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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... -
Churchill's Folly: The Battles for Kos and Leros, 1943 by Anthony Rogers 9780750968355
RRP: $24.50$18.47In autumn 1943 the Italian-held Dodecanese was the setting for the last decisive German invasion of the Second World War - and the last irreversible British defeat. After the Italian armistice that followed the downfall of Mussolini, Churchill seized the... -
The Troubles with Us by Alix O'Neill
RRP: $19.34$17.35'Derry Girls meets David Sedaris' Elske Rahill, author of An Unravelling 'The writing is full of energy and originality' Irish Times Growing up on the Falls Road in 1990s Belfast,... -
The Japanese Cinema Book by Hideaki Fujiki
RRP: $47.72$41.53The Japanese Cinema Book provides a new and comprehensive survey of one of the world's most fascinating and widely admired filmmaking regions. In terms of its historical coverage, broad thematic approach and the significant international range of its... -
The Men of the North: The Britons of Southern Scotland by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $25.80$18.12The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in the shaping of Scottish history during the first millennium AD but their part is often neglected or... -
Lewis Man by Peter May 9781529416817
RRP: $14.18$9.55THE 12 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENZO FILES AND THE CHINA THRILLERSAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY 2021'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years.' Independent'No one can create a more eloquently written... -
Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch by Deborah E. Lipstadt 9780300253511
RRP: $21.92$18.85A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt "Comprehensive. . . . Always thoughtful. . . . A nuanced account of a leader whose influence endures in the Middle East."-Kirkus Review ... -
The Complete Tutankhamun Nicholas Reeves 9780500052167
RRP: $51.60$35.80A fully updated and revised edition of a classic bestseller: the definitive guide to Tutankhamun and his tomb - what it contained, why, and what it means today. With its breathtaking treasures, the Tomb of Tutankhamun continues to exert a unique... -
A History of Britain - Volume 2: The British Wars 1603-1776 Simon Schama, CBE 9781847920133
RRP: $38.70$27.54Simon Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change - transforming outlooks, allegiances and boundaries.From the beginning of July 1637, battles raged on for 200 years - both at home and abroad, on sea and on... -
The Fin de Siècle: A Reader in Cultural History, c.1880-1900 by Sally Ledger 9780198742791
$70.32In an important contribution to the developing field of interdisciplinary studies in the Humanities, Ledger and Luckhurst make available to students and scholars a large body of non-literary texts which richly configure the variegated cultural history of... -
Polaris: The History of the UK's Submarine Force by Keith Hall 9780752451770
RRP: $23.21$17.60Between 15 June 1968 and 13 May 1996, the Polaris submarines of the 10th Submarine Squadron carried out a total of 229 patrols, travelling over 2 million miles. Wherever you sit on the nuclear debate, it makes an impressive tale; delivered on time and on... -
WJEC Eduqas GCSE History: The Development of the USA, 1929-2000 Steve Waugh 9781471868146
$31.11Exam Board: EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018Endorsed by EduqasBring out the best in every student, enabling them to develop in-depth subject knowledge and historical skills with the market-leading... -
Charles & Camilla by Gyles Brandreth
RRP: $19.34$14.13This is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary stories of our time. Gyles Brandreth, acclaimed biographer of the Queen and Prince Philip, presents a unique portrait of their son, Charles, Prince of Wales, and of the one 'non-negotiable'... -
Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault On Truth And Memory by Deborah E. Lipstadt
RRP: $14.18$10.02The powerful and deeply disturbing book that was at the heart of the David Irving libel case, now dramatized in the film Denial.The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the Earth is flat. Yet there are those who... -
Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy by Jeffrey E. Garten
RRP: $25.80$17.72The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard - breaking the... -
Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain by Andrea Zuvich 9781526753076
RRP: $21.92$15.84Peek beneath the bedsheets of Stuart Britain in this frank, informative, and captivating look at the sexual lives of the peoples of the British Isles between 1603 and 1714. Popular Stuart historian Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady , explores... -
After the Annex: Anne Frank, Auschwitz and Beyond by Bas von Benda-Beckmann
RRP: $32.25$22.32On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other... -
Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled the White House and Saved the Economy by Nick Timiraos
RRP: $32.25$24.14By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into... -
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht 9780861547241
RRP: $14.18$10.02Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... Brilliant.' John Suchet, Classic FM presenter Through 100 recordings,... -
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts by Bill O'Reilly 9781250283320
RRP: $34.82$22.69Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and... -
Berlin Then and Now (R): Damals und Heute by Nick Gay
RRP: $25.80$18.50Berlin Then and Now captures the stark contrast between what came before and after the great conflicts of the twentieth century, using archival photographs of the city's grand buildings, monuments, and boulevards alongside modern views of the same scenes... -
Checkmate in Berlin: The Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World Giles Milton 9781529393156
RRP: $32.25$21.65'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller he is' - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyBerlin was in ruins...