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The Seventeenth Century by Jenny Wormald 9780198731610
£40.09The Union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 dramatically changed the nature and level of interaction between the constituent parts of the British Isles, and over the course of the century that followed the seismic shocks of constitutional... -
Defending Britain: Twentieth-Century Military Structures in the Landscape by Mike Osborne
RRP: £25.00£18.94Following work recently brought into sharper focus by the Defence of Britain Project, this is the first extensive overview of the military structures of the twentieth century, combining both documentary and fieldwork research. The book presents details... -
Quackery by Lydia Kang 9780761189817
RRP: £15.99£12.77What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine-yes, that... -
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
RRP: £10.99£7.77Meet Blackwater USA, the private army that the US government has quietly hired to operate in international war zones and on American soil. Its contacts run from military and intelligence agencies to the upper echelons of the White House; it has a... -
The A-Z of Curious Aberdeenshire: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Duncan Harley 9780750983792
RRP: £14.99£11.55Duncan Harley takes the reader on a grand tour of the curious and the bizarre, the strange and the unusual from Aberdeenshire's past. Read about the Beatles' first, and almost their last, tour of the North-east, the Deeside artist who tended plaster... -
Brixham: Britain in Old Photographs by Ted Gosling
RRP: £12.99£9.62In its heyday, Brixham's fishermen were renowned for the vast number of fish they landed, the choir was one of the finest in the west of England, and it was a beautiful place to live. Today, it continues to be a picturesque place to live and visit, and... -
Sea and Sardinia by D. H. Lawrence
RRP: £10.99£7.77Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, SEA AND SARDINIA records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his delighted response to a new landscape and people and his uncanny ability to transmute the... -
Pirata: The dramatic novel of the pirates who hunt the seas of the Roman Empire Simon Scarrow 9781472213723
RRP: £9.99£6.80The Sunday Times bestseller!It is AD 25. Pirate ships strike terror in the hearts of those who brave the seas of the Roman Empire. When young Telemachus joins the crew of the merchant ship Selene, he's delighted to escape the rough streets of Piraeus. He... -
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America by Cody Keenan 9780063269330
RRP: £12.99£8.48A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“At a time when the meaning of America is up for grabs, Cody Keenan’s new book chronicles ten days that tested us and ultimately showed us at our best. It’s a captivating story about what’s worth fighting for, an antidote to... -
Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldier: South Africa 1880-1902 by Ian Knight
RRP: £15.99£11.61Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880-81 and 1899-1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos. The nature... -
Canterbury: History You Can See by H. M Lyle 9780752445380
RRP: £16.99£12.94This detailed history of Canterbury is told through its buildings from its Roman origins to the present day and includes sections on St Martin's church, St Augustine's abbey, the Cathedral, the Pilgrim inns, Royal Castle buildings, Georgian timber-framed... -
Vyborg 1944: The Last Soviet-Finnish Campaign on the Eastern Front by Bair Irincheev 9781912390274
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390274Author Bair IrincheevFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Franco-Prussian War by Michael Howard 9780367705305
RRP: £19.99£18.09In 1870 the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the European continent but the whole climate of... -
Saxon, Viking and Norman by Terence Wise
£9.79If there is one thing we can be sure of concerning the Saxons, Vikings and Normans who inhabited the medieval world, it is that they were a good deal more advanced than some writings would have us believe. This fascinating book by Terence Wise explores... -
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £18.99£16.58A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Philip II, Spain's best-known king"A superbly informed narrative of Philip II's long career as Europe's most powerful king."-Henry Kamen, Little Reviews"This... -
William Wallace by Andrew Fisher
£11.63William Wallace has always been one of the great heroes of Scottish history. By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the... -
The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture, 1936-1946 by Martin Conway 9781845208219
£41.96The War for Legitimacy in Politics and Culture 1936-1946 presents the first investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Amidst the upheavals of that... -
Scotland's Empire: The Origins of the Global Diaspora by T. M. Devine
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Scotland's Empire, T.M Devine tells the compelling story of Scotland's role in forging and expanding the British Empire, from the Americas to Australia, India to the Caribbean. By 1820 Britain controlled a fifth of the world's population, and no... -
Churchill's Iceman: The True Story of Geoffrey Pyke: Genius, Fugitive, Spy by Henry Hemming
RRP: £20.99£7.77From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest SpymasterIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds. An inventor, adventurer and polymath, he was an unlikely hero of both world... -
DK Eyewitness Kenya by DK Publishing
RRP: £16.99£12.68The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Kenya.Look out for herds of elephant in Amboseli National Park, explore the bustling streets of Nairobi or laze on... -
A Very Private Diary: A Nurse in Wartime by Mary Morris
RRP: £8.99£5.45The newly discovered diary of a wartime nurse - a fascinating, dramatic and unique insight into the experiences of a young nurse in the Second World War.'I always seem to be saying good-bye to men whom I might have loved had there been enough time..... -
Double Standards: The Rudolf Hess Cover-Up Lynn Picknett 9780751532203
RRP: £15.99£11.33For sixty years there has been an unprecedented cover-up by both the British Establishment and successive generations of historians about the flight of Hitler's Deputy Rudolf Hess to Scotland in May 1941. Long dismissed as the misguided attempt of a... -
Nelson: The Sword of Albion Dr John Sugden 9781847922762
RRP: £35.00£25.89The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array of sailors and civilians, heroes and villains, husbands, wives and lovers. Here are Nelson's famous victories at the... -
The Man on a Donkey by H. F. M. Prescott
RRP: £16.99£12.28'The most immersive book I've ever read... Truly brings Tudor England to life' Frank Cottrell Boyce, The Times 'One of the finest historical novels ever written' TLS A forgotten literary masterpiece, The Man on a Donkey is less about the great... -
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order by Robert Paxton
RRP: £30.00£23.69Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France. With a new... -
Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists Lily Le Brun 9781529309218
RRP: £25.00£14.66*One of The Times Best Art Books of the Year*'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de Waal'In her first, transporting book, Lily Le Brun sweeps the beaches of the past century of British art, collecting treasures... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 2: State, Economy and Society 1933-39: A Documentary Reader by Jeremy Noakes 9780859895996
RRP: £21.99£20.27Volume 2 of this series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political stystem, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrination, policies towards youth and women, the SS system of... -
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
RRP: £10.99£7.77Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern... -
Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Michael Korda 9780062116307
RRP: £11.99£8.26In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times bestselling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and T. E. Lawrence, has written the first major biography of Lee in nearly twenty years,... -
Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II by Linda Porter
RRP: £12.99£9.26According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was 'addicted to women', and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms. Clever, urbane and handsome, Charles presided over a hedonistic court, in which licence and... -
God Save Texas: A Journey into the Future of America by Lawrence Wright
RRP: £10.99£7.77'This is a funny, pointed love letter to Texas, at once elegiac and clear-eyed' Ben Macintyre, The Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, God Save Texas is a journey through the most controversial state in America.Texas is a... -
The Later Tudors: England 1547-1603 by Penry Williams 9780198228202
£58.06The Later Tudors tells the story of England between the accession of Edward VI and the death of Elizabeth I. The second half of the sixteenth century was a period of intense conflict between the nations of Europe, and between competing Catholic and... -
Sex and Sexuality in Georgian Britain by Mike Rendell 9781526755629
RRP: £14.99£10.84Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reigns of Georges I-IV. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female... -
The Matter of the Heart: A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations by Thomas Morris
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Thrilling... The "dizzying" story of heart surgery is every bit as important as that of the nuclear, computer or rocket ages. And now it has been given the history it deserves' James McConnachie, Sunday TimesFor thousands of years the human heart... -
In Bed with the Tudors: The Sex Lives of a Dynasty from Elizabeth of York to Elizabeth I Amy Licence 9781445614755
RRP: £11.99£7.86Learn what went on behind closed doors in the Tudor court. Illegitimate children, adulterous queens, impotent kings, and a whole dynasty resting on their shoulders. Sex and childbirth were quite literally a matter of life or death for the Tudors - ... -
The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics by Sean Martin 9781842433393
RRP: £12.99£9.09Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, to know - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ and, at one time, it almost became the dominant form of Christianity. Yet some Gnostic beliefs... -
Colonial Emigration From The Bengal Presidency by Basdeo Mangru 9781906190880
RRP: £9.99£6.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190880Author Basdeo MangruFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 205g -
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £10.99£7.40Born almost a hundred years ago in Vienna - the cultural heart of a bourgeois Mitteleurope - Eric Hobsbawm, who was to become one of the most brilliant and original historians of our age, was uniquely placed to observe an era of titanic social and... -
Mining in Cornwall Vol 1: Central District by L. J. Bullen 9780752417073
RRP: £14.99£11.55A history of mining in Cornwall Volume 1Book InformationISBN 9780752417073Author L J BullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
RRP: £12.99£8.56Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is an account of his final five years, centred on his extraordinary friendship with Robert Frost and Thomas's fatal decision to fight in...