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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Revolutionised the War Simon Parkin 9781529353211
RRP: $21.43$14.84'Compelling' Sunday Times'A triumph' Daily Mirror'Gripping' Jonathan Dimbleby1941. The Battle of the Atlantic is a disaster. Thousands of supply ships ferrying vital food and fuel from North America to Britain are being torpedoed by German U-boats... -
Culloden: Battle & Aftermath by Paul O'Keeffe
RRP: $25.33$18.21'Excellent... It is a tremendous tale - one of the most dramatic in our island's history - and O'Keeffe tells it beautifully' The TimesCharles Edward Stuart's campaign to seize the British throne ended with one of the quickest defeats in history: on 16... -
Rituals Of Blood: The Consequences Of Slavery In Two American Centuries by Orlando Patterson 9781582430393
$47.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582430393Author Orlando PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $21.43$15.48A deeply moving portrait of a torturous love affair that shows Istanbul in all its complex beauty.** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'An enthralling, immensely enjoyable piece of... -
Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn by Daniel Gordis 9780062368751
RRP: $46.80$25.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062368751Author Daniel GordisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Complete World of Greek Mythology by Richard Buxton
RRP: $54.60$37.42From the first millennium BC onwards, Greek myths have been repeated in an inexhaustible series of variations and reinterpretations. Nowadays they can be found in film, television and computer games. This book combines a retelling of Greek myths with a... -
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World by Eugene Rogan 9780241646908
RRP: $58.50$41.63‘A superb account of the 1860 Damascus massacres—much neglected nowadays but central to the creation of the modern Middle East’ Simon Sebag Montefiore‘A stunning portrait of the Ottoman Empire and of Damascus during a time of crisis. Absolutely riveting’... -
The Writings of Julian of Norwich: A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love by Nicholas Watson
RRP: $77.90$69.97Julian of Norwich (ca. 1343-ca. 1416), a contemporary of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, and John Wyclif, is the earliest woman writer of English we know about. Although she described herself as "a simple creature unlettered," Julian is now widely... -
A History of Korea: An Episodic Narrative by Kyung Moon Hwang
RRP: $46.78$44.32Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern... -
The Storm on Our Shores: One Island, Two Soldiers, and the Forgotten Battle of World War II by Mark Obmascik
RRP: $37.03$20.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451678383Author Mark ObmascikFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 20mm -
Bedpans And Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime by Barbara Fox
RRP: $21.43$14.84'In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving.'Gwenda had always loved the open road, but her home town of Newcastle didn't really offer the sort of adventure she longed for. So, in 1957, with friend... -
Hebridean Voyages: An Anthology of Sea Crossings to the Western Islands of Scotland, 1822-1955 by Colin Tucker 9781789070804
RRP: $38.90$33.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789070804Author Colin TuckerFormat PaperbackImprint AcairPublisher AcairWeight(grams) 1200g -
World War I Illustrated Atlas by Professor Michael S Neiberg 9781838863548
RRP: $44.83$32.70World War I might conjure up images of the trenches of the Western Front where the fighting raged for nearly four and half years, but this was only part of what was truly a world war. It was a complex conflict fought in a number of theatres: an air war,... -
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy: The short and gilded life of Tara Browne, the man who inspired The Beatles' greatest song by Paul Howard
RRP: $25.33$18.53Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and was immortalized for ever in the opening lines of 'A Day in the Life', a song that many critics regard as... -
Cambodia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Kate Reavill 9781787023154
RRP: $19.48$15.13Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Say "Cambodia," and two associations often come to mind: the lost glories of Angkor, and the horrors of the Khmer Rouge. Any understanding of Cambodia today, however, must embrace these opposites, as... -
East Lancashire Railway in the 1990s by Doug Birmingham
RRP: $31.18$21.16The East Lancashire Railway is a well-established and popular 12.5 mile preserved line travelling from Heywood to Rawtenstall via Bury and Ramsbottom. The East Lancashire Railway Preservation Society decided to reopen the Bury to Rawtenstall line after... -
Agricola and Germany by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $21.43$15.58`Long may the barbarians continue, I pray, if not to love us, at least to hate one another.' Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98. He was inspired to... -
The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivisation and the Terror-Famine Robert Conquest 9781847925671
RRP: $39.00$28.29Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written... -
SAS – Battle Ready: True Stories from Memorable Missions Around the World by Dominic Utton 9781789295290
RRP: $21.43$15.00The Special Air Service - the SAS - are known to be the greatest elite fighting force in the world. This book focuses on the most famous operations undertaken by the SAS from its inception during the Second World War to the present day, describing in... -
A History of India by Peter Robb 9780230279827
$55.34This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India. Peter Robb's accessible study analyses India's... -
Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service 9781529065824
RRP: $58.50$40.25'A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today' - Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich'This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-politcal drama' - GuardianIn Blood on the Snow, Robert Service... -
Che Guevara by Jon Lee Anderson
RRP: $42.90$32.41With unprecedented access to the Cuban Government's archives and total co-operation from Che's widow, Aleida March, as well as access to hitherto unpublished documents, including several of Che's personal diaries, this biography of one of history's most... -
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
RRP: $27.28$26.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465060689Author Beverly Daniel TatumFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic Civitas BooksPublisher INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES USWeight(grams)... -
Access to History: Rebellion and Disorder under the Tudors 1485-1603 for OCR Second Edition by Geoffrey Woodward
$49.94Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis, engaging narrative and... -
Low Level Hell by Hugh Mills
RRP: $19.48$13.65'The best 'bird's eye view' of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today ... Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission' R.S. Maxham, Director, US Army Aviation MuseumThe aeroscouts of the... -
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
RRP: $21.43$15.58This collection of writings is famous for giving us the phrase 'Freudian slip'. It also builds up a strong social history of Vienna and the middle-class social milieu of Freud and his patients. Through a series of case histories, some no longer than a... -
Scottish Folk Tales for Children by Judy Paterson 9780750968447
RRP: $19.48$15.15A giant sea monster ... trees that can dance ... a water-horse ... a girl so clever she outwits a giant ... Welcome to the world of the Scottish folk tale - a world of talking animals, mischief-making witches, giants, trolls, bold girls, reckless boys... -
Haunted Nottingham by Andrew James Wright 9780752441948
RRP: $29.23$22.85Haunted Nottingham explores the supernatural side of the city and its surrounding areas and finds many reports of unexplained happenings, weird goings-on and ghostly appearances.About the AuthorThe author, Andrew James Wright, has been a ghost... -
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: 'The Most Happy' Eric Ives (University of Birmingham, UK) 9781405134637
RRP: $33.05$30.87This definitive biography of Anne Boleyn establishes her as a figure of considerable importance and influence in her own right. A full biography of Anne Boleyn, based on the latest scholarly research.Focusses on Anne's life and legacy and establishes... -
My Family and Other Romans by Marie Basting
RRP: $15.58$10.55A rip-roaring Roman adventure from the acclaimed author of Princess BMX, Marie Basting! 'Perfect funny escapism with added Roman mythology ... Charming and mischievous!' LOUIE STOWELL, author of LOKI 'Full of fun... -
Dream Big, Little Leader by Vashti Harrison
RRP: $15.58$11.66This perfect bedtime board book is guaranteed to inspire big dreamsDream big, little one.There's so much you can do.Just look at all the women who came before you . . .Based on the New York Times bestselling sensation Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black... -
Stalag Luft III Breakout: The Men of the Great Escape by Jonathan Vance 9781784384388
RRP: $19.48$14.27It shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harms way during World War II, something emphasised by the population of Stalag Luft III. Most of the Allied POWs were flyers, with all the technical, tactical and planning skills that profession... -
Slightly Wicked: Number 4 in series Mary Balogh 9780749937546
RRP: $19.48$13.65Lord Rannulf Bedwyn is a hard man to resist. To Judith Law, Rannulf is simply a dream come true, a heroic stranger with whom she will allow herself one night of reckless passion before she must settle for the dreary life of companion to her wealthy aunt... -
Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion by André Marmot 9780571374489
RRP: $48.75$33.13A lively, subversive history of the new UK jazz wave, encapsulating its revolutionary spirit and tracing its foundations to birth of the genre itself.By the end of the last century, jazz music was considered by many to be obsolete and uncool, a genre... -
Soldiers, Airmen, Spies, and Whisperers: The Gold Coast in World War II by Nancy Lawler
RRP: $105.30$86.09The fall of France in June 1940 left the Gold Coast surrounded by potentially hostile French colonies that had rejected de Gaulle's call to continue the fight, signaling instead their support for Marshall Petain's pro-German Vichy regime. In Soldiers,... -
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?: England 1783-1846 by Boyd Hilton
RRP: $101.40$78.21This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world's... -
Ipswich Pubs by Susan Gardiner
RRP: $29.23$19.42Ipswich is a brewery town. The administrative centre of the agricultural county of Suffolk, world famous for its barley and brewing, Ipswich was for decades the home of the Cobbold (later Tolly Cobbold) brewery, which was not only a prominent local... -
Middle Eastern Maze: Israel, the Arabs and the Region by Itamar Rabinovich 9780815740100
RRP: $134.55$117.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815740100Author Itamar RabinovichFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm)... -
Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings by Francis Young
RRP: $58.50$51.38Throughout the recorded history of Britain, belief in earthbound spirits presiding over nature, the home and human destiny has been a feature of successive cultures. From the localised deities of Britannia to the Anglo-Saxons' elves and the fairies of... -
Harold Wilson: The Winner Nick Thomas-Symonds 9781474611954
RRP: $48.75$29.02Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten,...