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On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: £20.00£15.89Stalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team overturns this view, revealing that behind Stalin was a... -
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven
RRP: £16.99£12.28'A compulsive page-turner ... a triumph of brilliant storytelling ... an instant classic that is an awesome, remarkable and exuberant achievement' Simon Sebag Montefiore Winner of the Wolfson History Prize and shortlisted for the Duff Cooper PrizeIn the... -
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings by Jean Manco
RRP: £12.99£8.60Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? In recent years scientific advances have yielded a mass of new data, turning cherished ideas upside down. The idea of migration in prehistory, so long out of favour, is back on the agenda. Visions of... -
Glories and the Wildness of North Wales, The - Exploring North Wales 1810-1860 with the Reverend John Parker by Edward Parry
RRP: £16.00£14.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845278458Author Edward ParryFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Gwasg Carreg GwalchPublisher Gwasg Carreg GwalchDimensions(mm) 210mm * 210mm * 10mm -
Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning by Peter Stanford
RRP: £10.99£7.40A thought-provoking reflection on pilgrimage past and present, and a compelling exploration of its relevance today. The enormous rise in popularity in recent decades of the Camino, the ancient pilgrim path that stretches from France, across northern... -
Operation Trojan Horse: The true story behind the most shocking government cover-up of the last thirty years by Stephen Davis
RRP: £10.99£7.47'Damning' - Mail on Sunday'Utterly horrific and compelling' - The Guardian'This investigation rings true' - Publishers WeeklyOn 1 August, 1990, British Airways Flight 149 departed from Heathrow airport, destined for Kuala Lumpur. It never made it there,... -
Twentieth Century British and World History 1900-2020 (Knowing History) by Robert Peal
RRP: £11.99£11.66Deliver an ambitious, knowledge-rich and global KS3 History curriculum to develop pupils' knowledge of the past, build their skills and equip them to progress through to GCSE 9-1 History. Provide a coherent... -
An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society by Carl Knappett 9780198706939
RRP: £45.99£45.62Think of a souvenir from a foreign trip, or an heirloom passed down the generations - distinctive individual artefacts allow us to think and act beyond the proximate, across both space and time. While this makes anecdotal sense, what does scholarship... -
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Robert Hurley 9780241389614
RRP: £12.99£9.09The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryIn the fourth and final volume of his far-reaching and influential study of human sexuality, Foucault turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient... -
Rural Rides by William Cobbett
RRP: £12.99£9.09Travelling on horseback through southern England in the early 19th century, William Cobbett provides evocative and accurate descriptions of the countryside, colourful accounts of his encounters with labourers, and indignant outbursts at the encroaching... -
Defeating the Panzer-Stuka Menace: British Spigot Weapons of the Second World War by David Lister
RRP: £25.00£18.02Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War. Unlike conventional mortars, a spigot mortar does not have a barrel through with the round is fired. Instead, the general... -
The Plantation of Ulster by Jonathan Bardon 9780717154470
£22.75The Plantation of Ulster was the most ambitious scheme of colonisation ever attempted in modern Europe, and one of the largest European migrations of the period. It was a pivotal episode in Irish history, sending shock waves reverberating down the... -
The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
RRP: £12.99£9.09Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society's changing views of the rural and industrial landscapes in which we work and live.Our collective notion of the city and country is... -
Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel 9780993009372
RRP: £10.00£6.80Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything-including their native languages-to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and 70s, she translated poets from East Berlin and Vietnam to help broadcast their defiance to the rest of... -
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story by Gwen Strauss
RRP: £18.99£13.42'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe thrilling story of how nine young women, captured by the Nazis for being part of the Resistance, launched a... -
The Penguin Illustrated History of Britain and Ireland: From Earliest Times to the Present Day by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £25.00£18.62Compiled by a team of leading historians, this is a wonderfully rich, lavishly illustrated history of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The reader is taken on a journey from prehistoric times to the present day, examining such topics as the spread... -
The Boer War by Martin Bossenbroek
RRP: £25.00£16.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807474Author Martin BossenbroekFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S. -
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy by Damien Lewis 9781541700673
RRP: £21.99£17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541700673Author Damien LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs -
Wild Blue: 741 Squadron: On A Wing And A Prayer Over Occupied Europe by Stephen E. Ambrose 9781471158810
RRP: £9.99£6.41In the bestselling BAND OF BROTHERS, Stephen E. Ambrose portrayed in vivid detail the experiences of soldiers who fought on the bloody battlegrounds of World War II. THE WILD BLUE brings to life another extraordinary band of brothers - the men who... -
History of Writing by Steven Roger Fischer
RRP: £15.00£10.96From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book... -
Agent Cicero: Hitler’s Most Successful Spy by Mark Simmons 9781803995281
RRP: £12.99£9.62ELYESA BAZNA WAS THE HIGHEST-PAID SPY IN HISTORY.Working for the British ambassador in Ankara in 1943, Bazna photographed top-secret documents and sold them to the Nazis. So started his career as a 'walk-in', a freelance spy whose loyalties lay with the... -
Sinostan: China's Inadvertent Empire by Raffaello Pantucci 9780198857969
RRP: £26.49£18.61Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given... -
German Bomber Aircraft of World War II by Thomas Newdick
RRP: £17.99£12.39Organised chronologically by type, German Bomber Aircraft of World War II offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by the German Luftwaffe during World War II. The book offers a comprehensive survey of German aircraft, from... -
Operation Jericho: Freeing the French Resistance from Gestapo jail, Amiens 1944 by Robert Lyman
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the story of Operation Jericho, the spectacular prison break staged by an elite group of British, Australian and New Zealand bomber pilots, who flew a daring low-level mission to blow holes in the walls of Amiens jail and free French Resistance... -
They Gave Me A Seafire by Crosley, Commander R M 'Mike' 9781399014441
RRP: £14.99£10.95A classic in every sense of the word, the re-issuing of this book is sure to provoke an enthusiastic response. First published in 1986 by Airlife, its publishing history has seen a great number of glowing reviews generated, coming from both historians... -
The Edwardians by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £14.99£9.80Edwardian Britain is the quintessential age of nostalgia, often seen as the last long summer afternoon before the cataclysmic changes of the twentieth century began to take form. The class system remained rigidly in place and thousands were employed in... -
From Black Gold to Frozen Gas: How Qatar Became an Energy Superpower by Michael D. Tusiani 9780231210867
RRP: £28.00£21.80Today, Qatar is among the world's wealthiest countries. Its rich hydrocarbon resources have transformed this small Gulf state into an energy powerhouse, funded its outsized global ambitions, and allowed it to forge an identity separate from those of its... -
Bishop Auckland: Britain in Old Photographs by Charlie Emett 9780752466415
RRP: £14.99£11.55This superb collection of over tow hundred photographs traces the history of Bishop Aukland from its origins as North Aclet to modern times. Auckland Castle, the residence of the bishops of Durham for almost eight hundred years, is represented, as are... -
Wordsley Past & Present by Stan Hill
RRP: £14.99£11.55Wordsley, situated on the western fringe of the West Midlands conurbation and now part of Dudley, has a long and fascinating history. In the first century AD the Romans positioned their front line nearby before advancing towards Wales. Fifteen hundred... -
Understanding Greek Vases - A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques by . Clark 9780892365999
RRP: £16.99£14.61What is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? How did Greek vases get their distinctive black and orange colours? This volume offers definitions and descriptions of these and many other Greek vase shapes, painters and techniques encountered in museum... -
Transition to Global Rivalry: Alliance Diplomacy and the Quadruple Entente, 1895-1907 by John Albert White 9780521474450
RRP: £105.00£88.31During the years before the First World War, the realignment of world powers resulted in agreements concluded in 1904 and 1907 between Britain, France, Russia and Japan. John Albert White terms this a Quadruple Entente, a more accurate and complete... -
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin 9781529347234
RRP: £12.99£8.60WINNER OF THE WINGATE PRIZE'Vivid and moving' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Excellent . . . a powerful tribute' GuardianIn the summer of 1940, faced with national paranoia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the internment of all German, Austrian and... -
Rumi Illustrated by Rumi
RRP: £29.99£19.92Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207-73) was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Iran. This Chinese-bound volume offers a selection of his many poems with a variety of themes,... -
Spying and the Crown: The Secret Pact Between British Intelligence and the Royals by Rory Cormac
RRP: £12.99£8.56A Daily Mail Book of the Year and a The Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2021'Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A fascinating history of royal espionage.' Sunday Times'Excellent... Compelling' GuardianFor the... -
Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall by Hester Vaizey
RRP: £14.99£10.95The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 1: The Rise to Power 1919-1934: A Documentary Reader by Jeremy Noakes 9780859895989
RRP: £17.59£16.15Volume 1 of this series of documents with commentary covers the period from the founding of the Nazi Party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 August 1934. The documents in the four volumes of this series are... -
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin
RRP: £10.99£7.32Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008As the day of the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup dawned, and the Springboks... -
Turn Right At Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark Adams
RRP: £17.99£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452297982Author Mark AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 292g -
The Little Book of the Cotswolds by Gillian Broomhall 9780750993166
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Little Book of the Cotswolds is a veritable smorgasbord of Cotswold miscellany, packed with fascinating titbits and all manner of factual frippery - from Cotswold lions to puppy dog pies. The region's strangest traditions, its most eccentric... -
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99£11.87'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end...