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Cold War Boys: PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED TALES OF DERRING-DO FROM LIGHTNING, PHANTOM AND HUNTER PILOTS by Richard Pike
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €16.68When the US president, Harry S Truman, declared the Truman Doctrine in March 1947, he could not have known that the resultant Cold War would persist for over 40 years until the dissolution of the... -
Giro d'Italia: The Story of the World's Most Beautiful Bike Race by Colin O'Brien
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62The story of the Giro d'Italia - Italy's equivalent of the Tour de France, and its superior in the eyes of many - is as dramatic and full of extraordinary characters as the story of Italy itself... -
Secret Truro by Christine Parnell
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €13.79Truro has been an important port since the Middle Ages, and its status as a stannary town, allowing it to assay and stamp copper and tin from Cornish mines, also brought prosperity to the town... -
Ladies Can't Climb Ladders: The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional Women by Jane Robinson
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.78It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once... -
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise And Fall Of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister Robert Hutchinson 9780753823613
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11The rise and fall of Henry's notorious minister - the most corrupt Chancellor in English history'Gripping... Hutchinson tells his story with infectious relish and vividly evokes the politics and... -
Farming in the 1920s and 30s by Jonathan Brown
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €9.65With world markets upset and economies in recession, the 1920s and '30s were not an easy time for farmers, who required great resilience to survive. Jonathan Brown here examines the challenges that... -
Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Robert Marshall 9781800326422
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.04An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust.Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis... -
Funky Mopeds!: The 1970s Sports Moped Phenomenon by Richard Skelton 9781845840785
Booksplease Price: €37.49If you're red-blooded and somewhere between 35 and 50 the chances are that your first bike was a sports moped. This book takes you on a nostalgic full throttle trip back to the heady days of the... -
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery 9780300102222
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €14.14What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? In this lively and controversial book, Amanda Vickery invokes women's own accounts of their intimate and their public lives to... -
What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History of the German Population of Great Britain by Susan Duxbury-Neumann
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.50By the second half of the nineteenth century, Germans had formed the largest immigrant group in England and Wales after the Irish, peaking at over 60,000. The German immigrants pursued many trades... -
Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester: A True Restoration Tragedy by Nigel Pickford
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €16.07In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a... -
The Cat and The City: 'Vibrant and accomplished' David Mitchell by Nick Bradley
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.37A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick'A love letter to Japan and its literature' Rowan Hisayo Buchanan'Ingenious... Touching, surprising and sometimes heartbreaking' Guardian'An ideal tonic for anyone craving... -
Counterfeit Countess, The: The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust Elizabeth White 9781789467505
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62The Holocaust has given rise to many accounts of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, untold story of 'Countess Janina Suchodolska', a Jewish woman... -
The Washing Of The Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 Donald R Morris 9780712661058
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €23.44In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst... -
The Crown Jewels: The Official Illustrated History by Anna Keay
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.56The Tower of London has over two million visitors a year, with the Crown Jewels as its centrepiece. This paperback edition of the official illustrated history of the Crown Jewels, the most famous... -
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.11'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.'... -
The Cumbria Colouring Book: Past and Present 9780750979986
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.17One of England's most outstanding areas of natural beauty, Cumbria has charmed visitors for centuries, and this collection of intricate illustrations is a celebration of the county's unique appeal... -
Days Of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143107972Author Bryan BurroughFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint -
A History of Sailing in 100 Objects by Barry Pickthall
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €20.90Did you ever wonder which civilisation first took to water in small craft? Who worked out how to measure distance or plot a course at sea? Or why the humble lemon rose to such prominence in the diets... -
African Europeans by Olivette Otele
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the... -
The Titanic Story by David Hutchings
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.61This concise but authoritative story of RMS Titanic, the most famous ship of all time, is packed with fascinating facts.About the AuthorDavid Hutchings is the librarian of the Vosper Thornycroft... -
A Fine Brother: The Life of Captain Flora Sandes by Louise Miller
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28Shortlisted for the HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize 2012 "The only Western woman to enlist as a soldier in the First World War, the Englishwoman Flora Sandes became a heroine and a media... -
Before Endeavours Fade by Rose E.B. Coombs 9781870067621
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €26.45NOW UPDATED AND IN COLOUR. From the Belgian coast, across the fields of Flanders, over the valley of the Somme and down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War --... -
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €16.87First revealed by a Tibetan monk in the 14th century, Bardo Thodol ("Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State") - known more commonly as The Tibetan Book of the Dead - describes the... -
Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77In this new novel Gunter Grass examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. He explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the deadliest... -
Excavating the Evidence for Jesus: The Archaeology and History of Christ and the Gospels by Titus M Kennedy
RRP: €28.20Booksplease Price: €21.71Examine the Evidence Surrounding Jesus No other figure has impacted history like Jesus. Yet today, he's often seen as a mythical character whose legend increased over time. So what does the... -
A. B. Z. of Scouse by Linacre Lane 9780901367037
Booksplease Price: €5.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901367037Author Linacre LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint < -
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia by Richard Overy 9780140281491
RRP: €26.40Booksplease Price: €19.16Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history,... -
Rousseau: A Very Short Introduction Robert Wokler (, formerly Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Yale University) 9780192801982
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.70One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the... -
The Dark: Selected Writings of Brendan Hughes by Brendan Hughes 9781088131664
Booksplease Price: €14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088131664Author Brendan HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint -
The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western Seaboard C.1100-C.1336 by Andrew R MacDonald
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €22.04This study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland (the Hebrides, Argyll and the Isle of Man) in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the mightly... -
The Empire of the Black Sea by Duane W. Roller 9780197673171
Booksplease Price: €17.39What is commonly called the kingdom of Pontos flourished for over two hundred years in the coastal regions of the Black Sea. At its peak in the early first century BC, it included much of the... -
The Real Odessa: How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe by Uki Goni
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61'Powerful and gripping... Goni [is] impressively relentless: leaving no discoverable stone unturned' Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's... -
Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in Yemen 1962-67 by Jonathan Walker 9781473827639
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €19.97During the early 1960s the Cold War reached its climax. Britain's dwindling power in the Middle East was under siege from Arab nationalism, the Communist bloc and from American designs in the region... -
Iron Coffins by Herbert A. Werner
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11A first hand account of the German U-boat battles of World War II, by one of the very few surviving commanders.This is a story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival against all odds. Herbert... -
The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691170275
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.41Amazons--fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world--were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Heracles and Achilles displayed their valor in duels with Amazon queens,... -
Charles Kennedy: A Tragic Flaw by Greg Hurst 9780413777898
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €17.11Charles Kennedy was found dead on 1 June 2015. He was only 55 years of age. His death was due to complications resulting from alcohol abuse over many years. Much has been written about his addiction... -
Republic by Plato 9780141442433
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54An authoritative new translation of Plato's The Republic by Christopher Rowe, with notes and an introduction.'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be confident that if it... -
The Victorian Fern Craze by Sarah Whittingham 9780747807469
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.46Fern Fever (or Pteridomania, to give it its official name), was popular in Britain between 1837 and 1914. Although in previous centuries ferns played an important role in customs and folklore, it was... -
Stoke-on-Trent Pubs by Mervyn Edwards 9781445639437
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.02The pubs of Stoke are numerous, and each has its own fascinating tale to tell. While many have been lost due to time, money or misfortune, the stories and memories live on. As one of the key...