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Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Kenneth O. Morgan
RRP: $11.60$8.32First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Century Britain examines the forces of consensus and of conflict in twentieth-century Britain. The account covers... -
Irish History For Dummies by Mike Cronin 9781119995876
RRP: $24.50$16.96From Norman invaders, religious wars-and the struggle for independence-the fascinating, turbulent history of a tortured nation and its gifted people When Shakespeare referred to England as a "jewel set in a silver sea," he could just as well have been... -
The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster by Brian W. Lavery 9781909954144
RRP: $16.76$11.13The harsh seas of 1968.Three trawlers from Hulls fleet sink in just 3 weeks.58 Dead. 1 Survivor.Enough is enough.Lilian Bilocca put down her filleting knife, picked up some sheets of paper and stormed into action. She started with a petition and this... -
The Bystander Effect: The Psychology of Courage and Inaction by Catherine Sanderson
RRP: $12.89$8.57'Fantastic ... It explains the misperception of stacked odds and personal powerlessness that stops individuals challenging bad behaviour. Stunning. Humbling. Thought-provoking'Kathryn Mannix, author of With the End in Mind In the... -
1922: Scenes from a Turbulent Year by Nick Rennison
RRP: $12.89$8.771922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. Empires fell. The Ottoman Empire collapsed after more than six centuries. The British... -
The Barn: The Extraordinary Life of an Unremarkable Building by Sally Coulthard
RRP: $25.80$18.43A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by bestselling nature writer Sally Coulthard. 'A gem of a book' Country Smallholding 'Engaging and filled with gentle humour and fascinating facts' Get History 'Shows us the beauty and... -
Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King's 'Beloved Sister' by Heather R. Darsie 9781398103269
RRP: $14.18$9.35Anna was the 'last woman standing' of Henry VIII's wives - and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey. How did she manage it? Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King's 'Beloved Sister' looks at Anna from a new perspective, as a woman from the Holy Roman... -
Colours of Suffolk by Mark Staples 9780857043269
RRP: $21.92$18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857043269Author Mark StaplesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
RRP: $21.92$15.84When do you think the Second World War ended?If the end of the war was supposed to have brought 'freedom' to countries that suffered under Nazi occupation, then for millions it did not really end until the fall of Communism. In the summer of 1945 many of... -
Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
RRP: $12.89$9.17The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. Suetonius composed his material from a variety of... -
The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour by Shelley Klein
RRP: $12.89$9.17'A charming account of a daughter, a house and a fastidious dad' Sunday TimesShelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid. With colourful glass panels set against a forest of trees, it was like living... -
Hideyoshi by Mary Elizabeth Berry
RRP: $27.03$21.78Here is the first full-length biography in English of the most important political figure in premodern Japan.Hideyoshi-peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan-is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best... -
Henry V: The Life of the Warrior King & the Battle of Agincourt by Teresa Cole
RRP: $15.47$10.87In the latter years of the fourteenth century a child was born, so unimportant that even his exact date of birth is unknown. Yet before his twenty-seventh birthday the turn of fortune's wheel had brought him the crown of England. The kingdom he inherited... -
Northumbria: History and Identity 547-2000 by Robert Colls 9780750990431
RRP: $32.25$25.21The North East is probably England's most distinctive region. A place of strong character with a very special sense of its past, it is, as William Hutchinson remarked in 1778, 'truly historical ground'. This is a book about both the ancient Anglian... -
Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam by Mark Curtis
RRP: $15.47$10.87This updated edition of Secret Affairs covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle East and at home in the UK. It reveals the unreported attempts by Britain to cultivate relations with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the fall of... -
The Gravediggers: 1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic by Hauke Friederichs
RRP: $14.18$10.02November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the... -
The Bus We Loved: London's Affair With The Routemaster by Travis Elborough 9781862078857
RRP: $16.76$11.04In December 2005, London lost one its most famous symbols: the Routemaster bus - a bus designed and made in London, by Londoners for Londoners, which was to London what the gondola is to Venice. In terms of postcards, books, films and cheap souvenirs,... -
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources by Asser
RRP: $16.76$11.73Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk of St David's in Wales who became Bishop of Sherborne in Alfred's service and worked with him in his efforts to revive... -
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams 9781469663685
RRP: $32.19$31.27Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism... -
Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire by Raffaello Pantucci 9780198857969
RRP: $34.17$24.01Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given... -
In Broad Daylight: The Secret Procedures Behind the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois
RRP: $16.76$11.73How the Murder of More Than Two Million Jews Was Carried Out-In Broad DaylightBased on a decade of work on the Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois and his Yahad-In Unum team, which has culminated in interviews with more than 5,700 neighbors to... -
Elizabeth & Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens by Susan Doran 9780712353489
RRP: $51.60$36.62This book seeks to refresh and retell the story of Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots through their own words. Accompanying a major British Library exhibition, Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens brings new insights to the familiar... -
The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris by Colin Jones 9780198715955
RRP: $40.62$28.82The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more... -
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: The British in Bengal by Robert Travers 9780521861458
RRP: $116.10$93.62Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the... -
Britain'S 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIS and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland 9781526160119
RRP: $19.34$17.60This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; the British called them 'half-castes'. Black GIs,... -
Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes
RRP: $14.18$9.55Sir Ranulph Fiennes is uniquely qualified to write a new biography of Captain Scott. This is the first biography of Scott by someone who has experienced the deprivations, the stress and the sheer physical pain that Scott lived through; he has suffered... -
Cold War: For Forty-five Years the World Held its Breath by Jeremy Isaacs
RRP: $19.34$14.13Cold War is the story of the half-century since the end of the Second World War - the story of our lives. Its framework is the confrontation, military and ideological, between two great powers that dominated the world during these years. It is a story of... -
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Code Maker's War 1941-45 by Leo Marks
RRP: $23.21$18.11In 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father's famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptopgraher of genius. In Between Silk and Cyanide, his critically acclaimed account of his... -
World War II: A Very Short Introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg
RRP: $11.60$8.32The enormous loss of life and physical destruction caused by the First World War led people to hope that there would never be another such catastrophe. How then did it come about that there was a Second World War causing twice the 30 million deaths and... -
What's Cooking in the Kremlin: A Modern History of Russia Through the Kitchen Door by Witold Szablowski 9781837730193
RRP: $25.80$17.88'A spicy and original romp through Russian history' ROBERT SERVICE'Poignant, comical, and in the best sense disturbing' PAUL FREEDMAN, AUTHOR OF TEN RESTAURANTS THAT CHANGED AMERICA'This wickedly delicious tale uncovers the secret, gustatory history of... -
The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation by Stuart Hall 9780674248342
RRP: $20.58$16.90"Given the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago, may be even more timely today."-Angela Y. DavisIn this defining statement one of the founding figures of... -
Aztec and Maya: An Illustrated History: The definitive chronicle of the ancient peoples of Central America and Mexico - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec and Zapotec by Charles Phillips 9780754834731
RRP: $25.80$21.53The definitive chronicle of the ancient peoples of Central America & Mexico - including the Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec and Zapotec In a sumptuous new large-format edition, this wide-ranging reference book covers almost 3000 years of history,... -
Churches: An Architectural Guide by Simon Bradley
RRP: $19.34$16.81This compact and accessible book is for anyone who would like to understand more about the architectural history of English churches. Clear and easy to use, the text explains the key components of church architecture-stylistic developments, functional... -
St Albans 1455: The Anatomy of a Battle by Andrew Boardman
RRP: $19.34$14.90For many years the first battle of St Albans was regarded as a 'short scuffle in the street'. A.W. Boardman, the author of Towton 1461: The Anatomy of a Battle, proves this was not the case. Indeed, the battle was unique and a significant event in... -
So Few Got through: With the Gordon Highlanders From Normandy to the Baltic by Martin Lindsay 9781848848566
RRP: $24.50$17.56On D-Day 27 officers and 565 men of 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders landed on the coast of Normandy. By the time 51st Highland Division reached Bremen the following April, after ten months continuous fighting, 1st Gordons had lost 75 Officers and 986... -
The Corner Shop: 'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater: A Radio 4 Book of the Week by Babita Sharma 9781473673236
RRP: $12.89$8.77A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Nuanced, human and engaging' Nikesh Shukla, Observer'Full of life, characters, gossip and all the richness of the local community' Sir David Jason'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater,... -
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber 9781802061567
RRP: $14.18$10.02'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women?s Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega
RRP: $30.95$25.94What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... -
The Soul of the Indian by Charles Alexander Eastman 9780486430898
RRP: $7.73$5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486430898Author Charles Alexander EastmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Scunthorpe Murders by Douglas Wynn
RRP: $19.34$14.90This chilling collection of murder cases delves into some of the villainous deeds that have taken place in Scunthorpe's past. Among those featured are a woman who beat her teenage daughter to death for refusing to get out of bed, a steelworker who...