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Blood Cries Afar: The Magna Carta War and the Invasion of England 1215-1217 by Sean McGlynn
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.34150 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: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47In 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... -
Tank Craft 2: Sherman Tanks: British Army and Royal Marines Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781473885301
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain's... -
Vienna. Portrait of a City by Christian Brandstatter 9783836567268
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $61.96Vienna combines drama and elegance like no other. For centuries the heart of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the stately city on the Danube, has been defined by vast palaces and imperial grandeur-but... -
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 2) by Robert A. Caro
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.80'The greatest biography of our era ... Essential reading for those who want to comprehend power and politics' The TimesRobert A. Caro's legendary, multi-award-winning biography of US President Lyndon... -
Exeter: The Postcard Collection Alan Spree 9781398118379
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.34Exeter has long been an important city in Devon, centred around its mediaeval cathedral. Much of the historic city centre was lost during the Second World War and subsequent redevelopment but some... -
A-Z of Gloucester: Places-People-History by Roger Smith
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Gloucester was one of Roman Britain's most important cities. Before the M4 and M5 motorways were built it was known as the crossroads of England. The city's street layout is much the same as it was... -
An Anthology of Somali Poetry by B. W. Andrzejewski
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93"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... -
Heinkel He162 Volksjäger: From Drawing Board to Destruction: The Volksjäger Spatz by Robert Forsyth 9781800352995
RRP: $60.30Booksplease Price: $45.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352995Author Robert ForsythFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint -
My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story by Jenny Lee Smith
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92A heartbreaking and moving true story of two sisters separated at birth, and their journey towards finding each other, celebrating the true meaning of family.Helen Edwards grew up in a pit village in... -
Haring by Alexandra Kolossa
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.08One of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958-1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique,... -
A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 9781529157178
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR... -
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death by Peter Jones 9781786494825
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were... -
The Vietnam War: 1956-75 by Andrew Wiest
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19In this fully illustrated introduction, leading Vietnam War historian Dr Andrew Wiest provides a concise overview of America's most divisive war. America entered the Vietnam War certain of its... -
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King, Jr.
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.07'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival'Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful... -
Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn by James Walvin 9780520391826
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.50A fascinating journey through the history of "Amazing Grace," one of the transatlantic world's most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity. Sung in moments of personal isolation or on... -
Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam 9781841594125
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26A harrowing yet uplifting account of Stalin's persecution of the Russian intelligentsia in the 1930s, and of one man - Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), whose poetry, in spite of the unfolding tragedy of... -
The Long Range Desert Group in Action 1940-1943: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Brendan O'Carroll 9781526777416
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.63The Long Range Desert Group has a strong claim to the first Special Forces unit in the British Army. This superb illustrated history follows the LRDG from its July 1940 formation as the Long Range... -
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World Kwasi Kwarteng 9781408829004
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not been resolved. In Iraq, Kashmir, Burma, Sudan, Nigeria and... -
We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World by Helen Yaffe
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $36.15The extraordinary account of the Cuban people's struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its... -
Attlee and Churchill: Allies in War, Adversaries in Peace by Leo McKinstry
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.49Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail'A masterpiece' Frederick Forsyth 'Beautifully written... unlikely to be surpassed' Simon Heffer'Superb' Daily Mail, Book of the... -
The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins 9780099548584
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71'This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful' Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul?... -
Ordinary Heroes: Untold Stories from the Falklands Campaign by Christopher Hilton
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88In 1982, 8,000 miles from home, in a harsh environment and without the newest and most sophisticated equipment, the numerically inferior British Task Force defeated the Argentinian forces occupying... -
The House By The Thames: And The People Who Lived There by Gillian Tindall 9781844130948
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68Just across the River Thames from St Paul's Cathedral stands an old and elegant house. Over the course of almost 450 years the dwelling on this site has witnessed many changes. From its windows,... -
Gods of Ancient Rome: Contracts with the Divine by Lynda Telford 9781398111646
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.06Roman religion was certainly a contract with the Gods, offering devotion and the blood sacrifices which ‘nourished’ them in exchange for their continued protection and for Rome’s security and... -
The Highlands by Paul Murton
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.41Paul Murton journeys the length and breadth of the spectacularly beautiful Scottish Highlands. In addition to bringing a fresh eye to popular destinations such as Glencoe, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness and... -
Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity by Hil Aked 9781786637659
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.22Friends of Israel provides a forensically researched account of the activities of Israel's advocates in Britain, showing how they contribute to maintaining Israeli apartheid. The book traces the... -
Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-1949 by David Cesarani
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50Final Solution is an intelligent and thought-provoking short history of the Holocaust, by historian David Cesarani.Not only does David Cesarani draw together and engage with the latest scholarly... -
Stretcher Bearer!: Fighting for life in the trenches by Charles Horton
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09Among the thousands of men who shivered and suffered in the trenches during the First World War, some did not even have the protection of a weapon. Members of the Royal Army Medical Corps (the RAMC)... -
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield 9781838932756
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.58What if you thought your husband was Jack the Ripper? London, 1888. Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband... -
Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194162Author Robert GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint -
Mengele: Unmasking the ?Angel of Death? by David G. Marwell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.34Josef Mengele has come to symbolise both the evil of the Nazi regime and the failure of justice. Drawing on new scholarship and sources, David G. Marwell examines Mengele's life, chronicling his... -
On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War by Holger Afflerbach
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.50Was the outcome of the First World War on a knife edge? In this major new account of German wartime politics and strategy Holger Afflerbach argues that the outcome of the war was actually in the... -
Corkscrew to Safety: A Tail-Gunner's Tour with 103 Squadron (Elsham Wolds) 1944/5 by Thomas G. Quinlan 9781846831232
Booksplease Price: $20.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846831232Author Thomas G. QuinlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint -
The Night Stalker: The Disturbing Life and Chilling Crimes of Richard Ramirez Philip Carlo 9780806538419
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $19.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538419Author Philip CarloFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint < -
Japanese Swords: Cultural Icons of a Nation; The History, Metallurgy and Iconography of the Samurai Sword Colin M. Roach 9784805313312
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $28.54With over 300 stunning photographs and woodblock prints along with extensive historical and cultural commentary, Japanese Swords is the ultimate authority on Samurai weaponry.Historically, Japanese... -
Walking the Old Ways of Herefordshire: The History in the Landscape Explored Through 52 Circular Walks by Andy Johnson
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906663865Author Andy JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint < -
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells... -
Robert Bruce: Our Most Valiant Prince, King and Lord Colm McNamee 9781780275949
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The life of Robert Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, briefly 'king of summer' and then a desperate fugitive who nevertheless returned from... -
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by Richard Tarnas
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452288591Author Richard TarnasFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint