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A Ramble About Tallaght: History, People, Places by Albert Perris 9781788493369
RRP: £27.99£21.94A fascinating history of an ancient place. From its first mention in legend in the Book of Invasions, through early Christian monastic settlements, castles and grand residences, Fenian raids and the Battle of Tallaght, there has been huge change in... -
The Renaissance Complete by Margaret Aston
RRP: £30.00£21.00No period has been more discussed, dissected and argued over than the Renaissance, and every age has reconstructed it in its own image. Today's emphasis is on its complexity - the way ideas, politics, religion, society, art and science depended upon and... -
Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East Jeremy Bowen 9780743449694
RRP: £10.99£7.21The Six-Day War was an extraordinary human drama. It swept up a generation of Israelis and Arabs whose children still cannot live peacefully in the world the war created. Today, Israel is the superpower of the region. It has nuclear weapons but has never... -
Europe in the High Middle Ages: The Penguin History of Europe by William Chester Jordan
RRP: £12.99£9.34'The most accessible, up-to-date introduction to its subject ... does full justice to the multifarious forces at work in high gothic Europe' Daily TelegraphThe years from AD 1000 to the beginning of the fourteenth century were the most formative... -
The Allotment by Colin Ward 9781915068231
RRP: £16.00£11.62Allotments are sanctuaries for growing, often on the fringes of suburbia, where life is getting ever more stressful and expensive. Here, a simple urge to grow-your-own or become self-sufficient, brings us closer to a community of people, wildlife and... -
Scorpion CVR(T): Scorpion FV101 Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) in British service 1972-2020 Simon Dunstan 9781785211959
RRP: £25.00£17.62The latest modern armoured fighting vehicle to receive the Haynes treatment is the CVRT Scorpion. The CVRT Scorpion Manual will be fully illustrated with archive photos, technical drawings and detailed photography. The author, Simon Dunstan, is an... -
Tales of the Elders of Ireland by Ann Dooley
RRP: £10.99£7.99"'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide... -
Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, Volume I: July 1937-May 1942 by Richard B. Frank 9781324002109
RRP: £31.99£27.93In 1937 the swath of the globe from India to Japan contained half the world's population but only two nations with real sovereignty (Japan and Thailand) and two with compromised sovereignty (China and Mongolia). All other peoples in the region endured... -
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid 9781529326765
RRP: £25.00£16.78A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Chillingly original' Max Hastings'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to... -
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine Anna Reid 9781399608824
RRP: £10.99£7.50FULLY UPDATED'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'INDEPENDENTFlat, fertile, and fatally tempting to invaders, for centuries Ukraine was fought over by more powerful neighbours. Though its modern... -
Virgil: Aeneid Book XI by Scott McGill 9781107416789
RRP: £22.99£20.43Virgil's Aeneid XI is an important, yet sometimes overlooked, book which covers the funerals following the fierce fighting in Book X and a council of the Latins before they and the Trojans resume battle after the end of the truce. This edition contains a... -
Unbowed: My Autobiography by Wangari Maathai
RRP: £10.99£7.99Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of her studies with... -
The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction by Jerry Brotton
RRP: £8.99£6.65More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but... -
Acid Test by Tom Shroder
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147516374Author Tom ShroderFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 364g -
A Brief History of The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis Martyn Whittock 9781849012997
RRP: £10.99£7.50Beginning in the broken aftermath of the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles that made German recovery almost impossible, Whittock tells not just the account of the men who rose to the fore in the dangerous days of the Weimar republic, circling... -
Reporting the Raj: The British Press and India, C.1880-1922 by Chandrika Kaul 9780719061769
RRP: £19.99£17.61This book is the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control. The press was an important forum for debate over... -
Tobruk 1942: Rommel and the Defeat of the Allies by David Mitchelhill-Green
RRP: £14.99£12.75Tobruk was one of the greatest Allied victories - and one of the worst Allied defeats - of the Second World War. The 1942 fiasco rocked the very foundation of Winston Churchill's premiership. It revived the flagging hopes of the German people and fanned... -
The Secret Diary of Queen Victoria by Terry Deary 9780702306662
RRP: £6.99£4.81From the bestselling team behind Horrible Histories! It's time to delve into the totally true (sort of) and incredibly intriguing pages of Queen Victoria's Secret Diary. First! Terry Deary steps into the mind... -
My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family by Kathy Henderson
RRP: £20.00£15.04'That's what happens when you listen to the stories and they start to tell themselves all over again ... the more you hear, the more questions there are, answers unpeeling like the layers of an onion.'Memoir, detective work and political history come... -
The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
RRP: £12.99£8.80In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to get soldiers they need silver, and to get silver there is no better way than war and plunder. This vicious cycle... -
Operation Valkyrie: The German Generals' Plot Against Hitler by Pierre Galante 9780815411796
RRP: £14.99£11.70The bomb that exploded in the "Wolf's Lair"-Hitler's command headquarters-on July 20th, 1944 was the closest any assassination attempt ever came to ridding the world of the Nazis' Fuhrer. Pierre Galante's account of the years that led up to the attempt,... -
Who Owns Ireland: The Hidden Truth of Land Ownership in Ireland by Kevin Cahill 9780750984454
RRP: £20.00£15.27It is the barbed wire entanglement that tortures yet frees in the long story of this small island on 'the dark edge of Europe'. It defined the national struggle for independence far more than any other single issue. The famine between 1845 and 1850... -
Towton 1461: England's Bloodiest Battle by Christopher Gravett
£13.16The Lancastrian army was conducting a triumphant march on the capital, having defeated Warwick at the Second Battle of St. Albans, when on 4 March, Edward of York was proclaimed king in London. The Lancastrians withdrew northwards and Edward followed in... -
Staffordshire Unusual & Quirky by Andrew Beardmore 9780857042958
RRP: £19.99£16.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857042958Author Andrew BeardmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher Halsgrove -
An Italian Girl in Brooklyn by Santa Montefiore
RRP: £16.99£11.08Dark secrets and hidden sorrows abound in Santa Montefiore's spellbinding novel set in war-torn Italy and the streets of New York. 'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES 'A wonderful story, beautifully told. I absolutely tore through... -
Iceland by Chris McNab
RRP: £9.99£6.95A hotspot in the North Atlantic, Iceland is one of the world's most unusual countries. It is Europe's second largest island but its most sparsely populated country. Sitting astride the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, linking the North Atlantic plate with the... -
Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World by John G. Gager 9780195134827
RRP: £53.00£41.13In the ancient Graeco-Roman world, it was a common practice to curse an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. More than a thousand such texts, written between the fifth century BC and the fifth century... -
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe Brian P. Levack 9781138808102
RRP: £39.99£38.84The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written by one of the leading names in the field. For those starting out in their studies of witch-beliefs and... -
Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800 by Keith Thomas
RRP: £10.99£7.99'Man and the Natural World, an encyclopaedic study of man's relationship to animals and plants, is completely engrossing ... It explains everything - why we eat what we do, why we plant this and not that, why we keep pets, why we like some animals and... -
Three Letter Plague: A Young Man's Journey Through a Great Epidemic by Jonny Steinberg
RRP: £16.99£12.28At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. It is to here that award-winning... -
Researching Ancestors in Co.Armagh by Dr. Ian Maxwell 9780901905895
RRP: £11.99£8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901905895Author Dr. Ian MaxwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ulster Historical FoundationPublisher Ulster Historical FoundationWeight(grams) 290g -
Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation by Susan Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.34Sir Seretse Khama, the first President of Botswana and heir apparent to the kingship of the Bangwato people, brought independence and great prosperity to his nation after colonial rule. But for six long years from 1950, Seretse had been forced into... -
9/11 Conspiracy Theories by David Gardner
RRP: £9.99£7.21The time is right to learn what really happened on 9/11. The time is right to unearth what has been deliberately withheld from the public. Nearly twenty years ago, on 11 September 2001, four passenger aircraft were hijacked and flown into the World Trade... -
The Ghost In The Garden: in search of Darwin's lost garden by Jude Piesse
RRP: £9.99£6.90The forgotten garden that inspired Charles Darwin becomes the modern-day setting for an exploration of memory, family, and the legacy of genius. Darwin's childhood garden at The Mount in Shrewsbury was the site of some of the great scientist's earliest... -
Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths Catherine A. Epstein (Amherst College, USA) 9781118294789
RRP: £20.95£18.78Nazi Germany: Confronting the Myths provides a concise and compelling introduction to the Third Reich. At the same time, it challenges and demystifies the many stereotypes surrounding Hitler and Nazi Germany. * Creates a succinct, argument-driven... -
The Photographer at Sixteen: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020 by George Szirtes
RRP: £10.99£7.61A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**"A truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling"... -
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
RRP: £9.99£6.84From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced... -
The Annals of St-Bertin: Ninth-Century Histories, Volume I by Janet L. Nelson
RRP: £19.99£14.74The Annals of St-Bertin, covering the years 830 to 882, are the main narrative source for the Carolingian world in the ninth century. This richly-annotated translation by a leading British specialist makes these Carolingian histories accessible in... -
Mauser Rifles, Vol. 1: 1870-1918 by Luc Guillou
RRP: £22.99£15.05The first of two volumes on Mauser rifles, this full-color, illustrated book presents the design, manufacturing, development, and combat use of the various models from 1870 through World War I. Starting with the Model 1871-or Gewehr 71-the book explores... -
A Short History of the First World War Gary Sheffield 9781780743646
RRP: £9.99£6.51The First World War was a watershed in world history. Tragic but far from futile, its origins, events and legacy have roused impassioned debate, creating multiple interpretations and confusion for those encountering the period for the first time. ...