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Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance by Christian Goeschel
RRP: $27.28$24.07A 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... -
Wittgenstein's Vienna by Allan Janik
RRP: $31.48$24.21This is a remarkable book about a man (perhaps the most important and original philosopher of our age), a society (the corrupt Austro-Hungarian Empire on the eve of dissolution), and a city (Vienna, with its fin-de siecle gaiety and corrosive melancholy)... -
Once Within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging Since 1500 by Charles S. Maier 9780674059788
RRP: $52.40$42.61Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories-politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding... -
The Bedroom: An Intimate History by Michelle Perrot
RRP: $47.25$40.64An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many... -
Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire by Nora Barakat
RRP: $52.48$45.51In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how... -
Selected Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
RRP: $18.88$13.55'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my natal Soil, in my native tongue.' Many of the poems and songs of Robert Burns (1759-96) are familiar to readers the world over: lyrical,... -
Dilemmas of the Desert War: The Libyan Campaign 1940-1942 by Field Marshal Lord Carver 9781862271531 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.48$4.75In this text, Field Marshal Lord Carver has used newly available first-hand historical resources to reassess the story of the British campaign in the North African desert. History shows that several key figures in these battles were wrongly criticised... -
Peter Shilton's Nearly Men: A Plymouth Argyle Story by Roberts Paul
RRP: $31.48$24.26England 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... -
Diplomatic History: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph M. Siracusa 9780192893918
RRP: $18.88$13.55Diplomatic history explores the management of relations between nation-states by the process of negotiations. From the diplomacy of the American Revolution, the diplomatic origins of the Great War and its aftermath, Versailles, and the personal summitry... -
The Jew in the Medieval World: A Sourcebook, 315-1791 by Jacob R. Marcus
RRP: $52.50$49.71To gain an accurate view of medieval Judaism, one must look through the eyes of Jews and their contemporaries. First published in 1938, Jacob Rader Marcus's classic source book on medieval Judaism provides the documents and historical narratives which... -
Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud by Peter Watson 9780060935641
RRP: $41.98$39.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060935641Author Peter WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 852Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
RRP: $73.50$59.09The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost... -
The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush by David Igler
RRP: $67.18$48.11The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines. But with the voyages of Captain James Cook, global... -
Unending Vigil by Philip Longworth 9781848844230
RRP: $35.68$25.79One million, one hundred thousand men and women lost their lives in the service of the British Empire during the First World War; in the Second, another six hundred thousand from all parts of the Commonwealth made the same sacrifice. The First World War,... -
Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography by M. Sukru Hanioglu
RRP: $42.00$33.37When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic where nationalism sanctified by science--and by the personality cult Ataturk created around himself--would reign... -
All in the Family: Parenting the 1950s Way by Elizabeth Longford
RRP: $20.98$15.86Elizabeth Longford proves the truth of the old saying that Mother knows best, a theory that is being treated with renewed respect by many of todays experts in child-rearing. She cites from her own experience as the mother of a large family, and quotes... -
Frozen Hell by William Trotter 9781565122499
RRP: $35.68$23.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565122499Author William R TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Workman PublishingPublisher Workman Publishing -
Rif War: Insurgency in Northern Morocco, 1920-1927 by Javier Garcia de Gabiola
RRP: $35.60$29.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377013Author Javier Garcia de GabiolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels by Dieter Helm
RRP: $29.38$25.73An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and longtime industry observer Dieter Helm explains how this... -
The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage 9780691177465
RRP: $88.20$70.22"One of the most important books on political regimes written in a generation."-Steven Levitsky, New York Times-bestselling author of How Democracies DieA new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what... -
Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder 9781324051022
RRP: $29.38$26.10Checkers, backgammon, chess and Go. Poker, Scrabble and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their... -
Power and Greed: A Short History of the World by Philippe Gigantes 9781841196893 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.98$3.74This lively and fascinating book by a professor of history deals with human greed and power and how these determine world events. Gigantes takes the reader on a hair-raising journey through time, introducing on the one hand the great rule makers for just... -
Power and Greed: A Short History of the World by Philippe Gigantes 9781841196893
$21.99This lively and fascinating book by a professor of history deals with human greed and power and how these determine world events. Gigantes takes the reader on a hair-raising journey through time, introducing on the one hand the great rule makers for just... -
Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia by Jane Burbank 9780691250373
RRP: $63.00$48.91A history of three transnational political projects designed to overcome the inequities of imperialismAfter the dissolution of empires, was the nation-state the only way to unite people politically, culturally, and economically? In Post-Imperial... -
Ashen Sky - The Letters of Pliny the Younger on the Eruption of Vesuvius by Barry Moser 9780892369003
RRP: $35.68$30.68Pliny the Younger (C61-112AD) was a Roman official and writer. He has become famous for his two letters to the historian Tacitus, which detail his eye-witness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD which took the life of his uncle, Pliny the... -
A Brief History of the Cold War by John Hughes-Wilson 9781845292584 [USED COPY]
RRP: $23.08$4.81The Cold War was an undeclared war, fought silently and carefully between ideological opponents armed with the most fearsome weapons mankind has ever seen. Hughes-Wilson takes a cool look at this war, from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the collapse... -
A Brief History of the Cold War by John Hughes-Wilson
RRP: $23.08$15.54The Cold War was an undeclared war, fought silently and carefully between ideological opponents armed with the most fearsome weapons mankind has ever seen. Hughes-Wilson takes a cool look at this war, from the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 to the collapse... -
Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical by Walter Reid 9781780276748
RRP: $52.50$49.37Neville Chamberlain is remembered today as Hitler's credulous dupe, the man who proclaimed in September 1938 that the Munich agreement guaranteed 'peace in our time'. This is a magisterial reappraisal of Chamberlain and his legacy. It reveals the... -
British Military History for Dummies by Bryan Perrett 9780470032138
RRP: $33.58$23.79A plain-English guide to Britons in battle, from the Roman invasion to the ongoing Iraqi war Charging through the Britain's military past, this accessible guide brings to life the battles and wars that shaped the history of Britain-and the world. The... -
Death Was Their Co-Pilot by Michael Dorflinger 9781473859289
RRP: $52.50$51.93It was in World War I that the skies first became a battlefield, with nations seeking to decide military outcomes off the ground. This volume introduces the fighter pilots of World War I, including the infamous "Red Baron" Manfred von Richthofen. In... -
Appeasement by Keith Robbins 9780631203261
RRP: $79.70$71.82The author examines appeasement in the context of both Britain's domestic and her international commitments, within Europe and beyond.About the AuthorKeith Robbins is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter.Book InformationISBN... -
English Questions by Perry Anderson 9780860915911
RRP: $50.38$35.28A set of reflections on British society and culture, this volume falls into two principal parts. The first consists of a pair of essays published in New Left Review in the sixties; "Origins of the Present Crisis," which suggested a general schema for the... -
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway by Jon Parshall 9781574889239
RRP: $84.00$68.15Many consider the Battle of Midway to have turned the tide of the Pacific War. It is without question one of the most famous battles in history. Now, for the first time since Gordon W. Prange's bestselling Miracle at Midway, Jonathan Parshall and Anthony... -
Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World by Krishan Kumar 9780691192802
RRP: $46.20$37.30What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own... -
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women by Leila J. Rupp 9780814777268
RRP: $50.38$43.76A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around... -
A History of Diplomacy by Jeremymorni Black 9781861898319
$44.50In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black challenges the conventional account of the development of diplomacy, devoting more attention to non-Western traditions and to the medieval West than is usually the case. By the nineteenth century a system... -
Dinosaurs: 300 Prehistoric Creatures by Gerrie McCall
RRP: $20.98$14.39For 150 million years, dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of the Earth. Today, these great lizards still fire our imaginations. Dinosaurs profiles the creatures who lived during the great Age of Reptiles, the real-life giants and monsters such as the... -
To the Last Ridge by W.H. Downing 9781904010203
RRP: $18.88$14.13Written just after the heat of battle and in the language of the time, this extraordinarily moving account expresses in a brutally honest and personal way the ordinary soldier's experience of one of the most horrific series of battles ever fought... -
Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars by Jean Markale 9780892810901
RRP: $33.58$22.01On March 16, 1244, over 200 Cathars were captured in their fortress stronghold of Montsegur and were burned alive by troops of the Inquisition. While some Cathar enclaves survived into the next century, this was the death blow to a religion that had been... -
On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever by Andrew Potter
RRP: $20.98$14.18A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 What if David Bowie really was holding the fabric of the universe together? The death of David Bowie in January 2016 was a bad start to a year that got a lot worse: war in Syria, the Zika virus, terrorist...