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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... -
The Good War: Why We Couldn't Win the War or the Peace in Afghanistan by Jack Fairweather
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $21.32A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award winning author of The Volunteer.In its earliest days, the American-led... -
A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.51THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE WHO ENJOYS A TIPPLE . . . OR TWO . . . OR TEN! Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place... -
An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown 9781846974809
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to... -
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Real White Queen And Her Rivals by Philippa Gregory
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen(2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen(2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Lady of the Rivers (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa... -
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40From the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. The... -
The Coffin Roads: Journeys to the West by Ian Bradley
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book... -
A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23 by Diarmaid Ferriter
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in response, the... -
Arrow in the Blue by Arthur Koestler
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second only in importance... -
Auschwitz: A History by Sybille Steinbacher
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated... -
Yorkshire: A lyrical history of England's greatest county Richard Morris 9781780229096
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Restless, poetic, strange ... and the territory it describes deserves nothing less' Observer'Glittering and energetic' Country LifeYorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain,... -
Morris Minor by Gillian Bardsley 9781445668987
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70At its launch in 1948 the Morris Minor was an exciting and fresh concept, with radical engineering and daring 'American' styling. Morris Motors had given a young engineer named Alec Issigonis his... -
The Oxford History of Modern Europe by T. C. W. Blanning
RRP: $22.10Booksplease Price: $17.63Written by eleven contributors of international standing, this book offers a readable and authoritative account of Europe's turbulent history from the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century... -
Kebra Nagast (The Book of the Glory of Kings) by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallace Budge 9781909735019
RRP: $16.01Booksplease Price: $15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909735019Author Sir Ernest Alfred Wallace BudgeFormat PaperbackPage Count -
Ardoyne '69: Stories of Struggle and Hope by Brian McKee 9781786051004
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786051004Author Brian McKeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint -
Churchill by Roy Jenkins
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50From the admiralty to the miner's strike, from the Battle of Britain to eventual victory over Nazi Germany, Churchill oversaw some of the most important events the world has ever seen. Winning the... -
Zen and Japanese Culture by Daisetz T. Suzuki 9780691182964
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $27.27Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts. In simple and poetic... -
On the Trail of Robert the Bruce by David R. Ross 9781913025137
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94This text is an illustrated story of Scotland's hero-king and freedom-fighter. The text follows the life of Robert the Bruce from boyhood onwards, with a blow-by-blow account of how he led the Scots... -
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 by Ritchie Robertson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary ReviewThe Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it... -
Rasputin's Killer and his Romanov Princess by Coryne Hall 9781398122499
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56When the Tsar’s eighteen-year-old niece Princess Irina Romanov announced her marriage to Prince Felix Youssoupov, heir to the richest fortune in Russia, the Imperial family were shocked. Prince Felix... -
Newcastle upon Tyne: Mapping the City by Michael Barke
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.79Newcastle has a long and distinguished history through two millennia: a Roman fortress at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall; an important centre of monasticism; a 'royal' bulwark against attacks and... -
Irish Fairy Tales and Folklore by W. B. Yeats
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.97A classic collection of Irish fairy tales and lore by Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and poet W. B. Yeats Originally published as two separate volumes in 1800s, this premier collection of Irish... -
A-Z Secret Edinburgh Walks by A-Z maps
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.64Discover hidden gems around Edinburgh with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided... -
1916: The Easter Rising Tim Pat Coogan 9780753818527
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.58An account of the events, personalities and repercussions of the Irish rebellionThe Easter Rising began at 12 noon, 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of... -
A Long Way Gone: The True Story of a Child Soldier by Ishmael Beah
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10The first-person account of a 26-year-old who fought in the war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy. 'My new friends have begun to suspect that I haven't told them the full story of my... -
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us todayOver the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance,... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917-96 Alan Farmer 9781510418097
Booksplease Price: $15.41Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
How to Pass National 5 History: Second Edition John Kerr 9781510420960
Booksplease Price: $16.75Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018Fully updated to account for the removal of Unit Assessments and the changes to the National 5... -
Amazing Tales for Making Men out of Boys by Neil Oliver
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Discover inspiring stories of heroism, adventure, endurance and survival from throughout history. Captain Robert Falcon Scott didn't start out life as a hero. In fact, as a boy he was considered... -
On the Postcolony by Achille Mbembe
RRP: $34.84Booksplease Price: $26.67Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of post colonial studies writing today. In "On the Postcolony" he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a...