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Secrets of the Knights Templar: The Hidden History of the World's Most Powerful Order by Susie Hodge
RRP: £12.99£8.83The Knights Templar are one of the most mysterious and powerful religious orders in history. Highly trained, and adhering to a strict chivalric code, their success on the battlefield brought them both extraordinary wealth and political influence. It also... -
The Maps of Middle-earth: From Númenor and Beleriand to Wilderland and Middle-earth by Brian Sibley 9780008669461
RRP: £25.00£17.23Available together for the first time in a single hardback volume, J.R.R. Tolkien's maps of The Hobbit, Beleriand, Middle-earth and Numenor - re-illustrated by John Howe - are presented as full colour foldout posters and accompanied by a... -
The Long Game: Inside Sinn Féin by Aoife Moore 9781844885794
RRP: £17.99£13.55THE NO. 1 BESTSELLERA fascinating, insightful, warts-and-all portrait' - The Guardian 'Painstakingly researched ... informed by countless inside sources' - The Observer'Compelling and revealing' - Irish Times* * *Inside the rise of the political party,... -
Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 1: The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean by Fitz Hugh Ludlow 9780996639439
RRP: £32.00£24.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996639439Author Fitz Hugh LudlowFormat HardbackPage Count 378Imprint LogosophiaPublisher LogosophiaWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
MP 38 and MP 40 Submachine Guns Alejandro de Quesada 9781780963884
RRP: £15.99£13.33Nazi Germany's MP 38 and MP 40 submachine guns are among World War II's most recognizable weapons. Portable and with folding stocks, both were widely issued to airborne troops and became the hallmark of Germany's infantry section and platoon leaders. A... -
A Storm in Flanders: Triumph and Tragedy on the Western Front by Winston Groom
RRP: £9.99£7.00A vivid page-turning narrative of the most horrific battle in history by a soldier turned bestselling novelistA fast-paced and vivid narrative of the most horrific campaign in history: the four-year slaughter around the Belgian town of Ypres 1914-18... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: Living under Nazi Rule 1933-1945 Richard Kennett 9781471860928
£22.27Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
Power Failure by William D. Cohan
RRP: £35.00£30.95A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporationPerhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing... -
Beware of Small States: Lebanon, Battleground of the Middle East by David Hirst 9780571237425
RRP: £14.99£10.92'Beware of Small States' wrote Mikhail Bukanin in 1870. He could have meant Lebanon: a sectarian state no bigger than Wales that has become battleground for one of the defining conflicts of twentieth-century history. Throughout its short existence, it... -
Waterloo 1815: The British Army's Day of Destiny by Gregory Fremont-Barnes
RRP: £20.00£15.44Writing to his mother the day after the fighting, Captain Thomas Wildman of the 7th Hussars described 'a victory so splendid & important that you may search the annals of history in vain for its parallel'. Little wonder, for Waterloo was widely... -
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame 9781421445557
RRP: £29.00£25.06Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame's impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised.Sixteenth president of the United States, the Great Emancipator, and a... -
The American South: A Very Short Introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson
RRP: £8.99£6.65The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. The American South: A Very Short Introduction explores the history of the South as a cultural crossroads, a... -
South and West: From A Notebook by Joan Didion
RRP: £8.99£6.12From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks - writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. ... -
Silencing The Past (20th Anniversary Edition) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
RRP: £20.00£14.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807080535Author Michel-Rolph TrouillotFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 205mm *... -
Survival in the Killing Fields Haing Ngor 9781841197937
RRP: £12.99£9.19Best known for his academt award-winning role as Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields", for Haing Ngor his greatest performance was not in Hollywood but in the rice paddies and labour camps of war-torn Cambodia. Here, in his memoir of life under the Khmer... -
Modern Italy: A Very Short Introduction by Anna Cento Bull
RRP: £8.99£6.65The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects which often had their roots in a widespread dissatisfaction with social and political reality, and perceived... -
The Prisoner List by Richard Kandler 9780956488107
RRP: £9.95£8.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956488107Author Richard KandlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Marsworth PublishingPublisher Marsworth PublishingWeight(grams) 304g -
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama 9781471169892
RRP: £30.00£19.15'This splendid and often moving work of history... Schama has a gift for combining novelistically colourful detail, serious analysis and wryly amusing asides' Daily Telegraph 'Superb' Observer 'Extraordinary... A meticulous retelling of a terrible... -
Philip's Highlands of Scotland: Leisure and Tourist Map 2020 Edition: Leisure and Tourist Map by Philip's Maps
RRP: £7.99£5.98A folded map specially created for touring the glories of the Scottish Highlands, with a wealth of places of interest clearly marked. It includes detailed coverage of the area's road network with easy-to-read road mapping perfect for route-planning... -
Art Deco House Styles by Trevor Yorke 9781846742477
RRP: £6.95£6.04The lively styles of the period are still highly sought after by house buyers and homeowners today. This is the perfect book for those who want to learn more about the artistic influences of these years. Illustrated in full color throughout.Book... -
Escape The Titanic: Use your wits and solve the puzzles to survive by JOEL JESSUP 9780711286443
RRP: £9.99£7.00Can you escape the sinking Titanic? Make your way up the decks with this exhilarating adventure puzzle book. This exciting escape book is a bustling collection of puzzles set on the Titanic during its sinking in the early hours of 15 April 1912. To... -
Life of Christ by Abbot Giuseppe Ricciotti 9781258885854
RRP: £51.95£45.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258885854Author Abbot Giuseppe RicciottiFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 934g -
What We Owe the Future: A Million-Year View by William MacAskill
RRP: £20.00£14.91The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively influencing... -
Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics during the Decolonization of Algeria, Second Edition by James D. Le Sueur
RRP: £23.99£21.56Uncivil War is a provocative study of the intellectuals who confronted the loss of France's most prized overseas possession: colonial Algeria. Tracing the intellectual history of one of the most violent and pivotal wars of European decolonization, James... -
Russian Roulette: How British Spies Defeated Lenin Giles Milton 9781444737042
RRP: £12.99£8.83'It reads like fiction, but it is, astonishingly, history' THE TIMESIN 1917, AN ECCENTRIC BAND OF BRITISH SPIES IS SMUGGLED INTO NEWLY SOVIET RUSSIA.Their goal is to defeat Lenin's plan to destroy British India and bring down the democracies of the West... -
Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality In World War II by Stephen P. Halbrook 9780306813252
RRP: £17.99£12.95A fascinating and enlightening explanation of the dilemma Switzerland found itself in during the 1930's and 1940's. - Publishers WeeklyAbout the AuthorStephen P. Halbrook has a Ph.D. from Florida State University and a J.D. from Georgetown University. He... -
Brighton Folk: People Watching, for Sport by Oleg Pulemjotov
RRP: £18.00£14.05Brighton's residents have a reputation for their vivid eccentricity. This book does not set out to prove whether this is true or not, but is a documentation of what stands out to the photographer, however exciting or mundane it may seem. A lot of the... -
Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe by Julian Goodare
RRP: £37.99£33.38Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists' concerns... -
Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History by Marc Millon 9781911723073
RRP: £20.00£18.11The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities—and, of course, its wine. From the ancient Greeks to the Medici, and from fascism to feminism, writer and wine expert Marc Millon reveals... -
I Would Rather Hug A Tiger (PB) by Lorna Scobie 9780702303487
RRP: £6.99£4.81A laugh-out-loud tale about never wanting to do the BORING things in life! Why brush your teeth when you could go snorkelling with a crocodile? Or ride a tiger! Or fly with an eagle! Small Panda doesn't understand... -
The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks by Emma Marriott
RRP: £7.99£3.61History is a rich, varied and fascinating subject, so it's rare to find the whole lot in one book ... until now. The History of the World in Bite-Sized Chunks pulls it all together, from the world's earliest civilizations in 3500 BC to the founding of... -
Queen of Our Times: The Life of Elizabeth II, 1926-2022 by Robert Hardman 9781529063455
RRP: £10.99£7.73A Sunday Times Book of the YearQueen Of Our Times is the definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth II by one of Britain's leading royal authorities, Robert Hardman. This commemorative edition includes an epilogue reflecting upon Her Majesty's Platinum... -
Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
RRP: £10.99£8.47This is the riveting story of Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of an Indian prince, Tipu Sultan (the Tiger of Mysore), who became a British secret agent for SOE during World War II. Shrabani Basu tells the moving story of Noor's life, from her birth in... -
Checkmate in Berlin: The First Battle of the Cold War Giles Milton 9781529393170
RRP: £12.99£8.83'Brilliantly written and completely absorbing, this is Milton's masterpiece' ANTHONY HOROWITZBERLIN'S FATE WAS SEALED AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE.The city was to be carved up between the victorious powers - British, American, French and Soviet - with... -
Edward VII (Penguin Monarchs): The Cosmopolitan King by Richard Davenport-Hines
RRP: £4.99£3.96The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackLike his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII defined an era. Both reflected the personalities of their central figures: hers grand, imperial and... -
London: A Social History by Roy Porter
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Roy Porter, a historian of formidable range, turns to urban history in this marvellously lucid, informative and passionate book... Porter's facts are always at the service of the narrative, which has a finely maintained momentum, balancing statistics... -
Essays: The Philosophy Classic by Michel De Montaigne 9780857089335
RRP: £13.99£7.61An essential companion to the most relevant works of Michel de Montaigne Essays: The Philosophy Classic delivers a carefully curated collection of thought-provoking works by sixteenth-century thinker Michel De Montaigne. Exploring topics as diverse as... -
Olympic Titanic Britannic: The anatomy and evolution of the Olympic Class by Simon Mills
RRP: £27.99£22.33The Titanic. The Britannic. The Olympic. They are some of the most famous ships in history, but for the wrong reasons. The Olympic Class liners were conceived as the largest, grandest ships ever to set sail. Of the three ships built, the first only... -
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
RRP: £12.99£9.34THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER - REISSUED WITH A NEW FOREWORD FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times ______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear... -
Napoleon’s Hussars and Chasseurs: Uniforms and Equipment of the Grande Armée, 1805-1815 by Paul L Dawson 9781399030786
RRP: £35.00£24.68Small men, with big egos and moustaches, the hussars of Napoleon’s army wore some of the most flamboyant and stylish uniforms of the epoch. In this book, the uniforms of the seventeen regiments of hussars are discussed in detail by renowned historian...