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Bad Land by Jonathan Raban 9781035034529
RRP: £10.99£7.93Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least populated, most uncharted region of the United States - to uncover the heart and soul of the country.Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the... -
Any Given Sunday: The NFL's Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games by Matthew Sherry
RRP: £10.99£7.40An authoritative 100-year history of America's National Football League from its founding.The NFL has become the most lucrative sports league in the world, yet it has not always been a roaring success story. It is a rocky road filled with detours and... -
Plotting for Peace: American Peacemakers, British Codebreakers, and Britain at War, 1914–1917 by Daniel Larsen 9781108486682
RRP: £34.99£28.78With Britain by late 1916 facing the prospect of an economic crisis and increasingly dependent on the US, rival factions in Asquith's government battled over whether or not to seek a negotiated end to the First World War. In this riveting new account,... -
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro by Rachel Slade
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 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... -
9.11: The New Evidence: Fully Updated and Revised by Ian Henshall 9781845295141 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.04The original 9/11 Revealed attracted lavish praise from reviewers in the Daily Mail and Sunday Times for the 'huge gaps' it exposed in the official 9/11 story. It became a non-fiction bestseller despite a wall of silence by the broadcast media and... -
9.11: The New Evidence: Fully Updated and Revised by Ian Henshall 9781845295141
£12.73The original 9/11 Revealed attracted lavish praise from reviewers in the Daily Mail and Sunday Times for the 'huge gaps' it exposed in the official 9/11 story. It became a non-fiction bestseller despite a wall of silence by the broadcast media and... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hamalainen
RRP: £31.99£25.33American history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America", an era that-according to prevailing accounts-laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, the acclaimed historian Pekka... -
Constructing a Nervous System: Cultural Reckonings by Margo Jefferson
RRP: £16.99£12.28FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of the most imaginative - and therefore moving - memoirs... -
Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael 9780520283947
RRP: £25.00£19.59Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is and could be. It is both a protest... -
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen 9781324094067
RRP: £17.99£14.45There is an old, deeply rooted story about America that goes like this: Columbus "discovers" a strange continent and brings back tales of untold riches. The European empires rush over, eager to stake out as much of this astonishing "New World" as... -
Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607 - 1713: History, Organization and Uniforms by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £19.99£14.68Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the... -
Turning Back the Fenians: New Brunswick's Last Colonial Campaign by Robert L. Dallison 9780864924612
RRP: £13.99£8.77In the early 1860s, Irish immigrants in the United States were eager to help the Fenian brotherhood overthrow the British in Ireland. The American Fenians' mission: to invade British North America and hold it hostage. New Brunswick, with its large Irish... -
Mysteries of the Far North: The Secret History of the Vikings in Greenland and North America by Jacques Privat
RRP: £25.00£16.24Sharing his extensive and meticulous research, Jacques Privat reveals that the Vikings were in Greenland, its neighbouring islands, and the eastern shores of Canada long before Columbus. He examines in depth how Greenland and its surroundings were... -
Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion by Paul Frymer 9780691191560
RRP: £22.00£17.36How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nationWestward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II: The New World by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £25.99£24.16"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806314Author Craig ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy by Anne Sebba
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN'Totally riveting. I couldn't put it down' VICTORIA HISLOP'Ethel sings out for all women who have been misunderstood and wronged,... -
Impossible: The Case Against Lee Harvey Oswald (Volume One) by Barry Krusch 9780962098147
RRP: £17.95£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962098147Author Barry KruschFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint WWW.Theintelligentcommunity.comPublisher WWW.Theintelligentcommunity.comWeight(grams)... -
North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue 9780195307542
RRP: £8.99£6.45When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve... -
Haunted Air by Ossian Brown
RRP: £30.00£21.35A collection of anonymous Hallowe'en Photographs from America, c.1875 - 1955The roots of Hallowe'en lie in the ancient pre-Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on... -
Gold Fever: One Man's Adventures on the Trail of the Modern Gold Rush by Steve Boggan
RRP: £10.99£8.25Have you ever imagined giving up your day job and heading for the hills in search of gold? Journalist Steve Boggan decided to do just that when the price of the precious metal scaled dizzying heights in the wake of the global financial crisis. ... -
The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison by Nicholas Guyatt
RRP: £25.00£18.02'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... -
Kennedy: A Cultural History of an American Icon by Mark White
£32.30During his lifetime, John F. Kennedy created a dazzling image that has been sustained since his assassination in 1963. This book examines how Kennedy succeeded in using his military service in World War II, his literary efforts, his sex appeal, his... -
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen
RRP: £16.99£14.61The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 * Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine * Winner of... -
The Line Becomes A River by Francisco Cantu
RRP: £8.99£6.45Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2019, an electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard'Stunningly good... The best thing I've read for ages' James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's LifeFrancisco Cantu was a US... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands
RRP: £25.00£15.28By the time he became president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson had already been looking west for decades. He saw the country's population expanding and he judged that America's territory must expand too, lest America become as crowded and conflict-prone as... -
America in the World: A History of U.S. Diplomacy and Foreign Policy by Robert B Zoellick
RRP: £28.99£17.45Recounting the actors and events of U.S. foreign policy, Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged from America's encounters with the world: the importance of North America; the special roles trading, transnational, and technological... -
American Intellectual History: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
RRP: £8.99£6.45Long before the United States was a nation, it was a set of ideas, projected onto the New World by European explorers with centuries of belief and thought in tow. From this foundation of expectation and experience, America and American thought grew in... -
Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America by J. M. Fenster
RRP: £22.00£13.24Drawing from the intriguing (and sometimes unbelievable) true stories of the lives of everyday Americans, historian Julie M. Fenster traces the history of the weakening of our national ethics through the practice of cheating. From marital infidelity to... -
Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World by Travis Glasson 9780190683016
RRP: £31.99£22.91Beginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain's colonies. Hundreds of clergy traveled to widely-dispersed posts in North America, the Caribbean, and... -
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump 9781845295530 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.65In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the... -
A Brief History of the Age of Steam by Thomas Crump
RRP: £12.99£2.91In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the... -
Who Discovered America?: The Untold History of the Peopling of the Americas by Gavin Menzies 9780062236784
£13.45Greatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas-offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who... -
Kennedy at Birch Grove by Paul Elgood 9781467996549
RRP: £5.38£4.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467996549Author Paul ElgoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean by Gerald Horne 9781583676639
RRP: £18.99£15.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583676639Author Gerald HorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition) by F Scott Fitzgerald
RRP: £17.93£15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176373903Author F Scott FitzgeraldFormat HardbackPage Count 124Imprint Wisehouse ClassicsPublisher Wisehouse ClassicsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
The Americas by Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: £10.99£7.40A history of North, South and Central America, from prehistory to the present, by one of the world's best-known historians.With his trademark range and independence of thought, Felipe Fernandez- Armesto sweeps aside the tidy separation between the... -
Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford 9780307717153
RRP: £18.00£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717153Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm)... -
Rules of Civility by Moncure D Conway 9781482331424
RRP: £7.99£6.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781482331424Author Moncure D ConwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
By God and Granite by Kristi Noem
RRP: £30.00£22.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707050Author Kristi NoemFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 27mm