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Shetland Folk Tales by Lawrence Tulloch 9780752497693
RRP: $16.76$12.41Being separate from the Scottish mainland, the Shetland Isles have a rich and unique tradition of folklore, from selkies to invading giants and Vikings. This book brings together for the first time many tales of the Isles, including The Boy Who Came from... -
American History: A Very Short Introduction by Paul S. Boyer
RRP: $11.60$8.53This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boyer's interests in social, intellectual, and cultural history, including popular culture and religion. It will reflect his personal view of American... -
Guadalcanal 1942-43 by Mark Stille
RRP: $21.92$15.84The campaign for Guadalcanal, which stretched from August 1942 until February 1943, centered on Henderson Field. The airfield was captured by the US on 8 August and placed into operation by 20 August. As long as the airfield was kept operational and... -
Hong Kong Then and Now (R) by Vaughan Grylls
RRP: $19.34$17.22Hong Kong was first captured on camera when the British arrived to lay claim to its 'fragrant harbour' in 1841. Its fascinating history has been documented through photography ever since - from its rapid expansion as a Crown Colony to its handover to... -
AQA GCSE History: Restoration England, 1660-1685 Ed Podesta 9781471864322
$26.88Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of... -
Gurkha Brotherhood: A Story of Childhood and War by Captain Kailash Limbu
RRP: $25.80$17.61'Sometimes my mind reaches back beyond the fear and the arid landscapes of war, to memories of childhood that fill me with happiness and laughter.'___________'A humane and gripping book which proves beyond doubt why the Gurkhas are known as such... -
The Dirty Tricks Department: The Untold Story of the Real-life Q Branch, the Masterminds of Second World War Secret Warfare by John Lisle
RRP: $29.66$22.60In the summer of 1942, Stanley Lovell, a renowned industrial chemist, received a mysterious order to report to an unfamiliar building in Washington, D.C. When he arrived, he was led to a barren room where he waited to meet the man who had summoned him... -
London's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true stories from over a thousand years of London's history by Tom Quinn 9781911622024
RRP: $16.76$10.94London's Strangest Tales takes a walk on London's weirder side with an absorbing collection of curious tales from one of the world's greatest cities. This fascinating book is packed with amazing things you didn't know about Britain's capital, like the... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $12.89$9.17A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to... -
Workhouses of London and the South East by Peter Higginbotham 9780750987776
RRP: $24.50$18.99Our image of workhouses has often been coloured by the writings of authors such as Charles Dickens. But what was the reality? Where exactly were all these institutions located - and what happened to them? You might be surprised to discover that a... -
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
RRP: $36.12$29.46Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction * National Bestseller * A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 * A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 * A Washington Post Notable Work of Nonfiction of 2023 * An Esquire Best Book of 2023 * An NPR "Book We... -
A Brief History of the Amazons: Women Warriors in Myth and History Lyn Webster Wilde 9781472136770
RRP: $14.18$9.55'Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,' is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars... -
Mutiny on the Spanish Main: HMS Hermione and the Royal Navy's revenge Angus Konstam 9781472833792
RRP: $32.25$23.25'A vivid account of a forgotten chapter of British naval history.' Dan Snow, Historian, TV Presenter and Broadcaster The true story of one of the most notorious mutinies in naval history, which provided inspiration for Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin... -
Skegness Past & Present: Britain in Old Photographs by Ken Wilkinson
RRP: $20.63$15.80This fascinating new book takes a nostalgic look at Skegness and reveals some of the changes and developments that have taken place in the town during the last century. Ken Wilkinson has gathered together ninety pairs of images to compare and contrast... -
Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic Robert D. Ballard 9781426220999
RRP: $32.25$21.65The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania reveals the secret military missions behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Titanic find. Best known for finding the wreck of the... -
The Concorde Story: Seventh Edition by Christopher Orlebar
RRP: $32.25$24.02This fully revised edition of The Concorde Story, is a complete history of Concorde, seen through the eyes of former Concorde pilot Christopher Orlebar. This new edition includes the after-story of the aircraft, including a list of where surviving... -
Russia - Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past by Sir Rodric Braithwaite
RRP: $21.92$19.08A TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 'Wise and thorough' The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ... and writes with the same flair demonstrated in his previous bestseller Afgantsy' The Sunday... -
The Albanians: A Modern History by Miranda Vickers
RRP: $32.24$29.48This is the first full account of a country that, following decades of isolation, has undergone unprecedented changes to its political system: the collapse of communism, the progression to multi-party elections and the upheaval that followed the March... -
Our East End: Memories of Life in Disappearing Britain by Piers Dudgeon
RRP: $14.18$8.35This oral history of London's East End spans the period after the First World War to the upsurge of prosperity at the beginning of the 60s - a time which saw fresh waves of immigrants in the area, the Fascist marches of the 30s and its spirited recovery... -
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts and Harrimans - A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz
RRP: $16.76$10.94The brilliant untold story of three daughters of diplomacy: Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill, and Kathleen Harriman, glamorous, fascinating young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference with Stalin in the waning... -
Records of the Medieval Sword Ewart Oakeshott 9780851155661
RRP: $38.70$33.35The origins, development and use of the two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages, from the great migrations to the Renaissance. Forty years of intensive research into the specialised subject of the straight two-edged knightly sword of the... -
Campaigns of Napoleon: The Mind and Method of History's Greatest Soldier by David Chandler 9780025236608
RRP: $77.39$51.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780025236608Author David G. ChandlerFormat HardbackPage Count 1216Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher Prentice Hall (a Pearson Education... -
Caribbean Irish, The: How the Slave Myth was Made Miki Garcia 9781789042689
RRP: $19.34$16.81The Caribbean Irish explores the little known fact that the Irish were amongst the earliest settlers in the Caribbean. They became colonisers, planters and merchants living in the British West Indies between 1620 and 1800 but the majority of them arrived... -
The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Soldier, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest by Barry Gough 9781771620390
$28.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620390Author Barry GoughFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 538g -
Women in England 1760-1914: A Social History Professor Susie Steinbach 9780753819890
RRP: $12.89$8.77A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World WarUsing diaries, letters, memoirs as well as social and statistical research, this book looks at life-expectancy, sex, marriage and childbirth, and work inside and outside... -
A Bitter Winter: The Irish Civil War, 1922-23: 2022 by Colum Kenny
RRP: $11.60$9.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934378Author Colum KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt
RRP: $12.89$8.64Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019'A vivid and humane study of the Plantagenets' diabolical and devious first family - a real joy to read.' Dan Jones, author of The PlantagenetsIn The Restless Kings Nick Barratt presents the tumultuous... -
No Wider War: A History of the Vietnam War Volume 2: 1965-75 by Sergio Miller
RRP: $38.70$29.46No Wider War is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon. Following on from the first volume, In Good Faith, which told the story from the Japanese surrender... -
Philip of Spain by Henry Kamen 9780300078008
RRP: $21.92$18.85"A historian's biography of Philip II as Renaissance prince, refuting the Elizabethan propaganda picture of the spider of the Escorial."-New York Times Book Review (And Bear in Mind)"In humanizing a man too often viewed as a cardboard tyrant, Kamen has... -
Sabre Squadron by Cameron Spence
RRP: $11.60$8.32With the outbreak of Gulf War hostilities a unit from 22 SAS slipped quietly over the border and into the enemy's backyard. It would be six weeks before any of the patrol again reached safety.Sabre Squadron recounts in graphic detail their scud-busting... -
Killer of Kings Matthew Harffy 9781786696267
RRP: $11.60$8.32AD 636. Anglo-Saxon Britain. Beobrand has land, men and riches. He should be content. And yet he cannot find peace until his enemies are food for the ravens. But before Beobrand can embark on his bloodfeud, King Oswald orders him southward, to escort... -
Livy, History of Rome I: A Selection John Storey (Head of Classics, Downside School, UK) 9781350060388
RRP: $16.76$15.30This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Livy's History of Rome, Book I, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for chapters 53-54, 56 (haec agenti ...)-60, with a detailed... -
Orcadia: Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney by Mark Edmonds 9781788543453
RRP: $16.76$11.73The Orcadian archipelago is a museum of archaeological wonders. The Orcadian Neolithic is home to some of the best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe: here we can find evidence of a dynamic society with connections binding Orkney to Ireland, to... -
The Peninsular War: A New History by Charles J. Esdaile 9780140273700
RRP: $25.79$18.94For centuries Spain had been the most feared and predatory power in Europe - it had the largest empire and one of the world's great navies to defend it. Nothing could have prepared the Spanish for the devastating implosion of 1805-14. Trafalgar... -
Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance by Ioanna Iordanou
RRP: $52.23$50.35Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a... -
Gladstone by Roy Jenkins
RRP: $21.92$16.09Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British life. He spent sixty-three of his eighty-nine years in the House of Commons and was... -
The United Irishmen, Rebellion and the Act of Union, 1798-1803 by John Gibney 9781526751454
RRP: $16.76$11.73The 1790s is one of the most critical decades in the history of modern Ireland. The decade witnessed the birth of the modern ideology of separatist Irish republicanism, the creation of the Orange Order, and the greatest bloodletting in modern Irish... -
Legion of the Lancasters by Martin W Bowman
RRP: $32.25$22.73Sothe had already decided to use his nose armament against the 4-mot [four engined bomber]. He looked out and focused on a black shape of the Britisher. Small, bluish exhaust flames made it easier to keep the target in sight. Four engines, twin tail were... -
Atlas of the Eastern Front: 1941-45 by Robert Kirchubel
RRP: $64.50$48.53The Eastern Front was the most significant theatre of World War II. Here the bulk of the Wehrmacht was committed and eventually shattered by the Red Army in a campaign of unmatched intensity. From Operation Barbarossa in 1941 through to the final fall of... -
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill by Mary S. Lovell
RRP: $19.34$12.64There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of Marlborough - soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II - onwards, the Churchills have...