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Horace: A Very Short Introduction by Llewelyn Morgan 9780192849649
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Horace was one of the greatest poets during the reign of Augustus and is seen as a mark of cultural sophistication since this time. This Very Short Introduction examines how Horace's poetry has... -
The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols by Genevieve Von Petzinger
RRP: £11.99£8.43The First Signs is the first-ever exploration of the little-known geometric images that accompany most cave art around the world-the first indications of symbolic meaning, intelligence, and language. Join renowned archaeologist Genevieve von... -
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War by Laurence Rees
RRP: £12.99£9.09'You have to read it' Volodymyr Zelensky'Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account' Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, author of Hitler: Hubris and Hitler: Nemesis'In this... -
The Sutton Hoo Story - Encounters with Early England by Martin Carver
RRP: £19.99£16.82A definitive account of Sutton Hoo, its discovery, history and famed treasure. The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant finds ever made in Europe. It lies in a burial ground which contains all the elements of archaeological mystery:... -
The Killing Ground: A Biography of Thermopylae by Myke Cole 9781472858665
RRP: £25.00£18.02An exploration into why and how Thermopylae is one of the most blood-soaked patches of ground in history - and what its past can tell us about our future. 'Brilliantly demonstrated.' - Tom Holland Since the dawn of the Classical Era up to World War... -
Court Number One: The Trials and Scandals that Shocked Modern Britain by Thomas Grant
RRP: £12.99£8.60A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR'Superbly told' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph'A hamper of treats' Sunday Telegraph'[Grant employs] scholarship and depth of evidence' London Review of Books'These... -
The War of Wars: The Epic Struggle Between Britain and France: 1789-1815 by Robert Harvey
RRP: £20.00£13.75Robert Harvey brilliantly recreates the story of the greatest conflict that stretches from the first blaze of revolution in Paris in 1789 to final victory on the muddy fields of Waterloo.On land and at sea, throughout the four corners of the continent,... -
Paris After the Liberation: 1944 - 1949 by Antony Beevor
RRP: £12.99£9.09A remarkable historical account of the chaos and uncertainty that followed the liberation of Paris in August, 1944'A beautifully written book about a vast tapestry of military, political and social upheaval. Remarkably well-researched, wise, balanced,... -
Yes To Life In Spite of Everything by Viktor E Frankl 9781846046360
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Viktor Frankl gives us the gift of looking at everything in life as an opportunity' Edith Eger, bestselling author of The Choice'Offers a path to finding hope even in these dark times' The New York Times A rediscovered masterpiece by the 16 million... -
SHP History Year 8 Pupil's Book by Christopher Culpin
£29.65Develop your students' understanding and skills step by step with Schools History Project's carefully planned approach to Key Stage 3.Part of the dynamic and coherent book-per-year course, this textbook combines expertise in course planning with features... -
Battle Tactics of the Civil War by Paddy Griffith
RRP: £9.99£9.61In Battle Tactics of the Civil War, Paddy Griffith argues that, far from being the first 'modern' war, it was the last 'Napoleonic' war, and that none of the innovations of industrialized warfare had any signiticant effect on the outcome. 'Provocative,... -
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz
RRP: £11.99£8.00Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for `gross... -
The Voice: 40 years of Black British Lives The Voice 9781529902426
RRP: £20.00£14.29Launched at the 1982 Notting Hill Carnival, The Voice newspaper captured and addressed a generation figuring out what it meant to be Black and British. Written for and by Black people, the newspaper shone a light on systematic injustices as well as... -
Reveal: Robbie Williams by Chris Heath 9781911274919
RRP: £20.00£6.49An intimate, funny and frank account of the moments behind the music, of the truth behind the headlines and of the fascinatingly complicated man behind the imperious entertainer, Reveal is Robbie Williams as you've never seen him before.More than twelve... -
Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity by Gunter Bischof
RRP: £45.99£40.53When the Hapsburg monarchy disintegrated after World War I, Austria was not considered to be a viable entity. In a vacuum of national identity the hapless country drifted toward a larger Germany. After World War II, Austrian elites constructed a new... -
The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment: 11th, 29th and 54th of Foot 1958 - 2007 by Pen & Sword Books 9781844155538
RRP: £25.00£18.62Since its formation on 17 May 1958, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment has played an extremely full role in the British Army's order of battle, serving in Cyprus, British Guiana (Guyana), Northern Ireland, West Germany, Malta, British Honduras (Belize),... -
Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day by Brian Groom
RRP: £20.00£13.74A Waterstones Best History Book of 2022 The bestselling history of the North of England as told through the lives of its inhabitants. 'Entertaining' The Times ... -
The RAF at 100: A Century in Photographs by Mirrorpix
RRP: £12.00£8.93The Royal Air Force was formed in 1918 to defend the skies over Britain during the First World War and made a major contribution to winning one of the largest and most devastating conflicts of the twentieth century. Yet, when the war ended, its existence... -
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey
RRP: £20.00£15.44Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From... -
A Tudor Christmas by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking 'to drive the cold winter away'. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with a twelve-day-long festival of entertainments, pageants, theatre productions and 'disguisings', when... -
The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom by Adam Czerniakow 9781566632300
RRP: £16.99£15.51Adam Czerniakow was a Polish Jew who killed himself on July 23, 1942-on the face of it not an uncommon occurrence in those times. But there is more to the story than the tragic death of one man among so many millions. Czerniakow was for almost three... -
War in European History by Michael Howard 9780199546190
RRP: £13.99£9.75First published over thirty years ago, War in European History is a brilliantly written survey of the changing ways that war has been waged in Europe, from the Norse invasions to the present day. Far more than a simple military history, the book serves... -
First Facts Dinosaurs by DK
RRP: £6.99£5.13Find out facts about the incredible world of prehistoric animals in this first children's book about dinosaurs. Discover which dinosaur was as tall as a tree, who had horns and armour, and who was covered in feathers. Then see what these extinct animals... -
Latin Key Words: Learn Latin Easily: 2, 000-word Vocabulary Arranged by Frequency in a Hundred Units, with Comprehensive Latin and English Indexes by Jeremy Peter Toner 9780906672693
RRP: £11.95£8.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906672693Author Jeremy Peter TonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The Oleander PressPublisher The Oleander Press -
1421: The Year China Discovered The World by Gavin Menzies
RRP: £12.99£9.49On 8 March 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. The ships, some nearly five hundred feet long, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di's loyal eunuch admirals. Their mission was 'to proceed all the way to the end of the... -
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters by Steven E Koonin
RRP: £19.99£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Science/Technology) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781950665792Author Steven E. KooninFormat HardbackPage Count... -
A Brief History of Florence Nightingale: and Her Real Legacy, a Revolution in Public Health by Hugh Small
RRP: £10.99£2.26Praise for Small's earlier work on Nightingale: 'Hugh Small, in a masterly piece of historical detective work, convincingly demonstrates what all previous historians and biographers have missed . . . This is a compelling psychological portrait of a very... -
Fear and Loathing in La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid by Sid Lowe
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A history of modern Spain told through one of world football's most intense rivalries' Independent'Sports Book of the Year' Sunday TimesIt's Messi vs Ronaldo, it's Catalonia vs Castilla. It's the nation against the state, freedom fighters vs Franco's... -
NKJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Brown, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £30.00£20.53This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign... -
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: £16.99£12.28WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject in English for many decades to come' Roderick Beaton,... -
From Moths to Merlins: RAF West Malling: Premier Night Fighter Station by Robin J. Brooks 9781781553350
RRP: £14.99£11.55As a small club airfield during the 1930s, West Malling was very popular with flyers. Taken over by the RAF in 1939 it became a forward landing airfield to Biggin Hill. Unfinished by the time the Battle of Britain began, it played no operational part... -
Lives: Buddha by Karen Armstrong
RRP: £9.99£5.96'Karen Armstrong has been one of the most persistent and powerful voices in the eminently respectable task of popularising religious scholarship in the anglophone world' GUARDIAN'Her work has a broad sweep and that is extremely important' TLSBuddhism is... -
Visiting the Somme and Ypres Battlefields Made Easy: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals by Gareth Hughes
RRP: £12.99£10.95Recommended in the Foreign Office Ministerial Reading List - Summer 2014 It does what it says on the tin, introducing the reader to the nuances of planning an itinerary for the Somme or the Ypres Salient. A comprehensive beginners guide. -... -
Fleet Air Arm: Camouflage and Markings 1937 - 1941 by Stuart Lloyd
RRP: £24.95£17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905414086Author Stuart LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingPublisher Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Avoidable War?: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the Us and China by Kevin Rudd
RRP: £25.00£19.84The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and... -
Lady M: The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne 1751-1818 by Colin Brown
RRP: £9.99£6.64At a time of emerging women leaders, the life of Elizabeth Milbanke, Viscountess Melbourne, the shrewdest political hostess of the Georgian period, is particularly intriguing. It was Byron who called her 'Lady M' and it was Byron's tempestuous and very... -
Days in the Caucasus by Banine
RRP: £12.99£8.56We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the extraordinary memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic' childhood - of growing up in Azerbaijan in the turbulent early... -
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a vanished world' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is an astonishing new account of Alexander the... -
Lady Katherine Knollys: The Unacknowledged Daughter of King Henry VIII by Sarah-Beth Watkins 9781782795858
RRP: £9.99£8.59Katherine Knollys was Mary Boleyn's first child, born in 1524 when Mary was having an affair with King Henry VIII. Katherine spent her life unacknowledged as the king's daughter, yet she was given prime appointments at court as maid of honour to both... -
The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson
RRP: £10.99£7.51Often funny, sometimes chilling and always thought-provoking, journalist Jon Ronson's Sunday Times bestseller The Men Who Stare at Goats is a story so unbelievable it has to be true.In 1979 a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within...