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Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $11.51Previously published as PeacemakersBetween January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were... -
Seize the Hour by Margaret MacMillan 9780719565236
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History's People: Personalities and the Past by Professor Margaret MacMillan
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55What difference do individuals make to history? Are we all swept up in the great forces like industrialisation or globalisation, or is the world we inhabit shaped just as much by real people -... -
The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
RRP: $33.54Booksplease Price: $24.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980660Author Margaret MacMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprin -
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
RRP: $29.67Booksplease Price: $18.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593132371Author Margaret MacMillanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprin -
The Uses and Abuses of History Professor Margaret MacMillan 9781846682100
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75The past is capricious enough to support every stance - no matter how questionable. In 2002, the Bush administration decided that dealing with Saddam Hussein was like appeasing Hitler or Mussolini,... -
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan 9780375760525
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $23.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 2003 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002... -
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Peacemakers Six Months that Changed The World by Margaret MacMillan 9780719562372 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.48Between January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great... -
Popski's Private Army Vladimir Peniakoff 9781474609692
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.15In October 1942, with the sanction of the army, Vladimir Peniakoff (nicknamed Popski) formed his own elite fighting force. By befriending and enlisting desert Arabs, he was able to penetrate deep... -
A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis by Jurgen Tampke 9781911617280
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.51An Irish Independent book of the year. Did the Versailles Peace Treaty cause World War II? The Versailles Peace Treaty - the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies... -
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction Orlando Figes 9781847924513
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $30.37Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.'A modern masterpiece' Andrew... -
Rethink: How We Can Make a Better World Amol Rajan 9781785947186
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66After darkness, there is always lightIn a time of increasing uncertainty, Rethink offers a guide to a much-needed global 'reset moment', with leading international figures giving us glimpses of a... -
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Fight to the Finish: The First World War - Month by Month by Allan Mallinson 9780593079140 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $3.19'Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.' Lawrence James, THE TIMESWe remember months, because months have... -
The Internationalists: And Their Plan to Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03'It will change the way you remember the 20th century and read the news in the 21st' Steven Pinker'A clarion call to preserve law and order across our planet' Philippe Sands'A fascinating and... -
Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.63Edited by Niall Ferguson, Virtual History applies 'counterfactual' arguments to decisive moments in modern history.What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War?What if Germany had invaded... -
Fight to the Finish: The First World War - Month by Month Allan Mallinson 9780857503800
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'Mallinson . . . combines the authority of a soldier-turned-military historian with the imaginative touch of the historical novelist.' Lawrence James, THE TIMESWe remember months, because months have... -
The Penguin History of Britain: The Struggle for Mastery: Britain 1066-1284 by David Carpenter
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03The two-and-a-half centuries after 1066 were momentous ones in the history of Britain. In 1066, England was conquered for the last time. The Anglo-Saxon ruling class was destroyed and and the English... -
The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present and Future of the United Nations by Paul Kennedy
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Paul Kennedy's The Parliament of Man: The United Nations and the Quest for World Government is the extraordinary story of the UN - its creation, the threats it has faced, and the possibilities it... -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume II - Reform) by Chris Bryant
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won... -
Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the YearFrom a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of... -
Trollope by Victoria Glendinning 9780712697903
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $18.25Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues... -
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What is History? by E. H. Carr 9780140135848 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $5.08Who is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have... -
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.94The fourteenth century was a time of fabled crusades and chivalry, glittering cathedrals and grand castles. It was also a time of ferocity and spiritual agony, a world of chaos and the plague.Here,... -
Yalta: The Price of Peace by Serhii Plokhy
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Imagine you could eavesdrop on a dinner party with three of the most fascinating historical figures of all time. In this landmark book, a gifted Harvard historian puts you in the room with Churchill,... -
The First World War: An Illustrated History by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56A. J. P. Taylor was one of the most acclaimed and uncompromising historians of the twentieth century. In this clear, lively and now-classic account of the First World War, he tells the story of the... -
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Remarkable ... this brilliant book stands as an important monument to an almost forgotten world' William Dalrymple, Spectator A sweeping, magisterial... -
Lives of Houses by Hermione Lee 9780691193663
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.38A group of notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists,... -
Lives of Houses by Kate Kennedy
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.22Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers,... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas 9781783967292
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.03'Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant' Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb... Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary... -
On Courage: Stories of Victoria Cross and George Cross Holders by The Sebastopol Project
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.31On Courage is a collection of twenty-eight moving and inspirational stories of valour displayed by recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cross. *GBP2.70 of the publisher's RRP of all copies of... -
1946: The Making of the Modern World by Victor Sebestyen
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55With the end of the Second World War, a new world was born. The peace agreements that brought the conflict to an end implemented decisions that not only shaped the second half of the twentieth... -
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Hal Brands
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $46.57The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key... -
The Unreturning Army by Huntly Gordon
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20In the centenary year of the Great War, names such as Ypres, the Marne, the Somme, Passchendaele are heavy with meaning as settings for the near-destruction of a generation of men. It is this aura of... -
Ideas: Brilliant Thinkers Speak Their Minds by Bernie Lucht 9780864924391
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.14For four decades, Ideas has presented more than 400,000 CBC Radio listeners in Canada and the United States with the most challenging contemporary thought of the day. Now, to mark the program's 40th... -
The World in 2050: How to Think About the Future Hamish McRae 9781526600066
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20'A dazzling history of the future - Hamish McRae has given us a tour de force' - Tim Harford _______________ A bold and illuminating vision of the future, from one of Europe's foremost speakers... -
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War Nick Lloyd 9780241992098
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Evan Thomas 9781783967971
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.73‘Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant’ Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb… Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of... -
JFK: Volume 1: 1917-1956 by Fredrik Logevall
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $16.76'The most compelling biography I have read in years . . . There has been a host of JFK biographies, but this one excels for its narrative drive, fine judgments and meticulous research . . . makes the... -
Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense by Marcello Di Cintio 9780863569807
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $8.75Across Palestine, from the Allenby Bridge and Ramallah, to Jerusalem and Gaza, Marcello Di Cintio has met with writers, poets, librarians, booksellers and readers, finding extraordinary stories in... -
The Golden Throne: The Story of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue 9781529967050
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.96'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire . . . History at its most gripping' Daily Telegraph on The Lion HouseA ground-breaking, present-tense reconstruction of the life and world of one of the most...