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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West by H. W. Brands 9781541672543
RRP: £15.99£14.26In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early 19th century to the closing of the frontier by the early 20th. He introduces us to explorers,... -
British Society Since 1945: The Penguin Social History of Britain by Arthur Marwick
RRP: £14.99£10.95High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of... -
England Under the Stuarts by G. M. Trevelyan
RRP: £19.99£17.69'While Germany boasts her Reformation and France her Revolution, England can point to her dealings with the House of Stuart.' - G.M. Trevelyan, from the IntroductionEngland Under the Stuarts is an outstanding and highly engaging account of English... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness,... -
Medieval Minds Pupil's Book Britain 1066-1500 by Jamie Byrom
£29.13Invokes curiosity and wonder to engage all pupils through arresting source material, thought-provoking enquiry and clear, vibrant pates. Supports development of thinking skills through progressive steps in each enquiry, which gradually build... -
Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King by Patrick Olivelle 9780300270006
RRP: £22.00£18.56An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history "Mr. Olivelle has produced an outstanding monument of scholarship and sound judgment."-Maxwell Carter, Wall... -
Apollo 11: The Moon Landing in Real Time by Ian Passingham
£17.30Half a century has passed since arguably the greatest feat of the twentieth century: when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11: The Moon Landing In Real Time brings the mission back to life as never before in a thrilling... -
New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq by Orit Bashkin
RRP: £21.99£19.19Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community-which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years-was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel. New Babylonians chronicles the lives of these Jews, their urban... -
Life in a Medieval Castle by Joseph Gies 9780062414793
RRP: £10.99£7.25"Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies." -George R.R. Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and... -
Rome Robert Hughes 9780753823057
RRP: £16.99£11.54A dazzling biography of the Eternal City - 'A tour of the great city with a great guide: who could do this better?' EVENING STANDARD.For almost a thousand years, Rome held sway as the spiritual and artistic centre of the world. Hughes vividly recreates... -
Bomber Command War Diaries: An Operational Reference Book 1939-1945 by Martin Middlebrook 9781783463602
RRP: £30.00£21.95Bomber Command's campaign started on the very first day of the Second World War and ended within a few hours of the final victory in Europe five and a half years later. It was an attempt to win the war in Europe by strategic bombing on such an enormous... -
Pembrokeshire Villages by Geoffrey Davies 9781850589655
RRP: £8.99£6.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781850589655Author Geoffrey DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sigma PressPublisher Sigma PressDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 10mm -
Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World by Philip Matyszak
RRP: £20.00£12.63An overview of the lost peoples and cultures who flourished and fought for survival alongside the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Beyond the Greeks, Romans and Hebrews of the Classical and Biblical eras, a rich diversity of peoples helped lay the... -
The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History by Diego Javier Luis 9780674271784
RRP: £37.95£30.51The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire-from Manila to Acapulco and beyond-and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed... -
Resistance: Who can you trust when you're behind enemy lines? by Mara Timon
RRP: £8.99£6.89'RESISTANCE WOULD BE FUTILE' THE TIMES'I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN!' CLAIRE GRADIDGEPerfect for fans of Code Name Helene and The Alice Network.THREE WOMEN. ONE MISSION. ENEMIES EVERYWHERE.May 1944. When spy Elisabeth de Mornay, code name Cecile, notices a... -
Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s by David W. Bebbington
RRP: £39.99£35.06This major textbook is a newly researched historical study of Evangelical religion in its British cultural setting from its inception in the time of John Wesley to charismatic renewal today. The Church of England, the Church of Scotland and the variety... -
Decca Studios and Klooks Kleek: West Hampstead's Musical Heritage Remembered by Dick Weindling
RRP: £9.99£7.55The book explores the history of Decca Studios, where thousands of records were made between 1937 and 1980. Klooks Kleek was run next door from 1961 to 1970 in the Railway Hotel by Dick Jordan and Geoff Williams, who share their memories here. With... -
The German Freikorps 1918-23 by Carlos Caballero Jurado
RRP: £14.99£12.55This book charts the seemingly spontaneous growth of the 'Free Corps' movement from the ashes of the Imperial German Army following the 1918 Armistice. Large numbers of former officers and soldiers - often from elite units - assembled in 'private armies'... -
The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell 9780140436624
RRP: £25.00£18.62In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature is revealed with unparalleled immediacy and originality, in a biography to which we owe much of our knowledge of the man himself. Through a series of richly detailed... -
Letters: v. 1: Bks.I-VII by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £24.95£23.39Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at the... -
The Origins of the Irish by J. P. Mallory
RRP: £12.99£8.60Written as an engrossing detective story by the leading authority on the subject, this is the first major account in nearly a century to deal with the core issues of how the Irish people came into being. Bringing together the evidence of archaeology,... -
The Romans For Dummies by Guy de la Bedoyere
RRP: £23.99£16.17"A must for anyone interested in the Roman Empire and its impact on world history."-Tony Robinson, star of Blackadder and Time Team This entertaining and informative guide is the perfect introduction to the amazing world of ancient Rome and its emperors,... -
Last Second in Dallas by Josiah Thompson
RRP: £42.95£30.14In this long-awaited follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1967 classic, Six Seconds in Dallas, Josiah Thompson reveals major new forensic discoveries since the year 2000 that overturn previously accepted 'facts' about the Kennedy assassination. Together... -
Banbury: A History by Brian Little 9780750983679
RRP: £14.99£11.55Banbury was laid out as a planned new town in the 12th century by Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln. It incorporated a market place and was protected by the second in a series of castles. His grant of a charter launched the town as a regional trading centre... -
The Mediterranean in History by David Abulafia
RRP: £12.99£8.60The Mediterranean has been the meeting-place of the cultures of Europe, Asia and Africa, the battleground of races and nations and the focus of three great religions, Christianity, Judaism and Islam. David Abulafia, doyen of Mediterranean scholars,... -
The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000 Peter Brown (Princeton University, USA) 9781118301265
RRP: £41.95£37.13This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European... -
Harry's War by Harry Drinkwater
RRP: £16.99£12.28'I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German... -
Titanic: The Real Story of the Construction of the World's Most Famous Ship Anton Gill 9781905026746
RRP: £15.99£10.66When Titanic set sail in 1912, she was the largest, most luxurious and most technologically advanced man-made moving object in the world. Built by the great industrial communities that made Britain the pre-eminent superpowerof the age, the famous ocean... -
Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies Richard C. Koo 9781119984276
RRP: £29.99£19.80In Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies, celebrated economist and thought leader Richard C. Koo dives deep into the failure of traditional economic solutions to address the economic and social... -
Pakistan: A Very Short Introduction by Pippa Virdee
RRP: £8.99£6.45What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old... -
Berlin Rules: Europe and the German Way by Paul Lever
RRP: £15.99£12.46In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and economic power in Europe - and the arbiter of all important EU decisions. Yet Germany's leadership of the EU is geared principally to the defence of German national... -
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne Murphy
RRP: £30.00£23.69An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "a great engine of state"The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders-and yet came to... -
The Battle of Majuba Hill: The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881 by John Laband 9781911512387
RRP: £19.95£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512387Author John LabandFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution by Emma Griffin
RRP: £14.99£14.85This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Revolution brought not simply misery and... -
Rorke's Drift by Adrian Greaves
RRP: £12.99£8.60The story of the bravest battle ever fought.On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned... -
Virgil Aeneid XII: A Selection Dr James Burbidge (Head of Classics, Tonbridge School, UK) 9781350059214
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Aeneid Book XII, lines 1-106, 614-727, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Aeneid Book XII, lines 728-952, giving full Latin text,... -
Russia’s Wars in Chechnya: 1994–2009 by Mark Galeotti 9781472858221
RRP: £12.99£9.09Written by a leading expert on modern Russia, this is an illustrated introduction to the bitter campaigns in Chechnya. In this new edition of his popular 2014 work, Mark Galeotti traces the progress of the wars in Chechnya, from the initial Russian... -
Cavalier: The Story Of A 17th Century Playboy by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £14.99£9.80William Cavendish, courageous, cultured and passionate about women, embodies the popular image of a cavalier. Famously defeated at the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, he went into a long and miserable continental exile before returning to England in... -
Agnes Finnie: The 'Witch' of the Potterrow Port by Mary W Craig
RRP: £9.99£7.27Witchcraft holds a continued fascination for readers around the world, and the Scottish witch hunts have recently received renewed media attention, especially with the BBC 2 show Lucy Worsley Investigates, bringing attention to Edinburgh’s witches.Expert... -
Japanese Conquest of Burma 1942: The Advance to the Gates of India by Tim Moreman
RRP: £15.99£11.61This book provides a fascinating exploration of the Japanese conquest of Burma, as the Allied forces were forced back in disarray to India and China. The Japanese invasion of Burma in January 1942 marked the beginning of the single longest campaign of...