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The Lost King: The Search for Richard III by Philippa Langley
RRP: $16.76$9.69Previously published as The King's Grave.NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SALLY HAWKINS AND STEVE COOGAN.The official inside story of the discovery of history's most controversial monarch.On 22 August 1485, Richard III was killed at Bosworth Field,... -
Italian Journey 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
RRP: $16.76$11.73In 1786, when he was already the acknowledged leader of the Sturm und Drang literary movement, Goethe set out on a journey to Italy to fulfil a personal and artistic quest and to find relief from his responsibilities and the agonies of unrequited love... -
William Armstrong: Magician of The North by Henrietta Heald 9780857160423
RRP: $20.63$14.98William Armstrong was a brilliant and charismatic figure of the 19th Century - a self-made man whose achievements are now being more widely recognised. Inventor, scientist, engineer, and an early advocator of renewable energy, he built a pioneering house... -
Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece by Paul Cartledge
RRP: $16.76$11.33'An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account of a city which changed the ancient world and which deserves to be remembered by the modern. A masterful book written by a master historian.' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of Istanbul and... -
Courtiers: The Secret History of the Georgian Court by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $16.76$11.04In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives...Ambitious and talented people flocked... -
The V-Weapons Then and Now by Winston Ramsey
RRP: $48.38$40.33Day-by-day listings are included covering the locations in Britain where every V1 was either destroyed or where they impacted, plus those for all the V2s. Illustrated with many censored photographs from the period, 'then and now' comparisons bring... -
Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries by Maureen Sullivan 9781785374524
RRP: $19.34$16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374524Author Maureen SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Germany, 1871-1990: united, divided and reunited by Alan Farmer
RRP: $13.55$12.41Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Uncrowned: Royal Heirs Who Didn't Take the Throne by Ashley Mantle 9781445696478
RRP: $29.66$20.10Through the centuries, succession to the English throne has largely been dictated by blood. Children were born to the role, their destinies entwined with that of the nation. They would be raised with the expectation that they would eventually take their... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: Wars and Welfare: Britain in Transition 1906-1957 by Michael Willis 9780198354598
$44.08Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions, Wars and Welfare has been... -
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 by Robert Gildea 9780300277906
RRP: $15.47$13.09"An admirably compassionate testament"-Max Hastings, Sunday Times "A vivid and evocative panorama"-James Graham, The Observer "Superb"-John Harris, The GuardianA powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140... -
USN Submarine vs IJN Antisubmarine Escort: The Pacific, 1941-45 by Mark Stille
RRP: $19.34$14.13This fully illustrated study examines and compares the roles of the US Navy submarines and the Imperial Japanese Navy's anti-submarine warfare capabilities during World War II. In 1941 and 1942, US Navy submarine operations in the Pacific were largely... -
One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict by Benny Morris
RRP: $21.92$21.49A renowned historian eludes the pitfalls of partisanship and tackles one of the world's most perplexing and divisive issues "What is so striking about Morris's work as a historian is that it does not flatter anyone's prejudices, least of all his own,"... -
Countrymen: How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis by Bo Lidegaard
RRP: $16.76$11.73The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden and protected by ordinary people who spontaneously rushed to save... -
Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx by Karl Marx
RRP: $19.34$14.13Karl Marx (1818-1883) is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century. During his eleven years writing for the New York Tribune (their collaboration began in... -
Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity by Kwasi Kwarteng 9781137032232
RRP: $36.11$31.31Britain 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 Gathering Storm: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: $24.50$17.56Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the Second World War.About the AuthorWinston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. A prolific writer, whose works include The Second World War and A... -
Anglo Nostalgia: The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West by Edoardo Campanella
RRP: $38.70$34.77Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump hopes to 'make America great again', Xi Jinping calls for a 'great rejuvenation of the Chinese people', and a majority of Russians still mourn the Soviet Union. But it is Brexit,... -
Roman Lives: A Selection of Eight Lives by Plutarch
RRP: $15.47$10.87Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I... -
An Illustrated History of the Police Service in Northern Ireland and its Forerunners: From Peel to PSNI by Hugh Forrester
RRP: $20.63$14.98Hugh Forrester and David R. Orr cover nearly 200 years of policing in Ireland using images drawn from the archives of the Police Museum in Belfast. Policing in Ireland has its own unique and often troubled history and has been influenced by many of the... -
Australia by R. M. Crawford
RRP: $16.76$11.73Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 by Steve Waugh
$6.44Exam 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... -
The 1960s Home by Paul Evans
RRP: $10.31$7.47The 1960s witnessed a sustained period of economic growth, consumer spending and stable employment. This hitherto unknown prosperity enabled a market growth in levels of owner occupation and a subsequent boom in the sale of household furnishings and... -
Art in China by Craig Clunas
RRP: $30.30$22.50China boasts a history of art lasting over 5,000 years and embracing a huge diversity of forms - objects of jade, lacquer and porcelain, painted scrolls and fans, sculptures in stone, bronze and wood, and murals. But this rich tradition has not, until... -
The Victorians: A Beginner's Guide by David Gange
RRP: $12.89$9.17The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented transformation, yet it is often understood only through the stereotypes of crowded factories, child labour and emotional repression. In this entertaining and scholarly introduction, Dr David Gange explores... -
Sayajirao Gaekwad III: The Maharaja of Baroda by Uma Balasubramaniam 9789353337926
RRP: $16.77$11.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353337926Author Uma BalasubramaniamFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. -
The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
RRP: $12.89$9.17If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser'Brims with elegance, wit and historical accuracy' Daily Mail'Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's'... -
Filth: Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life by Ryan Johnson
RRP: $28.37$24.76From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with... -
Spanish Galleon vs English Galleon: 1550–1605 by Mark Lardas
RRP: $18.05$12.58Between 1550-1600, Europe witnessed a rapid evolution in the art of ship design which enabled safer and more efficient transatlantic travel. This was the pinnacle of the Age of Discovery and Exploration for the European powers, in which the galleon... -
Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey 9781915563002
RRP: $14.18$9.44'Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth.' MICK HERRON'Beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn' CLAIRE ROBERTSON, AUTHOR OF THE SPIRAL... -
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: $12.89$9.74A 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... -
St Petersburg: a Cultural History by Solomon Volkov 9780684832968
$37.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832968Author Solomon VolkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 938gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
The Latin Inscriptions of Rome: A Walking Guide by Tyler Lansford
RRP: $37.41$34.16Rome's oldest known Latin inscription dates from the sixth century BC; the most recent major specimen was mounted in 2006-a span of more than two and a half millennia. Remarkably, many of these inscriptions are still to be found in situ, on the walls,... -
Blood and Roses by Helen Castor
RRP: $16.76$11.04The 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... -
A Grim Almanac of Dorset by Nicola Sly 9780752458847
RRP: $19.34$14.90A 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,... -
The West Yorkshire Woods - Part 2: The Aire Valley by Christopher Goddard 9781913625023
RRP: $16.76$14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913625023Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gritstone PublishingPublisher Gritstone Publishing -
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher 9780571227716
RRP: $16.76$11.73Is 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... -
William Wilberforce: The Life of the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by William Hague
RRP: $21.92$14.80William 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 Other Side of Empathy by Jade E. Davis 9781478025016
RRP: $24.50$21.57In The Other Side of Empathy, Jade E. Davis contests the value of empathy as an affective or critical tool. Whether focusing on technology, colonialism, or racism, she shows how empathy can obscure relationships of dominance, control, submission, and... -
Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea, AD 30-325 by Geza Vermes
RRP: $14.18$10.02Geza Vermes, translator and editor of The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls and worldwide expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the...