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The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate by Wilferd Madelung 9780521646963
RRP: $60.43$47.27In a comprehensive study of early Islamic history, Wilferd Madelung examines the conflict which developed after Muhammad's death for the leadership of the Muslim community. He pursues the history of this conflict through the reign of the four 'Rightly... -
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings by Jean Manco
RRP: $25.33$17.22Who are the Europeans? Where did they come from? In recent years scientific advances have yielded a mass of new data, turning cherished ideas upside down. The idea of migration in prehistory, so long out of favour, is back on the agenda. Visions of... -
King Cnut and the Viking Conquest of England 1016 by W. B. Bartlett
RRP: $21.43$15.35The Viking Conquest of England in 1016 - a far tougher and more brutal campaign than the Norman Conquest exactly half a century later - saw two great warriors, the Danish prince Cnut and his equally ruthless English opponent King Edmund Ironside, fight... -
Russia and the USSR, 1855-1991: Autocracy and Dictatorship by Stephen J. Lee
RRP: $72.13$63.43From a renowned name in A Level history publishing, this is a Questions and Analysis title on a major period in Russian History. With all three exam boards offering modules on this popular subject at A Level, this book is an absolute must-have.Looking at... -
Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Elite Selous Scouts by Tim Bax 9781909384293
$73.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384293Author Tim BaxFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Study of Dress History by Lou Taylor
RRP: $48.75$48.46Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the... -
Strange Animals by Tom Jackson
RRP: $38.98$26.62How does a mudskipper fish manage to "walk" on land? Why is the Hoatzin also known as 'The Stinkbird'? And once the female Pipa toad has laid her eggs, where does she put them? The answers? The mudskipper can "walk" using its pectoral fins, the Hoatzin... -
Workhouses of London and the South East by Peter Higginbotham 9780750987776
RRP: $37.03$28.51Our image of workhouses has often been coloured by the writings of authors such as Charles Dickens. But what was the reality? Where exactly were all these institutions located - and what happened to them? You might be surprised to discover that a... -
People Like Us: Margaret Thatcher and Me by Caroline Slocock 9781785904608
RRP: $19.48$14.37As a young civil servant, Caroline Slocock became the first ever female private secretary to any British Prime Minister, and was at Margaret Thatcher's side for the final eighteen months of her premiership. A left-wing feminist, Slocock was no natural... -
The French in London by Isabelle Janvrin 9781908524652
RRP: $25.33$16.97Ever since 1066 there has been a substantial French presence in London. It is now said to be the sixth most populous French city and this book illustrates, explains, and exposes how this came about over more than a 1000 years. Full of individual stories... -
The Jewish Revolt AD 66-74 by Si Sheppard
RRP: $33.13$23.95In AD 66 a local disturbance in Caesarea caused by Greeks sacrificing birds in front of a local synagogue exploded into a pan-Jewish revolt against their Roman overlords. Gaining momentum, the rebels successfully occupied Jerusalem and drove off an... -
The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five by Livy
RRP: $21.43$15.58`the fates ordained the founding of this great city and the beginning of the world's mightiest empire, second only to the power of the gods' Romulus and Remus, the rape of Lucretia, Horatius at the bridge, the saga of Coriolanus, Cincinnatus called... -
Memoirs Of A Revolutionary by Victor Serge
RRP: $27.28$18.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174517Author Victor SergeFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
Roman Plate Armour by M.C. Bishop
RRP: $27.28$19.21Fully illustrated, this book investigates the articulated plate armour worn by Roman legionaries. First named by Renaissance historians studying the reliefs on Trajan's Column, lorica segmentata evaded successful attempts to reconstruct it until a... -
Operation Zitadelle 1943: The Greatest Tank Battle by Mark Healy
RRP: $25.33$19.25In July 1943, Hitler launched Operation Zitadelle, the last German offensive on the Eastern Front. It was an attempt to shorten the German lines by eliminating the Kursk salient and was designed to result in the encirclement of the Red Army. In reality,... -
Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451473011Author Nick OffermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 300g -
The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979 by Michel Foucault
RRP: $48.73$42.47Foucault continues on the theme of his 1978 course by focusing on the study of liberal and neo-liberal forms of government and concentrating in particular on two forms of neo-liberalism: German post-war liberalism and the liberalism of the Chicago School... -
Britain's War Against the Slave Trade: The Operations of the Royal Navy s West Africa Squadron, 1807 1867 by Anthony Sullivan 9781399000017
RRP: $29.23$27.87Long before recorded history, men, women and children had been seized by conquering tribes and nations to be employed or traded as slaves. Greeks, Romans, Vikings and Arabs were among the earliest of many peoples involved in the slave trade, and across... -
The History of Rome by Michael Grant
RRP: $33.13$22.58From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in peace, so that even today her poets, artists, philosophers and historians... -
The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000-264 BC) by Tim Cornell
RRP: $58.48$52.73Using the results of archaeological techniques, and examining methodological debates, Tim Cornell provides a lucid and authoritative account of the rise of Rome.The Beginnings of Rome offers insight on major issues such as:Rome's relations with the... -
The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire by Stephen Bown
RRP: $35.08$24.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385694094Author Stephen BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USAPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 by Timothy Snyder 9780300105865
RRP: $38.98$33.87From the bestselling author of On Tyranny comes a revealing history of the four modern national ideas that arose from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth "[A] fresh and stimulating look at the path to nationhood."-Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs ... -
Origins of the Gods: Qesem Cave, Skinwalkers, and Contact with Transdimensional Intelligences by Andrew Collins
RRP: $35.08$22.76A detailed examination of the role played by shamanism and communication with higher intelligences in the development of ancient civilizations* Explores how our ancestors used shamanic rituals at sacred sites to create portals for communication with... -
HMS Victory by Jonathan Eastland 9781848320949
RRP: $29.23$21.35HMS Victory is probably the best-known historic ship in the world. A symbol of the Royal Navy's achievements during the great age of sail, she is based in Portsmouth and seen by tens of thousands of visitors each year.As is the case for many historic... -
German Tanks in Normandy 1944: The Panzer, Sturmgeschutz and Panzerjager forces that faced the D-Day invasion by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $25.33$17.92A new study of the German Panzer forces that stood between the Allies' D-Day beachhead and victory in World War II - how they compared, how they were organized, and how they fought. The German tank forces in Normandy in June-August 1944 had the... -
The Mediterranean in History by David Abulafia
RRP: $25.33$17.22The Mediterranean has been the meeting-place of the cultures of Europe, Asia and Africa, the battleground of races and nations and the focus of three great religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. David Abulafia, doyen of Mediterranean scholars,... -
Deception: Pakistan, The United States and the Global Nuclear Weapons Conspiracy by Adrian Levy 9781843545354
RRP: $58.50$43.97Deception reveals how Pakistan built a nuclear arsenal with US aid money and sold the technology to countries hostile to the West, while giving shelter to the resurgent Taliban and al-Qaeda. It also reveals the much larger deception: how every American... -
US Airborne Soldier vs German Soldier by David Campbell
RRP: $25.33$17.92The US Airborne force fielded some of the toughest, best-trained and most resourceful troops of World War II - all necessary qualities in a force that was lightly armed and which would in most operational circumstances be surrounded from the moment it... -
The Fresh and the Salt: The Story of the Solway by Ann Lingard
RRP: $48.75$32.35Shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year Firths and estuaries are liminal places, where land meets sea and tides meet freshwater. Their unique ecosystems support a huge range of marine and other wildlife: human activity too is profoundly... -
Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women by Elaine Farrell 9780241994320
RRP: $21.43$15.58The Number 1 Bestseller'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner* * *Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth... -
Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar: Chinese and Indian Migrants to the British West Indies, 1838-1918 by Walton Look Lai
RRP: $58.50$53.33In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies-with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major... -
Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present, and Future by Michael B. A. Oldstone
RRP: $35.08$25.99More people were killed by smallpox during the twentieth century--over 300 million--than by all of the wars of that period combined. In 1918 and 1919, influenza virus claimed over 50 million lives. A century later, influenza is poised to return, ongoing... -
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb
RRP: $21.43$15.89No one knows a city like the people who live there - so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1750 to the new millennium, Graham Robb's Parisians is at once a book to read from cover to cover, to... -
The Manner of Men: 9 PARA's Heroic D-Day Mission Stuart Tootal 9781848546790
RRP: $25.33$16.97In June 1944, an elite unit of British paratroopers was sent on a daring and highly risky behind-the-lines mission, which was deemed vital to the success of D-Day. Dropping ahead of the main Allied invasion, 9 PARA were tasked with destroying an... -
Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from Aanaar by August V. Koskimies 9780299319045
RRP: $44.75$42.63A rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sami oral tradition available in English to date. Collected by August V. Koskimies and Toivo I. Itkonen... -
The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage by S. L. MacGregor Mathers 9780486232119
RRP: $28.26$18.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486232119Author S. L. Macgregor MathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Storming Eagles: German Airborne Forces in World War II James Lucas 9781800329850
RRP: $23.38$15.00Unstoppable and deadly, this is the gripping story of some of the most feared soldiers in the warThe daring, courage and skill of the highly-trained men who spearheaded German assaults in the blitzkrieg of 1940, dropping from the air to seize and... -
Prisoners on Cannock Chase: Great War PoWs and Brockton Camp by Pursehouse, Richard
RRP: $38.98$28.63Over the course of many years Richard Pursehouse has painstakingly unravelled the story of a First World War prisoner of war camp which held captured German personnel in the very heart of the English countryside. He first became aware of the existence... -
Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels: 1870 - 1914 by Les Brown
RRP: $78.00$54.93The self-propelled or locomotive torpedo was probably the greatest game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time the largest warship could be sunk by a weapon carried by the smallest, and most navies were quick to see the potential... -
Ancient Assyria: A Very Short Introduction by Karen Radner
RRP: $17.53$12.97Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of Assyria from city state to empire, from the early 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 7th century BC. Since...