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Season of Rains: Africa in the World by Stephen Ellis
Booksplease Price: $17.57Most of what is written about Africa is framed in terms that have been out of date for years. Too often, it is seen as heading for either disaster or salvation; the realities are more subtle, more... -
An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict by Mike Martin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.08'An Intimate War' tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined... -
War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First-Century Combat as Politics by Emile Simpson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.08**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE DUKE OF WESTMINSTER MEDAL FOR MILITARY LITERATURE** **SHORTLISTED FOR BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR** In the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan... -
High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Christopher L. Elliott 9781849048132
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.08** Includes a New Postcript 'The Chilcot Report-Early Thoughts on Military Matters'** From 2001 Britain supported the United States in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Victory' in such conflicts is... -
How to Fight a War Mike Martin 9781911723875
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.75An indispensable guide to understanding modern warfare, especially the decisions made by politicians and generals-both good and bad. Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs,... -
Subhas Chandra Bose in Nazi Germany: Politics, Intelligence and Propaganda 1941-1943 by Romain Hayes
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $37.83On the morning of April 3, 1941, 'Orlando Mazzotta', a man posing as an Italian diplomat, walked up the steps of the German Foreign Office on the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, having arrived from Moscow... -
I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict by Kenneth Payne
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.67An Economist Best Book of 2021 Artificial Intelligence is going to war. Intelligent military systems are already reshaping conflict-from the chaos of battle, with pilotless drones and robot... -
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.75*** Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize*** In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar... -
Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas by Alpa Shah
Booksplease Price: $20.31In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist... -
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang by James Millward
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26"Eurasian Crossroads" is the first comprehensive history of Xinjiang, the vast central Eurasian region bordering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia... -
Who Killed Hammarskjold?: The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa by Susan Williams
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.89One of the outstanding mysteries of the twentieth century, and one with huge political resonance, is the death of Dag Hammarskjold and his UN team in a plane crash in central Africa in 1961. Just... -
Singapore, Singapura: From Miracle to Complacency by Nicholas Walton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.91Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago, it was thrown out of the Malay Federation and unwillingly became an independent nation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a... -
Why I Am a Hindu: Why I Am a Hindu by Shashi Tharoor 9781787384903
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.26Hinduism is one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday... -
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.01A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this... -
Three Begums: The Women Who Shaped My Life Ziauddin Sardar 9781805263333
Booksplease Price: $17.57Three Begums revolves around the lives of three ordinary women-Hamida, Merryl and Saliha- who lived extraordinary, interwoven lives of fabulous joy, fierce pain, and untold trauma. Like many who came... -
The Great Indian Phone Book: How Cheap Mobile Phones Change Business, Politics and Daily Life by Robin Jeffrey
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.91The cheap mobile phone is arguably the most significant personal communications device in history. In India, where caste hierarchy has reinforced power for generations, the disruptive potential of... -
The Improbable War: China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict by Christopher Coker 9781849048781
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26The Improbable War explains why conflict between the USA and China cannot be ruled out. In 1914 war between the Great Powers was considered unlikely, yet it happened. We learn only from history, and... -
Populism: Before and After the Pandemic by Michael Burleigh
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.74We are said to be living in an age of anger, and national populist movements are often identified as its political manifestation. In Populism Michael Burleigh explores this new global era, drawing on... -
The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India's Most Glamorous Royal Family by John Zubrzycki
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.50A gripping royal saga of charmed lives in a changing world. The Jaipurs were India's mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Jai and Ayesha, as... -
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.07In 1993, a newly-appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have 'slain a large dragon' with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a 'bewildering variety of poisonous snakes'. Since then,... -
Deciphering Sun Tzu: How to Read the Art of War by Derek M. C. Yuen 9781787387232
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.91As the People's Republic's seemingly inexorable rise to economic and military power con-tinues, never has the need for a better grasp of Chinese strategic thought by the West been more acute. In... -
Made in China: Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy by Jasper Becker
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.79What might COVID-19 mean for, and reveal about, China's place in the world? The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure... -
The Death of Camus by Giovanni Catelli 9781787383869
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.91In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the... -
High Risk: A True Story of the SAS, Drugs and Other Bad Behaviour by Ben Timberlake
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.26This is a dark, raw and uncompromising tale of the human condition in extremis, drawing on the many lives of Ben Timberlake: as an archaeologist, Special Forces soldier, combat medic and drug addict... -
Crimea: A History by Neil Kent 9781911723356
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26Crimea shapes the headlines much as it did some 160 years ago, when the Crimean War pitted Britain, France and Turkey against Russia. Yet few books have been published on the history of the peninsula... -
Lithium: The Global Race for Battery Dominance and the New Energy Revolution Lukasz Bednarski 9781805261650
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.26A global energy revolution is unfolding before our eyes: ever-growing numbers of electric vehicles on our roads, laptops that last all day on a single charge and solar panels on our roofs, all... -
How Women Can Save The Planet by Anne Karpf
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.67Here's a perverse truth: from New Orleans to Bangladesh, women--especially poor women of colour--are suffering most from a crisis they have done nothing to cause. Yet where, in environmental policy,... -
The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance by Iyad El-Baghdadi
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.98Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, and how can it be fixed? What does the future look like for its 500 million people? And what role should the West play? Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash... -
Diplomatic Gifts: A History in Fifty Presents by Paul Brummell
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $32.47Gifts have been part of international relations since ancient times. They can serve as tokens of friendship, apology or authority; as taunts, bribes, boasts or tricks. They can also go wrong: Mali's... -
Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order by Bruno Macaes
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.67China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global... -
The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy by Shashi Tharoor 9781787385887
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.67Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer... -
Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism Rachel Charlton-Dailey 9781911723950
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.91A vivid history of the 100-year battle for British disability rights, spotlighting enraging injustices and inspiring campaigns, past and present: this fight isn't over. From the 'crippled... -
Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War: The SAS in the Falklands War by Cedric Delves
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.76In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D... -
Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die by Tom Gallagher
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.48Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him as a reactionary and... -
The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares by Phil Tinline
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.76From the Great Depression to the pandemic, a new history of British democracy, revealing how politics is transformed through fear. Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics has... -
Under Red Skies: The Life and Times of a Chinese Millennial by Karoline Kan
Booksplease Price: $17.57Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic... -
Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order by Bruno Macaes 9781787380028
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $32.07China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global... -
Not So Black and White: A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics by Kenan Malik 9781787387768
Booksplease Price: $39.56A powerful new history of the idea of race, forcing us to rethink today's culture wars. Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits... -
Newcastle United Stole My Heart: Sixty Years in Black and White by Michael Chaplin
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.50The magnificent story of a writer's lifelong obsession with his city and its football club. When 5-year-old Michael Chaplin landed in a strange city of ships in the late 1950s, he looked in vain... -
Hooghly: The Global History of a River by Robert Ivermee 9781911723349
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.23The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flowing south to the Bay of Bengal, is now little known outside of India. Yet for centuries it was a river of truly global significance, attracting...