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Victorian Engineering by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.41L T C Rolt was an engineer and pioneer of industrial history; in this book he combined these two passions to give us a fascinating account of the men who 'made' Britain. From Brunel to Telford, he... -
The Day Of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy 1943-44 by Rick Atkinson
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99In An Army at Dawn - winner of the Pulitzer Prize - Rick Atkinson provided a dramatic and authoritative history of the Allied triumph in North Africa. Now, in The Day of the Battle, he follows the... -
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace by Avi Shlaim
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.80Avi Shlaim's Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace is the first major account one of the most important figures in the turbulent history of the Middle East. Peace-broker,... -
Brutus: The Noble Conspirator by Kathryn Tempest
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.07A compelling new portrait of Marcus Brutus delves behind the ancient evidence to set aside the myths that surround the ancient world's most famous assassin"Kathryn Tempest leads us into the... -
Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands by Stuart Hall 9780141984759
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'This is a miracle of a book' George Lamming'Compelling. Stuart Hall's story is the story of an age' Owen Jones 'Sometimes I feel I was the last colonial'This is the story, in his own words, of the... -
The Black Count: Glory, revolution, betrayal and the real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2013'Completely absorbing' Amanda Foreman'Enthralling' Guardian'The Three Musketeers! The Count of Monte Cristo! The stories of courseare fiction. But here... -
The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey by Salman Rushdie 9780099285229
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04An extraordinary and vivid introduction to the country of Nicaragua and its politics from the Booker-winning author of Midnight's Children.In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the... -
Workhouses of London and the South East by Peter Higginbotham 9780750987776
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.25Our image of workhouses has often been coloured by the writings of authors such as Charles Dickens. But what was the reality? Where exactly were all these institutions located - and what happened to... -
Skye: Landscapes in Stone by Alan McKirdy 9781780273723
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07The Isle of Skye offers a magical combination of wild land and breath-taking natural beauty. Skye's geological history involves some of the most ancient rocks on the planet; a grandstand view as the... -
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words by Craig Olsen 9780751585919
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.89With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower... -
The Wing Chun Compendium, Volume One Wayne Belonoha 9781583941294
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $38.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583941294Author Wayne BelonohaFormat HardbackPage Count 528Imprint -
24 Hours at Waterloo: 18 June 1815 by Robert J. Kershaw
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68'One of the lancers rode by, and stabbed me in the back with his lance. I then turned, and lay with my face upward, and a foot soldier stabbed me with his sword as he walked by. Immediately after,... -
The Civil War by Julius Caesar
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37A military leader of legendary genius, Caesar was also a great writer, recording the events of his life with incomparable immediacy and power. The Civil War is a tense and gripping depiction of his... -
The Loom of Time: Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China Robert D. Kaplan 9780593242810
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593242810Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint
Death Dealer: The Memoirs Of The SS Kommandant At Auschwitz by Rudolph Hoss 9780306806988
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $20.76SS Kommandant Rudolph Hoess (1900-1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in...
Wargame: Jacobite '45 by Peter Dennis 9781912174867
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $16.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174867Author Peter DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint
The Great Depression: A Diary by James Ledbetter
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $13.39When the stock market crashed in 1929, Benjamin Roth was a young lawyer in Youngstown, Ohio. After he began to grasp the magnitude of what had happened to American economic life, he decided to set...
Joining the Dots: uniting Salisbury's past through holes in the ground by Phil Harding 9781739187606
RRP: $30.75Booksplease Price: $28.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739187606Author Phil HardingFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint
Panther on the Battlefield: World War Two Photobook Series: Volume 6 by Matyas Panczel
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $27.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789638962355Author Matyas PanczelFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's a Good Thing by Danny Dorling
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown-of population growth, economies, and technological innovation The end of our high-growth world was underway well...
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 by Robert Gildea 9780300277906
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19"An admirably compassionate testament"-Max Hastings, Sunday Times "A vivid and evocative panorama"-James Graham, The Observer "Superb"-John Harris, The GuardianA powerful new history of the Great...
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise by Peter Abelard
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The story of Abelard and Heloise remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs. Through their letters, we follow the path of their romance from its reckless and ecstatic...
The Habsburg Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Martyn Rady
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.53The Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, they ruled much of Central Europe, and for two centuries were also rulers of Spain...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt by Alan Brinkley 9780199732029
Booksplease Price: $19.93"No president since the founders has done more to shape the character of American government," notes Alan Brinkley in this magnificent biography of America's thirty-second president. "And no...
Peach Blossom Spring: A glorious, sweeping novel about family and the search for home Melissa Fu 9781472277572
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09***A RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK***'Glorious and tender . . . I finished it with tears in my eyes' JENNIFER SAINT'A stunning achievement' CHRISTY LEFTERI'An immersive, expertly plotted and elegantly...
Royal Marines Commandos John Parker 9780755314867
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $14.07The Royal Marines were originally formed under the auspices of the Royal Navy to guard its sailing ships from harm. They are proud of their history and origins but the Navy heritage is fading. John...
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose 9780300257847
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.24This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain's working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more,...
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year...
Reinhard Heydrich Nine Months Riechsprotector by Tina Walford 9780244993481
RRP: $20.92Booksplease Price: $20.27Since his assassination in June 1942, the former Reich Protector, Chief of the Secret State Police and Security Service has been responsible for every outrage. In the so-called war crimes trials, the...
Ottoman Navy Warships 1914-18 by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.39At the start of the 20th century the Ottoman Navy was a shadow of its former might, a reflection of the empire as a whole - the "Sick Man of Europe". Years of defeat, nepotism, and neglect had left...
Former People: The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy by Douglas Smith
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Epic in scope, intimate in detail, heartbreaking in its human drama, this is the first book to recount the history of the nobility caught up the maelstrom of the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation...
Trotsky: A Biography by Robert Service
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $16.08Revolutionary practitioner, theorist, factional chief, sparkling writer, 'ladies' man' (e.g., his affair with Frieda Kahlo), icon of the Revolution, anti-Jewish Jew, philosopher of everyday life,...
Forgotten Voices Of The Great War by Max Arthur
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07This unique landmark oral history uses first-hand accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. Gripping, poignant, surprising and even humorous, the personal experiences of these soldiers,...
The Galapagos Henry Nicholls 9781781250549
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $9.37Formed of dramatic volcanic scenery and home to marvellous beasts, it is little wonder that the first name for the Galapagos archipelago was Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands. In this captivating...
Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition by Amilcar Cabral
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900045Author Amilcar CabralFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 by Ian W. Toll
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $35.30This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War-the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944-when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's...
The Medieval Scriptorium: Making Books in the Middle Ages by Sara J. Charles 9781789149166
Booksplease Price: $22.77This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a medieval narrator - including a...
The art of war by Sun Tzu 9789386538215
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $5.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386538215Author Sun TzuFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint
The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World's First Air Force by Richard Overy
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Fascinating, full of original material and shrewd insights ... a masterful historian of air power' Leo McKinstry, Literary ReviewThe RAF was the world's first air force. This is the story of its ...
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life Greg Jenner 9781780225654
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner is as witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland'You will love Greg Jenner's jolly account of how we have more in common with our...