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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans by Bill Hammack
RRP: £20.99£13.96Discover the secret method used to build the world...For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the... -
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend: 200th Anniversary Edition by Mark Bostridge
RRP: £12.99£9.09Winner of the Elizabeth Longford prize for Historical Biography 'Engrossing' Claire Tomalin / 'Superb' Sunday Times / 'A triumph' Daily Mail Whether honoured and admired or criticized and ridiculed, Florence Nightingale has invariably been... -
Little Box of Style: The Story of Four Iconic Fashion Houses by Emma Baxter-Wright
RRP: £50.00£38.68Four stunning pocket-sized fashion books in one box set. Includes Little Book of Chanel, Little Book of Dior, Little Book of Gucci and Little Book of Prada - telling the stories of four iconic fashion houses. With images of the four houses' most timeless... -
A History of Torture in Britain by Webb, Simon
RRP: £12.99£9.09There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because torture had been neither endorsed nor forbidden by either statute or common law. In other words; the law has, until... -
Shadows In Bronze: (Falco 2) by Lindsey Davis
RRP: £9.99£7.11Let multi-million copy bestselling author Lindsey Davis transport you back to 71 A.D. in this captivating mystery, full of political intrigue, twists, turns and romantic tension. Fans of S. J. Parris, Donna Leon, Steven Saylor, C. J. Sansom will not be... -
Bugles and a Tiger: My life in the Gurkhas by John Masters
RRP: £9.99£6.80The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWIIJohn Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th... -
Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World by Christina Lamb
RRP: £14.99£9.70From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140,000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did the West's war in... -
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology by Kevin Crossley-Holland
RRP: £7.99£5.79Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer are among the greatest surviving Anglo-Saxon poems. They, and many other treasures, are included in The Anglo-Saxon World: chronicles, laws and letters, charters and... -
Connecting History: Higher Russia, 1881-1921 by Euan M. Duncan
£21.93Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by Gary Kinder 9780802144256
RRP: £13.99£12.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802144256Author Gary KinderFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World by DeWitt Professor of History Eric Foner 9780809097050
RRP: £19.00£11.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809097050Author Professor of History Eric FonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)... -
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War by Giles Milton 9781529393170
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with... -
Fighting Vichy from Horseback: British Mounted Cavalry in Action, Syria 1941 by Jonathan Washington 9781915113764
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113764Author Jonathan WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Bruchko And The Motilone Miracle by Bruce Olson 9781591857952
RRP: £14.99£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591857952Author Bruce OlsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Creation HousePublisher Creation House -
Battle of Leyte Gulf: The Largest Sea Battle of the Second World War by John Grehan 9781526770394
RRP: £14.99£10.95By early 1944, offensives undertaken by the United States armed forces had driven the Japanese from many of their conquests in the south and central Pacific. The next American move was to sever Tokyo's communications with the remaining Japanese garrisons... -
Forty Farms by Amy Bateman
RRP: £29.90£25.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915513014Author Amy BatemanFormat HardbackImprint Jake Island LtdPublisher Jake Island Ltd -
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... -
Canberra Boys: Fascinating Accounts from the Operators of an English Electric Classic by Andrew Brookes
RRP: £14.99£10.95The English Electric Canberra first came into production in the late 1940s and has since played a hugely significant part in world events. In Canberra Boys, Andrew Brookes takes us through its rich history with the help of those who operated this... -
The RAF in 100 Objects by Peter Jacobs 9780750965361
RRP: £20.00£15.44It was in the closing year of the First World War, on 1 April 1918, that the Royal Air Force was born from the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. Since then, the RAF has helped lead the world in the development of... -
Lenin on the Train by Catherine Merridale
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The superb, funny, fascinating story of Lenin's trans-European rail journey and how it shook the world' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year'Splendid ... a jewel among histories, taking a single episode from the ... -
The New Rulers of the World by John Pilger
£20.22John Pilger is one of the world's renowned investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers. In this classic book, with an updated introduction, he reveals the secrets and illusions of modern imperialism. Beginning with Indonesia, he shows how... -
Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present by Brendan Simms
RRP: £16.99£12.28Brendan Simms's formidable, game-changing history of EuropeIn this marvelously ambitious and exciting book, Brendan Simms tells the story of Europe's constantly shifting geopolitics and the peculiar circumstances that have made it both so impossible to... -
White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: £12.99£8.32The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning biography of Charles I * Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 ** Times Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Biography Award 2019 *Less than... -
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson 9780195038637
RRP: £43.99£32.11This book covers one of the most turbulent periods of the USA's history, from the Mexican War in 1848 to the end of the Civil War in 1865. With a broad historical sweep, it traces the heightening sectional conflict of the 1850s: the growing estrangement... -
AQA A-level History: Tsarist and Communist Russia 1855-1964 by Chris Corin
£39.69Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016AQA approvedEnhance and expand your students' knowledge and understanding of their AQA breadth study through expert narrative, progressive skills... -
London's Railway Stations by Oliver Green
RRP: £8.99£6.96An illustrated historical tour of London's 13 great railway termini, on a clockwise circuit from Paddington to Victoria. London's railway termini are among the most recognisable and familiar landmarks in the city. Famed for their bustling platforms... -
The Oil Kings: How the US, Iran and Saudi-Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East by Andrew Scott Cooper
RRP: £15.99£12.25Oil Kings offers the first inside look at how an oil crisis was manipulated by Alan Greenspan, Donald Rumsfeld, and President Ford (hoping to secure his re-election), helping to precipitate the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1979. Andrew Scott Cooper... -
The Great Train Robbery: Crime of the Century: The Definitive Account by Nick Russell-Pavier
RRP: £12.99£8.60Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, GBP2.6 million (GBP50 million today) in unmarked GBP5, GBP1 and 10-shilling notes was... -
Armies of the War of the Grand Alliance 1688-97 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £11.99£8.43This title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that ushered in more than a century of European warfare. Formed in 1689, the 'Grand Alliance' or League of... -
Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens by David Stuttard 9780674660441
RRP: £24.95£20.29Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial... -
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... -
Birmingham (West) 1914: Warwickshire Sheet 13.08 by Alan Godfrey
RRP: £3.50£3.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841515083Author Alan GodfreyImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
Russia's Five-Day War: The invasion of Georgia, August 2008 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £14.99£10.95A fascinating account of Russia's Five-Day War against Georgia in 2008, notable for its strategic mistakes which prompted President Putin to undertake major military reforms. After Georgia's independence from Russia in 1991, President Saakashvili... -
Circle of Stars: A History of the EU and the People Who Made It by Dermot Hodson 9780300267693
RRP: £25.00£20.92A compelling new history of the EU and the people who sought to shape and challenge it-from Maastricht to today The European Union is the most ambitious, and one of the most contentious, international organizations ever created. Decisions made in... -
Mirabelle Gets up to Mischief by Harriet Muncaster 9780192776495
RRP: £6.99£5.70Beautifully illustrated in two colour, this new series of chapter books introduces Isadora Moon's cousin! Meet Mirabelle, half witch, half fairy and totally naughtya| There will be spells, there will be flying but mostly there will be mischief!Half... -
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... -
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 Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones 9780571302932
RRP: £12.99£8.56An 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... -
Tales of Lancasters and Other Aircraft: Dangerous Skies in the Second World War by George Culling 9780750979726
RRP: £9.99£7.55Of every 100 operational airmen in the Second World War, nearly seven were killed flying in England and more than three severely injured in crashes. With a total of 12,398, the number of non-operational casualties was significant. Operational casualties... -
The Middle East: 2000 Years Of History From The Rise Of Christianity to the Present Day by Bernard Lewis
RRP: £14.99£9.80A brilliant survey of the history and civilisations of the Middle East by one of the world's greatest authorities on the subjectIn this immensely readable and wide-ranging book, Bernard Lewis charts the successive transformations of the Middle East,...