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Spitfire, Mustang and the 'Meredith Effect': How a Soviet Spy Helped Change the Course of WWII by Peter Spring 9781526773500
RRP: $48.75$40.21By the mid-1930s the obstacles to high speed that aircraft designers faced included the question of cooling the engine. This was a big challenge that those working on the new fast aeroplanes entering service as the war clouds gathered over Europe had to... -
The Origins of the Irish by J. P. Mallory
RRP: $25.33$17.22Written 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 Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
RRP: $25.33$16.89Arthur Ransome was, from 1930 to the early 1960s, what J.K. Rowling is today: author of a series of children's books which shaped the imagination of a generation. Rooted in the heyday of the British Empire, Swallows and Amazons and its sequels described... -
The Condition of the Working Class in England by Friedrich Engels 9780141191102
RRP: $25.33$18.21Written when Engels was only twenty-four, and inspired in particular by his time living amongst the poor in Manchester, this forceful polemic explores the staggering human cost of the Industrial Revolution in Victorian England. Engels paints an... -
The V-Weapons Then and Now by Winston Ramsey
RRP: $73.13$60.49Day-by-day listings are included covering the locations in Britain where every V1 was either destroyed or where they impacted, plus those for all the V2s. Illustrated with many censored photographs from the period, 'then and now' comparisons bring... -
How To Change The World: Tales of Marx and Marxism by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: $27.28$18.41In the 144 years since Karl Marx's Das Kapital was published, the doctrine that bears his name has been embraced by millions in the name of equality, and just as dramatically has fallen from grace with the retreat of communism from the western world. But... -
Conclave 1559: Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559 Mary Hollingsworth 9781800244733
RRP: $48.75$42.49Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman 'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrecy... -
A History of Sussex by Philip Payton
RRP: $38.98$28.63Philip Payton's history of the great county of Sussex is a masterly piece of work. Combining sound academic research with a genuine talent for writing, this superb new book tells the story of Sussex from ancient times to the present day, exploring some... -
Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer’s Life by Richard Morris 9781474623421
RRP: $54.60$46.08'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis became a household name after the hit 1955 film The Dam Busters, in which Michael Redgrave portrayed him as... -
Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World by Giles Milton
RRP: $25.33$17.22In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American... -
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
RRP: $58.50$41.63A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Conventional histories of the last days of the Roman Empire will no longer suffice after you read this book.' Averil Cameron, author of Byzantine Matters 'Fascinating ... illuminating ... Stephenson examines... -
Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle Michael Jones 9781848549081
RRP: $25.33$17.22In 1485 the Battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses: the house of York fell to the ground when Richard III died on the field of battle; and the house of Tudor rose from the massacre to reign for the next hundred years. Michael... -
Terence Donovan: One Hundred Faces by Diana Donovan
RRP: $29.23$16.85Following on from Terence Donovan: 100 Fashion Photos, this new compact edition of collected photographs features over 100 of Terence Donovan's best portraits.Terence Donovan (1936-1996) was one of the foremost photographers of his generation, with a... -
Battle of the Atlantic 1942-45: The climax of World War II's greatest naval campaign by Mark Lardas
RRP: $33.13$23.95This illustrated study explores, in detail, the climactic events of the Battle of the Atlantic, and how air power proved to be the Allies' most important submarine-killer in one of the most bitterly fought naval campaigns of World War II. As 1942... -
Dialogues and Letters by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: $19.48$14.27A major writer and a leading figure in the public life of Rome, Seneca (c. 4BC-AD 65) ranks among the most eloquent and influential masters of Latin prose. This selection explores his thoughts on philosophy and the trials of life. In the Consolation to... -
Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire
RRP: $19.48$16.22This title describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and the colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of progress and civilisation.Book InformationISBN 9781583670255Author Aime... -
The John Nathan Turner Production Diary 1979-1990 by Richard Molesworth 9781845831998
RRP: $38.98$35.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845831998Author Richard MolesworthFormat PaperbackImprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing Ltd -
The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
RRP: $25.33$16.98A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow... -
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
RRP: $48.75$32.23From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and PunishmentIn the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in... -
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild
RRP: $25.33$17.22- What would it take to turn YOU into a suicide bomber? - Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? - What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? - Does the Unification Church brainwash recruits? - Is The Manchurian Candidate fact or fiction? - Is it... -
Terror on the Tube: Behind the Veil of 7/7 -- An Investigation by Nick Kollerstrom 9781615777723
RRP: $48.73$31.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615777723Author Nick KollerstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 584g -
The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story Serhii Plokhy 9781786071767
RRP: $23.38$16.631961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever. This gripping story of real-life espionage... -
Nero: the man behind the myth Thorsten Opper 9780714122915
RRP: $48.75$35.55One of the best known figures from Roman history, Nero (r. AD 54-68) is most often characterised as a tyrannical and ineffectual ruler, who fiddled while Rome burnt. Such a reputation has, however, been shaped by ancient literary sources written by his... -
Tiger I & Tiger II Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781526771636
RRP: $33.13$23.95In spite of the relatively small numbers involved, the Tiger I and Tiger II tanks of the German Army and Waffen-SS heavy Panzer formations played a central role in resisting the Allied invasion of France in the summer of 1944/. British and American tank... -
Resistance by Agnes Humbert 9780747596745
RRP: $29.23$21.66In the summer of 1940, as the German Occupation tightened its grip on Paris, Agnes Humbert helped to establish one of the first resistance cells. Within a year the group was publishing a news bulletin, helping allied airmen escape and passing military... -
The Cartoons that Came to Life by Tom Ellen 9781910002889
RRP: $13.63$9.38Perfect for fans of Liz Pichon's Tom Gates series! 'Highly recommend for reluctant readers' SCHOOL READING LIST 'A big-hearted, comic-style adventure full of thrills, spills and laughter' LANCASHIRE EVENING... -
Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker 9780099484332
RRP: $33.13$23.952014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history.Hell's Gorge traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The human cost... -
Birmingham at War 1939-45 by Julie Phillips 9781473866973
RRP: $29.23$21.35Barely 17 years after the Great War that had brought Britain to its knees, the country was once again asked to make sacrifices and give their all to the war effort. With its strong industrial background, Birmingham was already geared to help manufacture... -
Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In by John Guy 9780008304904
RRP: $25.33$18.21Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived... -
Mao's China and the Cold War by Jian Chen 9780807849323
$79.31This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist... -
The Jacobites: Britain and Europe, 1688-1788 2nd Edition by Daniel Szechi
RRP: $48.75$34.94The product of forty years of research by one of the foremost historians of Jacobitism, this book is a comprehensive revision of Professor Szechi's popular 1994 survey of the Jacobite movement in the British Isles and Europe. Like the first edition, it... -
How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the High Middle Ages by Christopher Tyerman
RRP: $25.33$18.21'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator'Tyerman's book is fascinating not... -
Vulcan's Hammer: V-Force Aircraft and Weapons Projects Since 1945 by Chris Gibson 9781902109176
RRP: $58.40$42.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109176Author Chris GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
Secret Treasure of Oak Island: The Amazing True Story of a Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt by D'Arcy O'Connor 9781493037001
RRP: $29.23$22.48It started on a summer afternoon in 1795 when a young man named Daniel McGinnis found what appeared to be an old site on an island off the Acadian coast, a coastline fabled for the skullduggery of pirates. The notorious Captain Kidd was rumored to have... -
The Brighton Atlantics by James S. Baldwin
RRP: $48.75$29.80The Brighton Atlantic locomotives were some of the most handsome machines ever constructed at Brighton Works. They were signed by the D. Earl Marsh, Locomotive Superintendent of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, and produced as two classes,... -
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe by Dr. Andrew Cunningham 9780521467018
RRP: $60.43$49.63This book offers an exciting interpretation of early modern European history (1490-1648). Cunningham and Grell's point of departure, and a prism through which events of the period are interpreted, is Durer's famous woodcut of The Four Horsemen of the... -
Darien Disaster John Prebble 9780712668538
RRP: $29.23$21.66The word Darien is a scar on the memory of the Scots, and the hurt is still felt even where the cause of the wound is dimly understood. Three hundred years ago the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political... -
Escape to Gwrych Castle: A Jewish refugee story by Andrew Hesketh
RRP: $37.03$28.74In 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Gwrych Castle was familiar to the British public as the setting of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Lesser known is that, at the beginning of the Second World War, this once-grand country house... -
Waterloo Battlefield Guide: Second Edition David Buttery 9781526731081
RRP: $33.13$23.95The defeat of Napoleon's French army by the combined forces of Wellington and Blucher at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 was a turning point in world history. This was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars, and the outcome had a major influence on the shape of... -
Bhutan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Karma Choden
RRP: $19.48$17.96Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Often called the "Land of the Thunder Dragon," Bhutan was secluded for much of its history, its towering mountains and lush green valleys virtually unvisited, evoking a sense of mystery and wonder. A...