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Samuel Pepys: The Diaries by Samuel Pepys
RRP: $39.00$29.07When Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began writing in 1660 he was a young clerk living in London, struggling to pay his rent. Over the next nine years as he kept his journal, he rose to be a powerful naval administrator. He became eyewitness to some of the most... -
A Bradford Pal: `It was Simply Heart Breaking' - From Mill Town to the Battlefields of France by John Broadhead
RRP: $39.00$28.63In 1914 the City of Bradford was the world's leading manufacturer of fine woollen goods. On the outbreak of war, at the urging of the city's wealthy industrialists, thousands of young men rushed to join the colours and within a matter of months two... -
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability Annette Kehnel 9781800816251
RRP: $48.75$34.91WINNER OF THE 2021 NDR BOOK PRIZE IN GERMANY 'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, Oxford Fishing quotas on Lake Constance. Common lands in the UK. The medieval answer to Depop in the middle of Frankfurt. These are all... -
Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship by Christopher Hitchens 9781838952310
RRP: $25.33$17.16Since the end of the Cold War so-called experts have been predicting the eclipse of America's "special relationship" with Britain. But as events have shown, especially in the wake of 9/11, the political and cultural ties between America and Britain... -
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets' - Rob Delaney by Vincent Bevins 9781035412273
RRP: $48.75$29.02This book is phenomenal ... It's about as good as journalism gets ...The highest praise I can give If We Burn is to say that it would be criminally negligent not to read it if you'd like to change the world. - ROB DELANEY Bevins's clear-eyed,... -
A Brief History of the Freemasons Jasper Ridley 9781845296780
RRP: $21.43$13.01The history of the Freemasons has been often shrouded in mystery and suspicion. Since 1717, with the establishment of the Grand Lodge in London, the Freemasons have been a power within the nation, withstanding attacks from the Catholic Church, Hitler... -
The Philosophy of History by G. W. F. Hegel 9780486437552
RRP: $24.36$19.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437552Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood
RRP: $19.48$14.27In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's... -
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Sir Max Hastings
RRP: $25.33$16.98The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th... -
A new focus on...The British Empire, c.1500–present for KS3 History by Richard Kennett
$36.39It's time to tell the story of the Empire from the perspectives of peoples who were colonised.Understand the nuances of the British Empire in different periods and places as you examine this complex, controversial history with respect and rigour.>... -
Charles II's Illegitimate Children: Royal Bastards by Sarah-Beth Watkins 9781399000949
RRP: $42.90$30.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Writing History Essays by I. W. Mabbett 9781137543660
RRP: $44.83$44.56To write history successfully, it is essential to understand the nuts and bolts of technique as well as the underlying principles which govern the whole process. Writing History Essays takes you step by step through the process of writing an assignment,... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The English Revolution, 1625-1660 Oliver Bullock 9781471876196
RRP: $24.38$23.44Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Martin Luther Lyndal Roper 9781784703448
RRP: $37.03$26.95SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen Martin Luther nailed a sheet of paper to the church door... -
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unravelling the Norman Conquest by David Musgrove 9780500297650
RRP: $25.33$16.97The definitive guide to the Bayeux Tapestry and its legacy, exploring the rich narrative behind its stitches and the turbulent times in which it was created. Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat – all this is... -
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby Sarah Churchwell 9781844087686
RRP: $25.33$17.22Since its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby has become one of the world's best-loved books. Careless People tells the true story behind F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, exploring in newly rich detail its relation to the extravagant, scandalous, and... -
The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 by Mark Peterson
RRP: $68.25$56.45A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an... -
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day by Peter Zuckerman 9780393345414
RRP: $27.28$22.83When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world's most... -
A House of Many Mansions: The History of Lebanon Reconsidered by Kamal S. Salibi
$52.12The Lebanese have always lacked a common vision of their past. From the beginning Muslims and Christians have disagreed fundamentally over their country's historical legitimacy: Christians on the whole have affirmed it, Muslims have tended to emphasize... -
The Ancient City - Imperium Press by Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges 9780648690542
RRP: $33.05$24.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648690542Author Numa Denis Fustel De CoulangesFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Imperium PressPublisher Imperium PressWeight(grams) 449g -
Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: $19.48$14.27Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Desperately important and impossible to put down. It is timeless. . . what shines clear from the testimonies is love - love which can make you do the most spectacular things ' Sheena Patel, Observer'- A new... -
A Short History of Decay by E.M. Cioran
RRP: $19.48$14.27A Short History of Decay (1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty collection of aphoristic essays concerning the nature of civilization in mid 20th-century Europe. Touching upon man's need to worship, the feebleness of God, the downfall of the... -
Hitler's Generals by Correlli Barnett 9780802139948
$26.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802139948Author Correlli BarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 497Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
And the Land Lay Still by James Robertson
RRP: $21.43$16.36And the Land Lay Still is the sweeping Scottish epic by James RobertsonAnd the Land Lay Still is nothing less than the story of a nation. James Robertson's breathtaking novel is a portrait of modern Scotland as seen through the eyes of natives and... -
Royal Navy Home Fleet 1939–41: The last line of defence at Scapa Flow by Angus Konstam 9781472861481
RRP: $31.18$22.64Packed with illustrations, this is a new history and analysis of how the Royal Navy's most important fleet operated and fought the German Navy in the crucial first years of World War II. Throughout its history, the Royal Navy's most powerful fleet has... -
F-35: The Inside Story of the Lightning II Tom Burbage 9781510777576
RRP: $58.50$37.46The inside story of the most expensive and controversial military program in history, as told by those who lived it. The F-35 has changed allied combat warfare. But by the time it's completed, it will cost more than the Manhattan Project and the B-2... -
Gentry: Six Hundred Years of a Peculiarly English Class by Adam Nicolson
RRP: $25.33$16.98Adam Nicolson tells the story of England through the history of fourteen gentry families - from the 15th century to the present day. This sparkling work of history reads like a real-life Downton Abbey, as the loves, hatreds and many times of grief of his... -
Land of My Fathers - 2000 Years of Welsh History Gwynfor Evans 9780862432652
$26.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862432652Author Gwynfor EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Hut/Hytte by Lesley Riddoch 9781913025632
RRP: $19.48$14.59Victorian visitors had shooting lodges - Scots had trips doon the watter. Norwegian citizens had hytte - Scots had Butlins. Why have the inhabitants of one of Europe's prime tourist destinations been elbowed off the land and exiled from nature for so... -
A Short History of Drunkenness by Mark Forsyth
RRP: $21.43$15.58THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ANYONE WHO ENJOYS A TIPPLE . . . OR TWO . . . OR TEN! Almost every culture on earth has drink, and where there's drink there's drunkenness. But in every age and in every place drunkenness is a little bit different. Tracing... -
An Orkney Tapestry by George Mackay Brown
RRP: $25.33$17.16First published in 1969, An Orkney Tapestry, George Mackay Brown's seminal work, is a unique look at Orkney through the eye of a poet. Originally commissioned by his publisher as an introduction to the Orkney Islands, Brown approached the writing from a... -
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Real White Queen And Her Rivals by Philippa Gregory
RRP: $19.48$12.89Elizabeth Woodville, The White Queen(2009), Margaret Beaufort, The Red Queen(2010), and Jacquetta, Lady Rivers, The Lady of the Rivers (2011) are the subjects of the first three novels in Philippa Gregory's Cousins' War series, and of the three... -
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $37.03$26.54From the author of Masters and Commanders, Andrew Roberts' The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War has been hailed as the finest single-volume account of this epic conflict. The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days and claimed the... -
Voices of Kent Hop Pickers by Hilary Heffernan 9780752411309
RRP: $25.33$19.25Before the advent of machines in the late 1950s, hop-picking was undertaken by an army of people, many of whom saw the countryside only during these four to six weeks of picking. It was work and a way of earning some much needed extra money, but it was... -
The Princes in the Tower: Did Richard III Murder His Nephews, Edward V & Richard of York? by Josephine Wilkinson
RRP: $19.48$13.34In the summer of 1483 two boys were taken into the Tower of London and were never seen again. They were no ordinary boys. One was the new King of England; the other was his brother, the Duke of York, and heir presumptive to the throne. Shortly... -
Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet by Tom Nancollas
RRP: $21.43$14.29'A thrilling celebration of lighthouses' i newspaperAn enthralling history of Britain's rock lighthouses, and the people who built and inhabited themLighthouses are enduring monuments to our relationship with the sea. They encapsulate a romantic vision... -
The Bolter: Idina Sackville - The woman who scandalised 1920s Society and became White Mischief's infamous seductress Frances Osbourne 9781844084807
RRP: $21.43$14.84On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know. Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by... -
Exploring the Britannic by Simon Mills
RRP: $54.60$40.21Launched in 1914, two years after the ill-fated voyage of her sister ship, RMS Titanic, the Britannic was intended to be superior to her tragic twin in every way. But war intervened and in 1915 she was requisitioned as a hospital ship. Just one year... -
MI6: Life and Death in the British Secret Service by Gordon Corera 9780753828335
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God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs
RRP: $25.33$18.21*Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize**Longlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction**A Sunday Times Book of the Year**A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year* *A Times Book of the Year**An Observer Book of the Year*A woman awakes in a prison...