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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II Evan Thomas 9781783967971
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.81‘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: $30.38Booksplease Price: $22.19Across 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: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.47This 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: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.06Apologies 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: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.69The 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: $50.65This 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: $48.43Booksplease Price: $36.08Japanese 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: $36.08Booksplease Price: $27.02Apologies 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: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.77Longlisted 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: $13.28Booksplease Price: $6.44St. 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: $32.30In 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... -
Shadow Warriors: The Irish Army Ranger Wing by Paul O'Brien 9781781177624
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $22.78In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades... -
Avebury by Evelyn Francis 9781904263159
RRP: $13.21Booksplease Price: $11.29Avebury is the largest stone circle on Earth! Silbury Hill is as old as the Great Pyramid! What is the secret geometry of the ancient stones? Was a lost science once practiced here? Packed with... -
German Combat Equipment, 1939-45 by Gordon L. Rottman 9780850459524
Booksplease Price: $18.98The field equipment of the German Army in World War II was closely related to that used throughout World War I and earlier.It was of relatively light weight, ruggedly constructed, well designed,... -
East Lothian Folk Tales by Mr. Tim Porteus 9780750980043
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.69Storyteller Tim Porteus brings together stories from the rugged coastlines, golden beaches, rolling countryside and dramatic Lammermuir Hills of the ancient county of East Lothian. In this treasure... -
Malplaquet 1709: Marlborough’s Bloodiest Battle by Simon MacDowall
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $22.78In 1709, after eight years of war, France was on her knees. There was not enough money left in the treasury to pay, equip or feed the army and a bad harvest led to starvation throughout the kingdom... -
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India by Katie Hickman
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $17.59'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the... -
Cleopatra and Rome by Diana E. E. Kleiner 9780674032361
RRP: $51.21Booksplease Price: $44.27With the full panorama of her life forever lost, Cleopatra touches us in a series of sensational images: floating through a perfumed mist down the Nile; dressed as Venus for a tryst at Tarsus;... -
The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano 9781541736399
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $53.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541736399Author Tricia RomanoFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint -
The Girl by the Sea: A nostalgic WWII tale by the Queen of Family Saga by Sheila Newberry
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.51Previously published in ebook as The Daughter's ChoiceA charming and nostalgic World War II tale from the author of The Nursemaid's Secret and Bicycles and Blackberries, perfect for readers of Katie... -
Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945 Alfred Price 9781473895645
RRP: $56.91Booksplease Price: $43.02The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could... -
The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941-42: Japan's Quest for Oil by Dr Marc Lohnstein
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $25.00At the end of 1941, Imperial Japan targeted The East Indies in an attempt to secure access to precious oil resources. The Netherlands East Indies Campaign featured complex Japanese and Allied... -
Volodymyr Zelensky in His Own Words by Lisa Rogak 9781639363148
RRP: $53.20Booksplease Price: $27.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639363148Author Rogak LFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint -
Roman Quests: Death in the Arena: Book 3 Caroline Lawrence 9781510100305
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $12.88Third in a new historical adventure series from million copy selling Caroline Lawrence, set in Roman Britain during the reign of the evil Emperor Domitian.Eleven-year-old Ursula is happily learning... -
Ancient African Kingdoms: A Captivating Guide to Civilizations of Ancient Africa Such as the Land of Punt, Carthage, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Mali Empire, and the Kingdom of Kush by Captivating History
RRP: $24.64Booksplease Price: $24.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647489243Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Impr -
Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo 9780767904148
RRP: $34.20Booksplease Price: $26.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Best Books for Young Adults 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780767904148Author Michael Capuzzo -
Secret Ipswich by Susan Gardiner
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $22.19Ipswich, the largest and county town of Suffolk, takes its name from the medieval name 'Gippeswic'. Over its more than 1,000-year history, Ipswich has acquired a mix of the unexpected, strange, weird... -
The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West by Alistair Shearer
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $23.45How did a venerable Indian spiritual discipline turn into a GBP20 billion-a-year mainstay of the wellness industry? What happened along yoga's winding path from the caves and forests of the sages to... -
David Hume: The Philosopher as Historian by Nicholas Phillipson 9780140287295
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58'A skilful and lucid study ... Hume's History has been unjustly neglected at the expense of his philosophy. Phillipson's book should help redress the balance' London Review of Books'For pray, what... -
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction by James A. Millward
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid images: of merchants leading camel caravans over deserts and steppes to trade exotic goods in the bazaars of glittering Oriental cities, of pilgrims braving... -
Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology Ed Simon 9781419756382
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $51.36Pandemonium: An Illustrated History of Demonology presents for this first time Satan's family tree, providing a history and analysis of his fellow fallen angels from Asmodeus to Ziminiar. Throughout... -
Hide & Seek: The Story of a Wartime Agent by Xan Fielding 9781589880849
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $23.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880849Author Xan FieldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint < -
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 by Julian Jackson
RRP: $27.53Booksplease Price: $23.90On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan and elsewhere,... -
The 12th Man: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by Astrid Karlsen Scott
Booksplease Price: $26.62A stunning story of heroism and survival during World War II. The book that inspired the international film of the same name. "A must-read .... Intrigue, suspense, and adventure."-The Norwegian... -
DD Sherman Tank Warriors: The 13th/18th Royal Hussars through Dunkirk, D-Day and the Liberation of Europe by Andrew May 9781036104580
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $37.11When the amphibious Duplex Drive (DD) Sherman tanks of the 13th/18th Royal Hussars (QMO) touched down on the sand of Sword Beach as the vanguard of the D-Day invasion, ahead of the infantry and... -
The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food—Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes by Mark Kurlansky 9781635575934
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635575934Author Mark KurlanskyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint -
T-64 Battle Tank: The Cold War's Most Secret Tank by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.70An in-depth illustrated study of the T-64 Battle Tank, the Soviet Union's most secret and controversial Cold War weapon. The T-64 tank was the most revolutionary design of the whole Cold War,... -
MI9: A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by Helen Fry 9780300233209
Booksplease Price: $41.78A thrilling history of MI9-the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines"A fitting tribute to the hundreds of men and women who risked their lives in... -
Brokers Of Deceit by Rashid Khalidi
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $19.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807033241Author Rashid KhalidiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint -
Cycling's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories by Iain Spragg 9781911042556
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.50A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of cycling, including doughty Edwardian explorers, intrepid tightrope cyclists and a long-forgotten bike growing in a tree. ...