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Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781137032232
RRP: $54.58$47.33Britain is at a cross-roads; from the economy, to the education system, to social mobility, Britain must learn the rules of the 21st century, or face a slide into mediocrity. Brittania Unchained travels around the world, exploring the nations that are... -
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches by Brian MacArthur
RRP: $29.23$21.35From Moses to Nelson Mandela, speeches have changed the way we see the world and the way the world is shaped.The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches gathers together the world's greatest speeches, bringing together the words of over one hundred men and... -
Modern Russian Tanks: 1990-Present by Dr Stephen Hart
RRP: $35.08$24.53Created from what was left of the gigantic stockpiles of Soviet armoured fighting vehicles after the end of the Cold War, the Russian armoured forces were reorganized in the early 1990s. Ground forces were involved in a series of conflicts in border... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 9781847926180
RRP: $39.00$29.07In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout... -
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive Philippe Sands, QC 9781474608145
RRP: $21.43$14.84THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE'Remarkable' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Breathtaking, gripping, shattering' ELIF SHAFAK'A taut and finely crafted factual thriller'... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 Steve Waugh 9781510403253
$10.06Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage... -
Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins by Gareth Harney 9781847927507
RRP: $42.90$31.73The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through humankind's most universal object: the coin.'Fantastic' CONN IGGULDEN, author of Nero'Brilliant' EMMA SOUTHON, author of A History of the Roman Empire in 21... -
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life by Bill Brewster
RRP: $58.50$39.78'Literally changed the course of my life' James Murphy'The chapter on Larry Levan alone transformed me into wanting to be your favorite DJ' Questlove'The original and still the best' Gilles Peterson'We can't tell the story of dance music without speaking... -
All She Lost: The Explosion in Lebanon, the Collapse of a Nation and the Women who Survive Dalal Mawad 9781399406260
RRP: $25.33$17.59‘Poignant and compelling… will resonate with anyone who cares about justice and the abuse of power’ - Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News International Editor and author of Sandstorm 'Essential and urgent' - Kim Ghattas, journalist and author of Black Wave... -
Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Joel Kovel 9780745325699
RRP: $48.73$32.43Israel is an incorrigible human rights offender because, by discriminating against Arabs, it is guilty of 'state-sponsored racism' argues Joel Kovel. Like apartheid South Africa, the best hope for peace in Israel is to return to the idea of a one-state... -
The Peninsular War Atlas (Revised) by Nick Lipscombe
RRP: $97.50$73.91The Peninsular War is one of the defining campaigns of the British Army and sealed its reputation for supreme professionalism, heroic obstinacy and sheer perseverance. It made the reputation of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, and acts as the... -
The Korean War Trivia Book: Interesting Stories and Random Facts From The Korean War by Bill O'Neill 9781648450143
RRP: $19.48$14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648450143Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Lak PublishingPublisher Lak PublishingWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *... -
Diana: The Life and Legacy of the People's Princess by Brian Hoey
RRP: $25.33$17.30Fully illustrated with beautiful photographs, this special commemorative book by royal biographer Brian Hoey - who had the privilege of meeting Diana on several occasions - pays tribute to the life of this remarkable young woman. Diana, Princess of... -
Mafia Republic: Italy's Criminal Curse. Cosa Nostra, 'Ndrangheta and Camorra from 1946 to the Present John Dickie 9781444726411
RRP: $25.33$17.22In MAFIA REPUBLIC, John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University College, London and author of the international bestsellers COSA NOSTRA and MAFIA BROTHERHOODS, shows how the Italian mafias have grown in power and become more and more... -
The Dublin King: The True Story of Edward, Earl of Warwick, Lambert Simnel and the 'Princes in the Tower' by John Ashdown-Hill 9780750969864
RRP: $19.48$15.15A year after Richard III's death, a boy claiming to be a Yorkist prince appeared as if from nowhere, claiming to be Richard III's heir and the rightful King of England. In 1487, in a unique ceremony, this boy was crowned in Dublin Cathedral, despite the... -
Common Entrance 13+ History for ISEB CE and KS3 Martin Collier 9781398317802
$69.23Exam board: ISEB Level: 13+ CE and KS3 Subject: History First teaching: September 2021 First exams: November 2022Covering Medieval Realms, the Making of the UK and Britain and Empire, Rosemary Rees and Martin Collier use their extensive Common Entrance... -
History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts Robert Bartlett 9781009457156
RRP: $39.00$25.08To what extent does our knowledge of the past rely upon written sources? And what happens when these sources are destroyed? Focusing on the manuscripts of the Middle Ages, History in Flames explores cases in which large volumes of written material were... -
Blood and Roses by Helen Castor
RRP: $25.33$17.16The Wars of the Roses turned England upside down. Between 1455 and 1485 four kings, including Richard III, lost their thrones, more than forty noblemen lost their lives on the battlefield or their heads on the block, and thousands of the men who followed... -
Great Harry's Navy: How Henry VIII Gave England Sea Power Geoffrey Moorhouse 9780753820995
RRP: $21.43$14.84Ground-breaking history of how King Henry VIII created England's navyIt was Henry VIII who began the process of making England a first-rate sea-power. He inherited no more than seven warships from Henry VII, yet at his own death the King's Navy had 53... -
Afghanistan and Central Asia: A Modern History by Martin McCauley 9780582506145
RRP: $74.08$71.53The Afghan crisis has grabbed the attention of the entire world, and underlined the desperate need in the West for a better understanding of the region and its challenges in the face of increasingly militant interpretations of Islam. Carved up and... -
A Grim Almanac of Dorset by Nicola Sly 9780752458847
RRP: $29.23$22.52A Grim Almanac of Dorset is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county. Full of dreadful deeds, strange disappearances and a multitude of mysteries, this almanac explores the darker side of the Dorset's past. The wicked, the mad,... -
Hearts of Stone: A gripping historical thriller of World War II and the Greek resistance Simon Scarrow 9780755380244
RRP: $21.43$14.84A STUNNING SECOND WORLD WAR THRILLER SET IN OCCUPIED GREECE FROM THE AUTHOR OF BLACKOUT AND DEAD OF NIGHTThe fierce courage of the men and women of the Greek Resistance is brought to vivid life in Sunday Times bestseller Simon Scarrow's powerful novel. ... -
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher 9780571227716
RRP: $25.33$17.16Is Santa Claus really a magic mushroom in disguise? Was Alice in Wonderland a thinly veiled psychedelic mushroom odyssey? Did mushroom tea kick-start ancient Greek philosophy? The 'magic mushroom' was only rediscovered fifty years ago, but has... -
A Brief History of the Samurai by Jonathan Clements
RRP: $25.33$18.21From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of... -
Illustrated Tales of Suffolk by John Ling
RRP: $31.18$21.16The historical county of Suffolk has a host of strange and mysterious tales ranging from ancient legends and stories of the supernatural to more modern documented cases. These strange and spooky stories include the Green Children of Woolpit, where a boy... -
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
RRP: $33.13$22.37William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able... -
The Deadly Trade: The Complete History of Submarine Warfare From Archimedes to the Present Iain Ballantyne 9781409158523
RRP: $25.33$18.00The Deadly Trade takes readers on an epic and enthralling voyage through submarine warfare, including how U-boats in two world wars tried to achieve victory, first for the Kaiser and then 20 years later for Adolf Hitler. It tells the story of how such... -
A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt
RRP: $21.43$14.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566494168Author Malachy McCourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Welcome Rain PublishersPublisher Welcome Rain Publishers -
The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
RRP: $29.23$21.70In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and... -
The Lost Peace: How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War by Richard Sakwa 9780300255010
RRP: $48.75$40.79The end of the Cold War was an opportunity - our inability to seize it has led to today's renewed era of great power competition 1989 heralded a unique prospect for an enduring global peace, as harsh ideological divisions and conflicts began to be... -
Cultures of Empire: A Reader : Colonisers in Britain and the Empire in Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Catherine Hall 9780719058585
RRP: $38.98$35.12Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A substantial introduction by the distinguished historian,... -
The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment Michael Hunter 9780300260953
RRP: $25.33$22.35A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britain-named a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace... -
RAF Bomber Command Operations Manual: Insights into the organisation, equipment, men, machines, technology and tactics of the RAF's bomber offensive 1939 -1945 by Jonathan Falconer
RRP: $58.50$42.30Night and day in the Second World War RAF Bomber Command pounded away at the infrastructure of Germany to bring the Reich to its knees. Author Jonathan Falconer describes the Command's complex organisation and the science, technology and engineerBook... -
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour
RRP: $33.13$24.32A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful... -
Idi Amin: The Story of Africa's Icon of Evil Mark Leopold 9780300260885
RRP: $25.33$22.35The first serious full-length biography of former Ugandan president Idi Amin, modern Africa's most famous dictator"A nuanced and sophisticated examination of one of the most misunderstood, and caricatured, figures in modern African history. . . ... -
The Power of the Outsider: A Journey of Discovery Samuel Kasumu 9781529396911
RRP: $39.00$26.42'Samuel Kasumu has written an important - and very moving - book about the outsider phenomenon.' - Robert Peston' I loved reading about your childhood and your anxieties as a father. The personal is so well mixed with the analytical. Thank you for... -
Loyalists by Peter Taylor 9780747545194
RRP: $33.13$24.32The second part of the landmark trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author Provos and Brits Based on a three-part BBC TV series, this is an inside account of the thinking, strategies and ruthless violence of the paramilitaries in... -
First Portuguese Colonial Empire by Professor Malyn Newitt
RRP: $42.88$38.75The four essays in this book examine aspects of Portugal's first overseas empire, the maritime and commercial empire that was founded in the fifteenth century and which, during the sixteenth century extended from Brazil to China.Book InformationISBN... -
Hitler's Russian & Cossack Allies 1941-45 by Nigel Thomas
RRP: $25.33$21.78Given the merciless way in which the war on the Eastern Front of World War II was conducted, it is difficult to envisage anyone changing sides during the conflict. Yet after the German invasion of Russia in Operation Barbarossa, well over 400,000 former... -
Your Body In Balance: The New Science of Food, Hormones and Health Dr Neal Barnard 9781529381603
RRP: $25.33$17.22This nationally bestselling book explains the shocking new science of how hormones are wreaking havoc on the body, and the delicious solution that improves health, reduces pain, and even helps to shed weight.Hidden in everyday foods are the causes of a...