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The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World: The Sinking of the "Titanic" and the End of the Edwardian Era by Gareth Russell
RRP: £12.99£8.56When the Titanic sank, so did the Edwardian age that created it. In this brilliantly original history, Gareth Russell recasts a tragedy we think we know to explore an era of seismic change. With new research and... -
The Treasure of the City of Ladies: Or the Book of the Three Virtues by Christine
RRP: £12.99£10.03Written by Europe's first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily... -
RAF Tornado Units of Gulf War I by Michael Napier
RRP: £14.99£11.75When the Gulf Crisis of 1990 was triggered by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the RAF responded by sending Tornado F 3 fighters to Saudi Arabia to help defend the country against further aggression. These aircraft were followed by the deployment of Tornado... -
World War II: A New History by Evan Mawdsley 9781108791403
RRP: £29.99£27.07This is a revised and updated edition of Evan Mawdsley's acclaimed global history of World War II. Beginning with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Evan Mawdsley shows how the war's origins lay in a conflict between the old international order and... -
NKJV, Personal Size Reference Bible, Sovereign Collection, Leathersoft, Brown, Red Letter, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £30.00£21.75This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign... -
Historical Research Using British Newspapers by Denise Bates
RRP: £12.99£9.34Thanks to digitisation, newspapers from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century have become an indispensable and accessible source for researchers. Through their pages, historians with a passion for a person or a place or a time or a topic can... -
Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio's Roman History by Caillan Davenport 9781108926232
RRP: £26.99£24.08The Roman History of Cassius Dio provides one of the most important continuous narratives of the early Roman empire, spanning the inception of the Principate under Augustus to the turbulent years of the Severan Dynasty. It has been a major influence on... -
Landscape and Englishness by David Matless 9781780235813
RRP: £11.99£8.53Landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questions of national identity, disputes over... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £25.00£12.27A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the... -
History of My Life by Giacomo Casanova 9781857152906
RRP: £20.00£15.29The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798), in now synonymous with amorous exploits, and there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in him memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was diplomat, business... -
History of the Jews in Modern Times by Lloyd P. Gartner 9780192892591
RRP: £32.49£26.85Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey 9780252019258
RRP: £35.00£31.74The thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones's locker. Under the leadership of her fearless skipper,... -
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein 9781476782423
RRP: £14.99£10.26In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term-until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon's... -
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin
RRP: £12.99£9.19A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wolfson Prize-winning author and historian John DarwinThe British Empire shaped the world in countless ways: repopulating continents, carving out nations,... -
Pax Britannica by Jan Morris
RRP: £12.99£8.80The second instalment of the Pax Britannica Trilogy by Jan Morris, recreates the British Empire at its dazzling climax - the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, celebrated as a festival of imperial strength, unity, and splendour. This classic work... -
The Red Atlas: How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World by John Davies
RRP: £31.00£26.73Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of data... -
Central Birmingham 1920-1970: Images of England by Keith Turner
RRP: £12.99£9.87This companion volume to Central Birmingham 1870-1920 captures the changing face of the city over a further half century using a selection of nearly 200 old photographs, many of which have never before been published. The book portrays not just the... -
We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World by Helen Yaffe
£25.86The extraordinary account of the Cuban people's struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments... -
The Skripal Files: The only book you need to read on the Salisbury Poisonings by Mark Urban
RRP: £9.99£7.48The Skripal Files tells the full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings, one of the most shocking incidents to occur in Britain in recent memory. Broadcaster and historian Mark Urban interviewed Sergei Skripal in the months before the poisoning and... -
The Last Battle Cornelius Ryan 9781473620070
RRP: £10.99£7.50The Battle for Berlin was the final struggle of World War II in the European theatre, the last offensive against Hitler's Third Reich, which devastated one of Europe's historic capitals and brought an end to the Nazi regime. It lasted more than two weeks... -
Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the end of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield
RRP: £12.99£8.80It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back home - a journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and... -
Adriatic: A Two-Thousand-Year History of the Sea, Lands and Peoples by Caroline Boggis-Rolfe 9781398119574
RRP: £14.99£9.96Adriatic spans over two thousand years of history and the whole of the eastern Mediterranean region around the Adriatic Sea and part of the neighbouring Ionian Sea. Ever since the Romans, these lands and their peoples have experienced the coming and... -
Banbridge: The Star of County Down by Doreen McBride 9780750990936
RRP: £14.99£11.72Banbridge gets its name from the bridge built across the River Bann in 1712. It's a thriving modern town, rife with history and culture, surrounded by beautiful scenery that provided an iconic location for the internationally acclaimed television series... -
SAC in the 1980s by Adrian Symonds
RRP: £15.99£10.85'Fighter pilots make movies, bomber pilots make history' - or so the bomber pilots say, anyway. Strategic Air Command held a constant nuclear-armed vigil, ready to launch nuclear war at a moment's notice, twenty-four hours a day. SAC was responsible... -
The Glasgow Girl at War: The new heartwarming saga from the author of the G.I. Bride by Eileen Ramsay
RRP: £7.99£5.70The next heartwarming saga novel from Eileen Ramsay, perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Donna Douglas.1930s Scotland.Growing up in a convent in Glasgow, Ferelith Gallagher dreams of bigger and better things. With no money behind her, and no family to... -
Don't Tell The Newfoundlanders: The True Story of Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada by Greg Malone 9780307401342
RRP: £15.99£13.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307401342Author Greg MaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Three Rivers PressWeight(grams) 317g -
French Battleships 1914-45 by Ryan K. Noppen
RRP: £12.99£9.19On September 1, 1910, France became the last great naval power to lay down a dreadnought battleship, the Courbet. The ensuing Courbet and Bretagne-class dreadnoughts had a relatively quiet World War I, spending most of it at anchor off the entrance to... -
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War: 1938-1941 by Alan Allport
RRP: £25.00£22.19Shortlisted for The Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History 2021 A Times History Book of the Year 'Britain's wartime story has been told many times, but never as cleverly as this' Dominic Sandbrook 'Will make you think anew not just about... -
Istanbul: The Imperial City by John Freely
RRP: £12.99£9.34Istanbul's history is a catalogue of change, not least of name, yet it has managed to retain its own unique identity. John Freely captures the flavour of daily life as well as court ceremonial and intrigue. The book also includes a comprehensive... -
A Brief History of British Kings & Queens Mike Ashley 9781841195513
RRP: £12.99£8.70Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a... -
Falklands War by Martin Middlebrook 9781848846364
RRP: £18.99£14.01With the surprise Argentine invasion of the remote Falkland Islands on 2 April 1982, the United Kingdom found itself at war. Due to the resolve of a determined Prime Minister and the resourcefulness of the Armed Forces, a Task Force, codenamed Operation... -
The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking
RRP: £24.99£19.79In this important study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows... -
The Fetterman Massacre by Dee Brown 9780803257306
RRP: £16.99£13.03The Fetterman Massacre occurred on December 21, 1866, at Fort Phil Kearny, a small outpost in the foothills of the Big Horns. The second battle in American history from which came no survivors, it became a cause celebre and was the subject of a... -
Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power by David Scott
RRP: £14.99£9.78In this paperback of his acclaimed and wide-ranging study, David Scott challenges traditional assumptions about how Britain achieved her global might. Shortlisted for the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature 2013 ... -
Robert Bruce: Our Most Valiant Prince, King and Lord Colm McNamee 9781780275949
RRP: £10.99£7.42The life of Robert Bruce is one of the greatest comeback stories in history. Heir and magnate, shrewd politician, briefly 'king of summer' and then a desperate fugitive who nevertheless returned from exile to recover the kingdom he claimed, Bruce became... -
Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations by Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown 9780333753446
£90.27Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations examines the crucial contribution of Chinese business groups to the rapid growth of South-East Asia. This study examines major Chinese firms and their increasingly important networks in this era of... -
Twelve Against the Gods: The Story of Adventure by William Bolitho
RRP: £16.99£11.44"It's really quite good." - Elon Musk Twelve Against the Gods was an instant bestseller when it first published in 1929. In his trademark journalist style, author William Bolitho details the lives of twelve great adventurers-Alexander the Great,... -
Chindit by Richard Rhodes James
RRP: £10.99£7.99Part of the SECOND WORLD WAR VOICES series in partnership with the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, presented by comedian Al Murray and bestselling historian James Holland.'Heroic, punishing excursions behind enemy lines, the Chindit expeditions... -
The War That Never Ended: A Short History of the Korean War Gordon Kerr 9780857303882
RRP: £9.99£7.00The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War in which forces of major nations of the two opposing systems - capitalism and communism - confronted each... -
Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685 by Tim Harris
RRP: £15.99£11.61The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the...