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World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16When do you think the Second World War ended?If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end... -
THE VIEW FROM CHURCHILL: Travels in the Footsteps of Britain's Last Lion by Matthew Mills Stevenson 9781739265793
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42Mills Stevenson visits Pretoria in South Africa where in 1899 the young journalist Churchill was imprisoned and then escaped from Boer captivity. He walks the battlefields of Gallipoli in Turkey and... -
Churchill in Moscow by Howard Brenton 9781839044175
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79'Everything is possible in Moscow at night.' The Kremlin, Moscow, 1942. A top-secret meeting between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin: one, a wealthy aristocrat from a blue-blooded line of English... -
Odd Man out: Truman, Stalin, Mao, and the Origins of the Korean War by Richard C. Thornton 9781574883435
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.37Odd Man Out is a novel assessment of the motives and strategies of Harry Truman, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong as they struggled to maneuver their countries into positions of advantage in the postwar... -
Jews in the Soviet Union: A History: After Stalin, 1953–1967, Volume 5 by Gennady Estraikh
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.34Offers an analysis of Soviet Jewish society after the death of Joseph Stalin At the beginning of the twentieth century, more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else in the world. After... -
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Assured Victory: How "Stalin the Great" Won the War, but Lost the Peace by Albert L. Weeks 9780313391651
Booksplease Price: £46.59This book documents dictator Joseph Stalin's brilliant tactics as well as missteps in taking preemptive actions that guaranteed ultimate victory over the German invaders. It also covers the policies... -
Generation Stalin: French Writers, the Fatherland, and the Cult of Personality by Andrew Sobanet
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Generation Stalin traces Joseph Stalin's rise as a dominant figure in French political culture from the 1930s through the 1950s. Andrew Sobanet brings to light the crucial role French writers played... -
Midnight in Tehran: Operation Long Jump, the Nazi Plot to Assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin by Christopher Sandford 9781476687568
Booksplease Price: £29.44This is the gripping history of the Nazi-sponsored attempt to infiltrate the 1943 wartime Allied conference in Tehran and to assassinate the "Big Three" leaders: Franklin Roosevelt, Winston... -
Herblock Special Report by Herbert Block 9780393008388
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.38This book obviously does not set out a complete record of the Nixon scandals or of the Nixon career. It doesn't even include all the cartoons about Nixon or relating to him-which probably number more... -
From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship by Paul Hollander 9781107071032
Booksplease Price: £106.48During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western... -
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Our Uninvited Guests: The Secret Life of Britain's Country Houses 1939-45 by Julie Summers 9781471152559 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.40'Julie Summers has an amazing instinct for unearthing good stories and telling quotes.' Craig Brown, The Mail On Sunday 'This is an enjoyable book, peppered with examples of under-reported wartime... -
Our Uninvited Guests: The Secret Life of Britain's Country Houses 1939-45 by Julie Summers 9781471152559
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'Julie Summers has an amazing instinct for unearthing good stories and telling quotes.' Craig Brown, The Mail On Sunday 'This is an enjoyable book, peppered with examples of under-reported wartime... -
Dialectical Materialism by Henri Lefebvre
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34With the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri Lefebvre finished Dialectical Materialism just before the beginning of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy regime... -
The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland 9781399827294
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68THE PULSE-POUNDING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ASSASSINATION THAT CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY'Elegant, unshowy and gripping in the manner of a dependable le Carre' THE TIMES'The page-turning pace of a... -
European Powers in the First World War: An Encyclopedia Spencer Tucker 9780815333517
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £88.93First published in 1996. The First World War was the single most important event of the twentieth century. This volume concentrates on non-U.S. aspects of the conflict. Organized alphabetically, its... -
Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left David Camfield 9781773637327
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.98Increasingly, people are responding to the contemporary crises underwritten by capitalism by exploring the politics of communism. Some have taken a sympathetic, even nostalgic, view of "actually... -
Stalin in October: The Man Who Missed the Revolution by Robert M. Slusser
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £27.74Originally published in 1987. In March 1917 young Joseph Stalin, already a high-ranking Bolshevik, returned from Siberian exile in search of greatness and power. But his activities during the months... -
Deadly Class Volume 1: Reagan Youth by Rick Remender 9781632150035
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.64"Deadly Class is a solid read for those who want a combination of Mark Millar's Wanted and Harry Potter with Garth Ennis's (Preacher) style." - Library Journal (Starred)"A good start to a wicked... -
Stalin's Soviet Monastery: A New Interpretation of Russian Politics by Jim Curtis 9781433171024
RRP: £79.60Booksplease Price: £70.55In Stalin's Soviet Monastery Russian scholar Jim Curtis integrates innovative work in linguistics, anthropology, and media theory to develop a holistic analysis of Russian society that includes a... -
First Class Comrades: Stasi espionage and secret police operations in the early Cold War 1945-1961 J. Boulter 9780857305206
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £52.17No country in history has been more deeply penetrated by spies than divided Germany after the Second World War. Fighting for the eastern corner were the 'first class comrades' of the Stasi - the East... -
Occasional and Joke Poems by Osip Mandelstam 9781848618367
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £10.39Parallel to his more famous poems about the buildings of St. Petersburg, the shores of the Black Sea, and the streets of Voronezh, Mandelstam wrote many brief, spontaneous poems about his friends,... -
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.82A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account... -
Stalin: Passage to Revolution by Ronald Grigor Suny 9780691202716
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40A spellbinding new biography of Stalin in his formative yearsThis is the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin from his birth to the October Revolution of 1917, a panoramic and often chilling account... -
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"Truth Behind Bars": Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution by Paul Kellogg 9781771992459
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40Just north of the Arctic Circle is the settlement of Vorkuta, a notorious camp in the Gulag internment system that witnessed three pivotal moments in Russian history. In the 1930s, a desperate hunger... -
Silence Was Salvation: Child Survivors of Stalin's Terror and World War II in the Soviet Union by Cathy A. Frierson 9780300179453
Booksplease Price: £58.16Roughly ten million children were victims of political repression in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist era. As the sons and daughters of Soviet citizens considered by the regime to be dangerous... -
The Stalinist Dictatorship by Christopher Edward Ward
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £34.96From the late 1920s onwards, forced collectivisation, state-directed industrialisation, mass purging and the party's control of culture, refashioned Russia and gave birth to a new type of society... -
To Acknowledge a War: The Korean War in American Memory by Paul M. Edwards 9780313310218
Booksplease Price: £76.51Historians often refer to the Korean War as the forgotten war, but Edwards argues that in many respects it is a conflict that has been deliberately ignored for the past fifty years. This broad look... -
Stalin: A Beginner's Guide Abraham Ascher 9781780749136
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12Joseph Stalin began life as a frail child, with an abusive father and an inferiority complex. This triggered an early desire for greatness and respect that would eventually turn the young Bolshevik... -
Stalin's Soviet Monastery: A New Interpretation of Russian Politics by Jim Curtis 9781433190049
RRP: £42.30Booksplease Price: £38.43In Stalin's Soviet Monastery Russian scholar Jim Curtis integrates innovative work in linguistics, anthropology, and media theory to develop a holistic analysis of Russian society that includes a... -
Speeches That Changed the World Quercus 9781529416053
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.54From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and... -
Boris Hessen and Philosophy: The Socioeconomic Roots of Classical and Modern Physics by Sean Winkler 9781538147580
Booksplease Price: £86.43In 1931, Soviet philosopher Boris Hessen presented a groundbreaking paper at the 2nd International Congress of the History of Science & Technology in London. Hessen made the radical claim that Sir... -
Speeches That Changed the World by Quercus 9781529452594
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and... -
Speeches That Changed the World by Quercus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and... -
Stalin and Stalinism by Alan Wood
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £38.83The second edition of a best-selling pamphlet, Stalin and Stalinism has been fully updated to take in new debates and controversies which have emerged since the collapse of the Soviet Union... -
Speeches That Changed the World Quercus 9781529443141
Booksplease Price: £21.53From calls to arms to demands for peace, and from cries of freedom to words of inspiration, this stirring anthology captures the voices of prophets and politicians, rebels and tyrants, soldiers and... -
The Quotable A**hole: More than 1,200 Bitter Barbs, Cutting Comments, and Caustic Comebacks for Aspiring and Armchair A**holes Alike by Eric Grzymkowski
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.55Whoever said, "sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you" never met an a**hole. Here, you'll find more than 1,200 of the most biting quotes, comments, and comebacks ever... -
Enemies of the People under Stalinism by Alexey Vinogradov 9780761874065
Booksplease Price: £56.13Stalinism is the name that is used to identify the political and economic systems introduced and implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from the time that Stalin became the supreme power in... -
The Major Plays of Nikolai Erdman Nikolai Erdman 9783718655830
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89First Published in 1995. Russian Theatre Archive- Volume 1. Newly translated by John Freedman, Erdmans's first biographer, Nikola Erdman's two classic tragicomedies, 'The Warrant' and 'The Suicide',... -
The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders: Identity and Authority under Stalin by Carol Any 9780810142756
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The Soviet Writers' Union offered writers elite status and material luxuries in exchange for literature that championed the state. This book argues that Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin chose leaders for... -
Confessions of a Secular Jew: A Memoir by Eugene Goodheart
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63What it means to be a Jew lies at the very heart of Confessions of a Secular Jew, a provocative memoir and a thoughtful speculation on the nature of Jewish identity and experience in an increasingly...