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The RAF Regiment at War 1942-1946 by Kingsley M Oliver
RRP: £14.99£10.95Born out of necessity in the dark days of the War, the RAF Regiment found itself in the thick of the action supporting the vital operations in all theatres. This comprehensive record of their operations gives the clearest indication of the contribution... -
RAF Airman Tests: Sample Test Questions for the RAF Airman Test by Richard McMunn
RRP: £13.00£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909229914Author Richard McMunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint How2become LtdPublisher How2become LtdDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 7mm -
After the Romanovs: the extraordinary lives of Russian exiles in Paris between the wars by Helen Rappaport 9781914484766
RRP: £10.99£7.54A TLS AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR The scintillating story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought refuge in interwar Paris. The fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced thousands of Russians to flee their homeland with... -
A-Z Secret Oxford Walks by A-Z maps
RRP: £6.99£4.97Discover hidden gems around Oxford 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, A-Z... -
The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spenler, Toynby and Kant by Henry Kissinger
RRP: £20.00£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789189425866Author Henry KissingerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Stolpe PublishingPublisher Stolpe PublishingWeight(grams) 930g -
Seal Of God by Chad Williams
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414368740Author Chad WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
The Road to Sparta: Reliving the Epic Run that Inspired the World's Greatest Foot Race by Dean Karnazes
RRP: £10.99£7.54In 490 BCE Pheidippides ran for 36 hours straight from Athens to Sparta to seek help in defending Athens from a Persian invasion. He was hailed as a hero and his run stands enduringly as one of greatest physical accomplishments in history.Dean Karnazes... -
The Battle of Rocroi 1643: Clash of Seventeenth Century Superpowers by Alberto Raul Esteban Ribas
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113979Author Alberto Raul Esteban RibasFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
AD 381: Heretics, Pagans and the Christian State by Charles Freeman 9781845950071
RRP: £16.99£12.28In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a... -
Bf 109E: Battle of Britain by Andy Saunders 9781472862402
RRP: £15.99£11.61An illustrated account of the Bf 109E's evolving role during the fateful first stages of the Battle of Britain. The Luftwaffe’s famous Bf 109 Emil saw considerable combat across the first stages of World War 2, but it was 1940’s Battle of Britain that... -
The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation by Stuart Hall 9780674248342
RRP: £15.95£13.30"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... -
Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II by John Van der Kiste 9781781554357
RRP: £20.00£14.29Kaiser Friedrich III and his consort Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain, had six children who lived to maturity, the eldest being Kaiser Wilhelm II. The three younger sisters, Victoria, Sophie and Margaret, were particularly supportive of their... -
Route 66 Adventure Handbook, 6th Edition: Full-Throttle Sixth Edition by Drew Knowles 9781595801210
RRP: £17.99£12.70Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity. For this updated and expanded sixth edition, Drew Knowles has included it all: magnificent architecture, natural... -
Without a Trace: Manchester and Salford in the 1960s by Shirley Baker 9780750988988
RRP: £20.00£15.67Shirley Baker started to photograph the streets of Manchester and Salford in the early 1960s when homes were being demolished and communities were being uprooted. 'Whole streets were disappearing and I hoped to capture some trace of everyday life of the... -
Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys by Peter Evans 9780060580544
RRP: £10.99£7.46A longtime investigative journalist uncovers one of the great untold stories of twentieth-century international intrigue, and the secrets it has held until now. Shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis and Bobby Kennedy, two of the world's richest and most... -
The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning and History by George F. Black
RRP: £40.00£28.90First published by the New York Public Library in 1946, Black's The Surnames of Scotland has long established itself as one of the great classics of genealogy. Arranged alphabetically, each entry contains a concise history of the family in question (with... -
Yugoslavia: Peace, War, and Dissolution by Noam Chomsky 9781629634425
RRP: £17.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629634425Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Kings & Queens of Scotland by Timothy Venning
RRP: £12.99£8.71The kingdom of Scots was the last of the non-Anglo-Saxon states of Britain to survive as a political entity. Alone of the 'Celtic' nations, it was not absorbed into England by conquest. James VI of Scotland came to the throne of England in 1603, and when... -
Hitler and Nazi Germany by Frank McDonough 9780521595025
RRP: £13.25£12.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Night Stalker: The Disturbing Life and Chilling Crimes of Richard Ramirez Philip Carlo 9780806538419
RRP: £15.99£11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806538419Author Philip CarloFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 530g -
Ypres: Great Battles by Mark Connelly
RRP: £26.49£19.34In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt by Bill Manley
RRP: £18.99£13.61From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civilizations of its time. This atlas traces its turbulent history and remarkable cultural development, from the... -
The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World by Lincoln P. Paine
RRP: £30.00£21.02A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind's relationship with the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of... -
Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t Tom Phillips 9781472263209
RRP: £10.99£7.50'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg JennerThis is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it.We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a... -
Studio 54 Night Magic by Matthew Yokobosky
RRP: £65.00£48.01There has never been and will never be another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the first official book on the legendary club, co-owner Ian Schrager presents a spectacular volume brimming with... -
The Falaise Gap Battles: Normandy 1944 by Simon Forty 9781612005386
RRP: £9.99£7.21The denouement of the battle of Normandy, the fighting around Falaise and Chambois in August 1944 and the pursuit of the retreating German armies to the Seine provided the Allies with an immense victory. After ten weeks of hard attritional fighting, the... -
The Holocaust as Culture by Imre Kertesz
RRP: £7.99£7.23Hungarian Imre Kertesz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002 for "writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history." His conversation with literary historian Thomas Cooper that is... -
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail Margaret Starbird 9781879181038
RRP: £14.99£9.46Margaret Starbird's theological beliefs were profoundly shaken when she read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, a book that dared to suggest that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalen and that their descendants carried on his holy bloodline in Western Europe... -
The Roman Revolution by Ronald Syme
RRP: £19.99£14.64The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The... -
Heroes or Villains?: The Blair Government Reconsidered by Jon Davis 9780198862819
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tony Blair was the political colossus in Britain for thirteen years, winning three elections in a row for New Labour, two of them by huge majorities. However, since leaving office he has been disowned by many in his own party, with the term 'Blairite'... -
Watermills of East Anglia by Pat O'Brien 9780752423593
RRP: £10.99£8.47ONCE a common feature of most small towns and settlements, the village mill has all but disappeared over the past hundred years or so. Increased mechanisation, economies of scale and the advent of such things as bakery bread and international... -
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (Collins Modern Classics) by Margot Lee Shetterly
RRP: £9.99£6.72NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female... -
Etta Lemon: The Woman who Saved the Birds by Tessa Boase
RRP: £12.99£8.83Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for fifty years against the... -
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller
RRP: £14.99£10.06The best oils are made by authentic artist-craftsmen, who marry centuries-old agricultural wisdom with cutting-edge extraction technology, and now produce the finest oils in history. However, these producers are being steadily driven from the market:... -
One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper by Richard Davenport-Hines 9780198703112
RRP: £28.99£21.20The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a public intellectual, an adept in academic intrigues, a lover of literature, a traveller, a... -
Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain by Richard Collier
RRP: £12.99£11.78This is the gripping story of the Battle of Britain; of some of the most fateful weeks in history.Drawing on eyewitness accounts from both the RAF and the Luftwaffe, this is a compelling story of history in the making through an intensely fought battle,... -
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Described by Christopher Marlowe as the 'She-Wolf of France', Isabella was one of the most notorious femme fatales in history. According to popular legend, her angry ghost can be glimpsed among church ruins, clutching the beating heart of her murdered... -
T-34 vs StuG III: Finland 1944 Steven J. Zaloga 9781472832351
RRP: £14.99£10.95In the summer of 1944, the Red Army staged a massive armoured assault up the Karelian Isthmus with the intent of eliminating any remaining German and Finnish forces facing the Leningrad region. Most of the Soviet units sent into Finland were new to... -
The First Ghosts: A rich history of ancient ghosts and ghost stories from the British Museum curator by Irving Finkel
RRP: £10.99£7.50'It's enthralling stuff, mixing the scholarly with the accessible and placing storytelling right at the heart of the human experience.' - History Revealed'A fascinating journey' - Yorkshire Post'Marvellous...Finkel is an expert in Mesopotamian cultures... -
British Royal Tombs by Aidan Dodson 9781843681182
RRP: £16.99£11.54Aidan Dodson's British Royal Tombs covers all the burials of the kings, queens (and lords protector) of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom, from the occupant of the great Sutton Hoo ship burial, to George VI, last Emperor of India, including of...