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History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.58'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... -
Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives by Simon Hornblower 9781009453356
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $38.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Club on the Edge of Town: A Pandemic Memoir by Alan Lane 9781914228414
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.44'There are children in Holbeck without crayons. Living in a city with an opera company. An opera company paid for with money from all of us. Until everyone has crayons no one gets opera. That's what... -
Steel Girls on the Home Front by Michelle Rawlins
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $6.84As 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.01In 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... -
Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC by Alistair Kerr 9781903499900
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $18.31The 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: $38.70Booksplease Price: $30.68The 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.55Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad'Engrossing ... eye-opening ... an enormously refreshing treat' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesSince Europeans first... -
Operation Market-garden Then and Now: v. 2 by Karel Margry 9781870067454
RRP: $57.99Booksplease Price: $50.26Volume 2 of this two-volume history of Operation "Market-Garden" continues the story as XXX Corps links up with the 82nd Airborne at Nijmegen which leads to the dramatic and spectacular capture of... -
Secret Newcastle by Ken Hutchinson
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.98Situated 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86This 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.31Why 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: $30.96Booksplease Price: $25.79Despite 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: $23.22Booksplease Price: $14.09Apologies 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: $23.21Booksplease Price: $17.87'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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.56In 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.48Nuclear 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... -
Hitler's Greatest Defeat: The German Collapse, 1944 Paul Adair 9781804361542
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86How the Nazis lost the war1944 was a year of trial for the German Army. While the Allies were preparing to invade the Third Reich from the west, Stalin was set on a massive offensive to liberate the... -
Sabre Squadron by Cameron Spence
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91With 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20The 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: $34.82Booksplease Price: $28.38Reinhart 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... -
Chronicles of the Crusades by sire de Jean Joinville
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The 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... -
The European Union: A Very Short Introduction by John Pinder 9780198808855
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.03The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organisation. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member... -
After D-Day: Operation Cobra and the Normandy Breakout by James Jay Carafano 9780811734875
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $19.27After storming the beaches on D-Day, June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of France bogged down in seven weeks of grueling attrition in Normandy. On July 25, U.S. divisions under Gen. Omar Bradley... -
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn by Gabriel Pogrund
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.20'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Tim ShipmanA blistering narrative expose of infighting, skulduggery and chaos in Corbyn's Labour party, now revised and updated.* A Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph,... -
Classical Bujutsu by Donn F. Draeger 9780834802339
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834802339Author Donn F. DraegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
Churchill's Generals by John Keegan
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.95John Keegan has assembled a cast of seventeen generals whose reputations were made (and some of them broken) by Churchill and the Second World War.Churchill's reputation as prime minister during the... -
9/11 Conspiracy Theories by David Gardner
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.35The time is right to learn what really happened on 9/11. The time is right to unearth what has been deliberately withheld from the public. Nearly twenty years ago, on 11 September 2001, four... -
The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph 1942-45 by Frank McLynn
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72A vivid, brutal and enthralling account of the Burma Campaign - one of the most punishing and hard-fought military adventures of World War Two.The Burma Campaign was one of the most punishing and... -
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.75- What would it take to turn YOU into a suicide bomber? - Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? - What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? - Does the Unification Church brainwash recruits?... -
Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $19.52The first ever biography of the founder of Western philosophy Considered by many to be the most important philosopher ever, Plato was born into a well-to-do family in wartime Athens at the end of... -
Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.65Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence and wealth inequality are bad. But most people who lived during the 10,000 years before the nineteenth... -
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.91Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty... -
Home Waters: Discovering the submerged science of Britain's coast David Bowers 9781472990686
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.60A fascinating and original look at how the sea has defined Britain - and decided the course of its history - for thousands of years. Being an island nation is a core part of the British identity... -
History of Ancient Israel and Judah by J.Maxwell Miller 9780334041177
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The Lost World Of The Kalahari: With 'The Great and the Little Memory' by Laurens Van der Post
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86Laurens van der Post was fascinated and appalled at the fate of this remarkable people. Ostracised by all the changing face of African cultural life they retreated deep into the Kalahari desert. His... -
Goodbye Liverpool Maureen Lee 9781409192961
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $5.66A heartbreaking story of wartime love, loss and courage, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and queen of saga, Maureen Lee.Liverpool, 1937. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Jessica endures her... -
How to Read a Rock: Our Planet's Hidden Stories by Jan Zalasiewicz 9780750999953
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.35Earth's history is embedded in its rocks, from dinosaur-trodden landscapes to new plastic-and-rock combinations. How to Read a Rock unearths stories buried in everything from grains of sand to... -
Dumfries House: An Architectural Story by Simon Green 9781902419954
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $19.81On 18 July 1754, William Crichton Dalrymple, the 5th Earl of Dumfries, laid the foundation stone of Dumfries House. It was the first country house built by Robert, John and James Adam - the brothers... -
Hotchkiss Machine Guns: From Verdun to Iwo Jima John Walter 9781472836168
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $13.49Created by a long-forgotten Austrian nobleman, Adolf Odkolek von Augezd, the air-cooled Hotchkiss machine gun was the first to function effectively by tapping propellant gas from the bore as the gun...