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Generations by William Strauss 9780688119126
£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688119126Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 771g -
Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House by Jared Cohen 9781982154547
RRP: £32.50£19.77New York Times Bestseller New York Times bestselling author of Accidental Presidents explores what happens after the most powerful job in the world: President of the United States.Former presidents have an unusual place in American life. King George III... -
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
RRP: £10.99£8.17In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and... -
The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes by Robert Serber 9780520344174
RRP: £14.99£12.15More than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at Los Alamos who developed the bombs, which were... -
Twelve Years a Slave: The Black History Classic Solomon Northup 9780857089069
RRP: £9.99£6.80DISCOVER 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... -
Alistair Cooke's America: 50th Anniversary Edition by Alistair Cooke
RRP: £18.99£12.71For more than sixty years Alistair Cooke wrote and broadcast on every facet of American life with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his 'personal history' of America, the best-selling book that accompanied his legendary BBC television series which was... -
Fools Crow by Thomas E. Mails 9780803281745
RRP: £14.99£12.75Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright... -
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson 9780141017006 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.65Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. What's more, it always has been an... -
Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, as Niall Ferguson's brilliant and provocative book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. What's more, it always has been an... -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: The Black History Classic Frederick Douglass 9780857089106
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857089106Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackImprint Capstone Publishing LtdPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd -
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: £21.99£13.98Now 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... -
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... -
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451473011Author Nick OffermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 300g -
American Colonies: The Settlement of North America to 1800 by Alan Taylor 9780142002100
RRP: £16.99£12.28AMERICAN COLONIES starts with the earliest years of human colonization of the American continent and environs with the Siberian migrations across the Bering Strait 15,000 years ago. It ends in around 1800 when the rough outline of the contemporary North... -
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... -
U.S. Army Vehicle Markings 1944 by Jean Bouchery 9781612007373
RRP: £29.99£24.36Everyone is familiar with the iconic WWII Jeep, its green paintwork annotated with white letters, numbers and symbols. Unintelligible to the casual observer, these markings were integral to the organization of the U.S. Army on the move in 1944.This... -
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles 9781800818200
RRP: £25.00£16.13LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An astonishing account of love, resilience and survival' Sunday Times 'A remarkable book' New York... -
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... -
The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today by Eric Adler 9780197518786
RRP: £30.99£22.85These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics... -
Economic Actors and the Limits of Transitional Justice: Truth and Justice for Past Business Complicity in Human Rights Violations by Leigh A. Payne 9780197267264
£75.52The rights of victims to truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-repetition when businesses are involved in past and present abuses are seldom guaranteed. A legacy of impunity has prevailed globally in which economic actors have incurred few... -
The Complete Book of Us Presidents: Fourth Edition by Bill Yenne
£18.22Discover the history and personal stories of 46 US Presidents in this beautifully illustrated volume.From the first president, George Washington, to the forty-sixth, Joe Biden, the United States has seen a host of extraordinary men take office. Their... -
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare by Paul Lockhart
RRP: £30.00£19.80The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells the story of military technology from the Renaissance to the dawn of the atomic era --... -
Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn by James Walvin 9780520391826
RRP: £16.99£13.65A fascinating journey through the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity. Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, "Amazing Grace" has... -
American Fascists by Chris Hedges
RRP: £15.99£11.61They disseminate their ideas on the alternative broadcast networks and through their own publishers and schools. Their intellectual leaders demand the complete dismantling of the secular state; their followers have been roused to a fever pitch of... -
And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails by Wayne Curtis
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575023Author Wayne CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America by Bruce Cannon Gibney
£20.66We are living in a time when it has become fashionable to question the American Dream and to proclaim the end of American exceptionalism (though it's not clear what that is or was). It's Reagan's, Bush's, Clinton's, Bush's, Obama's fault that social... -
A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security State, 1945-1954 by Michael J. Hogan 9780521795371
RRP: £30.99£25.87In A Cross of Iron, one of the country's most distinguished diplomatic historians provides a comprehensive account of the national security state that emerged in the first decade of the Cold War. Michael J. Hogan traces the process of state-making as it... -
Slavery: A World History by Milton Meltzer 9780306805363
£28.90Slavery is not and has never been a "peculiar institution," but one that is deeply rooted in the history and economy of most countries. Although it has flourished in some periods and declined in others, human bondage for profit has never been... -
American History: A Very Short Introduction by Paul S. Boyer
RRP: £8.99£6.61This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American... -
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
RRP: £28.00£23.64Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * National Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 * A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 * A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2023 * An Esquire Best Book of 2023 * An NPR "Book We... -
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard
RRP: £18.00£11.03Apologies 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... -
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by David Crist 9780143123675
RRP: £26.99£17.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123675Author David CristFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 545g -
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
RRP: £9.99£5.96ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us... -
The Terror Dream: What 9/11 Revealed about America by Susan Faludi 9781843547792
RRP: £22.50£15.96Shortlisted for the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Non-fiction, 2008'A brilliant, unsentimental, often darkly humorous account of America's nervous breakdown after 9/11.' -- Publishers Weekly *starred review*In this remarkable and strikingly... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Civil Rights in the USA 1863-1980 by Susan Willoughby
£32.82A study of civil rights in the USA. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. There are extra notes, biography boxes and definitions in the... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr Ada Ferrer
RRP: £21.00£12.23WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States-from before... -
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison
RRP: £19.95£16.12America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What... -
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T. J. English 9780060590031
RRP: £17.99£13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060590031Author T. J. EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. 260hington
RRP: £20.00£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767915472Author Harriet A. WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 397gDimensions(mm)... -
Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure by Rinker Buck 9781501106385
RRP: £19.99£12.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501106385Author Rinker BuckFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Avid Reader Press / Simon & SchusterPublisher Avid Reader Press / Simon &...