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Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia by Stevan K. Pavlowitch
RRP: £19.99£18.10The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across the territory of that... -
The Age of Confucian Rule: The Song Transformation of China by Dieter Kuhn
RRP: £21.95£19.16Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been... -
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene Since 1945 by Professor J. R. McNeill
RRP: £20.95£17.14The Earth has entered a new age-the Anthropocene-in which humans are the most powerful influence on global ecology. Since the mid-twentieth century, the accelerating pace of energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, and population growth has thrust the... -
Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century by Marc Matera 9780520284302
RRP: £25.00£19.99This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social... -
The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present by Robert Rodriguez 9781736866504
RRP: £16.00£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736866504Author Robert RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Hermitary PressPublisher Hermitary PressWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A War Of Nerves Ben Shephard 9780712667838
RRP: £20.00£14.91'I wish you could be here," the Oxford Professor of Medicine wrote to a friend in 1915, "in this orgy of neuroses and psychoses and gaits and paralyses. I cannot imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men.'A War of Nerves is a... -
History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-21 Peter Arshinov 9780900384400
RRP: £9.90£9.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900384400Author Peter ArshinovFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Freedom PressPublisher Freedom PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm *... -
Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games by Philip Sabin
RRP: £26.99£24.22Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life. In this book, Philip Sabin explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in... -
Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided by Aanchal Malhrota
RRP: £15.99£15.09The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by her own great-grandparents as they fled their homes, she discovers the unique power of such objects: to unlock... -
A Concise History of the Arabs by John McHugo 9780863567421
RRP: £12.99£8.83The key to understanding the Arab world today is unlocking its past. In this authoritative account, John McHugo takes the reader through the political, social and intellectual history of the Arabs from the Roman Empire right up to the present day. Going... -
The War For All The Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy A. Adkins
£15.23As France emerged from revolution, a young general named Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt, hoping next to march overland to India. It would not happen. Britain swung her forces into action to battle for control of the world's sea-lanes and thus all... -
The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica by Ian Thomson
RRP: £12.99£8.80Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962.Jamaica is now a country in despair. It has become a cockpit of... -
Refugees: A Very Short Introduction by Gil Loescher
RRP: £8.99£6.65Refugees and other forced migrants are one of the great contemporary challenges the world is confronting. Throughout the world people leave their home countries to escape war, natural disasters, and cultural and political oppression. Unfortunately, even... -
Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 by Linda Colley
RRP: £18.99£16.51Ranging over a quarter of a millennium and four continents, Captives uncovers the experiences and writings of those tens of thousands of men and women who took part in Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence, but who got caught and caught out. Here are... -
A Short History of the Vietnam War by DK
RRP: £18.99£12.88This is the definitive story of one of the longest and most controversial conflicts in US history.Created in association with the Smithsonian Institution, this authoritative history of the Vietnam War examines the key figures and events of the conflict,... -
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway
RRP: £14.99£10.95'It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker'A clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet' Philippe Sands'A fascinating and important book ... given the state of the world, The... -
The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality by Thomas Borstelmann 9780691157917
RRP: £25.00£23.18The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis,... -
Peter Shilton's Nearly Men: A Plymouth Argyle Story by Roberts Paul
RRP: £14.99£11.72England legend Peter Shilton is one of the greatest goalkeepers ever to play the game. After retiring from international duty following his heroics at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, he took on his first management job with Second Division strugglers... -
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany by Jordan Goodman
RRP: £10.99£7.33'Based on meticulous research in original sources ... Goodman illustrates vividly how adept [Banks] was ... Shining a light on individuals whose achievements are relatively uncelebrated' Jenny Uglow, New York... -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: The Cold War and the Americas 1945-1981 Second Edition Vivienne Sanders 9781471841378
£32.99A new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 16: The Cold War and the Americas (1945-1981)The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the... -
What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur'an - A History of Islam & the United States by William, J Federer 9780977808557
RRP: £10.99£8.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977808557Author William, J FedererFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Amerisearch IncPublisher Amerisearch IncWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Speeches That Changed the World Quercus 9781529416053
RRP: £20.00£13.35From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and statesman, placing them in historical context.With over... -
Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves by Keith Lowe 9780008339586
RRP: £9.99£6.84A Spectator Book of the Year 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2020 'Inspired ... Lowe's sensitive, disturbing book should be... -
Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance by Christian Goeschel
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both... -
The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy - Gifts, Violence, Performance, and the Sacred by Andrew Cowell
RRP: £80.00£76.61A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages (10th-12th centuries) among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally... -
Fake History: From Mozart's Murder to Cleopatra's Asp by Graeme Donald 9781789293623 [USED COPY]
RRP: £7.99£2.09As Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.' Noted down in historical documents, copied and widely repeated, it doesn't take long for a version of the truth to become accepted as fact. But... -
Fake History: From Mozart's Murder to Cleopatra's Asp by Graeme Donald
RRP: £7.99£5.78As Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.' Noted down in historical documents, copied and widely repeated, it doesn't take long for a version of the truth to become accepted as fact. But... -
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama
RRP: £18.99£13.61Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon... -
Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World - and Us by Patrick Roberts
RRP: £25.00£16.53'A bold, ambitious and truly wonderful history of the world' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees'A fascinating story and a crucial revision of the momentous importance of tropical forests to human history' Lewis Dartnell, author of... -
The Encyclopedia of Very Important Events Through Modern History: 54 Earth-Shattering Events That Changed the Course of History by Bill O'Neill 9781648450860
RRP: £11.90£11.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450860Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor by S. R. F. Price 9780521312684
RRP: £39.99£33.26In his study of the Greek cults of the Roman emperor in Asia minor, Simon Price attempts to discover why the Roman Emperor was treated like a god. He contends that ever since the emergence of Christianity within the Roman Empire the problem has been... -
The Memory of Catastrophe by Peter Gray 9780719063459
RRP: £19.99£17.61Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption, and human memory. Critical comparisons are made across a wide variety of catastrophic experiences and memories; not just of war, but also of massacre,... -
Charles X's Wars: Volume 3 - The Danish Wars, 1657-1660 by Michael Fredholm Von Essen
RRP: £39.95£28.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113603Author Michael Fredholm Von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion by Ed Offley 9780465051861
£23.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz 9780691018546
RRP: £40.00£32.78On War is the most significant attempt in Western history to understand war, both in its internal dynamics and as an instrument of policy. Since the work's first appearance in 1832, it has been read throughout the world, and has stimulated generations of... -
The Mycenaean World by John Chadwick
RRP: £26.99£23.44In 1952 the decipherment of the Linear B script suddenly revealed the Greekness of Mycenaean Greece. Now, after new discoveries and more than 20 years of intensive work, scholars are able to interpret the written documents and reconstruct from them a... -
Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen by Jill Armitage
RRP: £9.99£6.84In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII's children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head. The queen was to recover, but the issue remained: if the queen did not produce an heir, who was next in line to... -
A World Connecting: 1870-1945 by Emily S. Rosenberg 9780674047211
RRP: £43.95£37.03Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. New technologies erased distance and accelerated the global exchange of people, products, and ideas on an unprecedented scale. A World... -
Before Our Very Eyes, Fake Wars and Big Lies: From 9/11 to Donald Trump by Thierry Meyssan
RRP: £22.99£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615770120Author Thierry MeyssanFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 456g -
100 Mistakes that Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World by Bill Fawcett 9780425236659
RRP: £30.00£18.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.