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China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival by Rana Mitter
RRP: £14.99£11.11Winner of the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature Different countries give different opening dates for the period of the Second World War, but perhaps the most compelling is 1937, when the 'Marco Polo Bridge Incident' plunged China and... -
British Midland Airways by Charles Woodley
RRP: £15.99£11.61British Midland Airways existed under different identities for over 70 years, during which time it grew from a flying training school into a scheduled transatlantic airline operating wide-bodied Airbus aircraft. With the prime routes dominated by British... -
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All by Christina Thompson 9780747596707
RRP: £12.99£9.34Come On Shore and We Will Kill And Eat You All is a sensitive and vibrant portrayal of the cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris, from Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 to the author's unlikely romance with a Maori man. An... -
Queen Mary James Pope-Hennessy 9781529355031
RRP: £14.99£9.90The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers.When Queen Mary died in 1953, James Pope-Hennessy was commissioned to write an official biography of her -... -
Great Victorian Inventions: Novel Contrivances and Industrial Revolutions by Caroline Rochford
RRP: £10.99£7.46Who invented the flying machine? Was the Titanic really the first 'unsinkable' ship? How would one use a phonoscope? Using old Victorian documents, Caroline Rochford takes the reader on a guided tour of hundreds of fascinating nineteenth-century... -
The Cecils: Privilege and Power Behind the Throne by David Loades
£14.59For 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 throughout Elizabeth's reign and long beyond. From Privy... -
German Ground Forces of World War II: Complete Orders of Battle for Army Groups, Armies, Army Corps, and Other Commands of the Wehrmacht and Waffen Ss, September 1, 1939, to May 8, 1945 by William T. McCroden 9781611211092
RRP: £45.00£32.81This massive new reference work is broken up into sections presenting a detailed analysis of each corresponding order of battle for every German field formation above division. Additional new ground is broken by describing the orders of battle of the... -
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Mark Harmon 9781400337019
RRP: £20.00£13.34NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." - Publishers WeeklyA U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the... -
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution by T J English
RRP: £16.99£15.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061712746Author T J EnglishFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Thomson: The Origins of the Thomsons and Their Place in History by Iain Gray 9781852171193
RRP: £3.99£3.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781852171193Author Iain GrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Lang Syne Publishers LtdPublisher Lang Syne Publishers Ltd -
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage by William E. Metcalf 9780199372188
RRP: £46.99£43.77A large gap exists in the literature of ancient numismatics between general works intended for collectors and highly specialized studies addressed to numismatists. Indeed, there is hardly anything produced by knowledgeable numismatists that is easily... -
Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-1450 by Juliet Barker 9780349122021
RRP: £12.99£7.72Author of the best-selling AGINCOURT, Juliet Barker now tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword.Henry V's second invasion of France in 1417 launched a campaign... -
Countries of the World in Minutes Jacob F. Field 9781786485830
RRP: £12.99£8.70The Countries of the World in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the modern world and every country in it.For each of the 195 officially recognised countries of the world, a mini-essay clearly and concisely explains its key history,... -
Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell by Jerry Brotton
RRP: £12.00£9.28From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by... -
The Making of Revolutionary Paris by David Garrioch
RRP: £27.00£21.46The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural... -
Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen by Jennifer Rees 9781472143105
RRP: £10.99£2.92'God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic'Libby Purves, Times Literary SupplementIn February 1919, London's first women police officers took to the streets of the city. They battled entrenched gender... -
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 by Tony Insall 9781785906619
RRP: £10.99£8.03EUROPE, 1940. NAZI FORCES SWEEP ACROSS THE CONTINENT, WITH A BRITISH INVASION LIKELY ONLY WEEKS AWAY. NEVER BEFORE HAS A RESISTANCE MOVEMENT BEEN SO CRUCIAL TO THE WAR EFFORT. In this definitive appraisal of Anglo-Norwegian cooperation in the Second... -
Convair B-36 Peacemaker Manual: 1948-59 (all marks and models) by David Baker
RRP: £25.00£18.62With six powerful radial engines and four turbojets paired in pods, the B-36 was the largest American aircraft to enter volume production, joining the US Air Force in 1948 as the world's first operational bomber with hemispheric range. AmericaBook... -
Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash
£26.24This is a place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have... -
Baseball: A History of America's Favourite Game by George Vecsey
RRP: £16.99£14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780812978704Author George VecseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Modern Library... -
Witchcraft in Early Modern Scotland: James VI's Demonology and the North Berwick Witches Lawrence Normand 9780859893886
RRP: £39.99£36.58This volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the best known and most notorious episodes of Scottish history, the North Berwick witch hunt, in which King James was... -
The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World by Matt Ridley
RRP: £9.99£6.84'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make ... it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.' From the industrial revolution and the rise of China, to urbanisation... -
The Kings & Queens of Anglo-Saxon England by Timothy Venning
RRP: £10.99£7.35The Anglo-Saxon era is one of the most important in English history, covering the period from the end of Roman authority in the British Isles to the Norman Conquest of 1066 in which the very idea of England was born. In The Kings& Queens of Anglo-Saxon... -
The Kingdom in the Sun, 1130-1194: The Normans in Sicily Volume II by John Julius Norwich
RRP: £12.99£8.80When on Christmas Day, 1130, Roger de Hauteville was crowned first King of Sicily, the island entered a golden age. Norman and Italian, Greek and Arab, Lombard, Englishman and Jew all contributed to a culture that was fantastically cosmopolitan; and to... -
Well Beings: How the Seventies Lost Its Mind and Taught Us to Find Ourselves by James Riley 9781785787898
RRP: £25.00£16.85James Riley, author of the cult hit The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties, returns with another incisive and thought-provoking cultural history, turning his trenchant eye to the wellness industry that emerged in the 1970s... -
Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
RRP: £12.99£8.87Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa-she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral... -
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS by Joshua Levine 9780008549992
RRP: £10.99£7.33The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS’s wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail. The SAS began as a... -
The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran by Homa Katouzian
RRP: £19.99£17.37In recent years, Iran has gained attention mostly for negative reasons-its authoritarian religious government, disputed nuclear program, and controversial role in the Middle East-but there is much more to the story of this ancient land than can be... -
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer 9780195069051
RRP: £30.49£28.82Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent,... -
The Influence of Islam on Medieval Europe by Prof. W. Montgomery Watt
RRP: £28.99£23.76In this admirable book Montgomery Watt traces the influence of Islam in medieval Europe, looking in detail at commerce, science and technology, philosophy, and the development of European self-awareness.ReviewsProfessor Watt's book is a fascinating and... -
The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology by Arnold Pacey 9780262660754
£32.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262660754Author Arnold PaceyFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 454g -
Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg 9780199642427
RRP: £28.99£20.68This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality. It takes the reader into close proximity with a... -
Civilization or Barbarism by Diop
RRP: £17.95£14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556520488Author Cheikh Anta DiopFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Lawrence Hill & Co.Publisher Lawrence Hill & Co.Weight(grams) 607g -
The Caucasus: An Introduction by Thomas De Waal
RRP: £15.99£13.33In this new updated version of The Caucasus, Thomas de Waal introduces readers to this complex region. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the breakaway territories that have tried to split away from them constitute one of the most diverse and challenging... -
Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England by Eleanor Parker 9781350383401
RRP: £12.99£9.89"Outstanding." - The Sunday Times "Beautifully written." The Times "Superbly adroit." The Spectator "Excellent." BBC History Magazine The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England - so what... -
Life On Air: A History of Radio Four by David Hendy 9780199550241
RRP: £16.99£13.34Radio Four has been described as 'the greatest broadcasting channel in the world', the 'heartbeat of the BBC', a cultural icon of Britishness, and the voice of Middle England. Defined by its rich mix, encompassing everything from journalism and drama to... -
Treachery at Hursley Park House: The intriguing new WWII mystery featuring wily heroine Josephine Fox by Claire Gradidge
RRP: £8.99£6.32From the winner of the Richard and Judy Search for a Bestseller competition comes another tantalising Golden Age wartime mystery.**DON'T MISS THE LASTEST JOSEPHINE FOX MYSTERY, A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS. OUT NOW!**PRAISE FOR THE JOSEPHINE FOX... -
The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages by J.F. Andrews
RRP: £20.00£15.44The lives of the sons of Eleanor of Aquitaine are the stuff of legend. Her daughters, however, are less well known, and the fascinating personalities of her daughters-in-law have been almost entirely overlooked, as have those of the daughters she bore... -
Black Sun by Owen Matthews
RRP: £9.99£7.76'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES 'A stunning debut thriller . . . utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting' DAILY MAIL 'Fascinating . . . fearsome' FREDERICK FORSYTH'Enthralling' FINANCIAL TIMES'Thrilling . . . compelling' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE1961... -
Laughter is the Best Weapon: The Remarkable Adventures of an Unconventional Soldier by Charles Ritchie
RRP: £20.00£14.29"An army may march on its stomach but it leans on its funny bone." So says Brigadier Charles Ritchie, and he should know. Postings to the Yemen, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and other far-away trouble spots gave him many opportunities to...