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Japan: Land of the Rising Sun by Melanie Clegg
RRP: £19.99£13.65From shrines to megacities, from paddy fields to high speed trains to the latest in digital technology, Japan is a fascinating mix of the ancient and modern, of East and West. Featuring castles and hot springs, remote volcanic islands and intense... -
Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs): The Quest for Fame by John Guy
RRP: £7.99£5.98The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackHenry VIII's reign transformed the physical and spiritual landscape of England. Magnificent, tyrannical, a strong ruler, a 'pillager of the... -
The Oxford History of Byzantium by Cyril Mango
RRP: £22.99£17.28The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed coverage of Byzantium from its Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Lively essays and beautiful illustrations... -
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam by Christopher E. Goscha
RRP: £18.99£13.61WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S JOHN K. FAIRBANK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017'This is the finest single-volume history of Vietnam in English. It challenges myths, and raises questions about the socialist republic's... -
1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
RRP: £25.00£16.53A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - weaves a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own life and that of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet... -
Boeing in Photographs: A Century of Flight by Martin W. Bowman
RRP: £25.00£18.54Founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing, a wealthy timber merchant, the mighty Boeing Company's long history spans decades of rich achievement and technological development. Beginning with the manufacture of seaplanes, fighters and, from the 1930s onwards,... -
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters by Rachel Trethewey
RRP: £20.00£15.34Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From... -
Spitfire, A Test Pilot's Story by Jeffrey Quill 9781910809303
RRP: £11.95£8.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910809303Author Jeffery QuillFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Gargoyles and Grotesques by Alex Woodcock
RRP: £8.99£7.17Gargoyles are an architectural feature designed to throw rainwater clear of the walls of a building. Widely used on medieval churches, these water spouts were often richly decorated and fashioned as serpents' heads and grotesque demons. Today, the term... -
A Higher Form of Killing Jeremy Paxman 9780099441595
RRP: £14.99£10.95A Higher Form of Killing was first published to great acclaim in 1982. The authors have written a new Introduction and a new Epilogue to take account of the events that have happened since the early 1980s - including the break-up of the former Soviet... -
The Great British Woodstock: The Incredible Story of the Weeley Festival 1971 by Ray Clark 9780750969895
RRP: £20.00£15.44It started as a donkey derby, a small local charity event, but when plans for the 1971 Isle of Wight Festival fell through, Clacton Round Table decided to hold a pop concert of their own - a small gig for 5,000 locals. Little did they know that it would... -
Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: £12.99£9.34Curry tells the story of an array of familiar Indian dishes and the people who invented, discovered, cooked and ate them. Curry is vivid, entertaining and delicious.'Fascinating and meticulously researched...layers historical fact with mouth-watering... -
Another Time by W. H. Auden 9780571234370
RRP: £12.99£8.80Another Time was the first volume that Auden published after his departure to America with Christopher Isherwood in January 1939. It was dedicated to Chester Kallman. The poems, some of which date from the early thirties, are about people, places and the... -
The Wars of the Roses by Terence Wise
RRP: £12.99£10.04Much myth and fantasy surrounds the events of the Wars of the Roses: a bloody and prolonged dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster. Terence Wise's fascinating text lays bare the real story, and examines the armies, liveries and badges... -
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel lives by Alan Bullock
RRP: £25.00£17.43Alan Bullock's bestselling and monumental masterpiece, now in a revised Second Edition 'It is practically unprecedented to take two such monsters as Hitler and Stalin, who never met, and interweave their lives chronologically, chapter by... -
Shakespeare's London on 5 Groats a Day by Richard Tames
RRP: £8.99£6.06This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you'll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London - a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. Find out the... -
The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery by Stephen Bates 9781785789601
RRP: £11.99£7.94SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEYA brilliant narrative investigation into the... -
Shooting Up: A History of Drugs in Warfare by Lukasz Kamienski
RRP: £15.99£14.87From hallucinogenic mushrooms and LSD, to coca and cocaine; from Homeric warriors and the Assassins to the first Gulf War and today's global insurgents - drugs have sustained warriors in the field and have been used as weapons of warfare, either as... -
Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe by Mary D Garrard 9781789147773
RRP: £14.95£10.92Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic access to political power. Her forceful paintings with their vigorous female... -
Villers-Bocage: Operation 'Perch': The Complete Account by Daniel Taylor 9781399048736
RRP: £35.00£24.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
On War by Carl von Clausewitz
RRP: £9.99£7.32'War is merely the continuation of policy by other means' On War is one of the most important books ever written on the subject of war. Clausewitz, a Prussian officer who fought against the French during the Napoleonic Wars, sought to understand and... -
Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy by Jeffrey E. Garten
RRP: £20.00£13.74The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard - breaking the... -
English History: Strange but True by Richard Smyth 9780750983648
RRP: £9.99£7.77This book is a treasure trove of English oddities, crammed with the most curious stories, remarkable facts and unexpected goings-on from the country's long and convoluted history. From frogs' legs at Stonehenge to knicker elastic in the Blitz, this is... -
Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation by Kenneth W. Harl 9781526630407
RRP: £30.00£20.95An epic history of how the so-called 'barbarians of the steppes' shaped the modern world. 'A rollercoaster of historical narration' History Today 'This is a history of epic scope that brings together the empires of the steppe land with the caravan... -
When the World Goes Quiet: A Novel by Gian Sardar 9781662518669
RRP: £8.99£6.23In the final days of World War I, an aspiring artist's courageous journey is just beginning in a powerful novel about love, danger, and survival by the author of Take What You Can Carry. It's 1918 in German-occupied Bruges, Belgium. With luck, Evelien... -
Brasso, Blanco and Bull Tony Thorne 9781780334592
RRP: £8.99£5.55When Tony Thorne first turned up for his medical in 1956 he had little idea of the adventures he would face and the people he would encounter over the next two years in service. Brasso, Blanco & Bull is the hilarious account of life in National Service,... -
My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: The Early Stuarts and the Origins of the Civil War 1603-1660 Nicholas Fellows 9781510416413
RRP: £10.50£9.87Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam... -
Britain by Numbers: A Visual Exploration of People and Place by Stuart Newman
RRP: £25.00£18.02A beautiful, compelling and eye-opening guide to the way we live in Britain today.______________How much more do we drink than we should? Why do immigrants come here? How have house prices changed in the past decade? What do we spend our money on?... -
And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails by Wayne Curtis
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575023Author Wayne CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Apache Dawn: Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned Damien Lewis 9781529436594
RRP: £10.99£6.67'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee ChildIn the summer of 2007 the British Army's 662 Squadron deployed its most potent weapons system in combat for the very first time - the iconic Apache attack helicopter. This is... -
Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin's Sniper by Lyudmila Pavlichenko 9781784382704
RRP: £19.99£14.68The wartime memoir of Lyudmila Pavlichenko is a remarkable document: the publication of an English language edition is a significant coup. Pavlichenko was World War II's best-scoring sniper and had a varied wartime career that included trips to England... -
The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain by Jack Straw
RRP: £12.99£6.95Amongst British diplomats there's a rather poignant joke that 'Iran is the only country in the world that still regards the United Kingdom as a superpower'. But for many Iranians, it's not a joke at all. Scratch the surface, and Iranians of all political... -
Atlas of the Irish Revolution by John Crowley 9781782051176
£57.20The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a landmark publication that presents scholarship on the revolutionary period in a uniquely accessible manner. Featuring over 200 original maps and 300 images, the Atlas includes 120 contributions by leading scholars... -
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON) by Mr Richard King 9780571295654
RRP: £12.99£8.80Brittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral history at its revelatory best.'DAVID... -
The Love-charm of Bombs: Restless Lives in the Second World War by Lara Feigel
RRP: £12.99£9.19When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront. For most Londoners, the sirens, guns, planes and bombs heralded gruelling nights of sleeplessness, fear and loss. But for Graham Greene and some of... -
Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester Mark Crinson 9781913107338
RRP: £35.00£29.34A bold reassessment of the major architectural monuments and urban forms of the world's first industrial city: Manchester From the mid-eighteenth century to the nineteen-twenties, from the birth of the Industrial Revolution to the height of Manchester's... -
The Galapagos Henry Nicholls 9781781250549
RRP: £11.99£8.53Formed of dramatic volcanic scenery and home to marvellous beasts, it is little wonder that the first name for the Galapagos archipelago was Las Encantadas: the enchanted islands. In this captivating natural history, Henry Nicholls builds up the ecology... -
KJV Holy Bible: Giant Print with 53,000 Cross References, Deluxe Black Leathersoft, Red Letter, Comfort Print (Thumb Indexed): King James Version Thomas Nelson 9780785215424
RRP: £55.00£39.13This Bible published in the classic King James Version includes center-column references and giant print type allowing for an easy Bible reading experience. This edition is published in large KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for... -
'You Dirty Old Man!': The Authorized Biography of Wilfrid Brambell by David Clayton
RRP: £20.00£15.27Wilfrid Brambell was one of Britain's most loved and complex character actors. As Albert Ladysmith Steptoe, the unscrupulous rag-and-bone man with questionable habits in Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's long-running Steptoe & Son, he quickly became a... -
Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: £41.95£34.26A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons.Was there ever such a thing...