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Understanding A Separate Peace: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents by Hallman Bell Bryant 9780313311659
Booksplease Price: £51.71Since its publication in 1959, A Separate Peace has acquired the reputation of a minor classic of American literature. This insightful analysis helps young readers relate to the themes of... -
Empire's Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines by Meg Wesling 9780814794760
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.61Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the... -
Marmee: A Novel by Sarah Miller 9780063041882
Booksplease Price: £12.52From the author of Caroline, a revealing retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved Little Women, from the perspective of Margaret “Marmee” March, about the larger real-world challenges behind the cozy... -
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition by Martha Summerhayes 9780803248687
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.98When Martha Summerhayes (1844-1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she "saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,"... -
Empire's Proxy: American Literature and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines by Meg Wesling 9780814794777
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series In the late nineteenth century, American teachers descended on the Philippines, which had been newly purchased by the U.S. at the end of the... -
A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson 9781513282688
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52A Century of Dishonor (1884) is a work of nonfiction by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by a speech given by Ponca chief Standing Bear in Boston, A Century of Dishonor attempts to reckon with the... -
Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops by Bob Luke 9781421413594
Booksplease Price: £38.92After President Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, Confederate slaves who could reach Union lines often made that perilous journey. A great many of the young and... -
Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom by Elizabeth D. Leonard 9780813176666
Booksplease Price: £32.30Countless lives were transformed by the war that split the nation, and many stories are yet to be revealed about how the Civil War and the Reconstruction era affected Kentuckians. One such narrative... -
Traitor: The Life and Assassination of John Dunn Hunter, American Radical by Andy Doolen 9781421453286
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £21.41The story of John Dunn Hunter's remarkable life, tragic betrayal, and disgraceful murder.John Dunn Hunter was many things: a frontier hero, a writer, a celebrity at home and abroad, and, ultimately,... -
Eyes on the Enemy: U.S. Military Intelligence-Gathering Tactics, Techniques and Equipment, 1939–45 by Chris McNab 9781636243849
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23On December 7, 1941, an imperial Japanese carrier strike force attacked the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, taking advantage of what was one of the most profound intelligence failures in US history... -
Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I by Carol R. Byerly 9780814799246
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers... -
The Army Combat Historian and Combat History Operations: World War I to the Vietnam War by Kathryn Roe Coker 9781636243290
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.07In World War I, Major General Pershing proposed the idea of establishing a historical office within the AEF headquarters. The War Department reorganised the General Staff to include a Historical... -
Knowledge Structures for Communications in Human-Computer Systems: General Automata-Based by Eldo Clyde Koenig 9780471998136
RRP: £74.95Booksplease Price: £65.17A comprehensive look at General automata and how it can be used to establish the fundamentals for communication in human-computer systems Drawing on author Eldo C. Koenig's extensive expertise and... -
Atlanta 1864 by James Donnell 9781472811530
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.25In this volume author James Donnell explores the entire Atlanta campaign, from Sherman's initial clashes with Joseph E. Johnston's army of Tennessee to the final Confederate resistance under General... -
Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military During World War II by Brenda L. Moore 9780813532783
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.60Following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor and America's declaration of war on Japan, the U.S. War Department allowed up to five hundred second-generation, or "Nisei," Japanese American women to... -
Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army during World War I by Carol R. Byerly
Booksplease Price: £90.57The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers... -
Frank Capra: Interviews by Frank Capra 9781578066179
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Few Hollywood directors had a higher profile in the 1930s than Frank Capra (1897D1991). He served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and of the Screen Directors Guild. He... -
The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II by Christina S. Jarvis
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.44Muscular, fearless, youthful, athletic-the World War II soldier embodied masculine ideals and represented the manhood of the United States. In The Male Body at War, Christina Jarvis examines the... -
Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction by James K. Hogue 9780807143612
Booksplease Price: £31.92No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city at the time. James K. Hogue explains the unique confluence of... -
The 10th Mountain Division in World War II: Equipment and Vehicles Charles C Roberts 9781636246055
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £25.90The formation of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division was inspired by Finland's success during the Soviet Union's invasion in 1939, where Finnish ski troops effectively used winter terrain to... -
The Isles of Scilly in the Great War by Richard Larn 9781473867666
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99The Isles of Scilly, five inhabited islands 24 miles west of Land's End, were of low priority to the War Department when the First World War was declared. With no manufacturing capability, no... -
The Male Body at War: American Masculinity during World War II by Christina S. Jarvis 9780875803227
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £28.95Muscular, fearless, youthful, athletic-the World War II soldier embodied masculine ideals and represented the manhood of the United States. In The Male Body at War, Christina Jarvis examines the... -
Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876 by Jerome a Greene 9780806165929
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.78The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America's most famous armed struggles, but the events surrounding Custer's defeat there in 1876 are only the beginning of the... -
Presumed Lost: The Incredible Ordeal of America's Submarine POWs during the Pacific War by Stephen L Moore 9781682476734
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.14When submarines failed to return to port from patrol, they were officially listed by the Navy as "overdue and presumed lost." Loved ones were notified by the War Department that their siblings,... -
Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876 by Jerome A Greene 9780806137919
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America's most famous armed struggles, but the events surrounding Custer's defeat there in 1876 are only the beginning of the... -
The Secret US Plan to Overthrow the British Empire: War Plan Red by Graham M Simons 9781526712028
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.98After the Great War, there was much debate in the USA whether the country should isolate itself from old world' conflicts or follow an imperialist path and become the world's only super-power. If... -
Pemberton: The General Who Lost Vicksburg by Michael B. Ballard 9781578062263
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.16New in paperback, the first biography of the Confederate general branded as incompetent for surrendering the South's strategic river post to Grant It was the sad fate of General John C. Pemberton... -
Hitler'S Ambivalent Attache: Lt. Gen. Friedrich Von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941 by Alfred M. Beck 9781574888782
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.75Friedrich von Boetticher was Germany's only military attache accredited to the United States between the world wars. As such, he was Germany's official military observer in the capital of the nation... -
Congress vs. the Bureaucracy: Muzzling Agency Public Relations by Mordecai Lee 9780806142036
Booksplease Price: £42.04Government bureaucracy is something Americans have long loved to hate. Yet despite this general antipathy, some federal agencies have been wildly successful in cultivating the people's favor. Take,... -
CIVIL WARS: WOMEN AND THE CRISIS OF SOUTHERN NATIONA by George C. Rable 9780252062124
Booksplease Price: £20.42Born into a male-dominated society, southern women often chose to support patriarchy and their own celebrated roles as mothers, wives, and guardians of the home and humane values. George C. Rable... -
Hitler'S Ambivalent Attache: Lt. Gen. Friedrich Von Boetticher in America, 1933-1941 by Alfred M. Beck 9781574888775
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56Friedrich von Boetticher was Germany's only military attache accredited to the United States between the world wars. As such, he was Germany's official military observer in the capital of the nation... -
Confederate Privateer: The Life of John Yates Beall by William C. Harris 9780807180259
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53Confederate Privateer is a comprehensive account of the brief life and exploits of John Yates Beall, a Confederate soldier, naval officer, and guerrilla in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes region... -
Lincoln and the Union Governors by William C. Harris 9780809332885
Booksplease Price: £25.59Over the course of the Civil War, fifty-nine men served as governors of the twenty-five Union states. Although these state executives were occasionally obstructionist and often disagreed amongst... -
Totally Unofficial: The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin by Raphael Lemkin 9780300186963
Booksplease Price: £57.36The never-before published autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, a giant among twentieth-century ethical thinkers Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an... -
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary of Burt G. Wilder, 55th Massachusetts 9781558497399
Booksplease Price: £38.29This title presents the previously unpublished record of a white doctor's service with African American troops during the Civil War. In early 1863, in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation... -
Holding the Line on the River of Death: Union Mounted Forces at Chickamauga, September 18, 1863 by Eric Wittenberg 9781611214307
RRP: £21.50Booksplease Price: £20.38In 2014, Eric J. Wittenberg published "The Devil's to Pay": John Buford at Gettysburg. A History and Walking Tour, an award-winning study of Union cavalry delaying actions at Gettysburg. Fast-forward... -
Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945-1955 by Jessica Gienow-Hecht 9780807124093
Booksplease Price: £35.61In this innovative study, Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht challenges long-standing analyses of the United States' ""cultural imperialism"" that emphasise the policy makers' determination to export U.S... -
Trailing Clouds of Glory: Zachary Taylor's Mexican War Campaign and His Emerging Civil War Leaders by Felice Flanery Lewis 9780817358693
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48This work is a narrative of Zachary Taylor's Mexican War campaign, from the formation of his army in 1844 to his last battle at Buena Vista in 1847, with emphasis on the 163 men in his "Army of... -
World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence by Mark Stout 9780700635856
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.90Ask an American intelligence officer to tell you when the country started doing modern intelligence and you will probably hear something about the Office of Strategic Services in World War II or the... -
Gettysburg’s Other Battle: The Ordeal of an American Shrine During the First World War by Mark A. Snell 9781606353318
Booksplease Price: £24.92Gettysburg is known as the second bloodiest battle of the 19th century and as the site of Abraham Lincoln's 1863 speech that gave new meaning to America's Civil War. By the turn of the next century,...