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Children and HIV/AIDS by Gary Anderson
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63In December 1982, the Centers for Disease Control received the first reports of cases of children with HIV/AIDS. Since that time, the child welfare system, as well as other human service... -
New Journalism by Tom Wolfe
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'The hell with it . . . let chaos reign . . . louder music, more wine . . . All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It's... -
America's Vietnam: The Longue Duree of U.S. Literature and Empire by Marguerite Nguyen 9781439916117
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £64.89America's Vietnam challenges the prevailing genealogy of Vietnam's emergence in the American imagination-one that presupposes the Vietnam War as the starting point of meaningful Vietnamese-U.S... -
America's Vietnam: The Longue Duree of U.S. Literature and Empire by Marguerite Nguyen
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48America's Vietnam challenges the prevailing genealogy of Vietnam's emergence in the American imagination-one that presupposes the Vietnam War as the starting point of meaningful Vietnamese-U.S... -
The Vietnam War: Topics in Contemporary North American Literature by Brenda M. Boyle 9781472506269
Booksplease Price: £32.38Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture. The post-9/11 United States forays into the Middle East, the invasion and occupation of Iraq especially, have evoked... -
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.63The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The Things They Carried' is, on its surface, a... -
American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970 by David Wyatt 9781107165397
Booksplease Price: £116.40The decade of the 1960s has come to occupy a uniquely seductive place in both the popular and the historical imagination. While few might disagree that it was a transformative period, the United... -
My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself by Rian Malan
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHORIn '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, friend to blacks - went to work as a crime reporter for a... -
Fighting and Writing the Vietnam War by Donald Ringnalda 9781604731828
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A new paradigm for perceiving the Vietnam War and the literature it produced This groundbreaking analysis of Vietnam War fiction, poetry, and drama offers far-ranging implications for studies in... -
War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.93As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza... -
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The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence 9781586481605 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £5.27John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from 1965 to 1970 and was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war. His documentary about a squad of U.S. troops, "The... -
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.73John Laurence covered the Vietnam war for CBS News from 1965 to 1970 and was judged by his colleagues to be the best television reporter of the war. His documentary about a squad of U.S. troops, "The... -
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We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn't always come out when the UN goes in by Linda Polman 9780141012902 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.58Linda Polman's We Did Nothing: Why the truth doesn't always come out with the UN goes in is an eye-opening account of peace-keeping operations across the globe.In recent years our newspapers and... -
Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas by Nadire Mater 9781403961204
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £35.25These riveting first-hand accounts of Turkish soldiers who have fought in the nasty internal war against the Kurds speak to universals: the shock of entering military life and the traumas of warfare;... -
From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) by Harriet Stilley 9780367664824
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08From the Delivered to the Dispatched: Masculinity in Modern American Fiction (1969-1977) focuses on masculinity in late twentieth-century American fiction. This rigorous study shows the ways post-war... -
American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam by Philip D. Beidler 9780820330242
RRP: £32.95Booksplease Price: £29.82American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam is a perceptive and evocative book that is both a comprehensive discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literature and literary... -
Roth's Wars: A Career in Conflict by James D. Bloom 9781666913842
Booksplease Price: £81.47Treating Philip Roth as a war writer-as well as a sportswriter, crime reporter, political commentator, and Newark chronicler-Roth's Wars: A Career in Conflict offers a thoroughly researched account... -
Whistles from the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera on War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan by Miles Lagoze 9781668000038
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25"The most bracingly honest, refreshing account of the Afghan war" (Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author) from a Marine Corps Combat Cameraman and director of the acclaimed documentary... -
My War Gone by, I Miss it So by Anthony Loyd 9781912836048
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95My War Gone By, I Miss It So is a uniquely powerful piece of writing, unparalleled in the genre. Ex-infantry officer Anthony Loyd arrived in the Balkans hoping to become a war correspondent. He... -
Political History of Journalism Geraldine Muhlmann (University of Paris IX) 9780745635743
Booksplease Price: £21.68In this new important book, Geraldine Muhlmann provides a comparative history of the rise of modern journalism, from the revolution of the late nineteenth century, with its new concern for facts,... -
The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State by Timothy Melley
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.32In December 2010 the U.S. Embassy in Kabul acknowledged that it was providing major funding for thirteen episodes of Eagle Four-a new Afghani television melodrama based loosely on the blockbuster U.S... -
Kursk: Film tie-in Robert Moore 9780857504135
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.28____________________NOW OUT IN CINEMAS, STARRING COLIN FIRTH, MATTHIAS SCHOENAERTS AND LEA SEYDOUX 'It takes you through each nail-biting moment . . . heart-breaking, humane and, at times, all too... -
Political History of Journalism by Geraldine Muhlmann 9780745635736
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.35In this new important book, Geraldine Muhlmann provides a comparative history of the rise of modern journalism, from the revolution of the late nineteenth century, with its new concern for facts,... -
Victimhood in American Narratives of the War in Vietnam by Aleksandra Musial
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book revisits the American canon of novels, memoirs, and films about the war in Vietnam, in order to reassess critically the centrality of the discourse of American victimization in the... -
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story by Matti Friedman 9781785900433
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.19It was just one remote hilltop in an unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt today, foreshadowing the chaos of 21stcentury conflicts in the Middle East. The... -
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Generation Kill by Evan Wright 9780552158930 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.41Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have... -
No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan by Ben Anderson 9781851689774
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.46The war in Afghanistan is over ten years old. It has cost countless lives and hundreds of billions of pounds. Politicians talk of progress, but the violence is worse than ever. In this... -
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have... -
Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage by James Marcus 9780231159319
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's... -
Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage by James Marcus 9780231159302
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £66.34The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the magazine's... -
If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened: The Life and Times of a Domestic War Correspondent Justin Glawe 9781588385734
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £16.94If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened offers one journalist's version of the truth about how we ended up here and how nasty, sad, and disturbing it really is. This is the real,... -
Some Even Volunteered: The First Wolfhounds Pacify Vietnam by Alfred S. Bradford 9780275947859
Booksplease Price: £61.63I was hooked by the unusual style and, moreso, by the unusual approach to the familiar material . . . Articulate, sensitive, and intelligent . . . an unusually readable and persuasive narrative... -
The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins 9780099523048
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In The Forever War, award-winning New York Times correspondent... -
Bulletproof Vest by Kenneth R. Rosen
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.54A WIRED 2020 Book of the Year Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. "Nothing's bulletproof," the salesman said. "The... -
Burning the Days by James Salter
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26This is the brilliant memoir of a man who starts out in Manhattan and comes of age in the skies over Korea, before emerging as one of America's finest authors in the New York of the 1960s. Burning... -
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £10.37Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO (R) original mini-series.Within hours... -
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'Stanley Booth's book is the only one I can read and say, "Yeah, That's how it was"' KEITH RICHARDS'An epic, behind-the-scenes record of life with the greatest rock band in the world' ObserverThe... -
A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74The first memoir of the Vietnam War and an all-time classic of war literature|40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION|In March 1965, Marine Lieutenant Philip J. Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat... -
Our Enemies will Vanish Yaroslav Trofimov 9781405957946
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42THE COMPELLING ACCOUNT FROM THE FRONT LINES OF THE WAR IN UKRAINEFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE PETERSON LITERARY PRIZEA revelatory eyewitness account of Russia's invasion of Ukraine... -
God Forgives, Brothers Don't: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood Jasper Craven 9781668087190
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25In the tradition of Sebastian Junger's Tribe and Chris Hedges's classic War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, a powerful investigation into the fraught history and ominous future of military...