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Tanks, The World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated history and directory of tanks, from 1916 to the present day, with more than 650 photographs by George Forty 9780754835745
RRP: $19.35$14.14This fully-updated book is an authoritative directory of tanks and their immediate derivatives, such as tank destroyers and armoured recovery vehicles. It begins with a history of tank design and evolution from its first action at Flers during World War... -
Between Empires: Arabs, Romans, and Sasanians in Late Antiquity by Greg Fisher 9780199679317
RRP: $61.26$45.98In Between Empires Greg Fisher tackles the problem of pre-Islamic Arab identity by examining the relationship between the Roman Empire and the Empire of Sasanian Iran, and a selection of their Arab allies and neighbours, the Jafnids, Nasrids, and Hujrids... -
Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense by Jenny Uglow 9780571269549
RRP: $32.25$8.14Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age.Edward Lear lived a vivid, fascinating, energetic life, but confessed, 'I hardly enjoy any one thing on earth... -
From Phantom to Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot by Steven K Ladd 9781526761248
RRP: $32.25$23.25Fighter pilots! Images of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker in the Great War, Johnnie Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck and Richard Bong in the Second World War, or Robin Olds in Vietnam, all spring to mind. Volumes have been written about... -
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $12.89$8.64Thomas Paine is one of the greatest political advocates in history. Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the uprising of the French people, Paine's... -
Secret Newcastle by Ken Hutchinson
RRP: $20.63$14.00Situated on the north bank of the River Tyne, at the lowest bridging point, Newcastle is generally regarded as the capital of the north-eastern region of the United Kingdom. Initially a Roman settlement, Pons Aellius, the city grew to become an important... -
One Night with the Duke by Jodi Ellen Malpas
RRP: $10.31$7.22'An oh-so-sexy historical romance with a vivacious and unconventional heroine' Felicity George, author of A Lady's RiskOne forbidden night...It's 1816 and nineteen-year-old Eliza Melrose, daughter of a printing magnate, is about to be launched into... -
The Oxford of Inspector Morse: The Original and Best Selling Guide - Covering Every Inspector Morse, Lewis & Endeavour Episode: 25th Anniversary Edition by Antony Richards 9781901091038
RRP: $10.97$9.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091038Author Antony RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams)... -
The Oxford History of Britain: 2021 edition by Kenneth O. Morgan 9780198841111
RRP: $19.34$14.64A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the... -
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself by Dr. Andrew Pettegree
RRP: $21.92$19.36The extraordinary history of news and its dissemination, from medieval pilgrim tales to the birth of the newspaper Long before the invention of printing, let alone the availability of a daily newspaper, people desired to be informed. In the... -
British Politics: A Very Short Introduction by Tony Wright
RRP: $11.60$8.32At a time when politics in Britain is experiencing unprecedented turmoil, this Very Short Introduction examines the past, present, and possible future of British politics. Tony Wright puts current events into a longer and larger perspective, ranging from... -
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood by Robyn Scott 9780747596561
RRP: $16.76$11.73When Robyn Scott was six years old her parents abruptly exchanged the tranquil pastures of New Zealand for a converted cowshed in the wilds of Botswana. Once there, Robyn and her siblings, mostly left to amuse themselves, grew up collecting snakes,... -
Before the Light Fades: A Memoir of Grief and Resistance by Natasha Walter
RRP: $24.50$14.36'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past' BLAKE MORRISON, Guardian'A... -
Jimmy Reid: A Clyde-built man by W.W.J. Knox
RRP: $35.41$31.61Described as "the best MP Scotland never had", Jimmy Reid was undoubtedly of the most important figures of late twentieth-century Britain. Often at the forefront of the major turning points in the history of industrial relations and politics in Britain,... -
Tribes of the Sioux Nation by Michael Johnson
RRP: $16.76$14.20The horse culture of the tribes of the High Plains of North America lasted only some 170 years; yet in that time the sub-tribes of the Teton or Western Sioux people imprinted a vivid image on the world's imagination by their fearless but doomed fight to... -
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare by Paul Strathern
RRP: $32.25$21.40'Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul... -
Desiree: The most popular historical romance since GONE WITH THE WIND by Annemarie Selinko
RRP: $16.76$11.09Perhaps the most successful historical romance since GONE WITH THE WIND, DESIREE is the bestselling novel of Napoleon's first love. All the passions and intrigues of Bonaparte's court are seen through the eyes of a silk merchant's daughter from... -
Rewriting the Troubles: War and Propaganda, Ireland and Algeria by Patrick Anderson 9783949573026
RRP: $23.22$20.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783949573026Author Patrick AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint Greenisland PressPublisher Elsinor Verlag e.K.Weight(grams) 539g -
Transcribing Oral History by Teresa Bergen
RRP: $49.01$43.06Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct... -
American Indian Mafia: An FBI Agent's True Story About Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, and the American Indian Movement (AIM) by Joseph H. Trimbach 9780979585500
RRP: $30.90$28.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979585500Author Joseph H. TrimbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 652Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 900g -
The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic by Henry Reece 9780300211498
RRP: $45.15$37.18Why did England’s one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of... -
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens 9781838952280
RRP: $12.89$8.64In No One Left to Lie To, Christopher Hitchens portrays President Bill Clinton as one of the most ideologically skewed and morally negligent politicians of recent times. In a blistering polemic which shows that Clinton was at once philanderer and... -
The Parting Years: A British Family and the End of Empire by Sheila Bevan 9781860647345
$70.78How did the end of Empire affect a family steeped in British imperial traditions for more than four generations? Shiela Bevan's story begins when the British Empire still seemed in its heyday of world dominion, when the vast increase in territorial... -
David I: The King Who Made Scotland by Richard Oram
RRP: $16.76$12.41Few kings deserve more than David I the reputation as 'maker' of his kingdom. Although overshadowed in popular memory by his descendant, the later 'saviour' of Scotland, Robert Bruce, it was David who laid the foundations of the medieval Scottish... -
The Multifarious Mr. Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave
RRP: $16.76$14.78A fascinating life of Sir Joseph Banks which restores him to his proper place in history as a leading scientific figure of the English Enlightenment"An extensive, admiring account of his subject's circuitous route to fame and power."-Wall Street... -
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
RRP: $19.34$12.59**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African American of the 19th century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one... -
Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA by Mark Urban
RRP: $16.76$11.04The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. In Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA Mark Urban meticulously explores... -
How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature by Emily Hauser 9780691201078
RRP: $45.15$35.78How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one-aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words,... -
British Pacific Fleet by David Hobbs
RRP: $24.50$17.13In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as... -
The Victorian Master Criminal: Charles Peace and the Murders of Cock and Dyson by David C. Hanrahan 9780750962971
RRP: $21.92$16.69On 2 August 1876, a young policeman named Constable Nicholas Cock was shot dead while walking 'the beat' at Whalley Range, Manchester. A few months later, on the evening of 29 November 1876, Arthur Dyson, an engineer, was murdered in his own backyard at... -
Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom by Annie Whitehead
RRP: $14.18$9.35Many people know about Wessex, the 'Last Kingdom' of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over not only Wessex, but all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. At its zenith Mercia controlled what is now... -
Travels into Bokhara by Sir Alexander Burnes 9781906011710
RRP: $19.34$12.64Alexander Burnes travelled up the Indus to Lahore and to the Khanates of Afghanistan and Central Asia in the 1830s, spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the 'Great Game'. His account of these travels was a bestseller... -
A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean by Roland Philipps
RRP: $16.76$11.73Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West's greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy...Codenamed 'Orphan' by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain's most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge... -
StuG III Brigade 191, 1940 1945: The Buffalo Brigade in Action in the Balkans, Greece and from Moscow to the Caucasus and the Crimea by Bork, Bruno 9781784386955
RRP: $32.25$23.25Based on their experiences during the First World War, the Reichswehr decided that the infantry support gun of the future should be an armoured, motorized vehicle with an effective calibre of cannon: the Sturmgeschutz III. The weapon was used in the... -
The Lamplighters of the Phoenix Park: A unique history of one of Ireland’s most famous places by James Flanagan 9781399722810
RRP: $29.66$20.09The Phoenix Park in Dublin holds a special place in the collective memory of Irish people. From the assassinations of 1882 and the destruction of several imperial monuments, to the arrival of Douglas Hyde as Ireland's first president and Pope John Paul's... -
Art Deco by Oliver Green
RRP: $11.60$7.77Art deco refers to a striking range of decorative design styles that emerged in the early twentieth century and comes from the influential 1925 Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts. Spreading from Paris, it became particularly associated... -
The British Home Front and the First World War by Hew Strachan 9781009012324
RRP: $38.69$34.75The First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. The phrase 'home front' was itself a product of the war with parts of Britain literally a war front, coming under enemy attack from the sea and increasingly... -
The Flame and the Candle by Dominic Price
RRP: $16.76$14.98This is the story of Mayo men and women active during the War of Independence and the Civil War, a story largely untold or forgotten. Throughout, there is an attempt at real insight into the lives of participants. The establishment and acceptance of the... -
The Courtesan's Revenge by Frances Wilson 9780571205240
RRP: $19.34$12.64Harriette Wilson was the most desired and the most dangerous woman in Regency London. This highly acclaimed biography reveals for the first time the true story behind her sensational life and scandalous 'Memoirs'. When her former lovers - including much... -
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
RRP: $16.76$11.33A Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearWinner of the American Library in Paris Book Award'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' - Spectator'A fresh way to write history' - Alan Johnson'An amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious...