
The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest by Barry Gough 9781771620390
$46.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620390Author Barry GoughFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 538g -
The Assassination of JFK: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo 9781780726274
RRP: $23.08$15.54The acclaimed book by Jonathan Mayo, now available in paperback"Reads like a pacey, page-turning, cold war political thriller." Dermot O'Leary This is the story of JFK's assassination as told from the frontline: it is about the people - from the highest... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester
RRP: $31.48$20.37From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been featured on America's official government seals and... -
Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson 9781474605656
RRP: $27.28$13.69On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America's entry into the Second World War. With vivid prose and astonishing detail, Craig Nelson combines thrilling... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $27.28$17.98The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a... -
Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story: The Heroic Account of How Pitch Picciotto Survived the Collapse of the Twin Towers by Richard Picciotto 9780752849416 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$4.81The No. 1 bestselling true story of Battalion Commander Richard Picciotto who, on 11 September, survived the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.On September 11th, Battalion Commander Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto was the highest ranking... -
Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story: The Heroic Account of How Pitch Picciotto Survived the Collapse of the Twin Towers by Richard Picciotto
RRP: $20.98$14.28The No. 1 bestselling true story of Battalion Commander Richard Picciotto who, on 11 September, survived the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center.On September 11th, Battalion Commander Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto was the highest ranking... -
The Witchcraft Sourcebook: Second Edition by Brian P. Levack 9781138774971
RRP: $109.18$95.74The Witchcraft Sourcebook, now in its second edition, is a fascinating collection of documents that illustrates the development of ideas about witchcraft from ancient times to the eighteenth century. Many of the sources come from the period between 1400... -
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $42.00$30.85**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM**Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking itself.Its deeply researched and fast-moving narrative... -
The Mayflower: The perilous journey that changed the world by Libby Romero
RRP: $16.78$12.16Discover the real history behind the Mayflower in this illustrated nonfiction storybook for kids ages 7 to 9, timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' famous voyage to the Americas.Step on board the Mayflower and meet the amazing... -
America Over the Water by Shirley Collins
RRP: $31.48$20.58'Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived' Stewart Lee'Without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures' Billy BraggIn America Over the Water, celebrated English folksinger... -
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
RRP: $31.48$20.58The New York Times BestsellerA ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to... -
Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason
RRP: $31.48$19.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510744400Author Phil MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: $20.98$13.69"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it... -
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga by William W. Fitzhugh
RRP: $56.60$53.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989950Author William F. FitzhughFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1520gDimensions(mm)... -
The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music by Richard Williams
RRP: $27.28$17.98'It is the most singular of sounds, yet among the most ubiquitous. It is the sound of isolation that has sold itself to millions.'Miles Davis's Kind of Blue is the best selling piece of music in the history of jazz, and for many listeners among the most... -
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen 9781620973929
RRP: $27.28$18.96Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold over two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox... -
OCR GCSE (9-1) History B (SHP) Foundation Edition: The People's Health c.1250 to present by Jamie Byrom
$46.05Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbook.Help more students to access the content for OCR GCSE History B (SHP) with this Foundation Edition,... -
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade
RRP: $31.48$23.00In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account of the sinking of the container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of... -
How White Men Won the Culture Wars: A History of Veteran America by Joseph Darda
RRP: $50.40$39.54CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2022A cultural history of how white men exploited the image of the Vietnam veteran to roll back civil rights and restake their claim on the nation "If war among the whites brought peace and liberty to the blacks,"... -
The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner 9781981138258
RRP: $15.73$13.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981138258Author Frederick Jackson TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace... -
Wilderness at Dawn: The Settling of the North American Continent by Ted Morgan 9780671882372
$51.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671882372Author Ted MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 684gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 30mm -
Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 by Laurence Bergreen
RRP: $23.08$16.32He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged... -
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men: A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West by Carl P. Russell 9781602399693
$24.57This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America by Brian P. Levack
$88.73The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth... -
The Seven Years' War by Daniel Marston
RRP: $31.48$24.68The closest thing to total war before World War One, the Seven Years' War was fought in North America, Europe, the Caribbean and India with major consequences for all parties involved. This fascinating book is the first to truly review the grand... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison by Nicholas Guyatt
RRP: $25.18$15.94'Beguiling.' The Times 'Compelling.' Wall Street Journal 'A vivid portrait.' Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British... -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $16.78$11.36From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason. 'The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age' David Grann ...