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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World before the War, 1890-1914 by Barbara W. Tuchman
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345405012Author Barbara W. TuchmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprin -
How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman'How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary... -
The Great Flood of 1607 by Barb Drummond 9781912829170
RRP: $21.11Booksplease Price: $20.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912829170Author Barb DrummondFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint -
The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet by Edith Pargeter 9780747232674
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Filthy Thirteen: The True Story of the Dirty Dozen by Jake McNiece
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Since World War II, the American public has become fully aware of the exploits of the 101st Airborne Division, but within the ranks of the 101st there existed a notorious sub-unit whose formidable... -
Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors by National Archives 9781780276335
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37This is a new edition of the bestselling guide to this increasingly popular pursuit. Scotland has the best-maintained records and facilities of any country in the world for undertaking family... -
The Soviet Gulag: History and Memory by Associate Professor Jeffrey S. Hardy 9781350128187
Booksplease Price: $17.41A vivid account of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's infamous penal system, this book charts how Bolshevik visions of a humane alternative to Tsarist exile and Western penitentiaries became a chaotic and... -
RAF Tornado Units of Gulf War I by Michael Napier
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.80When the Gulf Crisis of 1990 was triggered by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the RAF responded by sending Tornado F 3 fighters to Saudi Arabia to help defend the country against further aggression... -
The British Army 1939-45 (2): Middle East & Mediterranean by Martin Brayley 9781841762371
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.55The North Africa campaign of 1940-43 brought the British Army its first significant land victory, as they defeated the Italians in a number of battles between 1940-41. This overwhelming success was... -
J for Johnnie by John Trotman 9780955060175
Booksplease Price: $15.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955060175Author John TrotmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint < -
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England by Rory Muir 9780300273311
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons-men of good family but small fortune In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while... -
Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 by Peter Clarke
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic... -
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARD 2022A NEW STATESMAN AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'Deserves to remain the standard treatment of the subject... -
Mud Sweeter than Honey: Voices of Communist Albania by Margo Rejmer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph"Essential reading" History Today"A moving evocation . . . An illuminating... -
Looking for a New England: Action, Time, Vision: Music, Film and TV 1975 - 1986 by Simon Matthews
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias,... -
The Man Who Killed Richard III: Who Dealt the Fatal Blow at Bosworth? by Susan Fern 9781445647258
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.56On 22 August 1485 on a battlefield in Bosworth, Leicestershire, King Richard III, the last of the Plantagenet kings, was dealt a death blow by the man who had sworn loyalty to him only a few months... -
I Never Knew That About London by Christopher Winn
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of our capital's history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up... -
F-16 Fighting Falcon by Ryan Cunningham 9781838863258
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.41With its iconic bubble canopy and advanced helmet-mounted displays, the F-16 Fighting Falcon is one of the supreme Fourth Generation air-superiority fighters in the world today. First flown by the US... -
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West by Christopher Caldwell
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'We need books like this' Literary Review'Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind.'Taking us from English suburbs to Parisian housing estates, this provocative,... -
Realm of Darkness (Hugh Corbett 23) by Paul Doherty
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Paul Doherty's twenty-third medieval mystery featuring Sir Hugh Corbett is a gripping and gruesome tale of murder and mayhem sure to appeal to fans of C. J. Sansom and Bernard Cornwell.Spring, 1312... -
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68A shocking and timely reminder of the role Nazi women played in the Holocaust, not only as plunderers and direct witnesses, but on the Eastern Front. History has it that the role of women in Nazi... -
The Prime Ministers by Yehuda Avner 9781592642786
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Jewish Book Award (Biography/Autobiography) 2010 and National Jewish Book Award (History) 2010... -
Magna Carta: A Very Short Introduction by Nicholas Vincent
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.33The Magna Carta has long been considered the foundation stone of the British Constitution, yet few people today understand either its contents or its context. This Very Short Introduction introduces... -
German Field Artillery of World War II by Steven J. Zaloga 9781472853974
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11An illustrated study of the big guns of Hitler's army - the Wehrmacht's field artillery, its capabilities and its role in German fighting units of World War II. Often overshadowed in military... -
Nymans: The Story of a Sussex Garden by Shirley Nicholson 9780752455952
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $7.40Nymans forms one of a group of gardens in the Sussex Weald which were created before the First World War and are still beautiful today, their owners sharing a passion for new material brought back... -
The Monuments 2nd edition: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races by Peter Cossins
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.92An awe-inspiring history of the five most legendary "classic" races in world cycling. The Tour de France may provide the most obvious fame and glory, but it is cycling's one-day tests that the... -
The Animal Victoria Cross: The Dickin Medal - 80th Annivesary Revised Edition by Peter Hawthorne 9781399024167
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Seventy-Four animals have won the Dicken Medal, the highest award for animal bravery. Their inspiring stories are told, for the first time in one book, The Animal Victoria Cross. Four types of... -
The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba Dervla Murphy 9781906011468
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.83"The Island That Dared" is a passionate book from the pen of Dervla Murphy, which begins with a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. Led by their redoubtable hard-walking grandmother, the trio... -
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $43.54Booksplease Price: $30.15Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain... -
Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea and Japan by Michael Booth
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'The next Bill Bryson' New York TimesTwo tigers cannot share the same mountain - Chinese proverbDespite geographical proximity, cultural similarities, and shared status as highly powerful nations,... -
Haunted York by Rupert Matthews
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.71This is a terrifying collection of true-life tales of ghosts, poltergeists and spirits of all kinds in the streets, buildings and graveyards of York. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources,... -
Lead Mining Land the Northern Pennines: Astride Auden's Watershed by Judith Milton 9781399952767
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63An informal, informative introduction to lead mining in the Northern Pennines. Uniquely, the theme and structure are both guided by the "Pennine Poems" of the late W.H.Auden. Chapters on geology,... -
Admiral Togo: Nelson of the East by Jonathan Clements 9781906598624
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Togo Heihachiro (1848-1934) was born into a feudal society that had lived in seclusion for 250 years. As a teenage samurai, he witnessed the destruction wrought upon his native land by British... -
The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced by Stephanie Dalley
RRP: $23.44Booksplease Price: $17.41The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization... -
Plato Respublica by S. R. Slings
Booksplease Price: $40.19This is the first edition of Plato's Republic to be based on an exhaustive examination of all the textual evidence - manuscripts, including papyri; quotations and allusions in ancient authors;... -
Those of Us Who Must Die: Execution, Exile and Revival after the Easter Rising by Derek Molyneux
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.43The 1916 Rising is one of the most documented and analysed episodes in Ireland's turbulent history. Often overlooked, however, is its immediate aftermath. This significant window in the narrative of... -
Echoes in the Air by Jack Currie
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809495Author Jack CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint -
The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Invisibility: The Startling Account of a Ship That Vanished-And Returned to Damn Those Who Knew Why... by William Moore
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449007464Author William MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint -
Place of Repose: St Cuthbert's Last Journey by Katharine Tiernan 9781789590784
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789590784Author Katharine TiernanFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint -
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen 9781250033314
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250033314Author Rich CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint