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Stephen and Matilda's Civil War: Cousins of Anarchy Matthew Lewis 9781399021821
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Too Thin for a Shroud: 8 June 1982, Falklands: Britain's Most Lethal Day of Combat since World War II Crispin Black 9781783342297
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $23.25In 1982, eight young Guards officers in their twenties found themselves suddenly on the way to the Falklands 8000 miles away from Britain. Some four decades later, they realised that no one had... -
Secret Leicester by Stephen Butt
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.40There is a history of Leicester that is hidden from view, or simply not recognised today because it is so familiar. There are Norman and medieval arches below landmark buildings, mosaics beneath the... -
Haunted Nottingham by Andrew James Wright 9780752441948
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.20Haunted Nottingham explores the supernatural side of the city and its surrounding areas and finds many reports of unexplained happenings, weird goings-on and ghostly appearances.About the AuthorThe... -
Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess by Inge Sargent 9780824816285
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92Just married and returning to live in her new husband's native land, a young Austrian woman arrived with her Burmese husband by passenger ship in Rangoon in 1953. They were met at dockside by... -
Rifleman - New edition by Victor Gregg
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.11'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow 'A classic' Mail on Sunday 'Astonishing' James Holland Born in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the... -
Frighfully Funny Quiz Book by Terry Deary 9781407117478
Booksplease Price: $3.59After fifteen fearsome years on the page, "Horrible Histories" are now on the small screen - with all the nasty bits intact - of course. This quiz book is a test on all the goriest moments in British... -
The End of the Road: A journey around Britain in search of the dead by Jack Cooke
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.10A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out... -
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir by John Lyons 9781460752562
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55A gripping memoir of life in Jerusalem from one of Australia's most experienced Middle East correspondents. Leading Australian journalist John Lyons will take readers on a fascinating personal... -
Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience by Jane S. Gerber 9780029115749
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $19.74The history of the Jews of Spain is a remarkable story that begins in the remote past and continues today. For more than a thousand years, Sepharad (the Hebrew word for Spain) was home to a large... -
Arts and Crafts Tiles: Morris to Voysey by Rob Higgins
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.91The Arts and Crafts Movement was a reaction to the brutality of working life and the sterility of industrial design in Victorian Britain. Although Arts and Crafts was initially a mediaeval revival,... -
The French Baker's War by Michael Whatling 9781777569921
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781777569921Author Michael WhatlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint
Escape From Alcatraz by J.Campbell Bruce
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580086783Author J. Campbell BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint
State and Diplomacy under Tipu Sultan - Documents and Essays by Irfan Habib 9789382381488
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789382381488Author Irfan HabibFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint
Prohibition: A Very Short Introduction by W. J. Rorabaugh 9780190280109
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Americans have always been a hard-drinking people, but from 1920 to 1933 the country went dry. After decades of pressure from rural Protestants such as the hatchet-wielding Carry A. Nation and...
National Service: From Aldershot to Aden: tales from the conscripts, 1946-62 Colin Shindler 9780751546200
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Permission to speak, Sah!In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services. Some were sent abroad and watched their friends die in...
Violence and Islam: Conversations with Houria Abdelouahed Adonis 9781509511907
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.57Adonis influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T. S. Eliot in the English-speaking world. Yet alongside this spearheading of a modernist literary revolution, the secular...
The Kew Gardens Girls at War: A heartwarming tale of wartime at Kew Gardens by Posy Lovell
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36It's 1940 and for newlywed Daisy Turner, Kew Gardens is a haven away from the bombs that are falling nightly on her East End home. She grew up around plants - her parents met when they were gardeners...
Reading Virgil: AeneidI and II by Peter Jones
RRP: $34.84Booksplease Price: $33.49Virgil's Aeneid, an epic which tells the story of Aeneas' flight from burning Troy, his adventures on the high seas and eventual arrival in Italy, thereby founding the Roman race, is one of the most...
Secret Lewes by Terry Philpot
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Lewes appears to be a tranquil and attractive place but its alleyways and buildings conceal many stories. The town's origins can be traced back to prehistory and the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Normans...
The Philosophy of History by G. W. F. Hegel 9780486437552
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $16.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486437552Author Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count
AQA GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Conflict and Tension, 1918-1939 Kate Harker 9781510418622
Booksplease Price: $12.09Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the...
Chester In The 1950s: Ten Years that Changed a City by Paul Hurley 9781445636733
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Chester is well known as a Roman city, and has seen significant change over the centuries. This has been done sympathetically for the most part, and in keeping with the general antiquity of the...
Sea Dog Bamse: World War II Canine Hero by Angus Whitson 9781841588490
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most unusual animal heroes - a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom...
Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left Mark A. Lause 9780745337593
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $21.33This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed...
Blazing a Wagon Trail to Oregon by Lloyd W. Coffman 9780870045110
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870045110Author Lloyd W. CoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint
The Cecils: Privilege and Power Behind the Throne by David Loades
Booksplease Price: $18.75For over 50 years one family dominated England's high offices of state. William and Robert Cecil, father and son, held unparalleled power as statesmen, diplomats, counsellors and spymasters...
The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century by Lamar Waldron 9781922247117
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.40Five decades after one of America's greatest tragedies, this compelling book pierces the veil of secrecy to document the small, tightly held conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. It...
Back in Society M.C. Beaton 9781780333229
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75The Poor Relation hotel is the toast of London and its owners are preparing to sell up and retire - but one last romantic adventure awaits them!Driven into hiding at the hotel by a tyrannous father...
Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams 9781469663685
Booksplease Price: $40.23Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy...
SR-71: The Complete Illustrated History of the Blackbird, The World's Highest, Fastest Plane Richard H. Graham 9780760354483
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $17.41SR-71 covers every aspect of the spyplane's development, manufacture, and active service, all from the insider's perspective of one its pilots. Features over 200 incredible photos. Flying to a coffee...
Battle Elephants and Flaming Foxes: Animals in the Roman World by Caroline Freeman-Cuerden
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.43From the hooves of chariot horses pounding the dust of the racetrack to the cries of elephants charging the battlefields, animals were a key part of Roman life. On memorials left to beloved dogs or...
United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.28Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various...
Stained Glass by Aidan McRae Thomson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.70Stained glass has been one of the chief glories of Britain's churches since Norman times. Stained glass windows developed through the middle ages, as new techniques were introduced, and the art of...
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.50In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden, was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together...
The Sumerians: Their History, Culture and Character by Samuel Noah Kramer
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $30.55The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history...
Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $22.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449908709Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint
The Scottish Soup Bible by Sue Lawrence 9781780278971
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.51Acclaimed cookery writer Sue Lawrence celebrates the enormous range of Scottish soups in this imaginative and practical collection of recipes, ideal for cooks of all abilities. Some soups make ideal...
The Armies of Agincourt by Christopher Rothero 9780850453942
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.39Henry V became King of England in 1413. He was one of the great warrior kings of the country, cast in the same mould as Edward I and Edward III. He was just, pious, athletic, chivalrous, acquisitive,...
Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In by John Guy 9780008304904
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.55Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary...