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V&A Gallery of Fashion: Revised Edition by Claire Wilcox
RRP: £14.99£12.12Spanning four centuries, the V&A's Fashion Collection is the most comprehensive in the world, housing unrivaled collections of dress,accessories, shoes and hats from the 17th century to the present day. This thoroughly revised and redesigned edition... -
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
RRP: £12.99£8.80Already famous throughout Europe for his theories of planetary motion and gravity, Isaac Newton decided to take on the job of running the Royal Mint. And there, Newton became drawn into a battle with William Chaloner, the most skilful of counterfeiters,... -
Golden Lane Estate by Stefi Orazi
RRP: £25.00£17.80The story of the building of an iconic mid-century housing estate, that is often seen as the model for housing architecture. Fully illustrated with commissioned photography of the interiors and exteriors, archive images and newly commissioned writing by... -
Old Soldier Sahib Frank Richards 9781910901205
RRP: £9.99£7.32From the author of the celebrated Great War memoirAbout the AuthorFrank Richards was born in 1883 in Monmouthshire. Orphaned at nine years old, he was brought up by his aunt and uncle in the industrial Blaina area, and went on to work as a coal miner... -
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair
RRP: £12.99£5.30** A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK **'Fascinating . . . The history of the world through the eye of a needle . . . I recommend this book to anyone' THE SPECTATOR'A charming, absorbing and history that takes us on a journey from the silk roads to sportswear,... -
Custer's Trials by T. J. Stiles
RRP: £13.99£9.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (History) 2016 and Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award 2016. Short-listed for California Book Award 2016 and Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in... -
Operation Mayhem Steve Heaney, MC 9781409148456
RRP: £9.99£7.00'Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat brilliantly' THE TIMES'Read this account of his stint with the 26-man strong X Platoon in the sweltering jungle, living on grubs, outnumbered 80 to one, battling heavily... -
England and the Aeroplane: Militarism, Modernity and Machines by David Edgerton
RRP: £15.99£11.61The story of the strange mixture of romanticism, militarism and technology that has made planes so important to England, from the brilliant author of Britain's War MachineThe history of England and the aeroplane is one tangled with myths - of 'the Few'... -
The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Contest for Power Kerry Brown 9780300272925
RRP: £25.00£20.92A vivid history of the relationship between Britain and China, from 1600 to the present The relationship between Britain and China has shaped the modern world. Chinese art, philosophy and science have had a profound effect upon British culture, while... -
AQA GCSE History: Medieval England - the Reign of Edward I 1272-1307 by Alf Wilkinson
£21.16Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
The Band That Went to War: The Royal Marine Band in the Falklands War Brian Short 9781399096409
RRP: £25.00£18.30The Royal Marines are renowned for their military skill and also for having one of the finest military bands in the world. These highly trained and talented musicians are equally at home parading at Buckingham Palace, playing at the Royal Albert Hall, or... -
The German Army 1939–45 (2): North Africa & Balkans by Nigel Thomas
RRP: £12.99£11.17Hitler first considered an invasion of Great Britain in autumn 1940, then scheduled Operation Barbarossa, the conquest of the European part of the Soviet Union, for May 1941. Anxious to emulate Hitler's successes, the Italian dictator Mussolini embarked... -
Sweet Negotiations: Sugar, Slavery, and Plantation Agriculture in Early Barbados by Russell R. Menard 9780813937144
£30.29Intending at first simply to do further research on the mid-seventeenth-century ""sugar revolution"" in Barbados, Russell Menard traveled to the island. But once there, he quickly found many discrepancies between the historical understanding of the way... -
In the Service of the Sultan by Ian Gardiner 9781844154678
RRP: £19.99£14.50While the Americans were fighting in Vietnam, a struggle of even greater strategic significance was taking place in the Middle East: the Sultanate of Oman guards the entrance to the Arabian Gulf, and thus controls the movement of oil from that region... -
A People`s History of India 5 - Mauryan India by Irfan Habib
RRP: £17.99£14.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381624Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika BooksWeight(grams) 260gDimensions(mm) 249mm * 161mm * 14mm -
Our Moon: A Human History by Rebecca Boyle 9781529342789
RRP: £22.00£15.18'Passionate and absorbing'SUNDAY TIMES'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime of study'CHRIS HADFIELD, author of An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of... -
Exterminate All The Brutes by Sven Lindqvist 9781847081988
RRP: £10.00£6.91The 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 out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line... -
Algeria: France's Undeclared War by Martin Evans 9780199669035
RRP: £16.99£12.68Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was administered as an integral part of France, in theory no different from... -
Letters: v. 1: Bks.I-VII by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £24.95£23.76Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at the... -
Critique of the Power of Judgment by Immanuel Kant 9780521348928
RRP: £39.99£31.87The Critique of the Power of Judgment (a more accurate rendition of what has hitherto been translated as the Critique of Judgment) is the third of Kant's great critiques following the Critique of Pure Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. This... -
Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans by Garrett Ryan
RRP: £16.99£13.13Why didn't the ancient Greeks or Romans wear pants? How did they shave? How likely were they to drink fine wine, use birth control, or survive surgery? In a series of short and humorous essays, Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants explores... -
Divine Light: The Art of Mosaic in Rome, 300 - 1300 AD Wendy A. Stein 9783777442594
RRP: £39.95£25.83Dazzling mosaic pictures made of glittering shards of light-reflecting colored glass embellish Rome’s oldest churches and tell an enduring story of beauty, faith, and artistry across a thousand years. This book brings these little-known masterpieces to... -
Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci
RRP: £25.00£16.79NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILMIt was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly into the Andean mountains... -
German Tanks of World War II: 1939-1945 by David Porter
RRP: £24.99£17.79Organised chronologically by type, German Tanks of World War II offers a highly illustrated guide to the main types of armoured fighting vehicles used by the German armed forces during the conflict. Ranging from heavy tanks to self-propelled guns, from... -
The Secret History by Procopius
RRP: £10.99£7.99A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a... -
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
RRP: £9.99£6.72From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making' The New York TimesSince the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its core three times. 11... -
No time to wave goodbye Ben Wicks 9781408800935
RRP: £7.99£5.98_________________________ An intensely moving personal record of the experiences of children who were evacuated in World War II, with an introduction by Michael Caine _________________________ 'This vivid collection of memories recreates the... -
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and Empire by Pankaj Mishra 9781788737340
RRP: £9.99£8.40Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria-ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes-that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland... -
The Fighting Temeraire: Legend of Trafalgar (Hearts of Oak Trilogy Vol.1) by Sam Willis
RRP: £16.99£11.54J.M.W. Turner's The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up (1838) was his masterpiece. Sam Willis tells the real-life story behind this remarkable painting. The 98-gun Temeraire warship broke through the French and Spanish line... -
No Silent Night: The Christmas Battle For Bastogne by Leo Barron 9780451414854
RRP: £18.23£13.98Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton 9780192854490
RRP: £15.99£12.30Ronald Hutton is known for his colourful and provocative writings on original subjects. This work is no exception: for the first full-scale scholarly study of the only religion England has ever given the world; that of modern pagan witchcraft, which has... -
Hitler's Last Witness: The Memoirs of Hitler's Bodyguard by Rochus Misch 9781473899025
RRP: £14.99£11.11After being seriously wounded in the 1939 Polish campaign, Rochus Misch was invited to join Hitler's SS-bodyguard. There he served until the wars end as Hitler s bodyguard, courier, orderly and finally as Chief of Communications. On the Berghoff terrace... -
Fractured Europe: 1600 - 1721 D. J. Sturdy (University of Ulster in Coleraine) 9780631205135
RRP: £34.95£31.47This book presents a narrative history of Europe, including Britain and Ireland, from the end of the sixteenth century to the Treaty of Nystadt in 1721.About the Author David J. Sturdy is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Ulster in... -
Meeting Churchill: A Life in 90 Encounters by Sinclair McKay 9780241678558
RRP: £16.99£12.28This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life.From Bletchley Park codebreakers and Hollywood stars such as Charlie... -
Cutting Edge: Japanese Swords in the British Museum by Victor Harris
RRP: £29.95£22.58The Japanese sword has long been appreciated both as a weapon and as an object of art. Only in Japanese culture has the sword been developed to such a level of technological excellence and spiritual importance. As a cutting weapon, the fully developed... -
My Reminiscences of East Africa: The East Africa Campaign of the First World War by the Most Notable German Commander by Paul Emil Von Lettow-Vorbeck 9780857064172
£20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857064172Author Paul Emil Von Lettow-VorbeckFormat HardbackPage Count 308Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 526g -
District Inspector John A. Kearney-The Ric Man Who Befriended Sir Roger Casement by Donal J O' Sullivan 9781412064033
RRP: £17.95£13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412064033Author Donal J O' SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 152g -
OCR A Level History: England 1445-1509: Lancastrians, Yorkists and Henry VII Nicholas Fellows 9781471836688
£31.24Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016This is an OCR endorsed resourceBuild strong subject knowledge and skills in A Level History using the in-depth analysis and structured support in this... -
50 Things About Us: What We Really Need to Know About Britain Mark Thomas 9781912836550
RRP: £12.99£8.83In 50 Things About Us, Mark Thomas combines his trademark mix of storytelling, stand-up, mischief and really, really well-researched material to examine how we have come to inhabit this divided wasteland that some of us call the United Kingdom. Based on... -
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
RRP: £10.99£7.99How has feminism developed? What have feminists achieved? What can we learn from the global history of feminism?Feminism is the ongoing story of a profound historical transformation. Despite being repeatedly written off as a political movement that has...