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Churchill's Wizards: The British Genius for Deception 1914-1945 by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: £14.99£9.80The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn. By June 1940, most of Europe had fallen to the Nazis and Britain stood alone. So,... -
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead 9780099554646
RRP: £10.99£7.77A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo... -
Abandoned Places of World War I by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £19.99£15.25An overgrown concrete bunker at Ypres; a rusting gun carriage in a field in Flanders; perfectly preserved trenchworks at Vimy, northern France; a rocky mountaintop observation post high in the Tyrolean mountains. More than 100 years after the end of... -
God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs
RRP: £12.99£9.09*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... -
Last Dance in Havana by Rosanna Ley
RRP: £9.99£5.96From the #1 Kindle Bestseller comes an exotic tale of love, family and friendship'The perfect holiday companion' - Heat'The ultimate feel-good read' - Candis'Sun-soaked escapism' - Best**********Cuba, 1958Elisa is only sixteen years old when she meets... -
Lindisfarne: The Cradle Island by Magnus Magnusson
RRP: £14.99£11.55Lindisfarne has captured the imagination of visitors and residents alike for decades. Also know as 'Holy Island', the rich and eventful history of the area is explored in great depth in this fascinating account. The author takes us on a journey to 'the... -
The Family of Richard III by Michael Hicks
RRP: £9.99£6.52The Wars of the Roses were quarrels within the Plantagenet family, of which Richard's dynasty, the House of York, was one branch. They were about family trees - the capacity of family relationships both to unite and to divide - and notoriously about the... -
Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57 by Chips Channon
RRP: £35.00£25.29This third and final volume of the unexpurgated diaries of Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon begins as the Second World War is turning in the Allies' favour. It ends with Chips descending into poor health but still able to turn a pointed phrase about the... -
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds by Simon Ings 9780349128566
RRP: £25.00£14.66Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow history of creative vanity in a time that turned writers - once the faithful servants of authority - into figures of... -
The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith 9781857150117
RRP: £17.99£13.35Published in the same year as the American Declaration of Independence, The Wealth of Nations has had an equally great impact on the course of modern history. Adam Smith's celebrated defence of free market economics is notable also as one of the... -
Isle of Wight Villains: Rogues, Rascals and Reprobates by Jan Toms 9780752462196
RRP: £12.99£9.62Once renowned as a place to dump criminals, and with a past steeped in smuggling, the Isle of Wight provides copious tales of corruption, violence and delinquency. From the customs officer who had both his hands severed by smugglers, to Bembridge witch... -
Polish Short Stories: 11 Simple Stories for Beginners Who Want to Learn Polish in Less Time While Also Having Fun by Simple Language Learning
RRP: £19.97£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647486778Author Simple Language LearningFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Bravex PublicationsPublisher Bravex PublicationsWeight(grams)... -
Bath: City on Show by Brown Dan 9780752456744
RRP: £12.99£9.62Bath: City on Show provides a unique and fascinating blend of historical images and contemporary photography, contrasting a World Heritage city as depicted over several hundred years with how it is seen through the lens today. Talented local... -
The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin
RRP: £11.99£8.43In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned,... -
Painting and Finishing Techniques by Gary Edmundson 9781846032639
RRP: £15.99£11.61Although many modellers can master the basic techniques of construction, it is with the painting and finishing of their kits that many begin to struggle. It is this skill that gives the model its distinctive look and feel and separates the good model... -
Gimson's Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Forty Monarchs since 1066 by Andrew Gimson
RRP: £14.99£10.95NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATEDA book for all lovers of history: the experienced and the novice, the serious and the silly.Gimson's Kings and Queens whirls us through the lives of our monarchs - from 1066 and William the Conqueror right up to Queen Elizabeth... -
Chieftain: British Cold War Main Battle Tank by Robert Jackson 9781526741424
RRP: £14.99£10.95The British Chieftain - designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion - was perhaps the best main battle tank in service with Nato during the 1960s and 1970s. Its 120mm rifled main gun and advanced armour made it one of the most... -
Barbarossa: The Russian German Conflict by Alan Clark
RRP: £12.99£9.00The classic account of the war on the Eastern Front between the Russians and the Germans - the greatest clash of arms the world has ever seen.Carefully researched and beautifully written, this book is a classic of military history. Alan Clark vividly... -
The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Gabriela Nouzeilles
RRP: £23.99£21.24Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina-in all its complexity-has often been obscured by variations of the "like Europe and not like the rest of Latin... -
Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
RRP: £10.99£7.77Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was one of the only outsiders to penetrate the aristocratic... -
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: £16.99£14.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 2011 and Heartland Award 2011 and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2011 and Mark Lynton History Prize 2011... -
Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies by Ryszard Legutko 9781594039911
RRP: £11.99£11.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039911Author Ryszard LegutkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA -
A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A roaring tale ... remains as vivid and exciting today as it was on publication in 1697' GuardianThe pirate and adventurer William Dampier circumnavigated the globe three times, and took notes wherever he went. This is his frank, vivid account of his... -
Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There: Volume I by Ian Knight
RRP: £25.00£17.62The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out - spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift. - Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds V.C., Army Medical Department On 22... -
War without Garlands: Operation Barbarossa 1941-1942 by Robert Kershaw 9781910809761
RRP: £10.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809761Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Goodall Publications LtdPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Ultimatum by Frank Gardner
RRP: £9.99£7.75'It grips like a python from the first page, squeezing the breath out of the reader' DAILY MAIL'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES'Breathless action' THE TIMESHidden from prying Western satellites, Iranian scientists are at work on a banned device . . . They are... -
Antarctica: Life on the Frozen Continent by Conor Kilgallon
RRP: £19.99£15.28On the southern-most tip of the Earth lies one of the world's biggest and most hostile landmasses. From the waters of the Southern Ocean to the ice-shelves, glaciers, volcanoes and mountains, Antarctica is one of the most mysterious yet intriguing... -
The Great Wonders of China by Jonathan Fenby 9780500297841
RRP: £12.99£8.13The magnificent wonders of China, ancient and modern, revealed by an international team of leading scholars from Asia and the West. China is the oldest continuous civilization on earth and holds a unique global place in the 21st century, this book's... -
Lost Glasgow by Carol Foreman 9781912476558
RRP: £12.99£8.94In this informative and beautifully illustrated book, Carol Foreman traces Glasgow's history through buildings which have been demolished, but which once played a central part in the life of the city. Beginning with the medieval age, she goes on to look... -
81: The Inside Story of Our Iconic Fa Cup Victory by Steve Perryman
RRP: £40.00£27.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913412449Author Steve PerrymanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Vision Sports Publishing LtdPublisher Vision Sports Publishing LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Paraguayan War 1864-70 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Paraguayan War, also known as the War of the Triple Alliance, was the largest and most important military conflict in the history of South America, after the Wars of Independence, and its only true 'continental' war. It involved four countries and... -
Kafka: The Years of Insight by Reiner Stach 9780691165844
RRP: £22.00£18.36This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which... -
The Albigensian Crusade by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £14.99£9.80In twelfth century Languedoc a subversive heresy of Eastern origin flourished to an extraordinary degree. The Albingenses believed that the world was created by an evil spirit, and that all worldly things - including the Church - were by nature sinful... -
1940s Fashion by Fiona Kay
RRP: £8.99£6.02Despite - or perhaps because of - the privations of war, the 1940s was one of the greatest decades for fashion in Britain. The designs and fashions of the 1930s would linger on through the early years of the Second World War but with shortages and... -
The Name Of Death by Klester Cavalcanti
RRP: £11.99£8.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609808280Author Klester CavalcantiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
RRP: £10.99£7.12The history America never wanted you to read. 'The narrative took my breath away' Philippe Sands 'An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read' Peter Frankopan 'One of the must-reads of the year' Suzannah Lipscomb 'Brilliant and... -
Ancient Egyptian Furniture Volume III by Geoffrey Killen 9781785704895
RRP: £60.00£55.50In this third volume Dr Killen investigates how woodworking in ancient Egypt developed in the 19th and 20th dynasties. It establishes the range of wooden furniture manufactured during this period by surveying examples depicted in Ramesside Theban and... -
The Torture Camp on Paradise Street by Stanislav Aseyev 9780674291089
RRP: £16.95£13.85In The Torture Camp on Paradise Street, Ukrainian journalist and writer Stanislav Aseyev details his experience as a prisoner from 2015 to 2017 in a modern-day concentration camp overseen by the Federal Security Bureau of the Russian Federation (FSB) in... -
The Country House Library by Mark Purcell
£30.25Beginning with new evidence that cites the presence of books in Roman villas and concluding with present day vicissitudes of collecting, this generously illustrated book presents a complete survey of British and Irish country house libraries. Replete... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: £20.00£14.29Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first...