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Hitler: Only the World Was Enough by Brendan Simms
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.73SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE 2020A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan SimmsAdolf Hitler is one of... -
The Return of the Great Powers by Brendan Simms 9781541605831
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £21.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541605831Author Brendan SimmsFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint -
Humanitarian Intervention: A History by Brendan Simms 9781107673328
Booksplease Price: £49.54The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention... -
Hitler: A Global Biography by Brendan Simms 9780465022373
Booksplease Price: £26.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465022373Author Brendan SimmsFormat HardbackPage Count 704Imprint -
The Return of the Great Powers by Brendan Simms 9781399816946
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'Wide-ranging and provocative' Fiona HillFrom an acclaimed historian, a sweeping study of the past, present, and future of the Great Powers, revealing the new rules of global leadership.From the dawn... -
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of EuropeIn this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar... -
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is... -
Humanitarian Intervention: A History Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge) 9780521190275
Booksplease Price: £78.08The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention... -
Donald Trump: The Making of a World View by Brendan Simms 9781788310482
Booksplease Price: £13.03On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the American presidential election, to the surprise of many across the globe. Now that Trump is Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful country on earth,... -
The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837 by Brendan Simms 9780521154628
Booksplease Price: £50.23For more than 120 years (1714-1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many... -
The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, 1714-1837 by Brendan Simms 9780521842228
Booksplease Price: £108.46For more than 120 years (1714-1837) Great Britain was linked to the German Electorate, later Kingdom, of Hanover through Personal Union. This made Britain a continental European state in many... -
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway by Brendan Simms
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38The Battle of Midway was, on paper, an improbable victory for the smaller, less experienced American navy and air force, so much so that it was quickly described as "a miracle." Yet fortune favored... -
The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo by Brendan Simms
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A superb little book that is micro-history at its best' Washington Post'The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into it. One can only marvel at how well Professor... -
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War by Brendan Simms
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'History at its scintillating best ... hard-hitting, revelatory and superbly researched' Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny 'A rare achievement ... sure to become an instant... -
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 by Brendan Simms
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.23This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain's extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost... -
The Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806 by Brendan Simms 9780521893855
Booksplease Price: £49.54This book examines Prussia's response to Napoleon and Napoleonic expansionism in the years before the crushing defeats of Auerstadt and Jena, a period of German history as untypical as it was... -
The Impact of Napoleon: Prussian High Politics, Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Executive, 1797-1806 by Brendan Simms 9780521453608
Booksplease Price: £116.40This book examines Prussia's response to Napoleon and Napoleonic expansionism in the years before the crushing defeats of Auerstadt and Jena, a period of German history as untypical as it was... -
24 Hours at Waterloo: 18 June 1815 by Robert J. Kershaw
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'One of the lancers rode by, and stabbed me in the back with his lance. I then turned, and lay with my face upward, and a foot soldier stabbed me with his sword as he walked by. Immediately after,... -
Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples Since 1500 by Peter H. Wilson 9780141988887
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.67*WINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY**A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022*'No one interested in the history of Europe can afford not to read this stupendous book' Simon... -
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906 by Mr David Cannadine
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2018 'This is stupendous. The British nineteenth century, in all its complexity, all its horror, all its energy, all its hopes is laid bare. This is the... -
Twilight by Elie Wiesel 9780241963678
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Twilight is a haunting novel by Nobel Peace prize-winning author Elie Wiesel.Raphael Lipkin hears voices and talks to ghosts. Spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a New York psychiatric... -
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by Samuel Johnson
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.71When James Boswell persuaded Samuel Johnson to embark on a tour of Boswell's native Scotland in 1773, the adventure resulted in two magnificent books, Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of... -
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'Wonderful ... among military historians, Roberts is Britain's crown gem' Wall Street Journal Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew... -
The Dark Valley by Dr. Piers Brendon
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.35Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - child of one world war and parent of the next - that determined the course of the twentieth century... -
The Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47Jeremy Paxman knows every maneouvre a politician will make to avoid answering a difficult question, but in The Political Animal he seeks an answer to just one: What makes politicians tick? Embarking... -
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The most brilliant and fascinating book I have read in my entire life' Dan Snow'A huge contribution... remarkable' Antony Beevor, BBC RADIO 4'Extremely interesting ... a... -
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social,... -
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.81'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, GuardianThis unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world... -
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw 9780141998237
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history?The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of... -
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.63'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights' Financial TimesThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to... -
The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean by David Abulafia
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of civilization. David Abulafia's The Great Sea is the first complete history of the Mediterranean, from the... -
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination by Otto Dov Kulka
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the HolocaustWinner of the JEWISH... -
Prisoners of Time: Prussians, Germans and Other Humans by Christopher Clark
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential history... -
From Reich to Revolution: German History, 1558-1806 by Peter H. Wilson 9780333652442
Booksplease Price: £36.13German history after the Reformation is often seen as a confusing period of political failures before the emergence of powerful states like Prussia give some coherence to the national story. The... -
Revolution and World Politics: The Rise and Fall of the Sixth Great Power by Fred Halliday 9780333653296
Booksplease Price: £43.33The relation of revolutions to international relations is central to modern history. Revolutions have, as much as war or nationalism, shaped the development of world politics. Equally, revolutions... -
Cinderella Boys: The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the Battle of the Atlantic by Leo McKinstry 9781529319378
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Masterful' David Price'McKinstry has done a fine job in rescuing Coastal Command from long neglect' Richard OveryThe remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who made Allied victory possible.In 1943... -
Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery by Adam Hochschild
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared and fortunes were made, but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of... -
Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death by Toby Thacker 9780230228894
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.58An insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the 'Third Reich' and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of... -
Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century by Hamish Scott 9780521842273
Booksplease Price: £116.40This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors,... -
Intervention and State Sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500-1780 by Patrick Milton 9780192871183
RRP: £102.50Booksplease Price: £97.88Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this...