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James Cook: The story of the man who mapped the world Peter FitzSimons 9781472131409
RRP: £20.00£13.75Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook?The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in... -
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe by James Belich
RRP: £45.00£36.32A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved... -
Goose Green Uncensored Voices by Nigel Ely
RRP: £20.00£13.65*As featured in the landmark BBC2 documentary Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story*Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands war'There was a time when we did extraordinary things.' On 28 May 1982, 450 men of the 2nd Battalion, the... -
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land by Bella Bathurst
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read by all in this country who buys food - i.e. everyone.' Daily Mail 'Highly researched and deeply thoughtful ... Bathurst... -
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Uniforms of World War I by Jonathan North 9780754823407
RRP: £19.99£15.28The war of 1914-1918 was a military, political and social disaster. No other war changed the map of Europe so dramatically and more than 15 million people were killed. The dramatic political and social changes of the period were mirrored in the uniforms... -
Always Remember Your Name: A True Story of Family and Survival in Auschwitz by Andra & Tatiana Bucci
RRP: £12.99£8.73'These two sisters might be some of our final living first-hand witnesses to the horrors of the Holocaust. With this book, they break the silence and give us the immeasurable gift of their story.' Gwen Strauss, author of The NineOn 28 March 1944, Italian... -
Medicine: The Definitive Illustrated History by DK
RRP: £25.00£19.22See the greatest medical breakthroughs come to life through superb illustrations!From ancient herbal medicine to traditional Chinese medicine, take a visual tour throughout the history of medicine with this comprehensive medical reference book.Discover... -
Abandon Ship: The Real Story of the Sinkings in the Falklands War by Dr Paul Brown
RRP: £20.00£14.69AWARDED THE ANDERSON MEDAL 2021 This fascinating title offers a new study of the loss of six British ships and an Argentinian cruiser during the Falklands War of 1982. When Argentinian forces invaded the Falklands in April 1982, the British... -
The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933 by Zara Steiner
RRP: £53.00£46.03The peace treaties represented an almost impossible attempt to solve the problems caused by a murderous world war. In The Lights that Failed: European International History 1919-1933, part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe series, Steiner challenges... -
Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation by Kathryn Warner
RRP: £10.99£7.25Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation is the first full-length biography of the queen at the centre of the some of the most dramatic events in English history. Philippa's marriage to Edward III was arranged in order to provide ships and... -
A Century of Bristol: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by David J. Eveleigh
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Bristol during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
Tiberius Robin Seager (The University of Liverpool) 9781405115292
RRP: £32.95£29.14Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor's complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor.Argues that... -
A Case of Hysteria: (Dora) by Sigmund Freud 9780199639861
RRP: £9.99£7.11'I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.' A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what... -
The Wars of Alexander's Successors 323 - 281 BC: Volume 1: Commanders and Campaigns by Bennett, Bob 9781526760746
RRP: £12.99£10.95When the dying Alexander the Great was asked to whom he bequeathed his vast empire, he supposedly replied to the strongest". There ensued a long series of struggles between his generals and governors for control of these territories. Most of these... -
The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant by Mark Binelli
RRP: £10.99£7.77Once America's capitalist dream town, the Silicon Valley of the Jazz Age, Detroit became the country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the furthest. The city of Henry Ford, modernity, and Motown found itself blighted by riots,... -
John Jenkins - The Reluctant Revolutionary? - Authorised Biography of the Mastermind Behind the Sixties Welsh Bombing Campaign Dr Wyn Thomas 9781912631148
RRP: £12.99£12.18Authorised biography of Welsh nationalist and activist John Barnard Jenkins, one of the most iconic figures in recent Welsh history. The leader of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (MAC), he masterminded their 1960s bombing campaign protesting British state... -
Atlas of Empires: The World's Civilizations from Ancient Times to Today by Peter Davidson
RRP: £14.99£10.02Featuring 60 beautiful and detailed maps, Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated, and ultimately declined, and discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world. Atlas of... -
The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248 260: When the Gods Abandoned Rome by Pearson, Paul N
RRP: £25.00£18.02This book is a narrative history of a dozen years of turmoil that begins with Rome's millennium celebrations of 248 CE and ends with the capture of the emperor Valerian by the Persians in 260. It was a period of almost unremitting disaster for Rome,... -
MI9: Escape and Evasion: 2020 by M.R.D. Foot 9781785905643
RRP: £10.99£7.93Many of the most famous escapes in history took place during the Second World War. These daring flights from Nazi-occupied Europe would never have been possible but for the assistance of a hitherto secret British service: MI9. This small, dedicated and... -
Return To Akenfield: Portrait Of An English Village In The 21st Century by Craig Taylor
RRP: £9.99£6.70Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield - a moving portrait of English country life told in the voices of the farmers and villagers themselves - is a modern classic. In 2004, writer and reporter Craig Taylor returned to the village in Suffolk on which... -
Abandoned Villages by Stephen Fisk
RRP: £8.99£6.02A lonely ruined church, mysterious bumps in a field, or stone walls visible on the shoreline of a reservoir in high summer: all these are signs of settlements abandoned over the years. Over the centuries many villages in Britain have been abandoned... -
You Wouldn't Want To Be Ill In Tudor Times! by Kathryn Senior
RRP: £7.99£5.23Discover what it was like to be a barber surgeon in the sixteenth century and why it was a terrible time for people to be sick. Sharpen your saw before amputating an infected leg, learn how to make false noses and ears for patients injured on the... -
Lansdowne FC: A History by Charles Ivar McGrath
£40.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510547Author Charles Ivar McGrathFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Open AirPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War by Barbara Ehrenreich
RRP: £9.99£6.70What lies behind the human attraction to violence? Why do we glorify war, seeing it as an almost sacred undertaking? Barbara Ehrenreich is known for the originality and clarity of her thinking, and in Blood Rites she proposes a radical new theory about... -
The Medieval World Complete by Robert Bartlett 9780500283332
RRP: £30.00£21.00'The Medieval World Complete' re-creates one of the great ages of European civilization through a sequence of spectacular images accompanied by a lively, informed commentary. Ingeniously organized by topic and thoroughly cross-referenced, this... -
The Amarna Letters by William L. Moran
RRP: £33.00£29.92An ancient inscription identified some of the ruins at el Amarna as "The Place of the Letters of the Pharaoh." Discovered there, circa 1887, were nearly four hundred cuneiform tablets containing correspondence of the Egyptian court with rulers of... -
Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific by Robert Dick 9780891418849
RRP: £6.99£6.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780891418849Author Robert DickFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Presidio PressPublisher Presidio Press -
Dublin: Mapping the City by Joseph Brady 9781780277516
RRP: £30.00£21.30Hodges Figgis Book of the Year 2023 Maps are essential tools in finding our way around, but they also tell stories and are great depositories of information. Until the twentieth century and the arrival of aerial images, a map was the best way of... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691195964
RRP: £20.00£15.89Who were the ancient Phoenicians-and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were... -
Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition by Thomas Hobbes
RRP: £17.99£16.34Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the... -
1950s Childhood by Janet Shepherd
RRP: £7.99£6.25Children of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful... -
Forgotten Voices of the Somme: The Most Devastating Battle of the Great War in the Words of Those Who Survived by Joshua Levine
RRP: £14.99£10.951916. The Somme. With over a million casualties, it was the most brutal battle of World War I.It is a clash that even now, over 90 years later, remains seared into the national consciousness, conjuring up images of muddy trenches and young lives... -
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay 9781408891162
RRP: £12.99£8.32'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' Michael Palin History has not... -
Edward I (Penguin Monarchs): A New King Arthur? by Andy King
RRP: £7.99£5.79The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward I (1272-1307) is one of the most commanding of all English rulers. He fought in southwest France, in Wales, In Scotland and in northern... -
Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction by Paul Langford 9780192853998
RRP: £8.99£6.45First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Britain spans from the aftermath of the Revolution of 1688 to Pitt the Younger's defeat at attempted... -
Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades Jonathan Phillips 9781845950781
RRP: £16.99£12.28In his remarkable book, Jonathan Phillips explores the conflict of ideas, beliefs and cultures and shows both the contradictions and diversity of holy war. He draws on contemporary writings - on chronicles, songs, sermons, travel diaries and peace... -
Leeds in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies by Yorkshire Evening Post 9781780911151
£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911151Author Yorkshire Evening PostFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
The Elusive Bride: Number 2 in series by Stephanie Laurens
RRP: £9.99£6.80Gareth Hamilton is stunned when he recognizes Emily Ensworth on his ship. The veil she wears is not enough to disguise her from him - or from the man hired to kill her. Whisking Emily to safety, Gareth realizes that the Black Cobra is on to them. In... -
The Brighton Atlantics by James S. Baldwin
RRP: £25.00£15.97The Brighton Atlantic locomotives were some of the most handsome machines ever constructed at Brighton Works. They were signed by the D. Earl Marsh, Locomotive Superintendent of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, and produced as two classes,... -
Air War Varsity by Martin W. Bowman 9781473863101
£25.59Here, Martin Bowman brings us the first book on Operation Varsity to include both British and US air and ground operations, as well as the US, British and Canadian paratroop and resupply missions, all presented together in one ambitious volume. ...