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The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 by Julian Jackson
RRP: €17.39Booksplease Price: €15.10On 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: €16.81A 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: €30.00Booksplease Price: €23.44When 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: €24.00Booksplease Price: €18.00Apologies 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: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.44An 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: €26.39A 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: €20.39Booksplease Price: €12.44Apologies 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: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.16A 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. ... -
Burn Out: The Endgame for Fossil Fuels by Dieter Helm
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €15.73An energy revolution is under way with far-reaching consequences for nations, companies, and the way we address climate change Low oil prices are sending shockwaves through the global economy, and... -
The Good Doctor: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.54FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEWinner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by... -
King Edward VIII by Philip Ziegler 9780007481019
RRP: €22.79Booksplease Price: €16.91The authorised life story of the king who gave up his throne for love, by one of our most distinguished biographers. In this masterly authorized biography, Philip Ziegler reveals the... -
The Fortress: The Great Siege of Przemysl by Alexander Watson 9780141986333
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €10.04WINNER OF THE SOCIETY FOR MILITARY HISTORY'S DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY AND THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A BBC... -
Cats Who Changed the World: 50 cats who altered history, inspired literature... or ruined everything Dan Jones 9781914317880
RRP: €20.39Booksplease Price: €14.86The cat-tastic companion to Dogs Who Changed the World.50 awe-inspiring stories of cats who have altered history, inspired art and literature, reunited lost lovers, saved lives, or just ruined... -
Tanks in the Battle of Germany 1945: Western Front by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: €14.39Booksplease Price: €10.92The crossing of the river Rhine marked the beginning of the end of the Third Reich, but the Wehrmacht would fight ferociously on its home soil until the fall of Berlin. The Battle of Germany saw the... -
Dover in 50 Buildings by Paul Harris
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.02Once known as the 'Key to England', Dover is one of the country's most important ports and has been at the forefront of this island's history from the earliest times. This has left a rich legacy of... -
Kursk 1943: The Southern Front by Robert Forczyk
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €15.05Mauled at Stalingrad, the German army looked to regain the initiative on the Eastern Front with a huge offensive launched near the city of Kursk, 280 miles south-west of Moscow. Armed with the new... -
Hilda of Whitby: A spirituality for now by Ray Simpson
RRP: €10.79Booksplease Price: €8.46In the dark and turbulent centuries after the Roman occupation of Britain, and during the Anglo-Saxon colonisation, the light of heaven still shone through the work and witness of the monastic... -
The Making of England: From Rome to Reformation by Toby Purser
RRP: €27.59Booksplease Price: €18.13The Making of England places the history of early England firmly within the European sphere of influence. It draws upon the latest multi-disciplinary research and debates from science, archaeology,... -
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.69WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2019SHORLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking... -
Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant by Shrabani Basu
Booksplease Price: €12.72The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. An assistant clerk at Agra Central Jail,... -
Old Gardenstown with Crovie and Pennan by Kay Beaton 9781840336092
RRP: €14.34Booksplease Price: €13.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336092Author Kay BeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint -
The History of England by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.61One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most... -
The Illustrated Secret History of the World by Mark Booth 9781468315660
RRP: €42.00Booksplease Price: €37.39Since its first publication in 2008, The Secret History of the World has sold over 250,000 copies and established itself as the authoritative text on the subject of esoteric belief systems and secret... -
A Quiet Company of Dangerous Men: The Forgotten British Special Operations Soldiers of World War II Shannon Monaghan 9780593491225
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €21.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593491225Author Shannon MonaghanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint -
Othello (new edition) John O'Connor 9781408236888
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €11.40Fully updated to meet the needs of the GCSE 2010 specifications. Exclusive awarding-body specific support to help students realise their full potential. The most accessible texts with supportive... -
The History of the Rebellion: A new selection by Edward Hyde,Earl of Clarendon
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €14.14'I am doing your Majesty some service here, whilst I am preparing the story of your sufferings; that posterity may know by whose default the nation was even overwhelmed with calamities, and by whose... -
March Women March by 9781787398511
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.17'A wonderful, inspiring story told with scholarship, passion and wit' - Miriam Margolyes'A must-read' - Independent on SundayWith an introduction by Dr Helen Pankhurst.An illuminating and riveting... -
The Elements of Hittite by Theo Van den Hout
RRP: €41.99Booksplease Price: €39.89Hittite is the earliest attested Indo-European language and was the language of a state which flourished in Asia Minor in the second millennium BC. This exciting and accessible introductory course,... -
The Homecoming: The Morland Dynasty, Book 24 Cynthia Harrod-Eagles 9780751525311
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.62Freed from her miserable marriage by widowhood, Henrietta is at last able to marry her beloved Jerome Compton, but his divorced state means that they have to make their home away from Yorkshire. ... -
The Very First Americans by Cara Ashrose
RRP: €7.19Booksplease Price: €5.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780448401683Author Cara AshroseFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint -
The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde by Owen Hatherley
RRP: €30.00Booksplease Price: €5.60Could Buster Keaton have starred in Battleship Potemkin? Did Trotsky plan to write the great Soviet comedy? And why did Lenin love circus clowns? The Chaplin Machine reveals the lighter side... -
Hitler's Spanish Division by Lucas Molina 9781473878877
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €18.28On 22 June 1941, Hitler s armies launched Operation Barbarossa and swept in to the Soviet Union. On the same day, the Spanish Foreign Minister, Ramon Serrano Suner, contacted the German embassy in... -
Some Account of the Life and Character of the Late Thomas Bateman M.D.F.L.S. Physician to the Public Dispensary and to the Fever Institution in London by Thomas Bateman 9780461680690
RRP: €17.94Booksplease Price: €17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461680690Author Thomas BatemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint -
Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia by Francis Wheen
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.86'If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.' ... -
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume One:The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985 by Martin Bernal
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.32Classical civilisation, Martin Bernal argues, has deep roots in Afro-Asiatic cultures. But these Afro-Asiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied, or suppressed since the eighteenth... -
Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction by Professor Dane Kennedy
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28Millions of Africans, Asians, and other peoples were the subjects of colonial rule by overseas empires through the mid-twentieth century. By the end of the century, however, nearly all of these... -
The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars by Jo Marchant
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08For most of human history, we have had a close relationship with the stars. Once they shaped our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few... -
Bethnal Green: Images of London by Gary Haines
RRP: €19.19Booksplease Price: €14.26Gary Haines, East Ender, historian, once volunteer with Tower Hamlets Archives and now Archivist of the Whitechapel Gallery, has compiled this fascinating collection of over 200 archive photographs... -
Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918 by Louis Barthas
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.55The harrowing first-person account of a French foot soldier who survived four years in the trenches of the First World War Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a... -
Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition by Nisid Hajari
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €12.50After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - they were supposed to be the answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus. Jawaharlal...