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The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781509827954
RRP: £10.99£7.73The perfect introduction to one of the world's best-known classics.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect... -
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
RRP: £14.99£10.95In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration and a watershed literary event when in 1941 Let Us Now... -
Hodder GCSE (9-1) History for Pearson Edexcel: Migrants in Britain, c800-present and Notting Hill c1948-c1970 Robin Whitburn 9781398340558
£26.77Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2021First exam: Summer 2022Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel qualificationsLet Justice to History - one of the most respected organisations in the teaching community - guide... -
On Secret Service East of Constantinople: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire Peter Hopkirk 9780719564512
RRP: £12.99£8.83Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central Asia. It was a new and... -
Polly's War: An unforgettable family saga set in Manchester by Freda Lightfoot 9781804365564
RRP: £10.99£7.21Will she lose everything she's worked so hard for?The Second World War may be over, but the war in Polly Pride's home is only just beginning, and it will test her like never before.Her son, Benny, never seems to be far from trouble, spending all his time... -
Crusade in Europe by Dwight D Eisenhower
RRP: £17.50£12.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593314852Author Dwight D. EisenhowerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Samurai: The Last Warrior: A History by John Man 9780062202673
RRP: £16.99£13.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062202673Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
RRP: £12.99£8.801606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King... -
Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language by Peter Jones
RRP: £10.99£7.54Did you know that the word 'prestige' derives from the Latin word for 'illusion'? Or that 'infantry' stems from a Latin word meaning one who could not speak? In this original and highly entertaining book, Peter Jones reveals the roots of Latin words that... -
Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan
RRP: £14.99£10.05Previously published as PeacemakersBetween January and July 1919, after the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the leaders of the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson,... -
Mod Lib The Baburnama by W. M. Thackston
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375761379Author W.M. ThackstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)... -
Indaba, My Children: African Tribal History, Legends, Customs And Religious Beliefs by Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
RRP: £20.00£13.46First published in 1964, Indaba, My Children is an internationally acclaimed collection of African folk tales that chart the story of African tribal life since the time of the Phoenicians. It is these stories that have shaped Africa as we know it.About... -
A Bridge Too Far: The true story of the Battle of Arnhem by Cornelius Ryan
RRP: £10.99£7.50Arnhem 1944: the airborne strike for the bridges over the Rhine.The true story of the greatest battle of World War II and the basis of the 1977 film of the same name, directed by Richard Attenborough.The Battle of Arnhem, one of the most dramatic battles... -
Belonging: A Memoir of Place, Beginnings and One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies by Catherine Corless
RRP: £9.99£7.00When Catherine Corless began researching the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in Galway in 2010, she could not have known where her interest in local history would lead her. Uncovering no less than 796 missing burial records of children born there, the stark... -
Mummified: The Stories Behind Egyptian Mummies in Museums by Angela Stienne
RRP: £20.00£14.53Mummified explores the curious, unsettling and controversial cases of mummies held in French and British museums. From powdered mummies eaten as medicine to mummies unrolled in public, dissected for race studies and DNA-tested in modern laboratories,... -
The Memory Keeper: A Journey into the Past to Unearth Family Secrets by Jackie Kohnstamm 9781838858056
RRP: £10.99£7.54Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported in 1942 from Berlin to Theresienstadt - where they will starve to death.Decades later, in London and on a whim, their granddaughter, Jackie googles their names to find two... -
The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family Olivia Williams 9781472269805
RRP: £12.99£8.83'A real triumph, beautifully written, with many wonderful stories of the Savoy.' Lady Anne Glenconner, author of Lady in Waiting'An elegantly crafted, yet spritely and sparkling book, perfectly befitting its subject.' - Ophelia Field, author of The... -
The Great Plague: A People's History by Evelyn Lord
RRP: £10.99£9.61In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's... -
How the War Was Won: Air-Sea Power and Allied Victory in World War II by Dr. Phillips Payson O'Brien
RRP: £22.99£19.96World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to... -
The Last Days of Hitler: The Classic Account of Hitler's Fall From Power by Hugh Trevor-Roper
RRP: £12.99£9.50Listed as one of the Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time. In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor-Roper, an intelligence officer, was... -
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles 9781800818217
RRP: £12.99£9.34SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An astonishing account of love, resilience and... -
My Revision Notes: OCR GCSE (9-1) History A: Explaining the Modern World, Second Edition Aly Boniface 9781398306400
RRP: £11.50£11.15Updated Edition for students taking their exams in 2021 onwards.Exam board: OCRLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2019First exams: Summer 2021Target success in OCR GCSE (9-1) History A with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
The Gift by Edith Eger
RRP: £16.99£12.47'I will be forever changed by Dr Eger's story' OPRAHThis practical and inspirational guide to healing from the bestselling author of The Choice shows us how to release your self-limiting beliefs and embrace your potential.The prison is in your mind. The... -
British History For Dummies by Sean Lang 9780470978191
RRP: £20.99£14.36Royally confused about kings and queens? Never sure what happened when? Or where - England, Scotland, Ireland, or Wales? Learn the people and events that shaped British history British History For Dummies, 3rd Edition is full of rip-roaring stories of... -
Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan by Alex Kerr
RRP: £15.99£11.79The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese 'economic miracle' failed to notice a key point: that in the pursuit of this miracle the Japanese had turned their country into a degraded, concrete shambles - a wilderness of bad planning, corruption and... -
Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars by Francesca Wade
RRP: £12.99£7.60A SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (AS CHOSEN BY AUTHORS)**LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE**'Outstanding. I'll be recommending this all year.' SARAH... -
Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube Andrew Martin 9781846684784
RRP: £10.99£7.99Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King's Cross to King's Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system... -
On Bloody Sunday: A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There by Julieann Campbell
RRP: £12.99£8.83SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE*****'There have been many books written about the events of Bloody Sunday, however, none has wrenched the reader as violently back to those CS gas-choked streets, dumping them right in the heart of the... -
Derby Through its Streets by Maxwell Craven 9781905769544
RRP: £16.99£14.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905769544Author Maxwell CravenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Fort Publishing LtdPublisher Fort Publishing Ltd -
Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers by Cheryl Misak
RRP: £14.99£10.95The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred... -
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilation Volume III: The Linguistic Evidence by Martin Bernal 9781978804296
RRP: £43.00£38.50Winner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he... -
Homophobia: A History by Byrne Fone 9780312420307
RRP: £26.00£18.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312420307Author Byrne FoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)... -
Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy 9781529344332
RRP: £12.99£8.83'Ambitious, wide-ranging and learned' Times Literary Supplement 'Vivid and extraordinary' Wall Street Journal From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of female fighters. We have all heard of Joan of Arc, but... -
Eurovision!: A History of Modern Europe Through The World's Greatest Song Contest by Chris West 9781911545552
RRP: £9.99£7.00Do you think the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, with its crazy props, even crazier dancers and crazier still songs has nothing to do with serious European politics? Think again. The contest has been a mirror for cultural, social and political... -
Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution by James P. Byrd 9780190697563
RRP: £23.99£17.55Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally... -
The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions by Jeffrey D. Sachs
RRP: £22.00£18.58Today's most urgent problems are fundamentally global. They require nothing less than concerted, planetwide action if we are to secure a long-term future. But humanity's story has always been on a global scale. In this book, Jeffrey D. Sachs, renowned... -
Too Thin for a Shroud: 8 June 1982, Falklands: Britain's Most Lethal Day of Combat since World War II Crispin Black 9781783342297
RRP: £20.00£16.43In 1982, eight young Guards officers in their twenties found themselves suddenly on the way to the Falklands 8000 miles away from Britain. Some four decades later, they realised that no one had written the history of this unique war in Britain's history... -
AQA GCSE History: Health and the People Alf Wilkinson 9781471864216
£21.16Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development by Joseph E. Inikori
RRP: £37.99£34.83Drawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical advances on the connection between expanding markets and technological developments, this book shows the critical role of expanding Atlantic commerce in the successful completion of England's... -
From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner 9780226817422
RRP: £17.00£16.16In "From Counterculture to Cyberculture", Fred Turner details the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as...