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Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in... -
How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery by Kevin Ashton
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49WINNER OF THE 800-CEO-READ BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015In the vein of Susan Cain's QUIET and Malcolm Gladwell's DAVID AND GOLIATH, HOW TO FLY A HORSE is a smart, empowering book that dispels the... -
A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans by Alfred-Maurice de Zayas 9781403973085
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403973085Author Alfred-Maurice de ZayasFormat PaperbackPage Count 256 -
Algeria: France's Undeclared War by Martin Evans 9780199669035
RRP: $33.23Booksplease Price: $26.13Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an... -
The Secret Agent's Pocket Manual: 1939-1945 by Stephen Bull 9781472833280
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69A remarkable insight into the training and techniques of Allied agents operating behind enemy lines during the Second World War. Most wars have had some element of espionage and subterfuge, but... -
With the Jocks: A Soldier's Struggle for Europe 1944-45 by Peter White
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $26.73'The book is remarkable .... one of the most striking personal records of the period.' - Max HastingsAs a 24-year-old lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, Peter kept an unauthorised... -
The walks near Godalming: 44 short walks 4-6 miles linking Shalford Compton Thursley Gibbet Hill Chiddingfold by Bill Andrews
RRP: $9.50Booksplease Price: $9.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999997519Author Bill AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint < -
Women of the Dunes by Sarah Maine
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.24The new novel from the acclaimed author of The House Between Tides, winner of the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2018!'Sarah Maine is a master of Scottish historical fiction' Sunday Post****It... -
Cold War: For Forty-five Years the World Held its Breath by Jeremy Isaacs
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that... -
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.86History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ... until now. The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks pulls it all together, from the world's... -
Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune of 1871 by John M. Merriman 9780300219449
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.37One of the most dramatic chapters in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, the Commune of 1871 was an eclectic revolutionary government that held power in Paris across eight weeks between 18... -
Doubling Back: Paths Trodden in Memory by Linda Cracknell 9781915089908
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.83Past and present converge as Linda Cracknell doubles back to follow in the footsteps of others. Across Norway, Kenya, the Isle of Skye and Lindisfarne, Doubling Back traces the contours of history... -
Our Glasgow: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain Piers Dudgeon 9780755317141
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many communities making up the city experienced upheavals that tore some... -
How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide by George Mikes 9780140081794
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89George Mikes has written many successful books on a variety of interesting subjects, but one so successful as those on the subject most central to his own experience: his adopted country. The first... -
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene Simon Lewis 9780241280881
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'Brilliantly written and genuinely one of the most important books I have ever read' - Ellie Mae O'Hagan An engrossing exploration of the science, history and politics of the Anthropocene, one of the... -
50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know Ben Dupre 9781529425147
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06In a series of 50 accessible essays, Ben Dupre introduces and explains the central ideas of politics, philosophy, religion, economics, science, and the arts that have engaged key thinkers and... -
ON THE RECORDs: Notes from the Vinyl Revival Graham Sharpe 9780857305879
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $27.46Far from being yesterday's fading, forgotten format, vinyl records have survived and flourished as the music medium of choice for not only baby-boomers, but all ages. Every record a collector... -
Three Whys Of Russian Revolution by Richard Pipes
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58It is my considered judgement that, had it not been for the Russian Revolution, there would very likely have been no National Socialism; probably no Second World War and no decolonization; and... -
The Little Book of Cornwall by John van der Kiste 9780752480954
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $18.89A compendium of fascinating information about Cornwall past and present, this book contains a plethora of entertaining facts about the county's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its... -
Picts, Gaels and Scots: Early Historic Scotland by Sally M. Foster 9780859767224
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $27.17Early historic Scotland - from the fifth to the tenth century AD - was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had... -
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Christopher Hitchens goes straight for the jugular in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Under his fearsome gaze, the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor is accused of being a war... -
Going Solo by Roald Dahl 9780241955796
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa.'They did not think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage... -
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and... -
Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs: As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders by Carl Chinn
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $10.53From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnThe Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply... -
The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass 9780399562396
RRP: $43.68Booksplease Price: $30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562396Author Richard HaassFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Marie Antoinette by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $23.52'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative and... -
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph by Albert O. Hirschman 9780691160252
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $25.00In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the... -
Angels With Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina Jonathan Wilson 9781399621298
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $17.16'ABSORBING' Guardian'ENTHRALLING' New Statesman'EPIC' Evening Standard'INESCAPABLE' The Sunday Times'MAGISTERIAL' Irish ExaminerFully revised and updated, the definitive history of Argentinian... -
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.62Winner of the Templer Medal and the Wolfson History PrizeSunday Times Top 10 BestsellerRichard Vinen's National Service is a serious - if often very entertaining - attempt to get to grips with the... -
The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine by Miko Peled
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $24.70A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless... -
Liverpool Pubs by Ken Pye
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $20.98Liverpool was once the epitome of 'the city with a pub on every corner', but no longer. As social habits and communities continue to radically change, hundreds of pubs continue to disappear annually,... -
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface Olivia Laing 9781786891587
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers... -
Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction by Jack A. Goldstone 9780199858507
Booksplease Price: $19.40From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and... -
The Perfect Kill: A Personal History of Modern Assassination by Robert Baer 9781780228396
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59What is the definition of assassination? Robert Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, 'It's a bullet with a man's name on it.' Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a... -
The Jewish State: The Historic Essay that Led to the Creation of the State of Israel by Alan Dershowitz 9781510755314
RRP: $11.38Booksplease Price: $9.35Originally published in 1896 as Der Judenstaat, The Jewish State has taken its place among the likes of The Communist Manifesto and Common Sense as polemic writings which have changed modern history... -
Serpent in the Sky: The High Wisdom of Ancient Egypt by John Anthony West 9780835606912
RRP: $39.90Booksplease Price: $32.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835606912Author John Anthony WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint -
Operation Sealion: How Britain Crushed the German War Machine's Dreams of Invasion in 1940 Leo McKinstry 9781848547049
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.77'Superbly written and gripping' Daily ExpressThe thrilling true account of Hitler's first defeat.In the summer of 1940, the Nazi war machine was at its zenith. France, Denmark, Norway and the Low... -
The Kebra Nagast: The Lost Bible of Rastafarian Wisdom and Faith by Gerald Hausman
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.36The Kebra Nagast is a sacred text originally written in 14th century Ethiopia. It tells the story of how the Queen of Sheba met the biblical King Solomon, and relates the birth of her son, Menilek,... -
Pakistan: A Personal History by Imran Khan
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97"A must-read for anyone interested in the intrigue of politics in the most dangerous country on earth" (The Sunday Times)Read the unique insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a Western audience,... -
Masters by Curt Sampson
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $23.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375753374Author Curt SampsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint <