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The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge by Paul Anthony Rahe
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.09A fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in the defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek... -
World War II German Super-Heavy Siege Guns by Marc Romanych
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.75As the outbreak of World War II approached, Nazi Germany ordered artillery manufacturers Krupp and Rheimetall-Borsig to build several super-heavy siege guns, vital to smash through French and Belgian... -
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 by Carlos Eire
Booksplease Price: $34.10A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages... -
Francis of Assisi: A New Biography by Augustine Thompson 9780801450709
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $28.39Among the most beloved saints in the Catholic tradition, Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) is popularly remembered for his dedication to poverty, his love of animals and nature, and his desire to... -
No Case to Answer: The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery by Andrew Cook 9781803994130
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $11.67In the early hours of Thursday, 8 August 1963, sixteen masked men ambushed the Glasgow-Euston mail train at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire.Making off with a record haul of GBP2.6 million, the... -
Sherman Tank Canadian, New Zealand and South African Armies: Italy, 1943-1945 by Dennis Oliver
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48The Sherman tank served with most Allied armies during the Second World War and it is justly famous for the role it played in the Normandy landings and the subsequent drive into Germany. But the part... -
SBS John Parker 9780755312252
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.24The men of the SBS are the maritime equivalent of their counterparts in the SAS; they are the elite of the British Special Forces and also the most secretive. Although SAS activity has been... -
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning by Jonah Goldberg
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Today the word 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right, from neocons to big business. But what does it really mean? What if the true heirs to fascism were actually those who... -
A Brief History of Britain 1485-1660: The Tudor and Stuart Dynasties Professor Ronald Hutton 9781845297046
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41Praise for the author::'For anyone researching the subject, this is the book you've been waiting for.'Washington PostFrom the death of Richard III on Bosworth Field in 1485 to the execution of... -
William Blake's Universe by David Bindman 9781781301272
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $38.62A beautifully illustrated book that explores William Blake's relationship with Europe against a backdrop of political turmoil. Responding to revolution and war in Europe, enslavement and... -
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War Robert Sackville-West 9781526613141
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION CROWN AWARDS 2022 'Compelling and often horrifying' THE TIMES Best Paperbacks of 2022 The epic, moving stories of Britain's search to... -
The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs by Andrew Hussey 9781847082596
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former... -
The Blitz 1940–41: The Luftwaffe's biggest strategic bombing campaign by Julian Hale 9781472857880
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.80An illustrated history of how the Luftwaffe intended 'the Blitz' to knock Britain out of the war, emphasising the German point of view and detailing how Britain's defences and civilians responded. ... -
Secret Brighton by Kevin Newman 9781445661506
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Secret Brighton offers a unique insight into the intriguing and eccentric city of Brighton through the lesser-known aspects of its history. This book highlights the history 'below the surface' of... -
The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler by William L. Shirer 9780795300349
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795300349Author William L. ShirerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint < -
Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad by Matti Friedman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.73"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." -The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including... -
The History of the English People 1000-1154 by Henry of Huntingdon
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45'In the year of grace 1066, the Lord, the ruler, brought to fulfilment what He had long planned for the English people: He delivered them up to be destroyed by the violent and cunning Norman race.' ... -
Secrets and Lies: The Trials of Christine Keeler by Christine Keeler
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.52In her own words, the life of the beautiful young model and dancer who helped to bring down the Tory government of Harold Macmillan - the 'Profumo Affair' remains the greatest political sex scandal... -
Scottish Ghost Stories: Shiver Your Way Around Scotland 9781902674728
RRP: $6.69Booksplease Price: $5.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902674728Format PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher -
What Went Wrong?: The Clash between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East Bernard Lewis 9780753816752
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41A bestselling account of why the Islamic world has been losing the conflict with the West for 300 years - and the frustration and humiliation this has produced.For many centuries, Islam was the... -
Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.09What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure... -
Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714-1783 by Brendan Simms
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41This highly original, extremely enjoyable book tells the story of Britain's extraordinary scramble to world power in the 18th century and how, through hubris and incompetence, it lost almost... -
The Orphanage: A Novel by Serhiy Zhadan
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.48A devastating story of the struggle of civilians caught up in the conflict in eastern Ukraine Chosen as one of "Six Books to Read for Context on Ukraine" by the New York Times Selected by... -
1848: Year Of Revolution by Mike Rapport
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07In 1848, Europe was engulfed in a firestorm of revolution. The streets of cities from Paris to Bucharest and from Berlin to Palermo were barricaded and flooded by armed insurgents proclaiming... -
The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts by Becca Anderson
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $11.58Get Inspired By The Powerful Sheroes In This Feminist Collection Of Short Biographies"This book is an antidote to the erasure of women from our history." Vicki Leon, author of Uppity Women of Ancient... -
William Tyndale: A Very Brief History by Melvyn Bragg
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75Part One: The History (What do we know?) This brief historical introduction to William Tyndale explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the original context of his life and... -
A People's History of Tennis David Berry 9780745339658
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.42***Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2020*** ***Financial Times, Best Sports Books of 2020*** Pristine lawns, tennis whites, strawberries and cream, tennis is synonymous... -
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy's House by Larry Collins 9780008247782
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $20.09Inspiration for the major film starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal and Huma Qureshi and directed by Gurinder Chadha. Seventy years ago, at... -
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization by Justin Marozzi
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.79'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals,... -
Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Evan Thomas 9781783967971
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.15‘Urgent, compulsively readable and powerfully resonant’ Sinclair McKay You know Oppenheimer, the man who created the atomic bomb… Now meet the men who detonated it, and the extraordinary weight of... -
MOD Railways Michael Hitchen 9781445697987
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Across the country at numerous locations the government operated another railway, hidden from the public, behind high wire fences. These were the railways serving the Ministry of Defence. A... -
Hiding The Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible by Jim Steinmeyer
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.62This is the story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's most legendary magicians: the eccentric personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things... -
Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510744400Author Phil MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint -
Essex Folk Tales by Jan Williams 9780752466002
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48The Essex coastline has endured invasion by plundering and bloodthirsty Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and this mysterious landscape is still haunted by their presence. Their spirits, and... -
The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise Woman Healer by Gearoid Crualaoich 9781859184127
Booksplease Price: $35.72This powerful analysis of the 'wise women healer' from the oral traditions of Ireland's rural communities, is unique in its depth and perspective. Stories, told and retold, embedded in the texture of... -
Handbook of Japanese Mythology by Michael Ashkenazi
RRP: $34.16Booksplease Price: $25.45Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight million. They are the cast of a vast, complex mythology that encompasses two religions, three... -
Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World Sharon Weinberger 9780804169721
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804169721Author Sharon WeinbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint -
The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Race to Summit the Himalayas by Scott Ellsworth
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24Longlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST 'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE SUNDAY... -
St George (new Edition) by Giles Morgan 9781843449652
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $4.54St. George is a figure that bridges many worlds. At the heart of the myths and legends surrounding this English icon lies the story of an Early Christian Martyr persecuted by the Roman Empire around... -
When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption by Wesley Adamczyk 9780226004440
Booksplease Price: $22.78In the shadow of the Holocaust, the Soviet Union's quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens is often overlooked. Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, "When God Looked the Other Way", gives...