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The Battle of Magersfontein: Victory and Defeat on the South African Veld, 10-12 December 1899 by Garth Benneyworth
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113795Author Garth BenneyworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Seleucid Army of Antiochus the Great: Weapons, Armour and Tactics by Plessis, Jean Charl Du 9781399091794
RRP: £25.00£17.62*The Seleucid Empire was a superpower of the Hellenistic Age, the largest and most powerful of the Successor States, and it's army was central to the maintenance of that power. Antiochus III campaigned, generally successfully, from the Mediterranean to... -
The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus by Professor Gunnar Broberg
RRP: £35.00£27.74A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and workCarl Linnaeus (1707-1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants... -
Napoleon's Wars: An International History, 1803-1815 by Charles J. Esdaile
RRP: £16.99£12.28No other soldier has provoked as much anger or as much fervour as Napoleon Bonaparte. Was he a monster, driven on by an endless, ruinous quest for military adventure - or was he a social and political visionary, brought down by petty reactionaries... -
Disney Mickey and Friends Colouring Book by Walt Disney 9781800785564
RRP: £10.99£8.18Colour in Mickey Mouse and friends in this all-new official Disney colouring book! Colour your way through a stunning collection of images of Mickey, Minnie, Donald Duck and more. Discover art from classic and new shorts, favourite books, comics, graphic... -
Violencia: A New History of Spain: Past, Present and the Future of the West Jason Webster 9781472129833
RRP: £12.99£8.60Spain has never worked as a democracy. Throughout the country's history only one system of government has ever enjoyed any real success: dictatorship and the use of violence.Violence, in fact, is what Spain is made of, lying at the heart of its culture... -
Picturing the Pacific by James Taylor
RRP: £25.00£19.88For over 50 years between the 1760s and the early 19th century, the pioneers who sailed from Europe to explore the Pacific brought back glimpses of this new world in the form of oil paintings, watercolours and drawings - a sensational view of a part of... -
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantine, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: £25.99£19.04In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was... -
OCR GCSE History SHP: The People's Health c.1250 to present Michael Riley 9781471860089
£21.93Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbookLet SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series,... -
The Eastern Front 1914-1917 by Norman Stone
RRP: £12.99£9.09A groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West. In this now-classic history he dispels the myths surrounding... -
Lancashire's Sacred Landscape: From Prehistory to the Viking Age by Linda Sever 9780752455877
RRP: £14.99£11.55Lancashire, situated in the north west of England, does not at first tend to conjure up an images of 'a sacred' landscape. But look at bit deeper and one will discover a vast array of sites of ritual and early worship. Archaeological remains of... -
The Battle of Gettysburg 1863 (2): The Second Day by Dr. Timothy Orr
RRP: £16.99£12.28This work provides an authoritative illustrated examination of the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, analyzing both grand strategy, and the tactical decisions of Day Two and the ensuing combat. July 2, 1863 was the bloodiest and most complicated... -
Votes For Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the pages of A History of Britain in 21 Women) by Jenni Murray
RRP: £7.99£5.79Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. ... -
Panzerartillerie: Firepower for the Panzer Divisions Thomas Anderson 9781472820242
RRP: £30.00£21.95The German Panzerartillerie was one of the key components of the Panzer divisions that were the spearhead of the German forces in the years when they overran most of Western Europe and reached as far as the gates of Moscow in the East. Warfare in the age... -
Netsuke: 100 miniature masterpieces from Japan Noriko Tsuchiya 9780714124810
RRP: £14.99£10.20Netsuke have once again come to the fore in the popular imagination of the public. In part this is due to the phenomenal success of Edmund De Waal's 2010 book, Hare with the Amber Eyes, which highlights a treasured netsuke collection that was challenged... -
Early Modern Europe, 1450-1789 by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
RRP: £29.99£27.67Covering European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, the third edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated with new scholarship and an emphasis on environmental history, travel and migration, race... -
Voices from the Front: the 16th Durham Light Infantry in Italy, 1943-1945 by Peter Hart 9781848844018
£16.45The Second World War is vanishing into the pages of history. The veterans were once all around us, but their numbers are fast diminishing. While still in their prime many recorded their memories with Peter Hart for the Imperial War Museum. As these old... -
CCEA AS-level History Student Guide: Russia (1914-1941) by Fin Lappin
£11.72Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions... -
Aberdeen in the Fifties and Sixties by David Smith 9781780911144
RRP: £14.99£10.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911144Author David SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB PublishingDimensions(mm) 260mm * 195mm * 15mm -
Art Deco Sculpture by Alastair Duncan
RRP: £75.00£50.25This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as 'Art Deco'. Whether designed as free-standing statuary for the domestic market or... -
1942: Britain at the Brink Taylor Downing 9781408713709
RRP: £20.00£12.05'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator.' Dan Snow, History HitEighty years ago, Britain stood at the brink of defeat. In 1942, a... -
Whale Tells a Tale by Russell Punter 9781474971508
RRP: £5.99£3.70How can Whale escape from four hungry sharks? By telling them a tale of treasure, perhaps? Find out in this latest edition to the popular Phonics Readers series. A funny rhyming story, specially written to develop phonemic awareness. With free online... -
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised - The Loch Ness Mystery: Phase 5 by Sarah Rice
RRP: £5.75£5.60Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that... -
Edward III (Penguin Monarchs): A Heroic Failure by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: £8.99£6.45The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackEdward III ruled England for fifty years. He was a paragon of kingship in the eyes of his contemporaries, the perfect king in those of later... -
Palaces of Power: The Birth and Evolution of London's Clubland by Stephen Hoare 9780750997270
RRP: £17.99£13.64The core of what we call St James's dates from the late seventeenth century, when large estates were leased by the Crown to the landed gentry after the Restoration in 1660. St James's clubs, coffee houses and institutions have been shaped by enterprise,... -
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 by John C. McManus
RRP: £31.99£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593186886Author John C. McManusFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian
RRP: £32.49£23.01The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding... -
The Long Night: A True Story Ernst Israel Bornstein 9781592644407
RRP: £12.99£7.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592644407Author Ernst Israel BornsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Toby Press LLC, ThePublisher Toby Press LLC, The -
Geography Is Destiny: Britain's Place in the World, a 10,000 Year History by Ian Morris
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel 'Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming 10,000 years of history into a single book' Robert Colvile,... -
After Hitler: The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe Michael Jones 9781848544963
RRP: £12.99£8.60On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Doenitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in... -
Chalfont St Peter & Gerrards Cross by Colin Seabright 9780752424934
RRP: £14.99£11.55A history of Chalfont St Peter & Gerrards CrossBook InformationISBN 9780752424934Author Colin J. SeabrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy 9780750999298
RRP: £25.00£18.54Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables, made dead drops, and maintained the agency's secrets. Despite discrimination -... -
The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution by Timothy Tackett
RRP: £20.95£17.28Between 1793 and 1794, thousands of French citizens were imprisoned and hundreds sent to the guillotine by a powerful dictatorship that claimed to be acting in the public interest. Only a few years earlier, revolutionaries had proclaimed a new era of... -
All The King's Men: The British Redcoat in the Era of Sword and Musket by Saul David
RRP: £12.99£9.09Saul David's All The King's Men is a thrilling history of the British Redcoat from the English Civil War to Waterloo.Between 1660 and 1815 British supremacy on foreign soil was near total. Central to this success was the humble redcoat soldier who showed... -
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister Nicholas Shakespeare 9781784701000
RRP: £12.99£9.09A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds.'A gripping story of Churchill's unlikely rise to power' Observer London, May 1940. Britain is under threat of invasion and... -
Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA by Richard English
RRP: £16.99£12.47A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the paperback edition. 'An essential book ..... -
One Fine Day by Ian Marchant
RRP: £20.00£13.75A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must,... -
Fleet Air Arm Boys: Volume One: Air Defence Fighter Aircraft Since 1945 True Tales From Royal Navy Aircrew, Maintainers and Handlers by Steve Bond
RRP: £20.00£14.69The RAF's continuing role in the projection of air power in the defence of the United Kingdom and its overseas interests since the end of the Second World War is well known. However, the same cannot always be said about the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm... -
Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages by Mark Gregory Pegg
RRP: £27.99£23.61Beatrice's Last Smile is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the beginning of the sixteenth. This book focuses on slow formation of Latin Christendom over a millennium in the aftermath of the... -
The Battlecruiser Hood by John Roberts
RRP: £16.99£13.56The destruction of the HMS Hood by the Bismarck in 1941 was one of the most shocking episodes in the history of the Royal Navy. Built during World War I, the Hood was the largest, fastest and one of the most handsome capital ships in the world. For...