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Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules by L. David Marquet 9781591846406
RRP: $44.22Booksplease Price: $27.09"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers." David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As... -
Somerset Folk Tales for Children by Sharon Jacksties
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.23When you are in Somerset you are never far from mysterious caverns, whispering woods, hidden valleys and places which can't decide whether they are seascapes or landscapes. The ancient Kings Arthur... -
CBAC Safon Uwch Hanes - Canllaw i Fyfyrwyr Uned 3: Canrif yr Americanwyr, tua 1890-1990 (WJEC A-level History Student Guide Unit 3: The American century c.1890-1990 Welsh language edition) Haydn Davey 9781510482067
Booksplease Price: $19.68Exam board: WJECLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Build, reinforce and revise the historical knowledge and exam skills... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of... -
Armenian Genocide: The Great Crime of World War I David Charlwood 9781526729019
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Iga and Koka Ninja Skills: The Secret Shinobi Scrolls of Chikamatsu Shigenori by Antony Cummins
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.56'A retainer of our domain, Renpeido Chikamatsu Hikonoshin Shigenori, each morning washed his face and hands, dressed himself in Hakama and prayed in front of the kamidana alter ... His prayer was... -
Japanese Infantryman vs US Marine Rifleman: Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok, 1943–44 by Gregg Adams 9781472857910
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.14Featuring evocative artwork plates and carefully selected photographs, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops who contested the islands of Tarawa, Roi-Namur, and Eniwetok during... -
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin 9780393331578
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $16.23The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville... -
The War in Italy: A Ladybird Expert Book: (WW2 #8) by James Holland
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.94* PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW *- Why did the Allies decide to invade Southern Italy?- How did the weather and Italian terrain complicate the fighting?- How did General Mark Clark's Allied Armies win the... -
A Viceroy's Vindication: Sir Henry Sidney's Memoir, 1583 by Sir Henry Sidney 9781859181805
Booksplease Price: $17.19Three times viceroy, Sir Henry Sidney was a key figure in the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. This is Sidney's own account of his career in Ireland, last published in the mid-19th century.Book... -
Very Crazy, G.I! by Jorgenson Kregg
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804115988Author Kregg P. JorgensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprin -
Bishop Auckland: Britain in Old Photographs by Charlie Emett 9780752466415
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79This superb collection of over tow hundred photographs traces the history of Bishop Aukland from its origins as North Aclet to modern times. Auckland Castle, the residence of the bishops of Durham... -
Ghosts of Wales: Accounts from the Victorian Archives by Mark Rees 9780750984188
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.92In the Victorian era, sensational ghost stories were headline news. Spine-chilling reports of two-headed phantoms, murdered knights and spectral locomotives filled the pages of the press. Spirits... -
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning 9780062303028
Booksplease Price: $16.23Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews-now with a new afterword and additional... -
The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer 9781250053121
Booksplease Price: $18.41During the 1950s, when the Cold War was at its peak, two immensely powerful brothers led the United States into a series of foreign adventures whose effects are still shaking the world. John Foster... -
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by 9780525509059
RRP: $23.45Booksplease Price: $17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509059Author Zachary D. CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint -
Victoria's Children of the Dark: The Women and Children who Built Her Underground by Alan Gallop 9780752456980
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects - women and children who laboured beneath her 'green and pleasant land' harvesting the coal to fuel the furnaces... -
The Guide to Mysterious Perthshire by Geoff Holder 9780752441405
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.92A beautifully illustrated guidebook to Perthshire's hidden treasures - stone circles, ancient castles, haunted forests, sacred wells - and where to find them.About the AuthorGeoff Holder is an... -
Is Democracy Failing?: A primer for the 21st century Niheer Dasandi 9780500293652
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.38The Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsOnly four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not... -
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity Paul Strathern 9781529356342
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $23.58'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and... -
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________ 'Rigorous, deft and entertaining ... a sparkling read' - The Spectator 'The ride is... -
My Father, the Runaway MP: The Real Story of John Stonehouse by Julia Stonehouse
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.66'Clear, dispassionate and selfless' Spectator'Exhaustive in her research, tenacious in spotting errors, indignant in denouncing lies.' Guardian'A compelling account of an extraordinary political... -
Propaganda by Jacques Ellul
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394718743Author Jacques EllulFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport by Aubrey Sitterson
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580499Author Aubrey SittersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint
The King's Speech: How one man saved the British monarchy Mark Logue 9780857381118
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41THE BESTSELLING BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR AND BAFTA AWARD-WINNING FILM One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and...
Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality by David Cordingly
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact.In...
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong James W. Loewen 9781620973929
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $17.81Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold over two million copies, the book also won...
The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War by Archie Brown
RRP: $43.54Booksplease Price: $34.46In this penetrating analysis of the role of political leadership in the Cold War's ending, Archie Brown shows why the popular view that Western economic and military strength left the Soviet Union...
Born in Blackness: Africa and the Making of the Modern World by Howard W. French
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.99In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of...
Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England by Steven Gunn
Booksplease Price: $52.07The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was...
Against the Ice by Ejnar Mikkelson
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586423346Author Ejnar MikkelsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint
Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris by Christopher Kemp
RRP: $20.10Booksplease Price: $18.68A fascinating natural history of an incredibly curious substance. "Preternaturally hardened whale dung" is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of...
Is Ireland Neutral: The Many Myths of Irish Neutrality by Conor Gallagher
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.48Neutrality has, supposedly, long been a pillar of the Irish national identity. But examining the concept reveals it to be a vague, flimsy and elastic notion that, throughout history, various...
The Geology of Oxfordshire by Philip Powell 9781904349198
Booksplease Price: $14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904349198Author Philip PowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint
Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill
Booksplease Price: $32.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395599686Author Winston ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 1088Imprint
Me 262: Northwest Europe 1944–45 by Robert Forsyth
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Using rare first-hand accounts from Me 262 pilots, Robert Forsyth examines what it was like to fly the world's most advanced interceptor in the deadly skies over Germany in 1944-45. Right from...
Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects: Adventures in Social Democracy in NYC and DC by Owen Hatherley 9781915672445
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75A walk through the remnants of a social democratic America, and an argument about its future. In the 1960s, a novel ideology about cities, and what was best for them, emerged in New York. Pushing...
Wings Of War: The World War II Fighter Plane that Saved the Allies and the Believers Who Made It Fly by David Fairbank White
RRP: $38.85Booksplease Price: $28.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746322Author David Fairbank WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imp
Blackbeard’s Last Fight: Pirate Hunting in North Carolina 1718 by Angus Konstam
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.16In April 1713 the War of the Spanish Succession came to an end. During the conflict hundreds of privateers - licenced pirates - preyed on enemy shipping throughout the Caribbean. These privateers now...
The Medieval Housewife: & Other Women of the Middle Ages by Toni Mount
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.65Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all about medieval housewives, peasant women, grand...