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The Cambridge History of Warfare by Geoffrey Parker 9781316632765
£27.03The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare, written and updated by a team of eight distinguished military historians, examines how war was waged by Western powers across a sweeping timeframe beginning with classical Greece and Rome, moving... -
AQA GCSE History: Norman England, 1066-1100 by Helena Clarke
£20.84Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018Create a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
I am Henry: A Compelling Novel of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII by Jan Hendrik Verstraten 9788412595345
RRP: £11.99£8.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788412595345Author Jan Hendrik VerstratenFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Madeglobal PublishingPublisher Madeglobal Publishing -
Culture: The surprising connections and influences between civilisations. ‘Genius' - William Dalrymple by Martin Puchner 9781804182543
RRP: £12.99£8.65'A writer of genius' - William Dalrymple'Remarkable' - Kwame Anthony Appiah'Utterly captivating' - Anthony DoerrCan anyone really own a culture? This magnificent account argues that the story of global civilisations is one of mixing, sharing, and... -
The Carry On Girls by Gemma Ross 9781803993409
RRP: £25.00£18.54Whether it is the seaside postcard bubbly blondes of Barbara Windsor, the hysterically historical leading ladies of Joan Sims, the coquettish authoritarians of Hattie Jacques, or the statuesque confidence of Valerie Leon, the Carry On girls are stoic,... -
Who Abolished Slavery?: Slave Revolts and Abolitionisma Debate with Joao Pedro Marques by Seymour Drescher 9781800730052
RRP: £27.95£22.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800730052Author Seymour DrescherFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books -
Collected Poems of Edward Thomas by Edward Thomas
RRP: £18.99£12.83Since the publication of Walter de la Mare's first edition of his poems in 1920, Edward Thomas has gradually come to be recognised as one of the great English poets of the 20th century.Though sometimes classified with Owen, Rosenberg and Sassoon as a... -
A History of the Crusades III: The Kingdom of Acre and the Later Crusades by Steven Runciman
RRP: £10.99£7.77The third volume of Steven Runciman's classic, hugely influential trilogy on the history of the Crusades'The whole tale is one of faith and folly, courage and greed, hope and disillusion'Steven Runciman's triumphant three-volume A History of the Crusades... -
Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People by Susan McKay
RRP: £24.95£14.50First published in 2000, 'Northern Protestants - An Unsettled People' was an instant success and is widely recognised as a ground-breaking book. Based on over sixty in-depth interviews with a wide range of northern Protestants, Susan McKay presents an... -
Canberra Vol 2 by K. Delve 9781781558751
RRP: £50.00£36.82An aviation legend designed in the mid-1940s, the Canberra entered service in 1951 with RAF Bomber Command. It served in the conventional, interdictor and nuclear bomber role with the RAF, in the UK, Germany, the Middle East and Far East. Its performance... -
An Introduction to the Ancient World by Lukas de Blois
RRP: £36.99£32.93An Introduction to the Ancient World offers a thorough survey of the history of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. Covering the social, political, economic and cultural processes that have influenced later western and Near Eastern civilisations,... -
Portraiture by Shearer West
RRP: £23.49£16.61This fascinating new book explores the world of portraiture from a number of vantage points, and asks key questions about its nature. How has portraiture changed over the centuries? How have portraits represented their subjects, and how have they been... -
Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000 by Peter Clarke
RRP: £12.99£9.09Peter Clarke brilliantly challenges the commonly held view of Britain in the twentieth century as a nation in decline. Adopting a wide perspective, he examines the political. social and economic changes that transformed Britain. He looks at how jobs and... -
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky 9781632863829
RRP: £18.99£14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632863829Author Mark KurlanskyFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 740g -
Haunters at the Hearth: Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights by Lucy Evans 9780712354271
RRP: £9.99£6.79"But something odd does happen here at Christmas time. When I first heard the story, I thought it was an old wives' tale, but-well, these old houses-you hear strange things-" He lifted his shoulders and stared into the fire..." From the troves of the... -
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan
RRP: £20.00£14.69A Telegraph Best Summer Book of 2023 A New York Times 'Critics' Pick' Book of 2023 What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being? These were among the questions that philosophers... -
50 People Who Buggered Up Britain by Quentin Letts
RRP: £11.99£8.00From the Sunday Times bestselling authorWhich fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludicrous propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty.Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and... -
Bradshaw's Railway Folded Map 1907 by George Bradshaw
RRP: £9.99£7.67At the turn of the 20th century the rail network extended to over 23,000 miles, very nearly the circumference of the world the greatest length it was ever to achieve. Some urban routes had closed and later, hundreds of rural lines and stations succumbed... -
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music by Tony King 9780571371952
RRP: £12.99£8.56The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty years. Leaving school and starting his career at Decca Records in 1958 at the age of sixteen, Tony King would soon find... -
The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution by Christopher R. Browning 9780521558785
RRP: £15.99£13.90The Nazi Holocaust haunts the modern imagination as one of the most compelling examples of the human capacity for organised atrocity on a mass scale. This authoritative account of the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy from 1939 to 1942 seeks to answer some... -
Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo by Peter Richardson
RRP: £24.00£18.83A superbly crafted study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation, achievement, and continuing relevance. Savage Journey is a "supremely crafted" study of Hunter S. Thompson's literary formation and achievement. Focusing on Thompson's... -
The Sistine Chapel: History of a Masterpiece by Antonio Forcellino
RRP: £25.00£16.78The Sistine Chapel is one of the world's most magnificent buildings, and the frescos that decorate its ceiling and walls are a testimony to the creative genius of the Renaissance. Two generations of artists worked at the heart of Christianity, over the... -
The Survivor by Josef Lewkowicz
RRP: £20.00£14.29One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, and extraordinary courage in the face of evil.At only sixteen years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number,... -
The Portable Hannah Arendt by Hannah Arendt
RRP: £16.99£12.28Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins... -
Hammer from Above: Marine Air Combat Over Iraq by Jay A. Stout 9780891418719
RRP: £13.99£12.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418719Author Jay A. StoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
The Guide to Mysterious Loch Ness and the Inverness Area by Geoff Holder 9780752444857
RRP: £15.99£12.25This is a guide to everything supernatural, paranormal, folkloric, eccentric and, above all, mysterious that has occurred on the dark waters of the enigmatic Loch Ness and the surrounding area of Inverness. Containing Celtic gods and martyrs, telepathy,... -
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia's Remaking of the West by Luke Harding
RRP: £12.99£8.56**Pre-order INVASION: RUSSIA'S BLOODY WAR AND UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL now**FROM THE AWARD-WINNING JOURNALIST and #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF COLLUSION A gripping investigative account of how Russia's spies helped elect Donald Trump,... -
Daily Readings From The Christian In Complete Armour by William Gurnall
RRP: £14.99£12.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802413369Author William GurnallFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Moody PublishersPublisher Moody Publishers -
Secret Weapons of World War II by William B. Breuer 9780471202127
RRP: £10.99£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471202127Author William B. BreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future by Peter Gleick
RRP: £30.00£18.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541702271Author Peter GleickFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 165mm * 48mm -
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikötter 9781526634306
RRP: £12.99£8.78'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower of today?... -
Discovering Tudor London: A Journey Back in Time by Natalie Grueninger 9780750970150
RRP: £9.99£7.55This engaging and practical travel guide takes you on a journey through the best of Tudor London, to sites built and associated with this fascinating dynasty, and to the museums and galleries that house tantalising treasures from this rich period of... -
Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties by Sheila Rowbotham
£17.13At the beginning of the decade renowned historian Sheila Rowbotham was a rebellious sixteen-year-old at a Methodist boarding school in the north-east of England, reading Sartre and dreaming of Paris. By the end of the sixties she was a seasoned political... -
Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy by Conor Byrne
RRP: £20.00£15.04'I have always abhorred to draw in question the title of the crown, so many disputes have been already touching it in the mouths of men . . . so long as I live, I shall be queen of England; when I am dead, they shall succeed that has most right.' -... -
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale
RRP: £10.99£7.51_______________ WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________ 'A remarkable achievement' - Sunday Times 'A classic, to my mind, of the finest documentary... -
Tacitus, Annals XIV: A Selection by John Storey
RRP: £12.99£11.86This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Annals XIV, 1-13, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A... -
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times'I can't suppose that there has been a better English biography of Francis, or indeed is likely to be one' Catholic HeraldFrancis I was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed... -
Mancunians: Where Do We Start, Where Do I Begin? by David Scott
RRP: £16.99£12.48In the late 1990s, Manchester was a city in upheaval. The devastation of the IRA bomb and the closure of the notorious Hacienda nightclub were seismic events that rocked the city's confidence at a time when identikit bands were flooding its clubs and... -
Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth by Mike Ingram 9781912866502
RRP: £29.95£21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866502Author Mike IngramFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon
RRP: £10.99£6.47This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s - a time which saw fresh waves of immigrants in the area, the Fascist marches of the 30s and its spirited recovery...