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An Anthology of Somali Poetry by B. W. Andrzejewski
RRP: $15.47$14.11"This is a fascinating and unusual collection that deserves attention." -Bloomsbury Review" . . . this anthology of poetry is a breath of fresh air. It provides the reader with the means of gaining a deeper insight into Somali life through what is to the... -
The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $34.77$33.69From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic "stagflation," political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international perspective it was a seminal decade, one that brought the... -
Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 9781914535369
RRP: $32.25$30.68The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned to them. Yet this revealing aspect of women's history has been little studied. In this collection of new studies by an international team, ancient visual... -
Once There Was a War by John Steinbeck
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Do you know it, do you remember it, the drives, the attitudes, the terrors and, yes, the joys?' Thus Steinbeck introduces his collection of poignant and hard-hitting dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune when the Second World War was at its height... -
Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000-1200 by Amy Livingstone 9780801448416
RRP: $69.66$60.88In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new conceptualization of aristocratic family life based on... -
Rogue Warrior of the SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend by Martin Dillon
RRP: $14.18$10.02More than half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving four DSOs,... -
Buddhist Historiography in China by John Kieschnick
RRP: $38.70$30.04Winner, 2023 Toshihide Numata Book Award, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of California, BerkeleySince the early days of Buddhism in China, monastics and laity alike have expressed a profound concern with the past. In voluminous... -
A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin by Judith Flanders
RRP: $21.92$15.84The Macdonald sisters -- Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa -- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes, with little prospect of social advancement. But as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling, the... -
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker
$29.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385546539Author Peter BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc -
My History: A Memoir of Growing Up by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $14.18$8.35The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is with her growing love of history. A fascination that began... -
Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain by Ben Highmore
RRP: $32.25$23.63In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes. They were to be proved hopelessly... -
The Butcher of Poland: Hitler's Lawyer Hans Frank by Garry O'Connor 9781803995908
RRP: $19.34$14.90The life of Bavarian Hans Frank, one of the ten war criminals hanged at Nuremburg in 1946, has not received the full attention the world has given to other Nazi leaders. In many ways, he warrants it more. His life symbolised Germany's hubristic and... -
Italy's Paradise: A History of Tuscany by Alistair Moffat 9781780278766
RRP: $14.18$11.53'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region' - Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has cast its magic spell on foreign vistiors. Attracted by the perfect combination of history, art,... -
Life of Picasso: v. 4 by John Richardson
RRP: $45.15$32.62'A masterpiece' Sunday Times'Magisterial... thrilling' Guardian'Terrifically enjoyable' Daily TelegraphThe beautifully illustrated, long-awaited final volume of John Richardson's magisterial Life of Picasso, drawing on original research from interviews... -
The Royal Ballet: 75 Years by Zoe Anderson 9780571227969
RRP: $19.34$12.64This book is a perceptive and critical account of the first 75 years of The Royal Ballet, tracing the company's growth, and its great cultural importance - an indispensable book for all lovers of ballet.In 1931, Ninette de Valois started a ballet company... -
In Harm's Way by Doug Stanton
RRP: $14.18$10.02On 30 July 1945 the USS Indianapolis was steaming through the South Pacific, on her way home having delivered the bomb that was to decimate Hiroshima seven days later, when she was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. Of a crew of 1196 men an estimated 300... -
The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present by Professor Robert Aldrich
RRP: $32.24$30.01The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new... -
Island on the Edge: A Life on Soay by Anne Cholawo
RRP: $12.89$8.64Anne Cholawo was a typical 80s career girl working in a busy London advertising agency, when in 1989, holidaying in Skye, she noticed an advert for a property on the Isle of Soay - 'Access by courtesy of fishing boat'. She had never heard of Soay before,... -
Farewell the Trumpets by Jan Morris
RRP: $19.34$12.64Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat traces the momentous decline and fall of the greatest of empires - from Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee to the death of Winston Churchill in 1965. With characteristic balance, this masterpiece of narrative... -
The English Civil War: An Atlas and Concise History of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms 1639–51 by Colonel Nick Lipscombe
RRP: $64.50$51.70'The English Civil War is a joy to behold, a thing of beauty... this will be the civil war atlas against which all others will judged and the battle maps in particular will quickly become the benchmark for all future civil war maps.' -- Professor Martyn... -
Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, First Queen of England by Tracy Borman
RRP: $19.34$14.13Read the thrilling, tempestuous story of the 'first' Queen of England. Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror, was the first woman to be crowned Queen of England and formally recognised as such by her subjects. Beyond this, however, little is known of... -
WJEC Eduqas GCSE History: Germany in transition, 1919-39 by Steve Waugh
$31.11Exam Board: EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed by EduqasBring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading... -
Women of Westminster: The MPs who Changed Politics by Rachel Reeves
RRP: $12.89$9.89Foreword by Dame Winifred Mary Beard. -------- This updated edition is a complete account of the first 100 years of women in Parliament. In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP... -
Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry 9781784704889
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A remarkable and deeply moving book' Henry Marsh, bestselling author of Do No Harm'A breathtaking, extraordinary work of non-fiction' Times Literary SupplementOn 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of... -
Haunted Hastings by Tina Lakin
RRP: $16.76$12.41From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena to first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits, this collection of stories contains new and well-known spooky tales from in and around Hastings. Drawing on... -
Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain by Padraic X. Scanlan 9781472142337
RRP: $16.76$11.09'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and... -
The Library: A Fragile History by Arthur der Weduwen 9781788163439
RRP: $19.34$14.13LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN A SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT 'A sweeping, absorbing history, deeply researched' Richard Ovenden,... -
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Medicine in Britain, c1250-present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914-18 by Sam Slater
$9.38Exam board: EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of... -
HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy by Daniel Knowles 9781781557235
RRP: $46.44$34.39For over twenty years the battlecruiser HMS 'Hood' toured the world as the most iconic warship in the Royal Navy. Unmatched in her beauty and charisma, 'Hood' is one of history's greatest warships. During the twilight years of the British Empire the... -
Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy by Henry Hemming
RRP: $27.08$10.02From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest SpymasterIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds. An inventor, adventurer and polymath, he was an unlikely hero of both world... -
300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World by Luke Edward Hall 9780241575734
RRP: $32.25$22.73Steeped in honey, Juventius, your golden eyes, and as sweet too when I press my lips to them - three hundred thousand kisses is not close to enoughFor centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a... -
A New Herodotos - Laonikos Chalkokondyles on the Ottoman Empire, the Fall of Byzantium, and the Emergence of the West by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: $27.03$23.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024019Author Anthony KaldellisFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research... -
Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $21.92$15.84From Neil MacGregor, the author of A History of the World in 100 Objects, this is a view of Germany like no otherFor the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being... -
Secret Sheffield by Ian D. Rotherham
RRP: $20.63$14.00Sheffield is the fourth largest city in England and was where the Industrial Revolution began in earnest. It is renowned for its high-quality steel and fine cutlery, for its two large universities and for having the biggest shopping centre in Europe, yet... -
How Churchill Waged War: The Most Challenging Decisions of the Second World War by Allen Packwood 9781526771094
RRP: $19.34$14.13When Winston Churchill accepted the position of Prime Minister in May 1940, he insisted in also becoming Minister of Defence. He was not going to play the chairman's role, adjudicating between the competing claims of the ministers below him. He was going... -
The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction by Julian D. Richards
RRP: $11.60$8.32The 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, and farmers, with a complex artistic and linguistic... -
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
RRP: $14.18$10.54In this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century's most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-published materials from archives on three continents and... -
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by H. Davidson
RRP: $12.89$9.17Surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples. Provides an introduction to this subject, giving basic outlines to the sagas and stories, and helps identify the charachter traits of not only the well known but also the lesser... -
Sardinia: Island of Myth and Magic by Edward Burman
RRP: $25.80$18.95An exploration of Sardinia's incredibly rich history and culture, which stretches back to the Neolithic period. This book details everyone from the Phoenicians to the Carthaginians and Aragonese who invaded Sardinia, which is covered with some of the... -
Britain Begins by Sir Barry Cunliffe
RRP: $37.40$27.45The last Ice Age, which came to an end about 12,000 years ago, swept the bands of hunter gatherers from the face of the land that was to become Britain and Ireland, but as the ice sheets retreated and the climate improved so human groups spread slowly...