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Naming Names: With a New Afterword by the Author by Victor S Navasky
RRP: £36.00£23.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809001835Author Victor S NavaskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
The 43 Group: Battling with Mosley's Blackshirts by Morris Beckman 9780752499420
RRP: £9.99£7.55Oswald Mosley decided he could carry on where Hitler and Mussolini had left off. On street corners his fascist speakers would proclaim 'not enough Jews were burned at Belsen'. Enter the 43 Group. In a ferocious, bloody and brilliantly covert five-year... -
All Human Wisdom by Pierre Lemaitre
RRP: £10.99£7.40"Terrific . . . Easily the most purely entertaining novel I have read so far this year" David Mills, The Sunday Times"A really excellent suspense novelist" Stephen KingThe second volume of Pierre Lemaitre's enthralling, award-winning between-the-wars... -
Glorious Goodwood: A Biography of England's Greatest Sporting Estate by James Peill
RRP: £14.99£9.80'Delightful' A HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR / BOOK OF THE WEEK, Daily Mail'Goodwood curator James Peill writes with a wonderfully light touch . . . The Goodwood story is extraordinary and rightly celebrated' Country LifeThe history of Goodwood, England's... -
Animal Farm: GCSE 9-1 set text student edition (Collins Classroom Classics) by George Orwell
£3.17Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR; CXCLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Literature; CSEC English BFirst teaching: September 2015Next exams: 2024 This edition of Animal Farm is perfect for GCSE-level students, with the complete novel, engaging... -
Migrations: A History of Where We All Came From by DK
RRP: £25.00£17.07Discover how the migration of peoples has shaped the modern world. This beautifully-illustrated book details the movement of people and cultures around the world - from the early migrations of Homo erectus out of Africa 50,000 years ago to modern refugee... -
The American West by Dee Brown 9780743490108
RRP: £9.99£7.11As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle... -
Cecily Neville: Mother of Kings by Amy Licence
RRP: £11.99£7.86Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to witness the arrival of the future Henry VIII, her great-grandson. Her life spanned most of the fifteenth... -
In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle by Kamala Tiyavanich
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806496Author Kamala TiyavanichFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Marrakech Express by Peter Millar
RRP: £14.99£8.54Back in 1969 when Morocco's ancient capital was a hashish clouded happy mecca, Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their cheesy (and hopelessly inaccurate) foot-tapping anthem 'Marrakech Express'. A generation on, award-winning journalist, author, and... -
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £12.99£9.09When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', she told her diary, before chastising herself for being so susceptible to a man's charms. But a wish had... -
The Last 100 Years (give or take) and All That by Al Murray 9781529411829
RRP: £14.99£8.54'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt FordeA fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian Al Murray.An awful lot has happened in the last 100... -
Naval Eyewitnesses: The Experience of War at Sea, 1939-1945 by James Goulty 9781399000710
RRP: £25.00£17.62Although many books have been written about naval actions during the Second World War - histories and memoirs in particular - few books have attempted to encompass the extraordinary variety of the experience of the war at sea. That is why James Goulty's... -
Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality and Hitler's Lightning War - France, 1940 by Lloyd Clark
RRP: £12.99£8.56The German campaign in France during the summer of 1940 was pivotal to Hitler's ambitions and fundamentally affected the course of the Second World War. Having squabbled about fighting methods right up to the start of the campaign, the German forces... -
Essays: The Philosophy Classic by Michel De Montaigne 9780857089335
RRP: £13.99£7.40An essential companion to the most relevant works of Michel de Montaigne Essays: The Philosophy Classic delivers a carefully curated collection of thought-provoking works by sixteenth-century thinker Michel De Montaigne. Exploring topics as diverse as... -
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self by Andrea Wulf
RRP: £25.00£14.66Chosen as a BOOK OF THE YEAR in The Times, The Spectator, Prospect, Sunday Times, Economist, New Statesman, Telegraph, Financial Times, TLS, New York Times, and Washington Post. 'This is ridiculous. No book about German philosophy has any right to be... -
Flying with the Navy: The Royal Naval Air Service and Fleet Air Arm in Stunning Rare Photographs by Steve Bond 9781911714033
RRP: £28.00£19.62During five years of research for the four volumes of the Fleet Air Arm Boys book series covering the post-war FAA, former personnel not only contributed a huge quantity of stories but also sent many thousands of photographs, largely taken by themselves,... -
1916: The Easter Rising by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: £9.99£7.11An account of the events, personalities and repercussions of the Irish rebellionThe Easter Rising began at 12 noon, 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of... -
Knowing Their Place: Domestic service in twentieth-century Britain by Lucy Delap 9780198718246
RRP: £35.49£24.51Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the twentieth century. Knowing Their Place challenges this by linking the early twentieth-century employment of maids and cooks to later practices... -
How To Live Icelandic by Nina Bjoerk Jonsdottir
RRP: £20.00£13.75This ultimate guide to one of the world's most beautiful and fascinating island nations is packed with travel tips, cultural and historical facts, and insights from Icelanders into how we can all make our lives a little more Icelandic. Known as 'The Land... -
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511830Author Jason StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures by Nick Bernards
RRP: £19.99£15.76'The definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne Soederberg Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the... -
Petersfield At War by David W. Jeffery
RRP: £14.99£11.55The small Hampshire town of Petersfield saw little direct conflict during the Second World War, yet its story reflects all the anxieties and concerns of Britain's inhabitants during that period: food shortages, evacuees, blackout restrictions, family... -
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickers
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of... -
Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads by David Rundell
RRP: £14.99£11.75'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced history of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.' General David Petraeus, former Commander U.S. Central... -
Medieval History For Dummies by Stephen Batchelor 9780470747834
RRP: £20.99£14.36Rattle through 1000 years of horrible history, from the fifth century to the sixteenth century Famine, plague and public execution - the medieval period wasn't the best time for some, but heroic rulers like Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and Henry V... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855-1964 by Michael Scott-Baumann
RRP: £12.50£11.84Exam 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... -
Life and Death on the Eastern Front: Rare Colour Photographs From World War II by Tucker-Jones, Anthony
RRP: £25.00£20.57This incredible visual record of life and death along the Eastern Front features more than 250 images from the the PIXPAST Archive, a collection of more than 32,000 original colour photographs taken between 1936 and 1946/. Collated into three parts and... -
The Little Book of Suffolk by Neil Storey
RRP: £9.99£8.17The Little Book of Suffolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts and trivia about one of England's most colourful counties. It is an essential to the born and bred Suffolk folk or anyone who knows and loves... -
The Causes of the Civil War: Revised Edition by Kenneth M. Stampp 9780671751555
RRP: £16.99£10.36From Simon & Schuster, The Cause of the Civil War is historian Kenneth Stampp's exploration of America's great civil conflict.Was the Civil War inevitable? What really caused it? Drawing on original sources--from Jefferson Davis to Frederick... -
The Battle of Britain: Book 2 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: £9.99£7.11UNDERSTAND AND EXPERIENCE THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY AERIAL EVER FOUGHTPart of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous aerial battle in history.Historian, author and... -
Amsterdam Then and Now (R) by Egbert de Haan 9781910904855
RRP: £20.00£14.34Amsterdam Then and Now is the perfect historical guide to one of Europe's best preserved city centres. Written by one of Amsterdam's most popular walking tour leaders, the book matches up archive images from the late nineteenth century through to the... -
Monte Cassino: Ten Armies in Hell by Peter Caddick-Adams
RRP: £10.99£7.77The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two, alongside D-Day and Stalingrad. It has a particular resonance now, because Cassino, with its multitude of participating armies - most... -
The Country Houses of Shropshire by Gareth Williams
RRP: £95.00£90.68A gazetteer of the many fine Shropshire country houses, which covers the architecture, the owners' family history, and the social and economic circumstances that affected them. Shropshire is the largest English inland county, and has a wide variety of... -
British Aircraft Carriers 1945–2010 by Angus Konstam
RRP: £12.99£9.09The history of the Royal Navy flagships that led the fleet through the Cold War, ensured victory in the Falklands War, and saw action in Iraq and the Balkans. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the Royal Navy's carrier fleet proved essential to the... -
Ultimate Dinosaur Dinopedia, 2nd Edition (Dinopedia) by Don Lessem
RRP: £19.99£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426329050Author Don LessemFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint National Geographic KidsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)... -
Family Cars of the 1960s by James Taylor
RRP: £9.99£7.11The 1960s saw car ownership take off in Britain, as the newly opened motorways created new opportunities for travel - on family holidays, to visit relatives, or for work. The kinds of cars the British drove also changed. Small economy cars in particular... -
Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies 9780060914684
£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060914684Author Frances GiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 377Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Where I Was From by Joan Didion
RRP: £9.99£6.64A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history - and America's. Where I Was From, in Didion's... -
Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches by Winston Churchill
RRP: £12.99£9.09The most eloquent and expressive statesman of his time - phrases such as 'iron curtain', 'business as usual', 'the few', and 'summit meeting' passed quickly into everyday use - Winston Churchill used language as his most powerful weapon at a time when...