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The History of England by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay
RRP: £12.99£9.98One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his... -
Comrades: Communism: A World History by Robert Service
RRP: £16.99£12.47Almost two decades have passed since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Robert Service, one of our finest historians of modern Russia, sets out to examine the history of communism throughout the world. His uncomfortable conclusion... -
The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank 9780670919796
RRP: £20.00£14.29One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II comes from the diary of a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Anne Frank. Today, The Diary of a Young Girl has sold over 25 million copies world-wide; this is the definitive... -
London: Immigrant City by Nazneen Khan-Ostrem
RRP: £20.00£13.75TRANSLATED BY ALISON McCULLOUGH'One of the best books on the many diverse migrations to London . . . revealing the extent to which the diversity of immigrant origins has had transformative effects - through food, music, diverse types of knowledge and so... -
The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness by Robert Winder
RRP: £12.99£8.60It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is a land built on a lucky set of natural ingredients: the island setting that made it maritime; the rain that fed... -
X Platoon by Steve Heaney
RRP: £9.99£7.11For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon.Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number were specially selected from across the Armed Forces, at which... -
Soldier Five: The Real Truth About The Bravo Two Zero Mission by Mike Coburn
RRP: £10.99£7.77SOLDIER FIVE is an elite soldier's explosive memoir of his time within the Special Air Service (SAS) and, in particular, his experiences during the 1991 Gulf War. As a member of the Special Forces patrol now famously known by its call sign Bravo Two... -
Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything by Rose George 9781846272998
RRP: £10.99£7.32An award-winning investigation into the strange and secretive world of international shipping 'Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and compelling... Plenty of books promise to reveal the secrets of little-known worlds but few actually... -
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick 9781913083151
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083151Author Sheila FitzpatrickFormat HardbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
All the Rage: Pleasure, Pain, Power: Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860-1960 by Virginia Nicholson 9780349014319
RRP: £25.00£16.78From the popular historian and author of Among the Bohemians and How Was It For You? comes a new offering, unbuttoning the multi-layered, hundred-year-history of women's lives through fashion and beauty from 1860 to 1960At the heart of this history is... -
Marx And Latin America: Historical Materialism, Volume 57 by Jose M. Arico 9781608464111
RRP: £30.00£19.88In a work centred on Marx's harsh biography of Simon Bolvar, Jose Arico examines why Latin America was apparently excluded from Marx's thought, challenging the allegation that this expressed Eurocentric prejudice. Whilst criticising Marx's misreading of... -
The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary by Andrew Drummond 9781839768941
RRP: £25.00£20.30'The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.' These were the words of Thomas Muntzer at the head of the massed ranks of a peasant army in the year 1525. Ranged... -
Churchill at War: 1940-45 by Baron Charles McMoran Wilson Moran 9781841196084
£13.33This new edition of extracts from the extremely candid diaries of Churchill's doctor Lord Moran, his devoted friend and confidant, contains material not previously revealed. It sheds a new light on how the great man faced up to and absorbed the strain of... -
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith 9781781259139
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet... -
The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu
RRP: £14.99£9.80The medical achievements of the post-war years rank as one of the supreme epochs of human endeavour. Advances in surgical technique, new ideas about the nature of disease and huge innovations in drug manufacture vanquished most common causes of early... -
Love; A Curious History by Edward Brooke-Hitching 9781398522718
RRP: £30.00£18.81'Edward Brooke-Hitching's delightful book is a collection of curiosities. From a 19th-century lonely hearts ad to a nuptial blessing of the bride's buttocks, an entertaining history of love over the millennia that proves when it comes to the heart,... -
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £12.99£9.09Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of... -
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes by Damien Lewis
RRP: £22.00£14.96'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildSAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold stories of six of the most dramatic and daring escapes executed by the world's most famous fighting force during WWII. From... -
Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century by John Higgs
RRP: £9.99£6.80'An illuminating work of massive insight' Alan Moore'A sensational book. Heartily recommended' Rufus HoundIt is the century about which we know too much, yet understand too little. With disorientating ideas such as relativity, cubism, the id,... -
I Write What I Like by Steve Biko
RRP: £11.89£10.07On 12th September 1977, Steve Biko was murdered in his prison cell. He was only 31, but his vision and charisma - captured in this collection of his work - had already transformed the agenda of South African politics. This book covers the basic... -
The Saturn I/IB Rocket: NASA's First Apollo Launch Vehicle by David Baker 9781800350281
RRP: £27.95£19.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800350281Author David BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes by Victoria Flexner 9780847873456
RRP: £42.50£31.30For every lover of food culture, this scrupulously researched and accessible cookbook presents one-of-a-kind dinner parties inspired by seminal moments in culinary history.In ten chapters-each an important moment in food history, from Ancient Rome to... -
Australian Bushrangers 1788-1880 by Ian Knight
RRP: £11.99£8.43The first 'bushrangers' or frontier outlaws were escaped or time-expired convicts, who took to the wilderness - 'the bush' - in New South Wales and on the island of Tasmania. Initially, the only Crown forces available were redcoats from the small,... -
The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid by Thomas Grant
RRP: £12.99£7.51'A forensic, riveting account of a wondrous and principled advocate' Philippe Sands'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator'Meticulously researched' The Times'Kentridge is one of many lawyers to whom I will forever be in debt,... -
The Last Days of Hitler: The Classic Account of Hitler's Fall From Power by Hugh Trevor-Roper
RRP: £12.99£9.26Listed as one of the Guardian's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time. In September 1945 the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. He had simply disappeared, and had been missing for four months. Hugh Trevor-Roper, an intelligence officer, was... -
Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazali and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm by Shoaib Ahmed Malik
RRP: £38.99£34.22This book attempts to equip the reader with a holistic and accessible account of Islam and evolution. It guides the reader through the different variables that have played a part in the ongoing dialogue between Muslim creationists and evolutionists. This... -
Pillboxes and Tank Traps by Bernard Lowry
RRP: £8.99£6.96A concise, illustrated guide to these Second World War defences scattered across the British landscape. With invasion a very real threat, in 1940 Great Britain began a huge military construction programme designed to stop an invading army in its... -
Reformation England 1480-1642 by Peter Marshall
RRP: £25.99£24.16Now in its third edition, Reformation England 1480-1642 provides a clear and accessible narrative account of the English Reformation, explaining how historical interpretations of its major themes have changed and developed over the past few decades,... -
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christopher Clark
RRP: £18.99£13.61Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. Prussia began as a... -
King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler 9780007481019
RRP: £18.99£12.71The authorised life story of the king who gave up his throne for love, by one of our most distinguished biographers. In this masterly authorized biography, Philip Ziegler reveals the complex personality of Edward VIII, the only British monarch... -
Medieval Castles of England and Wales by Bernard Lowry
RRP: £8.99£6.45Designed to dominate the surrounding area, to house powerful garrisons, offer sumptuous quarters for local nobility, and to discourage and repel enemy attacks, castles dominated England and Wales for more than half a millennium. Though some were built... -
Pro Caelio by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £24.95£23.39Three postconsular speeches.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of ... -
The Friar of Carcassonne: The Last Days of the Cathars by Stephen O'Shea
RRP: £12.99£9.09Nearly a century had passed since Languedoc had been put to the sword in the Albigensian Crusade, but the stain of Catharism still lay on the land. Any accusation of Catharism invited peril. But repression bred resentment and it was in Carcassonne that... -
The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen: Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett by Penelope Hughes-Hallet
RRP: £17.95£12.07A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages... -
Bela Bartok by David Cooper
RRP: £22.50£19.35The definitive account of the life and music of Hungary's greatest twentieth-century composer This deeply researched biography of Bela Bartok (1881-1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David... -
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo) by Beryl Gilroy
RRP: £10.99£7.32The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and entertained.')Benjamin Zephaniah: 'A must-read. Her life... -
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy by Philip Coggan 9781788163859
RRP: £16.99£15.51'Big and timely ... Coggan's account of the rise of the world economy is accessible and mercifully free of jargon' Sunday Times More tracks the development of the world economy, starting with the first obsidian blades that made their way from what is... -
The Greeks: A Global History by Professor Prof Roderick Beaton
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Monumental . . . A wonderful book.' Peter Frankopan'Magisterial . . . remarkable.' Guardian'Erudite and highly readable . . . An authoritative guide to the countless ways in which Greek words and ideas have shaped the modern world.' Financial TimesThe... -
The Rise of Rome by Anthony Everitt 9781801108195
RRP: £18.99£13.61A gripping account of the ascent of Rome - from agrarian backwater to capital of the world's greatest empire.'An elegant, swift and faultless introduction to the subject' The Spectator Starting with the founding myth of Romulus and Remus, Anthony Everitt... -
The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984 by GBS Sidhu
£18.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356292130Author GBS SidhuFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm