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The Later Roman Empire: (a.D. 354-378) by Ammianus Marcellinus
RRP: £12.99£9.09Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius,... -
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Frederik Obermaier
RRP: £10.99£7.77From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history. In early 2015, an anonymous... -
Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris by Ian Kershaw
RRP: £19.99£16.68Ian Kershaw's Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris charts the rise of Adolf Hitler, from a bizarre misfit in a Viennese dosshouse, to dictatorial leadership.With extraordinary skill and vividness, drawing on a huge range of sources, Kershaw recreates the world which... -
Betrumped: The Surprising History of 3000 Long-Lost, Exotic and Endangered Words by Edward Allhusen 9781445678672
£15.90If you think that the English language stays still, carved in tablets of stone, think again. English is constantly on the move, enhancing its scope by gratefully accepting words from other languages. It tolerates changes to meanings, often with hilarious... -
On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone in Conversation by Tariq Ali 9781608461493
RRP: £16.99£9.79In working together on two challenging new documentaries - South of the Border and the forthcoming Untold History of the United States - Oliver Stone, the filmmaker, engaged with author and filmmaker Tariq Ali in a hard-hitting conversation on the... -
The Honour of Rome by Simon Scarrow
RRP: £20.00£18.02AD 59. BRITANNIA. DANGER LIES ROUND EVERY CORNER FOR ROME'S BRAVE SOLDIERSThe stunning 20th book in the epic bestselling Eagles of the Empire seriesA.D. 59. Fifteen years after he fought Britannia's barbarians during the Roman invasion, Centurion Macro... -
We Need to Talk by Dr Tony Holohan 9781804182499
RRP: £22.00£14.91Dr Tony Holohan served as Chief Medical Officer in Ireland for 14 years, but only really became known to the public during the Covid 19 pandemic. During this time his remarkable leadership skills came to the fore and he became the public face of the... -
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East: The 1948 Arab War against Israel and the Aftershocks of World War II by Matthias Küntzel 9781032437767
RRP: £25.99£22.63Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle Eastdemonstrates the impact on the Arab world of Nazi ideology and propaganda in the 1930s and beyond.In 1937, with the brochure "Islam and Judaism," a new form of Jew-hatred came into the world: Islamic... -
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
RRP: £14.99£9.80The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha,... -
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781451677614
RRP: £24.00£18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451677614Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Fields of Deception by Colin Dobinson 9780413776327
RRP: £19.99£16.42During the Second World War, a secret department was formed at Britain's Air Ministry to co-ordinate a strategy to defeat German bombing by means of deception. With the help of leading technicians from the film industry, ingeniously designed decoy... -
Peking to Paris: Life and Love on a Short Drive Around Half the World by Dina Bennett 9781629146577
RRP: £12.99£10.33In this thrilling journey from "Peking to Paris," a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking down.In May 2007, leaving China's Great Wall is Car 84, one of 125 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge... -
The Priest Hunters: The True Story of Ireland's Bounty Hunters by Colin Murphy
RRP: £11.99£9.00A fascinating investigation the lives of four priest hunters - Sean na Sagart, Edward Tyrrell, Barry Lowe and John Garzia. Ireland in the aftermath of Cromwell - during this period Catholicism and Irish nationalism became inexorably linked and priests... -
Finland - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Elena Barrett 9781787029088
RRP: £9.99£7.54Don't just see the sights get to know the people. The people of this land of white summer nights and pristine lakes are famous for their sisu, a form of enterprising stoicism. They are survivors: if you were stranded on a desert island, your ideal... -
The Viking Diaspora by Judith Jesch 9781138020795
RRP: £43.99£42.26The Viking Diaspora presents the early medieval migrations of people, language and culture from mainland Scandinavia to new homes in the British Isles, the North Atlantic, the Baltic and the East as a form of 'diaspora'. It discusses the ways in which... -
Terrorism: Theirs and Ours by Eqbal Ahmad 9781583224908
RRP: £4.99£3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583224908Author Eqbal AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 59Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 66g -
Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 by Mark Mazower
RRP: £16.99£14.61This gripping and richly illustrated account of wartime Greece explores the impact of the Nazi Occupation upon the lives and values of ordinary people. The first full account of the experience of occupation, it offers a vividly human picture of... -
Courtiers: The Sunday Times bestselling inside story of the power behind the crown by Valentine Low
RRP: £10.99£6.47FEATURING A BRAND NEW CHAPTER ON KING CHARLES III AND HIS CORONATION'Fascinating' The Times'Tantalising' TelegraphThe gripping account of how the royal family really operates. Valentine Low, royal correspondent for The Times, asks the important... -
Voices from Barrow and Furness by Alice Leach
RRP: £12.99£9.62Barrow-in-Furness grew from a tiny hamlet into the largest iron and steel centre on the world, as well as a major shipbuilding centre, in just forty years. Still home to the busiest shipyard in England, Barrow retains many of the spacious streets and... -
British Battle Tanks: British-made tanks of World War II by David Fletcher
RRP: £30.00£21.95Plagued by unreliable vehicles and poorly thought-out doctrine, the early years of World War II were years of struggle for Britain's tank corps. Relying on tanks built in the late 1930s, and those designed and built with limited resources in the opening... -
X Marks the Spot: The Story of Archaeology in Eight Extraordinary Discoveries by Michael Scott
RRP: £25.00£18.02'If you love Indiana Jones, this is the real thing' DAN SNOW'A thrilling investigation' SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB'Alive with the spirit of adventure' SIR RANULPH FIENNESThrough eight sensational stories of discovery, Professor Michael Scott traces the evolution... -
Scotland the How?: The Hows and Whys of Scottish History by John and Noreen Hamilton
RRP: £14.99£11.55How much do you know about Scottish history?We all know bits of it. This book by the authors of Scottish History: Strange but True sets out to show how these 'bits' fit together - how the characters and events of Scottish history made the country of... -
Percy A Story of 1918 by Peter Doyle 9781911604815
RRP: £14.99£10.95One day, a small bundle of letters was found in a flea market. Kept together for one hundred years, these few letters tell of one teenage boy, Percy, and his girl, Kitty. This is a story of 1918, and of young people caught up in war, and of the war... -
The Bonds of Family: Slavery, Commerce and Culture in the British Atlantic World by Katie Donington 9781526157515
RRP: £30.00£26.68Moving between Britain and Jamaica The bonds of family reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the... -
Ring of Fire: Liverpool into the 21st century: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
RRP: £10.99£7.77Following the success of Simon Hughes' Red Machine and Men in White Suits, books which depicted Liverpool FC's domination during the 1980s and its subsequent fall in the 1990s, Ring of Fire focuses on the 2000s and the primary characters who propelled... -
The Gunns; History, Myths and Genealogy by Alastair Gunn 9780244863111
RRP: £17.50£15.54Here is a radical, academically based text which demolishes the myths currently masquerading as Gunn 'history'. Gunns are best thought of as the original, non-related inhabitants of northern, mainland Scotland. They do not have an Orkney Islands origin... -
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents by Dominic Selwood
RRP: £14.99£8.54From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, pulled... -
Eastern Front 1945: Triumph of the Soviet Air Force by William E. Hiestand 9781472857828
RRP: £16.99£12.28A detailed, illustrated account of the air campaign that accompanied the Red Army's final push towards Berlin, in which massed Soviet air power defeated the Luftwaffe's high-tech Me 262 jets and Mistel exploding drones. The last months of World War... -
The Words of Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi
RRP: £8.99£7.56Gandhi's ideas are as meaningful today as they were during his long and inspiring life. His enlightening thoughts and beliefs, especially on violence and the atomic bomb, reveal his eloquent foresight about our contemporary world. The words of one of the... -
Tales of the Elders of Ireland by Ann Dooley
RRP: £10.99£7.77"'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide... -
Old Ireland in Colour 3 by John Breslin 9781785374715
RRP: £22.99£18.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374715Author John BreslinFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Royal Wardrobe by Rosie Harte 9781035404285
£15.25A WHOLE NEW ROYAL HISTORY, WITH A VERY STYLISH TWISTWhy did women wear such heavy and uncomfortable skirts in the Elizabethan era?What the hell happened to Charles II's pubic hair wig?How did Princess Diana's revenge dress become so iconic?Fashion for... -
Young Bloods (Wellington and Napoleon 1) by Simon Scarrow
RRP: £9.99£7.16YOUNG BLOODS is the first gripping novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon quartet. Perfect for fans of Robert Harris.Arthur Wesley (the future Duke of Wellington) was born and bred to be a leader. With a firm belief that the nation... -
History of the Future: The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today by Max Singer 9780739164877
RRP: £30.00£26.68History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The... -
Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History by Thomas J. Barfield 9780691181639
RRP: £30.00£23.29An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern timesThe world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins... -
A Century of Bexley including Erith, Crayford & Sidcup: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Malcolm Barr-Hamilton
RRP: £9.99£7.55This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Bexley during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
A Survey of London by John Stow
RRP: £19.99£15.42John Stow first published his "Survey of London" in 1598 during the reign of Elizabeth I. His detailed description of the city and its suburbs was an immediate success when it first appeared and has remained a popular classic of English history ever... -
A History of Britain in Just a Minute by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: £16.99£13.16The story of us - without hesitation, repetition or deviation.Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hilariously addictive romp through British history. This isn't just another history book - there's a catch! From... -
A Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
RRP: £10.99£7.77Mailer's superb account, written as it was happening, of the first attempt to land men on the moon'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.'A Fire on the Moon tells the scarcely credible story of the Apollo 11 mission. It is suffused with... -
Cumbria Curiosities by Robert Woodhouse
RRP: £15.99£12.25Cumbria Curiosities brings together a series of unusual, intriguing and extraordinary buildings, structures, incidents and people from all parts of the county. Included in these pages are the Fairy Steps of Beetham Fell; Bonnie Prince Charlie's Chimney;...