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Druids: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28Who were the Druids? What do we know about them? Do they still exist today? The Druids first came into focus in Western Europe - Gaul, Britain, and Ireland - in the second century BC. They are a... -
Inside the Wire: The Prisoner-of-War Camps and Hostels of Gloucestershire 1939-1948 by Ian Hollingsbee
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.39Stalag VIII-B, Colditz, these names are synonymous with POWs in the Second World War. But what of those prisoners in captivity on British soil? Where did they go? Gloucestershire was home to a wealth... -
Plain Tales From The British Empire by Charles Allen
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.22PLAIN TALES FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE gathers together Charles Allen's best loved books on the British experience across the Empire: PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ, TALES FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS and TALES... -
The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School by David Turner 9780300219388
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €14.26To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country's top bankers and politicians... -
Winter: Five Windows on the Season Adam Gopnik 9781780874470
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Winter takes us on an intimate tour of the artists, poets, composers, writers, explorers, scientists and thinkers who helped shape a new and modern idea of winter. We learn how literature heralds the... -
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008As the day of the final... -
The Ballycotton, Job by Tom Mahon
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €12.55A 'sensational affair.. carried out with great audacity' - New York Times. An astonishing act of piracy, the capture of the British war ship, the Upnor changed the course of Ireland's Civil War... -
Cornwall: A History: Revised and updated edition by Philip Payton 9780859890274
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €24.00A new edition of Philip Payton's modern classic Cornwall: A History, published now by University of Exeter Press, telling the story of Cornwall from earliest times to the present day. Drawing upon a... -
Spitfire Pilot David Crook 9781906502041
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitlers Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most... -
Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories by Simon Winchester
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.35The definitive biography of the world's most important body of water - the Atlantic. One hundred and ninety million years ago, the shifting of two of the world's tectonic plates led to the... -
Boudica by Vanessa Collingridge
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.29Boudica has been immortalised throughout history as the woman who dared take on the Romans - an act of vengeance on behalf of her daughters, tribe and enslaved country. Her known life is a rich... -
Radical: A Life of My Own by Xiaolu Guo 9781529920024
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.78The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light... -
Abandon Ship: The Real Story of the Sinkings in the Falklands War by Dr Paul Brown
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €18.65AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2021 This fascinating title offers a new study of the loss of six British ships and an Argentinian cruiser during the Falklands War of 1982. When Argentinian forces... -
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €11.76The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton.They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic... -
Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo by Lawrence Anthony 9780312382155
Booksplease Price: €14.59When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, located in the city centre and caught in the war's crossfire. Once Anthony... -
Overture of Hope: Two Sisters' Daring Plan that Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the Third Reich by Isabel Vincent 9781684514069
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Schindler's List meets The Sound of Music as best-selling New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British... -
On The Natural History Of Destruction by W. G. Sebald
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers' silence about a moment of mass destructionIn the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies... -
Sopwith Camels Over Italy, 1917-1918 by Norman Franks 9781526723086
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14During the First World War, Italy was on the side of their British Allies and their fight was against the Austro-Hungarian Empire, bordering on Austria. In October 1917, the Austro-Hungarians managed... -
Citizen Sailors: The Royal Navy in the Second World War by Glyn Prysor
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61During the Second World War the Royal Navy was the most powerful of Britain's armed forces. Its sailors fought across the globe in vast battleships and claustrophobic corvettes, makeshift... -
Tax, Drugs and Rock'n'Roll: The years that went whoosh! Brits, hits and Ireland's cultural revolution by Damian Corless 9781915306593
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.38Tax & Drugs & Rock'n'Roll is the story of how an influx of British pop stars in the early 1980s was a significant catalyst in the miraculous transformation of Ireland from poor, downtrodden and... -
![Vought A-7 Corsair II: The US Navy and Us Air Force's Light Attack Aircraft by Mat "Irish" Garretson](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/217693/8492431/9780764362613__29351.1742989407.jpg?c=1 "Vought A-7 Corsair II: The US Navy and Us Air Force's Light Attack Aircraft by Mat "Irish" Garretson")
Vought A-7 Corsair II: The US Navy and Us Air Force's Light Attack Aircraft by Mat "Irish" Garretson
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.72Born of necessity during the Vietnam War, the Vought A-7 Corsair II ushered in a level of lethality, target accuracy, and economy not realized in any plane before it, and, arguably, any that followed... -
The Fall of the Seleukid Empire 187–75 BC John D Grainger 9781036150273
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14The concluding part of John D Grainger's history of the Seleukids traces the tumultuous last century of their empire. In this period it was riven by dynastic disputes, secessions and rebellions, the... -
Norfolk Villains: Rogues, Rascals & Reprobates by Neil Storey 9780752460017
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.17Discover the darker side of Norfolk with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the county. Featuring tales of some of the most notorious, nefarious and murderous characters from... -
Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer by Professor Scott H. Hendrix
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €16.19A bold, insightful biography of Martin Luther"[A] richly detailed portrait."-D.G. Hart, Wall Street Journal"Even-handed and engaging. . . . A nuanced portrait of Luther as a complex person of many... -
The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest Times by Alistair Moffat 9781780278919
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61In this acclaimed book, Alistair Moffat tells the story of a part of Scotland that has played a huge role in the nation’s history and moved poets, painters and writers as well as ordinary people for... -
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels by Matthew Sweet
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.61The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled governments of Europe. And now, Matthew Sweet's... -
Lost Ayrshire Dane Love 9781912476299
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €10.93Over the centuries, countless buildings have been built and demolished throughout the county of Ayrshire. This informative and beautifully illustrated book looks at a wide selection of these, from... -
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies
RRP: €37.20Booksplease Price: €29.87Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and... -
The Last Hours in Paris: A powerful, moving and redemptive story of wartime love and sacrifice for fans of historical fiction Ruth Druart 9781472268013
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.89'Wonderful... A heartbreaking story of the power of love and forgiveness' JILL MANSELL 'A tender yet thrilling story of love and family secrets in time of war' RACHEL HORE 'I was so engrossed... -
The Gentleman's Gambit by Evie Dunmore 9780349434018
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.62'Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is extraordinary' JULIA QUINN, No.1 New York Times bestselling authorBookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is... -
How Iceland Changed The World: The Big History of a Small Island by Egill Bjarnason 9780143135883
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143135883Author Egill BjarnasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, outlaws, slaves, gladiators, ordinary men and women ... the Romans that history forgot by Robert Knapp
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11Robert Knapp seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it. They are the housewives, prostitutes, freedmen,... -
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.35Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2020, a vivid work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman in Edo - now known as Tokyo - and a portrait of a great city on the brink of... -
Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties by Rachel Cooke
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11In her apron and rubber gloves, a smile lipsticked permanently across her face, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful to have sloughed off. A homely... -
A History of the Vikings by Gwyn Jones
RRP: €25.19Booksplease Price: €19.92An utterly splendid book, quite the most brilliantly written, balanced, and explanative general work on the Vikings ever to appear in English or in any language.' Scandinavian Studies The subject... -
The Islander: Complete and Unabridged by Garry Bannister 9780717157945
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its... -
Whitley Bay & Seaton Sluice Through Time by Ken Hutchinson
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.02Whitley Bay and Seaton Sluice are two towns on the North East coast with fascinating histories. They are now both popular with tourists but started life in different ways. Whitley Bay was developed... -
My Father's Paradise by Ariel Sabar
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.93In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they... -
Knutsford: A History by Joan Leach 9780750955553
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14Knutsford owed its prosperity less to the villages served by its market, gained with a 1292 charter, than to its surrounding manorial estates and the Egertons of Tatton, lords of the manor, who... -
Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210606Author Simon WiesenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint