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The Railways of Glasgow: Post-Beeching by Gordon D. Webster
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.27The city of Glasgow, formerly one of the largest industrial centres in the world, was once responsible for building about one-quarter of the world's railway locomotives. This was complemented by a... -
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring by Alexander Rose 9780553383294
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The National Review Best Book 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780553383294Author Alexander RoseFo -
Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World by Markman Ellis 9781780238982
RRP: $24.12Booksplease Price: $20.82Tea has a rich and well-documented past. The beverage originated in Asia long before making its way to seventeenth-century London, where it became an exotic, highly sought-after commodity. Over the... -
Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II: Downfall of a King's Favourite by Kathryn Warner 9781526751751
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Hugh Despenser the Younger and Edward II tells the story of the greatest villain of the fourteenth century', his dazzling rise as favourite to the king and his disastrous fall. Born in the late... -
Shetland Bus Man by Kaare Iversen 9781898852940
Booksplease Price: $17.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898852940Author Kaare IversenFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint -
B/EB-66 Destroyer Units in Combat by Peter E. Davies
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Studies of air combat in the Vietnam War inevitably focus on the MiG-killing fighter engagements, B-52 onslaughts or tactical strikes on the Hanoi region. However, underlying all these was the... -
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Achebe 9780821424070
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.26An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe's unparalleled study documents... -
The Love Child by Edith Olivier 9780712353649
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92'She had saved her. But at what a cost! Her position, her name, her character - she had given them all, but Clarissa was hers.' Upon the death of her mother, Agatha Bodenham finds herself alone... -
Wars of the Republic: Ancient Roman Wargaming 343-50 BC by Eric Farrington
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.59From the First Samnite War and the eventual conquest of the Italian Peninsula, to the defeat by Hannibal at Lake Trasimene, and final victory over the Gauls at Alesia, Wars of the Republic is a... -
Chuang Tzu by David Hinton
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $12.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint < -
Pike and Shot Tactics 1590-1660 by Keith Roberts 9781846034695
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.78Throughout the 17th century large parts of Europe were depopulated during the wide-ranging and savage wars of religion and dynasty, involving all of the major powers. This was therefore a key period... -
The Berliners by Emma Harding
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Sometimes I get fanciful and think the buildings speak. That all their history is locked into the walls and if you listened closely enough, you could hear all the people who'd once been there.'Sigi... -
M1 Garand: Variants, Markings, Ammunition, Accessories by Jean Huon 9780764358562
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $22.02Gen. George S. Patton called it "the greatest battle implement ever devised." The legendary .30-caliber M1 Garand semiautomatic rifle was the standard US service rifle in WWII and Korea. More than... -
Christmas 1914: The First World War at Home and Abroad by John Hudson
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.88By December 1914, it had become clear to even the most optimistic observer that the war would not be over by Christmas. That month brought the first enemy inflicted deaths on the home front, when... -
Magda Goebbels by Anja Klabunde
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07During the past twenty years, innumerable books about the Third Reich have been published, but little attention has been paid to the women who lived alongside the Nazi leaders. Magda Goebbels... -
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society by Roderic Fenwick Owen
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all true' - William Boyd, Sunday Times bestselling author'Outrageous... -
The SS Brotherhood of the Bell: NASA's Nazis, JFK and MAJIC-12 by Joseph P. Farrell 9781931882613
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $21.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931882613Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint -
The Guinness Story: The Family, The Business and The Black Stuff by Edward J. Bourke
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.99This 250-year old story will fascinate lovers of Guinness beer and memorabilia as well as those interested in this remarkable family of brewers and the industrial history of Ireland's most famous... -
Clandestine In Chile by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590173404Author Gabriel Garcia MarquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 160 -
Eve of Destruction: The inside story of our dangerous nuclear world by John Hughes-Wilson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.57US President Harry Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in... -
Macclesfield (South) 1897: Cheshire Sheet 36.12 by Chris Makepeace
Booksplease Price: $5.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847848321Author Chris MakepeaceImprint -
The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588445Author Alia MalekFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
The Gravediggers: 1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic by Hauke Friederichs
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats... -
History of the Wars by Procopius - The Gothic War by Procopius
RRP: $16.40Booksplease Price: $14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785431388Author ProcopiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint -
The Age of Shakespeare Sir Frank Kermode 9780753819951
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41'The greatest literary scholar of his generation' (Independent) explains how the history of the Elizabethan era is the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays.Shakespeare made his unique... -
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
RRP: $32.82Booksplease Price: $25.75In this provocative new work, Heather Cox Richardson argues that while the North won the Civil War, ending slavery, oligarchy, and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," the victory was... -
Heinemann Advanced History: Medieval England 1042-1228 by Toby Purser
Booksplease Price: $51.56Medieval England 1042-1228 is the ideal book for students studying the reasons behind the Norman invasion and the rights of claimants to the English Throne. Medieval England 1042-1228 is the ideal... -
They Gave Me A Seafire Commander R M 'Mike' Crosley 9781399014441
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79A classic in every sense of the word, the re-issuing of this book is sure to provoke an enthusiastic response. First published in 1986 by Airlife, its publishing history has seen a great number of... -
Dark City: Murder, Vice, and Mayhem in Wartime London by Simon Read 9780750989855
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.73The blackout went into effect three days before the declaration of war and transformed nocturnal London into a criminal's paradise. As the city pulled together in the face of terrible adversity, the... -
Attrition: Fighting the First World War by William Philpott
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.24The First World War was too big to be grasped by its participants. In the retelling of their war in the competing memories of leaders and commanders, and the anguished fiction of its combatants, any... -
Africa Reimagined: Reclaiming Prosperity for the Continent by Hlumelo Biko
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $20.42Under chapter headings such as 'Sources of Africa's cultural fragility', 'Thinking differently about African institutions', and 'Liberating human capital', Hlumelo Biko shows how, twenty years in,... -
Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England by Caroline Grigson 9780198714712
RRP: $20.76Booksplease Price: $16.71Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo -- a tale replete with the extravagant, the... -
To the Mountains: My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan by Abdullah Anas
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $21.08As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin... -
The Colossal Statue of Ramesses II Anna Garnett 9780714151090
RRP: $8.04Booksplease Price: $6.59One of the largest pieces of Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum, the upper part of the colossal statue of Ramesses II, also known as the 'Younger Memnon', was perhaps the first piece of... -
The Bomb: The Weapon That Changed the World by Didier Alcante
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $23.01From the Big Bang to Hiroshima, the incredible story of the most disastrous weapon ever invented On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, an explosive charge of more than 15 kilotons fell on the... -
SOE Heroines: The Special Operations Executive's French Section and Free French Women Agents by Bernard O'Connor
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.26Nearly forty female agents were sent out by the French section of Britain's Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War. The youngest was 19 and the oldest 53. Most were trained in... -
Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews?: The Origins of Adolf Hitler's Anti-Semitism and its Outcome Peter den Hertog 9781526772381
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.41What do we really know about the sources of Adolf Hitler's anti-Semitism? What led him to become such a genocidal anti-Semite? It is often said that the strongly anti-Semitic atmosphere in pre-war... -
The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945 by Robert M. Citino
RRP: $73.70Booksplease Price: $59.13By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where... -
Child of Hitler by Alfons Heck
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $12.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939650446Author HeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint -
Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya by William Carlsen 9780062407405
Booksplease Price: $17.73New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) * THE "MASTERFUL CHRONICLE"* OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE LEGENDARY LOST CIVILIZATION OF THE MAYA--AN "ADVENTURE TALE THAT MAKES INDIANA JONES LOOK TAME"* In 1839,...