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Tudor Feminists: 10 Renaissance Women Ahead of their Time by Rebecca Wilson 9781399043618
RRP: £25.00£16.13The term ‘feminist’ would have been anachronistic in the Tudor period, but surely we would not hesitate to call the lady, who would be queen, Anne Boleyn, a feminist? All ten women examined in this book, from Catherine Parr to Margaret Beaufort, lived... -
The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99£12.28The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head... -
The Third Reich: A New History by Michael Burleigh 9780330487573
RRP: £20.00£14.88In this riveting book, Michael Burleigh sets Nazi Germany in a European context, showing how the Third Reich's abandonment of liberal democracy, decency and tolerance was widespread in the Europe of the period. He shows how a radical, pseudo-religious... -
A Pattern of Islands by Sir Arthur Grimble
RRP: £14.99£9.80"A Pattern of Islands" is the funny, charming and self-deprecating adventure story of a young man in the Pacific. Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was severely tested, as when he... -
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico Juan Villoro 9781524748883
RRP: £27.00£17.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Kirkus Prize for Non-Fiction 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781524748883Author Juan VilloroFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher... -
Food: The History of Taste by Paul Freedman
RRP: £14.99£9.80Surveys the history of changing tastes in food and fine dining - what was available for people to eat, and how it was prepared and served - from prehistory to the present daySince earliest times food has encompassed so much more than just what we eat -... -
Gypsies: An English History by David Cressy 9780198768135
RRP: £31.49£23.46Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and -more recently-Travellers. Who are this marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are tales of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many... -
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939-1945 by Alan Allport
RRP: £14.99£13.03A social history of the ordinary British soldier during World War II"Reflects impressively wide reading, and commands respect for its shrewd judgments and lack of sentimentality."-Max Hastings, New York Review of Books"The stories of these brave but... -
The Toll-Houses of Staffordshire by Tim Jenkinson 9781907154072
RRP: £9.95£8.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907154072Author Tim JenkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Polystar PressPublisher Polystar PressWeight(grams) 375gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm *... -
Shakespeare's Restless World: An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects by Neil MacGregor
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. Shakespeare's Restless World uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age... -
Tank Craft 2: Sherman Tanks: British Army and Royal Marines Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781473885301
£16.19With production in excess of 55,000 the Sherman tank was eventually in service with most Allied armies of the Second World War and by the time of the Normandy landings was the mainstay of Britain's armoured battalions. In his second book in the TankCraft... -
Football in the Land of the Soviets Carles Vinas 9780745347448
RRP: £14.99£9.80Mistrusted and derided, instrumentalised and adored - the story of football in Tsarist and early Soviet Russia is as wild and intriguing as that of the country itself. In many ways it is the same story... Football in the Land of the Soviets offers a... -
Portugal: A Companion History by Jose Hermano Saraiva
RRP: £20.00£14.05Professor Saraiva's multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television series that went with it became a... -
The Lee-Enfield Rifle by Martin Pegler
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Lee-Enfield is one of the 20th century's most recognisable and longest-serving military rifles. It was adopted by the British Army in 1895 and only replaced by the L1A1 SLR in 1957. It saw combat from the Boer War onwards, and thousands are still in... -
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life by Daniel Lee
RRP: £9.99£7.11The gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the surprising life of an ordinary Nazi officer.'Totally exhilarating' Philippe SandsIt began with an armchair. It began with the surprise discovery of a stash of personal... -
Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction by Steven Beller
RRP: £8.99£6.45Antisemitism, as hatred of Jews and Judaism, has been a central problem of Western civilization for millennia, and its history continues to invite debate. This Very Short Introduction untangles the history of the phenomenon, from ancient religious... -
Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty: Revised and Expanded Second Edition by Julie Nelson Davis
RRP: £30.00£29.09Japanese artist Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) was one of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e, `pictures of the floating world', in late eighteenth-century Japan, and was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women. In... -
Blitz Then and Now: v. 1 by Winston G. Ramsey 9780900913457
RRP: £29.95£24.84This volume covers the first year of World War II, the period from phoney war to total war: September 3rd, 1939 to September 6th, 1940. Beginning with endless air raid warnings and a sense of unreality, it was a phase which was to culminate in Hitler... -
OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE Route 2: Women in the Ancient World Robert Hancock-Jones (Townley Grammar School, UK) 9781350015036
RRP: £24.99£23.53This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers the Thematic Study Component 12 and all three Literature and Culture options (Components 21-23): Thematic Study:... -
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters by Nancy Goldstone
RRP: £14.99£7.77In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of... -
The Grand Tour: Letters and photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922 by Agatha Christie
RRP: £12.99£8.48Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the... -
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Wonderful ... among military historians, Roberts is Britain's crown gem' Wall Street Journal Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War and the Falklands, celebrated historian Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and insightful... -
The South Country by Edward Thomas 9780956254511
RRP: £15.00£10.96Edward Thomas's death in the Second World War robbed the world of a great poet, a fine writer, and a pioneering environmentalist. Published in 1909, The South Country is the happiest of all his books. Lyrical, passionate, acutely sensitive to life in the... -
James I , The King Who United Scotland and England by Keith Coleman 9781399093590
RRP: £25.00£17.62The life of King James VI who united England and Scotland under one crown and became James I in 1603 is marked by contradictions. Generally praised as a good king of Scotland and a poor English one, James was a deep theological thinker, but he also... -
Military Vehicles , The World Encyclopedia of: A complete reference guide to over 100 years of military vehicles, from their first use in World War I to the specialized vehicles deployed today by Pat Ware 9780754835622
RRP: £15.00£10.96An authoritative 100-year overview of the fascinating history of the cargo/troop-carrying trucks, wreckers, tankers, ambulances, communications vehicles and other specialized types that provide technical support to the front-line troops. The author... -
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan by Rick Perlstein 9781476782423
RRP: £14.99£10.36In January of 1973 Richard Nixon announced the end of the Vietnam War and prepared for a triumphant second term-until televised Watergate hearings revealed his White House as little better than a mafia den. The next president declared upon Nixon's... -
Access to History: France in Revolution 1774-1815 Sixth Edition Dylan Rees 9781510457843
£25.61Exam board: AQA; Pearson Edexcel; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper... -
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India by Lawrence James 9780349110127
RRP: £16.99£11.94This is the brilliantly told story of one of the wonders of the modern world - how in less than a hundred years the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £24.95£23.39Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at... -
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington by Peter Snow
RRP: £12.99£7.51As heard on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.Shortlisted for the Paddy Power Political History Book of the Year Award 2014.In August 1814 the United States' army is defeated in battle by an invading force just outside Washington DC. The US president and... -
Great Cities: The Stories Behind the World's most Fascinating Places by DK
RRP: £25.00£18.62Explore the social and cultural history of 100 of the world's most important cities. From the first towns in Mesopotamia to today's global metropolises, cities have marked the progress of civilisation. Written in the form of illustrated "biographies",... -
People of Abandoned Character by Clare Whitfield 9781838932756
RRP: £8.99£7.07What if you thought your husband was Jack the Ripper? London, 1888. Susannah rushes into marriage to a young and wealthy surgeon. After a passionate honeymoon, she returns home with her new husband wrapped around her little finger. But then everything... -
The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux
RRP: £39.95£33.05From 1980 to 1988, Iran and Iraq fought the longest conventional war of the twentieth century. The tragedies included the slaughter of child soldiers, the use of chemical weapons, the striking of civilian shipping in the Gulf, and the destruction of... -
Old Gilford, Scarva, Loughbrickland and Lawrencetown by Alex F. Young 9781840332292
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840332292Author Alex F. YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 165mm * 174mm * 4mm -
The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter M. Judson
RRP: £23.95£19.54A EuropeNow Editor's PickA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"Pieter M. Judson's book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the... -
Commando Country by Stuart Allan
RRP: £12.99£11.01The Scottish highlands played a pivotal role in the secret development of special service training during the Second World War. The remote and rough terrain came into its own as a training and testing ground for new types of fighting. "Commando Country"... -
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: £20.00£14.69The ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard OveryThe use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues... -
Plymouth Colony by Lisa Brooks
RRP: £47.99£34.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598536737Author Lisa BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 1300Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of America -
Alchemy and Rose: A sweeping new novel from the author of The House Between Tides, the Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year Sarah Maine 9781529385021
RRP: £8.99£6.20A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s'Its portrayal of life in a gold-rush town is vivid, and Rose's story is absorbing' The Times'Worth reading for its... -
HMS Terror: The Design, Fitting and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship by Matthew Betts 9781526783134
RRP: £30.00£20.95In the summer of 1845, Sir John Franklin and a crew of 134 men entered Lancaster Sound on board HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in search of a Northwest Passage. The sturdy former bomb ships were substantially strengthened and fitted with the latest...