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The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China's Hidden Mountains by Choo Waihong
RRP: £14.99£10.04In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the 'Kingdom of Women'. A small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal... -
Mysterious Milton Keynes by James Willis 9781780912035
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780912035Author James WillisFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
German High Seas Fleet 1914–18: The Kaiser’s challenge to the Royal Navy by Angus Konstam 9781472856470
RRP: £15.99£11.61A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I. Seven years before the outbreak of World War I, the Imperial German Navy rebranded its... -
The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 by Timothy Snyder 9780300105865
RRP: £19.99£17.37From 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 ... -
Sisters of the Somme: True Stories from a First World War Field Hospital by Penny Starns
RRP: £9.99£7.55With First World War casualties mounting, there was an appeal for volunteers to train as front-line medical staff. Many women heeded the call: some responding to a vocational or religious calling, others following a sweetheart to the front, and some... -
Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan
RRP: £15.99£13.58Winner of the Society for Theatre Research Book Prize 2020 Vivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of the most pivotal roles in cinema history. Yet she was also... -
Too Much of Water: a gripping historical crime novel L C Tyler 9781472135063
RRP: £9.99£6.80'I was seduced from John Grey's first scene' Ann Cleeves1670. Eastwold, once one of the greatest ports in England, has been fighting a losing battle with the sea ever since it was granted its charter by King John. Bit by bit the waves have eaten the... -
Liverpool Walks Through History by David Lewis 9781780911205
£13.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911205Author David LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler - The Lost Masterpiece Horst Kruger 9781529113198
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An unsparing, honest and insightful memoir, that shows how private failure becomes national disaster' Hilary... -
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen 9781668002476
RRP: £28.99£17.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668002476Author Jeffrey RosenFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Little Book of Lincolnshire by Lucy Wood 9780750963619
RRP: £9.99£7.55The Little Book of Lincolnshire is a compendium of fascinating information about this historic county, past and present. Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Lincolnshire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns... -
Hostile Skies by David Morgan 9780753821992
RRP: £10.99£7.40The gripping personal story of a Falklands Fighter Ace.David Morgan, RAF officer and poet, relives his experiences during the Falklands War in this vivid memoir. On secondment to the Royal Navy when the Argentine invasion of the Falklands began and... -
The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas 9780141034492
RRP: £19.99£14.28Moving between Spanish conquest abroad and the court of the astute Charles V, Hugh Thomas's The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V is the second volume in a planned trilogy on the Spanish Empire. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in South... -
The Poisoner of Ptah (Amerotke Mysteries, Book 6): A deadly killer stalks the pages of this gripping mystery Paul Doherty 9780755328871
RRP: £9.99£6.80At a peace treaty signing between Egypt and Libya in Thebes, three of Egypt's leading scribes die violently on the Temple forecourt, the victims of a vile poisoning. To add to the mounting unease, a prosperous merchant and his young wife are found... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: £14.99£9.80Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineThe year 2022 marks 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This... -
The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure by Neil Churches 9781529060355
RRP: £10.99£7.77The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War - organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British jazz pianist and an American spy.In August 1944, the most successful POW escape of the Second World War... -
Veteranhood: Rage and Hope in British Ex-Military Life Joe Glenton 9781913462451
RRP: £10.99£7.00The military veteran is claimed by all sides. Conservatives, liberals and socialists all want to speak about and for ex-servicemen, yet far-right demonstrations are dotted with berets and medals and ex-military men have become celebrities of the... -
Night Raid: The True Story of the First Victorious British Para Raid of WWII by Taylor Downing
RRP: £9.99£5.96The loss of British bombers over Occupied Europe began to reach alarming levels in 1941. Could it be that the Germans were using a sophisticated form of radar to direct their night fighters and anti-aircraft guns at the British bombers? British aerial... -
The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison
RRP: £23.00£22.13The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion... -
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy
RRP: £25.00£17.59Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.'A triumph of biographical art.' Independent'Magnificent.'... -
Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City by John Burrowes
RRP: £11.99£8.43Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming together of a nation and a city. This is the tale of those who escaped a... -
The Final Frontier: Scotland's Early Roman Landscape by Andrew Tibbs 9781398117235
RRP: £15.99£10.85In this revealing book, Roman historian and archaeologist Andrew Tibbs uncovers the earliest Roman fortifications in Scotland and examines the landscape and context in which they were built. Although the most visible high-water marks of the Roman Empire... -
The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £16.99£12.92'Delightfully good ... an exuberant and learned celebration of British culture ... full of love for and fascination with everything from the origins of heavy metal in the metal-bashing industries of the West Midlands to John Lennon's and Damien Hirst's... -
Desert Cats: The RAF's Jaguar Force in the First Gulf War by Danny Burt
RRP: £30.00£20.95On 2 August 1990, Saddam Hussein's armed forces invaded and occupied Kuwait. A swift international response followed, which, led by the United States and the United Kingdom, saw the formation of a coalition that formed the largest military alliance seen... -
A Very Dangerous Locality: The Landscape of the Suffolk Sandlings in the Second World War by Robert Liddiard
RRP: £20.00£18.24This book examines the landscape archaeology of the Second World War on the section of the east coast of England known as the Suffolk Sandlings (the coastal strip from Lowestoft to Felixstowe), an area unusually rich in military archaeology. It was in... -
Widows of the Ice: The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind by Anne Fletcher 9781398117310
RRP: £10.99£7.25As Captain Scott lay freezing and starving to death on his return journey from the South Pole, he wrote with a stub of pencil his final words: 'For God's sake look after our people.' Uppermost in his mind were the three women who would now be widows:... -
Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate by Jeffrey C. Alexander 9780195326222
RRP: £36.99£30.70Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander's controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a... -
Liverpool Blitzed: Seventy Years On by Neil Holmes 9780857040794
RRP: £19.99£17.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857040794Author Neil HolmesFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HalsgrovePublisher HalsgroveWeight(grams) 210g -
Titanic: Minute by Minute by Jonathan Mayo 9781780726342
RRP: £10.99£7.402.20am on 15th April 1912, the Titanic is plunging 12,000 feet to the ocean floor. Machinery, coal, crystal goblets, pianos and jewellery all tumbled through the dark water. Hundreds of passengers and crew remained trapped below decks - hundreds more... -
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure by Tim Jeal
RRP: £12.99£8.56Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Samuel Baker, David... -
Samurai: A Very Short Introduction by Michael Wert
RRP: £8.99£6.45The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater,... -
Freedom'S Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman
RRP: £18.99£12.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982046Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)... -
The Greek Philosophers: from Thales to Aristotle by W. K. C. Guthrie 9780415522281
RRP: £12.99£11.94With an new foreword by James WarrenLong renowned as one of the clearest and best introductions to ancient Greek philosophy for non-specialists, W.K.C Guthrie's The Greek Philosophers offers us a brilliant insight into the hidden foundations of Greek... -
The Middle Ages: A Very Short Introduction by Miri Rubin
RRP: £8.99£6.45The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the... -
The Man on Devil's Island: Alfred Dreyfus and the Affair that Divided France by Ruth Harris 9780141014777
RRP: £14.99£10.95Winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2010 and the 2010 National Jewish Book Award for BiographyRuth Harris writes beautifully and engagingly on a moment in French history that polarized society and undermined the French state; the repercussions of which... -
US Navy Protected Cruisers 1883–1918 by Brian Lane Herder
RRP: £12.99£9.09Explores the history of the US Navy's 11 new steel warships, built during the late 19th century to advance American naval supremacy. After the American Civil War, the powerful US Navy was allowed to decay into utter decrepitude, and was becoming a... -
Channel of Peace: Stranded in Gander on 9/11 Kevin Tuerff 9781487005139
RRP: £12.99£8.63One of the inspirations for the smash hit Broadway musical Come From Away, Channel of Peace is an unforgettable memoir of the extraordinary kindness afforded to passengers whose flights were re-routed to Gander, Newfoundland, on September 11, 2001.When... -
Blood and Soil: The Memoir of A Third Reich Brandenburger by Giampietro, Sepp de 9781784383411
RRP: £25.00£18.02_ The author is a sympathetic narrator and he has told his story with genuine verve and style [His] South Tyrolean origins, and his role in the Brandenburg Division make the book very distinctive._' Roger Moorhouse. The Brandenburgers were Hitler's... -
On This Day She: Putting Women Back Into History, One Day At A Time by Tania Hershman
RRP: £25.00£17.79'A joyous and celebratory tribute to all those who battled to be heard, who fought for their achievements to be recognised and honoured, who simply kept going' Kate MosseThe tried and tested 'On This Day in History' format has elevated the stories of... -
Aristotle: De Anima by Aristotle 9780199243457
RRP: £34.99£33.48The Clarendon Aristotle Series is designed for both students and professionals. It provides accurate translations of selected Aristotelian texts, accompanied by incisive commentaries that focus on philosophical problems and issues, The volumes in the...