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Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes by Linda Hervieux 9781445686615
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.89Forgotten is an extraordinary blend of military and social history - a story that pays tribute to the valour of an all-black battalion whose crucial contributions at D-Day have gone unrecognised to... -
101 Fish: A Fly Fisher's Life List by Lefty Kreh
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.80Travel the globe with Lefty Kreh as he shares his most memorable fishing trips - his best cast ever for tarpon, twin Atlantic salmon on two successive casts that both weighted an amazing 37 pounds,... -
The Catch of a Lifetime: Moments of Flyfishing Glory by Peter Kaminsky 9781648291494
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.70A Gorgeously Illustrated Collection of First-Person Stories on the Sublime Joy of FlyfishingEvery fly fisher has one: that moment-that ineffable, transcendent moment-they can point to and say, That's... -
Charles: The Misunderstood Prince. 'The royal biography everyone's talking about' The Daily Mail by Sally Bedell Smith
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Heir. Prince. King. Discover the real Charles - our King - in the definitive biography from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen 'Brilliant, startling. The royal biography everyone's talking... -
Brutal Campaign: How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics by Robert L. Fleegler 9781469673363
RRP: €94.01Booksplease Price: €76.30At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest... -
Jesus Skeptic: A Journalist Explores the Credibility and Impact of Christianity by John S. Dickerson
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.34Can we know if Jesus actually lived? Have Jesus's followers been a force for good or evil in history? A respected journalist set out to find the answers--not from opinion but from artifacts. The... -
Brutal Campaign: How the 1988 Election Set the Stage for Twenty-First-Century American Politics by Robert L. Fleegler 9781469673370
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.87At 8:00 p.m. eastern standard time on election night 1988, NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw informed the country that they would soon know more about the outcome of "one of the longest, bloodiest... -
Making Hay by Verlyn Klinkenborg
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.04"Making Hay takes one of the least common denominators in rural American life and gives it real glory. Klinkenborg is funny, learned, elegant, and accurate every single minute."--Thomas McGuane ... -
Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audacious Fakery by Rick Beyer 9781797225296
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €29.52"A riveting tale told through personal accounts and sketches along the way - ultimately, a story of success against great odds. I enjoyed it enormously." - Tom Brokaw The Ghost Army of World War II... -
Encyclopedia of American Journalism by Stephen L. Vaughn 9780415999083
RRP: €91.62Booksplease Price: €82.30The Encyclopedia of American Journalism is the only single-volume reference work to explore the history of journalism in the United States in print media, radio, television, and the Internet. This... -
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers by Brion T. McClanahan 9781596980921
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €19.69The truth revealed--and PC myths shattered--about the Founding FathersTom Brokaw labeled the World War II generation the "Greatest Generation," but he was wrong. That honor belongs to the... -
The Mind of the Bible-Believer by Edmund D. Cohen 9780879754952
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €29.02Bemusedly observing many kinds of religious expression from an erudite, skeptical distance, psychology professor and attorney Edmund D. Cohen thought himself advanced beyond such illusions. But a... -
World War II on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites with free CD-ROM by Richard Jensen 9780842050203
Booksplease Price: €133.79Fueled by recent films and TV series such as Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers and popular books by Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw, interest in World War II has soared. As a result of this... -
The Simple Faith of Mister Rogers: Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor by Amy Hollingsworth 9780849918940
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.04Celebrate the release of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood starring Tom Hanks with an inside look at Mister Rogers' spiritual legacy.For more than 30 years, Fred Rogers was the kindly neighbor of... -
Deadwood: The Best Writings On The Most Notorious Town In The West by T. D. Griffith 9780762754168
Booksplease Price: €16.36Of the many iconic towns of the old West, none has quite captured our imagination like Deadwood. From the legacy of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane to the current resurgence in mining and... -
Portraying the President: The White House and the News Media by Martha Joynt Kumar
RRP: €30.35Booksplease Price: €23.61The media have become principal actors on the American political scene. Politicians and their press secretaries release news items with one eye on the event and the other on the millions of voters... -
Good Grandpa: Stories from the Heart of Grandfatherhood Ted Page 9798888455050
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €20.88Join Ted Page as he embarks on a journey to bring together the stories and wisdom of grandfathers from all walks of life-all with a mission to nurture the next great generation.When author Ted Page... -
An Insider's Guide to the UN by Linda Fasulo
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.51Thoroughly revised and updated, a new edition of the most popular guide to the United Nations for students and interested readers "My UN bible. Linda Fasulo knows all the right questions and brings... -
Conspiracy Theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97Ever since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite... -
Watergate and Afterward: The Legacy of Richard M. Nixon by Leon Friedman 9780313277818
Booksplease Price: €91.40This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars, journalists, and former Nixon Administration officials to examine the Watergate controversy and its legacy. Particular attention is paid... -
Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action by Kevin M. Cahill 9780823222889
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30This third volume in the pioneering series, International Humanitarian Affairs, goes beyond the practical to address fundamental questions at the heart of humanitarian actions. How do different... -
The Men Who United the States by Simon Winchester 9780007532407
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40From bestselling author Simon Winchester, the extraordinary story of how America was united into a single nation. For more than two centuries, E pluribus unum - out of many, one - has been... -
Teachers: The Ones I Can’t Forget by Martin Fletcher
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.61Teachers are the people Martin Fletcher met throughout his work as a news correspondent, often on the worst day of their lives. He watched as they picked up the pieces following personal tragedy and... -
World War II on the Web: A Guide to the Very Best Sites with free CD-ROM by Richard Jensen 9780842050210
Booksplease Price: €58.57Fueled by recent films and TV series such as Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers and popular books by Stephen Ambrose and Tom Brokaw, interest in World War II has soared. As a result of this... -
Wolf Empire: An Intimate Portrait of a Species by Scott Ian Barry 9781493018932
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.75From award-winning photographer Scott Ian Barry comes Wolf Empire--the most comprehensive and stunning visual record of wolves ever published in black-and-white photography. In this world of fur and... -
Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen by Buck Brannaman 9781493030767
Booksplease Price: €16.95The Faraway Horses, which was the inspiration for the Sundance Film Festival's award-winning documentary Buck in 2011, is Buck Brannaman's richly textured and stunning account of his life from an... -
Reinventing World War II: Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State Barbara A. Biesecker 9780271097824
RRP: €92.81Booksplease Price: €82.90By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was ubiquitous... -
A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him by Michael Takiff 9780300177688
Booksplease Price: €59.39The biography of Bill Clinton as told by 169 of the friends, colleagues, and rivals who know him best"Takiff's excellent oral history . . . helps reveal the many sides of this controversial leader. ... -
Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector by James W. Hilty
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €28.30For most of his life, Robert Kennedy stood in the shadow cast by his older brother, John; only after President Kennedy's assassination did the public gain a complete sense of Robert ("Bobby," we... -
Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land by Dan O'Brien 9780803250963
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €27.49For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan O'Brien's home. Working as a writer and an endangered-species biologist, he became convinced that returning grass-fed,... -
Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home by David Philipps 9780230120693
Booksplease Price: €17.52Pulitzer Prize finalist David Philipps brings to life the chilling story of how today's American heroes are slipping through the fingers of society - with multiple tours of duty and inadequate... -
Wild Idea: Buffalo and Family in a Difficult Land Dan O'Brien 9781496246813
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"Wild Idea is a lyrical tribute to the idea of buffalo back on the plains, the rewards and challenges of putting... -
Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right by Adam Clymer
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €43.77Considered one of America's engineering marvels, the Panama Canal sparked intense debates in the 1970s over the decision to turn it back over to Panama. In this remarkable and revealing tale, noted... -
New Heavens: My Life as a Fighter Pilot and a Founder of the Israel Air Force by Boris Senior 9781574886801
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.21Although Boris Senior may not be well known outside Israel, he played an important, even vital, part in the formation of the Israel Air Force (IAF) and in the 1948 War of Independence. Those who are... -
The Best War Ever: America and World War II by Michael C. C. Adams 9781421416670
Booksplease Price: €31.00Was World War II really such a "good war"? Popular memory insists that it was, in fact, "the best war ever." After all, we knew who the enemy was, and we understood what we were fighting for. The war... -
Pan Am at War: How the Airline Secretly Helped America Fight World War II Mark Cotta Vaz 9781510783706
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.18Filled with larger-than-life characters, and revelations of the vision and technology it took to dominate the skies before and during, World War II, here is a gripping piece of aviation history.Pan... -
Getting Away with Murder: Benazir Bhutto's Assassination and the Politics of Pakistan by Heraldo Munoz 9780393062915
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €20.61On December 27, 2007, a suicide bomber killed Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister of Pakistan. Brilliant and charismatic, the head of a political family as important to Pakistani history as the... -
Jack Welch Speaks: Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader by Jack Welch
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €19.74The world tries to keep up when JACK WELCH SPEAKS: "Jack Welch has long been one of my heroes. When you read this book you will understand why." -Warren Buffett Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway. "Jack... -
The Greatest Generation Grows Up: American Childhood in the 1930s by Kriste Lindenmeyer 9781566637305
Booksplease Price: €19.29What was it like growing up in the Great Depression, and how did America's youngest citizens contribute to the history of that fateful decade? In The Greatest Generation Grows Up, Kriste Lindenmeyer... -
The Today Show: Transforming Morning Television by Cathleen M. Londino 9781442269927
Booksplease Price: €50.91In the early 1950s, when television networks did not broadcast regular programming before 11 a.m., radio and newspapers were the most popular and reliable ways for Americans to get their morning news...