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British Transport Aircraft of the 1970s and '80s by Chris Goss 9781802827200
RRP: $33.13$23.95Following on in the series of British aircraft in the 1970s and '80s, this book explores the transport aircraft that served during this time period, including the Argosy, Belfast, Hastings and more.About the AuthorAfter a 32-year career in the RAF and... -
Pirate Enlightenment: Buccaneers, Women Traders and Mock Kingdoms in Eighteenth Century Madagascar by David Graeber
RRP: $37.03$27.98'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the European Enlightenment. A brilliant companion volume to the best-selling Dawn of Everything' Amitav GhoshThe Enlightenment... -
British Battleships 1890–1905: Victoria's steel battlefleet and the road to Dreadnought by Angus Konstam
RRP: $23.38$16.63The Royal Navy's battleships at the turn of the 20th century were the most powerful battlefleet in the world, and embodied one of the key periods in warship development - the development of the dreadnought battleship. The term 'pre-dreadnought' was... -
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia: The Place-Name Evidence by David Boulton 9781914427251
RRP: $77.90$70.88This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries.The... -
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow 9780593444511
RRP: $52.65$35.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593444511Author Rachel MaddowFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Everest 1922: The Epic Story of the First Attempt on the World’s Highest Mountain by Mick Conefrey
RRP: $21.43$14.70Though it remains by far the world's most famous mountain, in recent years Everest's reputation has changed radically, with long queues of climbers on the Lhotse Face, lurid tales of frozen corpses and piles of high altitude trash. It wasn't always like... -
History for the IB MYP 4 & 5: By Concept by Jo Thomas
$91.92The only series for MYP 4 and 5 developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (IB)Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused... -
Hannibal's War: Books 21-30 by Livy
RRP: $27.28$20.53'You know how to win a battle, Hannibal; you do not know how to use the victory!' Livy's great history of Rome contains, in Books 21 to 30, the definitive ancient account of Hannibal's invasion of Italy in 218 BC, and the war he fought with the Romans... -
Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: $37.03$32.33A vast archive of documents, unread since the sixteenth century, revises the portrait of Philip II, Spain's best-known king"A superbly informed narrative of Philip II's long career as Europe's most powerful king."-Henry Kamen, Little Reviews"This... -
Marie Marvingt, Fiancee of Danger: First Female Bomber Pilot, World-Class Athlete and Inventor of the Air Ambulance by Rosalie Maggio 9781476675503
RRP: $42.88$35.04As 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,... -
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Jessie Childs 9780712643474
RRP: $25.33$18.21Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign. A pioneering poet, whose verse had a profound impact on Shakespeare, Surrey was nevertheless branded by one contemporary as 'the most foolish... -
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Divided Nation by Declan Walsh
RRP: $21.43$15.35'All those interested in South Asia and its complex politics and culture should read this book' - Pankaj MishraThe demise of Pakistan - a country with a reputation for volatility, brutality and radical Islam - is regularly predicted. But things rarely... -
How I Survived a Chinese Re-education Camp: A Uighur Woman Speaks Out by Gulbahar Haitiwaji
RRP: $37.03$23.93'An indispensable account' - Sunday Times 'Moving and devastating' - The Literary Review 'An intimate, highly sensory self-portrait' - Sunday Telegraph (Five Stars) FIRST MEMOIR ABOUT CHINA'A 'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS BY A UYGHUR WOMAN Since 2017, one million... -
50 Gems of Lincolnshire: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by Michael Smith 9781398110694
RRP: $31.18$21.16Lincolnshire is a county of contrasts, ranging from the seaside resorts on the east coast to the rolling chalk hills of the Lincolnshire Wolds and the fenland area of the south-east. The area has been settled since prehistoric times, the Romans... -
Roughing it by Mark Twain 9780140390100
RRP: $29.23$21.35A fascinating picture of the American frontier emerges from Twain's fictionalized recollections of his experiences prospecting for gold, speculating in timber, and writing for a succession of small Western newspapers during the 1860s.About the AuthorBorn... -
Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk by Len Deighton
RRP: $19.48$14.27'Deighton has a desire, unobtrusive but inflexible, to see the truth ... Blitzkrieg is full of insights' Financial TimesThis is the story of the Nazi conquest of western Europe, from Hitler's rise to power and 'lightning-fast war', to his fatal mistake... -
Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison 9780007486984
RRP: $25.33$18.21Aristocrat, literary celebrity, 'Rose Queen', devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast - Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. Vita Sackville-West was a... -
The Memoirs of Karl Doenitz: Ten Years and Twenty Days by Karl Donitz
RRP: $38.98$28.63The story of the last world war, as told by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz himself. His memoir covers his early career with submarines in the First World War and follows both his successes and failures through the Second World War, with great detail on the... -
In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History by Dominic Lieven
RRP: $68.25$48.15From the acclaimed Wolfson Prize-winning author, a dazzling history of the world's emperorsFor millennia much of the world was ruled by emperors: a handful of individuals claimed no limit to the lands they could rule over and no limit to their authority... -
Amphibious Assault Falklands: the Battle of San Carlos Water by Michael Clapp 9781844155064
RRP: $35.08$26.03Since he was in charge of the amphibious operations in the Falklands War, it goes without saying that there is no one better qualified to tell the story of that aspect of the campaign than Commodore Michael Clapp. Here he describes, with considerable... -
Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of by Benjamin Ferencz
RRP: $19.48$11.66'I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'This book...is the stuff folk tales are made of. How wonderful that sometimes they are true' - MARTIN FREEMANWhat a century of life... -
Troy: myth and reality by Alexandra Villing 9780500480557
RRP: $78.00$55.67Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid. These have been retold over the centuries by writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Madeline Miller and Rick Riordan, and enacted by stars such as Elizabeth... -
Losing the Battle, Winning the War: How we can all defy the odds we're given by Ben Parkinson 9780751580259
RRP: $21.43$13.01Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Pattern Under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk Life of East Anglia by George Ewart Evans 9781908213099
RRP: $29.25$21.37In 1948, shortly after settling with his family in the village of Blaxhall, Suffolk, George Ewart Evans started recording the conversations he had with neighbours, many of whom were born in the nineteenth century and had worked on farms before the... -
Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson Alison Wilson 9781472132352
RRP: $19.48$13.46Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was worldly... -
The Siegfried Line: Then and Now by Daniel Taylor 9781399048538
RRP: $48.75$40.85Lead author Karel Margry, with material by Winston Ramsey and Charles P Stacey Editor: Daniel Taylor Text: Approx 63,000 words in main account plus 31,000 word in captions. Up to 700 images including maps, photographs and illustrations. Of these,... -
The Old Straight Track Alfred Watkins 9781800249523
RRP: $19.48$15.15A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside. First published in 1925, The Old Straight Track described the author's theory of... -
A Guide to Wytham Woods by Nigel Fisher
RRP: $15.58$9.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399928397Author Nigel FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Wytham WoodsPublisher Wytham Woods -
The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother by Ulinka Rublack 9780198736783
RRP: $29.23$21.35Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three... -
Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia by Max Egremont
RRP: $29.23$21.70East Prussia is no longer on any map, though it was once a thriving land, famously military, deeply forested, artistically fertile, and the birthplace of Immanuel Kant. As the scene of Stalin's 'terrible revenge' it came to embody the turbulence of the... -
Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic by Adam Shoalts
RRP: $31.18$21.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Award for English Non-Fiction 2020.Book InformationISBN 9780735236851Author Adam ShoaltsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint... -
The Meakin Diaries - Sheffield in the Trenches by Penny Meakin 9781849638883
RRP: $21.43$15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849638883Author Penny MeakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered by Henry McDonald
RRP: $35.08$30.95To look at Martin McGuinness' life is to follow Northern Ireland's own transition from conflict to peace. Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered tells the remarkable story of McGuinness' journey from IRA leader to deputy first minister of Northern Ireland,... -
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson 9780195049831
RRP: $36.06$27.65The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today.About the AuthorKenneth T. Jackson, Professor of History at Columbia... -
The Martini-Henry Rifle by Stephen Manning
RRP: $31.18$22.64The breech-loading, single-shot .458in Martini-Henry rifle has become a symbol of both the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and the numerous battles in Egypt and the Sudan in 1884-85, but continued to be used by both British and colonial troops well into the 20th... -
World War III?: The Battle for Ukraine by Yuri Felshtinsky 9781783341917
RRP: $39.00$32.04The Ukrainian bestseller that predicted the invasion, revised and updated, now available in the English languageBook InformationISBN 9781783341917Author Yuri FelshtinskyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Gibson Square Books LtdPublisher Gibson Square... -
Manchester: Something Rich and Strange by Paul Dobraszczyk
RRP: $25.33$18.80What is Manchester? Moving far from the glitzy shopping districts and architectural showpieces, away from cool city-centre living and modish cultural centres, this book shows us the unheralded, under-appreciated and overlooked parts of Greater Manchester... -
Death of Mr Dodsley: A London Bibliomystery by John Ferguson 9780712354721
RRP: $19.48$13.65'A bookshop is a first-rate place for unobtrusive observation,' he continued. 'One can remain in it an indefinite time, dipping into one book after another, all over the place.' Mr. Richard Dodsley, owner of a fine second-hand bookshop on Charing... -
Historopedia - The Story of Ireland From Then Until Now by Kathi Burke
RRP: $50.68$37.21It's A Time-Travelling Journey Through Ireland ... It's A Historopedia! Buckle up and get ready to travel back in time with John and Fatti Burke's new adventure through Ireland's history. This breathtakingly exciting book discovers Ireland, era by... -
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Women's Movement by Laura Swan 9781629190082
RRP: $21.43$14.82The beguines began to form in various parts of Europe over eight hundred years ago. Beguines were laywomen, not nuns, and they did not live in monasteries. They practiced a remarkable way of living independently, and they were never a religious order or...