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The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
RRP: £10.99£7.46An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last 'grain race' of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby. In 1939, a young Eric Newby - later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent - set sail aboard... -
The Gate and the Wall: A History of China and Hong Kong by Michael Sheridan
RRP: £25.00£6.65'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter ... -
Europe Since 1945 by Mary Fulbrook 9780198731788
RRP: £41.99£30.15Bringing home the extraordinary waves of transformation that washed across Europe in the second half of the twentieth century, this book interprets the trends, developments, and issues which were of major importance in East and West Europe in the latter... -
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker
RRP: £14.99£10.05Why is it that for many people 'England' has always meant an unspoilt rural landscape rather than the ever-changing urban world in which most English people live? What was the 'England' for which people fought in two world wars? What is about the English... -
Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir 9781787303300
RRP: £18.99£13.61A dazzling exploration of the intersections of beauty and power around the globe, told through the lens of an iconic cosmetic'Fascinating' Nigella Lawson'Awe-inspiring' Funmi Fetto'A treat to read' Kassia St ClairA Sunday Times Style Barometer and New... -
Beastly Fury: The Strange Birth Of British Football by Richard Sanders
RRP: £15.99£11.61"Footeballe is nothinge but beastlie furie and extreme violence", wrote Thomas Elyot in 1531. Nearly five hundred years later, the game may still seem furious and violent, but it has also become the most popular sport on the planet.This is the story of... -
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe by Travis Elborough
RRP: £20.00£15.89Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics - an art... -
Aspects of British Political History 1815-1914 by Stephen J. Lee 9780415090070
RRP: £36.99£32.53Aspects of British History, 1815-1914 addresses the major issues of this much-studied period in a clear and digestible form.* Introduces a fresh feel to long-studied topics* Consolidates a grest deal of recent research* Carefully organised to reflect the... -
Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy 9780571372829
RRP: £10.99£7.54THE IRISH TOP 10 BESTSELLERA gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil... -
The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind by Martin Sixsmith
RRP: £25.00£18.02BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times 'Essential ... endlessly fascinating ... to read Sixsmith is to want to read more Sixsmith' Forbes More than any other conflict,... -
Nazi Germany And the Jews: The Years Of Extermination: 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: £18.99£13.05The second and concluding volume of the definitive two-volume account of the HolocaustWith THE YEARS OF EXTERMINATION, Friedlander completes his work on Nazi Germany and the Jews. The book describes and interprets the history of the persecution and... -
The Berlin Wall: 13 August 1961 - 9 November 1989 by Frederick Taylor 9781408802564
RRP: £16.99£12.28The appearance of a hastily-constructed barbed wire entanglement through the heart of Berlin during the night of 12-13 August 1961 was both dramatic and unexpected. Within days, it had started to metamorphose into a structure that would come to symbolise... -
St Albans: A history by Mark Freeman 9781912260652
RRP: £19.99£17.82Mark Freeman’s classic history of St Albans, first published in 2008, has been substantially rewritten by the author and brought fully up to date, making it an invaluable guide to more than two thousand years of St Albans’s history. From the late Iron... -
World War II Illustrated Atlas by David Jordan 9781838863531
RRP: £24.99£17.79World War II was the greatest conflict in the history of mankind. It penetrated into every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to the Pacific Oceans. Immense armed forces engaged one another in battle in every type of environment, from the desert sands... -
Medieval Wales c.1050-1332: Centuries of Ambiguity by David Stephenson 9781786833860
RRP: £16.99£15.11After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the usual perspective of the `intrusive' marcher lords, for... -
Civilizations by FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPE 9780743202497
RRP: £32.99£23.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743202497Author FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO FELIPEFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1g -
Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, Volume 1 - Conflicts and Divisions by Pierre Nora 9780231084048
RRP: £62.00£49.22Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the recollections of memory but also the foundations of history. Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of the emblems... -
A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals by Ruth Illingworth
RRP: £12.99£9.871950s Ireland was the age of De Valera and John Charles McQuaid. It was the age before television, Vatican II, and home central heating. A time when motor cars and public telephones had wind-up handles, when boys wore short trousers and girls wore... -
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits Jennifer Higgie 9781474613798
RRP: £10.99£7.50'Reveals an until-now hidden history of women's self-portraiture. A gift that keeps on giving' ALI SMITH, NEW STATESMAN, Books of the Year'A fascinating survey . . . Extraordinary' DAILY MAIL'A bewitching, invigorating history' OLIVIA LAING'Grips from... -
The Secret Queen: Eleanor Talbot, the Woman Who Put Richard III on the Throne by John Ashdown-Hill 9780750968461
RRP: £12.99£9.87When Edward IV died in 1483, the Yorkist succession was called into question by doubts about the legitimacy of his sons (the 'Princes in the Tower'). The crown therefore passed to Edward IV's undoubtedly legitimate younger brother, Richard, Duke of... -
Countrymen: How Denmark's Jews Escaped the Nazis by Bo Lidegaard
RRP: £12.99£9.19The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden and protected by ordinary people who spontaneously rushed to save... -
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
RRP: £30.00£28.07**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2022**A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century.'This book is dynamite' ROBERT GILDEA, author of Empires of the MindSprawling... -
Black Propaganda in the Second World War by Stanley Newcourt-Nowodworski
RRP: £14.99£11.72Black propaganda appears over a fake signature, for example of a fictitious resistance organisation. In this book, the author examines the 'black arts' of Britain, Poland and the Nazis during the Second World War. By 1939, Josef Goebbels had won the... -
Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.34'As fascinating as it is beautifully written' JARED DIAMOND, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelRivers, more than any road, technology or political event, have shaped the course of civilization. Rivers have opened frontiers, defined... -
Rational Choice and British Politics: An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair by Iain McLean 9780198295297
£56.29This engaging and original study, by one of Britain's leading scholars of rational choice theory, explores the course of British parliamentary politics over the last 150 years. McLean marries an appealing combination of social science and analytical... -
Villa of Secrets: Escape to paradise with this perfect holiday read! by Patricia Wilson
RRP: £9.99£7.05If you love The Island and Cartes Postales from Greece by Victoria Hislop, you will love this perfect summer read from the author of Island of Secrets.Rebecca Neumanner's marriage is on the brink of collapse, as her desire to be a mother becomes an... -
Dulce Wars: Underground Alien Bases and the Battle for Planet Earth by Branton
£19.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781892062123Author BrantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Inner Light Publications & Global CommunicationsPublisher Inner Light Publications,U.S... -
V-Bombers: Britain's Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War by Dr. Tony Redding 9781911667872
RRP: £25.00£17.62This is the story of a very British deterrent. Much has been written about the V-bombers - the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan - but virtually nothing has been said about their strategic nuclear strike role. How would Britain's small force of subsonic bombers... -
The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins
RRP: £14.99£10.95There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In The Forever War, award-winning New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins does not analyse how these wars happened... -
Foula: Island West of the Sun by Sheila Gear 9780648920489
RRP: £12.95£11.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648920489Author Sheila GearFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Michael WalmerPublisher Michael WalmerWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Serpent Sword by Matthew Harffy
RRP: £9.99£7.21'HISTORICAL FICTION DOESN'T GET MUCH BETTER THAN THIS' ANGUS DONALD AD 633 Beobrand is a young man with a shadowy past. As an outsider in the kingdom of Bernicia, he is compelled to join his brother, Octa, as a warrior in the household of King... -
Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) History: Paper 2 Investigation and Breadth Studies Rob Bircher 9781398322332
£32.74Exam board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: International GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Endorsed for Pearson Edexcel qualificationsFollow the tried-and-tested methods of bestselling author Ben Walsh. This book... -
Victoria Cross Heroes Michael Ashcroft 9780755316335
RRP: £12.99£8.83VICTORIA CROSS HEROES tells the stories of over 150 individuals whose bravery has earned them the Victoria Cross, Britain's most prestigious medal for courage in action. The book is introduced by Michael Ashcroft, who owns over ten per cent of all VCs... -
The Oxford History of the Roman World by John Boardman
RRP: £19.99£14.28In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. Written by a team of specialist scholars, this book traces the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire and its... -
Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead
RRP: £16.99£12.28Discover the life of one of the twentieth century's most significant and notorious war correspondents, and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.Martha Gellhorn's journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century; as a young woman she... -
Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia by Alexander A. Cooley
RRP: £13.99£12.25A penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealth throughout the West Weak, corrupt, and politically unstable, the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,... -
The Carnation Revolution: The Day Portugal's Dictatorship Fell by Alex Fernandes 9780861547548
RRP: £22.00£16.0225 April 1974, Lisbon. Over the course of a single day, Europe's oldest fascist regime falls. On its 50th anniversary, this is the story of the revolution that changed Portugal forever. 'A thrilling and inspiring page-turner.' Richard Zimler, author... -
The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk 9780571309696
RRP: £9.99£6.90Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWinner of the Independent Award for Foreign Fiction'Turkey's foremost novelist . . . A first-rate storyteller.' Times Literary Supplement'Comparisons with Kafka and Calvino do not exaggerate.' Independent'One of... -
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
RRP: £14.99£10.06The New York Times BestsellerA ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the land of opportunity.In this landmark book, Nancy Isenberg argues that the voters who boosted Trump all the way to... -
Axemaker'S Gift: Technologys Capture and Control of Our Minds and Culture by James Burke 9780874778564
RRP: £15.99£14.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874778564Author James BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1g