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Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War Pamela Horn 9781445644776
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.98The First World War particularly affected the landed classes with their long military tradition; country houses were turned into military hospitals and convalescent homes, while many of the menfolk... -
The Country House at War: Life below stairs and above stairs during the war by Simon Greaves
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €18.66A fascinating illustrated history of the First World War told through the great houses of the National Trust. The First World War touched every family in the country and this book tells a story of... -
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness by John Sellars
RRP: €9.59Booksplease Price: €8.00What do we really need in order to live a happy life? An Epicurean antidote to anxietyOver two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: all we really want... -
Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality by E. J. Hobsbawm 9781107604629
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €17.65Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable enquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the... -
Band Of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose 9781471158292
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.88**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** The book that inspired Steven Spielberg's acclaimed TV series, produced by Tom Hanks and starring Damian Lewis. In Band of Brothers, Stephen E. Ambrose pays... -
The Break-Up of Britain by Tom Nairn 9781781683200
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €12.76In this classic text, first published in 1977, Tom Nairn memorably depicts the 'slow foundering' of the United Kingdom on the rocks of imperial decline, constitutional anachronism and the gathering... -
Inside the Kingdom by Robert Lacey
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.57Saudi Arabia is a country defined by paradox: it sits atop some of the richest oil deposits in the world, and yet the country's roiling disaffection produced sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers... -
John Aubrey: My Own Life by Ruth Scurr 9780099490630
Booksplease Price: €17.45'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey... -
Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28Herodotus has come to be respected by most scholars as a responsible and important historian. Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveller who was both tourist and... -
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic by Adam Shoalts
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for English Non-Fiction 2020.Book InformationISBN... -
The Big Book of Catapult and Trebuchet Plans! by Ron L Toms 9780977649730
RRP: €15.54Booksplease Price: €12.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977649730Author Ron L TomsFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint -
Demanding the Impossible by Peter Marshall 9780006862451
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €18.05A fascinating and comprehensive history, Demanding the Impossible is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day. ... -
Tanks in the Battle of the Bulge by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.92The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific 'lessons learned'... -
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut James Hanning 9781472155948
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €9.96'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it gives of Philby's strange half-life in Beirut, where he was banished in 1956'... -
A History of Contemporary Italy: 1943-80 by Paul Ginsborg
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.92In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two... -
Sisters In Arms: British Army Nurses Tell Their Story Nicola Tyrer 9780753825679
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11The remarkable true story of the Queen Alexandra frontline nurses in the Second World War.The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the Second World War form one of the greatest... -
Windsor Spares: The Prince Harry and Prince Andrew Show! by Nigel Cawthorne 9781783342488
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.10Dim and dimmer? You decide! Spares Prince Harry and Prince Andrew have rarely been out of the news since 2019. They both have proved to have a rare knack for creating a royal soap opera and turning... -
The Inca Empire: An Illustrated History by David Jones
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €21.17The history of the Incas fascinates the modern world. This groundbreaking book separates fact from fiction, exploring the native peoples of Peru and the Andes, their mythologies and ancient belief... -
Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain by Trevor Phillips 9780008609702
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.50The oral history of Britain's first West Indian immigrants and their descendants In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the... -
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh 9780330487573
RRP: €24.00Booksplease Price: €17.46In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of... -
The Yorkshire Coiners: The True Story of the Cragg Vale Gang by Steve Hartley
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.78In late eighteenth-century Yorkshire a powerful gang of counterfeiters held the local community in its spell. In a remote valley near Halifax called Cragg Vale, gold coins of the realm were clipped... -
The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym
Booksplease Price: €26.57Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the... -
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery by Alex Renton
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE'An incredible work of scholarship' Sathnam SangheraThrough the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we... -
Soviet Tank Units 1939-45: The Essential Tank Identification Guide by David Porter
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.46Soviet Tank Units 1939-45 offers an highly-illustrated guide to the main armoured fighting vehicles used by the Red Army during World War II. This compact volume includes sample unit structures and... -
Türkiye: Cycling Through a Country’s First Century by Julian Sayarer 9781529429954
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.22"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The... -
A Paris Secret Caroline Montague 9781409180821
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.14A sweeping tale of ambition and passion in the shattered world of post-war Paris - perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Kate Furnivall1952. In the fragile atmosphere of post-war Paris, Sophie... -
V&A Gallery of Fashion: Revised Edition by Claire Wilcox
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.46Spanning four centuries, the V&A's Fashion Collection is the most comprehensive in the world, housing unrivaled collections of dress,accessories, shoes and hats from the 17th century to the present... -
The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen
Booksplease Price: €15.60In 1993, a newly-appointed CIA director warned that Western powers might have 'slain a large dragon' with the fall of the USSR, but now faced a 'bewildering variety of poisonous snakes'. Since then,... -
The Malayan Campaign, 1948-60 by John Scurr 9780850454765
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.99In June 1948 Communist insurgent forces commenced a guerrilla war to end British rule in Malaya. During the ensuing 12 years of conflict there were 8750 reported 'contacts' between units of the... -
Worlds of Arthur: Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages by Guy Halsall
RRP: €18.59Booksplease Price: €15.18King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales... -
Catherine the Great: Selected Letters by Catherine The Great
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €12.80'Your Majesty may find it extraordinary that I should answer with a shipment of fruit your letter of 6 August, in which you inform me that you are sending the plan for a treaty, and that of the 8... -
World History and the Mysteries: In the Light of Anthroposophy by Rudolf Steiner 9781855845886
RRP: €21.59Booksplease Price: €17.75In this landmark series of lectures, Rudolf Steiner challenges the notion that human consciousness has in essence remained the same throughout history. On the contrary, we can only see the past in... -
Classical Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 1 by Peter Adamson 9780198767039
RRP: €16.19Booksplease Price: €11.77Classical Philosophy is the first of a series of books in which Peter Adamson aims ultimately to present a complete history of philosophy, more thoroughly but also more enjoyably than ever before. In... -
The Eudemian Ethics by Aristotle
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.46'We are looking for the things that enable us to live a noble and happy life...and what prospects decent people will have of acquiring any of them.' The Eudemian Ethics is a major treatise on... -
Malaya and Singapore 1941-42: The fall of Britain's empire in the East by Mark Stille
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €15.19For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the Imperial Japanese... -
Call Me Dave: The Unauthorised Biography of David Cameron by Isabel Oakeshott 9781785900228
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.46After a decade as Conservative Party leader and six years as Prime Minister, he remains an enigma to those outside his exclusive inner circle.Now, in the wake of his dramatic resignation following... -
The King and the Christmas Tree by AN Wilson 9781786580900
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28'An unlikely hero has a master storyteller to tell his tale. The King and the Christmas Tree is a poignant Christmas treat.' Lucy Worsley, historian, broadcaster and authorEvery December, a huge... -
A History Of Warfare John Keegan 9781844137497
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.88The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.John Keegan's masterpiece is a work of breath-taking scope that not only chronicles the history of warfare, but... -
James I: Scotland's King of England by John Matusiak 9780750986830
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.26Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England's first Stuart. Yet, as this biography demonstrates, the modern tendency to downplay his defects and minimise the... -
The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty Mary Hollingsworth 9781782069447
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.11The Borgias have become a byword for pride, lust, cruelty, avarice, splendour and venomous intrigue. An inspiration for many works of fiction, most famously Mario Puzo's The Godfather, they have...