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At Home with the Queen: Life Through the Keyhole of the Royal Household by Brian Hoey
RRP: £10.99£7.25Behind the scenes of the private world at the heart of royalty, as revealed by a distinguished royal commentator. This is the real story of what goes on inside the royal palaces, as witnessed by members of the royal staff and household past... -
A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall
RRP: £28.99£27.59David McDowall's ground-breaking history of the Kurds from the 19th century to the present day documents the underlying dynamics of the Kurdish question. The division of the Kurdish people among the modern nation states of Iraq, Turkey, Syria and... -
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women by Caroline Walker Bynum
RRP: £29.00£22.94In the period between 1200 and 1500 in western Europe, a number of religious women gained widespread veneration and even canonization as saints for their extraordinary devotion to the Christian eucharist, supernatural multiplications of food and drink,... -
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command by Andrew Gordon
RRP: £18.99£12.88Winner of the Longman's History Today Book of the Year Award and the inaugural Westminster Medal for Military Literature More than a century had gone by since the Battle of Trafalgar. Generation after generation of British naval captains had been... -
The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel by Ilan Pappe
RRP: £12.99£11.46A vivid and incisive analysis of the complex relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens written by an acclaimed Israeli historian For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the... -
Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II by Louis Zamperini 9780062118851
RRP: £9.99£6.64The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster Unbroken A modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My Heels is the riveting and deeply personal memoir by U.S. Olympian, World War II bombardier, and POW... -
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19 by Mark Honigsbaum
RRP: £12.99£9.09A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The most timely and informative history book you will read this year, tracing a century of pandemics, with a new chapter on COVID-19.Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of... -
Tank Spotter's Guide by Tank Museum
RRP: £6.99£5.13Invented during World War I to break the grim deadlock of the Western Front trenches, tanks have gone on to revolutionise warfare. From the lightning Blitzkrieg assaults of World War II to the great battles in the Middle Eastern desert and the largest... -
D-Day Operations Manual: 75th anniversary edition by Jonathan Falconer
RRP: £30.00£21.35The landing of Allied forces on the shores of Normandy on 6 June 1944 was the greatest amphibious invasion in history. To mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019, this new edition of the Haynes D-Day Operations Manual features an additional chapter... -
Searching For Schindler: The true story behind the Booker Prize winning novel 'Schindler's Ark' by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £10.99£7.40The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this absorbing memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in... -
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal 9781846275661
RRP: £10.99£7.32Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love.Today,... -
Witchcraft: The Basics by Marion Gibson
RRP: £19.99£17.69Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world. Through the use... -
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townshend 9780141982472
RRP: £14.99£10.95Now with a new preface for the centenary of the Easter Rising, a compelling interpretation of the rebellion that launched Ireland into a new world.Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or... -
Those Who Hold Bastogne: The True Story of the Soldiers and Civilians Who Fought in the Biggest Battle of the Bulge by Peter Schrijvers
RRP: £12.99£11.46A new telling of the brutal siege of Bastogne, where vastly outnumbered American forces held off a savage German onslaught and sealed the fate of the Third Reich Hitler's last gamble, the Battle of the Bulge, was intended to push the Allied invaders of... -
Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain 9780747566878
RRP: £12.99£9.09In 1906, at a prosperous Long Island summer home, a family falls ill and typhoid is diagnosed. When Dr George Soper is called in to find the source of the contagion, he notices that the household cook has gone missing. She is Mary Mallon, the woman who... -
A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh by Alexander McCall Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.93'I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day - traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade that I have walked past before and not noticed; an... -
An Honourable Exit by Eric Vuillard
RRP: £14.99£10.59From the International Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Order of the Day and The War of the Poor comes a searing account of a conflict that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023'Excoriating and profound . . . A... -
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities by Jean Amery
RRP: £12.99£11.77"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain. . .all the way to its stoic conclusion." -Primo Levi"The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true." -Irving Howe, New... -
A Brief History of Life in the Middle Ages by Martyn Whittock
RRP: £12.99£3.51Using wide-ranging evidence, Martyn Whittock shines a light on Britain in the Middle Ages, bringing it vividly to life in this fascinating new portrait that brings together the everyday and the extraordinary.Thus we glimpse 11th-century rural society... -
The Malay Archipelago by Wallace Alfred Russel
RRP: £12.99£9.09Of all the extraordinary Victorian travelogues, The Malay Archipelago has a fair claim to be the greatest - both as a beautiful, alarming, vivid and gripping account of some eight years' travel across the entire Malay world - from Singapore to the... -
Brits: The War Against the IRA by Peter Taylor
RRP: £16.99£12.28The third part of the trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author of Provos and Loyalists In the final part of his trilogy exploring 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Peter Taylor talks to undercover agents of the British state... -
Oxford Readings in Greek Religion by Richard F. Buxton 9780198721901
£56.29The study of ancient Greek religion has been excitingly renewed in the last thirty years. Key areas of interest have been: the relationship between religion and politics; new and unexpected perspectives opened up by archaeological finds; the symbiosis... -
On History by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £12.99£8.60In these essays, about a quarter of them previously unpublished, Eric Hobsbawm reflects upon the theory, practice and development of history and its relevance to the modern world. These wide-ranging papers reflect Professor Hobsbawm's lifelong concern... -
Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
RRP: £10.99£7.40The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIIIIn the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed... -
The Witches of Fife: Witch-Hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710 by Stuart MacDonald
RRP: £20.00£14.05Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reality of what happened the night that Janet Cornfoot was lynched at Pittenweem is hard to grasp as one sits by... -
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Packed with vivid character sketches and lyrical description, Tremlett has told a gripping story, full of beauty and darkness' The Times WINNER OF THE 2018 ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE In 1474, a twenty-three year old woman ascended the throne of... -
American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World by David E. Stannard
RRP: £23.49£21.63For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the US Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an... -
The Space Shuttle: A Mission-By-Mission Celebration of Nasa's Extraordinary Spaceflight Program by Roland Miller
RRP: £40.00£27.75"Any backyard astronomer or space enthusiast would be delighted to have this visual journey on their shelf." -The Strategist, The Year's Most Giftable Coffee-Table BooksA Barnes & Noble Best Gift Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2022... -
'Ten Pound Poms': A Life History of British Postwar Emigration to Australia by A. James Hammerton
RRP: £15.99£12.20More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous 'ten pound Poms' and this is their story. Illuminated by the fascinating testimony of migrant life histories, this is the first substantial history of... -
A-Z Brighton Hidden Walks: Discover 20 routes in and around the city by Ric Morris
RRP: £6.99£4.80Discover hidden gems around Brighton with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and written by a local expert, A-Z... -
Mortain 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £16.99£12.28Following the successful landings in Normandy on D-Day and consolidation during Operation Cobra, the Wehrmacht was ordered to begin a counter-offensive named Operation Luttich. The plan was to send a large Panzer force across the First US Army... -
Assault in Norway: Sabotaging The Nazi Nuclear Program by Thomas Gallagher 9781599219127
RRP: £12.99£9.61"An exciting and dramatic episode."-Library Journal "Cliff-hanging suspense."-Christian Science Monitor Assault in Norway is the classic account of a legendary raid on the Nazi war program. By 1942 Germany had a seemingly insurmountable lead over the... -
Theoderic the Great: King of Goths, Ruler of Romans by Hans-Ulrich Wiemer 9780300254433
RRP: £35.00£33.91The first full-scale history of Theoderic and the Goths in more than seventy-five years, tracing the transformation of a divided kingdom into a great power "A monumental exploration. . . . It is the most important treatment of its subject since Wilhelm... -
Still Life: Timeless Beauty by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden 9783775751148
RRP: £38.00£24.24They fascinate us today as they did 500 years ago: elaborate compositions of exotic fruits or platters with oysters, floral arrangements and skulls, exquisitely decorated musical instruments and scientific instruments. Magical things testify to exuberant... -
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic Second Edition by Michael Axworthy
RRP: £14.99£10.95FULLY UPDATED THIRD EDITION, NOW WITH NEW POSTSCRIPT BY ALI ANSARI'If you were to read only one book on present-day Iran you could not do better than this' Ervand Abrahamian, Times Higher EducationFor some 40 years the Islamic Republic has resisted... -
The Time Traveler's Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789-1830 by Ian Mortimer 9781639363841
RRP: £19.95£13.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639363841Author Ian MortimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 148mm *... -
Remedios Varo: Science Fictions by Caitlin Haskell
RRP: £30.00£25.85An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice of Remedios Varo (1908-1963) following her... -
The Deadly Trade: The Complete History of Submarine Warfare From Archimedes to the Present by Iain Ballantyne
RRP: £12.99£9.00The Deadly Trade takes readers on an epic and enthralling voyage through submarine warfare, including how U-boats in two world wars tried to achieve victory, first for the Kaiser and then 20 years later for Adolf Hitler. It tells the story of how such... -
Brain Games - Amazing History Word Search: Find Hundreds of Unbelievable Facts and Incredible Events by Publications International Ltd
RRP: £12.98£11.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645585602Author Publications International LtdPage Count 192Imprint Publications International, Ltd.Publisher Publications International, Ltd... -
Elizabeth Stride and Jack the Ripper: The Life and Death of the Reputed Third Victim by Dave Yost 9780786433186
RRP: £21.99£17.97As soon as the newspapers hit the streets on October 1st, 1888, Elizabeth Stride became world renowned as the third victim of Jack the Ripper. Reportedly, Stride was killed only an hour before fellow victim Catherine Eddowes, becoming a key player in the...