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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RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world.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... -
WJEC Eduqas GCSE History: Germany in transition, 1919-39 by Steve Waugh
Booksplease Price: $30.82Exam Board: EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed by EduqasBring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject... -
St Cuthbert's Corpse: A Life After Death by David Willem 9781908381156
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908381156Author David WillemFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint < -
This Land: The Story of a Movement by Owen Jones
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80A GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A whodunnit political page-turner' Melissa Benn, New Statesman 'The best political book I have read for a long while' Rod Liddle, The... -
The Romans: Gods, Emperors and Dormice by Marcia Williams 9781406354553
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09With her signature comic-strip style, Marcia WIlliams takes us behind the scenes at some of ancient Rome's most famous moments.Meet Dormeo: gladiator, dormouse, berry-nibbler, and guide to ancient... -
The Great Siege, Malta 1565: Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide by Ernle Bradford 9781497637863
RRP: $24.05Booksplease Price: $17.73The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible... -
The Coming of the Wolf: The Wild Hunt series prequel by Elizabeth Chadwick 9780751577655
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $5.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Terror and Magnificence: The London Churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor by David Meara 9781398116283
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.60Nicholas Hawksmoor is one of a number of distinguished architects who worked in the seventeenth century. Others included Sir Christopher Wren, Inigo Jones, and Sir John Vanbrugh. But while we... -
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.93While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke-filled cafes, or with a brooding, angst-filled outlook on life, Gosetti-Ferencei shows... -
The Sun King by Nancy Mitford
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford. ... -
History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.34'The greatest history of an event I know' - C.L.R. JamesRegarded by many as among the most powerful works of history ever written, The History of the Russian Revolution offers an unparalleled account... -
Steel Girls on the Home Front by Michelle Rawlins
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $7.10As the war rages on, can they be there for each other? Spring 1940As the war rages on, Vickers steelworks is busier than ever which is proving tough for Nancy as she juggles working long... -
Memories of a Wartime Childhood in London by Douglas Model
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11In this vivid memoir, Douglas Model tells the incredible true story of his wartime childhood in Wembley amidst the horrors of the Blitz. Contrasting his peaceful infant life - which included a hiking... -
A Short History Of The Middle East by Gordon Kerr 9781843446361
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $4.15Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region... -
Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC by Alistair Kerr 9781903499900
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $19.01The second edition covering the murder of Grenadier Guardsman Robert Nairac GC by the Provisional IRA in 1977.Book InformationISBN 9781903499900Author Alistair KerrFormat PaperbackPage Count 5 -
The Great Tapestry of Scotland by Alistair Moffat
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $31.87The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry's Wimbledon... -
Brazil: A Biography by Heloisa M. Starling
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad'Engrossing ... eye-opening ... an enormously refreshing treat' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesSince Europeans first... -
Secret Newcastle by Ken Hutchinson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, at the lowest bridging point, Newcastle is generally regarded as the capital of the north-eastern region of the United Kingdom. Initially a Roman... -
Twopence to Cross the Mersey by Helen Forrester
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read. When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt... -
The Middle East Crisis Factory: Tyranny, Resilience and Resistance by Iyad El-Baghdadi
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.98Why is the Middle East a crisis factory, and how can it be fixed? What does the future look like for its 500 million people? And what role should the West play? Iyad El-Baghdadi and Ahmed Gatnash... -
A Concise History of Switzerland by Clive H. Church
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $26.79Despite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland's history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging... -
The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living by Joseph M Marshall
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $14.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142196090Author Joseph M. MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprin -
The Great Mutiny: India 1857 by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.56'By far the best single-volume description of the mutiny yet written' - Economist A beautifully written and meticulously researched narrative history of the great Indian uprising of 1857 by one of... -
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim Al-Khalili
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world. For over 700 years the international language of... -
Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction by Joseph Siracusa 9780198860532
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.85Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after the Cold War, the Bomb is still the greatest threat... -
Sabre Squadron by Cameron Spence
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy's backyard. It would be six weeks before any of the patrol again reached safety.Sabre... -
Allied Armies in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945: Photographs from Wartime Archives by Simon Forty 9781526766205
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. After the fall of Rome and the surrender of Italy,... -
The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts by Reinhart Koselleck
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $30.66Reinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half century. His work has implications for contemporary cultural studies that extend far beyond... -
Built Before the Flood: The Problem of the Tiahuanaco Ruins by H S Bellamy 9781585093960
RRP: $18.69Booksplease Price: $14.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585093960Author H S BellamyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Chronicles of the Crusades by sire de Jean Joinville
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey of Villehardouin and The Life of Saint Louis by John of Joinville are eye-witness accounts of going to war in the service of God. In the first years of the...