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The Peninsular War Atlas (Revised) by Nick Lipscombe
RRP: $64.50$48.53The Peninsular War is one of the defining campaigns of the British Army and sealed its reputation for supreme professionalism, heroic obstinacy and sheer perseverance. It made the reputation of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, and acts as the... -
Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire by Raphael D. Marcus 9781626166110
RRP: $41.28$32.62The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah is now in its fourth decade and shows no signs of ending. Raphael D. Marcus examines this conflict since the formation of Hezbollah during Israel's occupation of Lebanon in the... -
Immediate Action by Andy McNab
RRP: $16.76$11.73Immediate Action is a no-holds-barred account of an extraordinary life, from the day Andy McNab was found in a carrier bag on the steps of Guy's Hospital to the day he went to fight in the Gulf War.As a delinquent youth he kicked against society. As a... -
Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn
RRP: $14.18$9.35Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan had not only cut tracks through the bush, but... -
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Gunther Schuller
RRP: $16.76$12.91Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the... -
Not Much of an Engineer by Stanley Hooker 9781853102851
RRP: $19.34$16.19Stanley Hooker joined the Bristol Aeroplane Company in 1949 and tugged a rather reluctant company into the jet age, determined to give real competition to Rolls-Royce. So successful was he that in 1966 Rolls-Royce decided the best thing to do was to... -
Manet/Degas by Stephan Wolohojian 9781588397638
RRP: $64.50$48.39The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout... -
Syria and Lebanon 1941: The Allied Fight against the Vichy French by Dr David Sutton
RRP: $20.63$13.17A detailed study of the Syrian and Lebanon campaign of World War II. In June 1941, Australian, British, Indian and Free French forces invaded the Vichy French-controlled mandate of Syria and Lebanon. They faced an enemy that had more artillery, tanks... -
The American Stamp: Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States by Laura Goldblatt 9780231208246
RRP: $38.70$30.04More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
RRP: $32.25$28.42***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew... -
Vuelta Skelter: Riding the remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain, in a facemask by Tim Moore
RRP: $25.80$18.43*A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*Tim Moore, the author of the Sunday Times bestselling French Revolutions, completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an... -
The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805-1905 by Ferdinand Mount
RRP: $16.76$11.07The Tears of the Rajasis a sweeping history of the British in India, seen through the experiences of a single Scottish family. For a century the Lows of Clatto survived mutiny, siege, debt and disease, everywhere from the heat of Madras to the Afghan... -
Two Weeks in November: The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe by Douglas Rogers 9781780723853
RRP: $16.76$11.09Two Weeks in Novemberis the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies - a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixer - who... -
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land by Patrick Bishop 9780007506194
RRP: $16.76$11.73From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the modern world. On a cold, bright morning in February 1942, fugitive Avraham Stern was cornered in a flat in Tel-Aviv... -
The Century Girls: The Final Word from the Women Who've Lived the Past Hundred Years of British History by Tessa Dunlop
RRP: $11.60$7.51THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Tessa Dunlop...succeeds in weaving a rich tapestry of experiences.' Independent'A warm-hearted and engaging read, The Century Girls is replete with wonderful characters.' Sunday Express'A delightful book... all about women and... -
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
RRP: $21.92$15.84A Short History of Byzantium is renowned historian, and author of A History of Venice, John Julius Norwich's classic history of Byzantium Constantine the Great moved the seat of Roman power to Constantinople in AD 330 and for eleven brutal, bloody... -
Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth
RRP: $12.89$8.64Longlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2019 ____________The Times Round-up of the Best Non-fiction Paperbacks, 2019The Times Best Current Affairs and Big Ideas Book of the Year, 2018For many in modern Britain, careers are low-paid and high-risk, a series of... -
The Reformation as Renewal: Retrieving the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church by Matthew Barrett
RRP: $59.34$43.98A holistic, eye-opening history of one of the most significant turning points in Christianity, The Reformation as Renewal demonstrates that the Reformation was at its core a renewal of evangelical catholicity.In the sixteenth century Rome charged the... -
Mafia, The: A Cultural History by Roberto M. Dainotto
RRP: $15.47$10.87What makes Tony Soprano so likeable? Why would we rather leave the cannoli and take the gun? Do we truly want Scarface's Tony Montana to succeed? Is Michael Corleone a misunderstood hero or a despicable villain? In The Mafia: A Cultural History, now... -
Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Higher Social Rank Shapes Identity, Fosters Creativity, and Changes the World by W. David Marx
RRP: $34.82$23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593296707Author W. David MarxFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 by Alison Weir
RRP: $14.18$10.02When Henry VIII died in 1547, he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn, to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendants of his sister, Mary Tudor.Picking up from the point that The Six Wives of Henry VIII left off,... -
Auschwitz and Birkenau by Ian Baxter
RRP: $20.63$15.49Auschwitz and Birkenau were separate from each other,by about a 45 minute walk. Auschwitz was adapted to hold political prisoners in 1940 and evolved into a killing machine in 1941. Later that year a new site called Birkenau was found to extend the... -
Invisible Lines: Boundaries and Belts That Define the World by Maxim Samson 9781800814998
RRP: $28.38$18.98'An illuminating glimpse of the chain reactions of human and physical geography.' Financial Times 'A truly original adventure into new ways of exploring what we mean by a sense of place.' Simon Jenkins 'A fascinating exploration of the lesser-known... -
The Fire of the Dragon: China’s New Cold War by Ian Williams 9781780278759
RRP: $16.76$11.04Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2023 As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Under President Xi Jinping, China's global ambitions have taken a dangerous new turn. Bullying and intimidation have replaced... -
Canary Islands: A Cultural History by Peter Stone 9781908493996
RRP: $19.35$17.61The seven volcanic Canary Islands that bask in the Atlantic off shore from the north-west African coast have long had legendary connotations. To the Greeks they were the Gardens of the Hesperides, blessed with a perennial spring-like climate, while the... -
NKJV, Value Thinline Bible, Large Print, Leathersoft, Blue, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: $24.50$18.07A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go. This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable... -
The Wars Of The Roses: England's First Civil War by Trevor Royle
RRP: $19.34$12.64THE WARS OF THE ROSES is the definitive account of one of the bloodiest episodes in British history - wars between the houses of York and Lancaster. Trevor Royle provides a military history of the Wars while placing the conflict in the context of the... -
Che Guevara And The Cuban Revolution by Mike Gonzalez 9781898876458
RRP: $10.32$7.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876458Author Mike GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 229g -
Typewriter: The History, The Machines, The Writers by Tony Allan 9781627950343
$13.24Personal computers may have replaced the typewriter in most homes and offices, but the venerable writing machine is currently staging a comeback. From portable models that hipsters are snapping up, to Tom Hanks's bestselling app that recreates the manual... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire by Nigel Dalziel
RRP: $21.92$15.84The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire traces the emergence of the world's greatest empire from its earliest beginnings in the British Isles, through its ascendancy in Victorian times, to its ultimate collapse in the mid-20th century. It... -
Londonopolis: A Curious and Quirky History of London by Martin Latham
RRP: $11.60$8.20A paperback reissue of Londonopolis (9781849941655) This curious history of London whisks you down the rabbit hole and into the warren of backstreets, landmarks, cemeteries, palaces, markets, museums and secret gardens of the great metropolis. Meet the... -
The Welsh Kings: Warriors, Warlords and Princes by Kari Maund 9780752429731
RRP: $16.76$12.41When Edward I's troops forced the destruction of Dafydd ap Gruffudd in 1283 they brought to an end the line of truly independent native rulers in Wales that had endured throughout recorded history. In the early middle ages Wales was composed of a variety... -
CAMRA's Peak District Pub Walks by Bob Steel 9781852493530
RRP: $16.76$13.70A practical, pocket-sized guide to some of the best walks and finest pubs the Peak District has to offer. The 25 routes in this book combine stunning landscape, fascinating industrial heritage and some of the best real-ale pubs in the region. Detailed... -
The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, an American Legend by Bob Drury
RRP: $25.79$16.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451654684Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
A War Transformed: WWI on the Doggerland Front: A Wargame by Frederick Silburn-Slater 9781472856258
RRP: $32.25$25.16The Great War meets the horrors of forgotten folklore in this occult skirmish wargame. 1916: A World Transformed. As the Great War raged, the Moon fell from its orbit. Seas shifted, uncovering new lands and revealing what tide and time had concealed... -
The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn off your Mind by Gary Lachman 9781912868445
RRP: $19.34$16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912868445Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint Dedalus LtdPublisher Dedalus Ltd -
Wars of the Republic: Ancient Roman Wargaming 343-50 BC by Eric Farrington
RRP: $16.76$12.64From the First Samnite War and the eventual conquest of the Italian Peninsula, to the defeat by Hannibal at Lake Trasimene, and final victory over the Gauls at Alesia, Wars of the Republic is a miniature wargame that allows you to campaign with the... -
Thomas Cromwell: The Rise And Fall Of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister by Robert Hutchinson
RRP: $16.76$11.09The rise and fall of Henry's notorious minister - the most corrupt Chancellor in English history'Gripping... Hutchinson tells his story with infectious relish and vividly evokes the politics and personalities of this extraordinary decade' LITERARY... -
Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada by Elizabeth Drayson
RRP: $15.48$10.89The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson. 'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' BBC History Magazine 'A glittering homage to one of the... -
SR-71 Blackbird by Paul F. Crickmore
RRP: $12.89$9.17Lockheed's SR-71 Blackbird is one of the most iconic and famous jets ever built. Assembled in secret at Lockheed's Skunkworks, the Blackbird's vital statistics remain phenomenal decades later. It holds the airspeed record for a manned jet aircraft,...