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From Creation to Unification: The Complete Histories Behind the Ch'ang Hon (Itf) Patterns by Stuart Anslow 9781906628550
Booksplease Price: $52.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906628550Author Stuart AnslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint -
The Knights Templar Sean Martin 9781842435632
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $20.78The Knights Templar were the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages. Formed to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land, they participated in the Crusades and rapidly gained wealth, lands... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $43.55A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward... -
The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain Martin Williams 9781529383317
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $41.36A Country Life 'Best Book of the Year' 2023The Times Book of the Week * * * 'I could read Martin Williams all day. He is a staggeringly communicative historian; this book throws shafts of light on... -
Marcus Aurelius: Warrior, Philosopher, Emperor by Frank McLynn
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.04Marcus Aurelius is the one great figure of antiquity who still speaks to us today, nearly 2,000 years after his death. A philosopher as well as an emperor, his was an extraordinary reign. He proved... -
The Fields Beneath Gillian Tindall 9781906011482
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.56A masterpiece of local history, by the Queen of the genre; Gillian Tindall has acquired a devoted readership through her lovingly researched works, such as the prize-winning "The House" by the Thames... -
Narvik 1940: The Battle for Northern Norway by David Greentree
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $31.04In early 1940, a battle raged to control the ice-free, iron-ore port in northern Norway - with changing fortunes until the very end. This highly detailed book covers both the naval battles and... -
Survival and Separation on the River Kwai: The Ordeal of a Japanese Prisoner of War and His Family by Ian Roberts 9781399049559
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $36.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Victorian Manchester Through Time by Steven Dickens
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.80Manchester's unique Victorian red-brick and sandstone architecture still dominates the twenty-first century skyline, despite modern developments. Manchester's Victorian history consists of much more... -
A Single Swallow by Zhang Ling
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.99The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling's epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love. On the... -
The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White 9780192847447
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.59'I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.' Gilbert White's Natural History of Selborne (1789) reveals a world of wonders in nature. Over a... -
Henry III: The Great King England Never Knew It Had by Darren Baker
RRP: $52.36Booksplease Price: $38.32'Henry III is generally classed among the weakest and most incompetent of England's medieval kings. Darren Baker tells a different story.'- Michael Clanchy, author of England and Its Rulers,... -
Up the Rhondda!: A peculiar sort of hiraeth by John Geraint 9781800994874
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $22.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994874Author John GeraintFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire by Yuri Herrera
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $16.52On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compania de Santa Gertrudis - the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company - may have... -
Agnes Finnie: The 'Witch' of the Potterrow Port by Mary W Craig
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33Witchcraft holds a continued fascination for readers around the world, and the Scottish witch hunts have recently received renewed media attention, especially with the BBC 2 show Lucy Worsley... -
The Placenames of Scotland by Iain Taylor
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.87Placenames are a constant source of debate. Who was Edwin, whose name is said to live on in that of Scotland's capital city? Are the 'drum' and 'chapel' still to be found in Drumchapel? And which... -
A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith
Booksplease Price: $23.80With all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, how is it that the market still goes boom and bust? How can people be so willing to get caught up in the... -
Welsh Food Stories by Carwyn Graves
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Welsh Food Stories explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich but forgotten heritage of Welsh foods - from oysters to cider, salted butter to salt-marsh lamb. Despite... -
Women in the Second World War by Neil R. Storey
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.73The Second World War affected the people of Britain like nothing before. This was especially true of Britain's women. With thousands of men called up to join the armed forces, women took their place... -
The rise and fall of KING COAL: British mining from beginning to end by Nick Piggott
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $57.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658634Author Nick PiggottFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale by Lenn E. Goodman
RRP: $45.22Booksplease Price: $42.96The Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial... -
Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $20.49In Concorde, Jonathan Glancey tells the story of this magnificent and hugely popular aircraft anew, taking the reader from the moment Captain Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947... -
A Pocket Essential Short History of the Anglo-Saxons Giles Morgan 9780857301666
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $10.45From popular fiction such as The Hobbit and Game of Thrones to the universality of the English language, the continuing influence of the Anglo-Saxons can be found throughout the world. But who were... -
Remarkable Journeys of World War Two: A Collection of Untold Stories by Victoria Panton Bacon
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.82Those who lived through the Second World War have many stories of bravery, sadness, horror, doubt and longing. Inspired by conversations with veterans following the publication of her grandfather's... -
Essex Dialect: A Selection of Words and Anecdotes from Around Essex by Camilla Zajac 9781902674674
RRP: $11.88Booksplease Price: $10.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902674674Author Camilla ZajacFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
So Once Was I: Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin Cemetery by Warren Farrell 9781785375125
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $35.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375125Author Warren FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930 by John Darwin
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world orderSteam power transformed our world, initiating the... -
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank Eva Schloss 9781444760712
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.40THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A standalone classic . . . An incredible book, remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the past and also for its hope'GUARDIAN, 'Books to Give You... -
The Shortest History of the Crown by Stephen Bates 9781910400883
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400883Author Stephen BatesFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint -
Stug IIl Enthusiasts' Manual: Ausfuhrung A to G (Sd.Kfz.142) Mark Healy 9781785212130
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $40.65Based on the chassis of the Panzer III tank, the Second World War German Sturmgeschutz series of assault guns was a successful and cost-effective range of armoured fighting vehicles. Originally... -
Eminent Churchillians Andrew Roberts 9781857992137
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.89A controversial account of the Churchill years by a bestselling historian.'The best sort of history - revealing, gossipy and acidulous' OBSERVERThis highly praised book by the Wolfson History... -
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography by Peter Brown 9780520280410
Booksplease Price: $59.50This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.About the AuthorPeter Brown is Rollins... -
Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop 9781556520884
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $24.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520884Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint
Battle for the Big Top: P. T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus Les Standiford 9781541762282
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $41.36Millions have sat under the "big top," watching as trapeze artists glide and clowns entertain, but few know the captivating stories behind the men whose creativity, ingenuity, and determination...
Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure Michael Asher 9780140258554
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.40The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria's reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in...
Wartime Juliet Gardiner 9780755310289
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $24.99Juliet Gardiner's critically acclaimed book - the first in a generation to tell the people's story of the Second World War - offers a compelling and comprehensive account of the pervasiveness of war...
Stalling For Time by Gary Noesner
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525511281Author Gary NoesnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint <
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan 9780375760525
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $42.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Governor General's Literary Award - Nonfiction 2003 and Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2002...
Stationary Steam Engines by Anthony Coulls
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.73Stationary steam engines were the quiet powerhouses of the Industrial Revolution. They provided the driving force behind every manufacturing process for well over a century, as well as drainage of...
The Crime and the Silence by Anna Bikont 9780099592525
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $32.96Winner of the European Book Prize'A masterpiece' Jan T. Gross'Terrifying and necessary' Julian Barnes'Scrupulously objective and profoundly personal' Kate AtkinsonOn 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime...