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Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East Robert Fisk 9780007255481
RRP: £30.00£20.53'INCOMPARABLE DEPTH AND UNDERSTANDING…AND EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE' NOAM CHOMSKY The final work from foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, picking up the story in the Middle East where his internationally bestselling The Great War of Civilisation left off,... -
Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners: The Revolutionary New Approach to Reading the Monuments by Bill Manley
RRP: £12.99£9.23An entirely fresh and accessible approach to reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by a proven expert, this step-by-step introduction assumes no previous knowledge of grammar or ancient languages, but guides readers through the inscriptions, from simple... -
God: An Anatomy - As heard on Radio 4 by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
RRP: £14.99£10.75Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeShortlisted for The Wolfson History PrizeA The Times Books of the YearA fascinating, surprising and often controversial examination of the real God of the Bible, in all his bodily, uncensored, scandalous forms.'One... -
Versailles: A Biography of a Palace by Tony Spawforth 9780312603465
RRP: £22.99£14.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312603465Author Tony SpawforthFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer
RRP: £10.99£7.87________________________________________The only book on 9/11 to focus solely on the remarkable testimony of those inside the Twin Towers during the attacks.At 8.46 am on September 11, 2001, 14,000 people were inside the Twin Towers in New York - reading... -
The Liberation Line: The Last Untold Story of the Normandy Landings by Christian Wolmar 9781838957520
RRP: £25.00£16.85'A masterful account of the unsung heroes of the battle for Normandy. Without the valiant efforts of the British and American railwaymen, the liberation of France might have had a very different outcome. A gripping tale.' Giles MiltonThey certainly were... -
The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis 9780197549322
RRP: £34.99£31.69A major new history of the eastern Roman Empire, from Constantine to 1453. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society... -
How to be a Brit: The Classic Bestselling Guide by George Mikes
RRP: £10.99£7.99A complete guide to the British Way of Life. If you're British, you'll love it. If you're not, you'll recognise it._______Born in Hungary, George Mikes spent more than forty years in the Britain observing behaviours and misbehaviours of local and foreign... -
The Nix by Nathan Hill 9781509807857
RRP: £12.99£9.05'The best new writer of fiction in America. The best.' - John Irving'Outstanding' - John Boyne, The Irish Times'The best thing a reviewer can do when faced with a novel of this calibre and breadth is to urge you to read it for yourselves.' - The... -
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (10 Year Anniversary Edition) by Yuval Noah Harari 9781529913934
RRP: £25.00£16.53A beautiful new hardback anniversary edition of the multi-million copy sensationINCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD FROM YUVAL NOAH HARARIWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers,... -
American Gun: The True Story of the Ar-15 by Cameron McWhirter
RRP: £32.00£21.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374103859Author Cameron McWhirterFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian Mackintosh: The Inside Story of the Sandbaggers and Television's Top Spy by Robert G. Folsom 9781612341880
RRP: £28.99£23.37No spy drama has ever matched The Sandbaggers, which featured a tiny, covert intelligence unit based in London during the Cold War. The show that the New York Times called the "best spy series in television history" was the vision of Ian MacKintosh, who... -
Where I Was From by Joan Didion 9780679752868
RRP: £18.00£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679752868Author Joan DidionFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny by Neil Howe 9780767900461
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767900461Author William StraussFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 437gDimensions(mm)... -
Fingerprints Of The Gods by Graham Hancock
RRP: £22.99£17.53THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING SENSATION THAT TURNED HISTORY ON ITS HEAD, FROM THE CREATOR OF NETFLIX'S ANCIENT APOCALYPSE 'One of the intellectual landmarks of the decade' Literary Review'Readers will hugely enjoy their quest in these pages of... -
The Penguin History of the United States of America by Hugh Brogan
RRP: £16.99£12.47This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to the Reagan years - captures an array of dynamic personalities and events. In a broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Brogan explores the period leading... -
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
RRP: £10.99£7.33*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times'Simply one of the best history books I have ever read' BBC HistoryIn the... -
Sd.Kfz.6 Mittlerer Zugkraftwagen 5t by Alan Ranger
£16.20During WW2, the German armed forces were the greatest user of half-track vehicles. Such vehicles were used in the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe and Waffen-SS, where they served as personnel carriers, tractors, combat engineering vehicles, as well as... -
The Decade in Tory: The Sunday Times Bestseller: An Inventory of Idiocy from the Coalition to Covid by Russell Jones 9781800182813
RRP: £14.99£9.50In 2020 the United Kingdom reached a bewildering milestone: ten successive years of Conservative rule. In that decade there were three prime ministers, each in turn described as the worst leader we ever had; ministerial resignations by the hundred; and... -
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
RRP: £12.99£8.282018 Edgar Award Finalist-Best Fact Crime"A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey" (The Boston Globe)-the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown... -
The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive by Erik Brouwer
RRP: £8.99£6.39**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'He had the dream again last night... He taps the gloves of his unbeaten Polish opponent. There are rumours that the loser will be sent to the gas chamber.'In 1943, the Dutch champion boxer, Leen Sanders, was sent to... -
Sword Beach: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory by Stephen Fisher 9781787636712
RRP: £25.00£18.30'Stephen Fisher is one of the best kept secrets in military history. With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail, his book on D-Day is sure to impress a vast audience' Dan Snow'Stephen Fisher... is a very rare beast - a man who can bring... -
Single Vehicle No.5 T-72m by Przemyslaw Skulski 9788366549876
RRP: £9.00£7.93Continuing the Single Vehicle series from Mushroom Model Publications - a new range of booklets for military modellers featuring original colour profiles, photographic details and scale plans in 1/35 scale, plus drawings from military technical manuals... -
Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
RRP: £9.99£7.21'The best portrait of rural life in England' Roger Deakin'Exquisite' John Updike'The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside' ObserverRonald Blythe's perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was... -
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
RRP: £19.74£19.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385534260Author David GrannFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 669gDimensions(mm) 242mm *... -
Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela
RRP: £14.99£9.56These memoirs from one of the great leaders of our time are 'essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack ObamaThe riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long... -
A 1940s Childhood: From Bomb Sites to Children's Hour by James Marsh 9780752499505
RRP: £9.99£7.65Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a... -
Conversations of Socrates by Xenophon
RRP: £12.99£9.19After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed the great philosopher into a legendary figure. Xenophon's portrait is the only one other than Plato's to... -
Apollo Remastered by Andy Saunders 9780241508695
RRP: £60.00£44.95AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDiscover space as you've never seen it before, with these awe-inspiring, breathtakingly restored images of our first missions to the Moon'The next best thing to being there' Charlie Duke, Apollo 16 astronautIn a frozen... -
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren 9780345461926
£13.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345461926Author Michael B. OrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Countrysport Press,U.S.Publisher Countrysport Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Shortest History of India by John Zubrzycki 9781913083489
RRP: £9.99£7.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083489Author John ZubrzyckiFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
OCR A Level History A2: Civil Rights in the USA 1865-1992 by David Paterson
£27.47OCR and Heinemann are working together to provide better support for you. It is directly matched to the new specification with specific exam support. It provides unique planning support with inspirational lesson ideas. It features accessible, engaging... -
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz 9781845296445
RRP: £10.99£7.61'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves'Slavomir RawiczSlavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer. On 19 November 1939 he was... -
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs by Marc David Baer
RRP: £35.00£18.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541673809Author Marc David BaerFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 880gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm * 48mm -
The National Archives: The Buildings That Made London by David Long
RRP: £16.99£12.87Take an incredible journey through the streets of London and see beautiful buildings as you've never seen them before! An elegant horizon of historic masterpieces mixed with sleek modern skyscrapers, the familiar London skyline seems to change every year... -
OCR Classical Civilisation AS and A Level Component 11: The World of the Hero Sally Knights (formerly Redland High School, UK) 9781350015074
RRP: £14.99£14.75This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specifications for AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers all three options for Component 11: World of the Hero (Homer's Iliad, Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's... -
The Complete Pompeii by Joanne Berry
RRP: £19.99£13.95Pompeii is the best known and probably the most important archaeological site in the world. This book, now available in paperback, is the most up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive account for the general reader of its rise, splendour and fall. The... -
Two Brothers by Jonathan Wilson 9780349144825
RRP: £12.99£7.72'A powerful chronicle of the transformation of English football and society through the prism of two very different characters' Irish TimesJack was open, charismatic, selfish and pig-headed; Bobby was guarded, shy, polite and reserved to the point of... -
The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy by Lao-Tzu
RRP: £19.99£12.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Cover Design (Large)) 2017.Book InformationISBN 9781626868021Author Sun TzuPage Count 592Imprint Canterbury ClassicsPublisher... -
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
RRP: £10.99£7.35THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people ... Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished .....