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History of the Caucasus: Volume 2: In the Shadow of Great Powers by Christoph Baumer 9780755636280
RRP: £35.00£34.22In the Shadow of Great Powers is the second volume of Christoph Baumer's History of the Caucasus. It covers the period from the Seljuk domination of the Southern Caucasus around 1050 CE to the present day. After the Kingdom of Georgia's golden age of... -
F-4 Phantom II Wild Weasel Units in Combat by Peter E. Davies
RRP: £16.99£12.28With first-hand insight into the key role of the US Air Force's fighter-bomber from the Vietnam War through to Operation Desert Storm during the First Gulf War, this book is an unmissable account of some of the most dangerous and demanding missions in... -
The Mars Project by Wernher Von Braun
RRP: £21.99£19.19This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born scientist Wernher von Braun detailed what he believed were the... -
RAF Marham: Bomber Station by Martin W. Bowman 9780752446943
RRP: £25.00£18.94RAF Marham's history reaches back into the First World War when its aircraft served a vital home defence role, intercepting raiding Zeppelins and Gothas. In the late 1930s the station was reopened as a bomber base and, post-war, operated bombers and... -
The Long Range Desert Group in World War II by Gavin Mortimer
RRP: £25.00£18.62A major illustrated history of the Long Range Desert Group from the foremost expert on British wartime special forces. Formed in June 1940 for the purpose of gathering intelligence behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) played a... -
A Force To Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women's Institute Jane Robinson 9781844086603
RRP: £10.99£7.40Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over... -
Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy by Roy A. Adkins
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships. Drawn from all over Britain and beyond, often unwillingly, these ordinary men made the navy... -
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE WEEK: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice by Julia Laite
RRP: £9.99£7.11WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'Brilliantly summons up one girl's life, dreams and suffering. It's ingenious history writing' Mail on Sunday 'A gripping, unputdownable masterpiece' - Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five ... -
Mastermind of Dunkirk and D-Day: The Vision of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay by Brian Izzard
RRP: £25.00£20.90This is the first major biography of Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay in fifty years. Ramsay masterminded the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. Initially, it was thought that 40,000 troops at most could be rescued. But... -
Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It David Fleming 9781603586481
RRP: £40.00£27.75Lean Logic is David Fleming's masterpiece, the product of more than thirty years' work and a testament to the creative brilliance of one of Britain's most important intellectuals. A dictionary unlike any other, it leads readers through Fleming's... -
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare by Paul Strathern 9781838955182
RRP: £12.99£8.56'Enlightening and fascinating' John Banville, Wall Street JournalThrough the lives of major figures from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including Copernicus, Gutenberg, Luther, Catherine de Medici, Rabelais, van Eyck and Shakespeare, Paul... -
Royal Irish Constabulary Officers: A Biographical and Genealogical Guide, 1816-1922 by Jim Herlihy 9781846826269
RRP: £24.95£24.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826269Author Jim HerlihyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The Mughal Throne: The Saga of India's Great Emperors Abraham Eraly 9780753817582
RRP: £16.99£11.54A history of the great Mughal rulers of India, one of the world's greatest empires.In December 1525 Babur, the great grandson of the Mongol conqueror Tamberlaine, crossed the Indus river into the Punjab with a modest army and some cannon. At the battle... -
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Generous and empathetic ... opens up postwar migration in all its richness' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian'Groundbreaking, sophisticated, original, open-minded ... essential reading for anyone... -
Howard's Whirlybirds: Howard Hughes's Amazing Pioneering Helicopter Exploits by Donald J. Porter 9781781550892
RRP: £20.00£15.04Howard Hughes, the movie mogul, aviation pioneer and political hound dog, has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle and reclusiveness. Companies responsible for major technological leaps often become household names... -
Deep Undercover by Jack Barsky
RRP: £15.99£11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496416834Author Jack BarskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers -
Death of the Leaping Horseman: The 24th Panzer Division in Stalingrad by Jason D. Marks 9780811714044
£43.92The gripping book about a panzer division and its battles in the shattered streets of Stalingrad. In Death of the Leaping Horseman, the untold story of 24. Panzer-Division's savage fighting on Stalingrad's outskirts and in the devastated ruins of the... -
Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two by Patrick Bishop
RRP: £14.99£9.70In 2018 the RAF is one hundred years old. In his new book, destined to be a classic, Patrick Bishop examines the high point of its existence - the Second World War, when the Air Force saved the nation from defeat then led the advance to... -
Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World by Bob Brier
RRP: £23.49£16.61It is often thought that the story of Tutankhamun ended when the thousands of dazzling items discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon were transported to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and put on display. But there is far more to the boy-king's story... -
Hackney from Stamford Hill to Shoreditch by Gavin Smith 9780752418186
RRP: £14.99£11.55Hackney from Stamford Hill to Shoreditch in old photographsBook InformationISBN 9780752418186Author Gavin SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint NPI Media GroupPublisher The History Press Ltd -
How to Win an Election: An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians by Quintus Tullius Cicero 9780691154084
RRP: £14.99£11.38How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother... -
How Finland Survived Stalin: From Winter War to Cold War, 1939-1950 by Kimmo Rentola 9780300273618
RRP: £25.00£20.92A dramatic and timely account of Stalin's failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed In November 1939, Stalin directed his military leaders to launch an invasion of Finland. In what became known as... -
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts by Andrew Robinson 9780500288160
RRP: £24.95£17.35Beginning with the stories of three great decipherments - Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Linear B and Mayan glyphs - Lost Languages moves on to dissect the most well-known and enigmatic undeciphered scripts from around the world. These include the... -
The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II Speeches by Richard Toye 9780198715450
RRP: £16.99£12.59''My aunt, listening to the Prime Minister's speech, remarked of "our greatest orator", "He's no speaker, is he?"' -diary of teacher M.A. Pratt, 11 Nov. 1942. The popular story of Churchill's war-time rhetoric is a simple one: the British people were... -
The Grand Tour by Mike Rendell
RRP: £8.99£6.87An introduction to the raucous yet educational 'gap year' tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many young eighteenth-century aristocrats, the Grand Tour was an essential rite of... -
Leading on Inclusion: The Role of the SENCO by Mhairi C. Beaton
RRP: £24.99£21.81This comprehensive resource provides a range of perspectives on inclusion, giving Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators (SENCOs) the opportunity to consider the principles and practice that underpin their leadership role. Offering a blend of academic... -
Things Can Only Get Better by John O'Farrell
RRP: £12.99£9.09Like bubonic plague and stone cladding, no-one took Margaret Thatcher seriously until it was too late. Her first act as leader was to appear before the cameras and do a V for Victory sign the wrong way round. She was smiling and telling the British... -
The Rifle 2: Back to the Battlefield by Andrew Biggio 9781684515066
RRP: £22.00£14.05In this highly anticipated follow-up to The Rifle, Andrew Biggio brings to light more untold stories from the quickly vanishing ranks of the veterans of World War II.Ordinary Men with Extraordinary PurposeThey are called the Greatest Generation, but they... -
Winston Churchill's Toyshop: The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research) by Stuart MacRae
RRP: £12.99£8.48The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries,... -
Pamela's War: A Moving Account of a Young Girl's Life in the Midlands during the Second World War by Cherryl Vines 9780752468136
RRP: £7.99£6.15It is the third of September 1939. It is just after half past eleven in the morning. I am fifteen years and sixteen days old. The radiogram at my home, the Woodman Hotel in Clent, has just been switched off, the silence resonates around the room, and a... -
Princess Mary: The First Modern Princess by Elisabeth Basford 9780750992619
RRP: £20.00£15.44Princess Diana is seen as the first member of the British royal family to tear up the rulebook, and the Duchess of Cambridge is modernising the monarchy in strides. But before them was another who paved the way.Princess Mary was born in 1897. Despite her... -
When Your Life Depends on It: Extreme Decision Making Lessons from the Antarctic by Brad Borkan 9781945312052
RRP: £12.99£9.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945312052Author Brad BorkanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Terra Nova PressPublisher Terra Nova PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Blitz Britain: Manchester and Salford by Graham Phythian
RRP: £12.99£9.62In 1940, the Manchester and Salford Blitz saw the city and its surroundings targeted by the German Luftwaffe. The most destructive attack was launched in late December 1940; it is remembered today as 'the Christmas Blitz'. Nearly 800 people lost their... -
Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Beda Fomm to Operation Crusader, 1940–41 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: £35.00£25.29Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from the earliest Anglo-Italian engagements in 1940 to the British victory over the German Afrikakorps in Operation Crusader in 1941. The war in the North African desert was... -
The SAS 1983-2014 by Leigh Neville
RRP: £14.99£11.75A Special Forces expert reveals the illustrated story of the SAS since the Falklands War, including their operations in the Gulf War and the War on Terror. Highly trained and immensely skilled, the SAS are widely regarded as one of the best Special... -
The Women in the Room: Labour's Forgotten History by Nan Sloane
RRP: £40.00£30.38In February 1900 a group of men representing trade unionists, socialists, Fabians and Marxists gathered in London to make another attempt at establishing an organisation capable of getting working-class men elected to Parliament. The body they set... -
The Rosetta Stone Richard Parkinson 9780714150215
RRP: £6.00£4.40The Rosetta Stone contains a decree written three times in Greek, Demotic and hieroglyphic that provided the key to the mysterious hieroglyphic script of ancient Egypt, and opened up 3,000 years of the country's history and culture. This book tells the... -
Wings Over Water: The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire by Jonathan Glancey
RRP: £9.99£6.70Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy was a series of glamorous air contests, popularly known as races, that captivated both sides of the Atlantic. While there were many other aviation competitions, the Schneider proved to be, after a rocky start, by... -
Access to History: The Later Tudors 1547-1603 by Roger Turvey
£25.21Exam board: AQA; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better... -
A History of Ancient Egypt, Volume 3: From the Shepherd Kings to the End of the Theban Monarchy by John Romer
RRP: £45.00£31.81The final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known stateArchaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetime chronicling the history of Ancient Egypt, and here he tells the epic story of an era dominated by titans of the...