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Wren's City of London Churches by John Christopher
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65LONDON needed rebuilding after the great fire of 1666. Eighty-eight churches had been destroyed and a grand plan to rebuild them was started by Sir Christopher Wren. In the end, he designed fifty-one... -
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet by Tom Nancollas
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our... -
Malayan Emergency by Gerry Van Tonder 9781526707864
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79When the world held its breath It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed... -
A Queer Little History of Art by Alex Pilcher
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $14.07A celebration of over 100 years of queer creativity, featuring 70 outstanding works of drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and installation. Over the last century, many artists have made... -
Struggle and Suffrage in Peterborough: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality by Abigail Hamilton-Thompson 9781526716729
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History by Jeremy Johns
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on extant source material, it... -
The Ration Book Diet by Mike Brown
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07In 1939, Britain was preparing for war. As well as building aeroplanes and digging Anderson shelters, this meant managing food supplies for the home front.The Ministry of Food rose to the challenge,... -
Boys in Zinc by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Haunting stories from the Soviet-Afghan War from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature - A new translation of Zinky Boys based on the revised text - From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a... -
The Radio Front: The BBC and the Propaganda War 1939-45 by Ron Bateman
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.38Within seventeen years of the first public broadcast in Britain, the nation again found itself at war. As the Second World War progressed, the BBC eventually realised the potential benefits of public... -
Great Expeditions: 50 Journeys that changed our world by Levison Wood
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84Foreword by Levison Wood, presenter of Walking the Americas. A comprehensive, fascinating and inspiring gallery of the great adventures that changed our world. Throughout history there... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 2: The British Airborne Missions by Ken Ford 9781472814302
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Osprey's trilogy on Operation Market-Garden continues with a fascinating account of the British airborne assault on the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem.With Germany being pushed back across Europe... -
Lion Rampant: Second Edition: Medieval Wargaming Rules by Daniel Mersey
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $23.06WINNER OF THE 2023 ORIGINS AWARDS FOR BEST MINIATURES GAME. An expanded edition of the Origins Award-nominated Lion Rampant, featuring new rules, scenarios, and sample armies. Take to the... -
Arado Ar 234 Bomber and Reconnaissance Units by Robert Forsyth
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.80When the revolutionary twin jet-powered Arado Ar 234 first appeared in the skies over north-west Europe in the summer of 1944, it represented the state-of-the-art in terms of aeronautical and... -
Glasgow's East End Through Time by Gordon Adams
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The history of Glasgow extends back into the mists of legend, even beyond the sixth century AD when the city's patron saint, St Mungo, entered its story. From a small monastic community on the banks... -
A History of Tokyo 1867-1989: From EDO to SHOWA: The Emergence of the World's Greatest City Edward Seidensticker 9784805318119
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.52Explore Tokyo's incredible journey from a feudal past to a global metropolis in Edward Seidensticker's captivating narrative, a must-read for history enthusiasts and curious travelers eager to delve... -
A Gift of Poison: Betrayal. Mystery. Murder. The Brontë sisters are on the case . . . by Bella Ellis 9781529363470
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75BETRAYAL. MYSTERY. MURDER. THE BRONTE SISTERS ARE ON THE CASE.'The Brontes are so skilfully and cleverly depicted that it's no stretch at all to imagine the sisters as amateur sleuths' SARRA MANNING,... -
White Riot: The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month by Joe Thomas 9781529423396
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Joe Thomas brilliantly recaptures an ugly episode in our recent past. Lest we forget . . .' Val McDermid'A timely, powerful and gorgeously readable novel that represents everything that is good and... -
Punch and Judy: A Short History with the Original Dialogue by John Payne Collier 9780486449036
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.44A chronicle of the "life," times, and travels of the famous puppets, this survey examines Punch and Judy's moral and cultural significance as well as the people who played them behind the curtain... -
Return of the Dambusters: What 617 Squadron Did Next by John Nichol
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84(Previously published as 'After the Flood') Former RAF Tornado Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol sets out on a personal journey to discover what happened to 617 Squadron after the... -
A Short History of the Spanish Civil War: Revised Edition Prof. Julian Casanova (University of Zaragoza, Spain) 9781350152557
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.35In this revised edition of A Short History of the Spanish Civil War, Julian Casanova tells the gripping story of the Spanish Civil War. Written in elegant and accessible prose, the book charts ... -
US Navy F-4 Phantom II Units of the Vietnam War 1969-73 by Peter E. Davies 9781472823601
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.80Although the F-4 Phantom II was the most important fighter-bomber to see action with all three American services during the Vietnam War, it was essentially a U.S. Navy design, and the carrier-borne... -
Japanese Combined Fleet 1941–42: The IJN at its zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway by Mark Stille 9781472856432
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.07Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's striking force at the height of its power. The Imperial... -
Fire Stations by Billy Reading
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86Buildings in Britain were first set aside for storing firefighting equipment in the seventeenth century, in the wake of the Great Fire of London. These were often storage sheds or farm buildings, but... -
1970s Childhood by Liza Hollinghurst
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.92A 1970s childhood was, for many, a life of happy-go-lucky freedom set against a soundtrack of pop music played on a transistor radio dangling from the handlebars of a Raleigh Chopper. It was a... -
Red Warning by Matthew Quirk
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.40A CIA agent hunts an old foe in this gripping new international thriller from Matthew Quirk. Deadly enemies, dangerous games... CIA agent Sam Hudson has been hunting Konstantin, a Russian deep... -
London Underground Symmetry and Imperfections: The Tube Mapper Project by Luke Agbaimoni
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $21.84There are currently 272 London Underground, 113 Overground and 45 Docklands Light Railway stations. Luke Agbaimoni has been slowly attempting to capture visual moments at each one.When we see a... -
The Northern Question: A History of a Divided Country by Thomas Hazeldine
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.79Britain has scarcely begun to come to terms with its recent upheavals, from the crisis over Brexit to the collapse of Labour's 'red wall'. What can explain such momentous shifts?In this essential... -
The Tommy of the First World War by Neil R. Storey
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86'Tommy Atkins' has been the nickname given to soldiers of the British Army since the eighteenth century. The origin of the name is shrouded in mystery, but it has stuck. By 1914, the Tommy had... -
The Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for... -
Visiting the Somme and Ypres Battlefields Made Easy: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals by Gareth Hughes
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Recommended in the Foreign Office Ministerial Reading List - Summer 2014 It does what it says on the tin, introducing the reader to the nuances of planning an itinerary for the Somme or the... -
On History by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide-ranging... -
Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 20th Century: Hannah's Daughter by Margaret Hedley 9780750995047
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The women's working days were much longer than the... -
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club Julie Welch 9781409187837
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92When Julie Welch called in her first ever football report at the Observer, an entire room of men fell silent. Heart in her mouth, Julie waited for the voice on the other end of the line to declare it... -
The Zimmermann Telegram: The Astounding Espionage Operation That Propelled America into the First World War by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65ONE OF THE GREATEST SPY STORIES OF ALL TIME Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did. In England, Room 40 was born . . .In January 1917, with the... -
The Centre of the Bed: An Autobiography by Joan Bakewell
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'Honest and intriguing ... beautifully written.' Observer'Joan Bakewell was everywhere at every stage: reporting on the Cuban missile crisis, interviewing Allen Ginsberg and Vaclav Havel, taking... -
Wanderers in the New Forest by Juliette de Bairacli Levy 9781915068187
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $15.80Known as the 'grandmother of herbalism', Juliette de Bairacli Levy travelled throughout Europe and North America in pursuit of her passion for herbs and holistic medicine, living mostly in rural... -
Fife in History and Legend by Raymond Lamont-Brown 9781839830105
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.89Fife has always been one of Scotland's most distinctive counties. Though never a 'kingdom' in its own right, its geographical position as a peninsular county between the firths of Tay and Forth has... -
Churches of Suffolk by Sarah E. Doig
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Suffolk boasts by far the greatest number of Domesday churches of any county surveyed by William the Conqueror in 1086. Over the centuries, many of these buildings have been renewed, enlarged and... -
The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.60Meet Frantz Schmidt: executioner, torturer and, most unusually for his times, diarist.Following in his father's footsteps, Frantz entered the executioner's trade as an Apprentice. 394 executions and... -
Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt 9780393331998
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.42How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and...