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The French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert
RRP: £12.99£9.34Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert's brilliant account of the events that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its... -
The Ulster Grand Prix: 100 Years by Norman Windrum
RRP: £20.00£16.83From the first race in 1922, the Ulster Grand Prix has been one of the most thrilling events in the international motorcycling calendar, attracting enormous crowds of spectators to watch the world's great riders in action. Now, a century on, the UGP... -
British Buses Since 1950: Trendsetting Designs by Gavin Booth
RRP: £15.99£11.61Bus design has certainly evolved in the seven decades since 1950, but it has not been a steady process. Advances in bus design have caused manufacturers to rush back to the drawing board for fear of being left behind. In 1950, the first of the new breed... -
Muhammad: Biography of the Prophet Karen Armstrong 9781842126080
RRP: £9.99£6.90A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling religious writer Karen Armstrong.'Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to its fundamentals, without over-simplifying' SUNDAY TIMES'One of our best living... -
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
RRP: £18.99£14.22'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created.Chris... -
Roman Warriors: The Paintings of Graham Sumner by Sumner, Graham 9781784387198
RRP: £40.00£28.61This book represents the fruit of many years of study by a well respected author in the field. It is well written so as to be very readable for the non-academic whilst presenting a huge, and surely definitive, array of evidence - Roman Army Talk on... -
The Armchair General: Can You Defeat the Nazis? by John Buckley 9781804946435
RRP: £10.99£7.99A ground-breaking approach to history where YOU choose the fate of WWII - perfect for readers of Bletchley Park Brainteasers and The GCHQ Puzzle Book.''An original and exciting approach . . . Buckley is one of our very finest historians.' JAMES... -
The Secret Order of Assassins: The Struggle of the Early Nizari Ismai'lis Against the Islamic World by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
RRP: £24.99£23.16The sect known as "the Assassins," a corruption of an Arabic word that means hashish smoker, is familiar to the West as a mystical cult of killers led by the "Man in the Mountain" encountered by the Crusaders. But it was not defeat at the hands of... -
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
RRP: £10.99£7.87From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many... -
Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence by Katherine Parr
RRP: £44.00£43.27To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512-48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr... -
Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era by Kathleen Paul
RRP: £24.99£22.01Kathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned... -
History+ for Edexcel A Level: Nationalism, dictatorship and democracy in twentieth-century Europe by Mark Gosling
£41.20Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for EdexcelEnable your students to develop high-level skills in their Edexcel A level History breadth and depth studies through expert... -
Satanism: A Reader by Per Faxneld 9780199913558
RRP: £22.99£19.56Satanism is a current of thought that generates intense feelings. It remains understudied by academics. This selection of key source texts from the period 1841 to 2017 attempts to remedy that gap. Ranging from the esoteric to the anti-clerical,... -
Apollo's Angels: A History Of Ballet Jennifer Homans 9781847082565
RRP: £22.50£15.42Apollo's Angels is a major new history of classical ballet. It begins in the courts of Europe, where ballet was an aspect of aristocratic etiquette and a political event as much as it was an art. The story takes the reader from the sixteenth century... -
Aspects of Arnhem: The Battle Re-examined by Richard Doherty 9781399043915
RRP: £25.00£17.90Almost 80 years on the battle for the Arnhem Rhine crossing remains controversial. Opinion on its justification and success differs widely. This superbly researched book, written by two acknowledged experts, takes a wide-ranging examination of Operation... -
The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles by Carolyne Larrington
RRP: £14.99£11.75Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the... -
Putin Takes Crimea 2014: Grey-zone warfare opens the Russia-Ukraine conflict by Mark Galeotti 9781472853844
RRP: £15.99£11.79An authoritative analysis of how Putin's Russia conquered the Crimea in 2014 using 'grey zone' warfare techniques, blending operations by anonymous special forces with cyber, sabotage, and propaganda. Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 was... -
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of World War I by Jonathan North 9780754823407
RRP: £19.99£15.50The war of 1914-1918 was a military, political and social disaster. No other war changed the map of Europe so dramatically and more than 15 million people were killed. The dramatic political and social changes of the period were mirrored in the uniforms... -
Government and Expertise: Specialists, Administrators and Professionals, 1860-1919 by Roy MacLeod 9780521534505
RRP: £44.99£38.14A generation has passed since the appearance of Oliver MacDonagh's article 'The Nineteenth-century Revolution in Government: A Reappraisal' (Historical Journal, 1958), which gave enormous impetus to the study of the 'silent revolution' that had overtaken... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain James Bloodworth 9781786490162
£13.85Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of... -
A Life of Picasso Volume I: 1881-1906 John Richardson 9781845951559
RRP: £40.00£29.61From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist. With a view to writing a biography, the acclaimed art historian kept a diary of their meetings. After Picasso's death, his widow Jacqueline collaborated in... -
Runes Martin Findell 9780714180298
RRP: £9.99£7.00From late antiquity through to the early middle ages, people across north-western Europe were inscribing runes on a range of different objects. Once identified and interpreted by experts, runes provide us with invaluable evidence for the early 'Germanic'... -
Seal Morning by Rowena Farre
RRP: £7.99£5.56At the age of 10, Rowena Farre left the security of her parents' home in India and was sent to live with her aunt on a lonely croft in the wild and remote Highlands of Scotland. During her stay in Sutherland, she drew strength from the isolation of... -
Early Christian Lives by St. Athanasius
RRP: £12.99£9.19Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude, poverty and prayer. Athanasius records Antony's extreme... -
Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
RRP: £15.99£15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757075Author Edmund MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 201mm *... -
An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner
RRP: £25.00£21.02The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was... -
F-16 Fighting Falcon by Ryan Cunningham 9781838863258
RRP: £17.99£12.39With 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 Air Force in the mid 1980s, Lockheed Martin have since... -
Free Speech And Why It Matters by Andrew Doyle
RRP: £9.99£7.00'Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The TimesFREE SPEECH AND WHY IT MATTERSFree speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as... -
Entering Hekate's Cave: The Journey Through Darkness to Wholeness by Cyndi Brannen 9781578637911
RRP: £19.99£15.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637911Author Cyndi BrannenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
The Story of Gardening: A cultural history of famous gardens from around the world by Penelope Hobhouse
RRP: £35.00£25.38A fully updated and revised edition of a gardening classic. From the cooling fountains of the Alhambra to the imposing palace grounds of Chinese emperors and the clean lines of the formal French parterre, this... -
Access to History: The British Experience of Warfare 1790-1918 for Edexcel Second Edition by Alan Farmer
£25.61Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJECLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Endorsed for Edexcel.Give your students the best chance of success with this tried and tested series, combining in-depth analysis,... -
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos 9781538770184
RRP: £15.99£12.81George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their... -
The Book of Viking Myths: From the Voyages of Leif Erikson to the Deeds of Odin, the Storied History and Folklore of the Vikings by Peter Archer
RRP: £12.99£8.86This fascinating new book reveals the origins of the Vikings-from Thor and Leif Erikson to Loki and the Valkyries-and the tales that have influenced our own lives.For thousands of years, Vikings have held a storied place in our culture-their distinct... -
The Red Arrows: The Sunday Times Bestseller David Montenegro 9781529135527
RRP: £20.00£14.29SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERDAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEKTHE FIRST OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE RED ARROWS'Heart-pounding, exhilarating . . . A fascinating testimony of jeopardy, cool heads and the sheer exultant addiction of flying.' SINCLAIR... -
In Fingal's Wake: A Tender Tribute by Trevor Boult 9781445648064
RRP: £20.00£13.34Fingal represented the last and final 'classic' style of tender once found throughout the three General Lighthouse Authorities of the British Isles. Performing a wide range of duties at Oban and at Stromness, Fingal served all the area needs of the... -
House Histories for Beginners by Colin Style
RRP: £20.00£15.27Popular television programmes highlight the satisfaction that can be gained from investigating the history of houses, and there is always plenty of interest in the subject, with archives becoming ever more accessible with access to the internet.As the... -
Antiblackness and Global Health: A Response to Ebola in the Colonial Wake by Lioba Hirsch 9780745346281
RRP: £24.99£19.39Antiblackness and Global Health offers a major new account of the 2014-2016 West African Ebola crisis and a radical perspective on the racial politics of global health. Lioba Hirsch traces the legacies of colonialism across the landscape of global... -
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall
£18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756474Author Fredrik LogevallFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
The Last Reunion: The thrilling and achingly romantic new historical novel from the international bestselling author by Kayte Nunn
RRP: £9.99£3.61*THE STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR KAYTE NUNN!*'Absolutely magnificent' NATASHA LESTER'Hugely engaging' DAILY MAILWar would bring them together.But would it ultimately tear them apart?Burma, 1945.Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and... -
Colchester: A History by Andrew Phillips 9780750986915
RRP: £15.99£12.43Colchester boasts 2,000 years of history. Few towns in Britain can equal that. Yet this new book, by a local author, is the first full and concise history of Colchester to be published for over half a century, during which time our knowledge of the...