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Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South by J.Frazer Smith 9780486278483
RRP: $21.92$19.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486278483Author J.Frazer SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Cartier: The Story Behind the Style by Rachael Taylor
RRP: $16.76$11.73Cartier: The Story Behind the Style is a beautifully illustrated, handbag-sized visual history of one of the world's most iconic brands. From the brand's inception in Paris in 1847, Cartier has been the go-to jeweller for the world's most stylish set... -
Hitler and his Women by Phil Carradice
RRP: $25.79$18.42Adolf Hitler - a ranting, evil demagogue whose insane ambitions and beliefs took the world to the brink of extinction and caused the deaths of millions. And yet there was another side to the Fuhrer, one that was rarely seen and even now remains unknown... -
The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling by Paul Rouse
RRP: $14.18$10.02In 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 have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... -
Central Birmingham 1950-1980: Images of England by Martin Hampson 9780752433615
RRP: $19.34$14.90For Birmingham, whose motto is 'Forward', change has long been a fact of life. This pictorial history traces some of the dramatic developments that have taken place in the centre of Birmingham during three post-war decades. This collection of over 200... -
The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey by Gillian Tindall
RRP: $16.76$11.73Newly opened by Queen Elizabeth II herself, discover the history and secret stories of the people who've lived above London's newest trainline.Crossrail, or the 'Elizabeth' line, is just the latest way of traversing the very old east-west route through... -
Sculpture Since 1945 by Andrew Causey
RRP: $30.30$21.94Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK, America, and Europe, has been challenged, and issues such... -
In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986624Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass
RRP: $24.50$17.56Mark Greengrass's gripping, major, original account of Europe in an era of tumultuous changeSUNDAY TIMES and FINANCIAL TIMES Books of the Year 2014This addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th... -
Northern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction by Marc Mulholland
RRP: $11.60$8.32From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of... -
Windsor Spares: The Prince Harry and Prince Andrew Show! by Nigel Cawthorne 9781783342488
RRP: $12.89$10.54Dim and dimmer? You decide! Spares Prince Harry and Prince Andrew have rarely been out of the news since 2019. They both have proved to have a rare knack for creating a royal soap opera and turning their humdrum lives into a major embarrassment to their... -
The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts by Jussi M. Hanhimaki 9780199272808
$72.61The Cold War contains a selection of official and unofficial documents which provide a truly multi-faceted account of the entire Cold War era. This volume presents the different kinds of materials necessary to understand what the Cold War was about, how... -
Domination and Lordship: Scotland, 1070-1230 by Dr. Richard Oram
RRP: $33.53$27.68This volume centres upon the era conventionally labelled the 'Making of the kingdom', or the 'Anglo-Norman' era in Scottish history. It seeks a balance between traditional historiographical concentration on the 'feudalisation' of Scottish society as part... -
A-Z Secret Edinburgh Walks by A-Z maps
RRP: $9.02$6.19Discover hidden gems around Edinburgh with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and written by a local expert,... -
It's All About Treo: Life and War with the World's Bravest Dog by Damien Lewis
RRP: $16.76$11.09This is the incredible true story of the unbreakable bond forged between Treo, the world's most highly decorated dog, and his handler Sgt. Dave HeyhoeWhen Dave Heyhoe was sent to Afghanistan to help detect the Taliban's murderous roadside bombs, he... -
Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands 9781541672543
RRP: $20.63$18.56In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early 19th century to the closing of the frontier by the early 20th. He introduces us to explorers,... -
A Drop in the Ocean: Lawrence MacEwen and the Isle of Muck by Polly Pullar
RRP: $12.89$9.02Polly Pullar tells the fascinating tale of one of the Hebrides unique thriving small communities through the colourful anecdotes of Lawrence MacEwen, whose family have owned the island since 1896. A wonderfully benevolent, and eccentric character, his... -
Blitz Then and Now: v. 3 by Winston G. Ramsey 9780900913587
RRP: $57.99$49.32The period in question began quietly with the Luftwaffe busy elsewhere, yet the increasing attacks on Germany by the Royal Air Foce provoked a response in the form of the so-called Baedeker offensive of 1942. And it is against this background of the... -
The New Kingdom: Global bestselling author of River God, Wilbur Smith, returns with a brand-new Ancient Egyptian epic by Wilbur Smith 9781785767999
RRP: $11.60$8.89BOOK 1 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those benchmarks against whom others are compared' - The... -
The Great Lighthouses of Ireland by David Hare
$35.99The Great Lighthouses of Ireland is a collection of striking images and fascinating stories about the lighthouses around Ireland's coast and the extraordinary men and women who lived and worked in them. The book, published to accompany the TV series... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel AS/A-level History: In search of the American Dream: the USA, c1917-96 by Alan Farmer
RRP: $13.55$12.41Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Medieval Britain: A Very Short Introduction by John Gillingham 9780192854025
RRP: $11.60$8.32First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths' Very Short Introduction to Medieval Britain covers the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in the early Middle Ages,... -
How to Pass National 5 History: Second Edition by John Kerr
RRP: $15.47$14.71Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018Fully updated to account for the removal of Unit Assessments and the changes to the National 5 exam, this book contains all the advice and support you... -
Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson
RRP: $12.89$9.17Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer' Caroline O'Donoghue 'Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden and slightly scandalous... Heiresses makes for an... -
The King of Nazi Paris: Henri Lafont and the Gangsters of the French Gestapo by Christopher Othen
RRP: $12.89$9.17By 1943, Henri Lafont was the most powerful Frenchman in occupied Paris. Once a petty criminal running from the French police, when he found himself recruited by the Nazis his life changed for ever. Lafont established a motley band of sadistic... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 Hitler and Nazi Germany, 1919–1939 by Ella Richardson
$26.88Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
Common Entrance 13+ History by Martin Collier
$45.45Exam board: ISEB Level: 13+ CE and KS3 Subject: History First teaching: September 2021 First exams: November 2022Covering Medieval Realms, the Making of the UK and Britain and Empire, Rosemary Rees and Martin Collier use their extensive Common Entrance... -
A Natural History of Latin by Tore Janson
RRP: $13.53$9.60Beginning in Rome around 600 BC, Latin became the language of the civilized world and remained so for more than two millennia. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its progeny and it provides the international vocabulary of law and life... -
Paw Tracks in the Moonlight by Denis O'Connor
RRP: $14.18$9.55When Denis O'Connor rescues a three-week-old kitten from certain death during a snowstorm, little does he know how this tiny creature will change his life forever. Against all odds the kitten - who he names Toby Jug - survives and forms an unusually... -
Greatcoats and Glamour Boots: Canadian Women at War, 1939-1945, Revised Edition by Carolyn Gossage 9781550023688
$18.49Women in the military? To many, never was too soon. But by 1940, British women were out "doing their bit" for the war effort, and Canadians battled for that same right. Young Canadian women wanted to serve their country, "to free a man to fight," as the... -
The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West by Alistair Shearer
RRP: $16.76$15.42How did a venerable Indian spiritual discipline turn into a GBP20 billion-a-year mainstay of the wellness industry? What happened along yoga's winding path from the caves and forests of the sages to the gyms, hospitals and village halls of the modern... -
Short Walks from Bogota: Journeys in the new Colombia by Tom Feiling
RRP: $14.18$10.02For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? How did a land likened to paradise by the first conquistadores become a byword for hell on earth? And how is it... -
Mary I: England's Catholic Queen by John Edwards
RRP: $24.50$21.39A new appraisal of the first Tudor queen, her European connections, her ambitions and intentions, and the religious violence that stained her short reign The lifestory of Mary I-daughter of Henry VIII and his Spanish wife, Catherine of Aragon-is often... -
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
RRP: $14.18$10.02Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a... -
Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu
RRP: $14.18$10.02A PULITZER PRIZE FINALISTA riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language to the modern world, transforming China into a superpower in the processWhat does it take to reinvent the world's oldest living... -
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914 by Richard J. Evans
RRP: $24.50$18.07'A scintillating, encyclopaedic history, rich in detail from the arcane to the familiar... a veritable tour de force' Richard Overy, New Statesman'Transnational history at its finest ... .. social, political and cultural themes swirl together in one... -
An Evil Spirit Out of the West (Akhenaten Trilogy, Book 1): A story of ambition, politics and assassination in Ancient Egypt by Paul Doherty
RRP: $12.89$7.69Known as the Veiled One, the ugly and deformed Akenhaten is a shadowy figure. As a child he is overlooked and despised by his own father. As an adult he is thrust into the political limelight when his elder brother dies. Mahu, ambitious and ruthless,... -
Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume Two: Strike, Anti-Submarine, Early Warning and Support Aircraft since 1945 True Tales from Royal Navy Men and Women Air and Ground Crew by Steve Bond
RRP: $32.25$22.73Since the end of World War 2 the primary role of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm has been airborne power projection; the ability rapidly to respond to any trouble spot across the globe and to protect the interests of the United Kingdom and its partner... -
Edvard Munch Masterpieces of Art by Candice Russell
RRP: $16.76$11.61A beautiful new gift art book all about Edvard Munch, the Norwegian artist behind the first truly Expressionist picture The Scream. Absorbed by such motifs as love, life, death and anguish, Munch's paintings captured the psychological feelings evoked by... -
The Cretan Runner by George Psychoundakis
RRP: $14.18$10.02The legendary story of a resistance hero'Full of death and excitement' - Sunday Times'Unique' - TLSGeorge Psychoundakis was a young shepherd boy who knew the island of Crete intimately when the Nazis invaded by air in 1941. He immediately joined the...