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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his... -
When Globalization Fails by James MacDonald 9780374535971
Booksplease Price: £16.63Is globalization a recipe for war? In the nineteenth century, liberals exulted that the spread of commerce would usher in prosperity and peace, but these dreams were dashed by imperial squabbles, the... -
Presenting History: Past and Present by Peter Beck 9780230242074
Booksplease Price: £103.11Who reads academic histories? Should historians reach out more beyond academia to the general public? Why do Hollywood films, historical novels and television histories prove more successful in... -
How to Listen When Markets Speak: Risks, Myths and Investment Opportunities in a Radically Reshaped Economy Lawrence McDonald 9781804995983
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86'Any investor with skin in the game needs to buy this book.' Niall FergusonFrom Wall Street to the White House, the fantasy of an eventual 'return to normal' is still alive and well. But the economic... -
In Defence Of History by Richard J. Evans 9781783784592
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Should be read by anyone who cares about the past and the way we think and write about it' Independent on Sunday At a time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented assault,... -
Vaccinology 2020: The Diary of a Global Pandemic by Justin Stebbing
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25On 11 March 2020, the WHO declared we were in a pandemic. Covid-19 was tearing through the world at an alarming rate and little was actually known about it, let alone how to treat it. The majority of... -
The Eastern Front 1914-1917 by Norman Stone
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78A groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West. In... -
Three Postwar Eras in Comparison: Western Europe 1918-1945-1989 by C. Levy 9781349404896
Booksplease Price: £91.66A brief glance at twentieth century European history would suggest that wars and their aftermath produced the major turning points in its development. Three times - in 1918, 1945 and again in 1989 -... -
Hitler by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.75Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of the Nazi leader. Ian Kershaw's two volume biography, Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris and Hitler 1936-1945:... -
Gustav Stresemann: Weimar's Greatest Statesman by Jonathan Wright 9780199273294
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £72.05Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which... -
Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order by Paul Vigna
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42'If the word 'blockchain' makes you want to call a plumber, or you think Satoshi is some kind of raw fish, you need to read Cryptocurrency today. If you're already a bit-convert, you'll still learn a... -
Austerity vs Stimulus: The Political Future of Economic Recovery by Robert Skidelsky 9783319504384
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.66This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010 and asks whether there is any alternative for... -
Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction by Gotz Aly 9781842126707
Booksplease Price: £20.00A groundbreaking study of the numerous academics and technocrats without whom Hitler's crude anti-Semitism could never have been translated into a systematic policy of genocide.ARCHITECTS OF... -
The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations by Ian Morris 9780691160863
Booksplease Price: £24.07In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating... -
Creative Society: How the Future Can be Won Lars Tvede 9781910649725
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.46Human creativity has been one of the fundamental drivers of civilization and progress - solving immense problems, creating opportunities and overcoming enemies like no other force. Often it has... -
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power 9780008359386
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.16Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 'A devastating indictment' SUNDAY TIMES 'An important book, a superb piece of reporting'... -
Recession: The Real Reasons Economies Shrink and What to Do About It by Tyler Goodspeed 9781399832267
Booksplease Price: £14.64'Essential reading to understand today's challenges' MERVYN KING'This extraordinary tour de force confirms Goodspeed as one of the most brilliant economic minds of his generation' NIALL FERGUSONWhat... -
Britain and the Sea: Since 1600 by G. O'Hara 9780230218291
Booksplease Price: £36.82O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day. This all-encompassing account covers individual seafarers, ship-borne... -
Churchill and the Politics of War, 1940-1941 by Sheila Lawlor 9780521466851
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35This book offers a reappraisal of Churchill's role as Britain's wartime leader, and in particular reconsiders his response to the dominant strategic challenges of his first year as prime minister... -
The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of the Muslims by Mustafa Akyol 9781250199355
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.75When Reza Aslan's bestseller Zealot came out in 2013, there was criticism that he hadn't addressed his Muslim faith while writing the origin story of Christianity. In fact, Ross Douthat of The New... -
Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian by Richard Aldous 9780393244700
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.36Arthur Schlesinger Jr (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy-and the myth of Camelot-blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to war-time... -
The Barbarization of Warfare by George Kassimeris 9780814747964
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £36.45The images from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad have been a grim reminder of warfare's undiminished capacity for brutality and indiscriminate excess. What happened in Abu Ghraib has happened before: the... -
Future Tense: Reflections on My Troubled Land by Tony Leon 9781776190744
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.96In 2008, Tony Leon's award-winning biography On the Contrary concluded with a chapter entitled "Future Imperfect". Now, in the riveting new Future Tense, the topic and title has changed to capture... -
The Triangle of Power: Rebalancing the New World Order 9781837360307
Booksplease Price: £14.74In The Triangle of Power, Finnish President Alexander Stubb argues that we are living through a hinge moment in history, akin to 1918, 1945 or 1989. A new international system is taking shape,... -
Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.The current financial crisis has only one parallel: the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire... -
Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered Paul W. Schroeder 9781804295793
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.98Stealing Horses presents arguably the finest considerations yet of the origins of the First World War. Breaking with accounts which focus on the actions of a single state or the final countdown to... -
The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle by Dr. Harold James 9780674066182
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.13Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization-above all in... -
The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire by Dr. Harold James
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £26.60Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation's Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So... -
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity by Lynda Gratton 9781526622839
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46What will your 100-year life look like? A new edition of the international bestseller, featuring a new preface 'Brilliant, timely, original, well written and utterly terrifying' Niall Ferguson ... -
The Barbarization of Warfare by George Kassimeris 9780814747971
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70The images from Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad have been a grim reminder of warfare's undiminished capacity for brutality and indiscriminate excess. What happened in Abu Ghraib has happened before: the... -
The Wake-Up Call: Why the pandemic has exposed the weakness of the West - and how to fix it John Micklethwait 9781780724829
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26An urgent and informed look at the challenges Britain and world governments will face in a post-Covid-19 world.The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is... -
To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine by Melvyn P. Leffler 9780195330984
Booksplease Price: £63.04U.S. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of democracy by force has proven disastrous. The United... -
A History Of Warfare John Keegan 9781844137497
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.John Keegan's masterpiece is a work of breath-taking scope that not only chronicles the history of warfare, but... -
To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine by Melvyn P. Leffler 9780195369410
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.24U.S. national security policy is at a critically important crossroads. The Bush Doctrine of unilateralism, pre-emptive war, and the imposition of democracy by force has proven disastrous. The United... -
Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance by Jeremy M. Black 9780253018687
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.82History and geography delineate the operation of power, not only its range but also the capacity to plan and the ability to implement. Approaching state strategy and policy from the spatial angle,... -
Jewish Immigrant Entrepreneurship in New York and London 1880-1914: Enterprise and Culture by A. Godley 9780333960455
Booksplease Price: £90.56How successful were the East European Jewish immigrants in London compared with the vast majority that went to New York? This critical question - one that lies at the heart of debates on Jewish... -
Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide by Michael Burleigh 9780521588164
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.09This series of essays by one of today's most original and prolific scholars on German racial policy concerns three interrelated aspects of Nazi Germany: relations with 'the east', 'euthanasia' and... -
Scotland's Empire: The Origins of the Global Diaspora by T. M. Devine
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78In Scotland's Empire, T.M Devine tells the compelling story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain... -
Ethics and Extermination: Reflections on Nazi Genocide by Michael Burleigh 9780521582117
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £68.73This series of essays by one of today's most original and prolific scholars on German racial policy concerns three interrelated aspects of Nazi Germany: relations with 'the east', 'euthanasia' and... -
The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy 9780008150266
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £59.28The ultimate work of historical reference 'The Times Complete History of the World' is the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible work on world history available today. It has...