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The World Was Going Our Way by Christopher Andrew 9780465003136
$24.19In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, a former KGB archivist, snuck out of Russia carrying with him a vast cache of transcriptions of top-secret KGB intelligence files. The FBI later described his trove of documents as "the most complete and extensive intelligence... -
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged by Peter Furtado
RRP: $16.76$11.09National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written... -
Holy Wars: 3000 Years of Battles in the Holy Land by Gary L. Rashba 9781612001531
RRP: $19.34$17.36Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest iteration of an unending history of violence in the Holy Land-a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world... -
Treasures of World History: The Story Of Civilization in 50 Documents by Peter Snow 9780233006048 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.70$10.44A spirited examination of world history, told through 50 key documents, by two celebrated historians and journalists. With a wealth of experience between them on political, social, cultural and military history, and today's current affairs, Peter Snow... -
Treasures of World History: The Story Of Civilization in 50 Documents by Peter Snow
RRP: $38.70$27.09A spirited examination of world history, told through 50 key documents, by two celebrated historians and journalists. With a wealth of experience between them on political, social, cultural and military history, and today's current affairs, Peter Snow... -
Connecting History: Higher Wars of Independence, 1249 - 1328 by Michele Sine Duck
$28.29Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
The Road to McCarthy by Pete McCarthy
RRP: $14.18$8.35Setting off from Ireland, Pete McCarthy takes us on a wonderful journey around the weird and wonderful Irish communities of the world.In his own inimitable style, Pete recounts his adventures and escapades as, in Morocco he meets the head of Clan... -
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by Richard Tarnas
RRP: $23.21$18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288591Author Richard TarnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint PlumePublisher PlumeWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 32mm -
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fischer 9780195121216
RRP: $35.46$26.66A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.About the AuthorDavid Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He has won numerous awards for scholarship and teaching, including the Carnegie Prize as... -
Silencing The Past (20th Anniversary Edition) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
$26.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807080535Author Michel-Rolph TrouillotFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 205mm *... -
American History: A Very Short Introduction by Paul S. Boyer
RRP: $11.60$8.53This 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... -
On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: $24.50$18.07A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that historians, philosophers, theologians, practising... -
World History For Dummies by Peter Haugen
RRP: $27.08$18.52Discover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion Want to get a taste of the entirety of human history in a single book? With World History For Dummies, you'll get an overview of the history of, well,... -
Lying About Hitler by Richard Evans 9780465021536
$18.01In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving, whose libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt was tried in April 2000, the High Court in London labeled Irving a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the... -
The Age of Revolution by Charles Kovacs 9780863153952
RRP: $14.18$9.38An overview of world history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial Revolutions. Kovacs chooses pertinent stories which create a tapestry showing the development of humankind from medieval times, when... -
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker_________________________In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we... -
Access to History: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945-1980 for AQA Second edition by Vivienne Sanders
$33.04Exam board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War by Max Arthur
RRP: $20.63$14.98This unique landmark oral history uses first-hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. Gripping, poignant, surprising and even humorous, the personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics from both sides tell us... -
The Red Army in Austria: The Soviet Occupation, 1945–1955 by Stefan Karner 9781793626608
RRP: $38.70$34.42Based on a broad array of sources from Russian and Austrian archives, this collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the Soviet occupation of Austria from 1945 to 1955. The contributors cover a wide range of topics, including the Soviet Secret... -
The Real Great Escape by Guy Walters
RRP: $16.76$11.73In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader... -
The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $21.92$17.35Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of... -
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History by Rachel Laudan
RRP: $32.25$25.79Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of... -
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction by James A. Millward
RRP: $11.60$8.53The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid images: of merchants leading camel caravans over deserts and steppes to trade exotic goods in the bazaars of glittering Oriental cities, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to gather scriptures and... -
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by Gary Saul Morson 9780674971806
RRP: $41.22$32.47A noted literary scholar traverses the Russian canon, exploring how realists, idealists, and revolutionaries debated good and evil, moral responsibility, and freedom.Since the age of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov, Russian literature has posed... -
1434: The Year a Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies
RRP: $14.18$9.35In his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and... -
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven 9780141984452
RRP: $19.34$14.13From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperors For millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their... -
Lost in Shangri-La: Escape from a Hidden World - A True Story by Mitchell Zuckoff 9780007410958
RRP: $15.47$11.61An utterly gripping nonfiction adventure narrative, Lost in Shangri-La is an untold true story of war, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission. Three months before the end of World War II, a U.S. Army plane flying... -
Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution by Terence Dooley
RRP: $16.76$14.78The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful... -
Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style by Wilhelm Worringer
RRP: $19.34$14.87Wilhelm Worringer's landmark study in the interpretation of modern art, first published in 1908, has seldom been out of print. Its profound impact not only on art historians and theorists but also for generations of creative writers and intellectuals is... -
Tapestries of Life: Uncovering the Lifesaving Secrets of the Natural World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
RRP: $12.89$8.57The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate our crops; the kingfisher inspired the construction of high-speed trains. In Tapestries of Life, bestselling author... -
Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781408829004
RRP: $21.92$15.84The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and Hong Kong, new difficulties, resulting from British... -
The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx
$9.17In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word "capitalism" itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives... -
Seven Myths of the Spanish Inquisition by Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau 9781647921309
RRP: $25.79$21.21"Gretchen Starr-LeBeau's Seven Myths of the Spanish Inquisition provides an excellent introduction to Habsburg Spain's most reviled and misunderstood institution. Drawn from archival sources and modern scholarship, this concise study presents the long... -
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin
RRP: $29.67$18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 800-CEO-READ Business Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143121947Author Daniel YerginFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam... -
The Battle For Singapore: The true story of the greatest catastrophe of World War II by Dr. Peter Thompson
RRP: $19.34$12.64The true story of the 'the greatest defeat and largest capitulation' in British military history. The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter... -
Hiroshima Nagasaki by Paul Ham
RRP: $25.79$18.42Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific... -
Military Strategy: A Very Short Introduction by Antulio J. Echevarria
RRP: $11.60$8.53Since ancient times, poets, historians, and philosophers have contemplated warlords' exploits in battle and praised their ability to lead armies toward victory as the "art of the general." Today, this quality is designated military strategy. Military... -
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $21.92$17.03THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the... -
Leningrad by Anna Reid
RRP: $21.92$15.84When Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, he intended to capture Leningrad before turning on Moscow. Soviet resistance forced him to change tactics: with his forward troops only thirty kilometres from the city's historic centre, he decided... -
Milk by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: $14.18$10.02Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic and culinary story of milk and all things dairy - with recipes throughout While mother's milk may be the essence of nourishment, it is...