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Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O'Hara 9781472144447
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.04'A fascinating polemic' Sunday Times 'A powerful, sobering and vital work' The Mail on Sunday 'A page-turning read, peppered with humour' Sight & Sound'A must read' Edgar WrightA call to arms from... -
Complete Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $21.66'Gaius Pliny sends greetings to his friend Septicius Clarus...' In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny provides a fascinating insight into Roman life in the period 97 to 112 AD. Part... -
A Political History of the World: Three Thousand Years of War and Peace by Jonathan Holslag
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01A three-thousand year history of the world that examines the causes of war and the search for peaceIn three thousand years of history, China has spent at least eleven centuries at war. The Roman... -
Monte Cassino by Matthew Parker
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.5180th anniversary of the Battle of Monte CassinoThe six-month battle for Monte Cassino was Britain's bitterest and bloodiest encounter with the German army on any front in World War Two.At the... -
The Oxford Companion to Irish History by S. J. Connolly 9780199691869
RRP: $44.01Booksplease Price: $36.77'A companion to be cherished', 'judicious and authoritative', 'informative and entertaining', an 'invaluable work of reference' - these are just some of the phrases used by reviewers to describe the... -
Shockwave by Stephen Walker
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $17.87THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever read' At... -
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History by CLR James 9781788737906
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.40The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French sugar plantation colony revolted against their masters. For over twelve years, against... -
Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds and Domestic Propaganda by James J. Kimble 9781585444854
RRP: $66.62Booksplease Price: $57.05During World War II, the home front offered unprecedented levels of moral, financial, and labor support for the war effort. This was no accident. Through the U.S. Treasury Department's war bond... -
The Cold War: A New Oral History of Life Between East and West by Bridget Kendall
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $33.49The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It... -
When the Tempest Gathers: From Mogadishu to the Fight Against ISIS, a Marine Special Operations Commander at War by Andrew Milburn
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04This is quite simply the finest war memoir to emerge from the last two decades of constant fighting.' - Bing West, New York Times bestselling author of One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War and... -
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command by Andrew Gordon
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $35.11Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation... -
The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel Ilan Pappe 9780300184327
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $29.27A vivid and incisive analysis of the complex relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens written by an acclaimed Israeli historian For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of... -
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive 1918: The American Expeditionary Forces' Crowning Victory by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.85When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, the tiny US Army did not even have a standing division. A huge national army worthy of the Western Front was quickly enlisted, trained,... -
I Was Hitler's Pilot: The Memoirs of Hans Baur by Hans Baur 9781526760760
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being before becoming Adolf Hitler's personal pilot, a role he first undertook during the... -
A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.25'I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day - traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some... -
Brits: The War Against the IRA by Peter Taylor
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $28.54The third part of the trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author of Provos and Loyalists In the final part of his trilogy exploring 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Peter... -
Spitfire Deserter?: The American Pilot Who Went Missing by Bill Simpson
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $14.23In the early morning of 20 April 1942, forty-seven Spitfire Vs of 601 and 603 Squadrons of the Auxiliary Air Force launched from the deck of the American aircraft carrier the USS Wasp, which had... -
Shackleton's Boat Journey F A Worsley 9780712665742
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Frank A. Worsley was the Captain of the H. M. S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic... -
The Expedition of Cyrus by Xenophon
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.26'Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!' The Expedition of Cyrus tells... -
King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV by Philip Mansel
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $32.68Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore Louis XIV dominated his age. He extended France's frontiers into Netherlands and... -
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific by Brandon Presser 9781785788949
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785788949Author Brandon PresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
A-Z Brighton Hidden Walks: Discover 20 routes in and around the city by Ric Morris
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $13.16Discover hidden gems around Brighton with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided... -
Léon Degrelle in Exile (1945-1994) by José Luís Jerez Riesco 9781956887150
Booksplease Price: $75.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887150Author Jose Luis Jerez RiescoFormat PaperbackPage Count 518 -
Oxfordshire Folk Tales by Kevan Manwaring
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.16Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross and listen to the tales of this ancient county. Hear how a King and his knights were turned to stone at the mysterious Rollright Stones; how Dragon Hill got its... -
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).'His is 'close-up'... -
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $35.32The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and... -
Field Marshal: The Life and Death of Erwin Rommel by Daniel Allen Butler 9781612005669
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $30.39Erwin Rommel was a complex man: a born leader, brilliant soldier, a devoted husband and proud father; intelligent, instinctive, brave, compassionate, vain, egotistical, and arrogant. In France in... -
Who's Buried Where in London by Peter Matthews
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.85London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. Politicians, writers and military heroes rub... -
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $15.97THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.'Magnificent' Observer 'A beautiful book, written in exquisite prose' Kate AtkinsonA soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of... -
Big Bang by Dr. Simon Singh 9780007152520
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.44The bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code Book tells the story of the brilliant minds that deciphered the mysteries of the Big Bang. A fascinating exploration of the ultimate... -
At Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45 by Peter Hart
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.13WINNER OF THE MILITARY HISTORY MATTERS AWARD 'Hart is a historian and author at the peak of his powers' Richard van Emden The best way to understand what it was like to fight in the Second... -
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard 9781474621014
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09'Lets us see how power really worked, in public and private ... Stothard tells this story superbly'Dominic Sandbrook, SUNDAY TIMES14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed... -
The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.26More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself... -
Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood: How One Film Almost Sunk the Studios by Patrick Humphries
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $28.27There had been stars before. There had been films prior to Cleopatra. But in all the cynical, greedy, magical, histrionic history of the movies, there had never been a combination like that of... -
Haunted Somerset by John Garland
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $25.23This collection of stories and twice-told tales from around Somerset lifts the shrouds off many new and legendary hauntings, including some spine-tingling experienes as recounted to the author by... -
Cats in Medieval Manuscripts by Kathleen Walker-Meikle 9780712352932
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99Cats were illustrated in medieval manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages, often in exquisite detail and frequently accompanied by their natural prey, mice. Medieval cats were viewed as treasured... -
Argyll & the Islands: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy 9781780274669
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $16.09Argyll and the islands that lie off from the west coast of the Kintyre are some of the most historically resonant places in Scotland. But the rocks beneath tell a story of an even more ancient world... -
Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid 9781788160759
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99We live in an age of subterfuge. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts... -
Ghost Walks in Leicestershire by Barbara Wadd 9781859837764
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859837764Author Barbara WaddFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint < -
Beijing Rules: China's Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen 9781529367812
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09LONGLISTED FOR FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent . . . reveals an insidious matrix of spying, deception, censorship...