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Olympia by Taylor Downing 9781844574704
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.83Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia (1938) is one of the most controversial films ever made. Capitalising on the success of Triumph of the Will (1935), her propaganda film for the Nazi Party, Riefenstahl... -
1942: Britain at the Brink by Taylor Downing
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator' Dan Snow, History Hit'Vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Sheds intriguing light on just... -
1983: The World at the Brink by Taylor Downing
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw. Indeed, his narrative is so persuasive that by the... -
1942: Britain at the Brink Taylor Downing 9781408713709
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $10.89'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator.' Dan Snow, History HitEighty years... -
Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme by Taylor Downing 9780349141015
Booksplease Price: $27.98Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness.When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a... -
The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception by Taylor Downing 9781837731572
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.72The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception tells the remarkable story of the deceptions, hoaxes and misdirections carried out by the Allies ahead of the most pivotal moment of the Second... -
The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception Taylor Downing 9781837731589
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.08The Army That Never Was: D-Day and the Great Deception tells the remarkable story of the deceptions, hoaxes and misdirections carried out by the Allies ahead of the most pivotal moment of the Second... -
1942: Winston Churchill and Britain's Darkest Hour by Taylor Downing 9781639362325
RRP: $28.90Booksplease Price: $27.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639362325Author Taylor DowningFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus... -
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Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme by Taylor Downing 9781408706619 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $4.21Paralysis. Stuttering. The 'shakes'. Inability to stand or walk. Temporary blindness or deafness.When strange symptoms like these began appearing in men at Casualty Clearing Stations in 1915, a... -
Secret Warriors: Key Scientists, Code Breakers and Propagandists of the Great War by Taylor Downing
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $5.17The First World War is often viewed as a war fought by armies of millions living and fighting in trenches, aided by brutal machinery that cost the lives of many. But behind all of this a scientific... -
The Army That Never Was: George S. Patton and the Deception of Operation Fortitude by Taylor Downing 9781639367542
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $26.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639367542Author Taylor DowningFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus... -
Spies In The Sky: The Secret Battle for Aerial Intelligence during World War II by Taylor Downing
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.75SPIES IN THE SKY is the thrilling, little-known story of the partner organisation to the famous code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park. It is the story of the daring reconnaissance pilots who took... -
Night Raid: The True Story of the First Victorious British Para Raid of WWII by Taylor Downing
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.35The loss of British bombers over Occupied Europe began to reach alarming levels in 1941. Could it be that the Germans were using a sophisticated form of radar to direct their night fighters and... -
Churchill's War Lab: Code Breakers, Boffins and Innovators: the Mavericks Churchill Led to Victory by Taylor Downing 9780349122496
Booksplease Price: $27.98The man, and the only man we have for this hour.' Indefatigable patriot, seasoned soldier, incomparable orator and leader of men - Winston Churchill's greatness in leading Britain's coalition... -
The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West by Bridget Kendall
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.15The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It... -
A War Of Nerves Ben Shephard 9780712667838
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $20.05'I wish you could be here," the Oxford Professor of Medicine wrote to a friend in 1915, "in this orgy of neuroses and psychoses and gaits and paralyses. I cannot imagine what has got into the central... -
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Cold War: For Forty-five Years the World Held its Breath by Jeremy Isaacs 9780349120805 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $3.11Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that... -
Cold War: For Forty-five Years the World Held its Breath by Jeremy Isaacs
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that... -
History and the Media by Mr David Cannadine 9780230517806
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $30.52This book examines the boom in history, in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historians and broadcasters, such as Melvyn Bragg, Simon... -
The Boyfriend Contract Jenn P. Nguyen 9781250419828
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35Taylor Simmons is screwed. Things were hard enough when her dedication to her studies earned her the title of Ice Queen, but after she got drunk at a party and woke up next to bad boy surfer Evan... -
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History by John Lewis Gaddis
Booksplease Price: $84.04The end of the Cold War makes it possible, for the first time, to begin writing its history from a truly international perspective, one reflecting Soviet, East European, and Chinese as well as... -
History and the Media by Mr David Cannadine 9781403920379
RRP: $141.89Booksplease Price: $131.84This book examines the boom in history, in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historians and broadcasters, such as Melvyn Bragg, Simon... -
If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.36Winner of the Longman-History Today Book Prize 2016 On a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the... -
Winston Churchill: The Prime Ministers Series Peter Caddick-Adams 9781800753570
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26'Excellent summation ... The fundamentals of Churchill's extraordinary life stand out true and clear, and his example of leadership is revived for a new generation' International Churchill Society ... -
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book tells a painful story that is probably not yet over' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph ... -
Nazis and the Cinema by Susan Tegel 9781847250001
Booksplease Price: $90.34Before the rise of television, the cinema was a key medium of entertainment and information. The Nazi regime, which inherited the largest film industry outside Hollywood, realised this clearly, with... -
Nazis and the Cinema by Susan Tegel 9781847252111
Booksplease Price: $44.18Before the rise of television, the cinema was a key medium of entertainment and information. The Nazi regime, who inherited the largest film industry outside Hollywood, realised this clearly, with... -
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War by Jonathan Fennell 9781107609877
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $27.34Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and... -
Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War by David Edgerton 9780141026107
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEARThe familiar image of the British in the Second World War is that of the plucky underdog taking on German might. David Edgerton's bold, compelling new history shows the... -
Fighting the People's War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War by Jonathan Fennell 9781107030954
Booksplease Price: $55.43Fighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and... -
Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 by Waldo H. Heinrichs 9780190616755
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $31.86On 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers,... -
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front by Jonathan Boff 9780199670468
RRP: $41.91Booksplease Price: $34.92During the First World War, the British army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the... -
Haig's Enemy: Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front by Jonathan Boff
RRP: $22.56Booksplease Price: $17.87During the First World War, the British Army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the... -
The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact with Hitler by Ben Urwand 9780674088108
RRP: $34.77Booksplease Price: $30.03To continue doing business in Germany after Hitler's ascent to power, Hollywood studios agreed not to make films that attacked the Nazis or condemned Germany's persecution of Jews. Ben Urwand reveals...