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Maus I & II Paperback Box Set by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $25.80$20.69A SPECIAL-EDITION BOXSET CREATED TO CELEBRATE THE PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING GRAPHIC NOVEL'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker 'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street... -
The Crooked Scythe: An Anthology of Oral History by George Ewart Evans
RRP: $12.89$7.91George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings about the memories of men and women of a past era - farm labourers, shepherds, horsemen,... -
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion by Hilary Davidson
RRP: $38.70$33.35A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen's life and writings This lively book reveals the clothing and fashion of the world depicted in Jane... -
Nazi germany 1933 - 1945 Faith and annihilation by Jost Dulffer 9780340613931
$45.42Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece by Dennis D. Hughes 9780415755276
RRP: $69.65$60.46Numerous 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... -
Carrhae 53 BC: Rome's Disaster in the Desert by Nic Fields
RRP: $20.63$14.98Explores the critical battle of Carrhae, a fascinating tale of treachery, tactics, and topography in which Rome experienced one of its most humiliating defeats. The Battle of Carrhae is from a heady moment in Roman history - that of the clever... -
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century by James Buchan
RRP: $19.34$12.64At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for... -
My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919-63 by Nicholas Fellows
RRP: $13.55$12.41Exam Board: OCR Level: AS/A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Epic Iran: 5000 Years of Culture by John Curtis
RRP: $58.05$46.17Iran was home to some of the greatest civilizations of both the ancient and medieval worlds, but these achievements are now little known outside the country. Epic Iran brings together 250 fascinating objects and images to cast a rare light on 5,000 years... -
The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: The Story of Bela Guttman by David Bolchover
RRP: $12.89$9.38Before Pep Guardiola and before Jose Mourinho, there was Bela Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the celebrated coaches of the modern age. He was also a Holocaust survivor. In 1944, much of Europe had... -
A Raid Over Berlin by John Martin 9781912681198
RRP: $11.60$8.32A Sunday Times bestseller. A miraculous true-life Second World War survival story that is being featured on the BBC's ONE SHOW (The show attracts on average a daily audience of 5 million viewers) with a ten minute dramatised documentary to be broadcast... -
Maryland Legends: Folklore from the Old Line State by Trevor J. Blank 9781626194137
RRP: $21.92$16.74Apologies 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 -
Love Letters of Great Men by Ursula Doyle 9781509895304
RRP: $12.89$8.86From the private papers of Mark Twain and Mozart to those of Robert Browning and Nelson, Love Letters of Great Men collects together some of the most romantic letters in history.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,... -
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by A. N. Wilson
RRP: $14.18$9.18Chosen 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... -
Chobham Armour: Cold War British Armoured Vehicle Development by William Suttie
RRP: $45.15$34.48A comprehensive overview of the work of the Military Vehicles Research and Development Establishment on Chobham Common, which provided armoured vehicles for the British Army from 1945 to its close in 2004. Through much of World War II British tanks... -
An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always by John O'Farrell
RRP: $14.18$10.02Following his hugely popular account of the previous 2000 years, John O'Farrell now comes bang up to date with a hilarious modern history asking 'How the hell did we end up here?' An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain informs, elucidates and... -
The Rose by Jennifer Potter 9781848871762
RRP: $96.75$65.42This vividly written and lavishly illustrated book challenges many cherished beliefs about the rose. It looks set to establish itself as the definitive history of the Queen of Flowers.Ever since Sappho planted roses at the shrine of Aphrodite, no flower... -
The Balkans 1940-41 (2): Hitler's Blitzkrieg against Yugoslavia and Greece by Pier Paolo Battistelli
RRP: $20.63$14.98The Wehrmacht's last Blitzkrieg campaign was indeed a lightning war, since German forces were required to seize both Yugoslavia and Greece before redeploying immediately to the East ready to attack the Soviet Union in a matter of weeks. Although the... -
Ashington & Its Mining Community by Mike Kirkup 9780752433912
RRP: $19.34$14.90Along with the Low and High Hirst, Ashington was once part of the parish of the Barony of Bothal and consisted of nothing more than a farmhouse and cottages. In 1847, the first mining shaft was sunk in the present Ellington Road Ends, the first of many... -
Servants by Lucy Lethbridge
RRP: $21.92$15.84'Hugely enjoyable' - Kathryn Hughes, Guardian Glorious ... Full of eyebrow-raising and laughter-inducing vignettes' - Daily Telegraph Servants is the social history of the last century through the eyes of those who served. From the butler, the... -
Big History: The Greatest Events of All Time From the Birth of Stars to Binary Code by DK
RRP: $32.25$21.2513.8 billion years of human and cosmic history summarised in one big book. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So with this brand-new history book, you can easily discover how we got to where we are within the context of our Universe. Prepare to... -
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine by Yaroslav Trofimov
RRP: $14.18$10.0220 November 1979: as morning prayers began, hundreds of hardline Islamist gunmen, armed with rifles smuggled in coffins, stormed the Grand Mosque in Mecca. With thousands of terrified worshippers trapped inside, the result was a bloody siege that lasted... -
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow 9780593444511
RRP: $34.83$23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593444511Author Rachel MaddowFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Dutch Waffen-SS Legion & Brigade 1941-44 by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $15.47$10.87Goebbels' 1941 propaganda campaign to present Germany's invasion of the USSR as a battle for European civilization against Asian barbarism convinced many men in occupied 'Germanic' European countries, such as Scandinavia and the Low Countries, to... -
The Story of Hull by Richard Gurnham
RRP: $25.80$19.92Hull was first built as a port by the Cistercian monks of Meaux Abbey, to export wool from their rapidly expanding sheep flocks. Before the end of the 13th century Hull had been acquired by Edward I, who developed it as a royal port, and from then on... -
The Man With the Iron Heart: The Definitive Biography of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty
RRP: $38.70$25.03A fascinating portrait of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the darkest figures of Hitler's elite, featuring words with those who knew him best, including in-depth and rare interviews with his wife, Lina. He was called the 'Hangman of the Gestapo' and the... -
Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles by Tom Bower
RRP: $12.89$8.57No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller Bestselling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch - King Charles III King Charles faces many challenges as he succeeds his mother to the throne. Despite... -
Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women by Dr Mari Takayanagi
RRP: $28.38$21.72When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight in the Houses of Parliament in 1911 to have her name recorded in the census there, she may not have known that there were sixty-seven other women also resident in Parliament that night: housekeepers,... -
Atlas of Imagined Places: from Lilliput to Gotham City by Matt Brown
RRP: $32.25$21.25WINNER, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2022: Illustrated Travel Book of the Year. HIGHLY COMMENDED, British Cartographic Society Awards 2022. From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to the superhero land of Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to... -
The Women Who Saved the English Countryside by Matthew Kelly
RRP: $15.47$13.09A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But... -
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
RRP: $12.89$9.17Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, Seacole set out independently to... -
M113 APC 1960-75: US, ARVN, and Australian variants in Vietnam by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: $15.47$10.87The M113 is the most widely used and versatile armoured vehicle in the world. Fielded in 1960 as a simple 'battlefield taxi', over 80,000 M113s would see service with 50 nations around the world and 55 years later, many thousands are still in use. In... -
The Mining Towns of the Bohemian Ore Mountains by Michaela Hrubá 9788024641447
RRP: $36.12$30.02A history of the lost art of the Bohemian Ore Mountains. The development of mining towns in the Ore Mountain region of Bohemia during the thirteenth to the sixteenth century was driven by the Saxon nobility who brought with them the culture of their... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax 9780099582311
RRP: $12.89$9.17NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING COLIN FIRTH, NICOLE KIDMAN AND JEREMY IRVINEDuring the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally... -
Few Eggs and No Oranges: Vere Hodgson's Diary, 1940-45 by Vere Hodgson 9780953478088
RRP: $20.64$20.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953478088Author Vere HodgsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 190mm * 141mm * 47mm -
London Alleyways Map by Matthew Turner
RRP: $12.26$9.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912018871Author Matthew TurnerPage Count 2Imprint Blue Crow MediaPublisher Blue Crow MediaWeight(grams) 40gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 1mm -
Norfolk Villains: Rogues, Rascals & Reprobates by Neil Storey 9780752460017
RRP: $16.76$12.41Discover the darker side of Norfolk with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the county. Featuring tales of some of the most notorious, nefarious and murderous characters from the county's past, including pirates, smugglers,... -
Prague in Black and Gold: The History of a City by Peter Demetz
RRP: $16.76$11.73From the Velvet Revolution to the disturbing world of Franz Kafka, from the devestation of the Thirty Years War to the musical elegance of Mozart and Dvorak, Prague is steeped in a wealth of history and culture. PRAGUE IN BLACK AND GOLD is a first class... -
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War by Emily Mayhew
RRP: $16.76$11.73This is the unforgettable story of the remarkable medical workers of World War One.A hundred years ago, the Armistice that ended the Great War was signed. The human cost was devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. The... -
Napoleon: Soldier of Destiny by Michael Broers
RRP: $21.92$14.94Napoleon Bonaparte: a man of intense emotion, iron self-discipline, acute intelligence and immeasurable energy. Michael Broers brings this remarkable man to life, from his dangerous Corsican roots to the epic battles of Austerlitz, Jena and Friedland...