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Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings by Francis Young
RRP: £30.00£26.35Throughout 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... -
Forgotten Voices of the Falklands: The Real Story of the Falklands War by Hugh McManners
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Falklands War was a turning point in modern British history. On the one hand, it was what some considered to be the 'last of the great Elizabethan adventures', with the Royal Navy pulling off an incredible feat of maritime warfare, under the most... -
The Dark Valley: A Commissario Soneri Investigation by Valerio Varesi
RRP: £9.99£6.80Commissario Soneri returns home for a hard-earned autumn holiday, hoping to spend a few days mushroom picking on the slopes of Montelupo. This isolated village relies on the salame factory founded in the post-war years by Palmiro Rodolfi, and now run by... -
Churches of Suffolk by Sarah E. Doig
RRP: £15.99£10.85Suffolk 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 altered, whilst others have sadly disappeared either... -
Ten Men Dead by David Beresford
RRP: £14.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780586065334Author David BeresfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)... -
The Mammoth Book of Air Disasters and Near Misses by Paul Simpson 9781780338286
RRP: £12.99£8.60An incredible 30,000 flights - at least - arrive safely at their destinations every day. But a handful don't, while some come terrifyingly close to crashing. When even the smallest thing does go wrong at 35,000 feet, the result is nearly always a... -
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Magisterial - an outstanding book that shines a bright light one of the most important, interesting and under-studied cities in European history. A masterpiece.' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful new history of the Mediterranean from the fifth to eighth... -
Snow by Orhan Pamuk 9780571218318
RRP: £9.99£6.70A magnificent love story and powerful tale of religious fanaticism, from the internationally bestselling Nobel laureate.** ORDER THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK, NIGHTS OF PLAGUE **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Not only an engrossing feat of... -
Henry V's Navy: The Sea-Road to Agincourt and Conquest 1413-1422 by Ian Friel
RRP: £12.99£9.62Without Henry V's Navy, the Battle of Agincourt would never have happened. Henry's fleet played a major - if often unrecognised - part in enabling the king to come within reach of final victory in the Hundred Years War against France. Henry's navy was... -
The Oxford History of the French Revolution by William Doyle
RRP: £32.49£31.19Since its first publication to mark the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, this Oxford History has established itself as the Revolution's most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume history in English, and has recently been translated into... -
War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents, 1450-2000 by Jeremy Black 9780300082852
£34.40In this brilliant history of warfare, Jeremy Black is the first to approach the entire modern era from a comprehensive global perspective. He provides a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose, and experience of war over the past half-millennium and... -
Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle by Stephen D. Biddle
RRP: £35.00£27.74In war, do mass and materiel matter most? Will states with the largest, best equipped, information-technology-rich militaries invariably win? The prevailing answer today among both scholars and policymakers is yes. But this is to overlook force... -
Tutankhamun: The Treasures of the Tomb by Zahi Hawass
RRP: £30.00£21.00The tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasures, remains the most sensational archaeological find of all time. This brilliantly illustrated volume takes the reader through Tutankhamun's tomb room-by-room in the order that it was discovered and... -
An Old Woman's Reflections by Peig Sayers
RRP: £7.99£5.79Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends and history of the Blasket Islands. In her old age, Peig Sayers, recounted her life to her son who recorded the tale in this book. She recalls the events of her life and her simple philosophy in a moving poetic... -
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 by Ilan Pappe
£26.43Arabs and Jews describe the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948 in completely different ways. Among Arabs, and especially Palestinians, the events of that year are known as the nakba - the catastrophe, the trauma, the disaster. For Jews, and in particular for... -
Rise and Fall: A History of the World in Ten Empires by Paul Strathern
RRP: £10.99£7.40Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of... -
The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 by Christopher Duggan
RRP: £18.99£13.61The greatness of Italy's culture and way of life have had a powerful attraction for many generations of visitors. This has created an overwhelming sense that Italy is a fundamentally benign and easy going country. The Force of Destiny, Christopher... -
London's Docklands: An Illustrated History by Geoff Marshall 9780750987790
RRP: £20.00£15.04London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transformed: starting at Canary Wharf and continuing at the Royal Docks, a vibrant new area has sprung into... -
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £10.99£7.77**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** The most recognisable economist on the... -
Richard II: A True King's Fall by Kathryn Warner
RRP: £10.99£7.25Richard II is a figure famous in England's national myths - the king who went insane, the narcissist, the tyrant of Shakespeare's play. History regards his rule either as that of a superhuman monarch or a crazed and vicious ruler. But Richard II was a... -
Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories and the Hunt for Putin's Agents by Gordon Corera
RRP: £9.99£6.64The urgent, explosive story of Russia's espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present - including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in... -
Death of Mr Dodsley: A London Bibliomystery by John Ferguson 9780712354721
RRP: £9.99£6.80'A bookshop is a first-rate place for unobtrusive observation,' he continued. 'One can remain in it an indefinite time, dipping into one book after another, all over the place.' Mr. Richard Dodsley, owner of a fine second-hand bookshop on Charing... -
No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal
RRP: £12.99£12.35Through their dramatic stories, Gopal shows that the Afghan war, so often regarded as a hopeless quagmire, could in fact have gone very differently. Top Taliban leaders actually tried to surrender within months of the US invasion, renouncing all... -
Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead by Barbara Comyns 9781911547846
RRP: £9.99£6.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911547846Author Barbara ComynsFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Daunt BooksPublisher Daunt Books -
Russian Aircraft of World War II by Edward Ward
RRP: £17.99£12.39Organised chronologically by type, Russian Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force during World War II. The book provides a comprehensive survey of combat aircraft, from the... -
War by Lawrence Freedman 9780192892546
£51.38War has shaped the international system, prompted social change, and inspired the arts. The ubiquitous and multi-faceted character of war is fully reflected in this new Oxford Reader. It addresses the causes of war, the experience of war, and the moral... -
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic by Ruth Dudley Edwards
RRP: £9.99£7.11On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... -
Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery by Bernard Law Montgomery of Alamein 9781844153305
£27.99First published in 1958 Montgomerys memoirs cover the full span of his career first as a regimental officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and then as a Staff Officer. His choice of the Warwickshires was due to his lack of money. He saw service in... -
Wigan Coalfield by Alan Davies 9780752417240
RRP: £14.99£11.55Through documents, the Wigan area can trace its coal mining activities as far back as 650 years, and for a brief spell in the late nineteenth century Wigan itself was proudly known as 'Coalopolis'. Mining machinery such as ventilation fans, winding... -
A German General on the Eastern Front: The Letters and Diaries of Gotthard Heinrici 1941-1942 by Huerter, Johannes 9781399082815
RRP: £19.95£9.09The Eastern Front, 1941/. Operation Barbarossa. HitlerOs armies advance into the Soviet Union to conquer Lebensraum in the East. Among the corps commanders is General Gotthard Heinrici, a career soldier, a highly decorated First World War veteran, who... -
Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Viginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group by Amy Licence
RRP: £12.99£8.48Sisters Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf have long been celebrated for their central roles in the development of modernism in art and literature. Vanessa's experimental work places her at the vanguard of early twentieth-century art, as does her role in... -
Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1939-1945 by Richard Taylor 9781399081030
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs by David Runciman 9781788163675
RRP: £20.00£14.29'The Singularity' is what Silicon Valley calls the idea that, eventually, we will be overrun by machines that are able to take decisions and act for themselves. What no one says is that it happened before. A few hundred years ago, humans started... -
The Lost Back-to-Back Streets of Leeds: Woodhouse in the 1960s and '70s by Colin James 9781803995144
RRP: £20.00£15.04Despite what journalists chose to highlight, the gas lamps in Woodhouse still had work to do because the streets were not empty of life. Some houses were boarded up but many - often next door - were still family homes, albeit in the last years of... -
Spitfire Girl: My Life in the Sky by Jackie Moggridge
RRP: £10.99£7.77The inspiring memoir of the remarkable Jackie Moggridge: ATA girl, Spitfire expert and pioneer. 'We had returned to a different world. We had taken off in peace at nine-thirty and landed in war at noon.' Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when... -
Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare by Lukasz Kamienski
RRP: £15.99£14.87From hallucinogenic mushrooms and LSD, to coca and cocaine; from Homeric warriors and the Assassins to the first Gulf War and today's global insurgents - drugs have sustained warriors in the field and have been used as weapons of warfare, either as... -
A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy 9780300234527
RRP: £10.99£9.05A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field"A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and... -
Cambodia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Kate Reavill 9781787023154
RRP: £9.99£7.54Don'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... -
Paul: A Biography by N. T. Wright 9780061730597
RRP: £19.99£13.18In this definitive biography, renowned Bible scholar, Anglican bishop, and bestselling author N. T. Wright offers a radical look at the apostle Paul, illuminating the humanity and remarkable achievements of this intellectual who invented Christian... -
Mudlark'd: Hidden Histories from the River Thames by Malcolm Russell
RRP: £25.00£15.87'Beautiful and poignant' The Art Newspaper 'Absorbing... a magnificent book' Mail on Sunday The first illustrated book on mudlarking that tells the captivating stories of forgotten people through objects recovered from the river Thames. Combining...