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My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: Revolution and dictatorship: Russia, 1917-1953 by Neil Owen
RRP: £12.50£11.84Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
A History of the Crusades I: The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem by Steven Runciman
RRP: £10.99£7.77The first volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'On a February day in the year AD 638 the Caliph Omar entered Jerusalem, riding upon a white camel'An enthralling work of grand historical narrative,... -
Mr Cavendish, I Presume: Number 2 in series by Julia Quinn
RRP: £8.99£4.11The second in a smart, witty duet of Dukes by Julia Quinn, the bestselling author of Bridgerton, now a series created for Netflix by ShondalandAbout the AuthorJulia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing university and has been... -
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation by Yaroslav Hrytsak 9781408730805
RRP: £25.00£14.66'Both pioneering and fundamental. This is the essential history of Ukraine, from one of the greatest Ukrainian thinkers and scholars.' Timothy Snyder #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of On Tyranny 'Ukrainian historian Yaroslav... -
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
RRP: £25.00£16.78Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of... -
Wild Garden by William Robinson
RRP: £28.00£24.28First published in 1870, The Wild Garden challenged the prevailing garden style of the day and advocated a naturalistic style, in which hardy plants, both native and exotic, are arranged in groupings that mimic wild landscapes. Thanks to Robinson's... -
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China by Desmond Shum 9781398510388
RRP: £9.99£6.41'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN 'READS LIKE A THRILLER' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021 In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Freezing Order comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur... -
Knights by Stephanie Turnbull
RRP: £5.99£3.70Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children beginning to read on their own. Vivid, full colour illustrations and photographs on every page, accompanied by short, informative text. Developed with reading experts at the University of... -
Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation by Paul Kriwaczek
RRP: £12.99£8.60A portrait of a civilisation which flourished within living memory and left an indelible mark on historyIn the 13th century Yiddish language and culture began to spread from the Rhineland and Bavaria slowly east into Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, then to... -
Borough Market: Edible Histories: Epic tales of everyday ingredients by Mark Riddaway
RRP: £16.99£12.28* Shortlisted for Debut Food Book of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2021 *One of The Times Books of the Year 2020_____________'Fascinating and entertaining - a pleasure to read.' Claudia RodenAs a nation of food-lovers we have been... -
Richard III's Books: Ideals and Reality in the Life and Library of a Medieval Prince by Anne F. Sutton 9781803996318
RRP: £20.00£15.44Richard III, the most notorious and most discussed of English kings, was also unusual among his contemporaries in regularly signing his books. This characteristic, among others, has enabled Anne Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs to reconstruct his library,... -
Eduqas GCSE (9-1) History The USA: A Nation of Contrasts 1910-1929 by Rob Quinn
£21.93Exam board: EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed by EduqasHelp every student to achieve their best, with bespoke support for Eduqas GCSE History from the leading History publisher for secondary... -
Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp by Helga Weiss 9780241959503
RRP: £10.99£7.77'The most moving Holocaust diary published since Anne Frank' Daily TelegraphFirst they led us to the baths, where they took from us everything we still had. Quite literally there wasn't even a hair left. I didn't even recognize my own mother till I... -
Queer Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London's Fierce History by Dan Glass
RRP: £14.99£9.80This groundbreaking guide will take you through the city streets to uncover the scandalous, hilarious and empowering events of London's queerstory. Follow in the footprints of veteran activists, such as those who marched in London's first Pride parade in... -
Louis Jacobs and the Quest for a Contemporary Jewish Theology by Miri Freud-Kandel 9781906764883
£31.06For Louis Jacobs, the quest-the process of engaging with and thinking about Jewish faith-was a lifelong pursuit. He offered a model in the 1960s, a period characterized by general religious crisis, of an observant, committed, but intellectually curious... -
Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 by David Mccullough
£16.13Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.Book InformationISBN 9780671244095Author David McculloughFormat PaperbackPage... -
Those Must Be The Guards: The Household Division in Peace and War, 1969–2023 by Paul de Zulueta 9781472863645
RRP: £30.00£22.44The story of the British Army's Household Division from 1969 to 2023. It is the biography of a family of three generations of soldiers who have served Crown and Country during a period of significant social and geostrategic change. The story of the... -
Dublin and the Viking World by Howard Clarke
RRP: £13.99£11.35Dig through the layers of time to find the Viking past beneath our city streets. Shipbuilding, praying, raiding, trading and playing - Viking customs and habits are brought to life in this richly illustrated account of the beginnings of Dublin town. ... -
The Passion Of The Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas 9781845951627
RRP: £20.00£14.69The Passion of the Western Mind is a complete guide to Western civilisation and the philosophical ideas that have shaped our world view. From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud, Richard Tarnas described profound... -
The Lives of Women, 1850-1960 by Dan Jones
RRP: £30.00£22.55The third volume in the much-admired The Colour of Time series. A Woman's World, 1850-1960 explores the many roles - domestic, social, cultural and professional - played by women across the world before second-wave feminism took hold. Using Marina... -
The Madness: A Farewell to War by Fergal Keane
RRP: £22.00£14.58As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and many more. Driven by an irresistible compulsion to be where the night is... -
Short Sunderland: The 'Flying Porcupines' in the Second World War by Hendrie, Andrew 9781399014540
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1933, the Air Ministry issued a specification for a general-purpose four-engine flying boat capable of operating from the outposts of the Empire. The result was the remarkable Sunderland, built by Short Brothers. This book covers the development of... -
Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine by Mark Galeotti 9781472847553
RRP: £10.99£7.77The Financial Times - Best books of 2022: Politics 'The prolific military chronicler and analyst Mark Galeotti has produced exactly the right book at the right time.' The Times A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably... -
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £22.99£15.57With an extended new preface by the author. 'One of the most important intellectuals alive' Independent One of Noam Chomsky's most important and renowed works, Fateful Triangle, is a devastating indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy... -
Castle: A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain by Marc Morris
RRP: £10.99£7.77Beginning with their introduction in the eleventh century, and ending with their widespread abandonment in the seventeenth, Marc Morris explores many of the country's most famous castles, as well as some spectacular lesser-known examples. At times this... -
Elizabeth I (Penguin Monarchs): A Study in Insecurity by Helen Castor
RRP: £8.99£6.45'The experience of insecurity, it turned out, would shape one of the most remarkable monarchs in England's history' In the popular imagination, as in her portraits, Elizabeth I is the image of monarchical power. But this image is as much armour as a... -
The Shortest History of the Crown by Stephen Bates
£9.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083397Author Stephen BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher E. Goscha
RRP: £18.99£13.61WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S JOHN K. FAIRBANK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's... -
Me, Me, Me: The Search for Community in Post-war England by Jon Lawrence 9780198779544
RRP: £17.99£15.52Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised-that individuals live only to consume. But are they wrong? In Me, Me, Me, Jon Lawrence re-tells the story of England since the Second World War through the... -
Early Medieval Britain, c. 500-1000 by Rory Naismith
RRP: £23.99£21.11Early 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... -
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £10.99£7.12'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern... -
Route 66 Adventure Handbook, 6th Edition: Full-Throttle Sixth Edition by Drew Knowles 9781595801210
RRP: £17.99£12.70Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity. For this updated and expanded sixth edition, Drew Knowles has included it all: magnificent architecture, natural... -
The Last Hours in Paris: A powerful, moving and redemptive story of wartime love and sacrifice for fans of historical fiction by Ruth Druart
RRP: £8.99£6.20War brings them together.Will liberation tear them apart?'Wonderful. A heartbreaking story of the power of love and forgiveness' JILL MANSELL'A tender, thrilling story of love and family secrets in time of war' RACHEL HORE'I was so engrossed. A... -
U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War by Franz Kurowski
RRP: £14.99£10.95Following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines. However, clandestine training took place on Finnish and Spanish submarines and U-boats were still built to German designs in Dutch yards... -
Operation Black Buck 1982: The Vulcans' extraordinary Falklands War raids by Andrew Bird 9781472856661
RRP: £16.99£12.28'The definitive account of the Vulcan raids... taught me something new on every page' - Rowland White, author of the bestselling Vulcan 607 A newly researched, fully illustrated account of how RAF Vulcan bombers flew a series of the world's longest... -
Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum
£14.78This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic. In a learned, moving, and sparklingly witty melange of criticism,... -
William I (Penguin Monarchs): England's Conqueror by Marc Morris
RRP: £7.99£5.79Part of the Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackOn Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman king of England. It was a disaster: soldiers outside,... -
Civil Aircraft Recognition by Paul Eden
RRP: £8.99£7.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840372533Author Paul E EdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Airlife Publishing LtdPublisher The Crowood Press LtdWeight(grams) 169gDimensions(mm)... -
Out of Town: A Life Relived on Television by Jack Hargreaves 9780946159468
RRP: £8.95£8.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946159468Author Jack HargreavesFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 130mm * 11mm -
Stick a Flag in It: 1,000 years of bizarre history from Britain and beyond by Arran Lomas
RRP: £14.99£13.49From the Norman Invasion in 1066 to the eve of the First World War, Stick a Flag in It is a thousand-year jocular journey through the history of Britain and its global empire.The British people have always been eccentric, occasionally ingenious and,...