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Women in England 1760-1914: A Social History Professor Susie Steinbach 9780753819890
RRP: £9.99£7.00A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World WarUsing diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside... -
Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 9780141985077
RRP: £10.99£7.99Edward VI died a teenager in 1553, yet his brief reign would shape the future of the nation, unleashing a Protestant revolution that propelled England into the heart of the Reformation. This dramatic account takes a fresh look at one of the most... -
Manchester: Mapping the City by Terry Wyke
RRP: £30.00£21.30Manchester is one the world's most iconic cities. Not only was it the first industrial city, it can claim to be the first post-industrial city. This book uses historic maps and unpublished and original plans to chart the dramatic growth and... -
The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Relations, 1689-1918 by Colin Partridge 9781783276554
RRP: £95.00£89.97Examines how the Channel Islands have been crucial to Britain's successful maritime superiority in the English Channel. The Channel Islands have played a key role in both naval warfare and Anglo-French diplomacy, but this has not always been... -
Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn
RRP: £10.99£7.46Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan had not only cut tracks through the bush, but... -
Hut/Hytte by Lesley Riddoch 9781913025632
RRP: £9.99£7.37Victorian visitors had shooting lodges - Scots had trips doon the watter. Norwegian citizens had hytte - Scots had Butlins. Why have the inhabitants of one of Europe's prime tourist destinations been elbowed off the land and exiled from nature for so... -
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Gunther Schuller
RRP: £12.99£10.01Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the... -
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology: Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals (Mythology) by Donna Jo Napoli 9781426313806
RRP: £19.99£14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426313806Author Donna Jo NapoliFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint National Geographic KidsPublisher National Geographic KidsWeight(grams)... -
The Forgotten Dead: The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day Ken Small 9781472834492
RRP: £10.99£7.8727 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and... -
The American Stamp: Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States by Laura Goldblatt 9780231208246
RRP: £30.00£23.29More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal... -
Frederick the Great: King of Prussia by Tim Blanning
RRP: £18.99£13.91'Highly readable and deeply researched' - Andrew Roberts 'Masterful ... brilliantly brings to life one of the most complex characters of modern European history' - Sunday Telegraph'It is sure to be the standard English-language account for many years. It... -
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein
RRP: £21.99£21.89First published in 1995, this acclaimed study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically reexamines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light... -
Second World War, The A Ammonite 9781907708893
RRP: £7.99£5.70This book looks at WWII from a largely British perspective, based upon approximately 350 photographs from the archives of Mirrorpix. It takes a look at the legacies of the war, including the establishment of the United Nations and the European Union. The... -
Mafia, The: A Cultural History by Roberto M. Dainotto
RRP: £11.99£8.66What makes Tony Soprano so likeable? Why would we rather leave the cannoli and take the gun? Do we truly want Scarface's Tony Montana to succeed? Is Michael Corleone a misunderstood hero or a despicable villain? In The Mafia: A Cultural History, now... -
Dien Bien Phu 1954: The French Defeat that Lured America into Vietnam by Martin Windrow
RRP: £16.99£12.28A highly illustrated study of the battle at Dien Bien Phu, the 56-day siege that eventually led to the surrender of the remaining French-led forces, this iconic battle provided the climax of the First Indochina War. In late 1953, the seventh year of... -
Soldiers of Liberty: A Study of Fenianism 1858-1908 by Eva o Cathaoir
RRP: £30.00£26.74* This volume, which includes completely original material, will be of interest to local and national historians. * The detail and depth of the information in this book will make it an invaluable resource for researchers and libraries. * Families from... -
Cyril of Alexandria by Norman Russell
RRP: £37.99£33.38As a ruler of the church of Alexander and president of the Third Ecumenical Council of 431, Cyril was one of the most powerful men of the fifth century. Not only did he define the concept of christological orthodoxy for the next two centuries, but he is... -
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture by Gaiutra Bahadur
RRP: £15.99£14.47*** Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize*** In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a 'coolie', the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who... -
Auschwitz and Birkenau by Ian Baxter
RRP: £15.99£11.91Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other,by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the... -
The Little Book of Devon by John van der Kiste 9780752461670
RRP: £9.99£7.77Do you know? Which MP was the first woman to take her seat in parliament? Who was the man they could not hang? Which member of the Beatles lost his temper at a famous Devon landmark? A compendium of fascinating information about Devon past and present,... -
The Temple And The Lodge by Michael Baigent
RRP: £16.99£12.28In this enthralling historical detective story, the authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail trace the flight after 1309 of the Knights Templar from Europe to Scotland, where the Templar heritage was to take root, and would be perpetuated by a... -
My Revision Notes: AQA AS/A-level History: The English Revolution, 1625-1660 Oliver Bullock 9781471876196
RRP: £12.50£11.84Exam Board: AQALevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in AQA AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Typewriter: The History, The Machines, The Writers by Tony Allan 9781627950343
RRP: £9.99£9.85Personal computers may have replaced the typewriter in most homes and offices, but the venerable writing machine is currently staging a comeback. From portable models that hipsters are snapping up, to Tom Hanks's bestselling app that recreates the manual... -
Undercover Joe Carter 9781784753443
RRP: £10.99£7.87A compelling true story of the reality of undercover police workFor over 20 years, Joe Carter has worked for the police as an undercover cop. Travelling the globe on different passports, fraternising with thieves and international drugs and arms dealers,... -
Hawker's Early Jets: Dawn of the Hunter by Budgen, Christopher 9781526792174
RRP: £25.00£17.62On 2 September 1947, Hawker Aircraft Ltd figuratively and literally took to the air with their first jet design, the P.1040/. Conceived in the latter days of the Second World War, and developed in the straitened times of post-war austerity, the aircraft... -
The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and War by Aidan Hartley
RRP: £12.99£8.71A deeply affecting memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's horrendous wars, which Hartley witnessed at first hand as a journalist in the 1990s. Shortlisted for the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction, this is a masterpiece of... -
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by Frances Yates 9780415267694
RRP: £16.99£15.22A history of the role that the occult has played in the formation of modern science and medicine, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment has had a tremendous impact on our understanding of the western esoteric tradition. Beautifully illustrated, it remains one of... -
Maymyo Days: Forgotten Lives of a Burma Hill Station Stephen Simmons 9786164510760
RRP: £30.00£19.80To many the words Hill Station are evocative of an exotic and exciting vision when the subjects of the British Colonial Government gloried in the Hill Stations of India and Burma. Beautifully constructed holiday towns built at 3,000 feet or more where... -
Inside the Royal Wardrobe: A Dress History of Queen Alexandra by Kate Strasdin
RRP: £24.99£22.89Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a... -
The Castle: A History by John Goodall
RRP: £19.99£17.37A vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military might, and today it remains a powerful symbol of... -
Writing History: Theory and Practice Prof. Stefan Berger (Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) 9781474255882
RRP: £24.99£22.33The third edition of Writing History provides students and teachers with a comprehensive overview of how the study of history is informed by a broader intellectual and analytical framework, exploring the emergence and development of history as a... -
Iron Coffins by Herbert A. Werner
RRP: £10.99£7.61A first hand account of the German U-boat battles of World War II, by one of the very few surviving commanders.This is a story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill,... -
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand
RRP: £45.00£39.44At the 900th anniversary of the Crusader capture of Jerusalem, it is timely to reflect on how the phenomenon of the Crusades influenced the Muslim world, then and now, militarily, culturally and psychologically. This book discusses a group of themes... -
Rommel's Afrika Korps in Colour: Rare German Photographs from World War II by Ian Spring 9781784388799
RRP: £28.00£20.62Take a visual journey through North Africa during the Second World War with Anthony Tucker-Jones and Ian Spring as they chart the path of Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps through a series of stunning, rare colour photographs. Taken from Ian Spring's... -
GCSE Spanish by RSL: Volume 2: Reading, Writing, Translation by Matt Lim 9781914127090
RRP: £14.99£14.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914127090Author Matt LimFormat PaperbackImprint RSL EducationalPublisher RSL Educational -
How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction to the Big Questions in Philosophy by Anthony McGowan
RRP: £10.99£7.60Monty was just like any other dog. A scruffy and irascible Maltese terrier, he enjoyed barking at pugs and sniffing at trees. But after yet another dramatic confrontation with the local Rottweiler, Anthony McGowan realises it's high time he and Monty had... -
German Fighter Aircraft of World War II by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £17.99£12.39Arranged by type, German Fighter Aircraft of World War II offers a highly illustrated guide to the most important fighters used by the Luftwaffe during the conflict. It features such classics as the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Bf 110, the Heinkel He 100D-1... -
City of God by Saint Augustine
RRP: £18.99£14.15City of God is an enduringly significant work in the history of Christian thought, by one of its central figuresWritten as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, this great theological and... -
A Lady Of His Own: Number 3 in series Stephanie Laurens 9780749940331
RRP: £9.99£7.00Impatient to find his bride-to-be yet appalled by the damsels of the ton, Charles St Austell seeks refuge in his castle - and discovers Lady Penelope Selborne walking the deserted corridors at midnight. Years ago they'd consummated their youthful passion... -
Cider Country: In Search of a Forgotten History by James Crowden
RRP: £18.99£13.11'James Crowden is Britain's best cider writer ... Cider Country is the book we've all been waiting for.' Oz Clarke Join James Crowden as he embarks on a journey to distil the ancient origins of cider,...