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Lorries in Britain: The 1990s by Carl Johnson
RRP: £15.99£10.85The 1990s were a time of change as British manufacturers struggled to keep pace with the times and the invasion of imported vehicles. However, what a lot of enthusiasts consider to be classics of their time were still to be seen dutifully earning their... -
The Oxford History of the British Army by David Chandler 9780192803115
RRP: £20.99£14.94From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf Campaign, from the Duke of Marlborough to Field Marshal Montgomery, this stimulating and informative book recounts the history of the British army from its medieval... -
The Great Journeys in History by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
RRP: £12.99£8.13Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book chronicles their stories and many more, describing epic voyages of discovery from the extraordinary... -
D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II by Sarah Rose 9780751578270
RRP: £9.99£6.80The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory, for fans of A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE by Sonia Purnell'Gripping: Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains,... -
Alamein: War Without Hate by John Bierman
RRP: £16.99£12.28'Excellent ... a remarkable achievement and ought to be recognised as one of the most successful histories of the Western Desert and North African fighting yet to have appeared' John Keegan, Daily TelegraphFor the British, the battle fought at El Alamein... -
Horrocks, The General Who Led from the Front by Philip Warner 9781526717160
RRP: £12.99£9.09Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks was a legend in his lifetime. He leapt to fame as a Brigade, Divisional and Corps Commander during the Second World War where his dashing style, good luck and easy manner won him huge respect and great success. He... -
Elizabeth: A Celebration in Photographs of the Queen's Life and Reign Jennie Bond 9781802796322
RRP: £25.00£16.38Fully revised and updated.Queen Elizabeth II was the longest-serving monarch in British history, with a reign even longer than Queen Victoria. Her extraordinary life is expertly portrayed by Jennie Bond, former BBC royal correspondent, in this... -
She's on the Money by Victoria Devine 9781761044137
£19.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761044137Author Victoria DevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House AustraliaPublisher Random House Australia -
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World by Wade Graham
RRP: £20.00£14.29Dream Cities is a lively, unique and accessible cultural history of modern cities which allows us to view them through the planning, design, architects and movements that inspired and built them. It explores our urban areas in a new way - as expressions... -
Pyramids: The Real Story Behind Egypt's Most Ancient Monuments Joyce Tyldesley 9781804363690
RRP: £12.99£8.18The extraordinary mysteries of the pyramids - revealedFrom the development of monumental architecture around 3,000 BC to the fabulous edifices that rose up from the desert plains of Giza, these are amongst the most remarkable structures in world history... -
The Pensive Image: Art as a Form of Thinking by Hanneke Grootenboer 9780226829449
RRP: £20.00£19.40Grootenboer considers painting as a form of thinking in itself, rather than a subject of philosophical and interpretive thought. While the philosophical dimension of painting has long been discussed, a clear case for painting as a form of visual... -
Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9780140444605
RRP: £12.99£9.09In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect.Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his... -
Armies of the Late Roman Empire AD 284 to 476: History, Organization and Uniforms by Gabriele Esposito 9781526730374
£23.06This guide to the Late Roman Army focusses on the dramatic and crucial period that started with the accession of Diocletian and ended with the definitive fall of the Western Roman Empire. This was a turbulent period during which the Roman state and its... -
The Death Ship of Dartmouth (Last Templar Mysteries 21): A fascinating murder mystery from 14th-century Devon Michael Jecks 9780755323029
RRP: £9.99£6.80When a body is found lying in the road, many in Dartmouth assume that a drunk had fallen and killed himself. At the same time, the town is on alert because a ship has been found ravaged by pirates out at sea, the crew killed or captured. Is this the... -
A Short Residence in Sweden & Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' by Mary Wollstonecraft
RRP: £12.99£9.09In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A Short Residence in Sweden is the record of... -
Mankind: The Story of All Of Us Pamela Toler 9780762447039
RRP: £25.00£17.38It takes more than 10 billion years to create just the right conditions on one planet for life to begin. It takes another three billion years of evolving life forms until it finally happens, a primate super species emerges: mankind. In conjunction with... -
The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution 'Old Ironsides' by Karl Heinz Marquardt
RRP: £25.00£19.28The Constitution was one of the US Navy's first six original frigates, ordered as a counter to the Barbary corsairs in the Mediterranean. Fast and heavily built, she was nominally rated as a 44 but mounted thirty 24-pdr and twenty-two 12-pdr cannon. Her... -
Homer: Iliad Book I by Seth L. Schein
RRP: £19.99£17.61Book I of the Iliad marks the beginning of the first surviving work of Greek literature. This edition with commentary enables readers at all levels to interpret the poetry with heightened pleasure and understanding. It provides help with the morphology,... -
Emperor: A New Life of Charles V by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: £17.99£15.79Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire "Masterly."-William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal "Seldom does one find a... -
The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother by John Ashdown-Hill
RRP: £9.99£7.55Less well-known than his brothers, Edward IV and Richard III, little has been written about George, Duke of Clarence, leaving us with a series of unanswered questions: What was he really like? What set him and his brother Edward IV against one another?... -
Before Endeavours Fade by Rose E.B. Coombs 9781870067621
RRP: £25.00£20.56NOW UPDATED AND IN COLOUR. From the Belgian coast, across the fields of Flanders, over the valley of the Somme and down the line to the Argonne: all the major battlefields of the First World War -- Ypres, Arras, Cambrai, Amiens, St Quentin, Mons, Le... -
Nixon's Gamble: How a President's Own Secret Government Destroyed His Administration by Ray Locker 9781493009312
RRP: £25.00£18.78After being sworn in as president, Richard Nixon told the assembled crowd that "government will listen. ... Those who have been left out, we will try to bring in." But that same day, he obliterated those pledges of greater citizen control of government... -
Understanding Early Christian Art Robin M. Jensen (University of Notre Dame, USA) 9781032105482
RRP: £35.99£31.69Surveying the content and character of early Christian iconography from the third to the sixth century CE, this substantially revised and updated new edition of Understanding Early Christian Art makes the critical tools of art historians accessible to... -
South Staffordshire Ironmasters by Ray Shill 9780752448312
RRP: £18.99£14.32Several generations have now passed since iron making and working was an important trade in the Black Country. It was started by itinerant bloomers, who moved their bloomeries around the district to make use of local supplies of ore, smelting it with... -
Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War Hugh Bicheno 9780753821862
RRP: £12.99£8.60The controversial memoir of a top British spy which finally reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the Falklands WarFor five years before the Falklands War, Hugh Bicheno was one of the top British spies in Argentina. As such, he gathered hard,... -
Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars by Kliph Nesteroff 9781419760983
RRP: £21.99£15.20From the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the culture wars There is a common belief that we live in unprecedented times, that people are too sensitive today, that nobody objected to the actions of actors,... -
London Underground Ghost Stories: Shiver Your Way from Station to Station by Jill Armitage
RRP: £4.99£3.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902674711Author Jill ArmitageFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bradwell BooksPublisher Bradwell Books -
A Secret Life: The Polish Colonel, His Covert Mission, And The Price He Paid To Save His Country by Benjamin Weiser
RRP: £14.99£12.32In August 1972, Ryszard Kuklinski, a highly respected colonel in the Polish Army, embarked on what would become one of the most extraordinary human intelligence operations of the Cold War. Despite the extreme risk to himself and his family, he contacted... -
Seven Myths of Military History by John D. Hosler
RRP: £19.99£16.44"This brief, provocative, and accessible book offers snapshots of seven pernicious myths in military history that have been perpetrated on unsuspecting students, readers, moviegoers, game players, and politicians. It promotes awareness of how myths are... -
Friends and Enemies: The Allies and Neutral Ireland in the Second World War by Karen Garner 9781526172037
RRP: £20.00£14.53This history of Anglo-American efforts to overturn Ireland's neutrality policy during the Second World War adds complexity to the grand narrative of the Western Alliance against the Axis Powers, exploring relatively unexamined emotional, personalised,... -
Pompeii: Public and Private Life by Paul Zanker 9780674689671
RRP: £33.95£27.41Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts us through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the... -
Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in the Second World War by Virginia Nicholson
RRP: £12.99£9.09In Millions Like Us Virginia Nicholson tells the story of the women's Second World War, through a host of individual women's experiences. We tend to see the Second World War as a man's war, featuring Spitfire crews and brave deeds on the Normandy beaches... -
Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds by Stuart Kells 9780522877250
RRP: £37.95£22.25The remote Kimberley region of Western Australia has a rich history and unique geography. In the 1960s De Beers, the world's largest diamond company, sent gem-hunters to the area but they came away empty-handed. It was a vast region to survey, and they'd... -
Homer: Odyssey Books VI-VIII by Homer
RRP: £27.99£24.27This is the first self-contained edition of Odyssey Books VI-VIII which together form a popular introduction to Homer for students of Greek, containing as they do the account of Odysseus' visit to the Phaeacians and including such famous episodes as... -
Hard Choices: What Britain Does Next by Peter Ricketts
RRP: £9.99£6.52SHORTLISTED FOR THE PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS'Thought-provoking and well worth reading' Times Literary SupplementAfter decades of peace and prosperity, the international order put in place after World War II is rapidly coming to an end. Disastrous... -
Empire's Crossroads: A New History of the Caribbean by Carrie Gibson
RRP: £12.99£9.26In Empire's Crossroads, Carrie Gibson offers readers a vivid, authoritative and action-packed history of the Caribbean. For Gibson, everything was created in the West Indies: the Europe of today, its financial foundations built with sugar money: the... -
Wellington's Spies by Mary McGrigor 9781526766960
RRP: £15.99£10.95Intelligence was just as important in the Napoleonic Wars as it is today. Then there was only one way of obtaining it by spies and informers. The Author uses first hand accounts of three of Wellingtons most daring and successful Intelligence Officers... -
Calamity Jane: The Life and Legend of Martha Jane Cannary by D. J. Herda
RRP: £13.99£10.84Young Martha Jane Cannary began life as a camp follower and street urchin. Parentless by the age of twelve, she morphed into the mother of two who just as often took employment as a waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl as she did an Indian scout or... -
The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives by Enda Delaney
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade. The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy... -
Greek Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy by David Stuttard
RRP: £16.99£11.94The Greek myths have a universal appeal, reaching far beyond the time and physical place in which they were created. But many are firmly rooted in specific settings: Thebes dominates the tragedy of Oedipus; Mycenae broods over the fates of Agamemnon and...