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The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey through Human History by Susanna Forrest
RRP: £12.99£8.56Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of meat, an industrial and agricultural machine, a luxury good, a cherished dancer, a comrade in arms and a symbol of a mythical past. From the wild tarpans... -
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow Karl Schloegel (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt) 9781509554928
RRP: £12.99£8.60Can a drop of perfume tell the story of the twentieth century? Can a smell bear the traces of history? What can we learn about the history of the twentieth century by examining the fate of perfumes? In this remarkable book, Karl Schloegel unravels the... -
The Rise of Rome: Books One to Five by Livy
RRP: £10.99£7.77`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... -
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
RRP: £12.99£9.09'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a... -
A History of the World with the Women Put Back in by Kerstin Lucker 9780750989091
RRP: £20.00£15.44'Who says that daughters cannot be heroic?' Once upon a time, history was written by men, for men and about men. Women were deemed less important, their letters destroyed, their stories ignored. Not any more. This is the story of women who went to war,... -
No Free Parking: The Curious History of London's Monopoly Streets by Nicholas Boys Smith 9781789465419
RRP: £9.99£7.27'Highly entertaining' - The Times'A hymn book to the London street' - TLSFrom the Roman marching along the ancient Old Kent Road to the rattling newspaper presses of Fleet Street, from Dickensian iron and fog to the neon lights of the twenty-first... -
Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson 9781474605656
RRP: £12.99£6.52On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America's entry into the Second World War. With vivid prose and astonishing detail, Craig Nelson combines thrilling... -
Fate Deals a Hand: The Slippery Fortunes of Titanic’s Professional Gamblers by George Behe
RRP: £20.00£15.04During the early twentieth century, professional gamblers were such a scourge in the smoking rooms of trans-Atlantic passenger liners that White Star Line warned its passengers about them. In spring 1912 three professional gamblers travelled from the USA... -
All Along the Echo: ‘One of the best novels of 2022’ The Telegraph, ***** by Danny Denton
RRP: £8.99£6.08'A cyclone of a novel' Guardian'An absolute marvel' Max Porter, bestselling author of Lanny'Dancing and dodging, surprising and poignant' Lisa McInerney, bestselling author of The Rules of RevelationTony Cooney, a middle-aged radio talk-show host, takes ... -
George III (Penguin Monarchs): Madness and Majesty by Jeremy Black
RRP: £14.99£11.35King of Britain for sixty years and the last king of what would become the United States, George III inspired both hatred and loyalty and is now best known for two reasons: as a villainous tyrant for America's Founding Fathers, and for his madness, both... -
A Street in Arnhem by Robert J. Kershaw
RRP: £10.99£8.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711038288Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
The Last Slave Market: Dr John Kirk and the Struggle to End the East African Slave Trade Alastair Hazell 9781780336572
RRP: £10.99£7.40John Kirk was the only companion of explorer David Livingstone to emerge untainted from the disastrous, tragic expedition up the Zambezi river between 1859 and 1863. Three years later, Kirk returned to Africa, to the notorious island of Zanzibar, ancient... -
Scotland: Her Story: The Nation's History by the Women Who Lived It by Rosemary Goring
RRP: £12.99£8.56Scotland's history has been told many times, but never exclusively by its women. This book takes a unique perspective on dramatic national events as well as ordinary life, as experienced by women down the centuries. From the saintly but severe medieval... -
Seeking Sanctuary: A History of Refugees in Britain by Jane Marchese Robinson 9781526739612
RRP: £14.99£10.95"Seeking Sanctuary" explores the history of people looking for refuge in this country. It starts with those protestant refugees fleeing oppression and persecution from Catholic Spain who ruled the Netherlands in the 16th century. It traces successive... -
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: The Wild, Definitive Saga of Rock's Greatest Supergroup by David Browne 9780306922633
RRP: £14.99£11.66'In what is the most comprehensive biography of the group to date, Browne compiles a fun and fast-paced music history.... an authoritative chronicle.' --Publishers WeeklyThe first and most complete narrative biography of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young,... -
Beyond the Tower: A History of East London by John Marriott
RRP: £15.99£13.82From Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End, as it has been known, was the home to Shakespeare's first... -
Odette Jerrard Tickell 9780755316816
RRP: £10.99£7.40'I am a very ordinary woman to whom a chance was given to see human beings at their best and at their worst... I completely believe in the potential nobility of the human spirit.'During some of the darkest days of the Second World War, a young... -
The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism by Erez Manela 9780195378535
RRP: £25.49£17.61During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious Allied powers, a multitude of smaller nations and colonies held their breath, waiting to see how their fates would be decided. President Woodrow Wilson, in his... -
The King's Henchman: Henry Jermyn by Anthony Adolph 9781908096654
RRP: £9.99£9.61Charles II's succession to the throne came at a time of national turbulence: his father had been beheaded, Oliver Cromwell had usurped his right to reign. England was at sea among Europe's constantly shifting allegiances. But Henry Jermyn, a Suffolk... -
Forgotten History: Unbelievable Moments from the past by Jem Duducu
RRP: £10.99£7.25Not all history is recorded in school textbooks or cast into towering monuments that shape city skylines. Quite often the most intriguing (and most bizarre) bits are forgotten and fall away into obscurity. In this fascinating book, Jem Duducu shines... -
The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century by Lamar Waldron
RRP: £14.99£9.80Five decades after one of America's greatest tragedies, this compelling book pierces the veil of secrecy to document the small, tightly held conspiracy that killed President John F. Kennedy. It explains why he was murdered, and how it was done in a way... -
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World by Scott Reynolds Nelson
RRP: £25.00£18.68A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain-along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain,... -
First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower 9780062439666
RRP: £9.99£6.64From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the groundbreaking backstairs look at the White House, The Residence, comes an intimate, news-making look at the true modern power brokers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: the First Ladies, from Jackie Kennedy... -
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe by John Connelly
RRP: £22.00£18.36A sweeping narrative history of Eastern Europe from the late eighteenth century to todayIn the 1780s, the Habsburg monarch Joseph II decreed that henceforth German would be the language of his realm. His intention was to forge a unified state from his... -
Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922 by Ronan Fanning 9780571297405
RRP: £12.99£8.56This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the... -
Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire
RRP: £9.99£8.22This title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilisation.Book InformationISBN 9781583670255Author Aime... -
A Walk Against the Stream: A Rhodesian National Service Officer's Story of the Bush War by Tony Ballinger 9781910294437
£22.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910294437Author Tony BallingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Prehistory: A Very Short Introduction by Chris Gosden
RRP: £8.99£6.45Prehistory covers the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history, when our earliest ancestors, the Australopithecines, existed in Africa. But this is relatively recent compared to whole history of the earth of some 4.5 billion... -
Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830 - 1867 by Catherine Hall
£25.85Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth-century Englishness. English men and women in the mid-nineteenth century imagined themselves at the... -
Day Fighter Aces of the Luftwaffe 1943-45 by Neil Page 9781612008790
RRP: £19.99£16.05Around 500 Luftwaffe fighter pilots were awarded the Knight's Cross, accumulating huge numbers of missions flown. A similar number achieved more than 40 victories-more than the two leading USAF and RAF fighter pilots.This volume of Day Fighter Aces of... -
China's Last Empire: The Great Qing by William T. Rowe
RRP: £21.95£17.62In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three... -
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto - 75th Anniversary Edition by Mary Berg
RRP: £10.99£7.77Mary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939. She survived four years of Nazi terror, and managed to keep a diary throughout. This astonishing, vivid portrayal of life inside the Warsaw Ghetto ranks with the most significant... -
Crazy Horse: The Lakota Warrior's Life and Legacy by William Matson
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423657972Author William MatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc -
Prose Unseens for A-Level Latin: A Guide through Roman History Mathew Owen (Caterham School, UK) 9781474269162
RRP: £14.99£13.54This volume is designed to accompany the OCR A-Level specification in Latin (first teaching September 2016), with practice unseen passages from Livy, the set prose for Paper 1, together with passages from a selection of other writers to support Paper 2,... -
A History of Korea: An Episodic Narrative by Kyung Moon Hwang
RRP: £23.99£22.37Dynamic and meticulously researched, A History of Korea continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Assuming no prior knowledge, Hwang guides readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern... -
Hitler's Atrocities against Allied PoWs: War Crimes of the Third Reich by Philip Chinnery 9781526701879
RRP: £25.00£17.62Seventy years ago, the Nuremberg Trials were in full swing in Germany. In the dock were the leaders of the Nazi regime and most eventually received their just desserts. But what happened to the other war criminals? In June 1946, Lord Russell of... -
Africa: A Modern History by Guy Arnold
RRP: £40.00£29.08A magisterial and sweeping history of modern Africa.The end of the Second World War signalled the rapid end of the European African empires. In 1945, only four African countries were independent; by 1963, thirty African states created the Organization of... -
Burma 1942: Memoirs of a Retreat: The Diary of Ralph Tanner, KOYLI by R E S Tanner
RRP: £10.99£8.25In December 1941 a Japanese battalion of 143rd Regiment of 55th Division crossed the Burma-Siam border and seized Victoria Point, heralding the invasion of Burma. The first air raids on Rangoon were opposed by only two fighter squadrons - 16 P40s of the... -
Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present Max Boot 9780871406880
RRP: £17.99£15.79Invisible Armies presents an entirely original narrative of warfare, which demonstrates that, far from the exception, loosely organized partisan or guerrilla warfare has been the dominant form of military conflict throughout history. New York Times... -
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 by D. J. Taylor
RRP: £12.99£9.09Bright Young People/ Making the most of our youth/ They talk in the Press of our social success/ But quite the reverse is the truth. [Noel Coward]The Bright Young People were one of the most extraordinary youth cults in British history. A...