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The Theaetetus of Plato by Plato
RRP: £18.99£15.67M. J. Levett's elegant translation of Plato's Theaetetus, first published in 1928, is here revised by Myles Burnyeat to reflect contemporary standards of accuracy while retaining the style, imagery, and idiomatic speech for which the Levett translation... -
Son Of The Morning Star: General Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell
RRP: £16.99£12.28On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers,... -
Collins Key Stage 3 History - Book 1 1066-1750 by Jo Pearson
RRP: £16.99£16.12Collins Key Stage 3 History is an exciting and accessible new series focused on ensuring that all pupils make clear, measurable progression at Key Stage 3 - whether it is a 2 or a 3 year course. Collins Key Stage 3 History is a brand new... -
The Kingmaker's Women: Anne Beauchamp and Her Daughters, Isabel and Anne Neville by Julia A Hickey 9781399064859
RRP: £25.00£17.62They were supposed to be pious, fruitful and submissive. The wealthiest women in the kingdom, Anne Beauchamp and her daughters were at the heart of bitter inheritance disputes. Well educated and extravagant, they lived in style and splendour but were... -
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon by Simon Fenwick
RRP: £10.99£7.40In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - purchased Long Crichel House, an old rectory with no electricity and an inadequate water supply. In this... -
Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by T. G. Otte 9780141991474
RRP: £20.00£14.69'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our life-time.' The words of Sir Edward Grey, looking out from the windows of the Foreign Office at the end of August 1914, are amongst the most famous in European history, and... -
Lebanese Civil War: Volume 3 - Moving to War, 4-7 June 1982 by Tom Cooper
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510360Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Edwardian Scrapbook by Robert Opie 9780954795481
RRP: £14.95£10.78With Edward VII on the throne and the dawn of a new century, Britain embraced the technology of the future. Motor transport began to replace the horse, and by the end of the Edwardian era, the possibilities of the aeroplane could be seen. While the... -
Secret Britain: Unearthing our Mysterious Past by Mary-Ann Ochota 9780711288850
RRP: £18.99£13.15"A cornucopia of our weirdest and most wonderful archaeological sites and artefacts. They make you feel proud to be a citizen of these gloriously intriguing isles." Sir Tony RobinsonAn Ice Age cannibal's skull cup, a hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, a... -
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours by Noga Arikha 9780060731175
RRP: £12.99£9.59Physicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body-blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler-determining a person's health, mood, and character. Not until the seventeenth century would a more complex view of the anatomy begin to... -
Kate: The Future Queen by Katie Nicholl
RRP: £18.99£13.61Katie Nicholl, bestselling author and royal correspondent for The Mail on Sunday , gives an inside look into the life of the future Queen of England, Kate Middleton. Since becoming Duchess Catherine of Cambridge in 2011, Middleton has captivated royals... -
Elegance of Japanese Art: Edo Rimpa Bird and Flower Painting by Momo Miyazaki 9784756250643
RRP: £29.99£19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756250643Author Momo MiyazakiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd. -
Archaeology and Capitalism: From Ethics to Politics by Yannis Hamilakis 9781598742718
RRP: £37.99£33.38The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they... -
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History by David Reynolds
RRP: £18.99£13.61It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and... -
The Perfect Weapon: war, sabotage, and fear in the cyber age by David Sanger 9781911617723
RRP: £14.99£10.20From Russia's tampering with the US election to the WannaCry hack that temporarily crippled the NHS, cyber has become the weapon of choice for democracies, dictators, and terrorists. Cheap to acquire, easily deniable, and used for a variety of... -
The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton
RRP: £12.99£9.09'It's rare for a book to make you see the world differently, but this ... does exactly that on almost every page' Guardian Standard histories of technology give tired accounts of the usual inventions, inventors, and dates, framing technology as the... -
Tannenberg 1914: Destruction of the Russian Second Army by Michael McNally
RRP: £16.99£12.28Explore the Eastern Front battle that resulted in one of the greatest defeats of World War I, in which an entire Russian army was annihilated by German arms. Tannenberg is a major battle that deserves a fully illustrated treatment all of its own, and... -
Memories of a Wartime Childhood in London by Douglas Model
RRP: £12.99£9.62In this vivid memoir, Douglas Model tells the incredible true story of his wartime childhood in Wembley amidst the horrors of the Blitz. Contrasting his peaceful infant life - which included a hiking holiday to Nazi Germany in 1934 - with the terrors of... -
The Times On This Day: Facts and trivia for every day of the year by James Owen
RRP: £7.99£5.31Delve into a wealth of famous events, significant sites and momentous births and deaths. Choose a day of the year and discover the fascinating array of people, places and happenings for which it is notable. This day-by-day compendium provides... -
U.S. Army Improvised Munitions Handbook (US Army Survival) by Army 9789560894229
RRP: £28.99£19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789560894229Author ArmyFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Stanfordpub.comPublisher Stanfordpub.comWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm -
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic by Mike Jay
RRP: £11.99£10.55A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity Mescaline became a popular sensation in the mid-twentieth century through Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception, after... -
A History of Contemporary Italy: 1943-80 by Paul Ginsborg
RRP: £14.99£10.95In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain -... -
Cows, Cobs & Corner Shops - The Story of London's Welsh Dairies / Y Ln Laeth i'r Ddinas - Hanes Llaethdai Cymru Llundain by Megan Hayes
RRP: £14.99£11.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784615260Author Megan HayesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi Tharoor 9789383064656
RRP: £28.99£26.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383064656Author Shashi TharoorFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book CompanyDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 20mm -
The Leveller Revolution: Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640-1650 by John Rees
£33.45The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy. In this thrilling narrative, John Rees brings to life the men-including John Lilburne, Richard... -
The Long Range Desert Group in Action 1940-1943: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Brendan O'Carroll 9781526777416
RRP: £15.99£12.28The Long Range Desert Group has a strong claim to the first Special Forces unit in the British Army. This superb illustrated history follows the LRDG from its July 1940 formation as the Long Range Patrol in North Africa, tasked with intelligence... -
The Lighthouse of Stalingrad: The Epic Siege at the Heart of WWII's Greatest Battle by Iain MacGregor
RRP: £25.00£16.78'Stunning. History at its very best: a blend of impeccably researched scholarship, genuinely revelatory primary sources, and a beautifully written narrative' - James Holland'The sheer brutal intimacy of his descriptions of the fighting are extraordinary'... -
One of Our Own: The Remarkable Story of Battle of Britain Pilot Squadron Leader Victor Ekins MBE DFC by David Duker 9781399050678
RRP: £22.00£15.62This is the enthralling story of a young man who found himself at the epicentre of one of the biggest turning points in recent history - The Battle of Britain. Guided by the diaries that he meticulously kept throughout his wartime experience and that lay... -
A Mother's Sacrifice: The most moving and page-turning saga you'll read this year by Jennie Felton
RRP: £10.99£5.13'Jennie Felton knows how to tell a cracking story and keep the reader gripped... if you enjoy reading books in the style of Catherine Cookson then this one is for you' Books With Wine and Chocolate'Another superbly woven and character-rich story from a... -
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness by Sinclair McKay
RRP: £12.99£9.09A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year'Powerful . . . there is rage in his ink. McKay's book grips by its passion and originality. Some 25,000 people perished in the firestorm that raged through the city. I have never seen it better described' Max... -
The Way of Tea: Health, Harmony, and Inner Calm by Aaron Fisher
RRP: £13.99£10.29Clarity. Health. Peace of mind. These are the goals of The Way of Tea.In this book, readers will learn more about all aspects of tea-from the practical to the spiritual-and how they can implement the accompanying ancient traditions into their modern life... -
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
RRP: £9.99£5.96The great scholar of Islam directly confronts the events of September 11th and the reasons behind Islamic terrorism in the modern world - a Sunday Times bestseller.President Bush has made it clear that we are engaged in a war against terrorism. But for... -
Everything Ancient Egypt: Dig Into a Treasure Trove of Facts, Photos, and Fun (Everything) by Crispin Boyer 9781426308406
RRP: £7.99£5.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426308406Author Crispin BoyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint National Geographic KidsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)... -
Victorian Cities: Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Middlesbrough, Melbourne, London by Asa Briggs
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 1837, in England and Wales, there were only five provincial cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants. By 1891 there were twenty-three. Over the same period London's population more than doubled.In this companion volume to Victorian People and Victorian... -
The Lost History of the Capital: The Hidden and Tumultuous Saga of Congress and the Capitol Building by Edward P. Moser
RRP: £19.99£15.42The Secret History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times. In this 229-year... -
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
RRP: £16.99£12.28*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 very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century... -
George IV by E. A. Smith 9780300088021
£29.61This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king's... -
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips 9780861543137
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Prospect Best Book of 2021 'A fascinating and timely book.' William Boyd 'Gripping...a must read.' FT 'Compelling...humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.' Evening Standard '[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.' The Times ... -
Speaking Out: Lessons in Life and Politics by Ed Balls
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA life in and out of politics - from the despatch box to the stage on Strictly - by one of Britain's most influential and well-loved political figures. 'Full of anecdote, insight and authenticity' Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE... -
Sevenoaks 1790-1914: Risk and choice in West Kent by Iain Taylor 9781912260614
RRP: £14.99£13.64This book offers a fresh perspective on British history in the long nineteenth century through the lens of a study of Sevenoaks and the surrounding area of West Kent. It considers, in particular, how the risks faced by the people of this region, and the...