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The Kindertransport: What Really Happened by Andrea Hammel 9781509553778
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.60In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but... -
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98) by James Baldwin
RRP: $50.91Booksplease Price: $34.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883011529Author James BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 869Imprint -
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 by Rick Perlstein 9781476793061
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.14A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020 From the bestselling author of Nixonland and The Invisible Bridge comes the dramatic conclusion of how conservatism took control of American political power.Over... -
Heimskringla II: Olafr Haraldsson (the Saint): Volume II by Snorri Sturluson 9780903521895
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780903521895Author Alison FinlayFormat PaperbackPage Count 339Imprint -
Gants Hill: A History in Photographs by Vincent Goodman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Gants Hill, a suburb of the London Borough of Redbridge, Essex, has long been a thriving community and shopping area, all centred around the famous and, at times, difficult to negotiate roundabout... -
The Slums of Leicester by Ned Newitt
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859839331Author Ned NewittFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
The Stonewall Reader by Jason Baumann
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded itJune 28, 2019 marks the... -
Ekaterinburg: The Last Days of the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport 9780099520092
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92A 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... -
Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel 9780897333764
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the... -
Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy by Roy A. Adkins
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.27The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond,... -
Aerospatiale / Westland Gazelle by David Oliver
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71The Aerospatiale/Westland Gazelle is one of the longest serving and most successful reconnaissance and light attack elicopters. The Gazelle soon made an impression with its high speed, smooth looks... -
Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World by Jack Weatherford 9780307717153
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $17.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307717153Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint
Shropshire from Dawn to Dusk by John Hayward
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913159160Author John Hayward*Format HardbackPage Count 192Imprint
Georgian London: The West End by Pat Dargan
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The eighteenth and early nineteenth century saw the dramatic expansion of London - wide and elegant boulevards, formal landscaped squares, crescents, blocks of tall redbrick terraced houses, and...
Irishisms: Blather, Blarney, Blessings and everything else we say in Ireland by Ronan Moore
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11While officially in Ireland we may have only two languages, in truth is it is probably closer to three: English, Irish and Irish-English. And it is this third language, Irish-English, that most of us...
The Gift of Anger: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Arun Gandhi
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Be inspired in 2020 by Ghandi's ten lessons for life.Gandhi was an icon, but what would he teach us if he were alive today? ___________In this Sunday Times bestseller, his grandson Arun reveals the...
CCEA AS-level History Student Guide: Germany (1919-1945) Fin Lappin 9781510418639
Booksplease Price: $14.74Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide...
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion, 1945-1980 by Vivienne Sanders
Booksplease Price: $18.17Exam board: AQALevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2017 (AS); Summer 2018 (A-level)Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for...
Slaves and Highlanders: Hearing Silenced Histories by David Alston
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.01Shortlisted for the 2021 Highland Book Prize Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries ...
Peig by Peig Sayers 9780815602583
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815602583Author Sayers.Format PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint
First Casualty: The Six-Day Battle That Began Two Decades of War in Afghanistan by Toby Harnden
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'Gripping ... A terrific action narrative' Max Hastings 'Reads like a Tom Clancy thriller, yet every word is true ... This is modern warfare close-up and raw' Andrew Roberts Bestselling and Orwell...
The Mythology of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Richard III. The name will conjure an image for any reader: Shakespeare's hunchback tyrant who killed his own nephews or a long-denigrated, misunderstood king. This one man's character and actions...
Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana: 22nd January 1879: Minute by Minute by Peers, Chris 9781784387563
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $14.02The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes in military history. In the morning, 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed the British invading force in one of the greatest...
Kathmandu by Tomas Bell
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his...
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis 9780812986631
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986631Author Jim MattisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint
Secret Black Country by Andrew Homer
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The towns and villages west of Birmingham, around Dudley, Wolverhampton, Sandwell and Wallsall, became known as the Black Country during the Industrial Revolution due to the intense industrialisation...
Daddy's Little Soldier: When home is a war zone, who can little Tom trust? by Maggie Hartley 9781409189022
Booksplease Price: $12.41A scared little boy who just wants his mummy back. A grieving father struggling to cope. And a loving foster carer determined to help them heal. A heartbreaking true story perfect for fans of Cathy...
Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92'Glorious... Scurr is one of the most gifted non-fiction writers alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesA revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the...
Limerick: Ireland in Old Photographs by Sharon Slater 9781845888985
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $17.63Limerick, Ireland's third most populous city, has a rich and vibrant history stretching back to its foundation by the Vikings. The last two centuries have brought great changes which are uniquely...
AEthelflaed: Lady of the Mercians by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.54The true story of the Lady of the Mercians. At the end of the ninth century AD, a large part of what is now England was controlled by the Vikings - heathen warriors from Scandinavia who had been...
B-24 Liberator Units of the Eighth Air Force by Robert F Dorr 9781855329010
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.86The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the 'Mighty...
An Insider's Guide to the Japanese Martial Arts: A New Look at Japan's Fighting Traditions by Alexander Bennett
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.99The ultimate guide to the Japanese martial arts by the world's foremost expert!Author Alexander Bennett is the ultimate insider, having lived in Japan for decades. He holds multiple black belts in...
Newcastle History Tour by Ken Hutchinson
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86Newcastle History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this famous city. This new book guides us through the streets and alleyways, showing how its famous landmarks used to look...
The King's Revenge: Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History by Michael Walsh 9780349123769
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41When Charles I was executed, his son Charles II made it his role to search out retribution, producing the biggest manhunt Britain had ever seen, one that would span Europe and America and would last...
By the Sword: Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai Warriors, Swashbucklers and Olympians by Richard Cohen 9781847396709
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The art and science of sword fighting goes back almost to the dawn of civilization and has been an obsession for much of mankind throughout recorded history. From the Roman arena to feudal Japan and...
The Diary That Changed The World: The Remarkable Story of Otto Frank and the Diary of Anne Frank by Karen Bartlett 9781785906152
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42'To build up a future, you have to know the past.' Otto Frank, 1967 In late 1940s Amsterdam, when Otto Frank unwrapped his daughter Anne's diary with trembling hands and began to read the first...
Cornish Folk Tales by Mike O'Connor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48The ancient land of Cornwall is steeped in mysterious tradition, proud heritage and age-old folklore. Before books were widely available, wandering 'droll tellers' used to spread Cornish insight and...
North American XB-70 Valkyrie by Peter E. Davies
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Of the many futuristic military aircraft concepts created in the 1950s the North American XB-70 still stands out as the most awe-inspiring. With its huge, white partially-folding delta wing, its...
Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain Padraic X. Scanlan 9781472142337
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07'Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking'Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history'Mihir Bose, Irish Times'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and...
The Normans in the South, 1016-1130: The Normans in Sicily Volume I by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Chronicling the 'other Norman invasion', The Normans in the South is the epic story of the House of Hauteville, and in particular Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer...