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The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz by Eti Elboim 9780008645960
RRP: £9.99£6.52'You are no longer a number' Poland, 1944 The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage for an eternity, but eventually, the heavy doors opened, directly into the... -
Old Currie, Balerno and Juniper Green by George Monies 9781840331639
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840331639Author George MoniesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 165mm * 237mm * 4mm -
The Emperor's Tomb by Joseph Roth
RRP: £8.99£6.08The Emperor's Tomb is a magically evocative, haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the passing of time and the loss of youth and friends. Prophetic and regretful, intuitive and exact, Roth's acclaimed novel is the... -
Tattoos: An Illustrated History by Tina Brown
RRP: £15.99£10.85The art of tattoos goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years and today they are more popular than ever, but how many people really know the story behind tattoos? With a fascination for the Victorian tattoo craze, and the way the story behind these... -
The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War by George Morton-Jack 9781408707692
RRP: £25.00£7.53A brilliantly original history of the First World War, re-tracing the footsteps of the Indian Army's 1.5 million men who in 1914-18 served about the globe from Europe to Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean. After years of neglect, The Indian Empire at War... -
Calcio: A History of Italian Football by John Foot
RRP: £14.99£9.70The first history of Italian football to be written in English, 'Calcio' is a mix of serious analysis and comic storytelling, with vivid descriptions of games, goals, dives, missed penalties, riots and scandals in the richest and toughest league in the... -
Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War Two by Len Deighton
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Every page of Deighton's work glows with the excitement of discovery ... wonderful' Geoff Dyer, GuardianThis unflinching history of the darkest days of the Second World War covers the entire world stage, from the Battle of the Atlantic to Pearl Harbor... -
German Heavy Armored Cars: Sd.Kfz. 231, 232, 233, 263, and 234 in World War II by David Doyle
RRP: £22.99£15.65During WWII, Germany fielded a variety of six- and eight-wheeled armored cars, which were used in numerous ways, including reconnaissance, antitank, infantry support, and other roles. The earliest of these vehicles, the 6-Rad, or six-wheeled vehicles,... -
The Way of Tea: Health, Harmony, and Inner Calm by Aaron Fisher
RRP: £13.99£10.29Clarity. Health. Peace of mind. These are the goals of The Way of Tea.In this book, readers will learn more about all aspects of tea-from the practical to the spiritual-and how they can implement the accompanying ancient traditions into their modern life... -
Great and Glorious Days: Marlborough's Battles 1704-09: Schellenberg, Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet by James Falkner 9781862274181
RRP: £16.99£12.94Armies led by John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough met and defeated general and army that King Louis XIV of France could put against them. This book brings soldierly understanding of the trials and tribulations of the fateful days of battle and... -
Europe Between the Wars by Martin Kitchen
RRP: £47.99£46.38Martin Kitchen's compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural malaise shared by many philosophers and artists, the economic crises that plagued a Europe ruined by war and... -
Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat - An American History by Christina Ward 9781934170946
RRP: £31.99£20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934170946Author Christina WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Process MediaPublisher Process Media -
The Rise of the Sikh Soldier: The Sikh Warrior Through the Ages, C1700-1900 by Gurinder Singh Mann
RRP: £21.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070524Author Gurinder Singh MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
"The Amazing Iroquois" and the Invention of the Empire State by John Winters 9780197578223
RRP: £24.49£20.78In America's collective unconscious, the Haudenosaunee, known to many as the Iroquois, are viewed as an indelible part of New York's modern and democratic culture. From the Iroquois confederacy serving as a model for the US Constitution, to the... -
A Pocket History of the 1916 Rising by Tony Potter
RRP: £6.99£5.13The Easter Rising was arguably the most important event in Irish history. It was an armed insurrection that occurred mainly in Dublin during Easter Week, 1916, mounted by Irish republicans intent on ending British rule in Ireland and establishing an... -
CCEA GCSE History Third Edition by Finbar Madden
£31.89Exam board: CCEALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2019Trust the experts to guide you through CCEA GCSE History with this bestselling Student Book, which covers every option in a single volume.> Skilfully steers... -
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed by Andrew G. Walder
RRP: £25.95£21.04China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to... -
The Little Book of Somerset by Maurice Fells
RRP: £12.99£9.62Did you know?The town of Wincanton is twinned with a place that does not exist. William Gibbs of Tyntesfield House made his fortune by importing bird droppings from Peru. A song by 'Scrumpy and Western' singer Adge Cutler was banned by the BBC for being... -
The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire by Stephen Bown
RRP: £17.99£12.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385694094Author Stephen BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USAPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
RRP: £14.99£10.95'A riveting and illuminating tour of how nations deal with crises - which might hopefully help humanity as a whole deal with our present global crisis' YUVAL NOAH HARARI, author of SAPIENS ** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** Author of the landmark... -
Domina: The Women Who Made Imperial Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: £12.99£11.46A captivating popular history that shines a light on the notorious Julio-Claudian women who forged an empire Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero-these are the names history associates with the early Roman Empire. Yet, not a single one of... -
Vita & the Gladiator by Ally Sherrick
RRP: £7.99£5.23A rip-roaring Roman mystery from Historical Association Young Quills Award-winning author Ally Sherrick. PRAISE FOR BLACK POWDER - WINNER OF THE HISTORIAL ASSOCIATION YOUNG QUILLS AWARD: ' ... a wonderfully... -
Cosmetics & Perfumes in the Roman World by Susie Stewart 9780752440989
RRP: £16.99£12.94Presents a survey of the perception and reality of the use of cosmetics and perfumes under the Roman Empire. This work, a companion to "Roman Clothing and Fashion" draws on literary, non-literary, visual and archaeological evidence to show, among other... -
Japan's Trafalgar: The Voyage of the Condemned Fleet to the Straits of Korea by Phil Thorne
RRP: £45.00£34.21The Battle of Tsushima, the epic battle between the Japanese and Russian navies on May 27-28 1905, is examined in far greater detail than ever before. Making extensive use of official records, personal accounts and a wealth of untouched information on... -
Machiavelli: His Life and Times by Alexander Lee
RRP: £12.99£9.26'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and place. A monumental achievement.' - Jessie Childs, author of God's Traitors.'A notorious fiend', 'generally... -
The Poisoner of Ptah (Amerotke Mysteries, Book 6): A deadly killer stalks the pages of this gripping mystery by Paul Doherty
RRP: £9.99£6.80At a peace treaty signing between Egypt and Libya in Thebes, three of Egypt's leading scribes die violently on the Temple forecourt, the victims of a vile poisoning. To add to the mounting unease, a prosperous merchant and his young wife are found... -
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Professor Margaret MacMillan 9781788162579
RRP: £9.99£7.11New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020 Sunday Times best books for Autumn 2020 Guardian critics' pick for Autumn 2020 Wall Street Journal notable book of 2020 The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted... -
Recreating the Past by Victor Ambrus
RRP: £17.99£13.64Since 1994, when the first Time Team programme was broadcast, archaeology has been brought to life for millions of people. This book combines the talents of two of the programme's key players in an exciting series of reconstructions. Victor Ambrus has... -
The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual by Martin Robson
RRP: £9.99£7.67The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most famous and successful heavy bomber of the Second World War. Used predominantly at night, 'Lancs' dropped 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties in the period 1942-1945. Some of these missions were incredibly daring... -
Love Me Do! the Beatles' Progress by Michael Braun 9781631682711
RRP: £14.99£9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631682711Author Michael BraunFormat PaperbackImprint Graymalkin MediaPublisher Graymalkin MediaWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 135mm * 15mm -
The Arms of the Infinite: Elizabeth Smart and George Barker by Christopher Barker 9781554582709
RRP: £27.95£18.51The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker's parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their first fateful meeting and subsequent elopement,... -
How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950 by Kimmo Rentola 9780300273618
RRP: £25.00£20.92A dramatic and timely account of Stalin's failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed In November 1939, Stalin directed his military leaders to launch an invasion of Finland. In what became known as... -
The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman
RRP: £8.99£6.20In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charles I. The ruling monarch, Edward VIII, wished to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson and crown her... -
Refilling Haig’s Armies: The Replacement of British Infantry Casualties on the Western Front, 1916-1918 by Alison Hine 9781912390700
RRP: £35.00£24.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390700Author Alison HineFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Heavy Reckoning: War, Medicine and Survival in Afghanistan and Beyond by Emily Mayhew
RRP: £9.99£7.11What happens when you reach the threshold of life and death - and come back? As long as humans have lived on the planet, there have been wars, and injured soldiers and civilians. But today, as we engage in wars with increasingly sophisticated... -
Generations by William Strauss 9780688119126
£14.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688119126Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 771g -
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson 9780753560846
RRP: £16.99£12.28** #4 New York Times bestseller **In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minority have made war on American ideals. By weaponising language and promoting false history, they are leading... -
Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe by Trenton W. Holliday 9780231204972
RRP: £25.00£19.59During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as... -
Mind the Gap by Ferdinand Mount
RRP: £12.99£7.51Through acute observation and vivid illustration - drawing on every aspect of life from soap operas, speech patterns and gardening to education and the distribution of wealth - he demolishes the illusion that we live in a classless society and shows... -
The Chessmen Thief by Barbara Henderson
RRP: £7.99£5.60Win. Lose. Survive. I was the boy with a plan. Now I am the boy with nothing. From the moment 12-year-old Kylan hatches a plan to escape from his Norse captors, and return to Scotland to find his mother, his life becomes a dangerous game. The...