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Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert Bickers 9780141011950
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38'This is a biography of a nobody that offers a window into an otherwise closed world. It is a life which manages to touch us all...' Empire Made MeShanghai in the wake of the First World War was one... -
Studying History by Donald M. MacRaild
RRP: $49.38Booksplease Price: $37.98This best-selling guide will help you get to grips with the larger themes and issues behind historical study, while also showing you how to formulate your own ideas in a clear, analytical style... -
A People's History of the German Revolution: 1918-19 William A. Pelz 9780745337104
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $28.96In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy. This revolt, in the dying... -
Hull Pubs & Breweries by Paul Gibson 9780752432847
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $21.62As social centres and places of entertainment, Hull's old pubs hold an important place in the lives of the majority of the city's population. Hull Pubs and Breweries uses over 200 photographs and... -
Surviving the Home Front: The People and the Media in the Second World War by Stuart Hylton 9781803993560
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.14Terrifying raids, thousands of bombs and countless petrified inhabitants of Britain's busiest cities. These are the prevailing images of the Blitz and the Home Front in the Second World War. However,... -
Ideal Homes: Uncovering the History and Design of the Interwar House by Deborah Sugg Ryan
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.74Ideal homes investigates the tastes and aspirations of the new suburban communities that emerged in Britain following the First World War. In a period when homeownership was becoming the norm, these... -
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970 by John Darwin
RRP: $58.88Booksplease Price: $57.78The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global history of the rise and fall of that great imperial... -
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth by Meriel Schindler
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.03'Rigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that also chronicles the wider story of the Jews of the... -
Gluckel by Gluckel of Hameln 9780805205725
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805205725Author GluckelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Fighter Ace: The Extraordinary Life of Douglas Bader, Battle of Britain Hero Dilip Sarkar 9781445638195
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.80THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO TRULY SEPARATE FACT FROM MYTH AND LEGEND. The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy fighters during the Second World War despite having... -
Military Intelligence Blunders by John Hughes-Wilson
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.99'A cracking good read... I will recommend this book to anyone' - Professor Richard Holmes, CBE 'The Falklands, Yom Kippur, Tet and Pearl Harbor? Avoidable intelligence blunders or much worse?... -
A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation Tim Hannigan 9780804844765
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of the World's Largest ArchipelagoIndonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after... -
Elizabeth: A Celebration in Photographs of the Queen's Life and Reign Jennie Bond 9781802796322
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $34.54Fully revised and updated.Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving monarch in British history, with a reign even longer than Queen Victoria. Her extraordinary life is expertly portrayed by Jennie... -
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton 9780465012749
Booksplease Price: $30.38When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they... -
Super-Battleships of World War II: Montana-class, Lion-class, H-class, A-150 and Sovetsky Soyuz-class by Mark Stille
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58An illustrated study of the design, development and eventual fates of the uncompleted super-battleships intended to be built before and during World War II. Before the start of World War II, the ... -
The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.87The slave ship was the instrument of history's greatest forced migration and a key to the origins and growth of global capitalism, yet much of its history remains unknown. Marcus Rediker uncovers the... -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780140444605
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $14.74In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect.Through character sketches and... -
Trumpets from the Steep by Diana Cooper 9781784873028
Booksplease Price: $22.02This last volume of Lady Diana Cooper's memoirs covers the years of the Second World War and its aftermath, when her husband Duff Cooper served as Minister of Information and then in various diplomat... -
Medieval Christianity: A New History by Kevin Madigan
RRP: $41.80Booksplease Price: $35.49An expansive guide to the medieval world, with new attention to women, ordinary parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and Muslims, and more For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign-an often... -
In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $24.43A SUNDAY TIMES, EVENING STANDARD, SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR"In this gloriously rich book, Keith Thomas, one of our greatest living historians, explores how the idea of civility,... -
Stoned: Jewelry, Obsession, and How Desire Shapes the World by Aja Raden
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.50As entertaining as it is incisive, Stoned is a raucous journey through the history of human desire for what is rare, and therefore precious. What makes a stone a jewel? What makes a jewel priceless?... -
The Year Without Summer: 1816 - one event, six lives, a world changed - longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2021 by Guinevere Glasfurd
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2020'A STRIKINGLY SHARP AND SUBTLE WRITER' Guardian'SUPERB...BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN...UNFORGETTABLE'... -
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.08'The term culture ... includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the... -
Celtic Queen: The World of Cartimandua by Jill Armitage 9781445684154
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.08Queens Cartimandua and Boudica were both Celtic noblewomen, recorded by classical writers as part of a tradition of women who showed particular courage, ambition and political skill, and who were... -
Wing Leader by Johnnie Johnson 9780907579243
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907579243Author Air Vice Marshall 'Jonnie' JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Coun -
Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong Vaudine England 9781472157140
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $27.34A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis-and whose freedoms are... -
The Kamikaze Hunters: The Men Who Fought for the Pacific, 1945 by Will Iredale
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $22.78The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller.In May 1945, with victory in Europe established, the war was all but over. But on the other side of the world, the Allies were still engaged in a bitter struggle... -
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
Booksplease Price: $24.68Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression... -
James II: King in Exile by John Callow 9780750964937
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $25.16James II was Britain's last Catholic king. The spectacular collapse of his regime in 1688 and the seizure of his throne by his nephew William of Orange are the best-known events of his reign. But... -
A Search In Secret Egypt by Paul Brunton
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $27.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583949818Author Paul BruntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint < -
The Last British Dambuster: One man's extraordinary life and the raid that changed history by George Johnny Johnson
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68Johnny Johnson has been awarded an MBE for his remarkable services in World War II'I was anxious to fight. Hitler was the bastard who had started all this and he needed sorting out. We were under... -
Testament by Wilbur Smith 9781838776350
RRP: $41.80Booksplease Price: $31.45An epic new novel of Ancient Egypt, from the Master of Historical Adventure, Wilbur Smith.FROM THE RUINS OF BATTLEA HERO MUST RISEFOR THE GLORY OF EGYPTYears of Hyksos rule have seen the plunder of... -
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $34.98Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A... -
The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading by Damien Peters
Booksplease Price: $12.35Perhaps no work of history written in the 20th century has done more to undermine an existing consensus and cause its readers to re-evaluate their own preconceptions than has Jonathan Riley-Smith's... -
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 by Tim Harris 9780141016528
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the... -
Sherman Firefly vs Tiger: Normandy 1944 Stephen A. Hart 9781846031502
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $23.69The German Tiger heavy tank was a monster of a machine that dominated the battlefields of Europe. One of the most feared weapons of World War II, the Tiger gained an aura of invincibility that was... -
A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum Françoise Vergès 9780745349619
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.98'A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition' - Publishers Weekly The Western museum is a battleground - a terrain of ideological, political and economic contestation. Almost everyone... -
Monte Cassino: Amoured Forces in the Battle for the Gustav Line: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Jeffrey Plowman 9781526718938
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $22.38The battles fought between the Allied armies and the German Wehrmacht at Monte Cassino in 1944 were key episodes in the protracted Italian campaign, and the eventual Allied victory was a decisive... -
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.65For the past two millennia, the ability to produce paper in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce and art. It has created... -
The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59The history of the telegraph - the men and women who made it - and its relevance to the current Internet debateBeginning with the Abbe Nollet's famous experiment of 1746, when he successfully...