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Turkey: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75From the eminent historian Norman Stone, who has lived and worked in the country since 1997, comes this concise survey of Turkey's relations with its immediate neighbours and the wider world from the... -
The Eastern Front 1914-1917 by Norman Stone
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West. In... -
World War Two: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37A pacy, compelling and penetrating account - from the great Norman Stone'The best short primer on the war in twenty years' Andrew RobertsNorman Stone's gripping book tells the narrative of the Second... -
World War One: A Short History by Norman Stone
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Do we need another history of the First World War? The answer in the case of Norman Stone's short book is, yes - because of its opinionated freshness and the unusual, sharp facts that fly about... -
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The Ice by Laline Paull 9780007557776 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64An electrifying story of friendship, power and betrayal by the bestselling, Baileys-prize shortlisted author of The Bees. 'A memorable eco-thriller... -
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66Adam Tooze's The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy provides a groundbreaking new account of how Hitler established himself in power, mobilized for war - and led his... -
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.49'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... -
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.37'The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was' Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the... -
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... -
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy Maclean
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.3770th Anniversary Edition with a New Foreword by Sunday Times Bestselling Author Simon Sebag Montefiore'A classic' Observer | 'A legend' Washington Post | 'The best book you will read this year'... -
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Against the Grain: An Autobiography by B.N. El'tsin 9780224027496 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $1.68A combination of straightforward autobiography - his family background, education and career - and an account of the election campaign of 1989 when Yeltsin stood as a candidate for the Central Moscow... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781853267758
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $5.37Translated by C.E.Detmold. With an Introduction by Lucille Margaret Kekewich.Written in 1513 for the Medici, following their return to power in Florence, The Prince is a handbook on ruling and the... -
Russia's War by Richard Overy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.66In Russia's War: 1941-1945, Richard Overy re-creates the Soviet Union's apocalyptic struggle against Nazi Germany, from the point of view both of the troops and of the ordinary civilians. In the... -
Russia's War by Richard Overy 9780140271690
RRP: $36.18Booksplease Price: $25.46RUSSIA'S WAR is the epic account of the greatest military encounter in human history. In a vivid, often shocking narrative, Richard Overy describes the astounding events of 1941-45 in which the... -
The Road to War: The Origins of World War II by Richard Overy
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested... -
Abandoned Castles by Kieron Connolly
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.17An ancient hilltop fortress. A crusader citadel in the West Bank. A fairytale medieval castle fallen into ruin. From ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century, Abandoned Castles explores... -
Wealth And Poverty Of Nations by David S. Landes
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59The history of nations is a history of haves and have-nots, and as we approach the millennium, the gap between rich and poor countries is widening. In this engrossing and important new work, eminent... -
Solitude by Anthony Storr 9780006543497
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10'Brings excellent news for those who, whatever their reasons for doing so, live alone ... Heartening' Anita Brookner, Spectator 'Storr is an... -
Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys among the defiant people of the Caucasus by Oliver Bullough
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Oliver Bullough's Let Our Fame be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant Peoples of the Caucasus is the extraordinary untold story of the inhabitants of the Caucasus and their unbreakable spirit. The... -
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... -
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Horace and the Haggis Hunter by Sally Magnusson 9781845025311 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $3.58Horace the Haggis, homeless and hunted, finds refuge among the animals of Acre Valley. But Angus McPhee, chief of the haggis hunters, and his deadly cat are out to trap him. Can a flower-eating fox,... -
The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945 by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07'A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday TelegraphWhat would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people... -
Dubrovnik: A History by Robin Harris 9780863569593
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $23.99Since emerging as a settlement in the seventh century, Dubrovnik held a significant position beyond what could have been expected of this tiny city-state. Its merchants, trading throughout the huge... -
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The Eu: An Obituary by John Gillingham 9781784784249 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $3.28With Britain leaving the EU, now is the time for an obituary for the EU as an institution. In this short, rigorously argued book, updated after Brexit, John R. Gillingham tells the history of an idea... -
Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.35It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots... -
Patrick Leigh Fermor: Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania by Michael O'Sullivan 9786155225642
RRP: $30.75Booksplease Price: $29.23This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermor's famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. This S.O.E. officer walked into Hungary as a youth... -
Keynes: The Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky 9780141043609
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37Robert Skidelsky's Keynes: The Return of the Master shows how the great economist's ideas not only explain why the current financial crisis occurred - but are our best way out. 'One would expect... -
They Made Great Britain: The Men and Women Who Shaped the Modern World by Adrian Sykes 9780956238733
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.14From the end of the last Ice Age (10,000 years ago) to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965, Adrian Sykes narrates the history and achievements of these islands,their inhabitants and their... -
Crimea by Orlando Figes
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Orlando Figes' Crimea is a powerful history of the Crimean War, the conflict that dominated the nineteenth century. The Crimean War one of the fiercest battles in Russia's history, killing nearly a... -
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... -
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08WINNER OF THE BARBARA JELAVICH BOOK PRIZE'Sean McMeekin has written a classic of First World War history ... This superb and original book is the reality behind Greenmantle' Norman StoneThe... -
Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe by Anne Applebaum
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A vivid and human glimpse into Europe's borderlands as they emerged from Soviet rule - back in print after nearly 20 years'In this superb book, in which one senses the spirit of Franz Kafka and Bruno... -
Complete Turkish Beginner to Intermediate Course: (Book and audio support) by Asuman Celen Pollard
RRP: $46.89Booksplease Price: $36.86Do you want to develop a solid understanding of Turkish and communicate confidently with others?Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and... -
1913: The World before the Great War by Charles Emmerson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'If Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful corrective' Scotsman2018 marks the centenary of the end of the... -
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Christopher Sykes 9780008121938
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography... -
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher 9780701187934 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $4.77On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he... -
The Last King Of Poland by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.13A superb study of one of the most important, romantic and dynamic figures of European history.'A fine book ... the web of political intrigue unfolds like an appetising detective novel' ScotsmanThe... -
The World After the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957 by Derek Leebaert
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.71One of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments... -
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman by Minoo Dinshaw
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.27'An extraordinary book ... exceptionally fascinating, always readable and penetratingly intelligent' David Abulafia'As rich, funny and teemingly peopled as Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of... -
Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses by Theodore Dalrymple 9781566636438
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.49This new collection of essays by the author of Life at the Bottom bears the unmistakable stamp of Theodore Dalrymple's bracingly clearsighted view of the human condition. In these pieces, Dr...