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The Madness: A Farewell to War by Fergal Keane
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.11As a journalist Keane has covered conflict and brutality across the world for more than thirty years, from Rwanda, Sudan, South Africa, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and many more. Driven by an... -
Easy Company Soldier by Don Malarkey 9780312563233
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.11Sgt. Don Malarkey takes us not only into the battles fought from Normandy to Germany, but into the heart and mind of a soldier who beat the odds to become an elite paratrooper and lost his best... -
The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley 9780099477761
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldIn 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt at the stake. He had been found... -
The Dead Man in the Bunker by Martin Pollack 9780571228010
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $10.67Gerhard Bast was found shot in an abandoned bunker in northern Italy in April 1947. A middle-ranking SS officer and an early member of the Nazi Party, Bast had been on the run since the end of the... -
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
RRP: $34.84Booksplease Price: $25.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143127857Author Andrew RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 976Imprint -
Wilmington's Lie (Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize): The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino 9780802148650
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $15.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802148650Author David ZucchinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint -
A 1950s Housewife: Marriage and Homemaking in the 1950s by Sheila Hardy 9780750964142
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Being a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. After the independence of the wartime years, women had to leave their jobs when they married and support their husband by... -
The Alchemist Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, USA) 9781472532596
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84A fast-paced whirlwind of fantasy and mockery confined to a single room, The Alchemist offers a witty culmination of Jonson's experiments with city comedy. The play has been widely recognized as one... -
The 1930s Home by Greg Stevenson
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.56The 1930s home presented an exciting new way of living for the generation that moved out to the suburbs. Young couples who had previously rented accommodation in urban centres found themselves able... -
Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain Jeremy Seabrook 9780745348421
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.55'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning -... -
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-45 by Nicholas Stargardt
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.73WINNER OF THE 2016 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The Second World War was a German war like no other. The Nazi regime, having started the conflict, turned it into the most horrific war in European... -
Nature's Explorers: Adventurers who recorded the wonder of the natural world by 9780565094645
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50Nature's Explorers celebrates the individuals who made great personal endeavours in order to document the natural world. Their findings revolutionised our understanding of nature and gave birth to... -
The Story of India by Michael Wood
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.42In The Story of India, Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of the subcontinent. Home today to more than a fifth of the world's population, India gave birth to... -
Hollywood on the Tiber by Hank Kaufman 9781942782858
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $27.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942782858Author Hank KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint < -
Tyburn Tales: The Criminal Chronology of York Castle by William Knipe 9780752455372
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48'Carefully compiled' in 1867 'from prison documents, ancient papers, and other authentic sources,' this extremely rare book contains the full details of the crimes, trials and executions of every... -
Mountain Days & Bothy Nights by Dave Brown
RRP: $10.05Booksplease Price: $8.09Acknowledged as a classic of mountain writing, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills as Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan and Stumpy the Big Yin stalk hill and public... -
Irish Freedom by Richard English
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Richard English's brilliant new book, now available in paperback, is a compelling narrative history of Irish nationalism, in which events are not merely recounted but analysed. Full of rich detail,... -
To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway by Christian Wolmar
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current... -
Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for... -
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest by Carl Hoffman 9780062116161
Booksplease Price: $13.39On November 21, 1961, Michael C. Rockefeller, the twenty-three-year-old son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, vanished off the coast of southwest New Guinea when his boat capsized. He was on a... -
Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival by Joan Druett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.59"Riveting." -The New York Times Book Review Hundreds of miles from civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in this true story of human nature at its best-and at its... -
Behind the Wall: My Brother, My Family and Hatred in East Germany by Ines Geipel 9781509559978
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.44Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used... -
Trolls: An Unnatural History by John Lindow
Booksplease Price: $27.71Trolls are everywhere. They lurk on the internet; they fill the pages of popular fantasy literature; they are hunted in Norwegian film. They are the homeless in California; they are comforting or... -
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town Professor Mary Beard 9781861975966
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $9.43WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura... -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.50From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason. 'The Death of Truth is destined to become the... -
Queen Mary James Pope-Hennessy 9781529355031
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers.When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was... -
The Real X-Men: The Heroic Story of the Underwater War 1942-1945 Robert Lyman 9781784296742
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The thrilling and true story of the development and operational deployment of human torpedoes - 'Chariots' - and 'X-craft' midget submarines in British naval service during WWII, and of the... -
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay 9781408891162
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And... -
Russia and the Russians: From Earliest Times to the Present by Geoffrey Hosking
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.67Geoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime's knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive... -
All the Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between by Mike Parker
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.73A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England-Wales border: Britain's... -
The Northern Ireland Troubles: 1969–2007 by Aaron Edwards 9781472857149
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controversial actions in recent history. Spanning 38... -
Elizabeth Woodville - A Life: The Real Story of the 'White Queen' by David MacGibbon
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV, mother of Elizabeth of York and the Princes in the Tower, and grandmother of Henry VIII, has been vilified and defended in turn. Was she a cunning enchantress,... -
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris 9781529430875
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $29.28The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie... -
Military Vehicles , The World Encyclopedia of: A complete reference guide to over 100 years of military vehicles, from their first use in World War I to the specialized vehicles deployed today by Pat Ware 9780754835622
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.87An authoritative 100-year overview of the fascinating history of the cargo/troop-carrying trucks, wreckers, tankers, ambulances, communications vehicles and other specialized types that provide... -
Open Cockpit by Arthur Gould Lee
Booksplease Price: $16.72Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Stanley Gould Lee gained valuable additional time flying trainers before he was posted to France during World War I. In November 1917 during... -
Closing the Ring: The Second World War by Winston Churchill
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for... -
Oath and Honor by Liz Cheney 9781035416349
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.69A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution-leading to the violent attack on the Capitol on 6th... -
Dunkirk: The Men They Left Behind Sean Longden 9781845299774
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07THE TRUE STORY OF THE 41,000 BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO WERE LEFT BEHIND AFTER THE EVACUATION OF DUNKIRK, MAY 1940'Meticulously researched, very well written and deeply moving' Andrew Roberts'Few readers... -
Bug Club Independent Phase 5 Unit 23: Andy's Amazing Adventures: Andy's Safari Adventure by 9781292428673
Booksplease Price: $9.05Age: 5-6 (Year 1/P2) Level: Key Stage 1 Subject: reading, phonics In this decodable non-fiction book, Andy sets off around the world to take photos of an elephant, meerkat and Arctic... -
The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Jonathan Schneer 9781408809709
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.07In the middle of the First World War, the British War Cabinet approved and issued a statement in the form of a letter that encouraged the settlement of the Jewish people in Palestine. Signed by the...