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Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: £10.99£7.77Edward VI died a teenager in 1553, yet his brief reign would shape the future of the nation, unleashing a Protestant revolution that propelled England into the heart of the Reformation. This dramatic account takes a fresh look at one of the most... -
The Peninsular War Atlas (Revised) by Nick Lipscombe
RRP: £50.00£37.62The 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... -
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Man Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
RRP: £10.99£7.25The worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high... -
Israel's Long War with Hezbollah: Military Innovation and Adaptation Under Fire by Raphael D. Marcus 9781626166110
RRP: £32.00£25.29The 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: £12.99£9.09Immediate 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: £10.99£7.25Cal 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: £12.99£10.01Early 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: £14.99£12.55Stanley 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: £50.00£37.51The 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: £15.99£10.21A 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... -
A Grim Almanac of South Yorkshire by Kevin Turton 9780752456782
RRP: £17.99£13.64A Grim Almanac of South Yorkshire is a collection of stories from the county's past, some bizarre, some fascinating, some macabre, but all equally absorbing. Revealed here are the dark corners of the county, where witches, body snatchers, highwaymen and... -
The American Stamp: Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States by Laura Goldblatt 9780231208246
RRP: £30.00£23.29More 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: £25.00£22.03***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: £20.00£14.29*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: £12.99£8.58The 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... -
Seal Of God by Chad Williams
RRP: £13.99£8.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414368740Author Chad WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
Two Weeks in November: The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe by Douglas Rogers 9781780723853
RRP: £12.99£8.60Two 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: £12.99£9.09From 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... -
A Short History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £16.99£12.28A 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: £9.99£6.70Longlisted 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: £46.00£34.09A 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: £11.99£8.43What 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: £26.99£17.99Apologies 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 -
Auschwitz and Birkenau by Ian Baxter
RRP: £15.99£12.01Auschwitz 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: £22.00£14.71'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... -
Canary Islands: A Cultural History by Peter Stone 9781908493996
RRP: £15.00£13.65The 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: £18.99£14.01A 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... -
Che Guevara And The Cuban Revolution by Mike Gonzalez 9781898876458
RRP: £8.00£5.60Apologies 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
£10.26Personal 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... -
Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart
RRP: £9.99£6.70In the late 1630s, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor set sail from England, lured by the promise of the New World, to settle in Barbados where he fell by chance into the lucrative life of a sugar plantation owner. With George Ashby's first... -
Wilde in Love by Eloisa James
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series The first book in Eloisa James's dazzling new series set in the Georgian period glows with her trademark wit and charm... -
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire by Nigel Dalziel
RRP: £16.99£12.28The 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: £8.99£6.36A 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... -
CAMRA's Peak District Pub Walks by Bob Steel 9781852493530
RRP: £12.99£10.62A 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: £19.99£12.49Apologies 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: £25.00£19.50The 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: £14.99£12.58Apologies 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: £12.99£9.80From 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: £12.99£8.60The 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: £12.00£8.44The 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...