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Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities Rebecca Solnit 9781782119074
RRP: £10.99£7.54At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable book offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope. This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades... -
Hurricane: The Plane that Won the War Jacky Hyams 9781789296846
RRP: £10.99£7.69Britain’s first-ever wartime fighter plane, the Hawker Hurricane, shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter. It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by the legend and aerial heroics of the Spitfire, the Hurricane... -
Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend by Christopher Hadley 9780008319526
RRP: £12.99£8.71'Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley's book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year' Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and... -
The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
RRP: £18.99£14.01'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasThe epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and even death itself.As the Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives... -
Soldiers of the English Civil War (1): Infantry by Keith Roberts 9780850459036
RRP: £14.99£12.75When civil war erupted in England in 1642, it quickly involved every level of society throughout the British Isles. On one side the King and his supporters fought for traditional government in Church and State. On the other, the supporters of Parliament... -
A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume I: From c.300 to c.1150, Sixth Edition by Barbara Rosenwein
RRP: £35.00£30.74In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world. Volume I ranges from northeastern North America to Kievan Rus', while never losing sight of the main contours of the period c... -
Moon Palace by Paul Auster
RRP: £9.99£6.90'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'So begins... -
The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King by Ian Mortimer
RRP: £16.99£12.47From the saviour of the realm to the subject of multiple attempted assassinations in the space of six years. King Henry IV's reign was characterised by his fear and paranoia, but above all a continued quest for survival. The son of John the Gaunt, Henry... -
Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 by Max Hastings 9780008280567
RRP: £9.99£6.84THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second... -
Musashi: An Epic Novel Of The Samurai Era by Eiji Yoshikawa
RRP: £33.99£23.16The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife... -
The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639–51 by Colonel Nick Lipscombe
RRP: £50.00£40.38'The English Civil War is a joy to behold, a thing of beauty... this will be the civil war atlas against which all others will judged and the battle maps in particular will quickly become the benchmark for all future civil war maps.' -- Professor Martyn... -
The Gothic: A Very Short Introduction by Nick Groom
RRP: £8.99£6.01The Gothic is wildly diverse. It can refer to ecclesiastical architecture, supernatural fiction, cult horror films, and a distinctive style of rock music. It has influenced political theorists and social reformers, as well as Victorian home decor and... -
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz 9780374605445
RRP: £25.99£17.34With the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated, and U.S. power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a “kinder, gentler America.” Instead, it was a period of rising anger and domestic turmoil, anticipating the polarization and resurgent... -
Charlemagne: Father of a Continent by Alessandro Barbero 9780520297210
RRP: £21.00£17.03The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the Great-Charlemagne-reigned from a.d. 768 to a.d. 814. At the time... -
The Only Place For Us: An A-Z History of Elland Road, Home of Leeds United by Jon Howe
RRP: £19.99£16.86Leeds United's Elland Road home is full of intrigue, character and formidable acoustics, yet it started life as a barren and featureless patch of land surrounded by coalfields. The Only Place For Us is the fascinating history of the stadium and its... -
Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu Lughod 9780195067743
RRP: £37.99£30.15In this important study, Janet Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution and provides a new paradigm for understanding the evolution of world systems by tracing the rise of a system that, at its peak in the... -
US Covert Operations and Cold War Strategy: Truman, Secret Warfare and the CIA, 1945-53 by Sarah-Jane Corke
RRP: £49.99£43.84Based on recently declassified documents, this book provides the first examination of the Truman Administration's decision to employ covert operations in the Cold War. Although covert operations were an integral part of America's arsenal during the... -
The Pursuit of Power by William H. McNeill
RRP: £25.00£23.94In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path by which we have arrived at the frightening dilemmas that now confront us. McNeill moves... -
My Body by Priddy Books 9781838991906
RRP: £7.99£5.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838991906Author Priddy BooksPage Count 10Imprint Priddy BooksPublisher Priddy BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 210mm * 17mm -
France 1870-1914 by Robert Gildea 9780582292215
£36.68The period 1870 - 1914 in France saw the consolidation of republican government and the recovery of national self-confidence. Though political crises such as the Dreyfus Affair threatened to tear it apart, the Republic established firm parliamentary... -
Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: Fifty Wonders That Reveal an Extraordinary Universe by Marcus Chown
RRP: £8.99£6.32Bestselling author Marcus Chown explores some of the most profound and important science about us, our world and the universe with fifty fascinating and mind-bending facts.Our adventures in space, our deepening understanding of the quantum world and huge... -
Access to History: Lancastrians, Yorkists and the Wars of the Roses, 1399-1509, Third Edition Roger Turvey 9781510459397
£25.21Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: 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... -
Gallipoli by Nigel Steel 9780850526691
RRP: £12.99£9.34Gallipoli tells of the disastrous campaign at Gallipoli in 1915 when the allies failed to knock Turkey out of the war. With then and now photographs the book provides detailed historical descriptions of the area and the events, all of which will appeal... -
A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume II: From c.900 to c.1500, Sixth Edition by Barbara Rosenwein
RRP: £35.00£30.74In this new edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein offers a panoramic view of the medieval world. Volume II ranges from England to China and from West Africa to the Baltic, while never losing sight of the main contours of the... -
In Pursuit of the Truth by Clive Driscoll
RRP: £14.99£11.11The true story behind the ITV series, StephenFormer Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll is most famous for being the man who finally secured convictions for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a case previously mired by claims of institutional racism... -
White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America by Don Jordan 9780814742969
£26.98The forgotten story of the thousands of white Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain's American colonies In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from... -
The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China by Jay Taylor 9780674060494
RRP: £22.95£18.78One of the most momentous stories of the last century is China's rise from a self-satisfied, anti-modern, decaying society into a global power that promises to one day rival the United States. Chiang Kai-shek, an autocratic, larger-than-life figure,... -
The Fourth Sacrifice: A hold-your-heart hunt for a horrifying truth (China Thriller 2) by Peter May
RRP: £10.99£5.65THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE LEWIS TRILOGY AND THE ENZO FILESAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today.' Undiscovered Scotland 'No one can create a more... -
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild 9780063278523
RRP: £12.99£8.71National Bestseller * One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly"... -
Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution: Fighting Words by Michael C. Hickey 9780313385230
£69.85This new collection of documents helps students understand the complex texture of Russian public rhetoric and popular debate during World War I and the 1917 Revolution. How better to understand history than through the words of those who lived it?... -
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings by Nellie Bly
RRP: £9.99£7.32Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, including an expose of patient treatment at a mental asylum and a travelogue from her record-breaking race... -
The Experience of Crusading by Peter W. Edbury 9780521781510
RRP: £90.00£59.03The study of the crusades is one of the most thriving areas of medieval history. This collection of seventeen further essays by leading researchers in the field reflects the best of contemporary scholarship. The subjects handled are remarkably... -
The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World by Jonathan Black
RRP: £14.99£10.05From the bestselling author of The Secret History of the World, an exploration of the mystical forces that shape and protect usThe Sacred History is an account of the workings of the supernatural in history. It tells the epic story of angels, from... -
Kurdish Armour Against ISIS: YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-19 Ed Nash 9781472847584
RRP: £11.99£8.66One of the most remarkable mechanized campaigns of recent years pitted the brutal and heavily armed jihadis of Islamic State against an improvised force belonging to the Kurdish YPG (later the SDF). While some Kurdish vehicles were originally from... -
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists by Irene Taylor
RRP: £25.00£17.59'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The... -
History by Numbers by Pat Hudson
RRP: £29.99£27.06Fully updated and carefully revised, this new 2nd edition of History by Numbers stands alone as the only textbook on quantitative methods suitable for students of history. Even the numerically challenged will find inspiration. Taking a problem-solving... -
Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey 9780007247721
RRP: £14.99£9.96Bestselling royal historian David Starkey's captivating biography is a radical re-evaluation of Henry VIII, the British monarchy's most enduring icon. Larger than life in every sense, Henry VIII was Britain's most absolute monarch - but he was... -
Female Few: Spitfire Heroines by Jacky Hyams
RRP: £12.99£9.87Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous civilian women risked their lives as aerial courier pilots, flying Lancaster bombers, Spitfires and many other powerful war machines in thousands of perilous missions.The... -
Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 by Iain McCalman 9780198122869
RRP: £62.00£61.85This is a paperback edition of a highly acclaimed study of English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government `Terror' of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. Challenging conventional distinctions between `high' and... -
American Bomber Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward 9781838863272
RRP: £17.99£12.58The United States built the best strategic bombers of World War II, and by the end of the conflict America’s bombers dominated the skies in both Europe and the Pacific. American Bomber Aircraft of World War II is a detailed guide to all the bombers...