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Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood by Justin Marozzi
RRP: £16.99£12.28Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights... -
From Above: The Story of Aerial Photography by Eamonn McCabe
RRP: £40.00£28.55Since the birth of photography, photographers have been taking images of the earth from the air - with spectacular visual results. Celebrating over 150 years of these incredible images, this book tells the fascinating story of how these pictures were... -
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question by Edward W. Said
RRP: £20.99£20.46Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of the Palestinians has been justified by spurious academic... -
David Stirling: The Phoney Major: The Life, Times and Truth about the Founder of the SAS Gavin Mortimer 9781472134592
RRP: £25.00£14.66Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special Air Service in the summer of 1941 led to a new form of warfare and Stirling is remembered as the father of special... -
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan 9780399591044
RRP: £24.00£17.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399591044Author Robert D. KaplanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City by Alexandra Richie
RRP: £18.99£12.71The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for sixty-three days. The Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 was a shocking event in a hideous war... -
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles 9781800818200
RRP: £25.00£16.13LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ~ NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ~ WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'An astonishing account of love, resilience and survival' Sunday Times 'A remarkable book' New York... -
Subsmash: The Mysterious Disappearance of HM Submarine Affray by Alan Gallop
RRP: £9.99£7.55In April 1951, the disappearance of HM submarine Affray knocked news of the Korean War and Festival of Britain from the front pages. Affray had put to sea on a routine peacetime simulated war patrol in the English Channel. She radioed her last position... -
Beneath the Big Top: A Social History of the Circus in Britain by Steve Ward 9781783030491
RRP: £14.99£11.61Beneath the Big Top is a social history of the circus, from its ancient roots to the rise of the 'modern' tented travelling shows. A performer and founder of a circus group, Steve Ward draws on eye-witness accounts and contemporary interviews to explore... -
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week by Lucy Malleson
RRP: £9.99£5.96A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the First World War - a woman ahead of her time.With a new introduction by Sophie HannahTHREE-A-PENNY describes what it is like to be a woman in a... -
City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir by Paul French
RRP: £12.99£8.60'Shanghai's champion storyteller - He grips his reader to the end' Economist'Gripping, breakneck ultra-noir reminiscent of vintage Ellroy' David Peace, author of Red or Dead'If you love Richard Lloyd Parry and David Grann, don't miss City of Devils'... -
Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and the Ties that Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK Assassination by Mark Shaw
RRP: £22.00£14.45If there had been no cover-up of Robert Kennedy's complicity in the murder of Marilyn Monroe in 1962 and he had been prosecuted based on compelling evidence at the time, the assassination of JFK by Bobby's enemies would not have happened-changing the... -
Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud
RRP: £8.99£7.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619492516Author Sigmund FreudFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Empire BooksPublisher Empire BooksWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm -
The Armada Legacy (Ben Hope, Book 8) by Scott Mariani
RRP: £9.99£7.26A GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch' Andy McDermott A SUNKEN SECRET. A MISSING WOMAN.A... -
The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek by Barry Cunliffe 9780142002544
RRP: £24.00£16.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142002544Author Barry CunliffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 167gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm... -
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£8.32When 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... -
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World’s Highest Mountain by Mick Conefrey
RRP: £10.99£7.32Though it remains by far the world's most famous mountain, in recent years Everest's reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses and piles of high altitude trash. It wasn't always like... -
Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction by Ian Shaw
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The ancient Egyptians are an enduring source of fascination -- mummies and pyramids, curses and rituals have captured the imagination of generations. We all have a mental picture of ancient Egypt,... -
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan: A Philosophical Tale by Lenn E. Goodman
RRP: £19.00£16.20The Arabic philosophical fable "Hayy Ibn Yaqzan" is a classic of medieval Islamic philosophy. Ibn Tufayl (d. 1185), an Andalusian philosopher, tells of a happy child raised by a doe on an equatorial island who grows up to discover the truth about the... -
The Poltergeist Prince of London: The Remarkable True Story of the Battersea Poltergeist by Clark James
RRP: £12.99£9.62It began with a key. One afternoon in 1956, in the home of the Hitchings family in Battersea, south London, a small silver key appeared on Shirley Hitchings' bed. This seemingly insignificant event heralded the beginning of one of the most terrifying,... -
The Avoidable War?: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the Us and China by Kevin Rudd
RRP: £25.00£19.77The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural misunderstanding, historical grievance, and ideological incompatibility. No other nations are so quick to offend and... -
Stonehenge: Exploring the greatest Stone Age mystery by Mike Parker Pearson 9780857207326
RRP: £12.99£8.18Our knowledge about Stonehenge has changed dramatically as a result of the Stonehenge Riverside Project (2003-2009), led by Mike Parker Pearson, and included not only Stonehenge itself but also the nearby great henge enclosure of Durrington Walls. This... -
Formation: The Making of Nigeria, From Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule
RRP: £19.99£13.96Formation tracks the unlikely series of events and characters that led to the creation of the modern Nigerian nation: from 1804 when the first Jihadists began their attack on a collection of independent nations to 1914 when the current shape of Nigeria... -
Land of My Fathers - 2000 Years of Welsh History Gwynfor Evans 9780862432652
£13.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780862432652Author Gwynfor EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume I - Ancestral Voices) by Chris Bryant
RRP: £16.99£12.28The history of Parliament is the history of the United Kingdom itself. It has a cast of thousands. Some were ambitious, visionary and altruistic. Others were hot-headed, violent and self-serving. Few were unambiguously noble. Yet their rowdy... -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope - Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others by Frank Cottrell Boyce
RRP: £10.99£7.78How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic... -
Holy Bible: King James Version, Burgundy Bonded Leather, Classic Companion Bible by Thomas Nelson
RRP: £23.00£15.19Enjoy the Bible that goes where you go. Thomas Nelson's Checkbook Bible offers a complete King James Bible that easily fits in your purse or bag with a magnetic closure to protect the pages.Traveling with God's Word has never been so effortless. The... -
Historical Research Using British Newspapers by Denise Bates
RRP: £12.99£9.09Thanks 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... -
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... -
The Monk: The Life and Crimes of Ireland's Most Enigmatic Gang Boss by Paul Williams 9781911630791
RRP: £14.99£13.45On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perceived as an ordinary decent criminal, a quintessential Robin Hood figure who fought the law - and won. To the rest of the world he was an elusive criminal... -
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
RRP: £10.99£7.93No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to... -
The Marshall Plan: America, Britain and the Reconstruction of Western Europe, 1947-1952 by Michael J. Hogan
RRP: £34.99£26.83Michael Hogan shows how The Marshall Plan was more than an effort to put American aid behind the economic reconstruction of Europe. American officials hoped to refashion Western Europe into a smaller version of the integrated single-market and mixed... -
Primate Change: How the world we made is remaking us by Vybarr Cregan-Reid
RRP: £12.99£7.51'A work of remarkable scope' - GuardianFT Best science books of 2018Primate Change has been adapted into a radio series for the BBC WORLD SERVICE.*This is the road from climate change to primate change.PRIMATE CHANGE is a wide-ranging, polemical look at... -
A People`s History of India 31 - The National Movement, Part 2: The Struggle for Freedom, 1919-1947 by Irfan Habib 9788194126010
RRP: £13.99£11.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788194126010Author Irfan HabibFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint TulikaPublisher TulikaWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 250mm * 167mm * 17mm -
The Skripal Files: The only book you need to read on the Salisbury Poisonings by Mark Urban
RRP: £9.99£7.27The 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... -
Spitfire Ace of Aces: The Wartime Story of Johnnie Johnson by Dilip Sarkar
RRP: £12.99£8.48Johnnie Johnson is a character literally straight out of the pages of ' Boys Own'. By the end of the Second World War the RAF Spitfire pilot was a household name in Britain, feted by Churchill and Eisenhower. Although he missed the Battle of Britain,... -
The Wilder Shores Of Love by Lesley Blanch
RRP: £9.99£6.80The classic story of four nineteenth-century women who, for different reasons, gravitated to the wildness of the Middle East and North Africa."There have been many women who have followed the beckoning Eastern star" says Lesley Blanch. She writes about... -
The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities by Caroline Campbell 9780349128481
RRP: £30.00£17.26To read most histories of art, you might be forgiven for supposing that great artists are superhuman, and the knowledge of different movements, periods and styles is essential to truly appreciate art.It's time to look at art in a new way.THE POWER OF ART... -
Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking computers by B. Jack Copeland
RRP: £16.99£12.68At last - the secrets of Bletchley Park's powerful codebreaking computers. This is a history of Colossus, the world's first fully-functioning electronic digital computer. Colossus was used during the Second World War at the Government Code and Cypher... -
Denmark - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Mark H. Salmon 9781857338843
RRP: £7.99£6.14Culture 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 help you make the most of your visit, while tips on...