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Story of Sheffield by Tim Cooper
RRP: $25.80$19.92Sheffield's story is one of fierce independence and a revolutionary spirit, its industrial origins having their roots in the same forests as the legends of Robin Hood. From Huntsman's crucible steel in the eighteenth century, to Brearley's stainless... -
Works by Marcus Aurelius
RRP: $32.19$30.17Stoic musings of a philosopher-emperor at war.Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his guardian and uncle emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138-161), who adopted him. He was converted to... -
Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
RRP: $24.50$16.50We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years. In Destiny Disrupted , Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world... -
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific by Brandon Presser 9781785788949
RRP: $14.18$9.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785788949Author Brandon PresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Icon BooksPublisher Icon Books -
Great Western, Grange Class Locomotives: Their Design and Development by David Maidment 9781526752017
RRP: $38.70$28.32Churchward proposed a 5ft 8in wheeled 4-6-0 for mixed traffic duties in 1901 and it was seriously considered in 1905, but it took until 1936 before his successor, Charles Collett, realised the plan by persuading the GWR Board to replace many of the 43XX... -
Darganfod Tai Hanesyddol Eryri / Discovering the Historic Houses of Snowdonia by Richard Suggett
$27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871184532Author Richard SuggettFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of WalesPublisher Royal... -
Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot by Helmut Mahlke 9781526760784
RRP: $21.92$16.36After recounting his early days as a naval cadet, including a voyage to the Far East aboard the cruiser _K ln_, and as the navigator/observer of the floatplane carried by the pocket battleship _Admiral Scheer_ during the Spanish Civil War, the author... -
When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends by Mary McAuliffe 9781538121801
RRP: $19.34$14.64When Paris Sizzled vividly portrays the City of Light during the fabulous 1920s, les Annees folles, when Parisians emerged from the horrors of war to find that a new world greeted them-one that reverberated with the hard metallic clang of the assembly... -
War and Religion: A Very Short Introduction by Jolyon Mitchell
RRP: $11.60$8.32Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of the most terrible wars in history have been caused and motivated by religion. Much of the violence that fills our screens today springs... -
The Strange Laws Of Old England by Nigel Cawthorne
RRP: $14.18$9.55Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed... -
Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race by Patrick Wolfe
RRP: $25.79$25.52Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native... -
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 by Linda Colley 9780300152807
RRP: $23.21$20.37How was Great Britain made? And what does it mean to be British? This brilliant and seminal book examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new national identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire... -
The Tudor Crown by Joanna Hickson
RRP: $10.31$6.98'An intriguing tale, told with confidence' The Times 'A great tale... the golden thread that led to the crown of England' Conn Iggulden She'll betray her king to crown her sonWhen Edward of York... -
The Science of the Dogon: Decoding the African Mystery Tradition by Laird Scranton 9781594771330
RRP: $20.63$18.21The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, are famous for their unique art and advanced cosmology. The Dogon's creation story describes how the one true god, Amma, created all the matter of the universe. Interestingly, the myths that depict his creative... -
Blowing up Russia: The Book that Got Litvinenko Assassinated by Alexander Litvinenko
RRP: $14.18$11.53Updated edition of the book that got former FSB Colonel Alexander Litvinenko killed according to MI6. It unveils the first-ever fake news campaign that the FSB created to have former FSB head Vladimir Putin elected as President of Russia.About the... -
Samuel Pepys: The Diaries by Samuel Pepys
RRP: $25.80$18.95When Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began writing in 1660 he was a young clerk living in London, struggling to pay his rent. Over the next nine years as he kept his journal, he rose to be a powerful naval administrator. He became eyewitness to some of the most... -
Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers by Anabel Hernandez
$14.64The product of five years of investigative reporting, the subject of intense national controversy, and the source of death threats that forced the National Human Rights Commission to assign two full-time bodyguards to Anabel Hernandez, The Lords of el... -
The Dawn of the Roman Empire: Books 31-40 by Livy
RRP: $16.76$11.73'With a single announcement from a herald, all the cities of Greece and Asia had been set free; only an intrepid soul could formulate such an ambitious project, only phenomenal valour and fortune bring it to fruition. (Livy, 33. 33) Thus Livy... -
Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
RRP: $12.89$9.17A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs, counting down to the last, tense hours of their lives.On 4 July 1918, a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg. His name was... -
Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War by Nick Lloyd 9781519531117
$23.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519531117Author Nick LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace -
Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs: As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders by Carl Chinn
RRP: $11.60$6.14From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl ChinnThe Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family have become cult anti-heroes... -
London Curiosities: The Capital's Odd & Obscure, Weird and Wonderful Places by John Wade 9781473879119
$17.51London is full of curiosities. Who knew that beneath the Albert Memorial lies an undercroft resembling a church crypt? Or that there are catacombs under Camden? Who would expect to find a lighthouse in East London, sphinxes in South London, dummy houses... -
The Gestapo: A History of Horror by Jacques Delarue 9781602392465
RRP: $21.92$13.34From 1933 to 1945, the Gestapo was Nazi Germany's chief instrument of counter-espionage, political suppression, and terror. Jacques Delarue, a saboteur arrested by the Nazis in occupied France, chronicles how the land of Beethoven elevated sadism to a... -
When I Come Home Again: A beautiful and heartbreaking WWI novel, based on true events by Caroline Scott
RRP: $11.60$7.51'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 From the highly acclaimed author of The Photographer of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a beautiful and compelling story based on true events, perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell... -
On Intelligence: The History of Espionage and the Secret World by John Hughes-Wilson
RRP: $16.76$11.09This book is a professional military-intelligence officer's and a controversial insider's view of some of the greatest intelligence blunders of recent history. It includes the serious developments in government misuse of intelligence in the recent war... -
Meet Me in Bombay: An epic, heartbreaking and breathtaking World War One novel by Jenny Ashcroft 9780751573220
RRP: $12.89$8.77'An epic love story full of exotic charm and rich historical detail . . . Meet Me In Bombay will sweep you away to another time and place.' Red Magazine'Powerful and evocative' Woman & HomeAll he needs is to find her. First he must remember who she is... -
Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas by Gerry Smyth
RRP: $19.34$12.64Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or... -
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni 9780674660236
RRP: $43.80$35.36A preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader.The experience of reading is often presented as personal and... -
The Origins of Manchester: from Roman conquest to industrial revolution by Alan Kidd 9781859362396
RRP: $16.76$12.51This fascinating book, by a leading historian of the city, tells Manchester's story from the Romans to the first steam-powered factories, showing how the centuries before the Industrial Revolution formed the foundation for the city's later greatness. ... -
John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant by Raymond Lamont-Brown
RRP: $16.76$12.41A century after Queen Victoria's death, debate still rages surrounding her relationship with her gillie, John Brown. Were they ever married? What was the extraordinary hold he had over her? This biography aims to shed new light on these questions and to... -
Panzers in the Defence of Festung Posen 1945 by Maciej Karalus
RRP: $21.87$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390168Author Maciej KaralusFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Eighteenth Century: Europe 1688-1815 by T. C. W. Blanning
$45.69The complete Short Oxford History of Europe (series editor: Professor T.C.W. Blanning) will cover the history of Europe from Classical Greece to the present in eleven volumes. In each, experts write to their strengths tackling the key issues including... -
Sisters in Resistance: how a German spy, a banker's wife, and Mussolini's daughter outwitted the Nazis by Tilar J. Mazzeo
RRP: $25.80$17.88The extraordinary true story of the unlikely friendship between three women - Mussolini's daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite - who conspired to assist the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator, gave her father... -
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $21.92$15.31'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentThe penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war... -
The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline by Yasheng Huang 9780300266368
RRP: $32.25$26.99The long history of China's relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2023 Chinese society has been shaped by the interplay of the... -
Glasgow: The Autobiography by Alan Taylor
RRP: $16.76$11.04Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium. Including... -
Female Railway Workers in World War II by Susan Major 9781526703088
RRP: $25.79$18.42During World War II women took on railway roles which were completely new to females. They worked as porters and guards, on the permanent way, and in maintenance and workshop operations. In this book Susan Major features the voices of women talking about... -
Whatever Happened to the Real Black Country?: Black Country Chronicles 1939-1999 by Tom Larkin 9780750992602
RRP: $16.76$12.41Between the outbreak of the Second World War and the end of the century, life changed dramatically for the working-class people of the Black Country. Having survived the hardships of war, they found themselves facing a slew of social issues, all the... -
Torn Apart: Fifty Years of the Troubles, 1969-2019 by Ken Wharton
RRP: $21.92$17.21In the early twentieth century there was a war brewing on Britain's doorstep. Northern Ireland was filled with discrimination and suspicion, a sense of foreboding that would soon erupt into full-blown rioting. As the fiftieth anniversary of the Troubles... -
East Anglia and its North Sea World in the Middle Ages by David Bates 9781783270361
RRP: $37.40$31.54The relations between medieval East Anglia and countries across the North Sea examined from a variety of perspectives. East Anglia was a distinctive English region during the Middle Ages, but it was one that owed much of its character and identity to...