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Chivalry Maurice Keen 9780300107678
RRP: $33.13$28.49Chivalry-with its pageants, heraldry, and knights in shining armor-was a social ideal that had a profound influence on the history of early modern Europe. In this eloquent and richly detailed book, a leading medieval historian discusses the complex... -
Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey by Colin Grant
RRP: $25.33$18.21Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey 'Grant is an accomplished... -
Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious History by Simon Danczuk
RRP: $39.00$29.91Designed as a city dwelling for the modern age, Dolphin Square opened in London's Pimlico in 1936. Boasting 1,250 hi-tech flats, a swimming pool, restaurant, gardens and shopping arcade, the complex quickly attracted a long list of the affluent and... -
Battleship Warspite: Detailed in the Original Builders' Plans Robert Brown 9781526719379
RRP: $58.50$42.80The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the as fitted general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it... -
3 Para by Patrick Bishop
RRP: $21.43$15.58Afghanistan in the summer of 2006. In blazing heat in remote outposts the 3 Para battlegroup is pitted against a stubborn enemy who keep on coming. Until now, the full story of what happened there has not been told. This is it. In April 2006,... -
Malplaquet 1709: Marlborough’s Bloodiest Battle by Simon MacDowall
RRP: $31.18$22.64In 1709, after eight years of war, France was on her knees. There was not enough money left in the treasury to pay, equip or feed the army and a bad harvest led to starvation throughout the kingdom. Circumstances had worsened to the point that King Louis... -
Maiwand: The Last Stand of the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment in Afghanistan, 1880 by Richard J. Stacpoole-Ryding 9780752445373
RRP: $38.98$29.29On 27 July 1880 the 66th (Berkshire) Regiment fought a terrible battle on the dusty plains of Afghanistan. The battle went down in history as a massacre which effectively wiped out the regiment. They lost 10 officers and 276 men. Nonetheless, their... -
A Land of Liberty?: England 1689-1727 by Julian Hoppit 9780199251001
$99.76The Glorious Revolution was a decisive moment in England's history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee to France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less... -
Anne Boleyn: Adultery, Heresy, Desire by Amy Licence
RRP: $48.75$32.82Anne Boleyn's unconventional beauty inspired poets - and she so entranced Henry VIII with her wit, allure and style that he was prepared to set aside his wife of over twenty years and risk his immortal soul. Her sister had already been the king's... -
Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-1941 by Ian Kershaw
RRP: $33.13$23.95Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: Ten Decisions that Changed the World, 1940-41 offers a penetrating insight into a series of momentous political decisions that shaped the course of the Second World War. The hurricane of events that marked the opening of... -
The Intelligence War against the IRA by Thomas Leahy
RRP: $46.78$37.13The exposure of two senior republicans as informers for British intelligence in 2005 led to a popular perception that the IRA had 'lost' the intelligence war and was pressurised into peace. In this first in-depth study across the entire conflict, Thomas... -
A new focus on...British Social History, c.1920–2000 for KS3 History: Experiences of disability, sexuality, gender and ethnicity by Helen Snelson
$36.39Take a fresh look at life in 20th century Britain, through the eyes of those whose history has too often been neglected.This is the first time that a school textbook has woven together experiences of disability, the LGBTQ+ community, women and Gypsy,... -
Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism by Raymond Williams 9780860919438
RRP: $44.83$41.46Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain's foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life's work represents a patient, exemplary... -
Around Lewisham & Deptford by John Coulter
RRP: $31.18$24.24Lewisham and Deptford have been a single borough since 1965, but they have very different histories. Deptford became an important shipbuilding centre after Henry VIII established a royal dockyard there; this attracted over heavy industry. Lewisham and... -
The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War by Halik Kochanski
RRP: $37.03$26.54In Halik Kochanski's extraordinary book, the untold story of Poland and the Poles in the Second World War is finally heardBy almost every measure the fate of the inhabitants of Poland was the most terrible of any group in the Second World War. Following... -
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by James DiEugenio
RRP: $48.75$42.51Based on Oliver Stone's documentary, JFK Revisited, read the transcripts and interviews that will change the way you think about the John F. Kennedy assassination.JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass contains the two working original screenplays for... -
Lost to the Sea: Britain's Vanished Coastal Communities: The Yorkshire Coast & Holderness Stephen Wade 9781473893436
RRP: $25.33$17.92Once there was a Roman settlement on what is now Filey Brig. In Holderness, a prosperous town called Ravenser saw kings and princes on its soil, and its progress threatened the good people of Grimsby. But the Romans and the Ravenser folk are long gone,... -
Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
RRP: $35.08$25.25Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these... -
Gone But Not Forgotten: Tales of the Disappearing Grain Elevators by Elizabeth McLachlan 9781896300764
RRP: $38.98$23.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300764Author Elizabeth McLachlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 268g -
Troy: myth and reality by Alexandra Villing
RRP: $48.75$35.06Troy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid. These have been retold over the centuries by writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Madeline Miller and Rick Riordan, and enacted by stars such as Elizabeth... -
London Then and Now (R): Revised Second Edition by Vaughan Grylls
RRP: $29.23$20.67Matching archive photos with their modern viewpoint, London Then and Now gives a fascinating insight into the history of Europe's financial capital. London has changed rapidly in the last 150 years. The Luftwaffe helped modify many parts of... -
The Grand Tour by Mike Rendell
RRP: $17.53$13.77An introduction to the raucous yet educational 'gap year' tours of Europe taken by wealthy British aristocrats in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. For many young eighteenth-century aristocrats, the Grand Tour was an essential rite of... -
Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge by Daniel Rachel
RRP: $29.23$21.70Walls Come Tumbling Down charts the pivotal period between 1976 and 1992 that saw politics and pop music come together for the first time in Britain's musical history; musicians and their fans suddenly became instigators of social change, and 'the... -
Sex and Sexuality in Georgian Britain by Mike Rendell 9781526755629
RRP: $29.23$21.14Peek beneath the bedsheets of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reigns of Georges I-IV. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female... -
The Little Book of Donegal by Cathal Coyle 9780750987868
RRP: $29.23$22.85The Little Book of Donegal is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Donegal. Here you will find out about Donegal's folklore and customs, its proud sporting heritage, its castles, forts and stone circles, its... -
Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen by Jennifer Rees 9781472143105
RRP: $21.43$7.04'God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic'Libby Purves, Times Literary SupplementIn February 1919, London's first women police officers took to the streets of the city. They battled entrenched gender... -
Connecting History: Higher Russia, 1881-1921 Euan M. Duncan 9781398345362
$42.76Exam board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2018First exam: Summer 2019Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together lesser-told... -
30 Years of Mobile Phones in the UK by Andy Sutton
RRP: $29.23$19.42In 1985, the seeds of a revolution were sown in the UK when people were first able to communicate using one of the most remarkable items of personal technology to have been developed - the mobile phone. The authors, both acknowledged experts in this... -
Squares of London by John Coulter
RRP: $97.50$77.32Its garden squares distinguish London most clearly from other great cities. All have their ceremonial and market squares, but none the quantity, quality, and variety of residential squares that sets London apart. The history of the London square begins... -
Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner by Penny Starns 9780752455532
RRP: $25.33$19.25The dramatic tale of Margot Turner's survival as a prisoner of war during the Pacific conflict of the Second World War inspired the 1980s television series Tenko. The cargo ship on which she was evacuated from Singapore in 1942 was shelled, leaving her... -
The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000 Peter Brown (Princeton University, USA) 9781118301265
RRP: $81.80$72.95This 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... -
1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus
RRP: $48.75$35.35Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that it-not the French Revolution-was the first truly modern revolution For two hundred years historians have viewed England's... -
The Child in the Electric Chair: The Execution of George Junius Stinney Jr. and the Making of a Tragedy in the American South by Eli Faber
RRP: $42.80$33.75At 7:30 a.m. on June 16, 1944, George Junius Stinney Jr. was escorted by four guards to the death chamber. Wearing socks but no shoes, the 14-year-old Black boy walked with his Bible tucked under his arm. The guards strapped his slight,... -
Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Uniforms of the 19th Century by Digby Smith 9780754819011
RRP: $38.98$31.40The uniforms from the 19th century are some of the most colourful and varied in the history of uniformology. In this book there are artworks of familiar Austrian hussars, Prussian dragoons, French chasseurs, American continentals and British grenadiers,... -
Red Nile: The Biography of the World's Greatest River by Robert Twigger
RRP: $25.33$16.97A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES.So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write... -
Devonshire and Dorset Regiment: 11th, 29th and 54th of Foot 1958-2007 Pen & Sword Books 9781844155538
RRP: $48.75$36.31Since its formation on 17 May 1958, The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment has played an extremely full role in the British Army's order of battle, serving in Cyprus, British Guiana (Guyana), Northern Ireland, West Germany, Malta, British Honduras (Belize),... -
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival by David Pilling
RRP: $29.23$21.35The second edition of the definitive book on how modern Japan works, now fully updated up to include the new 'Reiwa' Era and the year of the Olympics'A superb book that, better than any other I have read, manages to get the reader inside the skin of ... -
Pompeii by Dr Alison E. Cooley 9781350125216
RRP: $38.98$32.25This second edition of Alison E. Cooley's accessible introduction to Pompeii takes into account the major new theories and discoveries that have emerged since the first edition was published 20 years ago. Italy's third most popular tourist... -
The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians by Philip Marsden 9780008127435
RRP: $19.48$14.98A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden's classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th... -
Fairbairn-Sykes Commando Dagger by Leroy Thompson
RRP: $31.18$22.64The Fairbairn-Sykes Commando dagger has become iconic as the most widely recognized fighting knife in the world. The origins of the dagger can be traced to Shanghai in the 1930s where W. E. Fairbairn and US Marine officers including Sam Yeaton carried...