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American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche 9780865476752
RRP: €22.61€14.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476752Author William LangewiescheFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman 9780062859020
RRP: €20.22€13.65The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama.America does not have royalty... -
The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History And Lore Of The First Frontiersmen by George Laycock 9781493018826
RRP: €14.27€10.61To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin survivalists. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, beaver fur trappers roamed the river valleys and... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: The Making of America 1789-1900 by Alex Ford
€26.10Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
Moondust by Andrew Smith
RRP: €11.89€8.46A revised and updated edition of the classic work to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon landing 'It left me spellbound ... belongs to the same tradition as Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff' Sunday Times 'Fascinating. A wonderful book'... -
A Short History of the United States: From the Arrival of Native American Tribes to the Obama Presidency by Robert V. Remini
€15.20An abbreviated, accessible, and lively narrative history of the United States, this erudite volume contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions, including the arrival... -
A Concise History of the United States of America by Susan-Mary Grant 9780521612791
RRP: €32.12€25.39Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
RRP: €22.60€16.67Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History'Read it. It will open your eyes about race history in America. It will shock you for what it tells you about politics in America today.' Richard Ford'A remarkably wide-ranging synthesis of the history of the 1850s... -
Billy the Kid and Jesse James: Outlaws of the Legendary West by Bill Markley 9781493038381
RRP: €15.46€11.44Who was the biggest, baddest outlaw in the Old West? Billy the Kid or Jesse James?Bat Masterson or Wyatt Earp? Which outlaw did the most to wreak havoc across the frontier? And which outlaw left behind the biggest legacy? Author Bill Markley takes on... -
The Demon of Unrest: Abraham Lincoln & America’s Road to Civil War by Erik Larson 9780008681753
RRP: €29.75€19.55The internationally bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War—a slow-burning crisis that finally tore a deeply divided nation in two. On... -
Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West by Ethan Rarick 9780195305029
RRP: €33.90€23.15In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81... -
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
RRP: €13.08€9.25New edition with a foreword by Bernardine Evaristo 'A brutal record of segregated America ... essential reading' Guardian 'An anti-racist classic' Bernardine Evaristo In the autumn of 1959, a white Texan journalist named John Howard Griffin... -
Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There: How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America by David Hepworth
RRP: €11.89€8.46The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island... -
The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez by Philip Carlo
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538419Author Philip CarloFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 530g -
New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America by Colin G. Calloway 9781421410319
RRP: €29.75€26.22Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Collins Classics) by Frederick Douglass
RRP: €3.56€2.78HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Born into slavery during the early nineteenth century,... -
Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend by Meryl Gordon
RRP: €17.84€11.66When Bunny Mellon died at age 103 on March 17th, she was the last embodiment of a Gilded Age lifestyle. Born into money (her grandfather invented Listerine), she married into even more money (the Mellon banking and oil fortune) and went on to build,... -
1776: America and Britain at War by David McCullough
RRP: €20.22€14.61America's most acclaimed historian presents the intricate story of the year of the birth of the United States of America. 1776 tells two gripping stories: how a group of squabbling, disparate colonies became the United States, and how the British Empire... -
Bobby Kennedy: The Making Of A Liberal Icon by Larry Tye
RRP: €20.83€15.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812983500Author Larry TyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Country Music: An Illustrated History by Dayton Duncan
RRP: €65.45€27.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525520542Author Dayton DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 2166gDimensions(mm) 283mm * 242mm... -
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul by Stuart Cosgrove
RRP: €11.89€7.97WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018 In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul... -
Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
RRP: €15.46€10.82They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for millions of black men and women the equality and respect denied them by their white neighbours, Malcolm X... -
Thus Spake Zarathustra: The Philosophy Classic by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780857089304
RRP: €14.27€10.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857089304Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Capstone Publishing LtdPublisher John Wiley and Sons LtdWeight(grams) 138g -
Bloodbath Nation: 'One of the most anticipated books of 2023.' TIME magazine by Paul Auster 9780571377572
RRP: €17.84€11.66BLOODBATH NATION is about the Epidemic that is tearing apart the fabric of American society.An Epidemic caused - not by Covid - but by Guns.Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children, and even babies. The massacres have taken place in... -
Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen by Jonathan D. Cohen
RRP: €29.74€26.26Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what... -
Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968 by Steven F. Lawson 9780742551091
RRP: €41.65€36.83No other book about the civil rights movement captures the drama and impact of the black struggle for equality better than Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Two of the most respected scholars of African-American history, Steven F. Lawson and... -
Renegades: Born in the USA Barack Obama 9780241561249
RRP: €41.65€30.81THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AND THE GIFT THAT WILL BE ON EVERY BRUCE AND BARACK FAN'S WISH LIST THIS CHRISTMAS!Two long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its... -
DB COOPER and the FBI: A Case Study of America's Only Unsolved Skyjacking by Bruce a Smith 9781952439384
€31.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952439384Author Bruce a SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLCPublisher Moonshine Cove Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)... -
DK Eyewitness Las Vegas by DK
RRP: €15.46€10.82The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this spectacular city.Experience flamboyant resorts and luxurious hotels, marvel at the natural splendour of the... -
TWA 800: Behind the Cover-Up and Conspiracy by Jack Cashill 9781684514557
RRP: €15.46€10.82From the disastrous crash to the nefarious, high-level cover up, historian Jack Cashill introduces new documents and testimonies in his shocking account of the true chain of events leading to the tragic disappearance of TWA 800 into seeming thin air. TWA... -
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James W. Douglass 9781570757556
€29.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570757556Author James W. DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA) -
The Great Reset: And the War for the World by Alex Jones
RRP: €26.18€16.72In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet. From central bankers,... -
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
RRP: €22.60€16.20All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong.This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels,... -
Miami by Joan Didion 9781783785247
RRP: €13.08€8.71This is a surprising portrait of the pastel city, a masterly study of Cuban immigration and exile, and a sly account of vile moments in the Cold War. Miami may be the sunniest place in America but this is Didion's darkest book, in which she explores... -
Slavery and the Culture of Taste by Simon Gikandi 9780691160979
RRP: €35.70€28.19It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary,... -
John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek
RRP: €23.79€17.47Updated edition of the authoritative single-volume biography of John F. Kennedy. Drawing upon first-hand sources and never-before-opened archives, prize-winning historian Robert Dallek reveals more than we ever knew about Jack Kennedy, forever changing... -
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Jr Glaude 9780525575320
RRP: €26.78€19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of BCALA Literary Award 2021 and Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters - Nonfiction 2020 and Stowe Prize 2021. Short-listed for Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo... -
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden by Steve Coll
RRP: €22.60€16.20Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer PrizeThe explosive, New York Times bestselling first-hand account of America's secret history in AfghanistanPrize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified... -
Beacon Hill, Back Bay and the Building of Boston's Golden Age by Ted Clarke 9781596291614
RRP: €23.79€15.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596291614Author Ted ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History by Matt Taibbi
RRP: €17.84€11.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385529969Author Matt TaibbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Spiegel & GrauPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...