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Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe by Simon Winder 9780330522793
RRP: $16.76$11.95For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores, musicians and warriors, they saw off - through luck, guile and sheer mulishness - any number of rivals,... -
Chuck Yeager: World War II Fighter Pilot by Don Keith
RRP: $15.47$10.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593187272Author Don KeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present by Serhii Plokhy 9780674268838
RRP: $21.87$17.87The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War... -
Anabasis of Alexander: v.1 by Arrian
RRP: $32.19$30.69On the march to greatness.Arrian (Flavius Arrianus), of the period ca. AD 95-175, was a Greek historian and philosopher of Nicomedia in Bithynia. Both a Roman and an Athenian citizen, he was governor of the Roman province of Cappadocia 132-137, and... -
Mountains and Rivers Without End: Poem by Gary Snyder
RRP: $20.63$12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434070Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 249g -
British Sniping Rifles since 1970: L42A1, L96A1 and L115A3 by Steve Houghton
RRP: $18.05$12.58In response to the challenge of the Soviet Dragunov self-loading rifle, the British Army adopted the 7.62mm L42A1 bolt-action sniping rifle in 1970. The L42A1 was deployed in Dhofar and Northern Ireland, but arguably saw its finest hour during the... -
Perfectly Wounded: A Memoir About What Happens After a Miracle by Douglas Michael Day
RRP: $32.25$21.94p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 22.5px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #353535} On the night of April 6, 2007, in Iraq's Anbar Province, Senior Chief Mike Day, his team of Navy SEALs, and a group of Iraqi scouts were on the hunt for a high-level al Qaeda... -
Nefertiti's Face: The Creation of an Icon Joyce Tyldesley 9781781250518
RRP: $12.89$9.17More than three thousand years ago a sculptor working in the royal city of Amarna carved a limestone bust of an Egyptian queen. The queen was Nefertiti, consort of the 'heretic pharaoh' Akhenaten. Plastered and painted, Nefertiti's bust depicted an... -
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book by Emma Smith
RRP: $25.80$18.43Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare's First Folio This is the biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first... -
Making Noise: From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond by Hillel Schwartz
RRP: $49.02$40.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408123Author Hillel SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 912Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 1384gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 64mm -
How an Island Lost Its People: Improvement, Clearance and Resettlement on Lismore 1830–1914 by Robert Hay
RRP: $16.76$11.53In 1830, the little Hebridean island of Lismore was one of the granaries of the West Highlands, with every possible scrap of land producing bere barley or oats. The population had reached its peak of 1500, but by 1910, numbers had dwindled to 400 and... -
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Lucy Adlington 9781529311969
RRP: $25.80$17.74*** The New York Times Bestseller ***'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little known aspect of the period, highlighting the role of... -
The Samurai Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to Japan's Elite Warrior Class by Constantine Vaporis
RRP: $25.79$17.22A captivating and comprehensive guide to Japan's elite class of warriors-revised and updated with over 70 color photographs!The Samurai played a leading role in Japanese society for centuries, and this is the first encyclopedia to showcase the... -
The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover 9780733339813
RRP: $16.76$10.94The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come. 'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'.There's plenty of... -
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City by Margarette Lincoln
RRP: $16.76$14.78The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it "Lively and arresting. . . . [Lincoln] is as confident in handling the royal ceremonials of political transition . . . as she is with... -
Classics: Why It Matters by Neville Morley 9781509517930
RRP: $19.34$13.34For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, produced more cultivated, creative individuals; Greece and Rome were seen as pinnacles of civilization, and... -
German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in the Skipton Camp by Anne Buckley
RRP: $20.63$14.98In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back to Germany. Through vivid text and illustrations they describe in detail their... -
The Conquest of Plassans by Emile Zola
RRP: $12.89$9.17'Abbe Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbe Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of Francois Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with Francois, his wife... -
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death: Reflections on Memory and Imagination by Otto Dov Kulka
RRP: $14.18$10.02Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the HolocaustWinner of the JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE 2014As a child, the distinguished... -
Transgender History (Second Edition): The Roots of Today's Revolution by Susan Stryker
RRP: $20.63$15.43Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the... -
Command: The Twenty-First-Century General by Anthony King
RRP: $32.24$26.30In the wake of the troubled campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, military decision-making appears to be in crisis and generals have been subjected to intense and sustained public criticism. Taking these interventions as a starting point, Anthony King... -
Poetry Rebellion: Poems and prose to stir the soul by Paul Evans
RRP: $16.76$11.49'Galvanises us to notice and care about our glorious natural world, through the words of an army of poets, ancient and modern' - Bel Mooney An anthology of poems to enter the bloodstream and rewild the spirit. As with all life on Earth, the climate... -
Cochrane by Donald Thomas
RRP: $14.18$9.55Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio HornblowerThe life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that of Hornblower or Patrick O'Brien's Jack Aubrey. Born the... -
Gorbachev: The Man and His Era by Prof. William Taubman 9781471147951
RRP: $21.92$14.29SHORTLISTED FOR THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZEFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, the most comprehensive portrait of the former Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died on 30 August 2022.'A phenomenally researched... -
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare ? by James Shapiro
RRP: $16.76$11.04For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been... -
Access to History: Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust Second Edition by Alan Farmer
$32.52Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
Surviving Katyn: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth by Jane Rogoyska 9781786078926
RRP: $25.80$17.42WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 'A gripping reconstruction... utterly compelling reading.' Adam Zamoyski 'This is a grim story, thoroughly researched and brilliantly told.' Geoffrey Alderman, Times... -
Frontline Cookbook: Battlefield Recipes from the Second World War by Andrew Robertshaw
RRP: $16.76$12.41An army marches on its stomach and it fights on its stomach too - yet have you ever wondered how hundreds of men on the frontline are fed amidst hails of bullets and how kitchens are created in the desert or in the trench lines? In 1941 the army... -
The A-Z of Curious Devon by Suze Gardner
RRP: $19.34$14.90The lifestyles of the people of Devon have traditionally been as diverse as its spectacular scenery. Little wonder then that the county's curious stories are so numerous and so varied. Including a train trapped in a giant snowdrift in Devon's worst... -
A History of London through Beer Goggles by Cyril O'Brien
$26.54Apologies 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: $52.88$52.23This 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,... -
Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal by Andreas Viestad 9781789147827
RRP: $14.18$10.02'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum,' writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City, and global civilization... -
Young Reading Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Davidson
RRP: $9.02$5.46The Queen was Britain's longest-reigning monarch and one of the most famous women in the world. But what was she really like? This enthralling story of the life of Queen Elizabeth II is full of photographs and facts that capture the drama and grandeur of... -
The Devil and the Dark Water: 'Exuberant ... wildly inventive' Sunday Times by Stuart Turton
RRP: $12.89$9.21**STU TURTON'S NEXT NOVEL, THE LAST MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD IS AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOW** 'If you read one book this year, make sure it's this one' Daily Mail CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY MAIL,... -
How to Build an Aircraft Carrier: The Incredible Story of the Men and Women Who Brought Britain's Biggest Warship to Life by Chris Terrill
RRP: $16.76$11.73Discover the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever aircraft carrier and SUBJECT OF THE MAJOR NEW BBC DOCUMENTARY SERIES THE WARSHIP'Fascinating, often funny and sometimes moving . . . Terrill takes us deep into the... -
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis
RRP: $24.51$14.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (History) 2001.Book InformationISBN 9780375705243Author Joseph J. EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House... -
THE CANBERRA IN THE FALKLANDS: A Very Strange Way to go to War by Andrew Vine
RRP: $12.89$8.77This fascinating and insightful book tells the thrilling story of the SS Canberra, the luxury passenger liner which was requesitioned as a troop transport in the Falkands War.Vast and brilliant white, P&O's flagship the SS Canberra was a final salute to... -
Wilde in Love by Eloisa James
RRP: $12.89$8.77'Nothing gets me to a bookstore faster than Eloisa James' Julia Quinn, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series The first book in Eloisa James's dazzling new series set in the Georgian period glows with her trademark wit and charm... -
Diamond Street: The Hidden World of Hatton Garden by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: $20.63$14.98Diamond Street is Rachel Lichtenstein's fascinating account of London's Hatton Garden.Enter Hatton Garden, one of London's most mysterious streets. Home to ancient burial sites, diamond workshops, underground vaults, monastic dynasties, subterranean... -
Child of the Dark: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina Maria de Jesus
RRP: $10.26$7.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451529107Author Carolina Maria de JesusFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 171mm *...