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Lime, Lemon and Sarsaparilla: The Italian Community in South Wales, 1881-1945 by Colin Hughes
RRP: $12.89$9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781724897Author Colin HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 19mm -
Blood on the Risers: An Airborne Soldier's Thirty-five Months in Vietnam by John Leppelman
RRP: $11.60$8.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804105620Author John LeppelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ivy Books,U.S.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 171mm *... -
The A-Z of Curious Norfolk: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Sarah E. Doig 9781803994406
RRP: $19.34$14.90Norfolk's spectacular coastline, quaint villages, historic houses, bustling market towns and meandering rivers all provide the perfect backdrop for some of the most curious tales from across the centuries.Which eccentric cleric's final words were 'Did I... -
Sicily 1943 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $21.92$18.19Not only did the Sicily operation represent a watershed in tactical development of combined arms tactics, it was also an important test for future Allied joint operations. Senior British commanders left the North African theater with a jaundiced and... -
George III (Penguin Monarchs): Madness and Majesty by Jeremy Black 9780141993423
RRP: $11.60$8.32King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for America's Founding Fathers, and for his madness, both... -
The Book of Hermits: A History of Hermits from Antiquity to the Present by Robert Rodriguez 9781736866504
RRP: $20.64$15.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736866504Author Robert RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint Hermitary PressPublisher Hermitary PressWeight(grams) 549gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Born in Blackness: Africa and the Making of the Modern World by Howard W. French
RRP: $20.63$16.82In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the... -
Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary America by Jordan E. Taylor
RRP: $42.57$38.08Fundamentally reshapes our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the pivotal role foreign news and misinformation played in driving colonists to revolt.Runner-up of the Journal of The American Revolution Book of the Year Award by the... -
The A-Z of Curious Sussex: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Wendy Hughes
RRP: $19.34$14.90In this engaging book, Wendy Hughes takes you on a grand tour of the curious and bizarre, the strange and the unusual from Sussex's past. Read about the Alfriston Star - the hostelry for medieval package tours with its unusual ship's figurehead, the... -
Antarctic Exploration: Germany in Antarctica by Ladislas Szabo 9781901037111
$43.56This Fully illustrated book covers Germany in Antarctica from the 1900s to the 1940s, starting with Erich von Drygalsky's 1901 Gauss expedition, then on to the 1939 Schwabenland Expedition which is well covered in the book with many never seen before... -
Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity by Hil Aked 9781786637659
RRP: $24.50$20.19Friends of Israel provides a forensically researched account of the activities of Israel's advocates in Britain, showing how they contribute to maintaining Israeli apartheid. The book traces the history and changing fortunes of key actors within the... -
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality by Josie Cox 9781419762987
RRP: $28.37$19.13In Women Money Power, financial journalist Josie Cox tells the compelling story of women's fight for financial freedom, the social and political hurdles that have kept them from equality and the work that remains to be done."A bold, fascinating, and... -
Seven Myths of the Spanish Inquisition by Gretchen D. Starr-LeBeau 9781647921309
RRP: $25.79$21.21"Gretchen Starr-LeBeau's Seven Myths of the Spanish Inquisition provides an excellent introduction to Habsburg Spain's most reviled and misunderstood institution. Drawn from archival sources and modern scholarship, this concise study presents the long... -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke 9780872202160
RRP: $18.05$15.26Includes generous selections from the Essay, topically arranged passages from the replies to Stillingfleet, a chronology, a bibliography, a glossary, and an index based on the entries that Locke himself devised.About the AuthorJohn Locke (1632-1704) was... -
Morris Minor by Gillian Bardsley 9781445668987
RRP: $12.89$8.57At its launch in 1948 the Morris Minor was an exciting and fresh concept, with radical engineering and daring 'American' styling. Morris Motors had given a young engineer named Alec Issigonis his first chance to head up a design team and, though he... -
Female Secret Agents by Douglas Boyd 9781803993751
RRP: $19.34$14.90Forget the adventure stories of James Bond, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs and co. - espionage is not just a boys' game. As long as there has been conflict, there have been female agents behind the scenes. In Belgium and northern France in 1914-18 there were... -
The Season of the Hyaena (Akhenaten Trilogy, Book 2): A twisting novel of intrigue, corruption and secrets Paul Doherty 9780755303410
RRP: $12.89$8.77Mahu, former Chief of Police and Keeper of the Secrets of the Heart is sitting down to record his memories. He sees uneasy quiet reigning in the Royal Circle at Thebes, after the disappearance of the Pharaoh Akenhaten and the abandonment of his new,... -
The Private Gardens of England by Tania Compton 9781472121011
RRP: $109.65$73.47The Sunday Times Gardening Book of the Year Described by Vogue as 'the revelatory garden book for our age' and a 'splendid new book' (Sebastian Shakespeare, Daily Mail), The Private Gardens of England is a glorious celebration of the art of gardening... -
The Unfree French: Life Under the Occupation by Richard Vinen
RRP: $21.92$15.84In the summer of 1940 the French army was one of the largest and best in the world, confident of victory. In the space of a few nightmarish weeks that all changed as the French and their British allies were crushed and eight million people fled their... -
Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History Foundation Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 Student Book Christopher Catherwood 9781292258317
$24.28We've worked with teachers to develop versions of our core textbooks that feature reduced content and language level, providing greater support and enabling students of all abilities to progress. Now available for the seven most popular options, these... -
The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection by Yingyu Zhang 9780231178631
RRP: $28.38$22.39This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks... -
Slightly Sinful: Number 7 in series Mary Balogh 9780749937874
RRP: $12.89$8.77On a Flemish battlefield Lord Alleyne Bedwyn is thrown from his horse and left for dead, only to awaken in the bedchamber of a Brussels brothel. The dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there - yet of one thing he is certain:... -
16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions by Anne-Marie Ryan 9781781171349
$21.96Sixteen men were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland, 1916: fifteen were shot and one was hanged. Their deaths changed the course of Irish history. But who were these leaders who set in motion events that would lead to the creation... -
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy by John Henry Phillips 9781472146175
RRP: $14.18$9.55When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed... -
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston
RRP: $12.89$7.51Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major literary event: a newly published... -
The Presidents' Letters: An Unexpected History of the Irish State by Flor MacCarthy
RRP: $29.66$21.52Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Irish-Published Book of the Year A TREASURE TROVE OF LETTERS TO AND FROM OUR NINE PRESIDENTS FROM 1938 TO THE PRESENT DAY With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs,... -
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and the Legacy of Slavery by Thomas Harding
RRP: $25.80$18.95When Thomas Harding discovered that his mother's family had made money from plantations worked by enslaved people, what began as an interrogation into the choices of his ancestors soon became a quest to learn more about Britain's role in slavery. It was... -
The Light Over London: The most gripping and heartbreaking WW2 page-turner you need to read this year by Julia Kelly
RRP: $10.31$3.75A forgotten diary, a forbidden love affair, a desperate fight to save her country2017 When Cara Hargreaves discovers a diary from the 1940s, its contents will change her life forever...1941 When Louise Keene meets dashing RAF pilot, Paul Bolton, she is... -
The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota and an American Inheritance by Rebecca Clarren 9781804440698
RRP: $21.92$15.17Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her immigrant family's origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th... -
The Spartans: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: $11.60$8.32Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, and considered an enigma. The Spartans who fought for freedom against the Persians... -
The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America by Kevern Verney
RRP: $20.63$18.67Once a neglected area, African American history is now the subject of extensive scholarly research. The Debate on Black Civil Rights in America is the first full-length study to examine the changing academic debate on developments in African American... -
The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts by Delyth Badder 9781915279507
RRP: $19.34$14.94Wales is a land with a vast wealth of ghost stories, including fantastical animals, flickering death omens and unseen things that go bump in the night. Whether these tales are based on true events, or are the creations of active imaginations, is known... -
Constantine the Emperor by David Potter 9780199755868
RRP: $39.33$29.36This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply... -
Ardor by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $16.76$11.73In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India:... -
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain's Transition to Mass Education since the Second World War by Peter Mandler 9780198840145
RRP: $40.62$28.82Before the Second World War, only about 20% of the population went to secondary school and barely 2% to university; today everyone goes to secondary school and half of all young people go to university. How did we get here from there? The Crisis of... -
A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads Anthony Reid 9781118513002
RRP: $37.35$32.862016 PROSE Award Honorable Mention for Textbook in the Humanities A History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the... -
Military Dispatches by Arthur Wellesley,Duke of Wellington
RRP: $16.76$11.73The vivid and exciting accounts written from the front line, taking the story of the British war with Napoleon from its desperate beginnings in Portugal to the final triumph at WaterlooThe Duke of Wellington was not only an incomparable battle commander... -
By Tank into Normandy by Stuart Hills
RRP: $12.89$8.77'One of the best half-dozen personal accounts of the Normandy campaign' - Richard HolmesStuart Hills embarked his Sherman DD tank on to an LCT at 6.45 a.m., Sunday 4 June 1944. He was 20 years old, unblooded, fresh from a public-school background and... -
Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know (R) by Tim Judah
RRP: $15.47$11.51On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared its independence, becoming the seventh state to emerge from the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. A tiny country of just two million people, 90% of whom are ethnic Albanians, Kosovo is central - geographically,... -
Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry by John J. Robinson 9781590771488
RRP: $23.21$20.37Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717. Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted kings, emperors, and statesmen to take its sacred oaths. It...