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Blenheim: Battle for Europe by Earl Charles Spencer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41How two men brought about the defeat of Louis XIV's previously unbeaten army and saved Europe from French domination - A Sunday Times BestsellerBy the summer of 1704 Louis XIV's vast armies dominated... -
Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker 9780099484332
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.632014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history.Hell's Gorge traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal... -
The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March by Ian Mortimer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London... -
The A-Z of Curious Suffolk: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Sarah E. Doig
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.77This book romps through the rolling countryside and along the shingled coastline of Suffolk, unearthing the curious along the way. Sandwiched between ecclesiastical penances handed down to adulterers... -
The Kings and Queens of Britain by John Cannon
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.07This authoritative and accessible guide to the British monarchy spans the Romano-British rulers of 55 BC to the present day House of Windsor. Generously illustrated with maps, photos, paintings, and... -
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary by Ernest Harsch
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.41Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his assassination during the military coup that brought down his... -
Cuba: An American History by Dr Ada Ferrer
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.81WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights and lucid prose" (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba... -
The Little Book of Belfast by Raymond O'Regan 9781803994062
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Did You Know? Belfast's motto is Pro Tanto Quid Retribuamus: 'What shall we give in return for so much?' In 1170, the first Belfast Castle was established in what is now Castle Place. The present... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: Crime and Punishment c.1250 to present Michael Riley 9781471860119
Booksplease Price: $28.14Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B... -
Images and Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo 9781782272663
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.84The lucidly written memoir of Iris Origo, the writer of the bestselling War in Val d'OrciaIt has only been through my affections that I have been able to perceive, however imperfectly, some faint... -
Storm Front by Rowland White
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81____________________'As vivid and compelling as the best adventure thriller, and a fitting tribute to a small band of men who became heroes' ANDY MCNAB 'Gripping, revealing and extraordinarily... -
British Gunboats of Victoria's Empire by Angus Konstam
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19A beautifully illustrated history of the iconic ocean-going gunboats of British 'gunboat diplomacy', the hundreds of little warships that for 50 years demonstrated the power of the Royal Navy... -
A Pocket Essential Short History of The Gnostics Sean Martin 9781842433393
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.11Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, to know - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ and, at one time, it almost became the... -
Those Who Hold Bastogne: The True Story of the Soldiers and Civilians Who Fought in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge by Peter Schrijvers
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.39A new telling of the brutal siege of Bastogne, where vastly outnumbered American forces held off a savage German onslaught and sealed the fate of the Third Reich Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of... -
Mussolini's War: Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse, 1935-1943 by John Gooch
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.40WINNER OF THE 2021 DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYA DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020From an acclaimed military historian, the definitive account of Italy's experience of the Second... -
One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe by David O'Keefe 9781785788994
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'A lively and readable account' Spectator'A fine book ... well-written and well-researched' Washington TimesIn less than six hours in August 1942, nearly 1,000 British, Canadian and American... -
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon by Edward Dolnick 9780060955861
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $21.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060955861Author Edward DolnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 by Agnes Poirier
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.97'Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian 'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The Times A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought,... -
Colchester: A History by Andrew Phillips 9780750986915
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.40Colchester boasts 2,000 years of history. Few towns in Britain can equal that. Yet this new book, by a local author, is the first full and concise history of Colchester to be published for over half... -
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.12Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white... -
Russian History: A Very Short Introduction by Geoffrey Hosking
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Spanning the divide between Europe and Asia, Russia is a multi-ethnic empire with a huge territory, strategically placed and abundantly provided with natural resources. But Russia's territory has a... -
Genghis Khan's Greatest General: Subotai the Valiant by Richard A Gabriel 9780806137346
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.75This book tells the story of Subotai the Valiant, a warrior for Genghis Khan and one of the greatest generals in military history. Subotai commanded armies whose size, scale, and scope of operations... -
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $24.66Over 2,000 years of history seen through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women. Was Jane Austen a fan of her own work? What did Harriet Tubman want to tell Abraham Lincoln? And how did Greta Thunberg... -
Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.92"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." -H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)... -
The Little History of Aberdeenshire by Duncan Harley 9780750989299
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Duncan Harley takes the reader on a grand tour through Aberdeenshire's fascinating and rich history, culminating in a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the events this... -
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water Nick Higham 9781472283863
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.07Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it... -
The Betrayal Of The Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes To Woodrow Wilson by Rayford W. Logan
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.10Between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the end of World War I in 1918, African Americans experienced their nadir. The Betrayal of the Negro (originally published as The Negro in American... -
The Crossing: Sir Vivian Fuchs, Sir Edmund Hillary and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1953-58 by John Knight
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $16.33The Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1953-58 organised and led by Sir Vivian Fuchs and supported by Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the most extraordinary exploits ever undertaken in Antarctica - but it... -
The Haunters and the Haunted by Sean O'Connor
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50Marianne Foyster, Harry Price and the most haunted house in England - the perfect read for Halloween. 'Borley Rectory is perhaps the definition of an old haunt, still exerting an extraordinary grip... -
Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.66Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and... -
A Pirate Of Exquisite Mind: The Life Of William Dampier Diana Preston 9780552772105
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92William Dampier, (1651-1715), was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune, he nonetheless had a passion for... -
Catherine Howard: The Adulterous Wife of Henry VIII by David Loades
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70Henry's fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers and ended up on the block. However, there was more to her than that. She was a... -
The Chinese Zodiac: And Other Paths to Luck, Riches, and Prosperity by Aaron Hwang
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $17.77The Chinese Zodiac is a beautifully illustrated introduction to eastern astrology, perfect for discovering what your sign-Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, or... -
Suburbs: A Very Short Introduction by Carl Abbott
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the... -
Patch Work: A Life Amongst Clothes by Claire Wilcox
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.50WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 'A strange and mesmerising piece of work' Sunday Times 'An absolute masterpiece' Laura Cumming 'An uncommon delight' Observer Claire Wilcox has been... -
Walking Oxford by Vicky Wilson 9781902910673
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902910673Author Vicky WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint < -
The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism by Nick Land 9780415056083
RRP: $99.15Booksplease Price: $77.61An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is... -
The Affairs of Ashmore Castle by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75The second novel in the Ashmore Castle series, perfect for fans of DOWNTON ABBEY, from the author of the hugely successful MORLAND DYNASTY novelsBehind the doors of the magnificent Ashmore Castle,... -
Goebbels by Peter Longerich
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.47Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed son of a factory worker rise from obscurity to become Hitler's malevolent minister of propaganda, most... -
First to Fight: The Polish War 1939 by Roger Moorhouse
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68A new and definitive account of the German invasion of Poland that initiated WWII in 1939, written by a historian at the height of his abilities.'Deeply researched, very well-written... This book...