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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James 9780349110127
RRP: £16.99£11.94This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of... -
One Dog at a Time: Saving the Strays of Helmand - An Inspiring True Story by Pen Farthing
RRP: £9.99£7.32'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick mud walls. Today, however, it had only succeeded in stopping a terrified-looking small white dog. I knew that the Taliban... -
Dust Carolyn Steedman 9780719060151
RRP: £12.99£9.49In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the... -
Hidden War: A Russian Journalist's Account of the Soviet War in Afghanistan by Artyom Borovik 9780802137753
RRP: £11.99£10.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802137753Author Artyom BorovikFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press -
Flying Forwards, Facing Backwards: Captivating Tales from a Nimrod and Valcan Air Electronics Operator by Jim Walls
RRP: £25.00£18.02Since he was a child in the 1950s watching Vampires and Meteors operating from RAF Turnhouse, Jim Walls wanted to fly aircraft, he just never envisaged that his flying career would be spent in the back seat as opposed to the front. Jim guides readers... -
A World on Fire: An Epic History of Two Nations Divided by Amanda Foreman
RRP: £22.00£16.02'No two nations have ever existed on the face of the earth which could do each other so much good or so much harm'President Buchanan, State of the Nation Address, 1859A World on Fire tells, with extraordinary sweep, one of the least known great stories... -
Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged by Peter Furtado
RRP: £12.99£8.83National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written... -
The Course of German History: A Survey of the Development of German History since 1815 by A. J. P. Taylor
RRP: £14.99£13.58One of A.J.P. Taylor's best-known books, The Course of German History is a notoriously idiosyncratic work. Composed in his famously witty style, yet succinct to the point of sharpness, this is one of the great historian's finest, if more controversial,... -
Coal Mining in Britain by Richard Hayman
RRP: £8.99£7.06An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powered the engines of the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the coalfields -... -
Alexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica by Arrian
RRP: £11.99£8.66'He was a man like no other man has ever been' So Arrian sums up the career of Alexander the Great of Macedon (356-323 BC), who in twelve years that changed the world led his army in conquest of a vast empire extending from the Danube to the rivers of... -
Enthusiasm: A Chapter in the History of Religion by Knox
RRP: £58.95£48.66Enthusiasm, first published in 1950 by Ronald A. Knox, is the end product of thirty years of research and inspiration. In his perceptive and learned study Knox presents the personalities and religious philosophies of the various types of enthusiasts of... -
Skyscrapers: A History of the World's Most Extraordinary Buildings - Revised and Updated by Judith Dupre
£29.85Now, bigger than ever, this long-awaited revised edition of Judith?Dupr?'s best-selling Skyscrapers is a giant celebration of today's most significant superstructures. It features an all-new design with full-color photographs, 10 new buildings, and... -
The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton
RRP: £9.99£6.61Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ featuring Kim Kardashian, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Wanda Sykes, Megan Thee Stallion and more She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father... -
The Vanished Bride: Rumours. Scandal. Danger. The Bronte sisters are ready to investigate . . . Bella Ellis 9781529389029
RRP: £9.99£6.90'Brilliantly entertaining and original' C.L. Taylor'A standout book' Rosie WalshFrom the Sunday Times-bestselling author Rowan Coleman, comes a special new series featuring the Bronte sisters, written under the name Bella EllisYorkshire, 1845, and dark... -
A Family Reunion by Patricia Scanlan
RRP: £8.99£6.01Previously published as The Liberation of Brigid Dunne*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *** One explosive family reunion. A lifetime of secrets revealed.Spanning generations and covering seismic shifts in the lives of women, A Family Reunion is a... -
British Motor Torpedo Boat 1939-45 by Angus Konstam
£9.89During the Second World War, flotillas of the Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boats and other coastal forces fought a deadly war for control of the English Channel and the North Sea. These small, fast boats attacked enemy convoys, escorted freighters, landed... -
A Little History of Art by Charlotte Mullins
RRP: £16.99£15.01A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today "This lively volume is ideal for the precocious high-schooler, the lazy collegian . . . and any adult who wishes for greater... -
Sea Monsters on Medieval Chet van Duzer 9780712357715
RRP: £14.99£10.20The 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... -
Keenie Meenie: The British Mercenaries Who Got Away with War Crimes by Phil Miller 9780745340791
RRP: £19.99£13.55Keenie Meenie Services - the most powerful mercenary company you've never heard of - was involved in war crimes around the world from Sri Lanka to Nicaragua for which its shadowy directors have never been held accountable. Like its mysterious name,... -
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) 9780745335469
RRP: £22.99£15.47With an extended new preface by the author. 'One of the most important intellectuals alive' Independent One of Noam Chomsky's most important and renowed works, Fateful Triangle, is a devastating indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy... -
A History of London through Beer Goggles by Cyril O'Brien
£21.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788234887Author Cyril O'BrienFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution by Michael J. Braddick
RRP: £40.99£40.49This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England,... -
The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller
RRP: £20.00£15.91A WATERSTONES AND IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A breathtaking exploration of Ukraine's past, present, and future, and a heartbreaking account of the war against Russia, written by a leading journalist who has lived and worked in Ukraine for over a... -
Samurai Armies of the Late Sengoku Period: Volume I: Anatomy of a Samurai Army in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Till Weber
RRP: £26.95£22.61The "Anatomy of a samurai army" details its composition, hierarchies, strengths and weaknesses as well as examining how it fought. Other aspects include: - the differences between samurai and European warfare; - the roles assigned to samurai and... -
Fife Folk Tales by Sheila Kinninmonth 9780750967532
RRP: £12.99£9.87Storyteller Sheila Kinninmonth brings together stories from the coastal fishing villages, rushing rivers, magical green farmland and rolling hills of Fife. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet Scottish Kings and Queens, saints and sinners,... -
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth by Meriel Schindler
RRP: £10.99£7.87'Rigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that also chronicles the wider story of the Jews of the Austro-Hungarian Empire... It distinguishes itself... -
Operation Barbarossa and Germany's Defeat in the East by David Stahel
RRP: £24.99£20.69Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began the largest and most costly campaign in military history. Its failure was a key turning point of the Second World War. The operation was planned as a Blitzkrieg to win Germany its... -
The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End by Elizabeth Drayson
RRP: £10.99£7.87In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to an end... -
The Guide to Mysterious Arran by Geoff Holder
RRP: £14.99£11.72This is the essential guide to everything strange, marvellous and paranormal on the beautiful and rugged Isle of Arran. Why did the police in 1889 bury the boots of the victim of the Arran Murder below the high-water mark? What happened to the miracle... -
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... -
To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann
RRP: £8.99£6.70Winner of the HWA Sharpe Gold Crown for Best Historical Novel.An international bestseller, To Die in Spring is a beautiful and devastating novel of a friendship tragically interrupted by war, by German author Ralf Rothmann.Walter Urban and Friedrich... -
Waffen-ss (europa Militaria 6) by Andrew Steven
RRP: £16.00£13.34This title offers a useful reference source for the uniform collector, modeller and student of military dress and equipment. The reader can trace the development of the colour and design of the Waffen-SS uniforms: all the uniforms worn in the 150 colour... -
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126332
RRP: £16.99£11.54The six wives of Henry VIII- Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and catherine Parr- have become defined in popular sense not so much by their lives but by the the way their lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser... -
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi 9781851685820
RRP: £12.99£8.28At a time when a lasting peace between Palestinians and Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of the longest-running conflict in the Middle East is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid... -
Ancient Worlds: An Epic History of East and West by Michael Scott
RRP: £14.99£10.95'This vivid and engaging book brings to life some of the most important moments in ancient history, moments that have shaped not only the politics and culture of bygone eras, but the institutions, thoughts and fantasies of our time.' Yuval Noah Harari... -
The First Bridge Too Far: The Battle of Primosole Bridge 1943 by Mark Saliger 9781636243757
£16.51For the very first time, the Battle of Primosole Bridge is brought to life in a well-researched narrative solely dedicated to one of the bloodiest and hardest fought battles for British airborne troops of World War Two.Primosole Bridge in Sicily (13-16... -
Zambia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Andrew Loryman 9781857338775
RRP: £9.99£7.64Culture 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... -
The Parliamentary Battle over Brexit by Meg Russell 9780192849717
RRP: £26.49£18.61The Parliamentary Battle Over Brexit provides answers to those who want to understand the bitter arguments that occurred over Brexit, what might have been handled better, and the role that parliament played. Since the 2016 referendum, the hotly... -
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of Special Forces Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton 9781847398239
RRP: £9.99£6.51The Horse Soldiers is the true, dramatic account of a small band of Special Forces soldiers who entered Afghanistan immediately following September 11, 2001 and, riding to war on horses, defeated the Taliban. Heavily outnumbered, they nonetheless succeed... -
The Essential Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore 9780674417045
RRP: £25.95£21.44The Essential Tagore showcases the genius of India's Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Nobel Laureate and possibly the most prolific and diverse serious writer the world has ever known.Marking the 150th anniversary of Tagore's birth, this ambitious...