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Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust: A new history in the words of the men and women who survived by Lyn Smith
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.16Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of... -
Angels: A Visible and Invisible History by Peter Stanford 9781473622098
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04'An intriguing exploration of the many roles that angels have played in spiritual life.' - The Sunday Times: Nick Rennison 'In a 2016 poll, one in 10 Britons claimed to have experienced the presence... -
Talking Cure: Mind and Method of the Tavistock Clinic David Taylor 9781782205678
RRP: $57.10Booksplease Price: $47.58What makes the mind develop? What helps children grow up? When can we think of ourselves as adults? Why do we fall in love? Why do our feelings sometimes 'get in the way'? How do families affect us?... -
Colt Single-Action Revolvers by Martin Pegler
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $28.54In 1836, Samuel Colt changed the face of warfare with the production of the first of a series of iconic and influential single-action revolvers, including the .44-calibre Colt Walker and the seminal ... -
History of Jamaica by Carlysle De Brosse Black 9780582038981
Booksplease Price: $39.27History of Jamaica has been revised to bring the account of the island's history up to date. Many maps and photographs have also been added.This edition of the authoritative History of Jamaica covers... -
The Gates of Gaza: Critical Voices from Israel on October 7 and the War with Hamas by Lihi Ben Shitrit 9783111434971
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $30.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111434971Author Lihi Ben ShitritFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint
Researching and Writing History: A Guide for Local Historians David Dymond 9781859362303
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $23.28Interest in local history just continues to grow. For the professional and amateur alike, in the context of the local experience the past becomes real and immediate, as the stories of individuals,...
Filipino Tatto: Ancient to Modern by Lane Wilcken 9780764336027
RRP: $88.04Booksplease Price: $65.16Tattooing is a very old and spiritually respected art form that has existed in many different cultures around the world. After many centuries of not being practiced in Europe, tattooing was...
Victorian Murders by Jan Bondeson 9781445694436
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $17.87This book features fifty-six Victorian cases of murder covered in the sensational weekly penny journal the Illustrated Police Newsbetween 1867 and 1900. Some of them are famous, like the Bravo...
And Still We March: A search for Women’s freedom Marisa Bate 9780008392451
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $16.07Around the world, women's rights are under attack. In 2022, the US Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, restricting access to abortion across America. The decision...
Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique (Designed for the Beginner) Ryukyu Saito 9780804832601
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.20Japanese Ink Painting: Lessons in Suiboku Technique teaches beginners the fundamental techniques of suiboku, a form of Japanese ink painting.Suiboku is considered to be a type of Japanese painting...
Augustus: The Biography by Jochen Bleicken
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $34.22'Masterful ... a breathtaking panorama of Roman politics at a crucial turning point in history' Simon J. V. Malloch, Literary ReviewHe was named son and heir by a murdered dictator. He came to Rome...
By Tank into Normandy by Stuart Hills
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.04'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old,...
The Tank War: The British Band of Brothers - One Tank Regiment's World War II by Mark Urban
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $24.89From the evacuation of France in 1940 to the final dash to Hamburg in 1945, the 5th Royal Tank Regiment were on the front line throughout the Second World War. Theirs was a war that saw them serve in...
Walking the Somme by Paul Reed 9781848844735
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $31.32This new edition of Paul Reed's classic book Walking the Somme is an essential travelling companion for anyone visiting the Somme battlefields of 1916. His book, first published over ten years ago,...
Churchill's Thin Grey Line: British Merchant Ships at War 1939-1945 by Bernard Edwards 9781526711663
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $33.30The first British casualties of the Second World War were not members of either the Royal Navy, the Army or the Royal Air Force but British merchant seamen on the liner Athenia, torpedoed by U-30 on...
Uncommon Courage: The Yachtsmen Volunteers of World War II by Julia Jones 9781472987112
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $20.33'An extraordinary account of heroism and sacrifice. An unexpected and important story, rivetingly told. Rip roaring stuff. Get this into the paws of the sea dog in your life.' - Griff Rhys Jones ...
Drawing on the Inside: An Artist's Adventure in Kowloon Walled City 1985 by Fiona Hawthorne 9789887963974
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $62.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887963974Author Fiona HawthorneFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint
Churches: An Architectural Guide by Simon Bradley
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.16This compact and accessible book is for anyone who would like to understand more about the architectural history of English churches. Clear and easy to use, the text explains the key components of...
The Ugly Renaissance by Alexander Lee
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.51Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.Renowned as an age of...
The Lost Decade: 2010-2020, and What Lies Ahead for Britain Polly Toynbee 9781783351718
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $18.56The ten years from 2010 have been devastating. A decade of austerity and paralysis nurtured contempt for leaders, institutions and fellow citizens and fertilised the ground for a rebellious Brexit...
Merrily's Border: The Mysterious World of Merrily Watkins - History & Folklore, People & Places by Phil Rickman 9781910839300
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $32.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839300Author Phil RickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint <
Thicker Than Water: History, Secrets and Guilt: A Memoir by Cal Flyn
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.71Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride...
In a Veil of Mist by Donald S Murray 9781913393007
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.33A poisoned breeze blows across the waves ... Operation Cauldron, 1952: Top-secret germ warfare experiments on monkeys and guinea pigs are taking place aboard a vessel moored off the Isle of Lewis...
Many Lives of Miss K: Toto Koopman - Model, Muse, Spy by Jean-Noel Liaut
RRP: $37.96Booksplease Price: $31.61A life of glamour and tragedy, set against the watershed cultural and political movements of twentieth-century Europe. "Toto" Koopman (1908-1991) is a new addition to the set of iconoclastic women...
Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam by James G. Hershberg 9780804778848
RRP: $104.72Booksplease Price: $89.44Marigold presents the first rigorously documented, in-depth story of one of the Vietnam War's last great mysteries: the secret peace initiative, codenamed "Marigold," that sought to end the war in...
Battle of Britain: The pilots and planes that made history by Simon Pearson 9781529378085
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $16.33'A useful contribution to an overcrowded field of history by giving deserved attention to the ordinary men and unsung machines that aren't usually included in the dramatic narrative.' - The Times'A...
Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.49'Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other' Prospect Magazine'Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is...
Lost Country Houses of Derbyshire by Maxwell Craven 9781398111424
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.80For centuries, England’s country houses have been where rich and grand families have displayed their wealth and status. Today, England is still well endowed with these houses, although many of them...
City on Fire: Kingston upon Hull 1939-45 by Nick Cooper
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $28.25During the Second World War Hull spent more than 1,000 hours under air-raid alerts and was the target of the first daylight raid of the war and the last piloted air raid on Britain. The city was...
The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry by Robert W. Tolf 9780817965853
RRP: $23.68Booksplease Price: $20.37The name of Nobel usually calls to mind Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, and the internationally prestigious prizes that bear his name. But Alfred was only one member of a creative and innovative...
After Stalingrad: Seven Years as a Soviet Prisoner of War by Adelbert Toll 9781526761194
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $28.04The battle for Stalingrad has been studied and recalled in exhaustive detail ever since the Red Army trapped the German 6th Army in the ruined city in 1942. Graphic first-hand accounts of the...
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song Caroline Davison 9781784744540
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $36.27***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4******WINNER OF THE NEW ANGLE PRIZE FOR LITERATURE******LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA AWARDS***A beautifully written exploration of the world of Edwardian folk music, and its...
Sandringham Days: The Domestic Life of the Royal Family in Norfolk, 1862-1952 by John Matson 9780752465821
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.23This is a fascinating portrait of royal life at Sandringham, from the early life of Albert Edward to the modern day. Drawing on letters, diaries and contemporary reports, it is a rich exploration of...
Tattoos: An Illustrated History by Tina Brown
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.80The 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...
The Spitfire Kids by Alasdair Cross
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $46.48THE 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...
Newcastle Upon Tyne In Old Photographs by Peter Hepplewhite 9780752415987
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $32.01With 200 images, selected from the archives, portraying the city in a bygone age, we embark on an intriguing pictorial journey around Newcastle upon Tyne. The Tyne of course dominates the scene, new...
The Orientalist: In Search of a Man caught between East and West by Tom Reiss
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion for the Arab world.Tom Reiss first came across the man who called himself...
The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics by Bruce J. Schulman 9780306811265
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $34.18Sweeping away misconceptions about the "Me Decade," Bruce Schulman offers a fast-paced, wide-ranging, and brilliant examination of the political, cultural, social, and religious upheavals of the...
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 2: The Sleeping Dragon: The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation (with Footnotes): Volume 2 Lu Guanzhong 9780804843942
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.46This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical...