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The Spitfire Kids: The generation who built, supported and flew Britain's most beloved fighter by Alasdair Cross
RRP: £12.99£8.83THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An inspirational read celebrating the incredible young people who gave so much for this iconic British aircraft'. John Nichol, bestselling author of Spitfire: A Very British Love StoryDespite the many films and television... -
Estuary: Out from London to the Sea by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: £10.99£7.99LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017A hauntingly beautiful social history of the Thames Estuary, from the author of On Brick LaneOut at the eastern edge of England, between land and ocean, you will find beautiful, haunted salt marshes, coastal... -
A Million Years in a Day: A Curious History of Daily Life Greg Jenner 9781780225654
RRP: £10.99£7.50'A wonderful idea, gloriously put into practice. Greg Jenner is as witty as he is knowledgeable' - Tom Holland'You will love Greg Jenner's jolly account of how we have more in common with our ancestors than we might think ... all human life is here, ... -
US Seventh Fleet, Vietnam 1964-75: American naval power in Southeast Asia Edward J. Marolda 9781472856814
RRP: £15.99£11.61"This is a terrific history of the Seventh Fleet's vital service to the United States in the Vietnam War... remarkably researched and interpreted" - Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, Chief of Naval Operations, 2011-2015 and Commander Seventh Fleet,... -
Osman's Dream by Caroline Finkel
RRP: £16.99£11.71The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains.This is the first book to tell the... -
German High Seas Fleet 1914–18: The Kaiser’s challenge to the Royal Navy by Angus Konstam 9781472856470
RRP: £15.99£11.61A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I. Seven years before the outbreak of World War I, the Imperial German Navy rebranded its... -
The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction by Jamie Woodward
RRP: £8.99£6.65The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics. The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction looks at evidence from the continents, the oceans, and the ice core records,... -
The Northern Ireland Troubles: 1969–2007 by Aaron Edwards 9781472857149
RRP: £12.99£9.19In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controversial actions in recent history. Spanning 38 years of the 'Troubles', the British Army's deployment in... -
Attacker: The Royal Navy's First Operational Jet Fighter by Richard A. Franks
RRP: £14.95£9.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905414055Author Richard A FranksFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingPublisher Dalrymple and Verdun... -
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City by Alex Kerr
RRP: £10.99£7.99From the author of Another Kyoto and Lost Japan, a rich, personal exploration of the culture and history of Bangkok, and an essential guide for anyone visiting the cityAlex Kerr has spent over thirty years of his life living in Bangkok. As with his... -
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 - 1350 by Robert Bartlett
RRP: £12.99£9.34A wave of internal conquest, settlement and economic growth took place in Europe during the High Middle Ages, which transformed it from a world of small separate communities into a network of powerful kingdoms with distinctive cultures. In this vivid and... -
Soldiers of the English Civil War: v. 2: Cavalry by John Tincey 9780850459401
RRP: £14.99£12.55In March 1642 King Charles I, believing that Parliament had gone too far when it issued the Grand Remonstrace, moved to arrest John Pym and four other leaders. That summer Parliament, fearing military action, tried to seize control of the army by issuing... -
James I by Michael Brown
RRP: £25.00£20.30Conditioned by a childhood surrounded by the rivalries of the Stewart family, and by eighteen years of enforced exile in England, James I was to prove a king very different from his elderly and conservative forerunners. This major study draws on a wide... -
Goddess: The Secret Lives Of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers
RRP: £16.99£11.54The classic, definitive biography of Marilyn Monroe, now updated in the year of the 60th anniversary of the iconic star's death - now a major Netflix film, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Tapes'Gets as near to the heart of the mystery as anyone... -
A Will to Kill by RV Raman 9781782277323
RRP: £8.99£6.28MIST, MOUNTAINS, MURDER. Ageing millionaire Bhaskar Fernandez has invited his relatives to the remote, and possibly haunted, Greybrooke Manor, high up in the misty Nilgiris. He knows his guests expect to gain from his death, so he writes two... -
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
RRP: £16.99£12.68The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of... -
Royal Family Operations Manual: The history, dominions, protocol, residences, households, pomp and circumstance of the British Royals by Robert Jobson
RRP: £25.00£18.02This book, written by royal expert and correspondent Robert Jobson offers a complete examination of the British Royal Family, looking behind the scenes at the current heirs of a kingdom that has been ruled nearly uninterruptedly by a monarch since 774AD... -
1941: Politics, Espionage and the Secret Pact between Churchill and Roosevelt by Marc Wortman
RRP: £10.99£7.54Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, America had long been involved in a shadow war. Throughout 1941, President Roosevelt concocted ingenious ways to come to Winston Churchill's aid, without breaking the Neutrality Acts. Conducting espionage at home and... -
The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire by Ryan Gingeras 9780141992778
RRP: £12.99£9.34'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive ... It is a complicated story that still reverberates, and Gingeras narrates it with lucid authority' New StatesmanThe Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history... -
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000 by John Darwin 9780141010229
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Soviets, the Japanese and the Nazis.All built empires they hoped would last forever: all were destined to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in his magnificent book, their empire building... -
An Historical Map of York: From Medieval Times to 1850 by Peter Addyman 9780993469848
RRP: £9.99£7.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993469848Author Peter AddymanPage Count 2Imprint The Historic Towns TrustPublisher The Historic Towns Trust -
Los Angeles. Portrait of a City by Kevin Starr 9783836502917
RRP: £50.00£49.62From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city's cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It... -
Soho in the Eighties by Christopher Howse
RRP: £20.00£14.69A fascinating glimpse into 1980s Soho by leading journalist and writer Christopher Howse. In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties, a decade that saw the brilliant flowering of a daily... -
Early Pacific Raids 1942: The American Carriers Strike Back by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £16.99£12.28A fascinating exploration of how between February 1 and March 10, 1942, three small US task forces launched several unexpected raids across the Japanese defensive perimeter in the Central and South Pacific. After the devastating Japanese blows of... -
Thetis: Submarine Disaster by David Paul 9781781552711
RRP: £16.99£12.94The true story of loss of His Majesty's Submarine Thetis is still shrouded in mystery, even now, some seventy-five years after her sinking. On 1st June 1939, HMS Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay on her maiden dive, with the loss of ninety-nine lives; the... -
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown people fought for change in the United Kingdom by Preeti Dhillon 9780349702827
RRP: £20.00£12.05The UK is grappling with big questions about belonging, equality, and the legacies of Empire and Colonialism. We've been here before. Embracing a broader history that encompasses all British people, The Shoulders We Stand On is fundamental to a better... -
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture by Bruce Pascoe 9781911344780
RRP: £12.99£8.80History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men,... -
This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter by Tomiwa Owolade
RRP: £18.99£13.61*A TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR*'[Owolade's] argument has needed saying for years' Janan Ganesh, Financial Times'Compelling and admirable' Sunday Times'Passionate and timely' Observer'Excellent' Telegraph'Illuminating' The Times'Timely [and]... -
The Dickens Boy by Thomas Keneally
RRP: £9.99£7.00By the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback.In 1868, Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child, sixteen-year-old Edward, to Australia. Posted to... -
Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation by Kathryn Warner
RRP: £10.99£7.46Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation is the first full-length biography of the queen at the centre of the some of the most dramatic events in English history. Philippa's marriage to Edward III was arranged in order to provide ships and... -
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo 9781590309858
RRP: £21.00£14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590309858Author Yamamoto TsunetomoFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Napoleon's Letters to Josephine: Correspondence of War, Politics, Family and Love 1796-1814 by Henry Foljambe Hall 9780857060617
£12.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857060617Author Henry Foljambe HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305817
RRP: £10.99£7.611974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat... -
Operation Pedestal 1942: The Battle for Malta’s Lifeline by Angus Konstam 9781472855671
RRP: £16.99£12.28A fascinating story of a key turning point in the War in the Mediterranean, as the island of Malta was thrown a vital lifeline. Since 1940, the island of Malta had been a thorn in the Axis' side. It sat astride the direct sea route between Italy and... -
Street without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina by Bernard B. Fall 9781844153183
RRP: £14.99£12.68A poignant, angry, articulate book Newsweek 'Mr Fall's book is a dramatic treatment of a historic event graphic impact New York Times Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated its involvement in South Vietnam, Street Without Joy... -
Petra: The Rose-Red City by Christian Auge
RRP: £7.95£5.76Deep in the desert of Jordan lies the hidden city of Petra, one of the greatest marvels of the ancient world. Carved from rose-red rock, Petra's monuments, dwellings and temples were for centuries the centre of a splendid civilization.Later the city fell... -
African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa by Robert Gaudi
RRP: £16.99£15.31At the turn of the twentieth century, European colonial powers scrambled in Africa for trade, land and political advantage. When the First World War broke out, they were forced to contend with one another not just in trenches on the Western Front, but in... -
1536: The Year that Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb
RRP: £12.99£9.34One of the best-known figures of British history, collective memory of Henry VIII presents us with the image of a corpulent, covetous, and cunning king whose appetite for worldly goods met few parallels, whose wives met infamously premature ends, and... -
Survival at Stalag IVB: Soldiers and Airmen Remember Germany's Largest POW Camp of World War II by Tony Vercoe 9780786424047
RRP: £21.99£17.97In addition to concentration camps, World War II Germany was also home to 54 prisoner-of-war camps, the largest of which was Stalag IVB. Throughout the 5-1/2 years of its existence, Stalag IVB supported numerous satellite camps, eventually housing... -
Nineteenth-Century Britain by Professor Jeremy Black
£35.61The nineetenth century was a period of striking developments, and subject to a great pressure of change. This process of change is the primary focus of the book. Organised into a series of thematic chapters, Black and MacRaild's wide-ranging text...