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The Returning Hero: nostoi and Traditions of Mediterranean Settlement by Simon Hornblower 9780198811428
$231.86A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, chiefly - but by no means only - of mythical Greek heroes from Troy. One main, and certainly the most 'marked', ancient Greek word for 'return' is nostos... -
In Parenthesis by David Jones
RRP: $29.23$19.62In Parenthesis is one of the greatest works to emerge from the First World War. 'The holy book of twentieth-century visionary modernism. Ancient and brand-new, In Parenthesis is this island's book of all books, an incomparable and ever-intensifying... -
Live. Fight. Survive.: An ex-British soldier’s account of courage, resistance and defiance fighting for Ukraine against Russia by Shaun Pinner 9781405959773
RRP: $21.43$15.58READ FORMER BRITISH ARMY SOLDIER SHAUN PINNER’S EXTRADORDINARY FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINEFor fans of Bravo Two Zero, Touching the Void, and No Way Out‘A hell of a story’ Sgt Dan Mills, Sniper One‘A remarkable book’ Andrew Marr----‘Live... -
Medieval Castles of England and Wales by Bernard Lowry
RRP: $17.53$12.97Designed 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... -
England from a Side-Saddle: The Great Journeys of Celia Fiennes by Derek J. Taylor 9781803993591
RRP: $29.23$22.52In 1697, a 34-year-old woman mounted her horse and set off on a 3,000-mile journey which over two summers would take her to every county in England. Her name was Celia Fiennes. It was a time when women didn't do such things. It could be gruelling,... -
Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control by Matthew Crawford
RRP: $19.48$14.27Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The Case for Working with Your Hands.Once we were drivers on the open road.Today we are more often in the back seat... -
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy
RRP: $29.23$21.35Winner of the Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the NCR Award for Non-Fiction From the high politics of Court and Cabinet room to the kitchen or the queue, Peter Hennessy's Never Again: Britain 1945-51, the first part of his Post-War Trilogy, recreates life in... -
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: $21.43$19.19With an introduction by Rory StewartWinner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history.All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only... -
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: $25.33$18.21THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and... -
Journal by Helene Berr 9781906694197
RRP: $21.43$14.84From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text of astonishing literary maturity. With her colleagues, she plays the violin... -
Christmas at Highclere: Recipes and traditions from the real Downton Abbey The Countess of Carnarvon 9781848095229
RRP: $58.50$43.47Highclere Castle, known as 'the real Downton Abbey' bustles with activity at the best of times, but it is never more alive than at Christmas.Christmas at Highclere is a look behind the scenes at the routines and rituals that make the castle the most... -
Classical Mythology: The Basics Richard Martin 9781032117270
RRP: $33.13$30.15This new edition introduces the core elements of ancient Greek and Roman narratives about immortal gods and heroic humans. It explains how myths once shaped ancient ways of thinking, and how they have fascinated and inspired artists, writers, musicians,... -
The Iliad: A Commentary: Volume 1: Books 1-4 by G. S. Kirk
RRP: $85.78$74.00This is the first volume of a projected six-volume Commentary on Homer's Iliad, under the General Editorship of professor G. S. Kirk. Professor Kirk himself is the editor of the present volume, which covers the first four Books of Iliad. It consists of... -
The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop 9780008309046
RRP: $21.43$13.01SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of... -
OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE Route 2: Women in the Ancient World Robert Hancock-Jones (Townley Grammar School, UK) 9781350015036
RRP: $48.73$46.57This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers the Thematic Study Component 12 and all three Literature and Culture options (Components 21-23): Thematic Study:... -
V-Bombers: Britain's Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War by Dr. Tony Redding 9781911667872
RRP: $48.75$34.91This is the story of a very British deterrent. Much has been written about the V-bombers - the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan - but virtually nothing has been said about their strategic nuclear strike role. How would Britain's small force of subsonic bombers... -
The Story of the Country House by Clive Aslet
RRP: $38.98$33.09The fascinating story of the evolution of the country house in Britain, from its Roman precursors to the present "An eclectic scholarly account, tracing the evolution of the country house from the hunting lodges of the Middle Ages to the modern villas... -
Sandstorm by Lindsey Hilsum
RRP: $25.33$17.16The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi has been one of the twenty-first century's defining moments: the Arab world's most bizarre dictator brought down by his own people with the aid of NATO aircraft. Lindsey Hilsum was in Libya when Gaddafi met his squalid... -
Modern China: A Very Short Introduction by Rana Mitter
RRP: $17.53$12.97China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with... -
Modern Russian Military Aircraft: Fighters, Bombers, Reconnaissance, Helicopters by Ryan Cunningham
RRP: $35.08$24.53The Russian Air Force is the world's second largest military air arm, capable of deploying more than 4,000 military aircraft, including 1,522 helicopters, 497 trainers, 873 fighters, 424 transports, and more. Illustrated throughout with detailed artworks... -
Vietnam Journal - Book 7: Valley of Death by Don Lomax 9781635298109
RRP: $33.13$25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635298109Author Don LomaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Caliber ComicsPublisher Caliber ComicsWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 8mm -
Once There Were Giants: The Golden Age of Heavyweight Boxing by Jerry Izenberg
RRP: $23.38$19.34**New edition updated with a foreword by Manny Pacquiao.** A celebration and memorial of the greatest era of heavyweight fighters from 1962 to 1997, as witnessed ringside by an International Boxing Hall of Fame sportswriter. Once upon a time, of all the... -
The rise and fall of KING COAL: British mining from beginning to end by Nick Piggott
RRP: $58.48$44.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658634Author Nick PiggottFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1506gDimensions(mm) 300mm... -
Merlin: The Prophet and His History by Geoffrey Ashe
RRP: $19.48$15.15Geoffrey Ashe's book on this legendary figure offers a succession of surprises. The Merlin of legend was born to be a magician. He was 'immaculately' conceived and was able to interpret dreams and utter prophecies. Even his fate was imbued with magic... -
The Edwardians by Roy Hattersley
RRP: $29.23$19.60Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in... -
Early Medieval Britain, c. 500-1000 by Rory Naismith
RRP: $46.78$41.16Early medieval Britain saw the birth of England, Scotland and of the Welsh kingdoms. Naismith's introductory textbook explores the period between the end of Roman rule and the eve of the Norman Conquest, blending an engaging narrative with clear... -
The Making of the British Landscape: How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today by Francis Pryor
RRP: $38.98$28.63From our suburban streets which still trace the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded - evidence of man's effect on Britain is everywhere. Packed with over 250 maps and photographs, compellingly... -
Unions and Divisions: New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe Paul Srodecki 9781032057521
RRP: $70.18$62.28Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe: Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena... -
Christmas in Illinois by James Ballowe
RRP: $25.33$22.95Christmas seems to have been always with us. It is that time of year when we expect good cheer and goodwill, a moment's respite from the year's vicissitudes, solace during difficult times, writes James Ballowe in his introduction to Christmas in... -
Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth Richard Stoneman 9780712354479
RRP: $58.50$38.42Accompanying the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age of 20,... -
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s by Jennifer Worth 9780753823835
RRP: $17.53$7.04A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which... -
Bread And Ashes: A Walk Through the Mountains of Georgia by Tony Anderson
RRP: $25.33$18.21Tony Anderson set out in the summer of 1998 to walk through Georgia. He wanted particularly to visit the Georgian mountain tribes - Tush, Khevsurs, Ratchuelians and Svans - to discover if they shared a common mountain culture, and to test the old idea of... -
Visiting the Somme and Ypres Battlefields Made Easy: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals by Gareth Hughes
RRP: $25.33$21.66Recommended in the Foreign Office Ministerial Reading List - Summer 2014 It does what it says on the tin, introducing the reader to the nuances of planning an itinerary for the Somme or the Ypres Salient. A comprehensive beginners guide. -... -
The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction by Amanda H. Podany
RRP: $17.53$13.30The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization" - and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind:... -
German Field Artillery of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga 9781472853974
RRP: $25.33$18.21An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army - the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in military history by the tanks and aircraft of Blitzkrieg,... -
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips 9781783785780
RRP: $21.43$14.70An epic journey across 5,000 kilometres and through eight decades, to tell a new story about the old Cold War faultlines With the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seemed that the old divisions between East and West had been consigned to history. But with... -
The National Trust Miscellany: Secrets, Surprises & Strange Things Of All Kinds by Ian Allen
RRP: $17.53$11.91Staggering statistics, strange facts and all kinds of surprising stuff from the National Trust. Haunted houses, baffling objects, bizarre buildings and distinctly curious characters. * Who needs an upside-down lighthouse? * How... -
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer
RRP: $23.38$16.03Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced labour camp. So began the extraordinary chain of events... -
Michael Collins: A Biography by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: $21.43$15.58'The unofficial voice of modern Irish history' EconomistWhen President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' In August 1922 at... -
Philosophos: Plato's Missing Dialogue by Mary Louise Gill 9780198708650
$71.62Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher--but we do not have this final dialogue. Mary Louise Gill argues that Plato promised the Philosopher, but did not write it,...