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Gilded Youth: An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family Tom Quinn 9781785907647
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $17.45For as long as the British monarchy has existed, royal children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us. From medieval wet nurses to today's Norland nannies and... -
Violence: A Modern Obsession by Richard Bessel 9781471147920
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $7.89After a century that has been described as the most violent in the history of humanity, Professor Richard Bessel has written an intelligent and fascinating book on the history of our violent world... -
A Brief History of China: Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic by Jonathan Clements
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79A comprehensive, yet entertaining look at China's history through a modern lens. For millennia, China was the largest and richest nation on earth. Two centuries ago, however, its economy sank into a... -
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know by 9780008469306
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.37To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa's most populous nation... -
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year Award 2014.In August 1814 the United States' army is defeated in battle by an invading... -
Birmingham at War 1939-45 by Julie Phillips 9781473866973
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.80Barely 17 years after the Great War that had brought Britain to its knees, the country was once again asked to make sacrifices and give their all to the war effort. With its strong industrial... -
Edinburgh: A History of the City by Michael Fry 9780330455794
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.41The late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals... -
A Pattern of Islands by Sir Arthur Grimble 9781906011451
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07"A Pattern of Islands" is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately... -
Illustrated Tales of Staffordshire by Helen Harwood 9781398107762
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.91Staffordshire is renowned for its impressive industrial heritage and as one of the counties that drove the Industrial Revolution. In this book Helen Harwood looks at another aspect of the county's... -
Street without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina by Bernard B. Fall 9781844153183
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.04A poignant, angry, articulate book Newsweek 'Mr Fall's book is a dramatic treatment of a historic event graphic impact New York Times Originally published in 1961, before the United States escalated... -
Austria - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Peter Gieler 9781857338676
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.19Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will... -
The Murder of Christina Collins: The Story of the Bloody Steps Murder of 1839 on the Trent & Mersey Canal by John Godwin 9781901091441
RRP: $9.37Booksplease Price: $8.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091441Author John GodwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint -
One Fine Day by Ian Marchant
Booksplease Price: $30.00A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music,... -
The Great Explorers: Forty of the Greatest Men and Women Who Changed Our Perception of the World by Robin Hanbury-Tenison 9780500293836
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How do they survive at the limits of human endurance? Who... -
Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko 9781909156555
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $31.93Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine's rich cultural... -
The Ruhr 1943: The RAF's brutal fight for Germany's industrial heartland Richard Worrall 9781472846563
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.29This illustrated study explores, in detail, the RAF's first concentrated air campaign of World War II against one of the hardest and most important targets in Germany - the industrial heartland of... -
Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England by Michael Alexander
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.84Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in... -
The Battle of Britain: Book 2 of the Ladybird Expert History of the Second World War by James Holland
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80UNDERSTAND AND EXPERIENCE THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY AERIAL EVER FOUGHTPart of the new Ladybird Expert series, Battle of Britain is an accessible, insightful and authoritative account of the most famous... -
Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction by David Hopkins
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.72The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock... -
The Other Paris: An illustrated journey through a city's poor and Bohemian past by Luc Sante
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.83Paris, the City of Light, the city of fine dining, seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast, the... -
Grey Eminence by Aldous Huxley
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.66A gripping biography by the author of Brave New WorldThe life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield,... -
The Essex Hundred Histories by Andrew Summers
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36The 'Histories' follows on from the Essex Hundred and has been inspired by the ancient land system of hundreds. It delves into one hundred events or personalities from 2,000 years of the county's... -
Robert the Bruce: King of the Scots by Michael Penman
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.08Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior,... -
A Dangerous Game: Growing Up East of the Oder Under the Nazis and Soviets by Luise Urban
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48Luise Urban was born in 1933 into a world about to be turned upside down. Her family lived east of the river Oder. Fatefully, her family were not Nazi Party members and suffered as a result. As the... -
Russia: A Short History by Abraham Ascher
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Distinguished Professor Abraham Ascher offers an impressive blend of engaging narrative and fresh analysis in this perennially popular introduction to Russia. Newly updated on the 100th... -
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $18.80The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas... -
A Dictionary of World History by Anne Kerr 9780199685691
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.07This wide-ranging dictionary contains a wealth of information on all aspects of history, from prehistory right up to the present day. Over 4,000 clear, concise entries include biographies of key... -
Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those Who Survived by Joshua Levine
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.081916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of World War I.It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness,... -
NKJV, Value Thinline Bible, Large Print, Leathersoft, Purple, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.28A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go. This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed... -
Ireland Under the Union 1800-1900 for CCEA A2 Level by Russell Rees 9781780731230
Booksplease Price: $14.73Conflict in 19th Century Ireland, has been updated and revised to assist teachers and students to meet the requirements of the CCEA GCE History A2 1 Unit 2, `Ireland Under the Union 1800-1900'. ... -
A Moment of War by Laurie Lee
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.00A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with RosieLaurie Lee was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican... -
In the Footsteps of the Brontes by George Sheeran
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65The lives and works of the celebrated Bronte family are so ingrained in our cultural psyche that we think we know them inside out - but walking in the footsteps of the literary greats and their... -
Eureka!: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Ancient Greeks But Were Afraid to Ask Peter Jones (Author) 9781782395164
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65The ancient Greeks gave us our alphabet and much of our scientific, medical and cultural language; they invented democracy, atomic theory, and the rules of logic and geometry; laid the foundations of... -
Alanbrooke War Diaries 1939-1945: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke by Lord Alanbrooke
Booksplease Price: $26.89'These are almost certainly the last secrets to be unlocked about the British high command in World War II' DAILY MAIL'Superb' SPECTATOR'A fascinating daily snapshot of the direction of the greatest... -
Dowding of Fighter Command by Vincent Orange 9781906502720
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $16.28This, quite simply, is the definitive book on the life of the man who prepared the ground for victory in the Battle of Britain. Without him, Britain and the world would have entered a dark age... -
The Last Prince of Bengal: An Indian Family's Journey from Royalty to Obscurity in the Age of Empire by Lynn Innes
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.77The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful royal families. Three times the size of Great Britain, his kingdom ranged from the soaring Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. However, in 1880,... -
The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III by Stephen Boardman 9781904607687
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $30.30The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland series aims to bring the rich political heritage of late medieval and early modern Scotland before as wide a reading public as possible, with specialist authors... -
The Last Assassin Peter Stothard 9781474613163
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.72'A gripping history' Mary Beard'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel'Atmospheric and gripping, and [his] scholarship is impeccable' Greg WoolfMany men killed Julius... -
How to Survive in Ancient Egypt by Charlotte Booth
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.81Imagine you were transported back in time to Ancient Egypt and you had to start a new life there. How would you fit in? Where would you live? What would you eat? Where would you go to have your hair... -
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto - 75th Anniversary Edition by Mary Berg
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.37Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life...