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East Lothian Through Time by Liz Hanson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65East Lothian, previously known as Haddingtonshire, has both benefitted and suffered from its strategic location between Scotland's capital city and England's northernmost county. Prior to 1707, the... -
Pirate Ship 1660-1730 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.39Although pirates have a fascination which has resulted in the production of numerous books and documentaries in recent years (including titles by Osprey), no detailed depiction of their ships has... -
A History of the Crusades III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades by Steven Runciman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion'Steven... -
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein by Whitney Alyse Webb
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $20.96One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network... -
1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank McLynn
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Although 1759 is not a date as well known in British history as 1215, 1588, or 1688, there is a strong case to be made that it is the most significant year since 1066. In 1759 - the fourth year of... -
Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation by Andrew D. Lambert
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $10.37In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the... -
Luftwaffe X-Planes: German Experimental Aircraft of World War II by Griehl, Manfred 9781399018258
Booksplease Price: $13.39From jet planes and high altitude aircraft to radar-equipped fighters configured to deliver chemical weapons, numerous Luftwaffe planes were designed and reached prototype stage but never made it... -
Borderlines: A History of Europe, Told From the Edges by Lewis Baston 9781399723763
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $28.76'Beautiful. A true gem... [his] unique take on human nature through the history and heritage of the borderlands ends up being deeply moving.' - IRISH INDEPENDENT'Thrillingly unique, knowledgeable,... -
Secret Swanage and Around Andrew Jackson 9781398116641
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Swanage’s position on the Dorset coast has shaped its history since its earliest years. In 877 a Danish fleet threatening King Alfred’s army was destroyed in Swanage Bay and in the nineteenth century... -
A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told by Roy B Young 9781574417739
RRP: $48.24Booksplease Price: $41.54Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West, notable for his role in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. He was a product of his time,... -
Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons by Michael Haag
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.29An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the wealthiest and most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later, they were arrested,... -
House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $6.95King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the... -
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.18The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues... -
On the Trail of William Wallace by David R. Ross 9781913025168
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94On the Trail of William Wallace offers a refreshing insight into the life and heritage of the great Scots hero whose proud story is at the very heart of what it means to be Scottish, and whose effect... -
Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words Alan Clark 9780753826737
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.23Some of the most talked about books of recent years, Alan Clark's diaries provide a witty and irreverant insider's account of political life in Britain. Now in one volume.'From the moment the first... -
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution Dan Hicks 9780745346229
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.15New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020 'Essential' - Sunday Times 'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books 'A real game-changer'- Economist Walk into any Western museum today and you will... -
The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall's most treacherous stretch of coast Gavin Knight 9781784700997
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.05The Penwith Peninsula in Cornwall is where the land ends. In The Swordfish and the Star Gavin Knight takes us into this huddle of grey roofs at the edge of the sea at the beginning of the... -
The Anglo-Saxon World by Nicholas Higham
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $32.45The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these... -
The Art of War (Collins Classics) by Sun Tzu 9780008296445
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.50HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The ancient Chinese art of warfare written by military strategist Sun Tzu in the 5th century BC... -
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition by Ulysses S. Grant 9780674237858
Booksplease Price: $28.30"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."-Ron Chernow, author of Grant"Provides leadership lessons that can be obtained... -
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.68'Barthes' purpose is to tear away masks and demystify the signs, signals and symbols of the language of mass culture' The TimesIn this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes... -
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song by Paul Howard
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A... -
War before Civilization by Lawrence H. Keeley
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.56The myth of the peace-loving "noble savage" is persistent and pernicious. Indeed, for the last fifty years, most popular and scholarly works have agreed that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless,... -
Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world by Timothy Brook
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.' Sunday Telegraph Each of Vermeer's paintings tells a story. In one, a military officer... -
Secret Stockport by Ian Littlechilds
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.91Stockport sits on elevated ground 7 miles south-east of the city centre of Manchester. No part of Stockport is recorded in the Domesday Book but there are records that show a castle was built in the... -
The Complete Guide to German Armored Vehicles: Panzers, Jagdpanzers, Assault Guns, Antiaircraft, Self-Propelled Artillery, Armored Wheeled and Semi-Tracked Vehicles, and More by David Doyle 9781510716575
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.36Here is a jam-packed visual encyclopedia of the armored vehicles used by the Nazi forces in World War II. With over six hundred photos, many of which never before seen by the public, David Doyle book... -
The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some 9780874779912
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874779912Author Malidoma Patrice SomeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352 -
Blackways of Kent by Hylan Lewis 9781570037252
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $19.98This is a participant-observer's account of African American life in a small Southern town just prior to the Civil Rights era.Consisting of ""Blackways of Kent"" (1955), ""Millways of Kent"" (1958),... -
The Final Innings: The Cricketers of Summer 1939 by Christopher Sandford 9780750994699
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20The declaration of war against Germany on 3 September 1939 brought an end to the second (and as yet, final) Golden Age of English cricket. Over 200 first-class English players signed up to fight in... -
Weimar and Nazi Germany by Chris Hinton
Booksplease Price: $45.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719573439Author Chris HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint < -
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft 9781844137411
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within... -
The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis 9780195171570
RRP: $19.42Booksplease Price: $15.88What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these... -
Horology: An Illustrated Primer on the History, Philosophy and Science of Time, with an Overview of the Wristwatch and the Watch Industry by Barry Kaplan
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $32.03This beautifully illustrated volume provides an in-depth look at horology: the scientific study of time and timekeeping. Horology is a thorough introduction to the world of time and watchmaking... -
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Desperately important and impossible to put down. It is timeless. . . what shines clear from the testimonies is love - love which can make you do the most... -
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to... -
The Middle Ages Unlocked: A Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050-1300 by Katrin Kania
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26To our modern minds, the Middle Ages seem to mix the well-known and familiar with wildly alien concepts and circumstances. The Middle Ages Unlocked provides an invaluable introduction to this complex... -
The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm by John Connell 9781783784189
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.88Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the... -
The Silver Eagle: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 2) by Ben Kane
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.62The Forgotten Legion fought against almighty odds at the very edge of the known world - and lost.Now Brennus the Gaul, Tarquinius the Etruscan soothsayer and Romulus, bastard son of a Roman nobleman,... -
Person of Interest: Why Jesus Still Matters in a World that Rejects the Bible by J. Warner Wallace
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.58Join a cold-case detective as he uncovers the truth about Jesus using the same approach he employs to solve real murder cases.Detective J. Warner Wallace was skeptical of the Bible's claims about... -
Resistance, Refuge, Revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica Lennox Honychurch 9781739130329
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.44What happened to the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean in the wake of the European adventurers who claimed to have "discovered" them? While in some parts of the region they were decimated within a...