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Railway Stations by Tim Bryan
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.76Railway stations were a prominent feature of most towns and villages in Britain until post-war modernisation and closures swept many away. The largest and most imposing stations were in large... -
Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II by Louis Zamperini 9780062118851
Booksplease Price: $27.57The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken A modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My Heels is the riveting and deeply personal memoir... -
A Brief History Of Bali: Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of an Island Paradise Willard A. Hanna 9780804847315
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $18.45This book tells the story of Bali-the "paradise island of the Pacific"-its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the Western world.Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination. It is... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $49.42From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than... -
Belles and Whistles: Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains by Andrew Martin
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform in Britain 1780-1928 Benjamin Armstrong 9781510418110
Booksplease Price: $21.85Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
Alexander the Great: The Truth Behind the Myth by Paul Cartledge
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death,... -
Panzer III Tank Manual: Panzerkampfwagen III Sd Kfz. 141 Ausf A-N (1937-45 by Dick Taylor
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $36.39An insight into the design, construction and operation of the German Army's Second World War medium battle tank, When Hitler unleashed Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union in June 1941, the... -
High Desert Deployment: Navy Colour on Display on NAS Fallon by Nicholas A Veronico 9781802823653
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.63Since its establishment during World War Two, Navy squadrons have been deployed to the high desert outside of Fallon, Nevada, to hone their aerial combat skills. Today, Naval Air Station Fallon, with... -
The Spy who was left out in the Cold: The Secret History of Agent Goleniewski by Tim Tate
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49Spring 1958: a mysterious individual believed to be high up in the Polish secret service began passing Soviet secrets to the West. His name was Michal Goleniewski and he remains one of the most... -
Histories by Herodotus 9781853264665
RRP: $11.38Booksplease Price: $9.27Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing... -
Political Tribes by Amy Chua 9781408881538
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $18.58'A beautifully written, eminently readable and uniquely important challenge to conventional wisdom' J. D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy 'A page-turner and revelation, Political Tribes will... -
What Went Wrong With Brexit: And What We Can Do About It by Peter Foster 9781805301257
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97ONE OF 2023'S BIGGEST NEW BOOKS (GUARDIAN)A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023A GUARDIAN 'IF YOU READ ONE BOOK ABOUT . . .' POLITICS PICKA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POLITICSA THE WEEK CHRISTMAS... -
Nelson: Britannia's God of War by Andrew Lambert
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.14'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest... -
Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28, Britain's Homophobic Law by Paul Baker 9781789145618
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.96On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled... -
Introduction to Japanese Culture Daniel Sosnoski 9784805313138
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $18.45Featuring full-color photographs and illustrations thoughout, this book presents a comprehensive guide to Japanese culture.The richness of Japan's history is renowned worldwide, and the cultural... -
Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution by Ruth Scurr 9780099458982
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesRobespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent... -
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid 9781529326765
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $33.59A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Chillingly original' Max Hastings'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony... -
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Anna Reid 9781399608824
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $12.96FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENTFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was... -
A People's Church: A History of the Church of England by The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.59'A masterly, vivid and original sketch, not just of the history but of the culture (or cultures) of the Church of England across nearly five centuries.' Rowan Williams, poet and former Archbishop of... -
From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man's Middle Eastern Odyssey by Thomas L. Friedman
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.30A Second Edition of Thomas Friedman's stunning book, the first edition of which won the American National Book Award. 'If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it... -
Dope Girls: The Birth Of The British Drug Underground by Marek Kohn 9781862076181
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.78This is a discussion of the transformation of drug use (especially morphine and cocaine, which was once commonly available in any chemist's shop) into a national menace. It revolves around the death... -
Russia's Road to War with Ukraine: Invasion amidst the ashes of empires by Samir Puri 9781785907708
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.96When Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022, many in the West were left stunned at his act of brutal imperialism. To those who had been paying attention, however, the warning signs of the... -
Night Angels: A Novel by Weina Dai Randel 9781542038003
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $14.00From the author of The Last Rose of Shanghai comes a profoundly moving novel about a diplomatic couple who risked their lives to help Viennese Jews escape the Nazis, inspired by the true story of Dr... -
Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right by Dominic Sandbrook 9781400077243
RRP: $41.80Booksplease Price: $31.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400077243Author Dominic SandbrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint -
The Secret Diary of Queen Victoria by Terry Deary 9780702306662
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $9.84From the bestselling team behind Horrible Histories! It's time to delve into the totally true (sort of) and incredibly intriguing pages of Queen Victoria's Secret... -
Culloden John Prebble 9780712668200
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68This is the story of ordinary men and women involved in the Rebellion, who were described on the gaol registers and regimental rosters of the time as 'Common Men'. There is little in this book about... -
History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah E. Lipstadt 9780060593773
Booksplease Price: $23.79This is the only book from the perspective of the defendant who emerged victorious. It features reviews on book pages of national newspapers, and in history magazines. Deborah Lipstadt chronicles her... -
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal 9780393357677
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $27.63In 1611, thirty-four-year-old Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and favourite wife of the Emperor Jahangir who ruled the Mughal Empire... -
The Ghosts of Happy Valley: Searching for the Lost World of Africa's Infamous Aristocrats by Juliet Barnes 9781781311677
RRP: $22.80Booksplease Price: $17.59Happy Valley was the name given to the Wanjohi Valley in the Kenya Highlands, where a small community of affluent, hedonistic white expatriates settled between the wars. While Kenya's early colonial... -
Dumb Money: The Major Motion Picture, based on the bestselling novel previously published as The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich 9780008497033
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.73*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and... -
Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West by Christopher Knowlton
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $24.64Cattle Kingdom reveals how the West rose and fell, and how its legacy defines us today. The tale takes us from dust-choked cattle drives to the unlikely splendors of boomtowns like Abilene, Kansas,... -
Churches of Buckinghamshire by Eddie Brazil 9781398111387
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $22.19The county of Buckinghamshire has a rich and varied past which is reflected in its historic churches. In Churches of Buckinghamshire, author Eddie Brazil explores the architecture, history and beauty... -
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir by Aminatta Forna 9780006531265
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.20An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period. Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history... -
The Year of Chaos: Northern Ireland on the Brink of Civil War, 1971-72 by Malachi O'Doherty
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.74'Frank and incisive - an insightful look at the most tumultuous period of the Troubles.' Ian Cobain'This is the Belfast I grew up in. Malachi writes from first-hand experience and brings back... -
Jutland: The Unfinished Battle by Nicholas Jellicoe
RRP: $51.21Booksplease Price: $25.57More than one hundred years after the battle of Jutland, the first and largest engagement of Dreadnoughts in the twentieth century, historians are still fighting this controversial and misunderstood... -
The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales by Gerald of Wales
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages and The Journey Through Wales describes his eventful tour of the country as a... -
The BRF Book of 365 Bible Reflections: A centenary celebration by Karen Laister 9781800391000
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.95The Bible is at the heart of BRF's work, and this special anniversary collection is a celebration of the Bible for BRF's centenary year. Bringing together a fantastically wide-ranging writing team... -
The Shortest History of Sex by David Baker 9781913083519
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083519Author David BakerFormat HardbackImprint -
Billy the Kid: El Bandido Simpatico by James B. Mills 9781574418781
RRP: $53.18Booksplease Price: $47.10In the annals of American western history, few people have left behind such lasting and far-reaching fame as Billy the Kid. Some have suggested that his legend began with his death at the end of Pat...