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Hawker's Secret Projects: Cold War Aircraft That Never Flew by Christopher Budgen 9781399047906
RRP: £25.00£17.62Hawker Aircraft Ltd at Kingston was arguably the most successful and long-lasting manufacturer of military aircraft in Great Britain and Europe. In its various evolved manifestations – Hawker Aircraft, Hawker Siddeley Aviation, British Aerospace – its... -
Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power by Erica Benner 9780241609750
RRP: £25.00£17.62'A sparkling page-turner full of wit, original insight and unassuming erudition.' Katja Hoyer, GuardianDemocracy is a living, breathing thing and Erica Benner has spent a lifetime thinking about the role ordinary citizens play in keeping it alive: from... -
From the Treaty of Versailles to the Treaty of Maastricht: Conflict, carnage and cooperation in Europe, 1918 - 1993 by Martin Holmes
RRP: £36.99£32.53This book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.Taking the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, as a starting point, the volume argues... -
Street Without A Name: Childhood And Other Misadventures In Bulgaria by Kapka Kassabova 9781846271243
RRP: £10.99£7.32After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club in 2007, but beyond the cliches about undrinkable wine, cheap property and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy... -
Age Shall Not Weary Them: 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment by Major Roy Rees 9780956342638
RRP: £12.95£11.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956342638Author Major Roy ReesFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Menin HousePublisher Tommies Guides -
The Secret Rooms: A Castle Filled with Intrigue, a Plotting Duchess and a Mysterious Death by Catherine Bailey
RRP: £10.99£7.51A castle filled with intrigue, a plotting duchess and a mysterious death in Catherine Bailey's The Secret Rooms. At 6 am on 21 April 1940 John the 9th Duke of Rutland, and one of Britain's wealthiest men, ended his days, virtually alone, lying on a... -
Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King by Francis Young
RRP: £15.99£12.46What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The search for the final resting place of King Edmund has led to this site, beneath which Francis Young argues... -
Elizabeth: The No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years by Gyles Brandreth 9780241674604
RRP: £25.00£18.02THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NOW FEATURING EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL ABOUT CHARLES III's CORONATION WITH ADDED PHOTOGRAPHSA personal account of the life and character of Britain's longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best'Compelling... -
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: £14.99£9.80Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life. Dramatically recreating the conditions and motives that surrounded... -
The World Aflame: The Long War, 1914-1945 by Dan Jones 9781788547789
RRP: £25.00£19.22'The events of the first and second world wars are brought to vivid, startling life thanks to Amaral's skill at colourising contemporary images' Observer The epic, harrowing and world-changing story - in words and colourized images - of global conflict... -
Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland by James Crawford
RRP: £22.00£15.11From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the Sky You scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a forest. And then you find them. The traces of the past... -
1923: The Crisis That Led to Hitler's Coup by Mark Jones 9781529360745
RRP: £14.99£8.54A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Excellent' Richard Evans'A vivid, crisp, impressively sustained narrative' Financial Times'Riveting' Irish Independent'Refreshing and readable' Irish Times'Gripping . . . thoroughly researched and beautifully... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks 9780715652374
RRP: £25.00£18.02As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
Haunted Weymouth by Alex Woodward
RRP: £14.99£11.55Who is the unseen lady that makes her presence chillingly felt to those who fail to bid her 'Good Morning'? What was the featureless dark shadow that terrified a curious young boy exploring a disused fort? From heart-stopping encounters with a Roman... -
Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam by Raymond Ibrahim
RRP: £30.00£18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642938203Author Raymond IbrahimFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
The Little Book of Devon by John van der Kiste 9780752461670
RRP: £9.99£7.55Do you know? Which MP was the first woman to take her seat in parliament? Who was the man they could not hang? Which member of the Beatles lost his temper at a famous Devon landmark? A compendium of fascinating information about Devon past and present,... -
Under Pressure: Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine by Richard Humphreys
RRP: £10.99£7.12'One of the finest memoirs published in recent years.' Dan Jones 'An utterly fascinating and wonderfully detailed insight into the hidden world of the modern submarine.' James Holland A candid, visceral, and incredibly... -
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 by A. J. P. Taylor 9780198812708
RRP: £35.99£33.99The system of international repression ended with the fall of Metternich in 1848. The conflicting ideals of international revolution and collective security came into being with Lenin and Wilson in 1918. Nationalism, tempered by the Balance of Power,... -
The Big Book of Pain: Torture & Punishment through History by Mark P. Donnelly 9780752459479
RRP: £20.00£15.44For millennia, mankind has devised ingenious and diabolical means of inflicting pain on fellow human beings. This deplorable but seemingly universal trait has eaten away at mankind's very claim to civilisation. Despite how repugnant the practice of... -
Shot Down: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth by Steve Snyder 9780986076015
RRP: £15.74£11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986076015Author Steve SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Sea Breeze Publishing LLCPublisher Sea Breeze Publishing LLCWeight(grams) 503g -
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 by Robert Gerwarth
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A breathtaking, magisterial panorama, telling the epic story of post-war anarchy, dying empires and rising nation states. It makes us rethink our understanding of Europe's twentieth century' David Motadel, The Times Literary SupplementFor the Western... -
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
RRP: £30.00£22.55**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.'This book is dynamite' ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindSprawling... -
Sagas of Salt and Stone: Orkney unwrapped by Robin Noble
RRP: £12.99£8.60The islands of Orkney are distinct, perhaps that bit wild. Remote, surrounded by an endless ocean and dominated by an infinite sky, which brings either brilliant light or days of wind that makes everything taste of salt. This remarkable landscape has the... -
Photography – A Queer History by Flora Dunster 9781781578698
RRP: £40.00£27.75Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the... -
Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash 9780753816844
RRP: £12.99£8.60When the Dutch East Indiaman Batavia struck an uncharted reef off the new continent of Australia on her maiden voyage in 1629, 332 men, women and children were on board. While some headed off in a lifeboat to seek help, 250 of the survivors ended up on a... -
Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: £12.99£11.46A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of... -
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Frances Larson 9781783780563
RRP: £12.99£8.56Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter... -
Frontkampfer: Wehrmacht Photo Albums from the Front by Jeff D. Eberle 9781781558959
RRP: £30.00£20.95Frontkampfer I: Blitzkrieg 1939-1942 is a collection of rare photographs, many of which have never been published before, highlighting the German war machine in the early years of the Second World War. Beginning in September 1939 with the invasion of... -
Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning by Peter Stanford
RRP: £10.99£7.40A thought-provoking reflection on pilgrimage past and present, and a compelling exploration of its relevance today. The enormous rise in popularity in recent decades of the Camino, the ancient pilgrim path that stretches from France, across northern... -
Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine by Aiden Aslin 9780857505293
RRP: £20.00£14.29Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at... -
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
RRP: £35.00£25.29The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller - a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of... -
Treachery at Hursley Park House: The intriguing new WWII mystery featuring wily heroine Josephine Fox by Claire Gradidge
RRP: £8.99£6.22From the winner of the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition comes another tantalising Golden Age wartime mystery.**DON'T MISS THE LASTEST JOSEPHINE FOX MYSTERY, A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS. OUT NOW!**PRAISE FOR THE JOSEPHINE FOX... -
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory by Richard Holmes
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory... -
The G.I. Bride: A heart-warming saga full of tears, friendship and hope by Eileen Ramsay
RRP: £9.99£6.85If you love Donna Douglas' Nightingale Girls and the nurses of Nadine Dorries' Lovely Lane, be prepared to fall in love with April, Eugenie, Bess and Nancy as they band together to support each other through love, loss and scandal. In wartime, can new... -
Climb Smarter: Mental Skills and Techniques for Climbing by Rebecca Williams 9781914110146
RRP: £15.99£13.33We all know that climbing is a headgame, and many climbers recognise that their mindset is holding them back. But what psychological skills do you need for climbing, and how do you develop them? If you have ever wanted to learn how to climb with more... -
The Cimbrian War 113–101 BC: The Rise of Caius Marius by Nic Fields 9781472854919
RRP: £16.99£12.28A gripping illustrated narrative of the Cimbrian (or Cimbric) War, in which the armies of the Roman Republic finally defeated the Germanic tribes of the Cimbri, Teutons, Ambrons and Tigurini. Rome's victory in the Cimbrian War was born of a number of... -
Bygone Peebles by Alex F. Young
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840339406Author Alex F. YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds 9780702308383
RRP: £7.99£5.82From a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator comes an inspiring picture book about the power of words. Some people collect stamps. Some people collect coins. Some people collect art. And Jerome?... -
How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours by Harry Mount
RRP: £12.99£9.09Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories.Q. Why are English train seats so narrow?A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first... -
The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco by Richard Hamilton
RRP: £14.99£11.17After witnessing first-hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition, Richard Hamilton has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers of Morocco, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb. ...