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Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea by Teffi
RRP: £12.99£8.56BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Wonderfully idiosyncratic, coolly heartfelt and memorable' William Boyd'One of the great writers of early 20th Century Russia' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A remarkable memoir . . . both potent and endearing' Erica Wagner, New... -
The Age of Cats: From the Savannah to Your Sofa by Jonathan B. Losos
RRP: £22.00£14.98The past, present and future of the world's most popular and beloved pet, from a leading evolutionary biologist and great cat lover. 'Engaging and wide-ranging ... The Age of Cats is a readable and... -
The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £27.99£24.54"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in... -
Scunthorpe Murders by Douglas Wynn
RRP: £14.99£11.55This chilling collection of murder cases delves into some of the villainous deeds that have taken place in Scunthorpe's past. Among those featured are a woman who beat her teenage daughter to death for refusing to get out of bed, a steelworker who... -
Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties by Peter Doggett
RRP: £25.00£16.53'An excellent book' David Aaronovitch, The TimesWas the 1960s really that great time of liberation, joyful experimentation and celebration of youth? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.No era in recent... -
The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Class Against Class by Sean Matgamna 9781909639263
RRP: £8.99£7.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639263Author Sean MatgamnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Phoenix PressPublisher Phoenix PressWeight(grams) 384g -
Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain by Verity Wilson
RRP: £25.00£18.62Pierrot, Little Bo Peep, cowboy: these characters and many more form part of this colourful story of dressing up, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Fancy dress became a regular part of people's social lives... -
Woodbridge: A Personal History Robert Simper 9781916470507
RRP: £19.99£16.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916470507Author Robert SimperFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Three Crowns PressPublisher Three Crowns Press -
Inside The Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Ray Monk 9780099433538
RRP: £18.99£14.01J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develop the first atomic bomb - a breakthrough which was to... -
Sapper Dorothy: the Only English Woman Soldier in the Royal Engineers 51st Division, 79th Tunnelling Co. During the First World War by Dorothy Lawrence 9780857061355
£9.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857061355Author Dorothy LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Leonaur LtdPublisher Leonaur LtdWeight(grams) 150g -
British Coastal Forces: Two World Wars and After by Norman Friedman
RRP: £50.00£35.22The Royal Navy invented the fast motor torpedo boat during the First World War, and used it and other small coastal craft to great effect during the Second. This book tells the dramatic story of British coastal forces, both offensive and defensive, in... -
Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography by Claire Harman 9780241964439
RRP: £15.99£11.61Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years' Sarah Waters The poet Sylvia Townsend Warner rose to sudden fame with the publication of her classic feminist novel Lolly... -
Writings from Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives pass away. But writings make him remembered'In ancient Egypt, words had magical power. Inscribed on tombs and temple walls, coffins and statues, or inked onto papyri, hieroglyphs give us a... -
A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina's nightmare A Graham-Yooll 9781906011345
RRP: £13.99£9.20For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald. All around him friends and acquaintances were "disappearing". Although the slightest mistake might have caused his own disappearance, he did not shrink from... -
Japanese Combined Fleet 1941–42: The IJN at its zenith, Pearl Harbor to Midway by Mark Stille 9781472856432
RRP: £15.99£11.61Launching Osprey's new Fleet series, this is a spectacularly illustrated, concise and comprehensive account of the Imperial Japanese Navy's striking force at the height of its power. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) entered the Pacific War as one of... -
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F. Vermeulen
RRP: £32.00£29.21The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics. Before Boas delves deeper into issues concerning anthropology's academic origins to present a groundbreaking study... -
Homo Sapiens Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution Rewriting Our Origins by Paul Pettitt
RRP: £25.00£16.78An expert palaeoarchaeologist reveals how our understanding of the evolution of our species has been transformed by momentous discoveries and technological advancements. Who are we? How do scientists define Homo sapiens, and how does our species... -
The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana by Richard Aldrich
RRP: £25.00£17.59A Daily Mail Book of the Year and a The Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2021'Monumental.. Authoritative and highly readable.' Ben Macintyre, The Times'A fascinating history of royal espionage.' Sunday Times'Excellent... Compelling' GuardianFor the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology by Barry Cunliffe
£41.09Archaeology is a vast subject - it is the study of human society everywhere in the world, from distant human origins 3-4 million years ago up to the present day. The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology brings together 35 authors - all specialists in their own... -
My Heart My Mother: Death and Rebirth in Ancient Egypt by Alison Roberts
RRP: £16.99£11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952423317Author Alison RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 265Imprint Northgate PublishersPublisher Northgate PublishersWeight(grams) 707g -
The Architectural History of Venice: Revised and enlarged edition by Deborah Howard
£27.93This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated and filled with splendid new illustrations, this edition... -
A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War by Patricia Fara
RRP: £12.99£9.612018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who... -
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-95 by Joe Sacco
RRP: £18.99£14.72In late 1995 and early 1996, cartoonist/reporter Joe Sacco travelled four times to Gorazde, a UN-designated safe area during the Bosnian War, which had teetered on the brink of obliteration for three and a half years. Still surrounded by Bosnian Serb... -
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise by Scott Rozelle
RRP: £16.00£12.53As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China,... -
The Last Heroes: Voices of British and Commonwealth Veterans by Gary Bridson-Daley 9780750985734
RRP: £20.00£15.44The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In addition to remembering those that passed away in those dark days of war, a sincere debt of gratitude is owed... -
Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon by Rory Muir 9780300082708
RRP: £20.00£16.98What was it like to be a soldier on a Napoleonic battlefield? What happened when cavalry regiments charged directly at one another? What did the generals do during battle? Drawing on memoirs, diaries, and letters of the time, this dramatic book explores... -
The Poisonous Solicitor: The True Story of a 1920s Murder Mystery by Stephen Bates
RRP: £18.99£12.48SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEY'CAREFUL AND COMPELLING' KATE MORGAN'YOU... -
Selling Trump: Fear and Loathing on the Trump Reelection Campaign by Michael Bender
RRP: £25.00£19.21Beginning with President Trump's first impeachment and ending with his second, FRANKLY, WE DID WIN THIS ELECTION chronicles the inside-the-room deliberations between Trump and his campaign team as they opened 2020 with a sleek political operation built... -
Freedom Fighter: My War Against ISIS on the Frontlines of Syria by Joanna Palani
RRP: £9.99£6.70Evening Standard's January 2019 Book of the WeekThe gripping story of one woman's war against ISIS on the frontlines of Syria.Joanna Palani made headlines across the world when her role fighting ISIS in the Syrian conflict was revealed. She is one of a... -
Luftwaffe Search Lights and Range Finding Equipment by Alan Ranger 9788367227179
RRP: £15.00£14.21This new photo album is number 31 in the MMPBooks/Stratus "Camera On" series and is the first to cover such equipment as Luftwaffe search lights and range finding equipment the book contains 140+ photographs of equipment. The majority of the photos being... -
Gainsborough: A Portrait James Hamilton 9781474601061
RRP: £12.99£8.60** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas... -
Luftwaffe Over Scotland: A History of German Air Attacks on Scotland, 1939-45 Les Taylor 9781849950008
RRP: £17.99£14.87Luftwaffe over Scotland is the first complete history of the air attacks mounted against Scotland by Nazi Germany during World War Two and undertakes a detailed examination of the strategy, tactics and politics involved on both sides, together with a... -
A Little Gay History of Wales by Daryl Leeworthy
RRP: £11.99£9.00A Little Gay History of Wales tells the compelling story of Welsh LGBT life from the Middle Ages to the present day. Drawing on a rich array of archival sources from across Britain, together with oral testimony and material culture, this pioneering study... -
The Blitz: The British Under Attack by Juliet Gardiner
RRP: £12.99£8.48From the author of 'Wartime' comes an outstanding history of the most sustained onslaught ever endured by Britain's civilian population - the Blitz. September 1940 marked the beginning of Nazi Germany's aerial attack on civilian Britain... -
The Book Of Unconformities Hugh Raffles 9781891241734
RRP: £21.99£14.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781891241734Author Hugh RafflesFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Verse Chorus Press,U.S.Publisher Puncture Publications -
The Boy from Boskovice: A Father's Secret Life by Vicky Unwin
RRP: £25.00£16.79Vicky Unwin had always known her father - an erstwhile intelligence officer and respected United Nations diplomat - was Czech, but it was not until a stranger turned up on her doorstep that she discovered he was also Jewish.So began a quest to discover... -
3 Para by Patrick Bishop
RRP: £10.99£7.77Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it. In April 2006,... -
A History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals by Brandon, Ed 9781399008730
RRP: £16.99£12.28From the Middle-Ages onwards, London's notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city's mad' locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial... -
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard 9780306926099
RRP: £16.99£12.18Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America's... -
Corgi Toys by Mick Overton
RRP: £8.99£6.02The Corgi model of James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 is the best-selling toy car ever produced and found a place in the hearts of children of all ages around the world. Corgi Toys was founded in Swansea in 1956 and was always highly innovative,...