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The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire by John Newsinger 9781909026292
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909026292Author John NewsingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power by Martyn Rady
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.99'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the general reader will never find a better guide to... -
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92_______________ WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION THE TOP 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR _______________ Mudlark... -
Fortress Britain 1940: Britain's Unsung and Secret Defences on Land, Sea and in the Air Andrew Chatterton 9781636243450
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Alone, unprepared and weak. These are generally the words used to describe Britain's position in 1940, part of a narrative that has been built up ever since the end of World War II. However, the... -
The Incredible Human Journey by Dr. Alice Roberts 9781408802885
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Alice Roberts has been travelling the world - from Ethiopian desert to Malay peninsula and from Russian steppes to Amazon basin - in order to understand the challenges that early humans faced as they... -
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.65Discover how the campaign to end slavery divided Britain and was almost thwarted by some of the most powerful and famous figures of the era.**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.56WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living... -
The Wars of the Roses: The Medieval Art of Graham Turner by Mr Graham Turner 9781472847287
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $37.14A highly illustrated history of the Wars of the Roses based on the medieval art of Graham Turner. The period of civil strife in the second half of the 15th century now known as the Wars of the... -
Nature's Palette: A colour reference system from the natural world by Patrick Baty
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $35.98First published in 1814 and expanded in 1821 - long before the era of colour photography or print - Syme's edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours attempted to establish a universal colour... -
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize (Nonfiction) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780679758334Format PaperbackPage... -
The Holocaust: A New History by Laurence Rees
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.05THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER AND THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE ACCOUNT FOR 30 YEARS.'By far the clearest book ever written about the Holocaust, and also the best at explaining its origins and... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Victor Neuburg 9780140432411
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest... -
The Man who Never Was: The Remarkable True Story of Operation Mincemeat by Ewen Montagu
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Now the subject of a major new film starring Colin Firth as Ewen Montagu in Operation Mincemeat.In the early hours of 30 April 1943, a corpse wearing the uniform of an officer in the Royal Marines... -
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 Peter Parker 9780241683705
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.77'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second... -
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt 9780140445343
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the... -
Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East by James Holland
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81'A thrilling blow-by-blow account' The Times'A first-rate popular history of a fascinating and neglected battle... a veritable page-turner' BBC HistoryIn February 1944, a rag-tag collection of... -
Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. Prelude... -
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 by Harald Jahner 9780753557884
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29THE TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION******SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE******SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE***A Book of... -
Top Gear: My Dad Had One of Those by Giles Chapman
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.19Good old Dad and his good old Dad's car. As solid and dependable as the man himself, if a little less balding, Dad's car was almost a member of the family, whisking you to exciting days out, or just... -
The Precipice: 'A book that seems made for the present moment' New Yorker by Toby Ord
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future? 'The Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is infectious' Spectator ... -
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and... -
Exterminate All The Brutes by Sven Lindqvist 9781847081988
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quarter of a century ago historian Sven Lindqvist set... -
The Girls of Bomber Command: An uplifting and charming WWII saga by Vicki Beeby 9781804365601
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $5.13With an enemy in their midst, can they still protect their fighters in the skies?Pearl has given up on her dreams of being a journalist after being denied a promotion because of her gender. Joining... -
Homage to Catalonia (Collins Classics) by George Orwell 9780008442743
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $5.05HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia,... -
Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners: The Revolutionary New Approach to Reading the Monuments by Bill Manley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.81An entirely fresh and accessible approach to reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by a proven expert, this step-by-step introduction assumes no previous knowledge of grammar or ancient languages, but... -
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The international million copy bestseller recounting the epic turning point of the WW2______________In October 1942, an officer wrote 'Stalingrad is no longer a town . . . Animals flee this hell; the... -
My Revision Notes: OCR A-level History: Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992 Mike Wells 9781471875885
Booksplease Price: $16.90Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision;... -
DK Eyewitness Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania by DK
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.15The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Explore the historic streets of... -
Bradshaw's Handbook by George Bradshaw
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's Handbook of 1863, the book that inspired the BBC television series 'Great British Railway Journeys'. When Michael Portillo began the series 'Great British Railway... -
Gardens of the High Line by Piet Oudolf 9781604696998
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $35.63"If you can't get to the High Line. . . this is the next best thing." -The Washington Post Before it was restored, the High Line was an untouched, abandoned landscape overgrown with wildflowers... -
Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern by Simon Winder
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' - IndependentThere are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests,... -
At Home: A Short History of Private Life Bill Bryson 9781784161873
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68In At Home, Bill Bryson applies the same irrepressible curiosity, irresistible wit, stylish prose and masterful storytelling that made A Short History of Nearly Everything one of the most lauded... -
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution - centenary edition with new introduction Orlando Figes 9781847924513
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $31.54Unrivalled in scope and brimming with human drama, A People's Tragedy is the most vivid, moving and comprehensive history of the Russian Revolution available today.'A modern masterpiece' Andrew... -
The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge 9781471196430
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.81'Asbridge can't help but tell a ripping yarn, often breezily dramatic, whipping the narrative along' The TimesA superb and definitive one-volume account of the Crusades, the impact of which still... -
The Military History Book: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Weapons that Shaped the World DK 9781409383444
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $35.62A compelling visual guide to the history of the military!Travel through time and explore 5000 years of weaponry in stunning detail with this riveting military book - from the spears and swords of... -
SAS: Who Dares Wins: Leadership Secrets from the Special Forces by Anthony Middleton
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Life and leadership lessons from the Special Forces, from the stars of Channel 4 series SAS: Who Dares Wins - including Sunday Times bestselling author of FIRST MAN: LEADING FROM THE FRONT, Ant... -
Jewish London, 3rd Edition: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Visitors and Londoners by Rachel Kolsky
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.38Jewish London is the only travel guidebook that focuses on the sights, heritage and culture of London's historic and present Jewish community. Packed with fascinating and practical information, it... -
Campaigns of Napoleon: The Mind and Method of History's Greatest Soldier by David Chandler 9780025236608
RRP: $80.39Booksplease Price: $56.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780025236608Author David G. ChandlerFormat HardbackPage Count 1216Imprint -
The Mysterious Benedict Society (2020 reissue) by Trenton Lee Stewart
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.13Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling series - the perfect gift for curious readers! 'This book reminded me of some of the children's books I grew up with, like... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The Making of Modern Britain 1951-2007 Revision Guide by J. M. A. Hugh 9780198421467
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $15.26This The Making of Modern Britain 1951-2007 Revision Guide is part of the bestselling Oxford AQA History for A Level series. Written to match the new AQA specification, this series helps you deepen...