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Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
RRP: £18.99£14.01The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by King Charles III.'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' - Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a... -
The Black Prince by Michael Jones 9781784972943
RRP: £10.99£7.77A major new biography of the Black Prince. 'A clear-eyed and thrilling vision of the man behind the legend' DAN JONES. 'Pacy, vivid and extremely readable' TLS. In 1346, at the age of sixteen, he won his spurs at Crecy; nine years later he... -
The Road to Rome: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 3) by Ben Kane
RRP: £10.99£7.77________________________The dramatic climax to Ben Kane's Forgotten Legion TrilogyHaving survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent threat of annihilation by... -
The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs by Timothy Freke
RRP: £9.99£8.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585426928Author Timothy FrekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Jeremy P TarcherPublisher Penguin Putnam IncDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 16mm -
Disaster at Stalingrad: An Alternate History by Peter Tsouras 9781526760739
RRP: £14.99£10.95It is early September 1942 and the German commander of the Sixth Army, General Paulus, assisted by the Fourth Panzer Army, is poised to advance on the Russian city of Stalingrad. His primary mission was to take the city, crushing this crucial centre of... -
Language of the Third Reich: LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii by Victor Klemperer
RRP: £19.99£19.91A labourer, journalist and a professor who lived through four successive periods of German political history - from the German Empire, through the Weimar Republic and the Nazi state through to the German Democratic Republic - Victor Klemperer is regarded... -
Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900 by Simon Schama
RRP: £16.99£12.68A passionate history of Judaism; a world unfolding across many continents and five centuries by one of our greatest and internationally bestselling historians.Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour... -
Re-discovering the Twentieth-Century World: A World Study after 1900 by Colin Shephard
£24.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719585487Author Colin ShephardFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 210mm... -
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction by Orlando Figes
RRP: £12.99£9.09What caused the Russian Revolution?Did it succeed or fail?Do we still live with its consequences?Orlando Figes teaches history at Birkbeck, University of London and is the author of many acclaimed books on Russian history, including A People's Tragedy,... -
Roman Republican Legionary 298–105 BC by Nic Fields
RRP: £14.99£12.55Soon after the Caudine Forks fiasco in 321 BC, the tactical formation adopted by the Roman Army underwent a radical change. Introduced as part of the Servian reforms, the legion had originally operated as a Greek-style phalanx. Now, however, the Romans... -
Operation Gladio: The Unholy Alliance between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia by Paul L. Williams 9781633884786
RRP: £13.99£11.24This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Journalist Paul L. Williams presents evidence... -
England: An Elegy by Sir Roger Scruton
RRP: £15.99£12.46In this poignant and personal tribute, Roger Scruton gives an account of England which is both an illuminating analysis of its institutions and culture, and a celebration of its virtues. Covering all aspects of the English inheritance, and informed by... -
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
RRP: £20.00£14.69In this funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient collection of essays cultural icon Margaret Atwood asks:- Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?- How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?- How can we... -
Clio among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities by Peter Charles Hoffer 9781479832835
RRP: £23.99£20.84History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and... -
The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
RRP: £22.00£16.02Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over... -
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 9780374601140
RRP: £30.00£19.80One of The New York Times's 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall | Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the... -
Dictionary of Ancient Magic Words and Spells: From Abraxas to Zoar by Claude Lecouteux
RRP: £25.00£22.96From Abracadabra to the now famous spells of the Harry Potter series, magic words are no longer confined to the practices of pagans, alchemists, witches, and occultists. They have become part of the popular imagination of the Western world. Passed down... -
24 Hours in Ancient Rome: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Philip Matyszak
RRP: £8.99£6.22Walk a day in a Roman's sandals ... What was it like to live in one of the ancient world's most powerful and bustling cities - one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York? In this entertaining and enlightening guide,... -
A Treasury of British Folklore: Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe by Dee Dee Chainey
RRP: £12.99£8.48An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is an... -
Dreadnought: Britain,Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £18.99£14.01A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the decades leading up to WW1 from Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First... -
The Face Of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme by John Keegan
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: an imperishable account of the direct experience of individuals at 'the point of maximum danger'. It examines the physical conditions of fighting, the particular emotions and behaviour... -
Vikings in Scotland: An Archaeological Survey by James Graham-Campbell
RRP: £31.00£26.05This book provides a full overview of the archaeology of the Vikings in Scotland, incorporating many results from the recent period of intense fieldwork and excavation. This work has necessitated a thorough re-appraisal of our knowledge of the process,... -
The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill: A Treasury of More Than 1000 Quotations by James C. Humes 9780060925772
RRP: £11.00£10.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925772Author James C. HumesFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99£9.09In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides an enthralling eyewitness account of the attempt by a Greek mercenary army - the Ten Thousand - to help Prince Cyrus overthrow his brother and take the... -
Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century: The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History by Peter Watson
RRP: £18.99£13.75'Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable' THE TIMES'A tour de force ... breathtaking' SPECTATOR'A magnificent achievement' LITERARY REVIEWTERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more... -
The War in the West - A New History: Volume 1: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941 by James Holland
RRP: £12.99£9.49From the top ten bestselling author of Normandy 44 and Sicily 43The Second World War is the most cataclysmic and violent sequence of events in recent times. But for the past seven decades, our understanding of it has relied upon conventional wisdom,... -
Favourite Irish Crochet Designs by Rita Weiss
RRP: £8.99£5.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486249629Author Rita WeissFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 185gDimensions(mm)... -
America and Iran: The Long and Winding Road, from 1720 to the Present by John Ghazvinian
RRP: £35.00£21.79Selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times In recent times, the United States and Iran have seemed closer to war than peace, but that is not where their story began. When America was in its infancy, Thomas Jefferson and... -
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome Las Casas
RRP: £9.99£7.11Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he... -
Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum by Dean Kirby
RRP: £14.99£10.95"It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls."(Manchester Guardian, 1870... -
Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege by Marcus Luttrell
RRP: £12.99£9.98In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less... -
Gallipoli by Peter Hart
RRP: £14.99£10.95'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck, blackened burned skeletons, twisted in all directions, no... -
DK Eyewitness Istanbul by DK
RRP: £14.99£10.95The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this ancient city.Wander the bustling Spice Bazaar or labyrinthine Grand Bazaar, admire spectacular architecture of... -
The Death of Yugoslavia by Allan Little
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Death of Yugoslavia is a survey of the pressures and events that contributed to the break-up of former Yugoslavia, considered from a historical rather than a political or sociological point of view.Book InformationISBN 9780140261684Author Allan... -
Medieval Monsters by Damien Kempf
RRP: £10.00£6.80From satyrs and sea creatures to griffins and dragons, monsters lay at the heart of the medieval world. Believed to dwell in exotic, remote areas, these inexplicable parts of God's creation aroused fear, curiosity and wonder in equal measure. Powerfully... -
The Old Man and the Gun: And Other Tales of True Crime by David Grann 9781471181665
RRP: £7.99£5.23'Beautifully told by David Grann, one of the best true-crime writers around... Nuanced and gripping' Evening StandardNow a major film starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck, The Old Man and the Gun is joined by two other riveting... -
The Granite Men: A History of the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland by Jim Fiddes 9780750990011
RRP: £20.00£16.04Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of... -
The Secret History of Our Streets: London by Joseph Bullman
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Secret History of Our Streets explores six roads spread across inner London - from Camberwell, Holland Park and Islington to Shoreditch, Deptford and Bermondsey - through the experiences of the people who lived there. Stories of poverty and violence,... -
The Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World by Kehinde Andrews 9780241437476
RRP: £25.00£17.62'Witty, energising and refreshing' Jeffrey BoakyeTake a step through the looking-glass to a strange land, one where Piers Morgan is a voice worth listening to about race, where white people buy self-help books to help them cope with their whiteness,... -
The Army in Cromwellian England, 1649-1660 by Henry Reece 9780198726524
£34.23From 1649-1660 England was ruled by a standing army for the only time in its history. In The Army in Cromwellian England Henry Reece describes the nature of that experience for the first time, both for officers and soldiers, and for civilian society. The...