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The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350 by Robert Bartlett
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of... -
A Life of Industry: The Photography of John R Hume by Daniel Gray
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.58John R Hume is Scotland's foremost expert on industrial heritage. John's greatest passion was - and is - industry. Over the course of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, he took over 25,000 photographs of... -
Kawanishi H6K ‘Mavis’ and H8K ‘Emily’ Units Edward M. Young 9781472860620
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.13An illustrated account of the little-known operations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force’s flying boat units during World War 2. Respectively codenamed the ‘Mavis’ and ‘Emily’ by the Allies,... -
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling 9780141030791
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 in The Sunday Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday, Observer and Financial Times'A landmark biography' The Times, Books of the Year'One of our generation's greatest biographers'... -
Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473134Author Robert BeachyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Ninja: Unmasking the Myth Stephen Turnbull 9781526796486
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The ninja is a well-known phenomenon in Japanese military culture, a fighter who is widely regarded as the world's greatest exponent of secret warfare. He infiltrates castles, gathers vital... -
Why Dante Matters: An Intelligent Person's Guide by Professor John Took
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.09John Took provides an entirely original view of one of the most important poets and thinkers in all of Western literature, Dante Alighieri. The year 2021 marks the 700th anniversary of the death... -
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester 9780063341906
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $15.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063341906Author Simon WinchesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint
The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World by Christopher Andrew
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.27The second sensational volume of 'One of the biggest intelligence coups in recent years' (The Times)When Vasili Mitrokhin revealed his archive of Russian intelligence material to the world it caused...
Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia by Dan Kaszeta
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.67Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and massive industry for their manufacture-yet, strangely, the Third...
Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan 1945-1947 by D M Giangreco 9781682476437
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $22.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Self-Defense For Gentlemen And Ladies: A Nineteenth-Century Treatise on Boxing, Kicking, Grappling, and Fencing with the Cane and Quarterstaff by Colonel Thomas Hoyer Monstery
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $16.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583948682Author Colonel Thomas Hoyer MonsteryFormat HardbackPage Count
It's a Living: Work and Life in Vietnam Today by Gerard Sasges 9789971696986
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31Through interviews and 70 photographs, It's a Living reveals the energy and struggle of the world of work in Vietnam today. A goldfish peddler installing aquariums, a business school graduate selling...
Painted Faces: A Colourful History of Cosmetics by Susan Stewart
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70Throughout history, women (and men) have applied make-up to enhance, alter, conceal and even to disguise their appearance. Also, to a greater or lesser degree over time, cosmetics have been used as a...
Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients by David Hatcher Childress 9780932813732
RRP: $24.79Booksplease Price: $18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813732Author David Hatcher ChildressFormat PaperbackPage Count 344
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne 9780008322243
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.88'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer ...
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.45A unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time Begins'Witty, clever and warm-hearted' The Times'Maxtone Graham [has a] unique blend of high comedy and shrewd...
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook by Mark Bray
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197036Author Mark BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint
Philip's Highlands of Scotland: Leisure and Tourist Map 2020 Edition: Leisure and Tourist Map by Philip's Maps
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $10.10A folded map specially created for touring the glories of the Scottish Highlands, with a wealth of places of interest clearly marked. It includes detailed coverage of the area's road network with...
Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia Levi Roach 9781529300321
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.02'Powerful' The Economist'Fascinating, panoramic . . . Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'Narrated with pace, clarity, authority and...
The Merlin: The Engine That Won the Second World War Gordon A. A. Wilson 9781398103252
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56The Rolls-Royce Merlin is the most recognisable aero engine in the world. It powered the Battle of Britain aircraft, the Spitfire and Hurricane, as they defended the shores of Britain against the...
In Pursuit of Spring by Edward Thomas 9781908213433
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $12.98In mid to late March 1913, as the storm clouds of the Great War which was to claim his life gathered, Edward Thomas took a bicycle ride from Clapham to the Quantock Hills. The poet recorded his...
Manorial Records by Denis Stuart 9781860772993
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.43The manor was for centuries the main unit of local government and virtually the only source of written local records. Once the local or family historian has taken his researches back beyond the...
Generations by William Strauss 9780688119126
Booksplease Price: $20.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688119126Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint
Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times by Thomas Waters
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.73The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present dayCursed Britain unveils the enduring power of witchcraft, curses and black magic...
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History by Norman Mailer
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28October 21, 1967, Washington, D.C. 20,000 to 200,000 protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, while helicopters hover overhead and federal marshals and soldiers with fixed bayonets await...
Tribes: How Our Need to Belong Can Make or Break Society by David Lammy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.33'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who knows its author only from his Twitter...
Food & Feast in Tudor England by Alison Sim
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Chapters cover food and society in the sixteenth century, kitchens and cooking, what people drank, food and health (including Tudor ideas on healthy eating), setting the table and table manners,...
Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Simon Critchley
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.85Simon Critchley's Very Short Introduction shows that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of problems all too often...
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The explosive, untold story of the Cold War's biggest secret. The REAL X-Files.It is the most famous military installation in the world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about his...
The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Wilson to Johnson by Steve Richards
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Fascinating, revealing and entertaining.' John Humphrys'A pure pleasure to read.' Polly Toynbee'Extraordinary.' Kirsty WarkA landmark history of the men and women who have defined the UK's role in...
Anglesey Towns and Villages by Geraint Jones
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Most of the settlements in Anglesey are villages or hamlets, but the island has five towns. Although they are not large, they have a wealth of history and each one has developed in its own unique way...
My War Gone by, I Miss it So by Anthony Loyd 9781912836048
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65My War Gone By, I Miss It So is a uniquely powerful piece of writing, unparalleled in the genre. Ex-infantry officer Anthony Loyd arrived in the Balkans hoping to become a war correspondent. He...
India: A History in Objects by T. Richard Blurton
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.61An authoritative visual history of one of the world's oldest and most vibrant cultures, drawing on South Asian art and artefacts from prehistory to the present. Arranged chronologically, and...
London: A Travel Guide Through Time by Matthew Green
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Step back in time and discover the sights, sounds and smells of London through the ages in this enthralling journey into the capital's rich, teeming and occasionally hazardous past.Let time traveller...
Fire in Babylon: How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet by Simon Lister
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WINNER OF THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD'I doubt there will be a better book written about this period in West...
Guide to Greece: Southern Greece by Pausanias
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for...
And the Band Played On: The enthralling account of what happened after the Titanic sank: The enthralling account of what happened after the Titanic sank by Christopher Ward
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37On 14th April 1912 the Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sank. Fifteen hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. As the order to abandon ship was given, the orchestra took their...
Queen Victoria: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother,...
Round About a Pound a Week by 9781903155691
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $20.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155691Format PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Persephone Books LtdP