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Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
RRP: £10.99£7.99*A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year*'Hilarious' Sam Leith'I loved this book' Susie Dent''Witty and affectionate' Lynne TrussPerfect for book lovers, a delightful history of the wonders to be found in the humble book... -
A People's History of Walthamstow by James Diamond 9780750978996
RRP: £12.99£12.25Walthamstow is well known as the home of William Morris, a former greyhound racing track and the boy band East 17. It's also been home to communities of people for thousands of years. This history tells the unique story of Walthamstow from the area's... -
Hawkhurst: Murder, Corruption, and Britain's Most Notorious Smuggling Gang by Joseph Dragovich
RRP: £16.99£14.32South-east England, 1740s: war and heated politics bring the old practice of smuggling to new and dangerous heights. Violent gangs of smugglers terrorise communities and confound government attempts to stop them. The most famous of these, the Hawkhurst... -
Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 by Odd Arne Westad
RRP: £24.99£22.01The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance... -
Hybrid Hate: Jews, Blacks, and the Question of Race by Tudor Parfitt
RRP: £30.99£23.25Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt... -
A Little Gay History of Wales by Daryl Leeworthy
RRP: £11.99£9.24A Little Gay History of Wales tells the compelling story of Welsh LGBT life from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on a rich array of archival sources from across Britain, together with oral testimony and material culture, this pioneering study... -
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic Second Edition by Michael Axworthy
RRP: £14.99£10.95FULLY UPDATED THIRD EDITION, NOW WITH NEW POSTSCRIPT BY ALI ANSARI'If you were to read only one book on present-day Iran you could not do better than this' Ervand Abrahamian, Times Higher EducationFor some 40 years the Islamic Republic has resisted... -
Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel by Andrew Ross 9781788730273
RRP: £12.99£11.01"They demolish our houses while we build theirs." This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian "stone men", utilizing some of the best quality dolomitic... -
WW2 New Forest Discovered: The Areas Vital Contribution to the National War Effort by John Leete 9781781220238
RRP: £15.99£11.61In this captivating and meticulously researched book, delve into the heart of history as the New Forest emerges from obscurity to take its rightful place in the annals of World War II.Through an engaging blend of personal anecdotes, period news items,... -
Homes Fit For Heroes: The Aftermath of the First World War 1918-1939 by Trevor Yorke 9781846743498
£8.73After the trauma of the war, those returning home required jobs, and with them clean and modern homes for their families. The slums and tenements of the pre-war years were not going to enable a healthy workforce that was fit to tackle the challenges of... -
The Waffen SS at Arnhem: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Baxter, Ian 9781399012942
RRP: £14.99£10.95The 1944 Arnhem airborne operation, immortalized by the film A Bridge Too Far, will forever be remembered as a great British feat of arms. British and Polish paratroopers displayed outstanding courage and tenacity in a desperate last stand situation. And... -
My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: England 1547-1603: the Later Tudors Nicholas Fellows 9781510416406
RRP: £10.50£9.87Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
NKJV, Value Thinline Bible, Large Print, Leathersoft, Burgundy, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson 9780718075606
RRP: £18.99£14.01A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go.This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable at... -
The Kew Gardens Girls: An emotional and sweeping historical novel perfect for fans of Kate Morton Posy Lovell 9781409193289
RRP: £9.99£6.90In official partnership with Kew GardensIt's 1916 and England is at war. Desperate to help in whatever way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as gardeners at Kew, taking on the jobs of the men who have gone to fight. Under their care, the gardens begin to... -
Scottish Medieval Churches: Architecture & Furnishings by Richard Fawcett 9780752425276
RRP: £25.00£19.22A major difficulty for those who wish to understand and enjoy Scottish medieval churches is the ecclesiological groundwork was not carried out in the nineteenth century in the way that was done for England and other parts of Europe. In an effort to... -
Street Without A Name: Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova 9781846271243
RRP: £10.99£7.54After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club in 2007, but beyond the cliches about undrinkable wine, cheap property and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy... -
The Modern Historiography Reader: Western Sources by Dr Adam Budd
RRP: £47.99£42.81In The Modern Historiography Reader, Adam Budd guides readers through European and North American developments in history-writing since the eighteenth century. Starting with Enlightenment history and moving through subjects such as moral history,... -
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis
£13.22Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined... -
The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave by Patrick Bishop 9780008309084
RRP: £10.99£7.99SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of... -
Kings & Queens: The Real Lives of the English Monarchs Ann MacMillan 9781802790030
RRP: £20.00£11.65Historians and broadcasters Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan tell the real stories of the most powerful men and women in British history.Kings & Queens explores the lives, loves, triumphs and disasters of a monarchy that is the envy of the world. Snow and... -
Death's Other Kingdom Gamel Woolsey 9780907871194
RRP: £12.99£8.83A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War - A rare humanist and female voice on a war which has otherwise been colonised by political commentary and male voices. A balance to the cruelty of Orwell's Homage to... -
Major and Mrs.Holt's Battlefield Guide to Ypres Salient by Tonie Holt 9780850525519
RRP: £16.99£12.68Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area. This book, part of a new series of guides, is... -
Whisky Island: A portrait of Islay and its whiskies Andrew Jefford 9781472262226
RRP: £12.99£8.70This is a reissue edition of the previously published title Peat Smoke and Spirit (9780747245780), published in 2005.'This is not simply an appreciation of whisky, but a voyage into the history and geography of a tiny Scottish island' Daily Mail Those ... -
Roman Standards & Standard-Bearers (1): 112 BC-AD 192 Raffaele D'Amato (Author) 9781472821805
RRP: £14.99£10.95Roman unit standards played a important role, both ceremonially and on the battlefield. With the armies of the late Roman Republic and early Empire continually engaged on the frontiers, the soldiers selected for the dangerous honour of carrying them were... -
McDonalds: Behind The Arches by John F. Love
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553347593Author John F. LoveFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm) 228mm *... -
The Glorious Guinness Girls: A story of the scandals and secrets of the famous society girls Emily Hourican 9781472274601
RRP: £10.99£7.87LOVE AFFAIRS, LIES, SCANDALS, SECRETS... Aileen. Maureen. Oonagh. The private lives of the Glorious Guinness Girls fascinated a nation. But privilege always has its price...Granddaughters of the first Earl of Iveagh, the three daughters of Ernest... -
Syria: A Recent History by John McHugo 9780863561603
RRP: £10.99£7.61Syria's descent into chaos since 2011 has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, while more than nine million people have fled their homes. In this timely account, John McHugo charts the history of Syria from the First World War to the present and... -
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 Brief History of Korea: Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People Michael J. Seth 9780804851022
RRP: £13.99£9.44Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times-one isolated and secretive and the other among the world's... -
A Cornish Childhood: Autobiography of a Cornishman by Dr. Alfred Lestie Rowe 9781850221241
£9.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850221241Author Dr. Alfred Lestie RoweFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint TruranPublisher Truran -
England Under the Tudors G.R. Elton (Formerly University of Cambridge, UK) 9781138602748
RRP: £19.99£18.36'Anyone who writes about the Tudor century puts his head into a number of untamed lions' mouths.' G.R. Elton, PrefaceGeoffrey Elton (1921-1994) was one of the great historians of the Tudor period. England Under the Tudors is his major work and an... -
The Railways of Glasgow: Post-Beeching by Gordon D. Webster
RRP: £22.00£16.69The city of Glasgow, formerly one of the largest industrial centres in the world, was once responsible for building about one-quarter of the world's railway locomotives. This was complemented by a massive urban railway network: the second largest in the... -
Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs: As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders by Carl Chinn
RRP: £8.99£4.86From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnThe Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes... -
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1995 and the Search for Peace by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: £16.99£12.47This history of Ireland, written by one of Ireland's most controversial journalists, studies the period from 1968 to the present day. Tim Coogan is also the author of The IRA and two biographies - Michael Collins and De Valera.About the AuthorTim Pat... -
The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation, 1800-2000 by Callum G. Brown
RRP: £37.99£33.38The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation's dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he... -
Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jessica Cox
RRP: £25.00£18.82'An important, fascinating and frequently shocking read.' - BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, OtherCovering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social inequality, rapid medical advances and pseudoscientific... -
LNER: The London and North Eastern Railway by Paul Atterbury
RRP: £7.99£5.89The London and North Eastern Railway, or LNER as it was familiarly known, was one of the Big Four companies that took control of Britain's railway network following the 'Grouping' in 1923. This network represented a challenging mixture of mainline and... -
Strange Ways to Die in History: The Heroic, Tragic and Funny by Ben Gazur 9781399045520
RRP: £22.00£15.62Death comes for us all in the end. But it does not always come in a way you might expect. Throughout history there have been people who have suffered extraordinary, unusual, and downright weird demises. In Strange Ways to Die in History you will find out... -
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99£10.05Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... -
The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
RRP: £12.99£8.70England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but...