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A Noble Ruin: Mark Antony, Civil War, and the Collapse of the Roman Republic by W. Jeffrey Tatum 9780197694909
RRP: £26.99£23.20A complex and captivating portrait of Mark Antony that offers a fresh perspective on the fall of the Roman Republic In his lifetime, Mark Antony was a famous man. Ally and avenger of Julius Caesar, rhetorical target of Cicero, lover of Cleopatra, and... -
The Stopping Places: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain by Damian Le Bas
RRP: £9.99£7.11'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.'Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmother would tell him stories of her childhood in... -
Secret Parchment: Five Tibetan Initiation Techniques by Radu Cinamar 9781937859138
RRP: £30.99£16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937859138Author Radu CinamarFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Sky BooksPublisher Sky BooksWeight(grams) 274g -
The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire by Susan Pedersen
RRP: £16.99£12.68The First World War threw the imperial order into crisis. New states emerged from the great European land empires, while Germany's African and Pacific colonies, and the Ottoman provinces in the Middle East fell into allied hands. Britain, France,... -
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates by Des Ekin
RRP: £13.99£10.95In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them... -
Aircraft of the Cold War 1945-1991: Identification Guide by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £19.99£14.05For over 40 years NATO and Warsaw Pact aircraft faced each other across the Iron Curtain, or fought in proxy wars around the world. Illustrated with detailed artworks of combat aircraft and their markings, Aircraft of the Cold War 1945-1991:... -
The Last British Battleship: HMS Vanguard, 1946-1960 by Burt, R A
RRP: £35.00£25.29The ninth HMS _Vanguard_, bearing one of the most illustrious names in the Royal Navy with honours from the Armada to Jutland, was the last and largest of Britain's battleships and was commissioned in 1946/. Her design evolved from of the King George V... -
In the Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral: The Churchyard that Shaped London by Margaret Willes 9780300273380
RRP: £10.99£9.37The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the... -
Unity and Struggle by Basil Davidson 9780853456254
RRP: £14.95£12.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853456254Author Basil DavidsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Nasser's Blessed Movement: Egypt's Free Officers and the July Revolution by Joel Gordon 9789774167782
RRP: £16.99£14.10This essential book explores the early years of military rule following the Free Officers' coup of 1952. Enriched by interviews with actors in and observers of the events, Nasser's Blessed Movement shows how the officers' belief in a quick reformation by... -
A History of Crete by Chris Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.99Known by the Greeks as 'Megalonisos', the 'Great Island', Crete has been of paramount strategic importance for thousands of years thanks to its location close to the junction of three continents and the heart of the eastern Mediterranean. The island has... -
One Fine Day by Ian Marchant 9781914613555
RRP: £12.99£8.60A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family history. Surprisingly... -
In the Land of Mermaids by Daniela Drescher 9781782508144
RRP: £10.99£7.27In the magical land of mermaids, the water folk and their friends play. Shimmering, lively mermaids race swift newts, sing to colourful dragonflies, doze on cool lily pads and tickle grumpy fish. This vibrant picture book will captivate young readers... -
Estuary: Out from London to the Sea by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: £10.99£8.53LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick LaneOut at the eastern edge of England, between land and ocean, you will find beautiful, haunted salt marshes, coastal... -
The Wrong Kind of Snow: How the Weather Made Britain by Antony Woodward 9780340937884
RRP: £10.99£6.47It is a fact universally acknowledged that the British are obsessed with the weather. This is not surprising as no country in the world has such unpredictable weather, with such power to rule people's lives. THE WRONG KIND OF SNOW is the complete daily... -
Der Tiger: Schwere Panzerabteilung 503: Vol. 3 by Volker Ruff 9783981690828
RRP: £29.99£21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981690828Author Volker RuffFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Volker RuffPublisher Volker Ruff -
The Curtain and the Wall: A Modern Journey Along Europe's Cold War Border by Timothy Phillips 9781783785780
RRP: £10.99£7.32An epic journey across 5,000 kilometres and through eight decades, to tell a new story about the old Cold War faultlines With the fall of the Berlin Wall, it seemed that the old divisions between East and West had been consigned to history. But with... -
The National Trust Miscellany: Secrets, Surprises & Strange Things Of All Kinds by Ian Allen
RRP: £8.99£5.92Staggering statistics, strange facts and all kinds of surprising stuff from the National Trust. Haunted houses, baffling objects, bizarre buildings and distinctly curious characters. * Who needs an upside-down lighthouse? * How... -
The Great Fire of London: The Essential Guide by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £6.99£5.132 SEPTEMBER 1666: 350 YEARS SINCE THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON In the early hours of 2 September 1666 a small fire broke out in a bakery in Pudding Lane. In the five days that followed it grew into a conflagration that would devastate the third largest city... -
Philosophos: Plato's Missing Dialogue by Mary Louise Gill 9780198708650
£36.73Plato famously promised to complement the Sophist and the Statesman with another work on a third sort of expert, the philosopher--but we do not have this final dialogue. Mary Louise Gill argues that Plato promised the Philosopher, but did not write it,... -
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
RRP: £24.95£20.292021 Cundill History Prize FinalistA Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Spectator Best Book of the YearA Five Books Best Book of the Year"Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjects the Mongols to a much-needed re-evaluation, showing... -
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late... -
A New History of Ireland, Volume VI: Ireland Under the Union, II: 1870-1921 by W. E. Vaughan 9780199583744
£76.10A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... -
Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England by Eleanor Parker
RRP: £15.99£12.46Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and... -
Squares of London by John Coulter
RRP: £50.00£39.36Its garden squares distinguish London most clearly from other great cities. All have their ceremonial and market squares, but none the quantity, quality, and variety of residential squares that sets London apart. The history of the London square begins... -
The Twilight Lords: Elizabeth I and the First Irish Holocaust by Richard J. Berleth 9781570983764
RRP: £14.99£11.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570983764Author Richard BerlethFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 9781847926180
RRP: £20.00£14.69In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout... -
The Lady Most Likely: A Novel in Three Parts by Julia Quinn
RRP: £9.99£3.51Three of the brightest stars of Regency romance invite you to a party at the country home of the Honourable Marquess of Finchley . . . If you loved Bridgerton, this is a party you won't want to miss! Hugh Dunne, the Earl of Briarly, needs a wife - so his... -
Cornovia: Ancient Sites of Cornwall and Scilly, 4000BC -1000AD by Craig Wetherhill
RRP: £19.99£13.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841147482Author Craig WetherhillFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
Why We Kneel How We Rise by Michael Holding
RRP: £9.99£6.41WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR With contributions from Usain Bolt, Adam Goodes, Jeff Harriott, Thierry Henry, Michael Johnson, Ibtihaj Muhammad, Makhaya Ntini, Naomi Osaka, Hope Powell THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In... -
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
RRP: £12.99£3.51Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society... -
SAS Band of Brothers: The Last Stand of the SAS and Their Hunt for the Nazi Killers by Damien Lewis 9781787475236
RRP: £20.00£5.71'Riveting. Extraordinary. A real-life thriller.' Dan SnowJune 1944: the SAS parachute deep into occupied France, to wreak havoc and bloody mayhem. In a country crawling with the enemy, their mission is to prevent Hitler from rushing his Panzer divisions... -
The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine Howe
RRP: £9.99£7.81A chilling, truly authoritative anthology of real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe through colonial AmericaFrom a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in 1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to... -
Napoleon Volume 2: The Spirit of the Age by Michael Broers
RRP: £16.99£11.58'Masterly.' Daily Mail 'Stunning.' History Today'Magnificent.' Literary ReviewNapoleon's life reached its most extraordinary stage between 1805 and 1810. At war with Britain, Russia, and Austria, he unleashed his magnificent Grande Armee. The first... -
Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke by Lord Alanbrooke
RRP: £16.99£11.94'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL'Superb' SPECTATOR'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest war in history by one of the key decision makers'... -
The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends by Tao Tao Liu
RRP: £14.99£9.80The essential guide to the complex, fascinating world of Chinese myths: retelling the stories and exploring their significance in Chinese culture. This is a concise and entertaining guide to the complex tradition of Chinese mythology. While many... -
SHP History Year 9 Pupil's Book by Dale Banham
£29.65Develop your students' understanding and skills step by step with Schools History Project's carefully planned approach to Key Stage 3.This textbook combines expertise in course planning with features that reflect the possibilities and requirements of the... -
The 1940s Home by Paul Evans
RRP: £6.99£5.87The history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the Second World War. In the first five years of the decade homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast... -
Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East Volume 2: Egypt, 1948-1990 by Martin Smisek
RRP: £16.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070784Author Martin SmisekFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Politics: Between the Extremes by Nick Clegg
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Compelling' Ian McEwan 'Engrossing' Alan Johnson 'Essential' Robert Peston *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Politics has changed. For decades Britain was divided between Left and Right but united in its belief in a two-party state. Now, with...