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Troy: myth and reality by Alexandra Villing 9780500480557
RRP: $51.60$36.83Troy 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... -
The Jacobites: Britain and Europe, 1688-1788 2nd Edition by Daniel Szechi
RRP: $32.25$23.12The 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... -
Imagining Reality by Kevin MacDonald
RRP: $21.92$14.94In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their... -
Fighter Ace: The Extraordinary Life of Douglas Bader, Battle of Britain Hero Dilip Sarkar 9781445638195
RRP: $19.34$12.51THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY TO TRULY SEPARATE FACT FROM MYTH AND LEGEND. The story of Douglas Bader, the RAF fighter pilot who shot down twenty enemy fighters during the Second World War despite having lost both his legs, defies fiction. A fighter ace and... -
A River in May by Edward Wilson
RRP: $14.18$10.04A magnificent debut novel, which follows in the spirit of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in which an alienated student named Lopez joins the Vietnam war to escape from his past and himself. Forced out of self-pity by the brutality and injustice surrounding... -
Haunted Oxford by Rob Walters 9780752439259
RRP: $19.34$14.90New and well-known spooky tales from around the historic City of Oxford.Book InformationISBN 9780752439259Author Rob WaltersFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm) 235mm *... -
Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk
RRP: $33.48$27.14American Indians remain familiar as icons, yet poorly understood as historical agents. In this ambitious book that ranges across Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, and eastern California (a region known as the Great Basin), Ned Blackhawk places Native... -
The Cactus Air Force: Air War over Guadalcanal by Eric Hammel 9781472851086
RRP: $19.34$14.13Using diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts, this vivid narrative brings to life the struggle in the air over the island of Guadalcanal between August 20 and November 15, 1942. The battle of Guadalcanal was the first offensive operation... -
No Milk Today: The Vanishing World of the Milkman by Andrew Ward
RRP: $11.60$3.75Traditionally, in British society, the milkman has been a family friend, a sex symbol and a cheerful chappie. He has been the eyes and ears of the community, and his genetic legacy has supposedly passed into the lineage of housewives.This collection of... -
Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 by Sara Mendelson 9780198208129
$71.84What was life like for women who lived in Tudor and Stuart England? This fascinating book provides a colourful and comprehensive account of the daily experiences of these women, using first-hand sources such as diaries, letters, and household accounts... -
Connecting History: National 4 & 5 The Era of the Great War, 1900-1928 Alec Jessop 9781398345409
$26.88Exam board: SQALevel: National 4 & 5Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2017First assessment: Summer 2018Fresh stories, fresh scholarship and a fresh structure. Connecting History informs and empowers tomorrow's citizens, today.Bringing together... -
The Master of Measham Hall: a must-read historical novel about survival, love, and family loyalty Anna Abney 9780715654354
RRP: $19.34$17.35Alethea Hawthorne will not allow Measham Hall to fall into the hands of lesser men... 1665. It is five years since King Charles II returned from exile, the scars of the English Civil Wars are yet to heal and now the Great Plague engulfs the land... -
The Balkans 1940–41 (1): Mussolini's Fatal Blunder in the Greco-Italian War by Pier Paolo Battistelli
RRP: $20.63$14.98The first of two volumes on the Axis campaigns in the Balkans, exploring Mussolini's fateful decision to move against Greece in October 1940. The Greek President Metaxas rejected the Italian ultimatum with a famous 'Oxi' ('No'), and what followed was... -
One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel by Ghada Karmi
RRP: $19.34$12.64'An intelligent, sensitive writer' - Financial Times Palestine has been under attack for three quarters of a century. The 'peace process' that has favoured the two-state solution for more than forty years has now been internationally exposed as... -
Camelot: The epic new novel from the author of Lancelot by Giles Kristian
RRP: $10.31$7.47'So beautiful, so haunting . . . bitingly real . . . Giles has given us a vital, glorious story: rich, rewarding, and utterly revealing of our times' Manda ScottFollowing his acclaimed Sunday Times bestseller, Lancelot, Giles Kristian's new novel returns... -
Nazi Germany And The Jews: The Years Of Persecution: 1933-1939 by Saul Friedlander
RRP: $19.34$14.13A magisterial history of the Jews in Nazi Germany and the regime's policies towards them in the years prior to World War II and the Holocaust. Written by arguably the world's leading scholar on the subject.Himself a survivor, Friedlander has been a... -
Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen by Amy Licence
RRP: $14.18$10.02As Tudors go, Elizabeth of York is relatively unknown. Yet she was the mother of the dynasty, with her children becoming King of England (Henry VIII) and Queens of Scotland (Margaret) and France (Mary Rose) and her direct descendants included three Tudor... -
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer
RRP: $14.18$10.02Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps through to the present day. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? Chris... -
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History by Rachel Laudan
RRP: $32.25$25.79Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of... -
The Myth Of The Blitz by Angus Calder
RRP: $32.25$23.25The Myth of the Blitz was nurtured at every level of society. It rested upon the assumed invincibility of an island race distinguished by good humour, understatement and the ability to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat by team work, improvisation and... -
Brixham Revisited by Ted Gosling 9780752436203
RRP: $16.76$12.41A glimpse into the history of BrixhamBook InformationISBN 9780752436203Author Ted GoslingFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 235mm * 165mm * 10mm -
Population Control: How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us by Jim Marrs 9780062359902
RRP: $16.76$10.94From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by... -
GCHQ: Centenary Edition Richard Aldrich 9780008351809
RRP: $24.50$16.40FULLY UPDATED CENTENARY EDITION 'An important book' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'An intriguing history of covert surveillance ... thoroughly engaging' Daily Telegraph ... -
The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End by Elizabeth Drayson
RRP: $14.18$10.02In 1482, Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI became the twenty-third Muslim King of Granada. He would be the last. This is the first history of the ruler, known as Boabdil, whose disastrous reign and bitter defeat brought seven centuries of Moorish Spain to an end... -
The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: $28.37$24.76The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern Cyprus," carved out as a separate space and defined as a... -
Economic Interdependence and War by Dale C. Copeland 9780691161594
RRP: $41.28$32.46Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive to stay peaceful. Realists contend that trade compels states to struggle for... -
For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $16.76$11.04The global turmoil of the late 1980s and early 1990s severely tested every analyst and commentator. Few wrote with such insight as Christopher Hitchens about the large events - or with such discernment and wit about the small tell-tale signs of a... -
Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes: A Cautionary Tale of Race and Brutality by Stephen G. Bloom
RRP: $30.96$24.81The never-before-told true story of Jane Elliott and the "Blue-Eyes, Brown-Eyes Experiment" she made world-famous, using eye color to simulate racism. The day after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968, Jane Elliott, a... -
Peenemunde Raid by Martin Middlebrook 9781844153367
RRP: $19.34$14.64On the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenemunde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V-1 flying bomb and the V-2 rocket whose destructive... -
Wrestling Merchandise of the 1990s by Kevin Williams
RRP: $20.63$14.98Take a look back at the Golden Era of wrestling with some of the spectacular merchandise from that awesome time. Featured here is the story of the wrestling merchandise that could be found as pro wrestling took the world by storm. Featuring action... -
Little Book of Hampshire by Erica Wheeler
RRP: $16.76$12.41Did You Know?The authors of literary classics Watership Down, The Water Babies, Madame Doubtfire and the Little White Horse all lived and wrote in Hampshire, using real places as their inspiration.Hampshire's inhabitants include Men of the Trees,... -
Catherine Parr: Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII by Elizabeth Norton
RRP: $16.76$11.73Wife, widow, mother, survivor, the story of the last queen of Henry VIII. Catherine Parr was enjoying her freedom after her first two arranged marriages when she caught the attention of the elderly Henry VIII. The most reluctant of all Henry's wives, she... -
Eyam: Plague Village by David Paul
RRP: $21.92$14.80In September 1665, plague was inadvertently transported from London to Eyam in Derbyshire on a consignment of cloth. This small country village subsequently became famous for its decision to instate a 'cordon sanitaire', isolating itself to prevent the... -
B-17 Memphis Belle by Graham Simons 9781848846913
RRP: $19.34$14.13Without doubt Boeing Flying Fortress B-17F 41-42285 Memphis Belle and her crew generate an image that is an all-American icon. Indeed, it has been claimed that the Memphis Belle is in the top five of the most famous American aircraft of all time.In... -
Game of Thrones versus History: Written in Blood by Brian Alexander Pavlac 9781119249429
RRP: $16.71$11.07Since it first aired in 2011, Game of Thrones galloped up the ratings to become the most watched show in HBO's history. It is no secret that creator George R.R. Martin was inspired by late 15th century Europe when writing A Song of Ice and Fire, the... -
Instruments of Darkness: The History of Electronic Warfare, 1939-1945 Alfred Price 9781473895645
RRP: $21.92$15.84The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford to lose. The result was a continual series of... -
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 by Tim Harris
RRP: $21.92$15.84To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688. It was a massive, brutal and terrifying event, which completely changed the governments of England, Scotland and Ireland and which was only... -
Hellenica: Bks. 1-4 by Xenophon
RRP: $32.19$30.17A continuation of Thucydides.Xenophon (ca. 430 to ca. 354 BC) was a wealthy Athenian and friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 and joined an expedition including ten thousand Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the Persian king. After... -
Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August-October 1942 by Jeffrey Cox
RRP: $21.92$16.36Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were... -
Forgotten Armies: Britain's Asian Empire and the War with Japan by Christopher Bayly
RRP: $21.92$15.84The vast crescent of British-ruled territories from India down to Singapore appeared in the early stages of the Second World War a massive asset in the war with Germany, providing huge quantities of soldiers and raw materials and key part of an...