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Even More Merseyside Tales!: Curious and Amazing True Tales from History by Ken Pye
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $23.68In Ken Pye's third collection of strange and often bizarre tales from Merseyside's History, prepare to be amazed and entertained, once again.Where on Merseyside was the nonsense rhyme, 'The Owl and... -
Marco Polo: The Journey That Changed the World by John Man 9780062375070
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $31.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062375070Author John ManFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
On Christian Teaching by Edmund Augustine
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.99`There are certain rules for interpreting the scriptures which, as I am well aware, can usefully be passed on to those with an appetite for such study...' On Christian Teaching is one of... -
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End by Duncan Barrett 9780007448470
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.71Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. ... -
A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects John Matusiak 9780750991254
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $25.06This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving cultural landscape, at once... -
Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two by Alan Allport 9780300168860
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.92The trials, troubles and triumphs of returning home after the end of World War Two. What happened when millions of British servicemen were "demobbed"-demobilized-after World War II? Most had been... -
HMS Pickle: The Swiftest Ship in Nelson's Trafalgar Fleet by Peter Hore 9781803997186
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.23The curiously named HMS Pickle was the second-smallest British ship in Nelson's fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar. She acquired enduring fame, however, as the ship that carried Lord Collingwood's... -
The High Girders: The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy John Prebble 9781474616188
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMANOn December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the Tay Bridge... -
Estuary: Out from London to the Sea by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick LaneOut at the eastern edge of England, between land and ocean, you... -
The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England's Last Literary Salon Simon Fenwick 9781472132482
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09In 1945, Eddy Sackville-West, Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Eardley Knollys - writers for the New Statesman and a National Trust administrator - purchased Long Crichel House, an old rectory with no... -
War of the Wind by Victoria Williamson 9781911107507
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $17.45An award-winning climate fiction novel that explores unlikely friendships as a group of children with disabilities find themselves at the heart of an eco-mystery. On a remote Scottish island,... -
The Little History of Somerset by Mike Dean 9780750991278
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.23More than 400 million years ago, the oldest rocks in Somerset were formed. On those rocks, a county was built over thousands of years; from prehistoric man and Roman invasion, through a Pitchfork... -
Atlas of Indian Nations by Anton Treuer 9781426211607
Booksplease Price: $84.18Atlas of Indian Nations is a comprehensive resource for those interested in Native American history and culture. Told through maps, photos, art, and archival cartography, this is the story of... -
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion by Tom Segev
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.75The definitive biography of Israel's founder by one of Israel's most celebrated historians. As the founder of Israel, David Ben-Gurion long ago secured his reputation as a leading figure of the... -
Doctors at War: Life and Death in a Field Hospital by Mark de Rond
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.32Doctors at War is a candid account of a trauma surgical team based, for a tour of duty, at a field hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan. Mark de Rond tells of the highs and lows of surgical life in... -
Looking for Trouble: 'One of the truly great war correspondents: magnificent.' (Antony Beevor) by Virginia Cowles
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97This sensational 1941 memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter is an 'unforgettable' (The Times) rediscovered classic, introduced by Christina Lamb.Paris as it... -
The Civil Wars by Appian
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Taken from Appian's Roman History, the five books collected here form the sole surviving continuous historical narrative of the era between 133-35 BC - a time of anarchy and instability for the Roman... -
The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: $32.11Booksplease Price: $24.89The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek... -
The New Kingdom by Wilbur Smith
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.08BOOK 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... -
Anna, Duchess of Cleves: The King's 'Beloved Sister' by Heather R. Darsie 9781398103269
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $20.25Anna 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... -
Records of the Medieval Sword Ewart Oakeshott 9780851155661
Booksplease Price: $65.35The origins, development and use of the two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages, from the great migrations to the Renaissance. Forty years of intensive research into the specialised... -
C.Q.B. (Close Quarter Battle) by Mike Curtis
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $33.51Even by SAS standards Mike Curtis has had a remarkable career. A former coal miner and likely Welsh international, he served with 2 Para in the Falklands before going on to join the SAS.In C.Q.B. he... -
William Pitt the Younger: A Biography by William Hague 9780007147205
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $35.08The award-winning biography of William Pitt the Younger by William Hague, the youngest leader of the Tory Party since Pitt himself. William Pitt the Younger was one of the most... -
Brighton History Tour by Christopher Horlock 9781398114012
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.73Brighton History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating history of this Sussex city. Author Christopher Horlock guides us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its famous... -
The Only Place For Us: An A-Z History of Elland Road, Home of Leeds United by Jon Howe
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $42.29Leeds United's Elland Road home is full of intrigue, character and formidable acoustics, yet it started life as a barren and featureless patch of land surrounded by coalfields. The Only Place For Us... -
Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened by Jo Teeuwisse 9780753559680
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.32**An International Bestseller**Fake news about the past is fake history.Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms?Did medieval people think the world was flat?Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the... -
Writing History Essays by I. W. Mabbett 9781137543660
RRP: $57.10Booksplease Price: $48.39To write history successfully, it is essential to understand the nuts and bolts of technique as well as the underlying principles which govern the whole process. Writing History Essays takes you step... -
The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia: the Reckoning by Ed Vulliamy
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives... -
Magellan by Stefan Zweig
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01The life of the great Portuguese explorer who dared to sail beyond the horizon The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the most famous navigators in history-he was the... -
The Age of Bede by Bede
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $21.97This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and... -
Feminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation Julie Bindel (Freelance journalist) 9781472132611
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.89'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single person who wouldn't benefit from reading it'... -
Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History (Teacher's Guide) by Master Books 9780890515358
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $13.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780890515358Author Master BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 31Imprint -
The Indian Mutiny: 1857 by Saul David
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01In The Indian Mutiny: 1857 Saul David explores one of Britain's most harrowing colonial battles.In 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters. The ensuing... -
James and Nora by Edna O'Brien 9781474616812
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $15.57One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce and his relationship with Nora Barnacle - in celebration of the 100th... -
Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine by Olivia Campbell 9781800752481
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800752481Author Olivia CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
Lives of Houses by Kate Kennedy
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.08Notable writers-including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow-celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers,... -
Secret Nottingham by Joseph Earp
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.80Every corner of Nottingham is rich in history, and if the streets could talk they might tell of the people and events they have witnessed. Many ancient secrets have remained untold, such as the... -
The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War by Mark Galeotti 9780300270419
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.92An engaging guide to the various ways in which war is now waged-and how to adapt to this new reality "This brisk everyman's guide-straight-talking and free of jargon-is a useful tasting menu to a... -
Blood Cries Afar: The Magna Carta War and the Invasion of England 1215-1217 by Sean McGlynn
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.34150 years after the Norman Conquest, history came within a hair's breadth of repeating itself. In 1216, taking advantage of the turmoil created in England by King John's inept rule, Prince Louis of... -
Investment in Blood: The True Cost of Britain's Afghan War by Frank Ledwidge 9780300205268
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $23.92In this follow-up to the extremely successful Losing Small Wars, Frank Ledwidge analyses the cost - both financial and human - of Britain's involvement in the Afghanistan war. With the aid of...