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Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin Andre Dubus 9781324105046
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.92During childhood summers in Louisiana, Andre Dubus III's grandfather taught him that men's work is hard. As an adult, whether tracking down a drug lord in Mexico as a bounty hunter or grappling with... -
A Good Quarrel: America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court by Timothy R. Johnson 9780472116362
Booksplease Price: £80.98While reading what top legal reporters say about some of the most important U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in recent history, go to this website to listen to audio and hear for yourself the very... -
A Good Quarrel: America's Top Legal Reporters Share Stories from Inside the Supreme Court by Timothy R. Johnson 9780472033263
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £21.52While reading what top legal reporters say about some of the most important U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in recent history, go to this website to listen to audio and hear for yourself the very... -
Marble Mountain by Wayne Karlin 9781931896436
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £14.05Marble Mountain reads like a detective story as the protagonist, Kiet Hallam, an adopted daughter of African American and Vietnamese descent, searches for her true identity. Set in both America and... -
The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War by Jon E. Lewis
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50By 1969, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, over 500,000 US troops were 'in country' in Vietnam. Before America's longest war had ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975, 450,000 Vietnamese... -
More Than Just War: Narratives of the Just War and Military Life by Charles Jones 9781138125872
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has... -
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... -
Greater Minnesota: Exploring the Land of Sky-Blue Waters Patrick Hicks 9780253073792
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68A witty, wise, and affectionate journey to every corner of the North Star State. After years of living abroad, writer and poet Patrick Hicks returns to Minnesota only to find that his home state... -
Snowfly by Joseph Heywood 9780762786954
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.17One legendary insect--enormous, white, and exceedingly rare--attracts trout of such size that they couldn't possibly exist in the world as we know it. But in Heywood's classic novel, such things can... -
Greater Minnesota: Exploring the Land of Sky-Blue Waters Patrick Hicks 9780253073785
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78A witty, wise, and affectionate journey to every corner of the North Star State. After years of living abroad, writer and poet Patrick Hicks returns to Minnesota only to find that his home state... -
American Dream, American Nightmare: FICTION SINCE 1960 by Kathryn Hume 9780252070570
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In this celebration of contemporary American fiction, Kathryn Hume explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation, which she calls the Generation of the Lost... -
Desertion in the Time of Vietnam: A Memoir by Jack Todd 9780803239814
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58In 1969 Jack Todd was twenty-three and happy beyond his dreams. He had left behind a hardscrabble youth in a small Nebraska town, had an exciting job as a reporter for the Miami Herald, and was in... -
Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story by Matti Friedman 9781785900433
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.17It 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... -
Vietnam War Slang: A Dictionary on Historical Principles by Tom Dalzell
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66In 2014, the US marks the 50th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the basis for the Johnson administration's escalation of American military involvement in Southeast Asia and war against... -
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and BOOK OF THE YEAR'Extraordinary . . . a must-read' Guardian'A masterpiece . . . a classic' The Times'A... -
Red Jacket: A Lute Bapcat Mystery by Joseph Heywood 9780762788590
Booksplease Price: £13.95Woods Cop mystery author Joseph Heywood takes readers to an era when people had to be as hard as the lives they lived. Meet Lute Bapcat, orphan, loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper, a... -
Hard Ground: Woods Cop Stories by Joseph Heywood 9780762781263
Booksplease Price: £13.19Hard Ground is a treasure chest of stories for lovers of the outdoors, fans of smart crime fiction, and, of course, the legions of Joseph Heywood fans. Featuring the game-warden colleagues of Woods... -
The Plain Language of Love and Loss: A Quaker Memoir by Beth Taylor 9780826218452
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.19On November 16, 1965, Beth Taylor's idyllic childhood was shattered at age twelve by the suicide of her older brother Geoff. Raised in an 'intentional community' north of Philadelphia - a mix of farm... -
Hotels, Hospitals and Jails by Anthony Swofford
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.56Following the success of Jarhead, Anthony Swofford assumed he had exorcised his military demons -- but as every veteran knows, that isn't exactly how it works. In these searing, courageous pages,... -
Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival! by Tim Newby 9781538113295
Booksplease Price: £33.80For thirty years, Leftover Salmon has blended musical styles from rock and bluegrass to zydeco and Cajun into an undeniably original sound and forever influenced generations of bands from across the... -
Annie Oakley's Girl by Rebecca Brown 9780872862791
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42"One of the freshest, most memorable story collections of my lifetime. And 'A Good Man,' one of the most important. Rarer than the newness, the wit, the vivid readability, is the deep caring... -
Hollywood's Imperial Wars: The Vietnam Generation and the American Myth of Heroic Continuity by Armando Jose Prats 9780806193755
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrative was relegated to history and, with it, the... -
Road to Cosmos: The Faces of An American Town by Bill Meissner
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In his second short story collection, Bill Meissner explores the consciousness of Cosmos, U.S.A, a small town that is anything but ordinary. Though it has its share of residents intent on keeping the... -
The Lover’s Guide to Trapping by Wyatt Prunty 9780801892790
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.23Wyatt Prunty's eighth collection, The Lover's Guide to Trapping, opens with a Homeric mole who tunnels the yard then disappears, a nervous alpha dog convinced she gets less food than her sister... -
Whatever It Is, I'm Against It: Resistance to Change in Higher Education by Brian Rosenberg 9781682538289
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.73An invigorating work that identifies obstructions to transformative change in higher education and offers paths to break through. In "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It," president emeritus of Macalester... -
Taliban Safari: One Day in the Surkhagan Valley by Paul Darling 9780700627844
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £28.56We aren't home yet, Major Paul Darling reminds his team at the end of a sixteen-hour day. "Two more miles and we are done. We have pissed off a lot of Taliban today, and they are going to want... -
Killing a Cold One: A Woods Cop Mystery by Joseph Heywood 9781493050062
Booksplease Price: £16.11Every fall in northern Michigan brings a spate of dogman sightings. A radio DJ's invention, the dogman was created as an attention-getting joke. But millions of Michiganders believe in angels and... -
Mountains of the Misbegotten: A Lute Bapcat Mystery by Joseph Heywood 9781493009558
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.59In the sequel to Red Jacket, former Rough Rider turned Michigan game warden Lute Bapcat sets out to find a deputy warden who has disappeared from Ontonagon County, one of the Michigan Upper... -
Hearing the Call across Traditions: Readings on Faith and Service by Adam Davis 9781683361114
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52An inspiring collection of readings that will raise deep questions about service and its roots in faith. "There is a deep yearning among the vast majority of people of all religious and... -
Beyond Duty: Life on the Frontline in Iraq by Shannon Meehan 9780745635866
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.57Under the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. He thought he was doing the... -
Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines by Gregory A. Daddis
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.65In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought... -
After Combat: True War Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan by Marian Eide 9781640125438
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.31Approximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and Michael Gibler have collected and compiled personal combat... -
After Combat: True War Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan by Marian Eide 9781640120235
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.71Approximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and Michael Gibler have collected and compiled personal combat... -
Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines by Gregory A. Daddis 9781108493505
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £20.02In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought... -
Beyond Duty: Life on the Frontline in Iraq by Shannon Meehan 9780745646725
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.25Under the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. He thought he was doing the... -
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Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975 by Max Hastings 9780008132989 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £3.19THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator 'A masterful performance' Sunday Times 'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald... -
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War by Max Hastings
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator 'A masterful performance' Sunday Times 'By far the best book on the Vietnam War' Gerald... -
Flying Circus Takes to the Skies: Aerial adventures stuffed with technical detail. Heart-warming tales of overcoming fear and building friendships narrated by the planes. Age 7-12 Leona Cobham 9781739407001
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £5.68Tom the F-14 Tomcat has a need for speed. Convinced he's only valued for his ability to break the sound barrier, the mighty fighter jet is determined to win a race to Australia to keep the airshow... -
Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War by Roy Scranton
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in FictionThese stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are... -
The World Played Chess: A Novel by Robert Dugoni
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72"A fearless and sensitive coming-of-age story. I loved it." -Mark Sullivan, bestselling author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky and The Last Green Valley. Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns with an...