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Fascism by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £41.34This volume presents the best writings on the origins, development, success and failure of fascism outside Germany. By treating the problem in a global context, these essays together add tremendous... -
The Second Battle of the Marne by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78The First Battle of the Marne produced the so-called Miracle of the Marne, when French and British forces stopped the initial German drive on Paris in 1914. Hundreds of thousands of casualties later,... -
Warfare in World History by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52Despite the catastrophic effects of war, wars have also proved to be instrumental to long-term change in world history This text is the first of its kind to survey how warfare has developed from... -
The Treaty of Versailles: A Concise History by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.37Signed on 28 June 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the... -
The World War I Reader by Michael S. Neiberg 9780814758335
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78An accessible compilation of primary and secondary scholarship on the frequently misunderstood First World War Almost 100 years after the Treaty of Versailles was signed, World War I continues to be... -
The Treaty of Versailles: A Very Short Introduction by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.29Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the... -
Foch: Supreme Allied Commander in the Great War by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.77Ferdinand Foch is the prototype of the twentieth-century general. Better than any other general of the First World War, Foch came to understand how technology and modern alliance systems had changed... -
Fighting the Great War: A Global History by Michael S. Neiberg 9780674022515
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.33Despair at Gallipoli. Victory at Vimy Ridge. A European generation lost, an American spirit found. The First World War, the deadly herald of a new era, continues to captivate readers. In this lively... -
World War I Illustrated Atlas by Professor Michael S Neiberg 9781838863548
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £16.93World War I might conjure up images of the trenches of the Western Front where the fighting raged for nearly four and half years, but this was only part of what was truly a world war. It was a... -
The Blood of Free Men: The Liberation of Paris, 1944 by Michael S. Neiberg 9780465023998
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £23.70As the Allies struggled inland from Normandy in August of 1944, the fate of Paris hung in the balance. Other jewels of Europe,sites like Warsaw, Antwerp, and Monte Cassino,were, or would soon be,... -
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £18.20The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an explosion of passion that would rip the... -
Soldiers' Lives through History - The Nineteenth Century by Michael S. Neiberg 9780313332692
Booksplease Price: £66.89This is the story of the evolution of the citizen army throughout Western nations during the nineteenth century and up through World War I. The French Revolution had brought to Europe the concept of... -
Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe by Michael S. Neiberg 9780465075256
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.44After Germany's defeat in World War II, Europe lay in tatters. Millions of refugees were dispersed across the continent. Food and fuel were scarce. Britain was bankrupt, while Germany had been... -
When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance by Michael S. Neiberg 9780674293885
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £16.34Winner of the Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award"Deeply researched and forcefully written . . . deftly explains the confused politics and diplomacy that bedeviled the war against... -
The Western Front 1914-1916: From the Schlieffen Plan to Verdun and the Somme by Professor Michael S Neiberg
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.22After the first few months of World War I, the Western Front consisted of a relatively static line of trench systems which stretched from the coast of the North Sea southwards to the Swiss border. To... -
The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America by Michael S. Neiberg 9780190464967
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £21.16America's entry into World War One in April 1917 marked the end of one era in the nation's history and the start of another. As acclaimed historian Michael S. Neiberg reveals in his compelling new... -
Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen by Christopher Capozzola 9780199734795
RRP: £33.49Booksplease Price: £33.00Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political... -
Cassino '44 James Holland 9780857505538
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53'It should become a standard work on this campaign' Telegraph'James Holland is now our foremost authority on the Italian campaign' John C. McManus'A heart-pounding narrative of the brutal Allied... -
Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War by Martha Hanna
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.13Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted. With Paul in the army from 1914 through 1919, they were forced to conduct their marriage... -
Warfare and Culture in World History by Wayne E. Lee 9780814752784
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21It has long been acknowledged that the study of war and warfare demands careful consideration of technology, institutions, social organization, and more. But, for some, the so-called "war and... -
The Russian Origins of the First World War by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £14.84The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle. Since World War II, Germany has been... -
Cassino '44: Five Months of Hell in Italy James Holland 9781804993637
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJames Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The... -
Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities after the Great War by Marcus Payk
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.27The settlement of Versailles was more than a failed peace. What was debated at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920 hugely influenced how nations and empires, sovereignty, and the international... -
Beyond Versailles: Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and the Formation of New Polities after the Great War by Marcus Payk 9780253040916
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The settlement of Versailles was more than a failed peace. What was debated at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920 hugely influenced how nations and empires, sovereignty, and the international... -
Thunder and Flames: Americans in the Crucible of Combat, 1917-1918 by Edward G. Lengel 9780700627837
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award. Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book Award.November 1917. The American troops were poorly trained, deficient in military... -
Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918 by Meighen McCrae
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.10When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to continue into 1919, the... -
Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918 by Daniel J. Hughes
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.16An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the... -
Family Histories of World War II: Survivors and Descendants by Dr Roisin Healy
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.06Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe... -
The French Resistance by Olivier Wieviorka
Booksplease Price: £35.96"Whatever happens, the flame of French resistance must not and will not go out." As Charles de Gaulle ended his radio address to the French nation in June 1940, listeners must have felt a surge of... -
A Religious History of the American GI in World War II by G Kurt Piehler
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £43.02A Religious History of the American GI in World War II breaks new ground by recounting the armed forces' unprecedented efforts to meet the spiritual needs of the fifteen million men and women who... -
Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students by Donald Alexander Downs
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £62.53Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing... -
Saving Europe: First World War Relief and American Identity Tammy M. Proctor 9780197584361
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.24"First we crushed our enemy, then saved him from starvation," Walter Cronkite intoned in a 1963 episode of the CBS television series The Twentieth Century. Designed to commemorate the upcoming... -
Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire by Joshua A. Sanborn 9780199642052
Booksplease Price: £57.95Imperial Apocalypse describes the collapse of the Russian Empire during World War One. Drawing material from nine different archives and hundreds of published sources, this study ties together state... -
Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students by Donald Alexander Downs 9780521156707
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.75Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing... -
Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire by Joshua A. Sanborn 9780198745686
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £32.50Imperial Apocalypse describes the collapse of the Russian Empire during World War One. Drawing material from nine different archives and hundreds of published sources, this study ties together state... -
Rethinking World War Two: The Conflict and its Legacy by Jeremy Black
Booksplease Price: £30.87History is both the past and our accounts of the past. In Rethinking World War Two, Jeremy Black explores the contesting accounts and interpretations of the war, critically examining the leading... -
Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union by Guy Verhofstadt
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £22.66Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalogue of ills seems endless: an economic crisis spread through most of Europe's Mediterranean tier that has crippled Greece... -
Counterterrorism Between the Wars: An International History, 1919-1937 by Mary S. Barton 9780198864042
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £81.72Mary S. Barton explores counterterrorism in the years between World War I and World War II, starting with the attempted assassination of French Prime Minister George Clemenceau in 1919, and taking... -
Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict Michael P.M. Fox 9780700640560
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.78This innovative approach to the history of World War I looks at ways in which military actors saw and perceived war, and how that exerted a significant influence over the decisions they made and the... -
Environmental Histories of the First World War by Richard P. Tucker
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £24.60This anthology surveys the ecological impacts of the First World War. Editors Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmidt bring together a list of experienced authors who...