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Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levine
RRP: £8.99£2.71THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY AND MARK RYLANCE. ... -
The Stasi Game: The sensational Cold War crime thriller by David Young
RRP: £7.99£5.60The Stasi and MI6 clash in this gripping Cold War crime thriller, from the award-winning author of Stasi Child.______________________Dresden, East Germany, 1980 - A man's body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When... -
The Princes in the Tower: Did Richard III Murder His Nephews, Edward V & Richard of York? by Josephine Wilkinson
RRP: £9.99£6.64In the summer of 1483 two boys were taken into the Tower of London and were never seen again. They were no ordinary boys. One was the new King of England; the other was his brother, the Duke of York, and heir presumptive to the throne. Shortly... -
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Hayden V. White 9780801841156
RRP: £24.00£22.38Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption-in different historical epochs. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the... -
The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes by Judith Flanders
RRP: £12.99£9.09The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new... -
Up and Down Stairs: The History of the Country House Servant by Jeremy Musson
RRP: £10.99£7.40Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes... -
The Russian Revolution: A Beginner's Guide by Abraham Ascher
RRP: £9.99£7.551917: the year a series of rebellions toppled three centuries of autocratic rule and placed a group of political radicals in charge of a world power. Here, suddenly, was the first modern socialist state, "a kingdom more bright that any heaven had to... -
Julius Nyerere by Paul Bjerk
RRP: £12.99£11.77With vision, hard-nosed judgment, and biting humor, Julius Nyerere confronted the challenges of nation building in modern Africa. Constructing Tanzania out of a controversial Cold War union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, Nyerere emerged as one of... -
Spying on the Reich: The Cold War Against Hitler by Roger Howard 9780192862990
RRP: £31.49£21.94Exactly a century ago, intelligence agencies across Europe first became aware of a fanatical German nationalist whose political party was rapidly gathering momentum. His name was Adolf Hitler. From 1933, these spy services watched with growing alarm... -
KJV, Pew Bible, Hardcover, Blue, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, King James Version by Zondervan 9780718097585
£17.22The Thomas Nelson KJV Pew Bible has long been a trusted and durable Bible for use in churches and various worship settings. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most... -
The Lion House by Christopher de Bellaigue
RRP: £20.00£14.29**A SUNDAY TIMES, SPECTATOR and iNEWS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph'The most daring history book of the year. Unforgettable' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times___Venice, 1522... -
You Don't Want to Know: the grisly, macabre and most forgotten moments from history, science and beyond by James Felton
RRP: £12.99£8.60With his trademark brand of bulldozer-banter, Twitter legend James Felton guides you through the most morbidly fascinating facts you'll then wish you could forget.Ever wondered why the chainsaw was invented?* How authorities dealt with a beached whale... -
Bakumatsu: From Samurai to Soldiers - Japan in the 1860s by Till Weber 9783963600517
RRP: £34.95£29.84From the early 17th century until the 1860s, Japan was ruled by samurai led by the Shoguns of the powerful Tokugawa dynasty. The long period of peace following almost incessant civil war had negative effects on the proficiency of these feudal warriors... -
A Little History of British Gardening by Jenny Uglow
RRP: £25.00£18.02Get out in your garden and discover the history hidden in the hedges.Did the Romans have rakes? Did the monks get muddy? Did potatoes seem really, really weird when they arrived on our shores?Drawn from Jenny Uglow's own love for plants, this lively... -
The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam by Martin Windrow
RRP: £16.99£11.94Stalingrad in the jungle: the battle that doomed the French Empire and led America into VietnamIn winter 1953-54 the French army in Vietnam challenged its elusive enemy, General Giap's Viet Minh, to pitched battle. Ten thousand French paras and... -
Great Western, Pannier Tank Classes: An Overview of Their Design and Development by David Maidment 9781526734518
RRP: £40.00£30.79This is the tenth book by David Maidment in the Locomotive Portfolio' series and covers the large number of designs from 1860 onwards of 0-6-0 saddle tanks built for both the Great Western Railway and the independent railway companies in South Wales,... -
Zen in Japanese Culture by Gavin Blair
RRP: £24.99£17.38A visual journey through Zen's influence on Japanese life, from calligraphy to the martial arts Formed by a convergence of the Buddha's teachings with Taoism and local tradition, Zen has had a profound impact on the art and culture of Japan. As a... -
The Secret Diary of Queen Victoria by Terry Deary 9780702306662
RRP: £6.99£4.64From the bestselling team behind Horrible Histories! It's time to delve into the totally true (sort of) and incredibly intriguing pages of Queen Victoria's Secret Diary. First! Terry Deary steps into the mind... -
The Makarov Pistol: Soviet Union and East Germany by Cameron S White 9780994168238
RRP: £26.06£22.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994168238Author Cameron S WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Edwin H. Lowe PublishingPublisher Edwin H. Lowe PublishingWeight(grams) 449g -
Raid 42 by Graham Hurley
RRP: £8.99£7.07'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Spring, 1941. The war in the West is as good as won. Nation after nation has fallen before the Reich's armies. Only Britain endures, her cities under nightly bombardment from the Luftwaffe. Berlin would... -
The Creation of Patriarchy: The Origins of Women's Subordination. Women and History, Volume 1 by Gerda Lerner
RRP: £18.49£13.34When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over... -
Eduqas GCSE (9-1) History Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain c.500 to the present day by Rob Quinn
£24.12Exam board: EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: June 2018Endorsed by EduqasHelp every student to achieve their best, with bespoke support for Eduqas GCSE History from the leading History publisher for secondary... -
The Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts
RRP: £12.99£8.60Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. The recent Dutch immigrant recognized the spark in the eye of the beaten-up nag and bought him for eighty dollars. On Harry's modest farm on Long Island, he... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
RRP: £25.00£16.38'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary exploration of the birth, death, and legacy of the... -
Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In by John Guy
RRP: £12.99£8.48A long-overdue and dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians at work today. She was crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at sixteen years; at eighteen she... -
Into The Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade Davis
RRP: £18.99£14.01**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award**A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest - now serialised in the BBC R4 documentary The Crowning of Everest.'The price of life is... -
No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry by Owen O’Shea
RRP: £14.99£13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374531Author Owen O'SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Shackleton's Boat Journey by F. A. Worsley
RRP: £14.99£10.95Frank A. Worsley was the Captain of the H. M. S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by... -
Battle of Britain: A day-to-day chronicle, 10 July-31 October 1940 by Patrick Bishop 9781529409512
RRP: £12.99£8.60From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, this is a magisterial chronicle of a defining episode in British history: the epic struggle of the Royal Air Force with the Luftwaffe. Patrick Bishop's Battle of Britain is a compelling account... -
The White Rabbit by Bruce Marshall
RRP: £9.99£6.80The harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a concentration camp.'The White Rabbit' was the code name of Wing... -
Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust by David Joseph
RRP: £25.00£16.83When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday,... -
The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe by Barry Cunliffe 9780198820130
RRP: £19.99£14.68Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland... -
The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit by George Smeaton 9781498294942
RRP: £36.00£27.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498294942Author George SmeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 428Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Blood And Thunder: An Epic of the American West by Hampton Sides
RRP: £12.99£8.60Hampton Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, but at the centre of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson - the legendary trapper, scout... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee 9780008358259
RRP: £10.99£7.12A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective... -
Unseen Hastings and St Leonards: Britain in Old Photographs by Frederick Crouch 9780750967488
RRP: £15.99£12.25Unseen Hastings and St Leonards features 250 views including previously unpublished photographs that will appeal to everyone with an interest in the history of Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea. Accompanied by informative captions, many of these rare... -
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices by Robert McNally
RRP: £22.00£17.36As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to... -
Bubbleheads, SEALs and Wizards: America's Scottish Bastion in the Cold War by D.G. Mackay 9781849955546
RRP: £18.99£15.65The American military presence in Scotland during the Cold War was greater than in either of the World Wars, bringing with it the largest peace-time number of foreign military personnel in Scotland’s history. This military power was delivered by... -
The Soviet Century: Archaeology of a Lost World by Karl Schloegel
RRP: £35.00£29.34An encyclopedic and richly detailed history of everyday life in the Soviet UnionThe Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR?... -
Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters by Mark Urban
RRP: £12.99£8.56As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact...