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Lord Chesterfield's Letters by Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $21.66`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.' So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial... -
Ancient and Modern Britons, Vol. 2 by David Mac Ritchie 9781930097780
RRP: $48.20Booksplease Price: $44.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930097780Author David Mac RitchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 454Imprint -
The Women Who Built Bristol: Volume One Jane Duffus 9781910089712
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $28.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910089712Author Jane DuffusFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint -
British Web Equipment of the First and Second World Wars: Em32 by Martin J. Brayley
RRP: $26.06Booksplease Price: $20.30The outbreak of WW1 in 1914 found the British Army unready in many respects for a new age of warfare. However, the British led the world in the personal equipment worn by the infantryman thanks to... -
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s Anne Sebba 9781780226613
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $24.99WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016June, 1940. German troops enter Paris and hoist the swastika over the Arc de Triomphe. The dark days of Occupation begin. How would you have... -
Someone to Wed by Mary Balogh 9780349419190
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.09'One of the best!' Julia Quinn, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series A very practical marriage makes Alexander Westcott question his heart in this stunning Regency romance from... -
The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.25Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the biggest privatization of them all has until now escaped scrutiny: the privatization of land. Since... -
After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles MacDonogh 9780719567667
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $24.99In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often... -
Monty and Rommel: Parallel Lives by Peter Caddick-Adams
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16Two men came to personify British and German generalship in the Second World War: Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel. They fought a series of extraordinary duels across several theatres of war which... -
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets by Dan Cruickshank
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $33.68SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and... -
Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend Leo McKinstry 9780719568756
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.51In June 1940, the German Army had brought the rest of Europe to its knees. 'Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings by Peter Sawyer
RRP: $58.29Booksplease Price: $35.20Were the Vikings, as contemporary description had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people' who swept in from the sea to plunder and slaughter? Or in the words of a Manx folksong... -
The Last Survivor by Frank Krake
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.14Perfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'This is an extraordinary biography. A gripping narrative that opens as derring-do wartime escape drama rapidly... -
Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights by Celia Brayfield
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $30.77Black Beauty is a novel that changed our world. Intended to 'induce kindness' in a Victorian audience who relied on horses for transport, travel and power, it remains a dearly loved children's... -
Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga by Julius Evola
RRP: $61.88Booksplease Price: $43.84No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress, which together with its corollary notion of the superiority of modern civilization, has created its own "positive" alibis by falsifying history, by... -
Wounded: The Long Journey Home From the Great War by Emily Mayhew
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32This is the unforgettable story of the remarkable medical workers of World War One.A hundred years ago, the Armistice that ended the Great War was signed. The human cost was devastating: over 21... -
The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling by Paul Rouse
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.97In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would... -
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.83The gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer.'Totally exhilarating' Philippe SandsIt began with an armchair. It began... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Elizabethan England, c1568-1603 by Alex Stonehouse
Booksplease Price: $21.47Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the... -
1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow by Adam Zamoyski 9780007123742
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $35.08Adam Zamoyski's bestselling account of Napoleon's invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history. In 1812 the most... -
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Anderson Cooper 9780062964663
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.85A NPR Best Book of the YearThe number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and... -
The Trigger: The Hunt for Gavrilo Princip - the Assassin who Brought the World to War by Tim Butcher
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51'The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight' Sunday Times On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin fired the starting gun for... -
Terrible Beauty: A Cultural History of the Twentieth Century: The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind: A History Peter Watson 9781842124444
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $36.25'Breathtakingly entertaining, endlessly instructive, irresistibly enjoyable' THE TIMES'A tour de force ... breathtaking' SPECTATOR'A magnificent achievement' LITERARY REVIEWTERRIBLE BEAUTY presents a... -
European History For Dummies by Sean Lang 9780470978184
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $38.60Read about the world's smallest continent's incredible history: From Greek gods and mad Roman emperors to kings, queens, Visigoths, and Normans You meet Visigoths in Africa and Normans in Sicily; an... -
Night Witches: Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by 9780897332880
RRP: $33.20Booksplease Price: $24.44In 1941 as the Nazi hordes swept eastward into the Soviet Union, the desperate call went out for women to join the Russian air force. Women responded and flew incessant bombing runs; the Germans, who... -
Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson 9780099515210
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $37.87'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new... -
Stalag Luft III: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Charles Messenger
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04In early 1942 the Third Reich opened a maximum security Prisoner Of War camp in Lower Silesia for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most... -
Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s Alwyn W. Turner 9781781310717
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.56'A masterful work of social history and cultural commentary, told with much wit. It almost makes you feel as if you were there' ROGER LEWIS, Mail on Sunday The 1970s. They were the best of times and... -
The Havoc of Choice by Wanjiru Koinange
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.78A story about family, politics and journeying through a fractured country in a delicate time, The Havoc of Choice explores the long reaching effects of colonisation and corruption within the context... -
Secret Chorley by Jack Smith
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.80Chorley, the beautiful market town in central Lancashire, has a wealth of history that dates back to the Bronze Age. The town today is filled with a rich heritage, evidenced by the patterned cobbles... -
The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $23.04This is the first English translation of Joseph Roth's portrayal of the Jews of Eastern Europe: their poverty, their towns and trades, their feast days and the mysticism of their rabbis. Roth was... -
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham 9780553393989
RRP: $49.98Booksplease Price: $37.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553393989Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint -
Dear Green Sounds - Glasgow's Music Through Time and Buildings: The Apollo, Glasgow Pavilion, Mono, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, King Tut's Wah Wah Hut and More Kate Molleson 9781849341936
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $29.96Glasgow has always been known for its live music, and at the heart of any music community it is the live venues and buildings that are important, and play host to local and touring acts. One of the... -
Shepherds' Huts & Living Vans by David Morris
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $31.89In the 1800s, a shepherd's hut or living van would have been an unremarkable sight in many regions of rural Britain. By the 1970s most lay abandoned as farming methods and industry left them behind... -
Real Dorset by Jon Woolcott 9781781727171
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.90Real Dorset is a personal, detailed, discursive, humorous and idiosyncratic look at Dorset. The county is famous for its spectacular coastline, for its historic towns, for its eco-foodie reputation,... -
What If?: Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been by Robert Cowley 9780330487245
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $28.54Anyone interested in military history or indeed history in general will find it fascinating to read.' Spectator. What If? is a collection of counterfactual essays dealing with military events... -
Booth’s Maps of London Poverty, 1889: East & West London by Charles Booth 9781908402806
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $24.42Social reformer Charles Booth's maps influenced Victorian British government policy in ways we still feel today. A fascinating resource for genealogists, historians and all lovers of London's past.A... -
Montaillou: Cathars and Catholics in a French Village 1294-1324 by Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97An enthralling account of day-to-day life in a medieval French village. Using records gathered by the Catholic Church in its pursuit of heretics, the book recreates the lives of a rich cast of... -
Crossing the Line: The explosive inside story behind the Ben Roberts-Smith headlines Nick McKenzie 9780733650437
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $31.37SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 ABIA GENERAL NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 WALKLEY BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AUSTRALIAN POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR'There is no doubt the truth... -
The Medieval Cannon 1326-1494 by Jonathan Davies
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $24.42The first illustration of a cannon in Europe can be dated quite precisely to 1326. This book explores the development of gunpowder, the earliest appearance of cast-bronze cannon in Western Europe,...