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Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £18.99£12.52In 1956 the Suez Crisis finally shattered the old myths of the British Empire and paved the way for the tumultuous changes of the decades to come. In NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD, Dominic Sandbrook takes a fresh look at the dramatic story of affluence and... -
The Hitler Years ~ Triumph 1933-1939 by Frank McDonough
RRP: £12.00£8.69'One of the books of the year' DAN SNOW. 'This year's Christmas No.1' PETER FRANKOPAN. 'A masterclass in the history of Nazi Germany, with an internationally renowned expert as the teacher' GET HISTORY. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed... -
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
RRP: £16.99£10.21ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The TimesA century... -
The Eagle and the Bear: A New History of Roman Scotland by John H. Reid
RRP: £17.99£12.60For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ancient world. This richly illustrated new history of Roman Scotland explores the complex, often... -
Still Life by Sarah Winman
RRP: £8.99£6.27THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Over 500,000 copies sold internationally A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime ... -
Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century: Multidisciplinary Studies of the Latin East by Gil Fishhof 9780367772451
RRP: £37.99£34.94Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century sheds new light on formerly less explored aspects of the crusading movement and the Latin East during the thirteenth century.In commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the construction of 'Atlit Castle,... -
Around Porth: The Story Behind the Picture by Aldo Bacchetta 9780752424965
RRP: £23.95£15.84This fascinating collection of archive images captures the essence of community life in Porth during the last century and the town's intrinsic role in the industrial and commercial history of the Rhondda.The rural character of this part of South Wales is... -
The King Over the Water: A Complete History of the Jacobites by Desmond Seward
RRP: £14.99£10.05Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty, passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the British throne. Although its failure brought... -
The Badges of Kitchener's Army by David Bilton
RRP: £30.00£21.95Badges of Kitchener's Army is based on thirty years research in museums, archives and collections. It is an exhaustive study of the development of the battalion, brigade and divisional signs of the thirty divisions raised by Kitchener's appeal for men. ... -
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project by Leslie Groves
RRP: £15.99£10.14General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for... -
The Highland Clans by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £9.99£6.86The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of a fearless people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Here, he traces... -
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker 9781789147735
RRP: £10.99£8.02Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source... -
Genius and Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 by Norman Lebrecht
RRP: £11.99£8.68A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women... -
Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention by Cathy Newman
RRP: £9.99£6.89'A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing' Caitlin Moran 'Newman is a brilliant writer' Observer A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but... -
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781471111235
RRP: £16.99£12.08WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few... -
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
RRP: £25.00£16.53A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History 'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year... -
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943 by John C. McManus
RRP: £19.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451475053Author John C. McmanusFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend
RRP: £17.49£12.61In November 1519, Hernando Cortes walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always following the... -
Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award by Susan Abulhawa
RRP: £9.99£7.36'A thrilling, defiant novel' FATIMA BHUTTO 'A masterpiece' MARC LAMONT HILL 'Wonderful ... Shines a ray of hope into some very dark places' MICHAEL PALIN 'A fearless work of imagination' AHDAF SOUEIF Winner of the Palestine Book Award Nahr has... -
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
RRP: £10.99£8.02A TLS, GUARDIAN AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020The new bestseller from the acclaimed author of Justice and one of the world's most popular philosophers"Astute, insightful, and empathetic...A crucial book for this moment" Tara Westover, author of... -
Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
RRP: £12.99£9.34A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph' Guardian 'Glorious ... makes the past at once familiar, exotic and thrilling.' Dominic Sandbrook 'A brilliant book' Mail on Sunday Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing... -
Dartmoor 365: An exploration of every one of the 365 square miles in the Dartmoor National Park by John Hayward
RRP: £12.99£11.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916485310Author John HaywardFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Curlew PublicationsPublisher Curlew PublicationsWeight(grams) 640g -
Siege of Budapest 1944-45: The Brutal Battle for the Pearl of the Danube by Balazs Mihalyi
RRP: £15.99£11.61A gripping and detailed study of the brutal urban battle for Budapest, which saw German and Hungarian troops struggling to halt the joint Soviet-Romanian offensive to take the key city on the Danube. The 52-day-long siege of Budapest witnessed some of... -
Memoirs From Beyond The Grave by Alex Andriesse
RRP: £14.99£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681371290Author Alex AndriesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,... -
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £18.99£14.01SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, LONDON EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more... -
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant
RRP: £9.99£7.36A STORY OF UNSUNG BRAVERY AT A DEFINING MOMENT IN BRITAIN'S HISTORY 'Superb' Stephen Fry 'Thrillingly told' Dan Jones 'Fascinating' Neil MacGregor 'Astonishing' Peter Frankopan We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with... -
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra 9780241954669
RRP: £10.99£8.02Pankaj 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 2013Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress,... -
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
RRP: £12.99£8.43I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her.At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and... -
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer
RRP: £25.00£16.53AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand... -
A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun by Jonathan Clements
RRP: £13.99£9.18This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. ... -
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: £9.99£6.73The explosive, untold story of the Cold War's biggest secret. The REAL X-Files.It is the most famous military installation in the world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his time inside of it. Until now. This is the first book... -
The Shankill Butchers: A Case Study of Mass Murder by Martin Dillon
RRP: £10.99£8.02The bestselling investigation of one of Northern Ireland's most brutal and infamous murder cases'Makes for gripping but altogether terrifying reading' Washington Times'Dillon is recommended reading for anyone wishing to understand the complexities of... -
A Brief History of Vietnam: Colonialism, War and Renewal: The Story of a Nation Transformed by Bill Hayton
RRP: £14.99£9.75A comprehensive guide to understanding Vietnam's long and tumultuous historyA Brief History of Vietnam explores the turbulent history of a land that has risen from the ashes of war to become the newest Asian tiger economy. This book expertly examines the... -
The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson
RRP: £20.00£14.69Fifty years since first publication, E. P. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael KennyThis classic and imaginative account of... -
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
RRP: £14.99£9.57Shortlisted for the Wolfson History PrizeA Sunday Times Paperback of the YearThe Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic-Asian antithesis of the Christian-European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans' multiethnic,... -
Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time by Rebecca Struthers
RRP: £22.00£13.83A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.' STEPHEN FRY'Forty-thousand years of our relationship with time condensed into 288 pages: a hugely entertaining achievement.' ESQUIRE'5/5 A true joy... -
The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth by Anna Keay
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A superb biography, which paints a vivid picture of the times and of her subject' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating, compelling, outrageous and ultimately tragic' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'It is the best royal biography I have read in years' A.N. Wilson ... -
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East by James Holland
RRP: £10.99£8.02'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times'A first-rate popular history of a fascinating and neglected battle... a veritable page-turner' BBC HistoryIn February 1944, a rag-tag collection of clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops,... -
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios 9780349009254
RRP: £25.00£15.95New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage.So begins the remarkable true story of the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis, one of the world's deadliest plagues, told alongside the often strange chronicle of the... -
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
RRP: £10.99£7.37'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics From the bestselling author of...