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Southern Region Through the 1950s: Year by Year by Michael Hymans
RRP: £14.99£9.96Recording an iconic and important decade in the history of the Southern Region, Michael Hymans offers a unique year-by-year photographic record of the fascinating changes that took place. With an accessible, easy-to-read style, Southern Region Through... -
Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World by David Brion Davis 9780195339444
RRP: £18.49£14.58David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his... -
Bloody April: Slaughter in the Skies over Arras, 1917 by Peter Hart
RRP: £10.99£7.61The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete... -
Alamein: War Without Hate by John Bierman
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Excellent ... a remarkable achievement and ought to be recognised as one of the most successful histories of the Western Desert and North African fighting yet to have appeared' John Keegan, Daily TelegraphFor the British, the battle fought at El Alamein... -
Three New Deals by Wolfgang Schivelbusch 9780312427436
RRP: £13.99£10.95FDR's New Deal is today regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to a crisis that forced Germany and Italy toward National Socialism and Fascism.Yet in the 1930s, these regimes were not considered entirely antithetical. In this... -
Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity by Ian Morris 9780521376112
RRP: £36.99£31.75In this innovative book Dr Morris seeks to show the many ways in which the excavated remains of burials can and should be a major source of evidence for social historians of the ancient Graeco-Roman world. Burials have a far wider geographical and social... -
Inside the Kremlin's Cold War: From Stalin to Krushchev by Vladislav Zubok 9780674455320
RRP: £29.95£24.43Covering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy. They begin with the fearsome figure... -
Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery by Seymour Drescher
RRP: £26.99£22.23In one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution... -
Sport in Modern Irish Life by Paul Rouse 9781785374548
RRP: £16.99£14.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374548Author Paul RouseFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
6 Modern Myths About Christianity & Western Civilization by Philip J Sampson 9780830822812
RRP: £26.99£16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830822812Author Philip J. SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 197Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 249g -
England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales: The Christian Church 1900-2000 by Keith Robbins 9780199570317
£46.51Keith Robbins, building on his previous writing on the modern history of the interlocking but distinctive territories of the British Isles, takes a wide-ranging, innovative and challenging look at the twentieth-century history of the main bodies, at once... -
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of the German High Command, 1938-1945 by Walter Gorlitz 9780815410720
RRP: £14.99£11.70These extraordinary memoirs-written by German Field-Marshal Wilhelm keitel (1882-1946) in the six weeks before he was hung in Nuremberg for war crimes-offers readers an unparalleled insider's view of the blitzkrieg against Poland, the conquest of... -
The Massacre in History by Mark Levene 9781571819352
RRP: £27.95£22.58The role of massacre in history has been given little focused attention either by historians or academics in related fields. This is surprising as its prevalence and persistence surely demands that it should be a subject of serious and systematic... -
We Need Snowflakes: In defence of the sensitive, the angry and the offended. As featured on R4 Woman's Hour Hannah Jewell 9781473672130
RRP: £16.99£11.71'Entertaining... Sane about much of the madness that grips us today' TLS'An incisive look at the reality of "woke" culture, and who gains from demonising a generation.'... -
What Is Global History? by Sebastian Conrad
RRP: £22.00£18.03Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in isolation or to understand world history... -
There was an Ol A History of the World in 100 Limericks by Mick Twister
RRP: £6.99£5.05There is a young fellow named Mick Who's adapted the old limerick To cover, with mirth The whole history of Earth And what made its characters tick. These 100 lively and humorous limericks take us back to before beginning of time itself and the Big... -
War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires by Peter Turchin
RRP: £18.00£11.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288195Author Peter TurchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 23mm -
The End of the British Empire: The Historical Debate John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford) 9780631164289
RRP: £38.95£34.20Within twenty years of victory in the Second World War Britain had ceased to be a world power and her global empire has dissolved into fragments. With what now seems astonishing rapidity, and empire three centuries old, which had reached its greatest... -
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
£30.82The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their... -
Using Critical Theory: How to Read and Write About Literature by Lois Tyson
RRP: £35.99£32.34Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on... -
Colonialism: A Global History by Lorenzo Veracini
RRP: £35.99£31.69Colonialism: A Global History interprets colonialism as an unequal relationship characterised by displacement and domination, and reveals the ways in which this relationship has been constitutive of global modernity.The volume focuses on colonialism's... -
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven 9780141984452
RRP: £14.99£10.95From 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... -
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization: v. 2: The Expansion of Islam in the Middle Periods by Marshall G. S. Hodgson 9780226346847
RRP: £36.00£35.23The Venture of Islam has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson traces and interprets the historical development of Islamic civilization... -
Voices From the Past: Great quotations for every day of the year and the stories from history that inspired them by W.B. Marsh
RRP: £25.00£17.59366 quotations - one for every day of the (leap) year - each with a fascinating historical storyIn a treasure trove for history buffs, W. B. Marsh fleshes out the context behind famous quotations associated with each day of the year, sending us back and... -
How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War Philipp Ther 9781509550609
RRP: £17.99£16.29When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings hollow. What went wrong? In this sequel to his... -
The Fate of Empires: Being an Inquiry Into the Stability of Civilization by Arthur John Hubbard 9780359032129
RRP: £9.11£8.27The Fate of Empires asks why many civilizations throughout human history have risen to greatness but later collapse into ruin. Can there be a permanent society, or are all doomed to decline? In the first part of this book, the author constructs several... -
The Amarna Letters by William L. Moran
RRP: £33.00£30.15An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of... -
Access to History: Napoleon, France and Europe Third Edition by Andrina Stiles
£24.65Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
Auschwitz And The Allies by Martin Gilbert 9780712668064
RRP: £25.00£17.90When Hitler announced that the result of the war in Europe would be 'the complete annihilation of the Jews', he did so in 1942, not only in public, but before an enormous crowd in Berlin. The Allies heard, but, astonishingly, they did not listen. In... -
Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fascinating, bottom-up exploration of contemporary Russian politics that sheds new light on why Putin's grip on power is more fragile than we think "Putin v. the People wrestles with perhaps the central conundrum of contemporary Russia: the endurance... -
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History by Thomas J. Barfield 9780691181639
RRP: £30.00£23.66An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern timesThe world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins... -
The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom by Gennady E. Gorelik 9780195156201
RRP: £31.49£21.34How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his later years, Sakharov noted in his diary that he was... -
Orange, Green and Khaki: Story of the Irish Regiments in the Great War, 1914-18 by Tom Johnstone 9780717119943
RRP: £19.99£18.01Nearly a third of a million Irishmen fought in the Great War and 50,000 died. There was a significant Irish presence in every major theatre of war. The Irish were mobilised in three divisions - the 10th, the 16th and the 36th - as well as in the... -
Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism by Azar Gat
RRP: £26.99£22.59What are the origins of nationalism and why is it capable of arousing such intense emotions? In this major study, Azar Gat counters the prevailing fashionable theories according to which nations and nationalism are modern and contrived or 'invented'. He... -
Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History by Matthew White 9780393345230
RRP: £39.99£34.35Evangelists of human progress meet their opposite in Matthew White's epic examination of history's one hundred most violent events, or, in White's piquant phrasing, "the numbers that people want to argue about." Reaching back to the Second Persian War in... -
Exploring History 1400-1900: An Anthology of Primary Sources by Rachel Gibbons 9780719075889
RRP: £19.99£14.92Exploring history 1400-1900: An anthology of primary sources reaches out to the reader across an expanse of 500 years. It offers a broad sweep of history in the light of three key themes: consumers and producers; beliefs and ideologies; and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History by Peter Clark 9780198779377
£41.09In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and... -
The Lost Ark of the Covenant: The Remarkable Quest for the Legendary Ark by Tudor Parfitt 9780007262687 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99£2.29Professor Tudor Parfitt, a real-life British Indiana Jones, has made the biggest discovery of the last 3,000 years - what became of the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This is the amazing story of his quest. This is the real-life account of... -
1944–45: The Freedom Road by Richard Collier 9781800325951
RRP: £12.99£8.41The end is in sight but the fight is long: the epic and terrifying conclusion to the greatest conflict in historyGoing into 1944, the Allies knew the tide was turning in their favour. But they still faced a monumental task to get to victory.From the... -
A Square of Sky: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Poland Janina David 9780907871736
RRP: £13.99£9.44At the age of nine Janina David was leading a sheltered life with her prosperous Jewish family in Poland. One year later they were all facing starvation in the Warsaw ghetto. In her memoirs of a wartime childhood Janina David describes the family's...