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Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €12.84Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated. Robert Service has written a calmly authoritative biography on this seemingly unknowable figure... -
Operation Basalt: The British Raid on Sark and Hitler's Commando Order by Eric Lee 9780750984218
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €13.79German soldiers assigned to guard the tiny Channel Island of Sark described it as a 'little Paradise' and, because it was never bombed by the RAF, the best air-raid shelter in all of Europe. But... -
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 by Mark Honigsbaum
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.35A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19.Ever since the 1918... -
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth And Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08The powerful and deeply disturbing book that was at the heart of the David Irving libel case, now dramatized in the film Denial.The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the... -
First Kills: The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot WlAdyslAw Gnys by Stefan Gnys 9781612005560
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €24.58"A completely wonderful book! ...it seems to be quite out of the ordinary, with illustrations as well as photographs, and the strong narrative running through, revealing the brave-as-a-lion man ...a... -
Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quamtum Cryptography by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €15.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495325Author Simon SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint -
One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
RRP: €27.60Booksplease Price: €18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807014172Author Herbert MarcuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
US Patrol Torpedo Boats: World War II by Gordon Rottman 9781846032271
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €14.45Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s, and the vessels first saw service during World War I.However, it was not until the late 1930s that the US Navy commenced the development of... -
Greece - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Constantine Buhayer 9781857338706
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.92Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will... -
Please, Mister Postman by Alan Johnson
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €7.94In July 1969, while the Rolling Stones played a free concert in Hyde Park, Alan Johnson and his young family left West London to start a new life. The Britwell Estate in Slough, apparently notorious... -
The Summer Birdcage by L C Tyler
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.02Duke's Company actress Kitty Burgess has a stunning future before her - until she vanishes after the opening performance of Aminta Grey's new play, The Summer Birdcage. One of her fellow actors... -
The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.29William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England... -
Victorian Fashion by Jayne Shrimpton
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.83The sweeping crinolines, corsets, bustles, bonnets and parasols of Victorian Britain are indispensable to our period dramas, and their influences can still be seen within burlesque and steampunk... -
This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime by Stephen Ellis
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €23.09Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a... -
A Fleeting Moment in My Country: the Last Years of the LTTE De-Facto State by N. Malathy 9780984525546
Booksplease Price: €20.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984525546Author N. MalathyFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint -
Edward the Confessor: Last of the Royal Blood Tom Licence 9780300260823
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.76An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066"In putting flesh back on Edward's bones Licence has brought a new succession story to popular... -
Fighter Pilot by Paul Richey 9780750962353
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.72One of 'The 30 Best Travel and Adventure Books of All Time', as selected by Gear Patrol, Winner 2015 US Travel and Adventure website. Fighter Pilot was written from the immediate and unfettered... -
1950s Childhood Spangles, Tiddlywinks and The Clitheroe Kid: Spangles, Tiddlywinks and the Clitheroe Kid Derek Tait 9781445609775
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.69With few TVs, children in the 1950s made their own entertainment: they played conkers, built dens and go-karts, climbed trees and re-enacted fights from the latest cinema blockbuster. Food was, for... -
Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England by Eleanor Parker
RRP: €31.20Booksplease Price: €24.66"Outstanding." - The Sunday Times "Beautifully written." The Times "Superbly adroit." The Spectator "Excellent." BBC History Magazine The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out... -
The Immortal Yew by Tony Hall 9781842466582
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €24.04Yew trees are some of the oldest living organisms in Europe, with particular individuals thought to be over 2,000 years old. Often found growing in churchyards, the English yew or common yew (Taxus... -
Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh by Joyce Tyldesley
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.96Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered King - Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes... -
Brigadistes: Lives for Liberty Jordi Marti-Rueda 9780745347127
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.99'A real treasure that we can't stop exploring' - La Republica Felicia Browne decided it was time to put down her paintbrushes and pick up a rifle. Jimmy Yates left Chicago with three books in his... -
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival by David Pilling
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61The second edition of the definitive book on how modern Japan works, now fully updated up to include the new 'Reiwa' Era and the year of the Olympics'A superb book that, better than any other I have... -
Secret Cambridge by Andrew Sargent
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €11.52Cambridge has a world-famous university, but the town's long history predates the coming of the scholars, beginning with the Romans, who first identified this as a good spot for a settlement. It was... -
King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.35Henrietta Howard, later Countess of Suffolk, was the long-term mistress and confidante of King George II. She was also, as Tracy Borman's wonderfully readable biography reveals, a dedicated patron of... -
Lost Kilmarnock Frank Beattie 9781398118232
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.02Kilmarnock is the largest town in Ayrshire and a major centre for the west of Scotland. It expanded hugely during the Industrial Revolution and in recent decades has rebuilt itself extensively,... -
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by William N. Goetzmann 9780691178370
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €19.26"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of... -
Scourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise by Melanie Clegg
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14Although Mary, Queen of Scots continues to fascinate both historians and the general public alike, the story of her mother, Marie de Guise, is much less well known. A political power in her own... -
The London Boys: David Bowie, Marc Bolan and the 60s Teenage Dream by Marc Burrows
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €18.29Rock 'n' Roll fanatics, mods, beat group wannabes, underground hippies, glam rock icons: David Bowie and Marc Bolan spent the first part of their careers following remarkably similar paths. From the... -
A Short History Of China by Gordon Kerr 9781842439685
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11The turbulent and chequered past of the world's most populous country is one of the most fascinating in world history, and relatively little known in the west. From the beginnings of Chinese... -
Leyte Gulf 1944 (1): The Battles of the Sibuyan Sea and Samar by Mark Stille
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.05In October 1944, the US prepared to invade the Philippines to cut Japan off from its resource areas in Southeast Asia. The Japanese correctly predicted this, and prepared a complex operation to use... -
My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown 9781784707460
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.29Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply... -
Sophia - Mother of Kings: The Finest Queen Britain Never Had by Catherine Curzon 9781526762986
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74When Sophia Dorothea of Celle married her first cousin, the future King George I, she was an unhappy bride. Filled with dreams of romance and privilege, she hated the groom she called pig snout and... -
A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.21In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a history... -
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Jan Swafford
RRP: €36.00Booksplease Price: €26.62Jan Swafford's biographies of composers Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new... -
The Bristol Colouring Book: Past & Present by The History Press 9780750967600
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74Bristol has charmed visitors for centuries, and this collection of intricate illustrations is a celebration of the city's unique appeal. Featuring a range of picturesque vistas, from the historic... -
The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story John Gimlette 9781788544733
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.10A journey - both historical and contemporary - among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Germany, 1871-1990: united, divided and reunited Alan Farmer 9781471876646
Booksplease Price: €13.80Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured... -
The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction by Julian D. Richards
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.40The Viking reputation is of bloodthirsty seafaring warriors, repeatedly plundering the British Isles and the North Atlantic throughout the early Middle Ages. Yet Vikings were also traders, settlers,... -
Women in War: From Home Front to Front Line Celia Lee 9781526766618
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €8.36The changing role of women in warfare, a neglected aspect of military history, is the subject of this collection of perceptive, thought-provoking essays. By looking at the wide range of ways in which...