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The Second World War by John Keegan
RRP: £30.00£21.25In this comprehensive history, John Keegan explores both the technical and the human impact of the greatest war of all time. He focuses on five crucial battles and offers new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare. In... -
Spies: The epic intelligence war between East and West Calder Walton 9781408714959
RRP: £25.00£16.78The riveting story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with lessons for our new superpower conflict with China'A masterpiece' CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5'The book we... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Health and the people, c1000 to the present day Adele Fletcher 9781510418974
£7.48Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the AQA GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of consolidation... -
Viking London by Thomas Williams 9780008299897
RRP: £8.99£6.22London was reborn in the fires of the Viking Age, transformed by immigrants and natives, kings and commoners, warriors and saints. In this short history, bestselling historian Thomas Williams explores the profound... -
Palaeography for Family and Local Historians by Hilary Marshall
RRP: £22.50£18.77Family and Local Historians frequently encounter the challenge posed by the writing, and sometimes the translation, of the records which might most enable them to make further progress with their research. Many pamphlets, booklets and even books have... -
Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi and more by Erin Niimi Longhurst
RRP: £12.99£8.71A Japanese-inspired guide to living a happier, more fulfilled life. Japonisme explores the Japanese art of findingcontentment and includes practical tips and tricksto live a happier, healthier, more thoughtful life.What is your ikigai... -
The Complete Guide to Flags of the World, 3rd Edition Brian Johnson Barker 9781504800075
RRP: £9.99£6.78This comprehensive guide to the flags of the world, now available in a completely updated edition, provides concise, accurate coverage of every country in the world, giving the history, meaning, and symbolism of national flags, together with large-scale... -
The Secret History of Oxford by Paul Sullivan 9780752499567
RRP: £12.99£9.87The Secret History of Oxford offers the reader an off-the-beaten-track tour of the city's landmarks and streets. Filled with hundreds of facts and anecdotes, it reveals the amusing, unlikely and downright wonderful stories hidden beneath the surface... -
A History of the Irish Language: From the Norman Invasion to Independence by Aidan Doyle
RRP: £25.99£24.56In this book, Aidan Doyle traces the history of the Irish language from the time of the Norman invasion at the end of the 12th century to independence in 1922, combining political, cultural, and linguistic history. The book is divided into seven main... -
British Napoleonic Uniforms by C. E. Franklin 9781862274846
RRP: £60.00£45.38For the first time in print a book identifies each regiment and illustrates the change in uniforms, the colour of the facings and the nature and shape of the lace for the officers, NCOs and private soldiers over the period of the Napoleonic War 1793-1815... -
Clausewitz: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Howard
RRP: £8.99£6.65Karl von Clausewitz's study On War was described by the American strategic thinker Bernard Brodie as 'not simply the greatest, but the only great book about war'. It is hard to disagree. Even though he wrote his only major work at a time when the range... -
Secrets of the Conqueror: The Untold Story of Britain's Most Famous Submarine by Stuart Prebble
RRP: £12.99£8.80HMS Conqueror is Britain's most famous submarine. It is the only sub since World War Two to have sunk an enemy ship. Conqueror's sinking of the Argentine cruiser Belgrano made inevitable an all-out war over the future of the Falkland Islands, and... -
Tanks in the Battle of Germany 1945: Eastern Front by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£9.19A new history and analysis of the German and Soviet tank forces that battled on eastern German soil in the final months of World War II. The final months of World War II on the Eastern Front saw the Wehrmacht fighting with exhausted armoured... -
Oxford: A Potted History David Meara 9781398116801
RRP: £15.99£11.02Oxford’s history begins with the story of a king’s daughter, Frideswide, who founded a nunnery in the meadows where the River Thames and River Cherwell meet. A settlement grew up around her shrine, which was built on the site of the present cathedral and... -
Contesting the Crusades Norman Housley (University of Leicester) 9781405111898
RRP: £34.95£30.59In this book Norman Housley, one of the most distinguished historians of the medieval period, provides an introduction to the complex history of crusading. Steers readers through the key debates in this popular area of medieval history. Draws on the... -
Castaway: The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia Robert Macklin 9781472140692
RRP: £14.99£9.90'Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history'Ronan Breathnach, Irish Examiner 'A truly remarkable account drawing... -
Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition by Mark Lawrence Schrad
RRP: £32.49£23.01When most people think of the prohibition era, they think of speakeasies, gin runners, and backwoods fundamentalists railing about the ills of strong drink. In other words, in the popular imagination, it is a peculiarly American event. Yet, as Mark... -
My Early Life: A Roving Commission by Winston Churchill 9780684823454
RRP: £14.00£11.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684823454Author Winston ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 422g -
The Year Of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789 Thomas Pakenham 9780349112527
RRP: £14.99£10.05This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a... -
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One by Miranda Carter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Discover the juicy, funny story of the three dysfunctional rulers of Germany, Russia and Great Britain at the turn of the last century, combined with a study of the larger forces around them.Three cousins. Three Emperors. And the road to ruin.As cousins,... -
My Revision Notes: Edexcel A-level History: Protest, Agitation and Parliamentary Reform in Britain 1780-1928 Benjamin Armstrong 9781510418110
RRP: £10.50£9.87Exam board: EdexcelLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in Edexcel A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Alexander the Great: The Truth Behind the Myth by Paul Cartledge
RRP: £14.99£11.13At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323BCE he was ruler of the... -
The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain by Jim Vieira 9780956786548
RRP: £15.99£14.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956786548Author Jim VieiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Avalon Rising PublicationsPublisher Avalon Rising PublicationsWeight(grams) 540g -
The Motorbike Book: The Definitive Visual History by DK 9780241651421
RRP: £30.00£19.40Discover the gripping, action-packed history of the motorcycle, from the earliest petrol-powered two-wheelers to the blistering superbikes of today.Tracing the history and allure of the motorcycle, this book illustrates the diverse spectrum of bikes from... -
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham 9780553393989
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553393989Author Jon MeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
A Survey of London by John Stow
RRP: £19.99£15.32John Stow first published his "Survey of London" in 1598 during the reign of Elizabeth I. His detailed description of the city and its suburbs was an immediate success when it first appeared and has remained a popular classic of English history ever... -
To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain by Adam Hochschild
RRP: £18.99£3.46In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister whose views... -
The Quest for Queen Mary James Pope-Hennessy 9781529330618
RRP: £12.99£8.70'A delightful insight into an eclectic life'The Daily Telegraph'Very funny and astute . . . a loathly feast for royal-watchers' Hilary Mantel, New Statesman Books of the Year 2018'A complete delight, conjuring up, with a few sharp strokes of the pen, a... -
High Desert Deployment: Navy Colour on Display on NAS Fallon by Nicholas A Veronico 9781802823653
RRP: £18.99£13.61Since its establishment during World War Two, Navy squadrons have been deployed to the high desert outside of Fallon, Nevada, to hone their aerial combat skills. Today, Naval Air Station Fallon, with its 14,000 ft runway - the longest in the Navy - hosts... -
The Market in Poetry in the Persian World by Shahzad Bashir
RRP: £17.00£14.72'Poetic speech is a pearl, connected to the king's ear.' This statement gestures to words as objects of material value sought by those with power and resources. The author provides a sense for the texture of the Persian world by discussing what made... -
Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s by David W. Bebbington
RRP: £39.99£35.06This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal today. The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety... -
The Hurlers: The First All-Ireland Championship and the Making of Modern Hurling by Paul Rouse
RRP: £10.99£7.99In 1882, a letter was published in the Irish Times, lamenting the decline of hurling. The game was now played only in a few isolated rural pockets, and according to no fixed set of rules. It would have been absurd to imagine that, within five years, an... -
The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot by Giles Whittell
RRP: £10.99£7.99'I loved this book, as I love any good adventure story sublimely told . . . a gloriously exciting high, followed by a crushing realisation of war's enormous waste' Gerard deGroot, The Times'Absorbing . . . The extraordinary bravery of the participants... -
Thucydides: The War of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians by Thucydides 9780521847742
RRP: £69.99£61.83Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Story of Looking by Mark Cousins
RRP: £20.00£15.17In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed over the centuries. From great works of art to... -
British Airfields of the Second World War by Stuart Hadaway
RRP: £8.99£7.06The Second World War airfields peppered around Britain are among the most visible and widespread reminders of this devastating conflict. Some are now almost forgotten or built over; others have become museums, industrial estates or parkland; and some... -
Richard II by Nigel Saul
RRP: £25.00£21.32Richard II is one of the most enigmatic of English kings. Shakespeare depicted him as a tragic figure, an irresponsible, cruel monarch who nevertheless rose in stature as the substance of power slipped from him. By later writers he has been variously... -
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: A History of Conflict by Lawrence James 9781474610186
RRP: £22.00£14.56'Lawrence James is the doyen of Empire historians' The Spectator'James' writing is always full of energy and animation; he has an excellent eye for revealing detail' William Dalrymple'James has a genius for detail' A.N. WilsonBritain and China share a... -
Command: The Twenty-First-Century General by Anthony King
RRP: £24.99£20.29In the wake of the troubled campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, military decision-making appears to be in crisis and generals have been subjected to intense and sustained public criticism. Taking these interventions as a starting point, Anthony King... -
The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization by Professor Martin Thomas 9780691190921
RRP: £35.00£30.34A capacious history of decolonization, from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came...