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Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL AND THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2022'A terrific read ... McMeekin is a superb writer' David Aaronovitch, The Times 'Gripping,... -
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78At the turn of the century, the Russian economy was growing by about 10% annually and its population had reached 150 million. By 1920 the country was in desperate financial straits and more than 20... -
The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin 9781541675483
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541675483Author Sean McMeekinFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
The Russian Origins of the First World War by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £17.99The 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... -
July 1914: Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin 9780465060740
Booksplease Price: £18.40When an assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, no one could have imagined the shocking bloodshed that would soon follow. Indeed, as award-winning historian Sean McMeekin... -
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism by Sean McMeekin 9781541601963
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541601963Author Sean McMeekinFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
History's Greatest Heist: The Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks by Sean McMeekin 9780300135589
Booksplease Price: £55.45How Lenin's regime turned Russia's priceless cultural patrimony into armored cars, trains, planes, and machine guns Historians have never resolved a central mystery of the Russian Revolution: How did... -
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672789Author Sean McMeekinFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism Sean McMeekin 9781911723530
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £25.94Three decades since the Soviet Union’s collapse prompted Francis Fukuyama to proclaim the ‘End of History’, things look different. Russia may no longer be Communist, but Stalin is more admired there... -
Stalin's War: A New History of World War II by Sean McMeekin 9781541672796
Booksplease Price: £41.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541672796Author Sean McMeekinFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books -
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.43'An outstanding history ... one of the best writers on the First World War' Simon Sebag MontefioreShortlisted for the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military LiteratureThe Ottoman Endgame is the... -
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power by Sean McMeekin 9780674064324
Booksplease Price: £26.85The modern Middle East was forged in the crucible of the First World War, but few know the full story of how war actually came to the region. As Sean McMeekin reveals in this startling... -
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 by Sean McMeekin 9780143109808
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109808Author Sean McMeekinFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
The Berlin-Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany's Bid for World Power, 1898-1918 by Sean McMeekin
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51WINNER 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... -
A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War Keith Fisher 9780141999630
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'An immensely valuable guide to a great and terrible industry' The Economist 'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael... -
The Arabs: A History - Revised and Updated Edition by Eugene Rogan
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73THE THIRD EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, REVISED AND UPDATED'A rich, galloping narrative that spans the Arab world...outstanding, gripping and exuberant...full of flamboyant character... -
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780141992778
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman... -
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past and the Journey Home by Mark Mazower
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23SHORLISTED 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... -
The Habsburg Monarchy 1809-1918: A History of the Austrian Empire and Austria-Hungary by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51A history of the Habsburg monarchy from the end of the Holy Roman Empire to the monarchy's dissolution in 1918. The book offers an insight into the problems inherent in the attempt to give peace,... -
A History of Venice by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Renowned historian, and author of A Short History of Byzantium, John Julius Norwich's classic history of VeniceA History of Venice tells the story of this most remarkable of cities from its founding... -
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... -
Contesting the Origins of the First World War: An Historiographical Argument by Troy Paddock
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.80Contesting the Origins of the First World War challenges the Anglophone emphasis on Germany as bearing the primary responsibility in causing the conflict and instead builds upon new perspectives to... -
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 by Eugene Rogan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51*FULLY UPDATED WITH A NEW FOREWORD*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016'Truly essential' Simon Sebag MontefioreThe final destruction of the... -
Revolutionary Monsters: Five Men Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny by Donald Critchlow
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.99Lenin. Mao. Castro. Mugabe. Khomeini. All sparked movements in the name of liberating their people from their oppressors-capitalists, foreign imperialists, or dictators in their own country. These... -
Turkey and the Soviet Union During World War II: Diplomacy, Discord and International Relations by Onur Isci 9780755636624
Booksplease Price: £34.84Based on newly accessible Turkish archival documents, Onur Isci's study details the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II. Turkish-Russian... -
Hitler's Shadow Empire: Nazi Economics and the Spanish Civil War by Pierpaolo Barbieri
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.13Pitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco's Nationalists prevailed with German... -
The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd 9781324116813
Booksplease Price: £16.02Writing in the 1920s, Winston Churchill argued that the First World War on the Eastern Front was "incomparably the greatest war in history. In its scale, in its slaughter, in the exertions of the... -
We Shall Be Masters: Russian Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin by Chris Miller 9780674292147
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.77"Miller's terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big mistake."-Michael... -
The Eastern Front: A History of the First World War Nick Lloyd 9780241992098
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'The First World War from a refreshingly unfamiliar angle . . . masterly' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times 'Compelling . . . The Eastern Front is essential reading' Margaret Macmillan, Financial... -
A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire by Geoffrey Wawro 9780465057955
Booksplease Price: £22.92The Austro-Hungarian army that marched east and south to confront the Russians and Serbs in the opening campaigns of World War I had a glorious past but a pitiful present. Speaking a mystifying array...