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Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie 9780007318995
RRP: $52.65$40.11Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since its publication in 2010, hers has become the definitive Chanel biography. With a new foreword and previously unseen images,... -
Logistics in World War II: 1939-1942 by John Norris 9781473859128
RRP: $68.25$49.32John Norris shows how logistics, though less glamorous than details of the fighting itself, played a decisive role in the outcome of every campaign and battle of World War Two. The author marshals some astounding facts and figures to convey the sheer... -
Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France by Christophe Guilluy
RRP: $54.60$43.41A passionate account of how the gulf between France's metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an "American society"-one that is both... -
Garibaldi: Hero of Italian Unification by Christopher Hibbert 9780230606067
RRP: $33.13$30.48Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds," Garibaldi's military prowess extended to the Americas, where he played a major role in the Brazilian struggle for... -
Apollo's Angels: A History Of Ballet Jennifer Homans 9781847082565
RRP: $43.88$30.52Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century... -
How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A by Norman Longmate
RRP: $39.00$29.07Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned... -
Extreme Unarmed Combat: Hand-to-Hand Fighting Skills by Martin J Dougherty 9781838860738
RRP: $38.98$28.28Duck punch, cover block and knee strike. Boxing, wrestling and Ju-Jitsu. Gameplan, lines of attack and final disengagement. If you can't take flight, you're going to have to fight. Extreme Unarmed Combat is an authoritative handbook on an immense array... -
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales
RRP: $25.33$18.21Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a missionary in 1188. In a style reminiscent of a diary,... -
The Life and Death of St. Kilda: The moving story of a vanished island community by Tom Steel
RRP: $25.33$16.98The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition. Situated at the westernmost point of the United Kingdom,... -
Size: How It Explains the World by Vaclav Smil 9780241992142
RRP: $21.43$15.58'There is no author whose books I look forward to more' Bill GatesThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a mind-opening exploration of how size defines life on Earth.Explaining the key processes shaping size in nature, society and technology,... -
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen
RRP: $17.53$12.97Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic... -
Propeller Twilight: The Last Generation of British Piston Engine Fighters Tony Buttler (Author) 9781800352735
RRP: $68.15$48.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352735Author Tony ButtlerFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The French Revolution and What Went Wrong by Stephen Clarke
RRP: $21.43$15.58An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded... -
Manic Street Preachers: Album by Album Marc Burrows 9781399016216
RRP: $39.00$29.07In a career that's spanned thirty-five years and generated fourteen albums, fifty-three singles (two of them UK number ones), four Brit Awards, two Ivor Novellas and inspired literally hundreds of university dissertations, quite a few PhD's and the odd... -
Royal Marines Commandos John Parker 9780755314867
RRP: $21.43$14.84The Royal Marines were originally formed under the auspices of the Royal Navy to guard its sailing ships from harm. They are proud of their history and origins but the Navy heritage is fading. John Parker charts how the units have moved away from their... -
Nazi germany 1933 - 1945 Faith and annihilation by Jost Dulffer 9780340613931
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Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece by Dennis D. Hughes 9780415755276
RRP: $105.28$91.40Numerous ancient texts describe human sacrifices and other forms of ritual killing: in 480 BC Themistocles sacrifices three Persian captives to Dionysus; human scapegoats called pharmakoi are expelled yearly from Greek cities, and according to some... -
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Frederik Obermaier
RRP: $21.43$15.58From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history. In early 2015, an anonymous... -
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
RRP: $33.13$24.69'A brilliant tour-de-force' - Times Literary SupplementBomber Command is acclaimed historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War.RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of... -
Women of the Hebrides | Ban-eileanaich Innse Gall: Stories of Strength and Courage by Joni Buchanan 9781789071443
RRP: $50.70$41.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789071443Author Joni BuchananFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint AcairPublisher Acair -
Works: v. 9: Jewish Antiquities, Bks.XII-XIII by Flavius Josephus
RRP: $48.65$46.33Greco-Roman antiquity's premier Jewish historian.Josephus, soldier, statesman, historian, was a Jew born at Jerusalem about AD 37. A man of high descent, he early became learned in Jewish law and Greek literature and was a Pharisee. After pleading in... -
The de Havilland Mosquito: The History of a Legend by Mike Lepine
RRP: $42.88$31.71Mosquito History of a Legend is a fascinating telling of the development of the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito, a British twin- engined, light bomber introduced during WWII.Book InformationISBN 9781915343239Author Mike LepineFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Hurrah For The Blackshirts!: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars Martin Pugh 9781844130870
RRP: $25.33$18.21Britain is celebrated for having avoided the extremism, political violence and instability that blighted many European countries between the two world wars. But her success was a closer thing than has been realized. Disillusionment with parliamentary... -
Mrs Delany: A Life by Clarissa Campbell Orr
RRP: $68.25$58.44The first comprehensive biography of Mary Granville Delany - the artist and court insider whose flower collages, in particular, continue to inspire widespread admiration Mrs Delany is best remembered for her captivating paper collages of flowers, but... -
The Ancient Celts, Second Edition by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $51.66$38.24Fierce warriors and skilled craftsmen, the Celts were famous throughout the Ancient Mediterranean World. They were the archetypal barbarians from the north and were feared by both Greeks and Romans. For two and a half thousand years they have continued... -
Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis 9781848325197
RRP: $29.23$21.66'This is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. The boy had all the noble tastes and qualities, love of beauty, soaring imagination, a brilliant endowment of good looks ...this prince of pilots ...had a... -
The Oxford History of the First World War by Hew Strachan 9780198871170
RRP: $25.33$18.21Histories you can trust. The First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in 1918, millions lay dead... -
London's Lost Rivers: a beautifully illustrated guide to London's secret rivers Paul Talling 9781847945976
RRP: $29.23$21.66Packed with surprising and fascinating information, London's Lost Rivers uncovers a very different side to London - showing how waterways shaped our principal city and exploring the legacy they leave today. With individual maps to show the course of... -
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $39.00$27.87A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the... -
Maryland Legends: Folklore from the Old Line State by Trevor J. Blank 9781626194137
RRP: $33.13$26.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626194137Author Trevor J. BlankFormat PaperbackPage Count 187Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 318g -
Thetis: Submarine Disaster by David Paul 9781781552711
RRP: $33.13$25.60The true story of loss of His Majesty's Submarine Thetis is still shrouded in mystery, even now, some seventy-five years after her sinking. On 1st June 1939, HMS Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay on her maiden dive, with the loss of ninety-nine lives; the... -
John Hume by Stephen Walker 9780717196081
RRP: $52.63$37.54Peacemaker, politician, Nobel laureate: John Hume was a titan of Irish political history and a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement, bringing peace to Northern Ireland after decades of conflict. But who was the real John Hume? What... -
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
RRP: $21.43$14.29Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times'Enthralling' Daily TelegraphFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those... -
Gallipoli by Peter Hart
RRP: $29.23$21.66'The scene was tragically macabre: the image of desolation, the flames spared nothing. As for our young men, a few minutes ago, so alert, so self-confident, all now lying dead on the bare deck, blackened burned skeletons, twisted in all directions, no... -
Adrift: America in 100 Charts by Scott Galloway
RRP: $29.23$21.66AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom New York Times Bestselling author Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of America and the reasons behind its current social and economic crisisIn Adrift, Scott Galloway looks from the past to... -
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Steven Runciman
RRP: $21.43$15.58The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel'An enthralling work of grand historical narrative,... -
The Road Past Mandalay by John Masters
RRP: $19.48$13.65The second part of the bestselling novelist's autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world warThis is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to... -
The Lost World of the Flood: Mythology, Theology, and the Deluge Debate by Tremper Longman III 9780830852000
RRP: $35.08$29.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852000Author Tremper Longman IiiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 246gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 139mm... -
Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail by Stephen Bown
RRP: $29.23$22.85In the Age of Sail scurvy was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck and all other illnesses, and its cure ranks among the greatest of military successes - yet its impact on history has mostly been ignored.Stephen Bown searches back to... -
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev
RRP: $29.23$22.44The definitive biography of Israel's founder by one of Israel's most celebrated historians. As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the twentieth century. Determined from an early age to create...