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Listening to Nineteenth-Century America by Mark M. Smith 9780807849828
RRP: $55.41$51.07Sound, sectionalism, and the coming of the Civil War; Arguing for the importance of the aural dimension of history, Mark Smith contends that to understand what it meant to be northern or southern, slave or free - to understand sectionalism and the... -
You Wouldn't Want To Be An Anglo-Saxon Peasant! by Jacqueline Morley 9781910184967
RRP: $10.31$7.22You're a farmer's son living in England in the early 7th century. Your people are descendants of invaders from Northern Europe: the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, who arrived about 200 years earlier, seized land from the native Britons and made... -
Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor by Philip Freeman 9780300256642
RRP: $24.50$20.87The tragic life of Julian, the last non-Christian emperor of Rome, by award-winning author Philip Freeman "When we think of ancient Rome, it's impossible not to think of Christianity, one of its most notable exports-but what if it hadn't been? This is... -
The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East by Nicholas Morton
RRP: $32.25$21.65'Brain-stretching . . . pulsating . . . irresistable' The Sunday Times'Deeply researched and elegantly written - essential reading' Dan Jones'Erudite, often thrilling and much-needed' Daily TelegraphHow the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the... -
The Art Of Memory by Frances A. Yates
RRP: $24.50$18.07This unique and brilliant book is a history of human knowledge. Before the invention of printing, a trained memory was of vital importance. Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate... -
Napoleon's Imperial Guard Uniforms and Equipment: The Infantry by Dawson, Paul L 9781526701916
RRP: $51.60$38.69From its origins as the Consular Guard of the French Republic, and as Napoleon's personal bodyguard, the Imperial Guard developed into a force of all arms numbering almost 100,000 men. Used by Napoleon as his principle tactical reserve, the Guard was... -
Blitz City by David Young 9781838774349
RRP: $11.60$8.02The brand new 2022 historical crime thriller from the award-winning author of STASI CHILD.*** 'A tense, smartly plotted new police procedural' - DAILY MAIL ***1942. HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE - It is the most heavily bombed city outside of London, but for the... -
The History of 30 Assault Unit: Ian Fleming's Red Indians by Craig Cabell
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Second World War spawned a plethora of crack special forces units (Long Range Desert Group, SAS, SBS, Phantom and Commandos) but 30 Assault Unit remains, even today, far more secretive and exclusive than the others. Formed by Ian Fleming, who was... -
Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen's England by Rory Muir 9780300273311
RRP: $16.76$14.78A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons-men of good family but small fortune In Regency England the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance, had... -
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan
RRP: $45.15$36.30In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the... -
Warsaw 1920: Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe by Adam Zamoyski
RRP: $14.18$9.35The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe. In 1920 the new Soviet... -
Cornish Mines: Gwennap to the Tamar by Barry Gamble 9780906720820
$7.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906720820Author Barry GambleFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Alison HodgePublisher Alison HodgeDimensions(mm) 150mm * 153mm * 11mm -
Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jessica Cox
RRP: $32.25$23.92'An important, fascinating and frequently shocking read.' - BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, OtherCovering a fascinating period of population growth, high infant mortality and deep social inequality, rapid medical advances and pseudoscientific... -
How to Dress Like a Tudor by Judith Arnopp 9781399015356
RRP: $32.25$23.83Have you ever hankered to dress like a Tudor lord or lady, or perhaps you prefer the status of goodwife, or costermonger, or even a bawd? For beginner historical reenactors, the path to authenticity can be bewildering and sometimes intimidating. Judith... -
Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore
RRP: $16.76$11.09Winner of the Costa Biography AwardWhat makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic... -
The Eighth Army in North Africa by Simon Forty 9781526723796
RRP: $19.34$14.13The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen... -
The Ascent Of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
RRP: $29.67$20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583945353Author Charles EisensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Evolver EditionsPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Morocco - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Jillian C. York 9781787023048
RRP: $14.18$10.60Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Morocco is a joy to the senses. Graced with spectacular scenery, the country's rich history is carved into its architecture and baked into its cuisine. Its marketplaces are filled with tantalizing... -
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi
RRP: $25.80$18.95*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Four Hundred Souls is an epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, told by ninety leading Black voices -- co-curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author of the million-copy bestseller How To... -
Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd, 1917 by Helen Rappaport
RRP: $14.18$10.02SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TELEGRAPH AND EVENING STANDARD'[The] centenary will prompt a raft of books on the Russian Revolution. They will be hard pushed to better this highly original, exhaustively researched and superbly constructed account... -
Medieval Wales c.1050-1332: Centuries of Ambiguity by David Stephenson 9781786833860
RRP: $21.92$16.89After 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... -
Spitfire, Mustang and the 'Meredith Effect': How a Soviet Spy Helped Change the Course of WWII by Peter Spring 9781526773500
RRP: $32.25$26.60By the mid-1930s the obstacles to high speed that aircraft designers faced included the question of cooling the engine. This was a big challenge that those working on the new fast aeroplanes entering service as the war clouds gathered over Europe had to... -
Lady Mary by Lucy Worsley
RRP: $11.60$8.04A brilliantly captivating children's novel from popular television historian Lucy Worsley, exploring the most famous divorce in history from the perspective of the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. By turns thrilling, dramatic and... -
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: The Book of Mnemonic Devices by Rod L. Evans 9780399533518
$18.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399533518Author Rod L. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 184g -
From Gaza to Jerusalem: The Campaign for Southern Palestine 1917 by Stuart Hadaway 9780752499017
RRP: $25.80$19.92The Palestine campaign of 1917 saw Britain's armed forces rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attempts in the spring, at the end of the year they broke through the Ottoman line with an innovative mixture of old and new... -
A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age by Daniel J. Walkowitz
$38.91Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Changes in production and consumption fundamentally transformed the culture of work in the industrial world during the century after World War I. In the aftermath of the war, the... -
Crusader: The second thrilling instalment in the Lionheart series by Ben Kane
RRP: $10.31$7.22KING. POLITICIAN. WARRIOR. CONQUEROR.1189. Richard the Lionheart's long-awaited goal comes true as he is crowned King of England. Setting his own kingdom in order, he prepares to embark on a gruelling crusade to reclaim Jerusalem.With him on every step... -
Merlin: The Power Behind the Spitfire, Mosquito and Lancaster: The Story of the Engine That Won the Battle of Britain and WWII by Graham Hoyland
RRP: $12.89$8.57The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin. The story of the Merlin is one of British ingenuity at its height, of... -
China - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Indre Balcikonyte-Huang 9781787028807
RRP: $12.89$9.73Don't just see the sights get to know the people. For thousands of years, the Chinese believed that they had created a perfect social system, based on Confucian values and tempered by the Mandate of Heaven. Dynasties came and went, but the essence... -
The Crusader States by Malcolm Barber
RRP: $25.79$22.41The only full account of life and culture in the twelfth-century crusader states, where religious battles raged and civilizations collided When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from control of the Fatimids of Egypt in 1099, they... -
The Franco-Prussian War: The German Conquest of France in 1870-1871 by Geoffrey Wawro 9780521617437
RRP: $32.24$25.10The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring... -
Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain by Len Deighton
RRP: $12.89$8.41'The most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was' Andrew Wilson, ObserverHistory is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060-88 by John Wright
$6.44Exam Board: Pearson EdexcelLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed for EdexcelTarget success in Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision.Key content coverage... -
Medieval Christianity: A New History by Kevin Madigan
RRP: $28.38$24.46An expansive guide to the medieval world, with new attention to women, ordinary parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and Muslims, and more For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign-an often brutal and seemingly irrational time of superstition,... -
The Making of the Crofting Community by James Hunter
RRP: $19.34$13.89This book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord - injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance. Written by a man who has... -
The Atlas of Unusual Languages: Discover intriguing linguistic oddities and language islands by Zoran Nikolic
RRP: $19.34$12.51The ideal gift for anyone interested in language, geography and people. We communicate through the spoken and written word and language has evolved over the centuries. Many languages have survived although only in small pockets throughout the... -
Gimson's Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Crisp and witty' Charles Moore, Spectator'A brilliant survey of the occupants of the Oval Office' Daniel Johnson, Article'Witty and succinct with splendid caricatures' Tibor Fischer, CriticA spirited and entertaining aide-memoire offering 44 short,... -
The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811 by P. D. James
RRP: $16.76$11.04In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or his eighth victim in the bizarre and shocking Ratcliffe Highway Murders? In this vivid and gripping reconstruction P. D. James and police historian T. A... -
A Victorian Lady's Guide to Life by Elspeth Marr
RRP: $10.31$9.29In this delightful and engagingly eccentric treasury of life lessons, redoubtable Victorian Elspeth Marr (1871-1947) reflects on the fundamental topics of life as well as the nuts and bolts of everyday living. Part journal, part commonplace book, among... -
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi by Louis Fischer
RRP: $19.34$14.13'A monumental yet intimate biography, a vivid portrait of the man, the statesman and the saint' The TimesMahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time. A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy of satyagraha, or...