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Access to History: Mao's China 1936-97 Fourth Edition by Michael Lynch
£25.21Exam board: AQA; Pearson EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge... -
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty Elizabeth Norton 9781445605784
RRP: £10.99£7.46The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim... -
The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900 by T. M. Devine
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A superb book ... Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it' Andrew Marr, Sunday TimesEighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But there was in the same... -
The Fall of Boris Johnson: The Inside Story by Sebastian Payne
RRP: £22.00£15.87The Fall of Boris Johnson is the explosive inside account of how a prime minister lost his hold on power. From Sebastian Payne, former Financial Times Whitehall editor and author of Broken Heartlands.Winner - Parliamentary Book Awards, Best Political... -
Closing the Ring: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: £18.99£13.61Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally... -
Unruly Waters: How Mountain Rivers and Monsoons Have Shaped South Asia's History by Sunil Amrith
RRP: £10.99£7.99'An enthralling, elegantly written and, ultimately, profoundly alarming history' EconomistA bold new perspective on the history of South Asia, telling its story through its climate, and the long quest to tame its watersSouth Asia's history has been... -
From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its Identity: 1913–2023 by Vladimir N. Brovkin 9781032345987
RRP: £35.99£31.69This book integrates Soviet and post-Soviet Russian history into a coherent whole by focusing on the culture, role models, habits and behavior patterns that provide continuity between various political regimes, systems, and rulers from Vladimir Lenin to... -
Sport: A Very Short Introduction by Mike Cronin 9780199688340
RRP: £8.99£6.65Sport is big business; international in nature and the focus of much media and cultural attention. In this Very Short Introduction, Mike Cronin charts the history of sport, from its traditional origins in folk football and cock fighting to its position... -
Bloody London by David Fathers
RRP: £9.99£7.77An entertaining, revealing and beautifully illustrated walking guide to London's horrific history, Bloody London features walks that take in everything from Jack the Ripper's haunts, to the site of John Christie's house of horrors, to the plague outbreak... -
The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: The Story of Bela Guttman by David Bolchover
RRP: £9.99£7.48Before Pep Guardiola and before Jose Mourinho, there was Bela Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the celebrated coaches of the modern age. He was also a Holocaust survivor. In 1944, much of Europe had... -
A Taste for Treason: The Letter That Smashed a Spy Ring by Andrew Jeffrey
RRP: £14.99£10.06A gripping true story of wartime espionage. Dundee, 1937. When housewife Mary Curran became suspicious of hairdresser Jessie Jordan's frequent trips to Nazi Germany, she had no idea that she was about to be drawn into an international web of espionage... -
Bradshaw's Handbook to London George Bradshaw 9781784423322
RRP: £12.99£9.34A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's wonderfully illustrated guide to Victorian London, dating from 1862. Bradshaw's guide to London was published in a single volume as a handbook for visitors to the capital. It includes beautiful engravings of London... -
Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse
£13.63Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few "bad apples." But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this... -
A Tale Of Love And Darkness by Amos Oz
RRP: £10.99£7.99Discover Amos Oz's most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation*OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE*'A hero of mine, a moral as well as... -
Island Cross-talk: Pages from a Diary by Tomas O'Crohan 9780192819093
RRP: £11.99£9.24Written between 1919 and 1925, 'Island Cross-Talk' was the first book to come out of the Blasket Islands - that tiny, remote community off the west coast of Kerry. Springing from a powerful oral tradition, it captured the moment of transition from speech... -
Afghanistan (Revised Edition): A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War against the Taliban by Stephen Tanner 9780306818264
RRP: £18.99£13.61For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnessed history-shaping clashes between civilizations: Greek, Arab, Mongol, and Tartar, and, in more recent times, British, Russian, and... -
The Least of These: The Dark Story of Dublin's Foundling Hospital by Mark Roe
RRP: £20.00£15.27Lying at the very edge of the eighteenth-century city, behind high walls and forbidding gates, the Dublin Foundling Hospital was long viewed with horror and suspicion. Yet, following its closure, it seemed to have slipped from the city's memory. The... -
Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland by Alistair Moffat 9781838854386
RRP: £20.00£13.46The border between Scotland and England is rich in history. It has been the site of battles, treaties, castles and crossroads. It is also a place where both countries display their nationalism: Saltires flying in the north, the Cross of St George to the... -
Secret Manchester by Phil Page
RRP: £15.99£11.02The centre of Manchester is an area rich in social and cultural history. Its buildings, streets, churches and alleyways chart the journey from the rise of Victorian wealth through to today's vibrant metropolis, which is the most visited English city... -
Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando
RRP: £18.00£15.80Sculptor, architect, painter, playwright, and scenographer, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) was the last of the great universal artistic geniuses of early modern Italy, placed by both contemporaries and posterity in the same exalted company as Leonardo,... -
Barbarossa Through German Eyes: The Biggest Invasion in History by Jonathan Trigg 9781398115514
RRP: £10.99£7.46Spring 1941 - the Third Reich triumphant! Having taken over Germany in 1933, Hitler launched a series of lightning campaigns across Europe that crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, France, the Low Countries and then the Balkans. Only Great Britain had... -
Enemy Coast Ahead: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson Guy Gibson 9781784384906
RRP: £12.99£9.34Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF. Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the... -
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark Ravina 9780190088378
RRP: £25.99£19.16The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It... -
Formation: The Making of Nigeria, From Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule
RRP: £19.99£13.96Formation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that led to the creation of the modern Nigerian nation: from 1804 when the first Jihadists began their attack on a collection of independent nations to 1914 when the current shape of Nigeria... -
The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer
RRP: £14.99£10.95Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed millions of people in Medieval Europe. The Scourging Angel tells the story of Britain immediately before, during... -
The Alexiad by Anna Komnene
RRP: £16.99£12.28Written between 1143 and 1153 by the daughter of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos, The Alexiad is one of the most popular and revealing primary sources in the vast canon of medieval literature. Princess Anna Komnene, eldest child of the imperial... -
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones 9780571302932
RRP: £12.99£8.80An essential guide to the strange, sometimes sinister culture of contemporary Italy.When Tobias Jones first travelled to Italy, he expected to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors and famous writers. Instead, he... -
Castle: A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain by Marc Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.99Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this... -
de Romanis Book 1: dei et deae Katharine Radice (Stephen Perse Foundation, UK) 9781350100039
RRP: £19.99£18.01This is the new Latin course that you have long been waiting for! An introduction to both the Latin language and the cultural world of the Romans, it also develops English literacy skills through derivation tasks and two-way translation exercises,... -
Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt by Geraldine Pinch 9780195170245
RRP: £15.99£12.23Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture (ca. 3200 BC to AD 400), this 'Handbook of Egyptian Mythology' is a complete survey of Egyptian mythology.About the AuthorGeraldine Pinch is an Egyptologist at the Oriental Institute of Oxford University and a Member of... -
English Food: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss 9780007255573
RRP: £12.99£8.71'An absolute gem' Sunday Times 'A mouthwatering history' The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites readers on a unique journey through the centuries, exploring the... -
A Raid Over Berlin John Martin 9781912681198
RRP: £8.99£6.65A Sunday Times bestseller. A miraculous true-life Second World War survival story that is being featured on the BBC's ONE SHOW (The show attracts on average a daily audience of 5 million viewers) with a ten minute dramatised documentary to be broadcast... -
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Simon Baker 9781846072840
RRP: £14.99£11.11This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman history. Welcome to Rome as you've never seen it before -... -
The Dissidents: A Memoir of Working with the Resistance in Russia, 1960-1990 by Peter Reddaway 9780815737735
RRP: £25.00£22.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815737735Author Peter ReddawayFormat HardbackPage Count 370Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 780gDimensions(mm)... -
Annals and Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: £20.00£14.91Tacitus was the greatest historian of the Roman empire. Born in about AD 55, he served as administrator and leading senator. This career gave him an intimate view of the empire at its highest levels, experience brought to bear on his writing. His major... -
Th Essential Neruda: Selected Poems Pablo Neruda 9781852248628
RRP: £12.99£8.83Pablo Neruda (1904-73) was the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. A prolific, inspirational poet, he wrote many different kinds of poems covering a wide range of themes, notably love, death, grief and despair. His poetry celebrates the... -
Central Scotland: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy
RRP: £7.99£5.64The written history and archaeological records of Central Scotland takes us back to Pictish times some 5,000 years ago. The geology of the area stretches back a further 400 million years. The oldest rocks are found near Lesmahagow and in the Pentland... -
City of Lions by Jozef Wittlin
RRP: £12.99£8.80Lviv, Lwow, Lvov, Lemberg. Known by a variety of names, the City of Lions is now in western Ukraine. Situated in different countries during its history, it is a city located along the fault-lines of Europe's history. City of Lions presents two essays,... -
Eliminating Poverty in Britain by Helen Rowe 9781803992471
RRP: £18.99£14.32Can we really end poverty in Britain?Yes, we can.In this groundbreaking book, Helen Rowe brings together the latest research with stories from across Britain to show us that ending poverty in the twenty-first century is possible. She describes the... -
The Saffron Scourge: A History of Yellow Fever in Louisiana, 1796-1905 by Jo Ann Carrigan 9781935754480
RRP: £24.95£20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935754480Author Jo Ann CarriganFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint University of LouisianaPublisher University of LouisianaWeight(grams)...