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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars by Nathalia Holt
RRP: £14.99£9.80In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess,... -
The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI by Betty Medsger 9780804173667
RRP: £20.00£13.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804173667Author Betty MedsgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 516gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire by Peter B. Doran
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130000Author Peter B. DoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation by Blake J Harris 9780062276704
RRP: £19.99£13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062276704Author Blake J HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Willie Nelson's Letters to America by Willie Nelson
RRP: £20.00£13.34An intimate collection of fond memories, personal letters, good songs, and bad jokes from a true American legend."This is your old friend, Willie, sending a note to see how you're doing and to say I'm doing fine."In this series of short letters straight... -
Exploring with Byrd: Episodes of an Adventurous Life by Richard E. Byrd 9781442241688
RRP: £18.99£14.32As the culminating volume of Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Jr.'s renowned expeditions, this is the comprehensive autobiography of a man who knew no limits. From his earliest days as a Navy pilot in training, to his controversial flights to the North and South... -
Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War by Alexander Gardner 9780486227313
RRP: £24.49£14.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486227313Author Alexander GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Commanding the Army of the Potomac by Stephen R. Taaffe 9780700614516
RRP: £54.00£37.68During the Civil War, thirty-six officers in the Army of the Potomac were assigned corps commands of up to 30,000 men. Collectively charged with leading the Union's most significant field army, these leaders proved their courage in countless battlefields... -
The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music by Tom Breihan 9780306826542
RRP: £16.99£13.09When Tom Breihan launched his Stereogum column in early 2018, "The Number Ones"-a space in which he has been writing about every #1 hit in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, in chronological order-he figured he'd post capsule-size reviews for each... -
To Have and Have Another: A Hemmingway Cocktail Companion by Philip Greene
RRP: £23.00£18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399174902Author Philip GreeneFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g -
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms
RRP: £12.99£8.94'History at its scintillating best ... hard-hitting, revelatory and superbly researched' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny 'A rare achievement ... sure to become an instant classic' John Lewis Gaddis, Yale University This... -
Gettysburg by Stephen Sears 9780618485383
RRP: £21.99£14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618485383Author Stephen W. SearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 651gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
September 11: The 9/11 Story, Aftermath and Legacy by Associated Press
RRP: £30.00£21.00A commemoration of the 20th anniversary of 9/11 as told through stories and photographs from The Associated Press-covering everything from the events of that tragic day to the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and beyond.This important and... -
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch 9780312317898
RRP: £20.00£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312317898Author Scott ZeschFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 212mm *... -
Creating the American West: Boundaries and Borderlands by Derek R Everett 9780806144467
£30.66Boundaries--lines imposed on the landscape--shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. In Creating the American West, historian Derek R. Everett... -
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller
RRP: £23.49£17.87From the 1660s to the early 1900s, no fewer than seven million people emigrated from Ireland to North America. This vast flow at once reflected and compelled enormous social changes on both sides of the Atlantic. In this book Miller chronicles the... -
Casper's Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps by Michelle Bahe 9781467129084
RRP: £23.99£14.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467129084Author Michelle BaheFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingDimensions(mm) 235mm * 166mm * 8mm -
St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun
RRP: £14.99£13.03St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted and the Velvet Underground wailed. Ada Calhoun tells the "Fascinating" (Village Voice) many-layered history of the... -
Purpose and Power: US Grand Strategy from the Revolutionary Era to the Present by Donald Stoker 9781009257275
RRP: £35.00£29.82Across the full span of the nation's history, Donald Stoker challenges our understanding of the purposes and uses of American power. From the struggle for independence to the era of renewed competition with China and Russia, he reveals the grand... -
In Small Things Forgotten by James Deetz
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483995Author James DeetzFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm... -
The Wild West in England by William F. Cody 9780803240544
RRP: £16.99£14.57Army scout, frontiersman, and hero of the American West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was also a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published The Story of the Wild West, a collection of biographies of four well-known American... -
Lighthouse Families by Cheryl Shelton-Roberts 9781561646319
RRP: £12.95£9.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781561646319Author Cheryl Shelton-RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)... -
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil 9780691149097
RRP: £25.00£19.99When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of... -
Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
RRP: £23.00£15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449908709Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm... -
My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains by Jessa Crispin 9780226820101
RRP: £16.00£13.84Sharp and thought-provoking, this memoir-meets-cultural criticism upends the romanticism of the Great Plains and the patriarchy at the core of its ideals. For many Americans, Kansas represents a vision of Midwestern life that is good and wholesome and... -
Lone Star: A History Of Texas And The Texans by T. R. Fehrenbach
RRP: £20.00£17.97Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and... -
Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs by Ken Jennings 9780812974997
RRP: £15.99£10.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812974997Author Ken JenningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint VillardPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *... -
The Class of 1846 by John C. Waugh 9780345434036
RRP: £17.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345434036Author John C. WaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 595gDimensions(mm)... -
The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad by Christian Wolmar
RRP: £25.00£17.62In The Great Railway Revolution, Christian Wolmar tells us the extraordinary one-hundred-and-eighty-year story of the rise, fall and ultimate shattering of the greatest of all American endeavours, of technological triumph and human tragedy, of visionary... -
Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War: Riot Control Agents in Combat by D. Hank Ellison 9780415876452
RRP: £43.99£38.44Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account... -
George Vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides by Rosalyn Schanzer 9781426300424
£6.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426300424Author Rosalyn SchanzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint National Geographic KidsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)... -
American Places by Page Stegner 9780143039747
RRP: £18.95£12.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143039747Author Wallace StegnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump by Miles Taylor
RRP: £30.00£18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668015988Author Miles TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 162mm * 30mm -
Bold They Rise: The Space Shuttle Early Years, 1972-1986 by David Hitt 9781496229403
RRP: £22.99£17.51After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set about developing the Space Shuttle, arguably the most complex piece of machinery ever created. The world's... -
The Face of Crazy Horse: The Case for a Tintype Photograph of the Great Lakota Patriot by Cesare Marino 9781947459083
RRP: £19.95£13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947459083Author Cesare MarinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Venerable PressPublisher Venerable PressWeight(grams) 676gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm... -
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement by John A. Kirk 9781408220139
£35.74Martin Luther King, Jr is one of the iconic figures of 20th century history, and one of the most influential and important in the American Civil Rights Movement. John Kirk here presents the life of Martin Luther King in the context of that movement,... -
Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection by Neil Kagan 9781588343895
RRP: £38.00£32.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588343895Author Smithsonian InstitutionFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 2g -
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 Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 9780802125682
RRP: £12.99£9.73Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carlin to Eddie Murphy to Louis CK--comedy historian Kliph... -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs 9780198709879
RRP: £8.99£6.61'The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.' Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published...