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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... -
The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by Adam Nagourney 9780451499363
RRP: $68.25$46.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451499363Author Adam NagourneyFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 902gDimensions(mm) 242mm... -
In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire by Robert G. Hoyland 9780190618575
RRP: $31.18$23.21In just over a hundred years--from the death of the Mohammed in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750--the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. The conquered territory was larger than... -
A Brief History of France, Revised and Updated Cecil Jenkins 9781472139511
RRP: $25.33$16.97When we think of France, we tend think of fine food and wine, the elegant boulevards of Paris or the chic beaches of St Tropez. Yet, as the largest country in Europe, France is home to extraordinary diversity. The idea of 'Frenchness' emerged through... -
Viking Leicestershire by Roderick Dale
RRP: $17.53$14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910170816Author Roderick DaleFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper
RRP: $58.50$47.37A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle... -
English Canals Explained Stan Yorke 9781853068256
RRP: $15.50$13.08The English canal network becomes increasingly popular and widely used each year. The main aim of this book is to explain how everything works - from locks and lifts, to tunnels and towpaths. Stan Yorke, a life-long narrow boat enthusiast, explains in an... -
Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical Walter Burkert (University of Zurich) 9780631156246
RRP: $60.35$54.72"Greek Religion . . . already has the standing of a classic, and the publication of an English version, which incorporates new material and is in effect a second edition, demands a toast . . . Anyone who pretends to survey Greek religion must be... -
London's South Bank: The History by Mireille Galinou
RRP: $68.25$51.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993361029Author Mireille GalinouFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Your London PublishingPublisher Your London Publishing -
Crystal Clear: The Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg by A. M. Glazer 9780198744306
RRP: $92.61$92.59Crystal Clear takes you behind the scenes in the life of one of the most prominent scientists of the twentieth century, William Lawrence Bragg (WLB) - an innovative genius, who together with his father, William Henry Bragg (WHB) founded and developed a... -
Britain'S 'Brown Babies': The Stories of Children Born to Black GIS and White Women in the Second World War by Lucy Bland 9781526160119
RRP: $29.23$26.60This book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; the British called them 'half-castes'. Black GIs,... -
The Little History of Aberdeenshire by Duncan Harley 9780750989299
RRP: $23.40$19.44Duncan Harley takes the reader on a grand tour through Aberdeenshire's fascinating and rich history, culminating in a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the events this county has witnessed. Read about the Beaker People,... -
Black Ice: The memoir of a soldier, double amputee and world champion by Corie Mapp 9781910533581
RRP: $29.25$21.02On 31st January 2010, Trooper Corie Mapp of The Life Guards was driving his armoured vehicle on combat operations in Afghanistan when it ran over an IED. The explosion that followed caused him massive injuries. But this was not the end of his active life... -
Plain Tales From The Raj: Images of British India in the 20th Century by Charles Allen
RRP: $21.43$13.01The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by... -
The Portable Enlightenment Reader by Isaac Kramnick
RRP: $25.33$18.51The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal... -
Betrayal in Berlin: George Blake, the Berlin Tunnel and the Greatest Conspiracy of the Cold War Steve Vogel 9781473647510
RRP: $25.33$16.97'Riveting and vivid ... At the heart of the book is Blake's own remarkable story, which Vogel tells with some sympathy, if not approval. It reads like a Hollywood screenplay' Foreign Affairs'A fascinating account of Blake's career as a spy ... Blake's... -
Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country by Michael Reid
$53.86An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a... -
The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain by David Miles
RRP: $29.23$19.60Focusing on the British Isles, the author explores a period of huge societal change - the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age' - through the most iconic artifact of its time: the polished stone axe, using an ancient stone axe-head brought to him by a local... -
Smile Though Your Heart Is Breaking by Pauline Prescott 9780007337170
RRP: $21.43$16.36A tale of Catherine Cookson-esque tragedy and Northern grit, Pauline Prescott's life story will shock and amaze. A mother and a faithful friend, Pauline is not your typical politician's wife. She is immensely proud of her role as a housewife... -
Mimi and Toutou Go Forth: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika by Giles Foden
RRP: $31.18$22.64At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon 'Tanganjikasee', as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of great strategic... -
A Dangerous Game: Growing Up East of the Oder Under the Nazis and Soviets by Luise Urban
RRP: $25.33$19.25Luise Urban was born in 1933 into a world about to be turned upside down. Her family lived east of the river Oder. Fatefully, her family were not Nazi Party members and suffered as a result. As the Third Reich crumbled and the Red Army advanced, she was... -
Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party Frank McDonough 9781408269213
RRP: $72.13$69.17Now fully revised and reformatted, Hitler and the Rise of the Nazi Party is an indispensible guide to the history of the Nazi party between its initial electoral breakthrough in 1930 and its victory in 1933. Arguing that the Nazis owed their success as... -
The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII by Retha M. Warnicke
RRP: $44.83$37.03The events which led to the execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second queen, in 1536 have traditionally been explained by historians in terms of a factional conspiracy masterminded by Henry's minister Thomas Cromwell. Retha Warnicke's fascinating and... -
The Jesuits: A History by Markus Friedrich 9780691226200
RRP: $42.90$35.41The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern worldSince its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus-more commonly known as the Jesuits-has played a critical role in the...