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Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08From award-winning historian Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century retells the story of a century of division, charting the struggles of rival ideologies to create a new world... -
Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $28.61THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times 'A book for lovers of traditional,... -
The Leaping Hare by George Ewart Evans
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $8.84The Leaping Hare is a rare and remarkable book about every aspect of the life and legend of the wild hare, exploring nature, poetry, folklore, history and art. A frequent feature in the mythology ... -
Why Do Shepherds Need a Bush?: London's Underground History of Tube Station Names by David Hilliam 9780750963039
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Who travelling through Totteridge and Whetstone is aware that the station got its name from the medieval soldiers who sharpened their swords at the whetstone before the bloody Battle of Barnet? Or... -
African Origin of Civilization by Diop 9781556520723
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520723Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint
Behind Enemy Lines: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Decorated Living War Hero Richard Bath 9781845967086
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.92With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Legion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of...
The Western Front: A History of the First World War by Nick Lloyd
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.05**Pre-order the latest volume in the World War One trilogy, The Eastern Front, today** A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'A tour de force of scholarship, analysis and...
Beef, Bible and Bullets: Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro by Richard Lapper
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.26Backed by Brazil's wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened military and police force, Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019. Driven by the former army captain's...
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages by Dan Jones 9781789543544
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.68The instant Sunday Times bestseller A Times, New Statesman and Spectator Book of the Year 'Simply the best popular history of the Middle Ages there is' Sunday Times 'A great achievement,...
Jackspeak: A Guide to British Naval Slang & Usage by 9781472834133
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.19From 'A1' to 'Zulu', the fully revised and updated third edition of Jackspeak is a comprehensive guide to the slang of the Royal Navy. Discover the humorous and colourful and cryptic slang of the...
Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10'There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War' John Keegan Life and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and...
The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire by Nigel Dalziel
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66The 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...
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers by Andrew Louth
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.31The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of...
Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict by Oren Kessler
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.49In spring 1936, the Holy Land erupted in rebellion, targeting both the local Jewish community and the British Mandate authorities that for two decades had midwifed the Zionist project. The Great Arab...
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald 9780241984482
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe.In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple...
The Making Of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes 9781471111235
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.66WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe Making of the Atomic Bomb is the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the...
Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen by Giles Tremlett
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08The image of Catherine of Aragon has always suffered in comparison to the heir-providing Jane Seymour or the vivacious eroticism of Anne Boleyn. But when Henry VIII married Catherine, she was an...
Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend John Nichol 9781471180491
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.58'The epic story of an iconic aircraft and the breathtaking courage of those who flew her' Andy McNab, bestselling author of Bravo Two Zero 'Compelling, thrilling and rooted in quite extraordinary...
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.68The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes.'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world.Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after...
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.42In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating...
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger 9780671510992
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.50'Kissinger's absorbing book tackles head-on some of the toughest questions of our time ...Its pages sparkle with insight' Simon Schama in the NEW YORKER Spanning more than three centuries, from...
A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the 'Forgotten Holocaust' by Otto Rosenberg 9781800961128
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $7.81THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being torn from their homes by...
How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life by Ruth Goodman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like...
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.09Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing a grand...
To Hell or Barbados: The ethnic cleansing of Ireland by Sean O'Callaghan
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.71A vivid account of the Irish slave trade: the previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia.About the AuthorSean O'Callaghan was...
The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.15Vaclav Havel's remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop...
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of World War II by Jonathan North
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.48This is an expert guide to the uniforms of Britain, America, Germany, USSR and Japan, together with other Axis and Allied forces. It is an incredible directory of the military personnel of the...
The Republic by Plato
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $9.58The classic translation of the cornerstone work of western philosophyPlato's Republic is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. Presented in the form...
The Living Goddesses by Marija Gimbutas
RRP: $38.86Booksplease Price: $27.85The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her...
Visiting the Normandy Invasion Beaches and Battlefields: A Helpful Guide Book for Groups and Individuals Gareth Hughes 9781473854321
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.68This splendid and timely book will be invaluable to those visiting the battlefields, sites, museums, memorials and cemeteries of the D-Day Normandy landings. It is intended for those planning and...
The Last Landlady: An English Memoir by Laura Thompson 9781783528455
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.73Shortlisted for Harper's Bazaar Book of the Year 2019A Guardian, Spectator and Mail on Sunday Book of the Year 2018'A lyrical portrait of a fast-vanishing way of life . . . Thompson is a terrific...
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey 9780099437246
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty,...
The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe by Angela Kelly
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $25.19Platinum Jubilee edition 'Full of gems ... Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown'Daily Telegraph 'Entertaining and beautifully illustrated'The Sunday...
Martin Luther: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Scott H. Hendrix
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.06This introduction presents Martin Luther as historians now see him. Instead of singling him out as a modern hero, the book emphasizes the context in which Luther worked, the colleagues who supported...
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.37'It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was...
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom HollandThe...
A Woman In Berlin Anonymous 9781844087976
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments...
To The Bitter End: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1942-45 by Victor Klemperer
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.59The international bestselling record of a German Jew in Nazi Germany.'Deserves to stand beside the diary of Anne Frank as a day-to-day description of the sufferings of the victims of Hitler's evil...
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend
RRP: $26.12Booksplease Price: $18.44In November 1519, Hernando Cortes walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has...
Studio 54 Night Magic by Matthew Yokobosky
RRP: $87.10Booksplease Price: $66.57There has never been and will never be another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the first official book on the legendary club, co-owner...