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John Maclean: Hero of Red Clydeside Henry Bell 9780745338385
RRP: $21.92$14.89'I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot' - John Maclean, Speech from the Dock, 1918. Feared by the government, adored by workers, celebrated by Lenin and Trotsky; the head of... -
Edward I and the Governance of England, 1272-1307 by Caroline Burt 9780521889995
RRP: $118.67$96.14This important exploration of the reign of Edward I - one of England's most lionised, feared and successful monarchs - presents his kingship in a radical new light. Through detailed case studies of Shropshire, Warwickshire and Kent, Caroline Burt... -
The Originals: The Secret History of the Birth of the SAS: In Their Own Words by Gordon Stevens
RRP: $20.63$14.98'We've been approached something like 25 times since the war. I kicked each out the window because they weren't going to make it with the integrity we require the story of the SAS to be told.' - Colonel Sir David Stirling, OBE, DSO, Founder of the... -
Tudor Rebellions by Diarmaid MacCulloch
RRP: $30.95$29.70Tudor Rebellions, now in its seventh edition, gives a chronological account of the major rebellions against the Tudor monarchy in England from the reign of King Henry VII until the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 1603.The book throws light on some of the... -
Seeing Further: The Story of Science and the Royal Society by Bill Bryson
RRP: $19.34$12.51Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, with contributions from Richard Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, Richard Holmes, Martin Rees, Richard Fortey, Steve Jones, James Gleick and Neal Stephenson amongst others, this beautiful, lavishly illustrated... -
Indian Mythology: Tales Symbols and Rituals from the Heart of the Subcontinent by Devdutt Pattanaik 9780892818709
RRP: $21.92$14.29From the blood-letting Kali to the mysterious Ganesha, the Hindu spiritual landscape is populated by characters that find no parallel in the Western spiritual world. Indian Mythologyexplores the rich tapestry of these characters within 99 classic myths,... -
The Times Complete History of the World by Richard Overy 9780008150266
RRP: $103.20$70.58The ultimate work of historical reference 'The Times Complete History of the World' is the most comprehensive, authoritative and accessible work on world history available today. It has sold over 2.25 million copies and has been translated... -
The Histories by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $16.76$11.73In AD68 Nero's suicide marked the end of the first dynasty of imperial Rome. The following year was one of drama and danger, though not of chaos.In the surviving books of his Histories the barrister-historian Tacitus, writing some thirty years after the... -
Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood by Robert Douglas
RRP: $14.18$9.55A wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence... -
Amarna Sunrise: Egypt from Golden Age to Age of Heresy by Aidan Dodson 9789774167744
RRP: $19.34$16.19The latter part of the fifteenth century bc saw Egypt's political power reach its zenith, with an empire that stretched from beyond the Euphrates in the north to much of what is now Sudan in the south. The wealth that flowed into Egypt allowed its kings... -
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved and Died in the 1940s by Anne Sebba
RRP: $14.18$9.55WINNER OF THE FRANCO-BRITISH SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2016June, 1940. German troops enter Paris and hoist the swastika over the Arc de Triomphe. The dark days of Occupation begin. How would you have survived? By collaborating with the Nazis, or risking the... -
Bedpans And Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime by Barbara Fox
RRP: $14.18$9.55'In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving.'Gwenda had always loved the open road, but her home town of Newcastle didn't really offer the sort of adventure she longed for. So, in 1957, with friend... -
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia: The Place-Name Evidence by David Boulton 9781914427251
RRP: $51.54$47.27This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries.The... -
Chester: A History by Simon Ward
RRP: $23.21$17.60Chester has a long and fascinating history, dating from the arrival of the Roman army around AD 74. Their fortress was the stimulus for the growth of a prosperous town with such attributes of classical civilisation as bathhouses, central heating and an... -
1966: My World Cup Story by Sir Bobby Charlton
RRP: $16.76$11.73Wembley, 1966. England wins the World Cup to roars of a euphoric home crowd.Sir Bobby Charlton, England's greatest ever player, was there on the pitch. In 1966, he looks back on the most glorious moment of his life and England's greatest sporting... -
OCR A Level History: The American Revolution 1740-1796 and The USA in the 19th Century 1803-1890 by Mike Wells
$41.14Exam 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... -
Iraqi Mirages: Dassault Mirage Family in Service with Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988 by Tom Cooper
$23.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390311Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Marathon War: Leadership in Combat in Afghanistan by Jeffrey Schloesser 9781682619896
RRP: $36.12$23.28From Major General Jeffrey Schloesser-former Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division and Regional Command-East-comes a revealing memoir of leadership in the chaos and fog of the Afghanistan War.War is the most brutal of human endeavors, and I... -
Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince by Lisa Hilton
RRP: $12.89$8.77A definitive portrait of one of the most compelling monarchs England has ever had: Elizabeth I.'We are a prince from a line of princes.'Lisa Hilton's majestic biography of Elizabeth I, 'The Virgin Queen', uses new research to present a fresh... -
The Last Survivor by Frank Krake
RRP: $11.60$8.00Perfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'This is an extraordinary biography. A gripping narrative that opens as derring-do wartime escape drama rapidly turns into a horror story about man's inhumanity to... -
MI5: British Security Service Operations, 1909-1945: The True Story of the Most Secret counter-espionage Organisation in the World by Nigel West
RRP: $32.25$23.25MI5 is arguably the most secret and misunderstood of all the British government departments. Its enigmatic title - much more than its proper name, the Security Service - stands in the public mind for the dark world of the secret services in general. In... -
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre
RRP: $33.53$27.93A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives-and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China,... -
Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights by Celia Brayfield
RRP: $25.80$19.40Black Beauty is a novel that changed our world. Intended to 'induce kindness' in a Victorian audience who relied on horses for transport, travel and power, it remains a dearly loved children's classic. Writing Black Beauty is the story of the remarkable... -
Falklands Secret Weapon, MV Norland: First in, Last Out - From North Sea Ferry to San Carlos Bay by Reg Kemp
RRP: $23.21$17.60In 1982, North Sea ferry MV Norland transported passengers and vehicles between Hull and Rotterdam. Requisitioned as a troop ship to take the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment to the Falklands, the 'volunteer' merchant navy crew were told they would only... -
Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography by Alicia Spencer-Hall 9789048559190
$46.07Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography presents an interdisciplinary examination of trans and genderqueer subjects in medieval hagiography. Scholarship has productively combined analysis of medieval literary texts with modern queer theory... -
Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
RRP: $21.92$16.36The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light. Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of... -
Greek Lives by Plutarch
RRP: $14.18$10.28Lycurgus, Pericles, Solon, Nicias, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Cimon, Agesilaus, Alexander `I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive... -
AQA GCSE (9-1) History Workbook: Elizabethan England, c1568-1603 by Alex Stonehouse
$9.38Exam board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018 Practise and perfect the knowledge and skills that students need to achieve their best grade in the AQA GCSE (9-1) History exams.Packed full of consolidation... -
The Trouble With Women by Jacky Fleming 9781910931097
RRP: $16.76$11.73Can women be geniuses? Or are their arms too short? Why did we only learn about three women at school? What were all the others doing?'Brilliantly, mordantly funny and extremely clever... There isn't a man, woman or child who wouldn't benefit from... -
The Rise and Fall of Harland and Wolff by Tom McCluskie
RRP: $19.34$14.90Harland and Wolff, once acknowledged as the greatest and best-known shipbuilding company in the world, for many years enjoyed a mighty eminence before a gradual descent into near obscurity. This illustrated book, told from the unique perspective of... -
The Vulcan Story by Peter R. March
RRP: $14.18$10.64The RAF's mighty delta-wing Vulcan jet bomber is an enduring image of the Cold War era. A cornerstone of Britain's nuclear deterrent, it was later adapted for conventional bombing and saw its only active service in the Falklands War. Newly restored with... -
Lancaster & District: Britain in Old Photographs by S. Ashworth 9780752449647
RRP: $19.34$14.90This portrait of a period at once familiar and remote includes views of the historic city of Lancaster, illustrates the development of Morecambe from a small fishing community to a thriving seaside resort, recaptures the wealth of Morecambe Bay's... -
The Mythology of the 'Princes in the Tower' by John Ashdown-Hill 9781445699134
RRP: $15.47$10.14When did the term 'Princes in the Tower' come into usage, who invented it, and to whom did it refer? To the general public the term is synonymous with the supposedly murdered boy King Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York, sons of Edward... -
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
RRP: $16.76$11.04One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come to be known as the 'twelve... -
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
$20.79In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society. African American struggles for equality are doomed... -
Sea Monsters on Medieval by Chet van Duzer 9780712357715
RRP: $19.34$13.16The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gambolling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying themselves for our appreciation, are one of the most visually engaging elements on these maps, and yet they... -
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss
RRP: $14.18$9.55THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A standalone classic . . . An incredible book, remarkable for its unflinching gaze at the past and also for its hope'GUARDIAN, 'Books to Give You Hope''Remarkable . . . Makes it clear just what an achievement... -
OCR A Level History: Democracy and Dictatorships in Germany 1919-63 Nicholas Fellows 9781510416543
$40.62Exam 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... -
The Great Western Steam Retreat: Chasing the Final Steam Trains in BR's Western Region, Wales and the Welsh Marches by Keith Widdowson
RRP: $21.92$16.69In mid-1964, Keith Widdowson got wind that the Western Region was hell-bent on being the first to eliminate the steam locomotive on its tracks by December 1965. The 17-year-old hurriedly homed in on train services still in the hands of GWR steam power,... -
Blohm & Voss Bv 155 by Dan Sharp
RRP: $16.76$11.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658320Author Dan SharpFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 362gDimensions(mm) 245mm *...