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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,... -
The Mechanical Devil: Book 22 in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series by Kate Ellis
RRP: £9.99£7.00Secrets never stay buried for long . . . When archaeologist Neil Watson unearths a long-buried mechanical figure in a Dartmoor field, he is determined to discover the truth behind the bizarre find.Soon, however, the sleepy village becomes the focus of... -
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy by Larry Tye 9781328959720
RRP: £27.99£20.92In the long history of American demagogues from Huey Long to Donald Trump, never has one man caused so much damage in such a short time as Senator Joseph McCarthy. We still use 'McCarthyism' to stand for outrageous charges of guilt by association, a... -
The Last Rising: The Newport Chartist Insurrection of 1839 by David J. V. Jones 9781783160099
RRP: £12.99£9.96The Chartist movement is a core area of study in many history syllabuses. This new edition of a book first published in 1999, details the last of the Chartist insurrections in 1839. It looks at the full story of the rising, its origins and its aftermath,... -
The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade by Benjamin T Smith
RRP: £9.99£7.21Discover the secret history behind the headlines.The Mexican drug wars have inspired countless articles, TV shows and movies. From Breaking Bad to Sicario, El Chapo's escapes to Trump's tirades, this is a story we think we know. But there's a hidden... -
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE WEEK: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice by Julia Laite
RRP: £9.99£7.21WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'Brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious history writing' Mail on Sunday 'A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece' - Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five ... -
Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner
RRP: £18.99£13.61On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them were West Indies nationals. On 22 June 1948 they disembarked onto the docks,... -
Understanding J. Bruce Ismay: The True Story of the Man They Called 'The Coward of Titanic' by Clifford Ismay
RRP: £15.99£12.43Coward. Brute. Yellow-livered.For over 100 years, J. Bruce Ismay has been the scapegoat of the Titanic disaster. He is the villain of every film and TV drama: a fit and able-bodied man who sacrificed the lives of women and children in order to survive... -
A History of Europe in 12 Cafes by Monica Porter 9781399031523
RRP: £25.00£17.62Since the seventeenth century, the café, or coffee house, in Europe has been the key gathering place of innovators and mavericks – the writers, artists, philosophers and political figures who formed influential affiliations and gave birth to... -
Across an Angry Sea: The SAS in the Falklands War: The SAS in the Falklands War by Cedric Delves
RRP: £13.99£12.78In early summer 1982--winter in the South Atlantic--Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Cedric Delves. The relentless... -
Samurai and Ninja: The Real Story Behind the Japanese Warrior Myth that Shatters the Bushido Mystique Antony Cummins, MA 9784805313343
RRP: £13.99£9.30The myths of the noble Samurai and the sinister Ninja are filled with romantic fantasy and fallacy.Samurai and Ninja expert Antony Cummins shatters the myths and exposes the true nature of these genuine-and very lethal-medieval Japanese warriors. The... -
Hms Bristol by Rob Griffin
RRP: £16.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658757Author Rob GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 355g -
NKJV, Chronological Study Bible, Hardcover, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £40.00£28.04Take a journey through the history and culture of the Bible with the only study Bible that unfolds in historical order.The NKJV Chronological Study Bible presents Scripture in chronological order-the order in which the events happened-with notes,... -
Hitler's Horses: The Incredible True Story of the Detective who Infiltrated the Nazi Underworld by Arthur Brand
RRP: £16.99£12.28The true story of a detective, two bronze horses and the dictator who set the world on fire.When detective Arthur Brand is summoned to a meeting with one of the most dangerous men in the art world, he learns that a clue has emerged that could solve one... -
The Undesirables: The Law that Locked Away a Generation by Sarah Wise 9780861544554
RRP: £22.00£15.24Through the early twentieth century, the British Government locked away over 50,000 innocent people. Their ‘crimes’? Being poor and unyielding. This is their story. 'The heartrending stories Sarah Wise has unearthed beggar belief… beautifully researched... -
Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance by Robert Gildea
RRP: £12.99£8.80The story of the French Resistance is central to French identity, but it is a story built on myths. Not simply an effort to free the country from German occupation, it was part of a Europe-wide anti-fascist struggle, which included Spanish republicans,... -
The Waterloo Campaign in 100 Locations by John Grehan 9781526746917
RRP: £25.00£17.62In the 200 years since the famous battle in the muddy, bloody fields of Waterloo, almost every aspect of the fighting has been examined and analysed, apart from one – that of finding and illustrating locations relating to the campaign. From Napoleon’s... -
Scramble!: The Memoir of Britain's Most-Decorated RAF Fighter Pilot by J R D 'Bob' Braham
RRP: £13.99£9.85J. R. D. 'Bob' Braham was Britain's most-decorated fighter pilot and one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War II. Joining the RAF in 1938 at the age of 18, he was posted to No. 29 Squadron at Debdon, where he learned to fly the Hawker... -
History of South Africa: 1902 to the Present by Thula Simpson
RRP: £22.00£19.52South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and... -
The Art of War by Tzu Sun 9780141395845
RRP: £14.99£10.95For more than 2,000 years, Sun Tzu's The Art of War has provided leaders with essential advice on battlefield tactics, managing troops and terrain, and employing cunning and deception. An elemental part of Chinese culture, it has also become a touchstone... -
When I Lived In Modern Times by Linda Grant 9781847082619
RRP: £8.99£6.18It is April 1946. Evelyn Sert, twenty years old, a hairdresser from Soho, sails for Palestine, where Jewish refugees and idealists are gathering from across Europe to start a new life in a brand-new country. In the glittering, cosmopolitan, Bauhaus... -
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji 9781847925497
RRP: £30.00£20.95**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'A classic ... wonderfully enjoyable' WILLIAM DALRYMPLEThis is the authoritative history of South Asia in the 20th century.Shadows at Noon tells the subcontinent's story from the British Raj... -
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
RRP: £12.99£9.19'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards middle-class families who can afford huge investments in their children's... -
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone
RRP: £19.99£14.68**The New York Times bestseller****Updated to include Obama's second term, Trump's first year and a half, climate change, nuclear winter, Korea, Russia, Iran, China, Libya, ISIS, and Syria**'This is not history for history's sake, however - this is the... -
Indochina: An Ambiguous Colonization, 1858-1954 by Pierre Brocheux 9780520269743
RRP: £30.00£23.69Combining new approaches with a groundbreaking historical synthesis, this accessible work is the most thorough and up-to-date general history of French Indochina available in English. Unique in its wide-ranging attention to economic, social,... -
A Short History of the Troubles by Brian Feeney
RRP: £8.99£6.97From the first symptoms of serious unrest - the Divis Street riots of 1964 - to the tortuous political manoeuvrings culminating in the 2003 Assembly elections, the book traces the reality of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It details the... -
A History of Irish Republicanism in Dundee c1840 to 1985 by Rut Nic Foirbeis 9781913836276
RRP: £15.00£12.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913836276Author Rut Nic FoirbeisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Tippermuir Books LimitedPublisher Tippermuir Books Limited -
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £20.00£15.29'A masterpiece of social history' Daily MailThere is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indian summer between the two world wars, a period of gentle decline in which the sun... -
The Struggle for Taiwan: A History by Sulmaan Wasif Khan 9780241674857
RRP: £25.00£17.62A gripping account of the past and future of TaiwanIn the overwhelming chaos across Asia at the end of the Second World War, one relatively minor issue was the future of the Japanese colony of Taiwan, a large island some one hundred miles off the coast... -
Fighting the French Revolution: The Great Vendee Rising of 1793 by Rob Harper 9781473868960
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 1793 France was facing foreign invasion along its borders and a fierce political war was raging in Paris when a large-scale revolt, centred on the western Department of the Vendee, suddenly erupted, almost bringing the new-born French Republic to its... -
The Korean War by Bruce Cumings
RRP: £16.99£9.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812978964Author Bruce CumingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 202mm... -
Darren Campbell: Track Record by Darren Campbell 9781902719832
RRP: £13.99£11.78Olympic gold medallist Darren Campbell is one of Britain's most successful and popular athletes, yet the real story behind his success has not been made public, until now. Track Record, his long-awaited autobiography, reveals how a boy from painfully... -
Youthquake: Why African Demography Should Matter to the World by Edward Paice
RRP: £10.99£7.87A riveting study of Africa's demographics - its youth and growth - and what they mean for the continent, today and into the future. 'Essential reading' Guardian 'Intensely researched - and very important!' The Week 'The research in Youthquake... -
France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 by Julian Jackson
RRP: £22.99£17.28The French call them 'the Dark Years'... This definitive new history of Occupied France explores the myths and realities of four of the most divisive years in French history. Taking in ordinary people's experiences of defeat, collaboration,... -
Tanks at the Iron Curtain 1960-75 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£9.19A new analysis of the technology and tanks that faced off against each other on opposite sides of the Iron Curtain, during the very height of the Cold War. From the 1960s onwards, there was a generational shift in tank design and warfare with the... -
China from the Ruins of Athens and Rome: Classics, Sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938 by Chris Murray 9780198767015
RRP: £88.00£79.80Fascinated and often baffled by China, Anglophone writers turned to classics for answers. In poetry, essays, and travel narratives, ancient Greece and Rome lent interpretative paradigms and narrative shape to Britain's information on the Middle Kingdom... -
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine by Simon Price 9780140274851
RRP: £19.99£14.28'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanTo an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level from languages to calendars to political... -
Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know by Jennifer Van Sijll 9781932907056
RRP: £26.00£18.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932907056Author Jennifer Van SijllFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Michael Wiese ProductionsPublisher Michael Wiese ProductionsWeight(grams) 762g