Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
RRP: £22.99£12.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062397348Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America by Cameron McWhirter 9781250009067
RRP: £17.99£13.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250009067Author Cameron McWhirterFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm)... -
The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb by Greg Mitchell
RRP: £19.99£13.56The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production. Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called "the... -
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
RRP: £12.99£8.182018 Edgar Award Finalist-Best Fact Crime"A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey" (The Boston Globe)-the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown... -
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel Joseph 9781541617865
RRP: £25.00£16.78Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the two most iconic figures of the Civil Rights movement. To most Americans, Malcolm and Martin represent contrasting political ideals -- self-defense vs. non-violence, anger vs. pacifism, separatism vs... -
Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood 9780807871973
£38.64This title presents public reinforcement of white supremacy. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America often exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In ""Lynching and Spectacle"", Amy Wood explains what... -
The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink by William Inboden
RRP: £31.99£20.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524745899Author William InbodenFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Seabiscuit: The True Story of Three Men and a Racehorse by Laura Hillenbrand
RRP: £12.99£8.48From the author of Unbroken - a major motion picture releasing in 2015 - this is the bestselling true story of three men and their dreams for a racehorse, Seabiscuit. In 1938 one figure received more press coverage than Mussolini, Hitler or... -
Our Team: The Epic Story of Four Men and the World Series That Changed Baseball by Luke Epplin
RRP: £18.99£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250266316Author Epplin LukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster
RRP: £10.99£7.65"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." -H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and... -
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil
RRP: £17.99£13.00When 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... -
Goddess: The Secret Lives Of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers
RRP: £16.99£11.54The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star's death - now a major Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Tapes'Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone... -
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 *... -
King Richard: an American tragedy by Michael Dobbs
RRP: £18.99£12.83From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. In January 1973, Richard... -
Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945 by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: £22.00£14.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986204Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Robert F. Kennedy
RRP: £12.99£9.17During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In this unique... -
Nothin' But a Good Time: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Glam Metal by Justin Quirk
£12.11From 1983 until 1991, Glam Metal was the sound of American culture. Big hair, massive amplifiers, drugs, alcohol, piles of money and life-threatening pyrotechnics. This was the world stalked by Bon Jovi, Kiss, W.A.S.P., Skid Row, Dokken, Motley Crue,... -
Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn
RRP: £20.00£14.69The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter and bestselling author Jeff Guinn.Waco breaks new ground... -
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
RRP: £14.99£10.95In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941 Let Us Now... -
Baseball: A History of America's Favourite Game by George Vecsey
RRP: £16.99£12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780812978704Author George VecseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Modern Library... -
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die by Garrett M. Graff
RRP: £21.00£13.18Now a 6-part mini-series called Why the Rest of Us Die airing on VICE TV! The shocking truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil-even if the rest of us die-is "a frightening eye-opener" (Kirkus Reviews) that... -
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek
RRP: £30.00£19.93How a notorious far right organization set the Republican Party on a long march toward extremismAt the height of the John Birch Society's activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. After all, "Birchers" believed that a... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
RRP: £21.99£15.61In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was short-lived. Settlers from the East pushed into the West,... -
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (Large Print Edition) by Murray N Rothbard 9781479293162
RRP: £5.99£5.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479293162Author Murray N RothbardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA 1850-2009 by Vivienne Sanders
RRP: £10.50£9.62Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK by Bonar Menninger 9781490952420
RRP: £17.75£16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781490952420Author Bonar MenningerFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
How To Be a Liberal: The Story of Liberalism and the Fight for its Life by Ian Dunt
£19.04Liberalism is under attack. From the rise of nationalism and populism to the decline of trust in institutions, liberals are facing unprecedented challenges. But what does it mean to be a liberal in the 21st Century? And how can we defend the values that... -
The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds 9780199315987
RRP: £16.99£12.92There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the... -
The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 by Michael J. Hogan
RRP: £34.99£26.83Michael Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe. American officials hoped to refashion Western Europe into a smaller version of the integrated single-market and mixed... -
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford
RRP: £18.99£13.61The definitive biography of Jackie Kennedy, by Britain's best royal biographer Jackie Kennedy was a twentieth-century icon of glamour, elegance and grace. As the beautiful young wife of President John F. Kennedy, she was adored, her style imitated... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Making of a Superpower: USA 1865-1975 by Sally Waller 9780198354697
£36.68Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The Making of a... -
OCR A Level History: The American Revolution 1740-1796 and The USA in the 19th Century 1803-1890 by Mike Wells
£31.89Exam board: OCRLevel: A LevelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: AS: Summer 2016, A Level: Summer 2017An OCR endorsed resourceSuccessfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace; this bespoke series from the... -
A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy by James DiEugenio 9781627310703
RRP: £28.99£19.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310703Author James DiEugenioFormat HardbackPage Count 678Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
The Manhattan Project (Revised): The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly
RRP: £18.99£12.75This updated edition of this essential collection of historic writings by the pre-eminent scientists and historians who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age now includes President Barack Obama's 2016 statement at Hiroshima, all-new... -
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036661Author Hugh RyanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 560gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 156mm *... -
The Spingarn Brothers: White Privilege, Jewish Heritage, and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Katherine Reynolds Chaddock
RRP: £29.00£25.58An absorbing account of how two Jewish brothers devoted themselves to the struggle for racial equality in the United States.In the late nineteenth century, Joel and Arthur Spingarn grew up in New York City as brothers with very different personalities,... -
B/EB-66 Destroyer Units in Combat by Peter E. Davies
RRP: £14.99£10.95Studies of air combat in the Vietnam War inevitably focus on the MiG-killing fighter engagements, B-52 onslaughts or tactical strikes on the Hanoi region. However, underlying all these was the secretive 'electron war' in which highly-skilled electronic... -
The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years by Joseph A. Califano 9781476798790
RRP: £18.00£12.04Califano takes us into the Oval Office as the decisions that irrevocably changed the United States were being crafted to create Johnson's ambitious Great Society. He shows us LBJ's commitment to economic and social revolution, and his willingness to do... -
Watergate: The Hidden History: Nixon, The Mafia, and The CIA by Lamar Waldron
RRP: £24.99£17.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619021624Author Lamar WaldronFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism by Matthew Continetti
RRP: £16.99£11.54A "superb" and "ambitious" (New York Times) intellectual and political history of the last century of American conservatism When most people think of modern conservatism, they think of Ronald Reagan. Yet this narrow view leaves many to question: How did...