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King's Road: The Rise and Fall of the Hippest Street in the World by Max Decharne 9781913172602
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.95The King's Road in Chelsea was at the epicentre of not one, but two worldwide cultural shifts. In the mid-sixties, it became a focal point and shop window for the new 'swinging' London, encompassing... -
The Camerons: The Origins of the Clan Cameron and Their Place in History by John Mackay 9781852170356
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $4.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852170356Author John MackayFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint -
Pitmatic: Stories and the Talk of The North East Coalfield Bill Griffiths 9780857162724
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.60The last major mine in the North East region closed in 2005 and with it went a way of life. Through dialect words, humour, stories and songs Pitmatic will help you to understand the everyday lives... -
Lost Voices of The Royal Navy Max Arthur 9780340838143
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Acclaimed historian Max Arthur pays tribute to the Royal Navy from 1914 to 1945. Drawing on the personal stories of those who have served during this period, he has created a unique narrative history... -
The Illustrated History of Liverpool's Suburbs by David Lewis 9781780913728
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780913728Author David LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
And There Was Light: The Autobiography of a Blind Hero in the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran 9780863155079
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.31'Light is in us even if we have no eyes.'It is a rare man who can maintain a love of life through the infirmity of blindness, the terrors of war, and the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp. Such a... -
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'The kind of vision the world needs right now...Pankaj Mishra shouldn't stop thinking' Christopher de Bellaigue, Financial... -
Apel, Yr / Appeal, The by Mererid Hopwood 9781800993822
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800993822Author Y. LolfaFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint -
A History of Fairground Transport: From Horses to Artics by Allan Ford
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Travelling fairs hold a special place in English history and traditions. Once or twice a year local towns and villages are overwhelmed with a cacophony of sounds, sights and smells, bringing magic... -
The Tudors: The Crown, the Dynasty, the Golden Age by Siobhan Clarke 9780233005966
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $13.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780233005966Author Siobhan ClarkeFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint -
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano: The Black History Classic Olaudah Equiano 9780857089137
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.57DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and... -
The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 Stephen Turnbull (Author) 9781846034565
Booksplease Price: $16.07From his seat in Xanadu, the great Mongol Emperor of China, Kubla Khan, had long plotted an invasion of Japan. However, it was only with the acquisition of Korea, that the Khan gained the maritime... -
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age by Anne de Courcy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. Born into... -
Silver Birds Over the Estuary: The Mig-21 in Yugoslav and Serbian Air Force Service, 1962-2019 by Bojan Dimitrijevic 9781913118693
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $18.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118693Author Bojan DimitrijevicFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo by Brendan Simms
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'A superb little book that is micro-history at its best' Washington Post'The brevity of this remarkable book belies the amount of work that went into it. One can only marvel at how well Professor... -
Empire: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Howe
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. And... -
Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 by Tony Mason
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $37.84On battleships, behind the trenches of the Western Front and in the midst of the Desert War, British servicemen and women have played sport in the least promising circumstances. When 400 soldiers... -
The Other One Percent: Indians in America by Sanjoy Chakravorty 9780190050771
Booksplease Price: $36.84One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American... -
Strolling through Florence: The Definitive Walking Guide to the Renaissance City by Mario Erasmo 9781780762142
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.66To walk through Florence is to step into one of the most remarkable histories of any European city. From its establishment by Julius Caesar in the first century BC, through its Golden Age at the... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and Dictatorship Adele Fletcher 9781510418967
Booksplease Price: $12.09Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: GeographyFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the... -
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev 9780349112862
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59Great Britain ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948. The British presence replaced 500 years of Turkish control and led to the State of Israel, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1998. The... -
Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy 9780571372829
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $9.26THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to... -
Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam by John Leppelman
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804105620Author John LeppelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
The A-Z of Curious Norfolk: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Sarah E. Doig 9781803994406
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Norfolk's spectacular coastline, quaint villages, historic houses, bustling market towns and meandering rivers all provide the perfect backdrop for some of the most curious tales from across the... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.151974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene,... -
B-25 Mitchell vs Japanese Destroyer Mark Lardas 9781472845177
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $15.84Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships. Indeed, warships in particular proved to be too elusive for conventional... -
The Birth of the Modern World, 1780 - 1914 C. A. Bayly (University of Cambridge, UK) 9780631236160
RRP: $38.79Booksplease Price: $36.25This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought. Explores previously neglected... -
Sultan in Oman Jan Morris 9781906011178
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906011178Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 171Imprint -
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film by Siegfried Kracauer 9780691191348
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $24.09An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticismFirst published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the... -
Croatia: A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Marcus Tanner
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02In this updated edition of his acclaimed history, Marcus Tanner takes us from the first Croat principalities of the Early Middle Ages through to the country's independence in the modern era "Full... -
The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family by Nelly Lahoud 9780300270426
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.62An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its founder-told through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle As seen on 60 Minutes "A comprehensive, meticulously constructed and... -
The Story of England by Michael Wood
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48In The Story of England Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries, from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410... -
Nuclear Folly: A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy 9780141993287
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $14.31*Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual... -
Born in the 70s by Tim Glynne-Jones 9781784047450
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $7.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784047450Author Tim Glynne-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint -
War in the Shadows: Resistance, Deception and Betrayal in Occupied France by Patrick Marnham
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37'One of our very best writers on France.' Antony Beevor After publishing an acclaimed biography of Jean Moulin, leader of the French Resistance, Patrick Marnham received an anonymous letter from a... -
A Canal People: The Photographs of Robert Longden by Sonia Rolt
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.17During a few years in the late 1940s and early 1950s Robert Longden took a remarkable set of photographs of the narrow boat community at Hawkesbury Stop - the main meeting point for those who worked... -
Dressed to Kill by Charlotte Madison 9780755319626
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'My fingers close around the trigger. I pause for a split second to think about the bullets I am about to spray across the ground. After today, I'll no longer be the new girl.'Captain Charlotte... -
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy by George Magnus
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $14.62A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at home... -
Female Secret Agents by Douglas Boyd 9781803993751
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. - espionage is not just a boys' game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes... -
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75"Should be required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in self-government." -The New York Times Book Review * "Well researched and eloquently presented." -The...