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Hayling Island: Britain in Old Photographs by John Rowlands 9780752486239
RRP: $18.05$14.00Although small, Hayling Island has a rich and diverse history, greatly influenced by the Saxon, Roman and Norman invasions. The latter in particular has left its influence on its people and their fortunes. This book features a collection of photographs,... -
West Cork Railways: Birth, Beauty and Betrayal by Chris Larkin
RRP: $30.96$21.88This wonderful publication provides a unique visual and historical record of the West Cork Railway as rail enthusiast and historian Chris Larkin warmly remembers the lifetime of the rail system in a travelogue which allows readers to hop onto a West Cork... -
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Sarah Bradford
RRP: $24.50$17.56The definitive biography of Jackie Kennedy, by Britain's best royal biographer Jackie Kennedy was a twentieth-century icon of glamour, elegance and grace. As the beautiful young wife of President John F. Kennedy, she was adored, her style imitated... -
Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia by Rachel Bronson 9780195367058
RRP: $19.34$14.87For fifty-five years, the United States and Saudi Arabia were solid partners. Then came the 9/11 attacks, which sorely tested that relationship. In Thicker than Oil, Rachel Bronson reveals why the partnership became so intimate and how the countries'... -
The Plantagenets: The Kings That Made Britain by Derek Wilson
RRP: $16.76$11.09England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Dark Ages and transform it into the nation state we recognize today. Featuring some of England's greatest but... -
WJEC A-level History Student Guide Unit 4: Nazi Germany c.1933-1945 Gareth Holt 9781510451452
$16.37Exam board: WJECLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Build, reinforce and revise the historical knowledge and exam skills required for WJEC AS/A-level History.Matched to the... -
The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich 9781783783113
RRP: $16.76$11.04'Profoundly powerful not only in observations and stories, but in how courageously and carefully it speaks to our present moment' Madeleine Thien, Guardian Over three years, journalist and novelist Ben Ehrenreich travelled to the West Bank's largest... -
The Fall of the Roman Republic: Roman History, Books 36-40 by Cassius Dio 9780198822882
RRP: $14.18$10.28'That was how things stood in the city at the time. With no one in charge, murders were taking place almost every day and the elections could not be held.' Books 36-40 of the Roman History by Cassius Dio (born ca. 163 CE), covers 69-50 BCE, the last... -
At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities by Jean Amery
RRP: $16.76$15.18"These are pages that one reads with almost physical pain. . .all the way to its stoic conclusion." -Primo Levi"The testimony of a profoundly serious man. . . . In its every turn and crease, it bears the marks of the true." -Irving Howe, New... -
The Gulag Doctors: Life, Death, and Medicine in Stalin's Labour Camps by Dan Healey 9780300187137
RRP: $38.70$32.06A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin’s Gulag—showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for... -
By the Waters of Liverpool by Helen Forrester
RRP: $12.89$8.57The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forrester's childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s. Helen Forrester continues the moving story of her early poverty-stricken life with an account of her teenage... -
Heath Robinson's Great War: The Satirical Cartoons by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: $12.90$11.44W. Heath Robinson is best known for his hilarious drawings of zany contraptions, though his work ranged across a wide variety of topics covering many aspects of British life in the decades following the First World War. Starting out as a watercolour... -
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort by Raffi Berg
RRP: $14.18$9.44THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. 'Secret missions, brazen deceptions and thrilling, clandestine operations - Red Sea Spies has it all. But it has something more important, too - a genuine human mission that made a... -
We March Against England: Operation Sea Lion, 1940-41 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $16.76$11.73In May 1940 Nazi Germany was master of continental Europe, the only European power still standing was Great Britain - and the all-conquering German armed forces stood poised to cross the Channel. Following the destruction of the RAF fighter forces, the... -
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by Matthew Gabriele
RRP: $16.76$10.94"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come....The Bright Ages is a rare thing-a nuanced historical work that almost anyone... -
King Arthur: The Mystery Unravelled by Chris Barber
RRP: $21.92$17.56This book is the culmination of over thirty years of work and research by the author, who is a King Arthur specialist and bestseller. The book brings new information to light by examining through a jigsaw of connections throughout Dark Age Britain,... -
Titanic or Olympic: Which Ship Sank?: The Truth Behind the Conspiracy by Steve Hall
RRP: $32.25$20.95The Titanic is one of the most famous maritime disasters of all time, but did the Titanic really sink on the morning of 15 April 1912? Titanic's older sister, the nearly identical Olympic, was involved in a serious accident in September 1911 - an... -
Storm Front by Rowland White
RRP: $11.60$8.32____________________'As vivid and compelling as the best adventure thriller, and a fitting tribute to a small band of men who became heroes' ANDY MCNAB 'Gripping, revealing and extraordinarily well-researched, this is a riveting new account of a little... -
London's Buses, 1979-1994: The Capital's Bus Network in Transition by Bartlett, Andrew 9781526755469
RRP: $38.70$24.78In 1979, fresh from its general election victory, the Conservative government began formulating plans to deregulate bus services and privatise the companies operating them in England, Scotland and Wales. London was not to be excluded, so from the outset,... -
The Greatest Shows on Earth: A History of the Circus by Linda Simon
RRP: $25.80$18.43Now available in paperback, The Greatest Shows on Earth takes us from eighteenth-century hippodromes in Britain to intimate one-ring circuses in nineteenth-century Paris, where Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso became enchanted by aerialists and clowns. We... -
A History of Argentina: From the Spanish Conquest to the Present by Ezequiel Adamovsky 9781478025436
RRP: $30.95$26.88In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities,... -
The A-Z of Victorian Crime by Neil R. A. Bell
RRP: $14.18$9.35Few things are more evocative of Victorian Britain than its criminals; they are, together with railways, gas lamps and swirling fog, vital ingredients in any Victorian melodrama. The truth, however, was often stranger, more thrilling and more horrifying... -
Royal Witches: From Joan of Navarre to Elizabeth Woodville by Gemma Hollman
RRP: $16.76$12.41'An important and timely book.' - Philippa Gregory Joan of Navarre was the richest woman in the land, at a time when war-torn England was penniless. Eleanor Cobham was the wife of a weak king's uncle - and her husband was about to fall from grace. ... -
Ballroom: A People's History of Dancing by Hilary French
RRP: $25.80$18.95In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the country, providing a glamorous setting for dancing. The new English style, defined in the 1920s and... -
Livingstone by Tim Jeal
RRP: $24.50$21.39An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography of the great explorer David Livingstone David Livingstone (1813-1873) is revered as one of history's greatest explorers and missionaries, the first European to cross Africa, and the first to... -
Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery by Adam Hochschild
RRP: $21.92$16.09Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared and fortunes were made, but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of the men who sought to end slavery and brought the... -
A Guide to The Commonwealth War Graves Commission by Catherine Lawson
RRP: $19.29$14.59A Guide to The Commonwealth War Graves Commission looks at an extraordinary organisation carrying out an extraordinary task. Establishing the CWGC required people of huge vision to turn this terrible task into an international exemplar of how to honour... -
Three Days In June: The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands Battle by James O'Connell 9781913183592
RRP: $32.25$23.25***'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.' - Soldier magazine'An extraordinarily detailed account of the bloodiest battle of the Falklands war.' - Major General Jonathan Shaw CB CBEWhen 3 Para began their assault under... -
The Forbidden Universe: The Occult Origins of Science and the Search for the Mind of God by Lynn Picknett
RRP: $14.18$9.55Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God.All... -
In Europe (Vintage Classic Europeans Series) Geert Mak 9781784874995
RRP: $16.76$12.24The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions of European masterpieces, celebrating the warp and weft of a shared literary treasury.In 1999, journalist and historian Geert... -
The Life of Olaudah Equiano: The Black History Cla ssic by O Equiano 9780857089137
RRP: $12.89$8.77DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and eventual emancipation that has horrified and enlightened... -
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
RRP: $14.18$9.69The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional Japanese life.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics. These... -
The Nether World by George Gissing
RRP: $14.18$10.02The Nether World (1889) is generally regarded as the finest of Gissing's early novels. A fast moving story of highly dramatic, sometimes violent scenes, it depicts life amongst the artisans, factory-girls, and slum-dwellers of Clerkenwell in the 1870s... -
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal Simon Parkin 9781529347227
RRP: $25.80$17.74'Extraordinary yet previously untold true story . . . meticulously researched . . . it's also taut, compelling, and impossible to put down' Daily Express The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's... -
A Concise History of the Caribbean by B. W. Higman
RRP: $29.66$26.46A Concise History of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement to the present. It narrates processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of... -
The Good Doctor of Warsaw by Elisabeth Gifford 9781643136363
RRP: $33.48$21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643136363Author Elisabeth GiffordFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm... -
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fischer 9780195121216
RRP: $35.46$26.66A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.About the AuthorDavid Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He has won numerous awards for scholarship and teaching, including the Carnegie Prize as... -
Folklore and Nation in Britain and Ireland Matthew Cheeseman (University of Derby, UK) 9781032071824
RRP: $51.59$45.74This collection explores folklore and folkloristics within the diverse and contested national discourses of Britain and Ireland, examining their role in shaping the islands' constituent nations from the eighteenth century to our contemporary moment of... -
Magna Carta: Origins and Legacy Nicholas Vincent (Professor of Medieval History, University of Anglia) 9781851243631
RRP: $32.25$28.28Magna Carta is the most famous document in English history. And yet its survival is purely accidental. King John, who negotiated the document with his rebellious barons, had no intention of honouring its contents. Annulled by the pope within weeks of... -
Burnley Football Club 1882-1968: Images of Sport by Ray Simpson
RRP: $16.76$12.41This collection of over 200 photographs and items of memorabilia traces the course of one of English football's most famous clubs, from its birth in 1882 to the watershed period of the late 1960s. As a founder member of the Football League in 1888, the...