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Montgomery's Rhine River Crossing: Operation PLUNDER: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives Jon Diamond 9781526731739
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.58After the Normandy break-out, the Allies' headlong dash east came to a halt in the autumn with the ill-fated MARKET GARDEN operation and over-extended supply lines short of the Rhineland. After... -
King Stephen and the Anarchy: Civil War and Military Tactics in Twelfth-Century Britain by Chris Peers 9781473863675
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $34.99The Anarchy, the protracted struggle between Stephen of Blois and the Empress Matilda for the English crown between 1135 and 1154, is often seen as a disastrous breakdown in one of the best-governed... -
Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world Simon Garfield 9781786892782
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.921856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye... -
Bringing Life to Aberdeen: A History of Maternity and Neonatal Services by Lesley G Dunbar
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $28.96How did Aberdeen revolutionise modern midwifery and mother and baby care? Whether you were born in - or gave birth in - Aberdeen or elsewhere, you will probably have benefitted from the pioneering... -
Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
RRP: $59.50Booksplease Price: $42.25The subject of numerous biographies and history books, Winston Churchill has been repeatedly voted as one of the greatest of Englishmen. Even today, Boris Johnson in his failing attempts to be... -
Inventing Scrooge: The Incredible True Story Behind Charles Dickens' Legendary A Christmas Carol by Carlo DeVito 9781604337792
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.56Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens' own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale: A Christmas Carol.When Charles Dickens created the... -
How Did Our Garden Grow?: The History of Hatton Garden by Vivian Watson
RRP: $95.20Booksplease Price: $68.76Never before has the full history of Hatton Garden and its diamond and jewellery trade been revealed in such detail.Stories of individuals who made the community what it is today and events that are... -
Shady Lady: 1,500 Hours Flying The U-2 Spy Plane by Rick Bishop
RRP: $28.44Booksplease Price: $22.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800352582Author Rick BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
Pinochet in Piccadilly by Andy Beckett
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97In October 1998, the erstwhile Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London, charged with crimes against humanity by a Spanish magistrate. But over the 16 months that Pinochet... -
Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor by Eamon Duffy
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $34.63The renowned author of The Stripping of the Altars takes a new and controversial look at the reign of England's "Bloody Mary" The reign of Mary Tudor has been remembered as an era of sterile... -
The Awakening Of Latin America by Ernesto Che Guevara 9781644211649
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $36.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644211649Author Ernesto Che GuevaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Impr -
Return via Rangoon by Philip Stibbe 9781399024921
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Operation Linebacker II 1972: The B-52s are sent to Hanoi Marshall Michel III 9781472827609
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $30.13After the failed April 1972 invasion of South Vietnam and the heavy US tactical bombing raids in the Hanoi area, the North Vietnamese agreed to return to the Paris peace talks, yet very quickly these... -
The Kitchen Garden by Caroline Ikin
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $15.73The kitchen garden was once a vital component of the country estate, supplying fruit, vegetables and flowers to meet the needs of the family and their household. A vast range of fruit and vegetables... -
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine Diana Allan 9780745342917
RRP: $54.72Booksplease Price: $41.08***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021*** During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba -... -
Jim Bridger: Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal 9780803257207
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn't write his name, but at eighteen he had... -
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab Marina Wheeler 9781473677760
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $19.09'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times'A deeply personal story of identity and a highly relatable journey... -
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations that Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 9781846148552
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $17.83From Steven Johnson, the bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From, comes How We Got to Now, the companion book to his six-part BBC One television series exploring the power and the legacy of... -
A History of Ayutthaya: Siam in the Early Modern World by Chris Baker
RRP: $66.64Booksplease Price: $60.59Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history has been neglected. This book is the first study of... -
Park by Vincent Orange 9781902304618
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04As commander of No. 11 Group, Fighter Command and responsible for the air defence of London and South-East England, Keith Park took charge of the day-to-day direction of the battle. In spotlighting... -
The Cage: The fight for Sri Lanka & the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Gordon Weiss 9780099548478
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $29.68In just four months in 2009, Sri Lanka's 26 year-old desperate civil war came to a brutal and bloody end on a desolate stretch of beach in the island's north east. Tens of thousands of civilians were... -
The Time Traveler's Guide to Norman-Arab-Byzantine Palermo, Monreale and Cefalu by Louis Mendola 9781943639137
RRP: $78.52Booksplease Price: $43.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943639137Author Louis MendolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint -
The Welsh Wars of Independence by David Moore 9780752441283
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.82Independent Wales was defined in the centuries after the Romans withdrew from Britain in AD 410. The wars of Welsh independence encompassed centuries of raids, expeditions, battles and sieges, but... -
Titans of War: The thrilling bestselling new Ancient-Egyptian epic from the Master of Adventure by Wilbur Smith 9781838776343
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $17.61BOOK 2 IN A THRILLING NEW ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SERIES, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITH'Best historical novelist' - Stephen King'A master storyteller' - Sunday Times'Wilbur Smith is one of those... -
The Geordie Bible by Andrew Elliott 9780946928064
RRP: $9.28Booksplease Price: $8.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946928064Author Andrew ElliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint -
Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear by Elizabeth Archibald 9780224101240
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.16Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or, simply, how to make a perfect cheesy omelette? Look no further than Ask the Past. Chock-full of advice that has (and... -
Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest by Susan Brigden
RRP: $47.60Booksplease Price: $35.63Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) was the first modern voice in English poetry. His poetry holds a mirror to the secret, capricious world of Henry VIII's court, and alludes darkly to events which it might ... -
Fifty Years On: The Troubles and the Struggle for Change in Northern Ireland by Malachi O'Doherty 9781786496669
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01In 1969, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In... -
Pocket Book of W.B. Yeats by Tony Potter 9780717173259
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $13.52William Butler Yeats ranks among the greatest literary talents of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though best-known as the author of poems as timeless and delicately crafted as The Lake Isle... -
The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva: Dizang in Medieval China by Zhiru 9780824867584
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82In modern Chinese Buddhism, Dizang is especially popular as the sovereign of the underworld. Often represented as a monk wearing a royal crown, Dizang helps the deceased faithful navigate the complex... -
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome The Tiger: The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation (with Footnotes): Volume 3 Luo Guanzhong 9780804843959
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $33.80This 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... -
Lorries in Britain: The 1990s by Carl Johnson
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $27.80The 1990s were a time of change as British manufacturers struggled to keep pace with the times and the invasion of imported vehicles. However, what a lot of enthusiasts consider to be classics of... -
In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara 9780679767497
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $33.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679767497Author Robert S. McNamaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprin -
Huddersfield in 50 Buildings by Christopher Marsden
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $28.25Famous as the birthplace of rugby league and of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson, as well as being the childhood home of Herbert Asquith, Huddersfield rose to prominence during the Industrial... -
Jane Austen's Christmas: The Festive Season in Georgian England by Maria Hubert 9781803993874
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $22.16'I wish you a Merry Xmas but no compliments of the season' - Jane AustenChristmas comes up time and time again in Jane Austen's books, from childish chaos in Persuasion to fraught festivities in... -
Walking with the Green Man: Father of the Forest Spirit of Nature by Bob Curran 9781564149312
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781564149312Author Bob CurranFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in the South. Their journey would prove an extraordinary collaboration... -
Eyam: Plague Village by David Paul
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $29.32In September 1665, plague was inadvertently transported from London to Eyam in Derbyshire on a consignment of cloth. This small country village subsequently became famous for its decision to instate... -
The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis by Robert R. Reilly 9781610170024
RRP: $45.10Booksplease Price: $29.70The book you must read to understand the Islamist crisis-and the threat to us all.Robert R. Reilly's eye-opening book masterfully explains the frightening behavior coming out of the Islamic world... -
Jutland, 1916: Death in the Grey Wastes by Nigel Steel
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $24.99Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War.On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany met off Jutland in the North Sea. It was a climactic...