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The Balkans by Mark Mazower
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75A dazzling short history of the Balkans from the Romans to the present, which provides vital historical and cultural background to contemporary Balkan politics.At the end of the twentieth century... -
Governing the World: The History of an Idea by Mark Mazower
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The compelling and provocative history of world government, from acclaimed author Mark MazowerShortlisted for the RUSI 2013 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military LiteratureIn 1815 the shocked and... -
On Antisemitism: A Word in History by Mark Mazower 9780593833797
RRP: $38.86Booksplease Price: $23.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593833797Author Mark MazowerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint -
On Antisemitism: A Word in History by Mark Mazower 9781802067538
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.47What do we mean when we talk about antisemitism? A thoughtful, vital new intervention from the award-winning historian'An immense contribution... In tracing the evolving meaning of ‘antisemitism,’... -
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world... -
The Balkans: A Short History by Assistant Professor of History Mark Mazower
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $14.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812966213Author Mark MazowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews by Mark Mazower
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.14The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation... -
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject... -
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower 9780679757047
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $18.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679757047Author Mark MazowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint < -
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.27Mark Mazower's Hitler's Empire is a provocative account of the rise and fall of Nazi Europe by one of Britain's leading historians. Hitler's empire was the largest, most brutal and most ambitious... -
Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 by Mark Mazower
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.01This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of... -
Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower 9780140241594 [USED COPY]
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $3.50From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world... -
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37SHORLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Brilliant ... a staggering story' Robert Fox, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Fascinating, vast and... -
Post-War Reconstruction in Europe: International Perspectives, 1945-1949 by Mark Mazower 9780199692743
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $15.41This collection of essays offers new insights into the aftermath of the Second World War. Rather than treating the years 1945 to 1949 as mere precursors of the Cold War, it takes them to be a crucial... -
No Enchanted Palace: The End of Empire and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations by Mark Mazower 9780691157955
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.82No Enchanted Palace traces the origins and early development of the United Nations, one of the most influential yet perhaps least understood organizations active in the world today. Acclaimed... -
The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History by Martin Puchner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66You might have heard the saying 'you're in a pickle' meaning you're in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written... -
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant Michael Vatikiotis 9781474613217
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and Rhodes, as they made their way to Egypt and the coast of Palestine... -
The War of the World: History's Age of Hatred by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilization at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalized and wealthy. What turned it into a bloodbath?Niall Ferguson re-tells the story of... -
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning 9780062303028
Booksplease Price: $16.07Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews-now with a new afterword and additional... -
Ataturk Andrew Mango 9780719565922
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.10This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually... -
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster by Richard J. Evans
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67The final book in his acclaimed trilogy on the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, Richard J. Evans's The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster shows how Germany rushed... -
Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers by David Runciman
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different motivations, methods, and paths, but they all sought... -
The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe Gideon Levy 9781804297506
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for... -
The Origins of the Final Solution by Christopher Browning
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.08The Origins of the Final Solution is the most detailed, careful, and comprehensive analysis to date of the descent of the Nazi persecution of the Jews into mass murder: the Holocaust. Arguing that... -
The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution David Runciman 9781800815926
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58'A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times 'He has that gift ... to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' Observer What can Samuel Butler's ideas... -
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra 9780241954669
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE... -
Lost World of Rhodes: Greeks, Italians, Jews & Turks Between Tradition & Modernity by Nathan Shachar
Booksplease Price: $45.24Four peoples, each with its own culture, language and faith, shared a small Mediterranean town and experienced, each in its own way, the upheavals of war, modernity, emigration and occupation. With... -
The Story of a Life: ‘A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement’ Telegraph by Konstantin Paustovsky
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.69Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarkable new translation.'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' Telegraph'One of the... -
To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism by Rob Riemen 9780393635867
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.75Thomas Mann and Albert Camus understood something many political scientists still find difficult to fathom. Deprived of any coherent theory, fascism is characterised by its politics of resentment,... -
The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.35'Not Le Carre, not Deighton, not Ludlum have surpassed the intelligence, authenticity or engrossing storytelling that established The Mask of Dimitrios as the best of its kind' The TimesEnglish crime... -
Confronting Leviathan: A History of Ideas by David Runciman
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.58'Bracingly intelligent ... a wonderful read' Guardian 'Incredibly timely ... presented [with] wonderful elegance and clarity' Irish Times Based on the History Of Ideas podcast series by Talking... -
How Democracy Ends by David Runciman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.58'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world... -
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms 9780241275962 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.20'A dazzling perspective on the EU referendum debate' Prospect Magazine Britain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe's history. It has invaded and been invaded, changed... -
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'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... -
The Warrior's Life by Alfred De Vigny 9780141392806
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11At the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a generation of French soldiers found themselves haunted by defeat and disappointment. One of these soldiers was Alfred de Vigny, an aristocratic poet who also... -
On Politics by Alan Ryan
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67A magisterial, one-volume history of political thought from Herodotus to the present, Ancient Athens to modern democracy - from author and professor Alan RyanThis is a book about the answers that... -
My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File by Katherine Verdery 9780822370819
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.79As Katherine Verdery observes, "There's nothing like reading your secret police file to make you wonder who you really are." In 1973 Verdery began her doctoral fieldwork in the Transylvanian region... -
The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl by Alexander Watson 9780141986333
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.22WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY AND THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A BBC... -
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East by Eugene Rogan 9780465097425
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $20.01By 1914 the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and they pulled the Middle East along with them into one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. In The Fall of the... -
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen
RRP: $23.44Booksplease Price: $17.41The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific colonies, and the Ottoman provinces in the...