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Leith by Tom Wright 9781908373656
RRP: $12.89$9.38The Leith area possesses a highly distinct cultural and social identity, with a contentious history to its relationship with Edinburgh.Tom Wright opens the door to Leith's past by exploring its rich heritage through a comprehensive collection of black... -
An Army of Tribes: British Army Cohesion, Deviancy and Murder in Northern Ireland Edward Burke 9781786941039
RRP: $38.69$35.84This is the first such study of Operation Banner, the British Army's campaign in Northern Ireland. Drawing upon extensive interviews with former soldiers, primary archival sources including unpublished diaries and unit log-books, this book closely... -
Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius by Adrastos Omissi
RRP: $42.56$38.67Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius examines one of the most important literatures of the late Roman period - speeches of praise addressed to the reigning emperor - and the panegyrical culture of the late Roman world more generally. Unlike ... -
Tudor Power and Glory: Henry VIII and the Field of Cloth of Gold by Keith Dowen 9781913013004
RRP: $12.89$9.11The Field of Cloth of Gold was one of the greatest courtly spectacles of the sixteenth century. A carefully-orchestrated meeting outside Calais between Henry VIII and Francis I, it encapsulated Henry's imperial ambitions and confirmed the role of the... -
Book Of Fire: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Bloody Birth of the English Bible by Brian Moynahan
RRP: $19.34$12.64The great echoing phrases of the King James Bible that have boomed through the English-speaking mind for 400 years - an eye for an eye . . . eat, drink and be merry . . . . death, where is thy sting? . . . man shall not live by bread alone - are largely... -
Those of Us Who Must Die: Execution, Exile and Revival after the Easter Rising by Derek Molyneux
RRP: $20.63$16.71The 1916 Rising is one of the most documented and analysed episodes in Ireland's turbulent history. Often overlooked, however, is its immediate aftermath. This significant window in the narrative of Irish revolutionary history, which saw the rebirth of... -
Three Poets of the First World War by Wilfred Owen
RRP: $14.18$10.02This new selection brings together the poetry of three of the most distinctive and moving voices to emerge from the First World War. Here are the controlled passion and rich metaphors of Wilfred Owen's celebrated verses such as 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'... -
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War by Deborah Cohen
RRP: $14.18$9.35'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the... -
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How one Jewish woman survived the holocaust by Edith Hahn Beer
RRP: $15.47$10.32Edith Hahn was a young law student in Vienna when Hitler absorbed Austria in 1938. Madly in love with a young man called Pepi who was half-Jewish, she was separated from him and sent to a forced labour camp. So began the extraordinary chain of events... -
Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: $19.34$14.13Robin Lane Fox's Travelling Heroes: Greeks and their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer proposes a new way of thinking about ancient Greeks, showing how real-life journeys shaped their mythical tales. The tales of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for... -
Rhodesian Light Infantryman 1961-80 Neil Grant 9781472809629
RRP: $19.34$14.13The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed as a commando battalion in 1964 after the dissolution of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the RLI... -
10,000 Years of Art by Larry Ball 9780714849690
$7.5710,000 Years of Art is a compact guide to world art, offering a fresh perspective on the whole of art history from 8,000 BC to the present day. Organized in chronological order, the 500 works of art presented here cover all cultures (not just western)... -
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey From the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau by Alex Kershaw
RRP: $16.76$11.73_______________________The true story behind the hit NETFLIX dramaFrom the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau, no World War II infantry unit in Europe saw more action or endured worse than the one commanded by Felix Sparks.The US Army 157th... -
The Napoleonic Mediterranean: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire by Michael Broers
$71.30The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed... -
Bronze Age Greek Warrior 1600-1100 BC Raffaele D'Amato (Author) 9781849081955
RRP: $19.34$14.13More than a century has passed past since German archeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovered the treasures of Bronze Age Mycenae. The richly decorated artefacts of the entombed warriors, whose bodies still lay in their graves, confirmed that Homer's epic... -
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
RRP: $16.76$11.04Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. Rowling is today: author of a series of children's books which shaped the imagination of a generation. Rooted in the heyday of the British Empire, Swallows and Amazons and its sequels described... -
Fight Like a Girl: An empowering self-defence guide for all women by Della O’Sullivan
RRP: $16.76$10.94'Fighting like a girl says I can be powerful in ways that are natural to me; I have access to power too - it may not look the same as your power, but it's there and I can claim it.' It should never be a woman's job to have to protect herself -... -
The Huguenots by Geoffrey Treasure
RRP: $21.92$19.36An unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots... -
Sunderland, Industrial Giant: Recollections of Working Life by Marie Gardiner 9780750981200
RRP: $19.34$14.90Sunderland was once one of Britain's industrial giants. Famous for its shipyards, mines and glass-making, it thrived at a time when its country needed it most. After the Second World War the town saw incredible change, as the heavy industry that seemed... -
She Who Struggles: Revolutionary Women Who Shaped the World by Marral Shamshiri 9780745348247
RRP: $21.92$14.89'Exhilarating and immensely valuable' Priyamvada Gopal, Professor at the University of Cambridge Rosa Luxemburg, Claudia Jones and Leila Khaled may have joined Lenin, Mao and Che in the pantheon of twentieth-century revolutionaries, but the histories... -
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Founding an Empire by Matthew Lewis
RRP: $16.76$10.94Henry II became King of England in 1154 after twenty years of civil war. He was the first Plantagenet king, the founder of England's most successful and longest-ruling dynasty. But Henry did not come to the throne alone. He had married Eleanor of... -
The Making of Home: The 500-year story of how our houses became homes by Judith Flanders
RRP: $16.76$11.73The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in this revealing book, 'home' is a relatively new... -
The Illustrated History of Coventry Suburbs to the end of the 20th Century. by David McGrory 9781780915715
RRP: $19.34$18.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780915715Author David McGroryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint JMD MediaPublisher JMD Media -
Algerian White by Assia Djebar 9781583225165
RRP: $16.76$11.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225165Author Assia DjebarFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 326g -
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel 9780674725867
RRP: $33.48$28.69Winner of the Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year | A Washington Post Book of the Year | A Bloomberg News Book of... -
Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization by Michael Rothberg
RRP: $30.95$27.40Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the... -
50 Gems of Lincolnshire: The History & Heritage of the Most Iconic Places by Michael Smith 9781398110694
RRP: $20.63$14.98Lincolnshire 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... -
The Battle of Marathon by Peter Krentz
RRP: $23.21$22.67A gripping account of the pivotal battle that changed Greek military history 2,500 years ago How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our... -
Chaucer's People: Everyday Lives in the Middle Ages Liza Picard 9781780228907
RRP: $16.76$11.09'A holiday in the complex, joyful, indelicate medieval world'John Higgs, author of Watling StreetChaucer's People is an absorbing and revealing guide to the Middle Ages, populated with Chaucer's pilgrims from The Canterbury Tales. These are lives spent... -
British Tank Crewman 1939-45 by Neil Grant
RRP: $19.34$14.13Great Britain had introduced the tank to the world during World War I, and maintained its lead in armoured warfare with the 'Experimental Mechanised Force' during the late 1920s, watched with interest by German advocates of Blitzkrieg. Despite these... -
The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club by Michael Wheeler
RRP: $51.60$43.33A compelling history of the famous London club and its members' impact on Britain's scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenaeum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the basis... -
Arms and Armour of the English Civil Wars by Keith Dowen 9780948092909
RRP: $16.76$11.60The English Civil Wars tore families and friendships apart, setting father against son and brother against brother. Raging across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, the conflict was the greatest political upheaval in the British Isles in six hundred... -
The Coal Black Sea: Winston Churchill and the Worst Naval Catastrophe of the First World War by Stuart Heaver
RRP: $25.80$19.40On the morning of 22 September 1914, just six weeks into the First World War, three Royal Navy armoured cruisers were sunk by a German U-boat in the southern North Sea. The action lasted less than 90 minutes but the lives of 1,459 men and boys were lost... -
A Grim Almanac of Sussex by W. H. Johnson 9780752465098
RRP: $23.21$17.60W.H. Johnson digs deep into Sussex's past, presenting the reader with centuries of criminality and vice, of wretched living conditions and blind fate which so often leads to appalling consequences. A Grim Almanac of Sussex chronicles the darker side of... -
Commander: The Life and Exploits of Britain's Greatest Frigate Captain by Stephen Taylor
RRP: $16.76$11.04Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as... -
New York Is . . . by Elisa Parhad
RRP: $12.89$10.42From the creators of Los Angeles Is . . . , a stylish board book that is an ode to the Big Apple, with rhyming couplets and colorful art New York is . . . buildings above, bridges to love, Broadway plays, bagels and lox. This stylish primer for toddlers... -
Fatal Colours: Towton, 1461 - England's Most Brutal Battle by George Goodwin
RRP: $14.18$9.55A gripping account of the Wars of the Roses battle of Towton - the most brutal day in English history.'Vivid, humane and superbly researched' David Starkey'The story has never been told so well or so excitingly' Desmond SewardThe Battle of Towton in 1461... -
Divided Kingdom: A History of Britain, 1900 to the Present by Pat Thane
RRP: $33.53$30.46How has the UK evolved into the country it is today? This clear, comprehensive survey of its history since 1900 explores the political, economic, social and cultural changes which have divided the nation and held it together, and how these changes were... -
The Methods and Skills of History: A Practical Guide by Michael J. Salevouris 9781118745441
RRP: $33.48$29.67Widely acclaimed for its accessibility and engaging approach to the subject, the fourth edition of The Methods and Skills of History combines theory and instruction with hands-on practice, making it a comprehensive guide to historical research and... -
War in Ukraine Volume 3: Armed Formations of the Luhansk People's Republic, 2014-2022 by Edward Crowther 9781804512173
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512173Author Edward CrowtherFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company