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Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in the 9/11 Wars by Frank Ledwidge
RRP: £15.99£13.82This new edition of Frank Ledwidge's eye-opening analysis of British involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan unpicks the causes and enormous costs of military failure. Updated throughout, and with fresh chapters assessing and enumerating the overall military... -
A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman
RRP: £16.99£12.28'An absolute godsend ... Goodman has done both Jews and non-Jews a great service with this book, encapsulating most of Jewish thought over four millennia into one extraordinarily readable volume' Julia Neuberger, Literary ReviewA panoramic history of... -
British Goats by Tiffany Francis-Baker
RRP: £7.99£6.25A lively, engaging introduction to the history of goats in Britain, and the recent renaissance of goat-related products. Ever wondered why a goat's eyes have rectangular pupils? Or what happened to Thor's goats each day after they finished pulling his... -
Captain Tom Moore by Sally Morgan 9780702312328
RRP: £5.99£4.46Captain Tom Moore: fundraiser, World War Two veteran, the nation's hero. Read all about the life of Captain Tom Moore who went above and beyond for his country and the NHS. From his early life in Keighley, to the... -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson
RRP: £9.99£7.11A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 - and paradoxically led to the birth of modern... -
The Forgotten Dead: The true story of Exercise Tiger, the disastrous rehearsal for D-Day Ken Small 9781472834492
RRP: £10.99£7.7727 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings... On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and... -
The Search for the Durotriges: Dorset and the West Country in the Late Iron Age by Martin Papworth
RRP: £25.00£18.54The tribe of the Durotriges was listed by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the second century AD. Traditionally it has been believed that the Durotrigans formed an Iron Age tribe whose territory included Dorset and parts of neighbouring Somerset,... -
Medieval Indian Armies (2): Indo-Islamic Forces, 7th–Early 16th Centuries by Dr David Nicolle 9781472853349
RRP: £12.99£9.09This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. From 1206, much of what is now India as well as parts of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal were ruled by a... -
The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen
RRP: £10.99£7.77The 'Northern Crusades', inspired by the Pope's call for a Holy War, are less celebrated than those in the Middle East, but they were also more successful: vast new territories became and remain Christian, such as Finland, Estonia and Prussia. Newly... -
Soho in the Eighties by Christopher Howse
RRP: £20.00£14.69A fascinating glimpse into 1980s Soho by leading journalist and writer Christopher Howse. In the 1980s Daniel Farson published Soho in the Fifties. This memoir is a sequel from the Eighties, a decade that saw the brilliant flowering of a daily... -
Lightning Boys by Grub Street 9781911703266
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911703266Author Grub StreetFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 359g -
Napoleon and Wellington Andrew Roberts 9781842127407
RRP: £16.99£11.54A dual biography of the greatest opposing generals of their age who ultimately became fixated on one another, by a bestselling historian.'Thoroughly enjoyable, beautifully written and meticulously researched' ObserverOn the morning of the battle of... -
Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine by Joel Kovel 9780745325699
RRP: £24.99£16.38Israel is an incorrigible human rights offender because, by discriminating against Arabs, it is guilty of 'state-sponsored racism' argues Joel Kovel. Like apartheid South Africa, the best hope for peace in Israel is to return to the idea of a one-state... -
Archaeology for Kids by Richard Panchyk
RRP: £20.99£12.41This activity book features 25 projects such as making a surface survey of a site, building a screen for sifting dirt and debris at a dig, tracking soil age by color, and counting tree rings to date a find, teaches kids the techniques that unearthed... -
The Invention of Tradition by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £16.99£13.45Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of... -
Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £12.99£9.09A concisely detailed guide to the Allied tanks that fought from D-Day to the break out from Normandy, their qualities, numbers and performance, and how they were used on the battlefield. When Allied tanks began to roll off the landing craft on D-Day,... -
Tanks in Operation Bagration 1944: The demolition of Army Group Center Steven J. Zaloga (Author) 9781472853950
RRP: £12.99£9.09A new study of tank warfare used in the Soviet offensive of Operation Bagration, which destroyed Army Group Center. Operation Bagration, the 1944 summer campaign on the Russian Front, has been called "Hitler's Greatest Defeat." The operation... -
The Anglo-Irish War: The Troubles of 1913-1922 by Peter Cottrell 9781846030239
RRP: £14.99£12.55The Anglo-Irish War has often been referred to as the war 'the English have struggled to forget and the Irish cannot help but remember'. Before 1919, the issue of Irish Home Rule lurked beneath the surface of Anglo-Irish relations for many years, but... -
A Murder in the Neighborhood by Ellen Green
RRP: £8.99£5.45On 6th September 1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than twelve minutes on his block in East Camden, New Jersey. The shocking true story of the first recorded mass shooting in America has never been told, until... -
History Of Witchcraft by Lois Martin 9780857301154
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857301154Author Lois MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Pocket EssentialsPublisher Oldcastle Books Ltd -
William Burrell: A Collector's Life by Martin Bellamy
RRP: £25.00£16.99In 1944, Glasgow received one of the greatest gifts ever made to any city in the world: a collection of over 6,000 artworks of many types spanning centuries and civilisations. The benefactors were Glasgow-born shipping magnate Sir William Burrell and... -
The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran by David Crist 9780143123675
RRP: £26.99£17.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143123675Author David CristFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 545g -
Man of the Match (2022 edition) by Dan Freedman 9780702315923
RRP: £6.99£4.64The fourth book in the Jamie Johnson football series - as seen on CBBC! Jamie Johnson starts the season on fire. He's playing for his beloved Hawkstone - and he's the top scorer in the country. ... -
The First Anglo-Sikh War by Amarpal Singh
RRP: £14.99£9.70During the eighteenth and early years of the nineteenth century, the red tide of British expansion had covered almost the entire Indian subcontinent, stretching to the borders of the Punjab. There the great Sikh ruler Ranjit Singh had developed his... -
Always Red by Len McCluskey
RRP: £16.99£12.07Len McCluskey is the standout trade unionist of his era. Head of the giant Unite union for more than a decade, he is a unique and powerful figure on the political stage.In this major autobiography, McCluskey throws back the curtains on life at the top of... -
God of Fire: Ancient Greek Myths Retold by Hephaestus by Helen Steadman 9781739776213
RRP: £8.99£8.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739776213Author Helen SteadmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Bell Jar BooksPublisher Bell Jar BooksWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm... -
War and Religion: A Very Short Introduction by Jolyon Mitchell
RRP: £8.99£6.45Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Is religion a force for war, or a force for peace? Some of the most terrible wars in history have been caused and motivated by religion. Much of the violence that fills our screens today springs... -
Way of the Reaper: My Greatest Untold Missions and the Art of Being a Sniper by Nicholas Irving 9781250102584
RRP: £12.99£11.09From the legendary special operations sniper and New York Times bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of the Reaper is a step- by-step accounting of how a sniper works, through the lens of... -
The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Sir Winston S. Churchill 9780486474748
RRP: £14.49£9.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486474748Author Sir Winston S. ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy by Patrick O’Brian 9780008355999
RRP: £9.99£6.64Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like,... -
African Europeans by Olivette Otele
RRP: £10.99£7.40A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A History Today Book of the Year, 2020Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the leader of a Roman legion and Renaissance scholar Juan... -
Terry Jones' Barbarians by Alan Ereira
RRP: £16.99£12.28Terry Jones' Barbarians takes a completely fresh approach to Roman history. Not only does it offer us the chance to see the Romans from a non-Roman perspective, it also reveals that most of those written off by the Romans as uncivilized, savage and... -
Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor by Andrew Morton 9781789293739
RRP: £9.99£6.85'The best account so far of the most notorious woman... Andrew Morton presents a convincing picture of Wallis Simpson's rip-roaring sexual and social adventures and her curious marriage to the Duke of Windsor... His new research adds to our knowledge of... -
The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy: A Story of Resistance, Courage, and Solidarity in a French Village by Stephen G. Rabe
RRP: £20.00£14.29The fateful days and weeks surrounding 6 June 1944 have been extensively documented in histories of the Second World War, but less attention has been paid to the tremendous impact of these events on the populations nearby. The Lost Paratroopers of... -
Marie Marvingt, Fiancee of Danger: First Female Bomber Pilot, World-Class Athlete and Inventor of the Air Ambulance by Rosalie Maggio 9781476675503
RRP: £21.99£17.97As accomplished as she is unknown, Marie Marvingt set the world's first women's aviation records, won the only gold medal ever given for being outstanding in all sports, invented the ambulance airplane, was the first female bomber pilot in history,... -
Oxford: Mapping the City by Daniel MacCannell
RRP: £30.00£21.30Over the past four and a half centuries, the magnificent city of Oxford has been mapped for many reasons, few of which have involved the mere finding of one's way through the streets. Maps were produced as part of schemes to defend Oxford from rampaging... -
The Little Book of Bristol by Maurice Fells
RRP: £14.99£11.55A rich, and indeed sometimes bizarre, thread of history weaves its way through the Bristol story. Find out all manner of things, from why a 'Bristol Diamond' would never be found in a jewellery shop to why local by-laws restrict carpet beating to certain... -
Woodbrook by David Thomson
RRP: £10.99£7.77Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a... -
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks by Judy Parkinson
RRP: £7.99£5.60'Claiming there are only 150 key things you really need to know that have shaped in the story of Britain, this book delivers them in easy to swallow, bite-sized chunks' - Best of British____________________A bestseller in 2008, Remember Remember has... -
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370 by Florence de Changy
RRP: £10.99£7.25'People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book - and highly recommended.' Daily Mail A remarkable piece of investigative...