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Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor: Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery by Gregory S. Aldrete 9781421408194
$62.58Alexander the Great led one of the most successful armies in history and conquered nearly the entirety of the known world while wearing armor made of cloth. How is that possible? In "Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor", Gregory S. Aldrete, Scott... -
Sacred Springs - Holy Wells in Great Britain by Christina Martin
RRP: $11.68$8.33What is so special about spring water? How are wells holy? Why are so many known for 'the healing of eyes'? The ancient holy wells of the British Isles are amongst the most beautiful and magical places anyone can visit. Often untouched by all but the... -
Primo Levi: The Elements of a Life by Ian Thomson
RRP: $40.93$29.13'One of the best literary biographies of the year...superb... Levi, I think, would have appreciated it' Observer Re-issued to mark the centenary of Primo Levi's birth, now featuring a new introduction from the author.Discover the definitive biography of... -
Lincoln City Guide by Pitkin
RRP: $11.70$8.97Few cities present as dramatic a profile as Lincoln. From many miles away the cathedral on its ridge makes a thrilling silhouette over the surrounding landscape. Closer to, its mighty Gothic towers dominate the city's rooftops. Nearer still, Lincoln's... -
The Albanians: A Modern History by Miranda Vickers
RRP: $48.73$44.56This is the first full account of a country that, following decades of isolation, has undergone unprecedented changes to its political system: the collapse of communism, the progression to multi-party elections and the upheaval that followed the March... -
Warplanes of World War II by Robert Jackson 9781838863630
RRP: $48.73$34.30Warplanes of World War II provides a detailed look at 50 key aircraft in service between 1939 and 1945. Warplanes profiled include fighters, bombers, fighter- bombers, ground attack and other aircraft from the US, USSR, Germany, UK, Japan, France, Poland... -
Harold Wilson by Ben Pimlott
RRP: $37.03$24.78Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson's birth, Ben Pimlott's classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain's most controversial post-war statesmen. ... -
D-Day in Photographs by Andrew Whitmarsh 9780752474793
RRP: $39.00$29.78The Allied landings in France on 6 June 1944 were a turning point in world history. This book is a compilation of 200 images relating to all aspects of D-Day and the Normandy landings, beginning with the years of planning and preparations, all conducted... -
OCR A Level History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919-63 Nicholas Fellows 9781510416543
$61.41Exam board: OCRLevel: A LevelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: AS: Summer 2016, A Level: Summer 2017An OCR endorsed resourceSuccessfully cover Unit Group 2 with the right amount of depth and pace. This bespoke series from the... -
King Richard: an American tragedy by Michael Dobbs
RRP: $37.03$25.02From an acclaimed British author, a sharply focused, riveting account - told from inside the White House - of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president. In January 1973, Richard... -
Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton
RRP: $19.48$14.06"Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." Mary Roach Bomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made ... -
City of the Beast: The London of Aleister Crowley by Phil Baker
RRP: $40.95$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689322Author Phil BakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
Orkney's Italian Chapel: The True Story of an Icon Philip Paris 9781845025298
RRP: $29.23$21.35Orkney's Italian Chapel was built by Italian POWs held on the island during the Second World War. In the sixty-five years since it was built it has become an enduring symbol of peace and hope around the world. The story of who built the chapel and how it... -
The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth
RRP: $23.38$18.02This is the first English translation of Joseph Roth's portrayal of the Jews of Eastern Europe: their poverty, their towns and trades, their feast days and the mysticism of their rabbis. Roth was conscious that this was a community living under the... -
The American Dream in the 21st Century by Sandra L. Hanson
RRP: $46.78$40.64A multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American DreamA multidisciplinary conversation on the state of the American DreamAbout the AuthorSandra L. Hanson is Professor of Sociology and Research Associate at the Institute for Policy Research... -
The Barn: The Extraordinary Life of an Unremarkable Building by Sally Coulthard
RRP: $39.00$27.87A revelatory uncovering of a vanished agricultural way of life by bestselling nature writer Sally Coulthard. 'A gem of a book' Country Smallholding 'Engaging and filled with gentle humour and fascinating facts' Get History 'Shows us the beauty and... -
Death Dealer: The Memoirs Of The SS Kommandant At Auschwitz by Rudolph Hoss 9780306806988
RRP: $42.88$28.96SS Kommandant Rudolph Hoess (1900-1947) was history's greatest mass murderer, personally supervising the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is a new, unexpurgated... -
Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John Darnell and Colleen Darnell
RRP: $48.75$36.93Akhenaten has been the subject of radically different, even contradictory, biographies. The king has achieved fame as the world's first individual and the first monotheist, but others have seen him as an incestuous tyrant who nearly ruined the kingdom... -
My Name Is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish Resistance fighter and Ravensbruck survivor by Selma van de Perre
RRP: $19.48$14.06'I am one of few Jewish survivors of World War Two, but one of many Jewish people to fight the Nazi regime. My story illustrates what happened to thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike. I have recorded the small details that made up our lives, the sheer... -
Real Dorset by Jon Woolcott 9781781727171
RRP: $19.48$14.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781727171Author Jon WoolcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 12mm -
Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World by Prof Jane Ohlmeyer 9780192867681
RRP: $58.50$51.38Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland-in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'-to better understand how it has formed the... -
The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham-Smith 9780140012781
$28.12This history is a war story of astonishing courage and honor, of stupidity, of blood, death, agony -- and waste. Nothing in British campaign history has ever equaled the tragic farce that was the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War's... -
Escape or Die: True stories of heroic escape in the Second World War by Paul Brickhill
RRP: $19.48$8.33Extraordinary times. Extraordinary courage.Here, from the bestselling author of The Great Escape, are eight true and startling escape stories from the Second World War.The heroism of the servicemen who dared to defy their captors in this volume is... -
Me 163 vs Allied Heavy Bombers: Northern Europe 1944–45 by Robert Forsyth 9781472861856
RRP: $31.18$22.64An illustrated account of the dramatic engagement between the Luftwaffe’s Me 163 units and Allied bombers during the closing years of World War II. In the summer of 1944, US Army Air Force (USAAF) aircrews flying over the Third Reich reported observing... -
Unholy Trinity by Mark Aarons 9780312181994
RRP: $48.75$30.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312181994Author Mark AaronsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 612g -
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States by David Reynolds 9781541675698
RRP: $44.83$35.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541675698Author David ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 51mm -
Unofficial Britain: Journeys Through Unexpected Places by Gareth E. Rees
RRP: $19.48$13.55'Terrific... Britain's urban landscape is just as freighted with myth and mystery as its castles and ancient monuments and [Rees] proves it by unearthing a treasure trove of riveting stories.' - Sunday Times, Best Books of the Year, 2020 ----- There is... -
The Saracen's Mark by S. W. Perry
RRP: $17.53$12.25From the CWA Historical Dagger Award-nominated author of The Angel's Mark in 2019 and The Serpent's Mark in 2020England, 1593: Five years on from the Armada and Elizabeth's kingdom seems secure. But there is always a plot afoot...Robert Cecil, the... -
Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson
RRP: $19.48$13.46"The first of an extraordinary trilogy" DANIEL MASON, author of North WoodsIn a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Bardur join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Bardur, who has forgotten his waterproof as he... -
1974: Scenes from a Year of Crisis by Nick Rennison 9780857305824
RRP: $29.23$19.601974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat... -
Northumbria: The Lost Kingdom by Paul Gething 9780752459707
RRP: $48.75$36.70Northumbria was one of the great kingdoms of Britain in the Dark Ages, enduring longer than the Roman Empire. Yet it has been all but forgotten. This book puts Northumbria back in its rightful place, at the heart of British history. From the impregnable... -
The War The Infantry Knew: 1914-1919 by J.C. Dunn
RRP: $33.13$22.50Sometimes, through word of mouth and shared enthusiasm, a secret book becomes famous. The War the Infantry Knew is one of them. Published privately in a limited edition of five hundred copies in 1938, it gained a reputation as an outstanding account of... -
Panzer Reconnaissance by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $68.25$51.71Using first-hand accounts and rare and unpublished images, this highly illustrated title tells the full story of the German reconnaissance troops in World War II. When the Wehrmacht was first formed in 1935, tactical reconnaissance was carried out... -
Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne
RRP: $25.33$19.25During the Second World War all British citizens were called upon to do their part for their country. Despite facing the discriminatory 'colour bar', many black civilians were determined to contribute to the war effort where they could, volunteering as... -
The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914: 'The Secret Spring' by Anthony Cooke 9780719080821
RRP: $165.75$136.17This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War.The book examines the industry chronologically and through... -
A Short History Of Myth by Karen Armstrong
RRP: $19.48$13.46As long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that begins at a Neanderthal graveside and ends buried in... -
A Radical History Of Britain: Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms by Edward Vallance
RRP: $29.23$19.60From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study,... -
Imperial Legacies: The British Empire Around the World by Jeremy Black 9781641770385
RRP: $37.03$25.21Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the... -
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome The Tiger: The Epic Chinese Tale of Loyalty and War in a Dynamic New Translation (with Footnotes): Volume 3 Luo Guanzhong 9780804843959
RRP: $38.98$26.42This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han... -
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise
RRP: $29.23$21.35This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in the Victorian period.Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a...