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The Eighth Army in North Africa by Simon Forty 9781526723796
RRP: £14.99£10.95The British Eighth Army, which played a decisive role in defeating the Axis in North Africa, was one of the most celebrated Allied armies of the Second World War, and this photographic history is the ideal introduction to it. The carefully chosen... -
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal 9781846275661
RRP: £10.99£7.42Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love.Today,... -
Queer Power: A Celebration of Icons, Activists and Game Changers from Across the Rainbow by Dom&Ink
RRP: £9.99£6.84You're about to meet so many incredible humans. Are you ready hun? Celebrate some of the modern-day trailblazers, champions and icons who have shaped, or are shaping our world, from well-known public figures and allies to others you will wish... -
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith
RRP: £12.99£11.01Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth-an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding... -
The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty by Neal Thompson 9780063268593
RRP: £14.99£12.80"Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon MeachamBased on genealogical breakthroughs and previously unreleased records, this is the first book to explore the inspiring story of the poor Irish... -
Theory and Practice of Hell, the by Eugen Kogon 9780374529925
RRP: £20.00£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529925Author Eugen KogonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc -
Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
RRP: £45.00£36.00How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social... -
Flesh in the Age of Reason by Roy Porter
RRP: £19.99£14.28'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is... -
The Exile's Cookbook: Medieval Gastronomic Treasures from al-Andalus and North Africa by Ibn Razin Al-Tujibi 9780863569920
RRP: £25.00£16.38The Exile's Cookbook brings together 480 recipes, including roasts and stews, breads, condiments, preserves, sweetmeats, and even hand-washing soaps. It offers a fascinating insight into the cuisine of Muslim Spain and North Africa in the period - its... -
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution by Sara Marcus
RRP: £10.99£7.46At the beginning of the 1990s, the Senate didn't believe Anita Hill, Rush Limbaugh compared feminists to Nazis, and a study found that girls tended to start hating themselves during adolescence. It was a hard time to be a young woman, to be growing up on... -
Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89 by Richard Bassett
RRP: £10.99£7.99'With these vivid, wistful memoirs, he joins the great chroniclers of Europe - the Prousts, Zweigs, Lampedusas, Leigh-Fermors and Bassanis - and shows how some of the things those writers loved persisted as late as 1989.' (Economist)Selected as a Book of... -
Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else by James Meek
£20.59"The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It's the public itself. it's us." In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy - rail,... -
My Revision Notes: OCR A-level History: Rebellion and Disorder under the Tudors 1485-1603 by Nicholas Fellows
£11.59Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: History First teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation... -
The University of Oxford: A Brief History by Laurence Brockliss
RRP: £12.99£9.98The University of Oxford is the third oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. How did such an ancient institution flourish through the ages? This book offers a succinct illustrated account of its... -
1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
RRP: £16.99£12.28Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justice, he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But... -
Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire by Peter Brown 9780299133443
RRP: £18.95£18.05Peter Brown, a known authority on Mediterranean civilisation in late antiquity, traces the growing power of early Christian bishops as they wrested influence from the philosophers who had traditionally advised the rulers of Graeco-Roman society. In the... -
D-Day Operations Manual: 75th anniversary edition by Jonathan Falconer
RRP: £30.00£21.35The landing of Allied forces on the shores of Normandy on 6 June 1944 was the greatest amphibious invasion in history. To mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day in 2019, this new edition of the Haynes D-Day Operations Manual features an additional chapter... -
Vuelta Skelter: Riding the remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain, in a facemask by Tim Moore
RRP: £20.00£14.29*A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*Tim Moore, the author of the Sunday Times bestselling French Revolutions, completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an... -
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Hawksley
RRP: £25.00£15.26Over 2,000 years of history seen through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women. Was Jane Austen a fan of her own work? What did Harriet Tubman want to tell Abraham Lincoln? And how did Greta Thunberg respond to her critics? This carefully curated selection... -
Oxford AQA History for A Level: The English Revolution 1625-1660 by J Daniels 9780198354727
£34.44Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams: June 2017 Retaining all the well-loved features from the previous editions, The English Revolution... -
Weston-super-Mare Past and Present by Sharon Poole
RRP: £15.99£12.43The nineteenth century saw Weston-super-Mare grow from a tiny village of about 100 inhabitants to a thriving Victorian seaside resort of nearly 20,000 people. A further hundred years later it has a population of almost 70,000. Despite changing fortunes... -
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski 9780141188041
RRP: £9.99£7.21Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the... -
A People's Church: A History of the Church of England by The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris 9781781252499
RRP: £30.00£22.01Weaving social, political, and religious history together with church music and architecture, A People's Church is a clear-eyed look at Anglican history through the ages. This history is as tumultuous as it is long. The transformative 1534-1660... -
The Granite Men: A History of the Granite Industries of Aberdeen and North East Scotland by Jim Fiddes 9780750990011
RRP: £20.00£15.84Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of... -
Trapped in History: Kenya, Mau Mau and Me by Nicholas Rankin 9780571307746
RRP: £25.00£16.99Trapped in History tells how the British colonised Kenya and how African nationalism arose under Jomo Kenyatta. It describes the terrifying first attacks by the guerrilla freedom fighters known as Mau Mau. Though defeated, the Mau Mau hastened the end of... -
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control Daniel Pick 9781781257906
RRP: £12.99£9.19'A frankly brilliant book' - GUARDIAN 'An absorbing exploration ... Pick does not stumble' - TORTOISE 'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell under its spell immediately' - SIMON GARFIELD In 1953,... -
Dispatches for the New York Tribune: Selected Journalism of Karl Marx by Karl Marx
RRP: £14.99£10.95Karl Marx (1818-1883) is arguably the most famous political philosopher of all time, but he was also one of the great foreign correspondents of the nineteenth century. During his eleven years writing for the New York Tribune (their collaboration began in... -
Sniper on the Eastern Front by Albrecht Wacker 9781781590041
RRP: £9.99£7.21This book is a rare first-hand account by a ruthlessly efficient German sniper of life and death during the bitter conflict that followed the Nazi invasion of Russia. Josef 'Sepp' Allerberger was an Austrian conscript who qualified as a Wehrmacht... -
Death in the Greek World: From Homer to the Classical Age by M. S. Mirto 9780806141879
£19.12Examines ancient Greek conceptions of death and the afterlife In our contemporary Western society, death has become taboo. Despite its inevitability, we focus on maintaining youthfulness and well-being, while fearing death's intrusion in our daily... -
Ireland 1798-1998: War, Peace and Beyond by Alvin Jackson
RRP: £28.95£25.47Receiving widespread critical acclaim when first published, Ireland 1798-1998 has been revised to include coverage of the most recent developments. Jackson's stylish and impartial interpretation continues to provide the most up-to-date and important... -
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
RRP: £22.00£14.58From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.America's backstory is a... -
Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery Of Desire by Wayne Koestenbaum
£15.04This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic. In a learned, moving, and sparklingly witty melange of criticism,... -
Renaissance Armies in Italy 1450–1550 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £12.99£9.19The Italian Renaissance marked a period of political and military turmoil. Many regional wars were fought between the states ruled by Milan, Venice, Genoa, Florence, the Papacy, Siena and Naples. For more than 50 years starting in 1494, major foreign... -
A Dangerous Enterprise: Secret War at Sea by Tim Spicer
RRP: £18.99£14.01Between 1942 and 1944 a very small, very secret, very successful clandestine unit of the Royal Navy, operated between Dartmouth in Devon, and the Brittany Coast in France. It was a crossing of about 100 miles, every yard of it dangerous. The unit was... -
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
RRP: £10.99£7.46SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2019 'This is a book of wonders' Sunday Times 'Spellbinding and intelligent' Financial Times ... -
A Willingness to Die: Memories from Fighter Command by Brian Kingcome
RRP: £11.99£9.17In 1938 Brian Kingcome joined the RAF with a permanent commission and was posted to No 65 Fighter Squadron at Hornchurch, soon to be equipped with the Spitfire, and so it came about that Brian flew the Spitfire throughout the war. He became acting CO for... -
Boudicca's Rebellion AD 60-61: The Britons rise up against Rome by Nic Fields
RRP: £16.99£12.28When the Romans occupied the southern half of Britain in AD 43, the Iceni tribe quickly allied themselves with the invaders. Having paid tribute to Rome, they continued to be ruled by their own kings. But 17 years later when Prasutagus, the king of the... -
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones
RRP: £16.99£13.43The BBC History 2022 Book of the Year and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick from Sunday Times bestselling author Dan Jones. July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But this war belongs... -
American Caesars: Lives of the US Presidents, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to George W. Bush by Nigel Hamilton
RRP: £16.99£12.28The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a succession of rulers holding the fate of the world in their hands. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us the... -
World History in Minutes: 200 Key Concepts Explained in an Instant Dorothy Ail 9781848667259
RRP: £12.99£8.70What happened to the Roman Empire? Why was the Magna Carta so important? What led to the First World War? Why did the USSR collapse? World History in Minutes provides succinct answers to these questions - and many more - in 200 simple and accessible...