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Ships Of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain's Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29'Somerville is one of our finest gazetteers of the British countryside. He brings his formidable knowledge to bear on his personal quest to explore the cathedrals in this entrancing book'The... -
Scotland: Defending the Nation: Mapping the Military Landscape by Carolyn Anderson
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $39.22Scotland has had a uniquely important military history over the last five centuries. Conflict with England in the 16th century, Jacobite rebellions in the 18th century, 20th-century defences and the... -
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40*WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022*A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a... -
Coming Into View: Eric Watt's Photographs of Glasgow by Isobel McDonald
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638359Author Isobel McDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint -
Islendingabok, Kristnisaga: The Book of the Icelanders, the Story of the Conversion by Sian Gronlie 9780903521710
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.21Presents a translation of two early Icelandic histories with introduction and notes.Book InformationISBN 9780903521710Author Sian GronlieFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint -
Political Speeches by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free...and second, that each person's fate may reflect the way he has behaved towards his country.' Cicero (106-43... -
The War That Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander 9780571234301
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The Iliad is still the greatest poem about war that our culture has ever produced. For a hundred generations, poets and thinkers in the West have pored over, retold and argued about the events... -
Stug III and IV: German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe, Western Front, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526755865
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.47In the last years of the Second World War the Sturmgesch tz III (StuG III) and Sturmgesch tz IV (StuG IV) played a vital role as assault guns during the German army's struggle to block the Allied... -
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $7.05In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West,... -
THE FREEMASONS: RITUALS * CODES * SIGNS * SYMBOLS: Unlocking the 1000-year old mysteries of the Brotherhood by Jeremy Harwood 9780754835233
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $10.37Freemasonry is part of a long tradition of Western mysticism, steeped in an enduring and eclectic mixture of historical fact and legend. Much of the ritual and symbolism prevalent in Freemasonry has... -
Lost London 1870-1945 by Philip Davies 9781909242951
RRP: $67.00Booksplease Price: $44.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909242951Author Philip DaviesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint -
All In: How we build a country that works by Lisa Nandy 9780008480806
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the Day Britain needs a fresh start. This timely book by one of the stars of the new government shows how to... -
Triumph & Standard Cars 1945 to 1984: A Pictorial History by Kevin Warrington
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.97Two companies with established pedigrees were brought together in 1945 by Sir John Black, then Chairman of the Standard Motor Company, to form Standard-Triumph International. The inspired use of the... -
Politics of Washing by Polly Coles 9780719808784
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.57This is the story of ordinary life in an extraordinary place. The beautiful city of Venice has been a fantasy land for people from around the globe for centuries, but what is it like to live there?... -
Christine: A Search for Christine Granville by Madeleine Masson
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Christine Granville, G.M., O.B.E. and Croix de Guerre, one of the most successful women agents of the Second World War and said to have been Churchill's 'favourite spy', was murdered, aged 37, in a... -
Knaresborough History Tour by Paul Chrystal
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86Knaresborough History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this north Yorkshire market town. Local author and historian Paul Chrystal guides us around Knaresborough's streets and... -
Relentless: Dean Stott: from Special Operations to World Record Breaker by Dean Stott 9781665725170
Booksplease Price: $18.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665725170Author Dean StottFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint -
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: with Pearl and Sir Orfeo by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.22This smart new paperback edition contains the fully-reset text of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love,... -
She Landed By Moonlight: The Story of Secret Agent Pearl Witherington: the 'real Charlotte Gray' by Carole Seymour-Jones
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.97On the night of the 22 September 1943 Pearl Witherington, a twenty-nine-year-old British secretary and agent of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), was parachuted from a Halifax bomber into... -
In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe-A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust by Eilat Negev 9780786715558
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $22.82This remarkable, never-before-told account of the Ovitz family, seven of whose ten members were dwarfs, bears witness to the best and worst of humanity and to the terrible irony of the Ovitzes' fate:... -
One Night in Turin: The Inside Story of a World Cup that Changed our Footballing Nation Forever by Pete Davies 9780224083348
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.48'This could well be the best book ever written about football' Time OutThe memoir behind the documentary One Night in Turin, the inside story of a World Cup that changed our footballing nation... -
African American History: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Scott Holloway
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being "American" means living in a land of... -
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 by D. J. Taylor
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Bright Young People/ Making the most of our youth/ They talk in the Press of our social success/ But quite the reverse is the truth. [Noel Coward]The Bright Young People were one of the most... -
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome Las Casas
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.31Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so... -
Black Plaques London: Memorials to Misadventure by John Ambrose Hide 9780750989954
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.47Black Plaques are not to be found proudly mounted on a wall - and for good reason. What with their commemoration of a brutal execution outside Westminster Abbey, the selling of sex toys in St James's... -
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $21.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760983Author Robert KursonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
Tanks: 100 years of evolution by Richard Ogorkiewicz
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11From an internationally acclaimed expert in the field comes a detailed, analytical and comprehensive account of the worldwide evolution of tanks, from their inception a century ago to the present day... -
NATIVE AMERICAN MYTHS: Collected 1636 - 1919 by Rosalind Kerven 9780953745487
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953745487Author Rosalind KervenFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint -
It Had to be Tough: The Origins and Training of the Commandos in World War II by James Dunning
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.71It Had to Be Tough tells the fascinating story of the origins of the Commandos (Britain's first Special Service troops and the forerunners of today's Parachute Regiment, the SAS and the SBS). The... -
Thomas Summers & Co.: Boatbuilders of Fraserburgh by Mike Smylie 9780750992190
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20After the end of hostilities in 1945, the fishing industry was quick to establish some semblance of recovery and a surge of new builds and restoration of Admiralty motor fishing vessels soon followed... -
Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis by Professor Omer Bartov 9781350332317
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $32.09This book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the... -
The Last Highlander: Scotland's Most Notorious Clan Chief, Rebel & Double Agent by Sarah Fraser 9780007229505
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PERFECT FOR FANS OF OUTLANDER The true story of one of Scotland's most notorious and romantic heroes. He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A... -
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination by Otto Dov Kulka
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the HolocaustWinner of the JEWISH... -
Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood 9780679736882
RRP: $23.45Booksplease Price: $18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award 1992 and Pulitzer Prize 1993.Book InformationISBN... -
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine by Nada Elia
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.79'An inspiring call to action that deconstructs the many oppressive systems we currently find ourselves struggling against' - Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom... -
Guadalcanal 1942-43 by Mark Stille
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.96The campaign for Guadalcanal, which stretched from August 1942 until February 1943, centered on Henderson Field. The airfield was captured by the US on 8 August and placed into operation by 20 August... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee 9780008358259
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $11.08A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward... -
Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.48A searing account of the UN resolution to partition Palestine, and its bloody aftermath "[A] tour de force. . . . With his customary in-depth archival research . . . clear presentation, and... -
Roman Woman: Everyday Life in Hadrian's Britain by Lindsay Allason-Jones
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Roman Britain is vividly portrayed in this fascinating and authentically detailed story about a year in the life of an ordinary woman and her family.The year is AD 133. Hadrian is Emperor of Rome and... -
Attacker: The Royal Navy's First Operational Jet Fighter by Richard A. Franks
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $15.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905414055Author Richard A FranksFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint