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National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton 9781529387438
RRP: $21.92$15.84LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN 2022'Vigorously researched and highly entertaining' - Daily Telegraph'Geeks triumph over the forces of darkness: nothing could have given me greater pleasure. Combining an exciting... -
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Christopher Sykes
RRP: $19.34$12.51At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and... -
The Long Range Desert Group in North Africa by Brendan O'Carroll
RRP: $32.25$22.73Formed in July 1940 for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group was the first British special force unit. In no time the LRDG earned itself an enviable reputation for deep penetration patrols into German... -
In and around Bath by Max Riddington
RRP: $6.45$4.90Introducing a fresh, updated edition of a Pitkin best-selling guidebook. Built around Britain's only natural hot mineral springs, Bath has been a spa town for 2,000 years. The gushing thermal waters, thought to have great healing powers, are said to have... -
Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King by Mike Pitts
RRP: $16.76$11.09Take a cast of archaeologists and historians who inhabit different worlds. Add a medieval king who died in battle, and was revived by Shakespeare as the ultimate anti-hero. Throw in a forensic quest with almost unbelievable twists, and a theatrical... -
Maimonides: Faith in Reason by Alberto Manguel
RRP: $21.92$21.49An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world's foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Cordoba, Spain. The... -
Enver Hoxha: The Iron Fist of Albania by Majlinda Nishku 9781350360747
RRP: $21.92$18.12Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania -... -
Emperors of Rome David Potter 9781780877501
RRP: $16.76$11.09The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the... -
The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics by Kenan Malik
RRP: $16.76$11.04In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great... -
Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein by John Nixon
RRP: $16.76$11.73A riveting, revealing and news-making account of the CIA's interrogation of Saddam, written by the CIA agent who conducted the questioning. In December 2003, after one of the largest, most aggressive manhunts in history, US military forces captured... -
Russia's Last Gasp: The Eastern Front 1916-17 by Prit Buttar
RRP: $21.92$16.36Despite the increasingly futile, bloody struggles for territory that had characterised the Eastern Front the previous year, the German and Austro-Hungarian commands held high hopes for 1916. After the success of the 1915 Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, which... -
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester
RRP: $32.25$21.71'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times 'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and... -
The Mighty Eighth: A Glimpse of the Men, Missions & Machines of the U.S. Eighth Air Force 1942-1945 by Military Gallery
RRP: $38.70$35.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954997083Format HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Griffon International LimitedPublisher Griffon International LimitedWeight(grams) 1000gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
RRP: $21.92$19.31Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian... -
Fragments of the Histories. Letters to Caesar by Sallust
RRP: $32.19$30.17Sallust, Gaius Sallustius Crispus (86-35 BCE), a Sabine from Amiternum, acted as tribune against Cicero and Milo in 52, joined Caesar after being expelled from the Senate in 50, was restored to the Senate by Caesar and took part in his African campaign... -
Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Mason
RRP: $19.34$11.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510744400Author Phil MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Library of History: v. 10 by Siculus Diodorus
RRP: $32.19$30.17Remains of a universal chronicle.Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily (ca. 80-20 BC), wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War;... -
Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia by Dan Kaszeta
RRP: $19.34$17.60Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and massive industry for their manufacture-yet, strangely, the Third Reich never used them. At the end of the Second World... -
New Forest Voices by Mike Turner 9780752416250
RRP: $16.76$12.41This book is part of a series, which combines the reminiscences of local people with old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.Book InformationISBN... -
Aspects of British Political History 1815-1914 by Stephen J. Lee 9780415090070
RRP: $47.72$41.96Aspects of British History, 1815-1914 addresses the major issues of this much-studied period in a clear and digestible form.* Introduces a fresh feel to long-studied topics* Consolidates a grest deal of recent research* Carefully organised to reflect the... -
The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation, 1800-2000 by Callum G. Brown
RRP: $49.01$43.06The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation's dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he... -
The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise Woman Healer by Gearoid Crualaoich 9781859184127
$34.11This powerful analysis of the 'wise women healer' from the oral traditions of Ireland's rural communities, is unique in its depth and perspective. Stories, told and retold, embedded in the texture of culture and community, collected and studied for many... -
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began by Valerie Hansen
RRP: $12.89$8.41"Typically wide-ranging, informative, and illuminating . . . a lovely book" Peter FrankopanWhen did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it... -
The Biscuit: The History of a Very British Indulgence by Lizzie Collingham
RRP: $14.18$10.02Bourbons. Custard Creams. Rich Tea. Jammie Dodgers. Chocolate Digestives. Shortbread. Ginger snaps. Which is your favourite? British people eat more biscuits than any other nation; they are as embedded in our culture as fish and chips or the Sunday roast... -
Lancaster Manual 1943 by Gordon A. A. Wilson
RRP: $14.18$9.35How to fly, navigate, drop bombs and man the turrets of the legendary bomber using the manuals and instructions supplied by the RAF during the Second World War. An amazing array of leaflets, books and manuals were issued by the Air Ministry during the... -
Troy: myth and reality by Alexandra Villing
RRP: $32.25$23.19Troy 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... -
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
RRP: $38.70$27.54A 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... -
School of Instructions by Ishion Hutchinson 9780571383511
RRP: $16.76$10.55In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in... -
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 by George C. Herring
RRP: $20.63$17.04A finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this prize-winning and critically acclaimed history uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies... -
Cromwell was Framed - Ireland 1649 Tom Reilly 9781782795162
RRP: $19.34$16.81The publication of "Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy" fifteen years ago sparked off a storm of controversy with many historians publically deriding the divisive and groundbreaking study. Dissatisfied with the counter-explanations of these... -
The New History of Orkney by William P.L. Thompson
RRP: $32.25$23.63For much of its history, Orkney had its own language, culture and institutions. The prehistoric inhabitants created monuments which are unmatched anywhere in Europe, and the medieval period saw the magnificent earldom that expressed itself through the... -
Heinrich Himmler: The Sinister Life of the Head of the SS and Gestapo by Roger Manvell 9781526713391
RRP: $19.34$14.13_There are no better biographies of Goering, Goebbels and Himmler in existence_. **New York Review of Books** Heinrich Himmler was the commander of the SS, and as founder and officer-in-charge of the Nazi concentration camps and the Einsatzgruppen... -
English Place-Names Explained by Charles Whynne-Hammond
RRP: $16.76$10.73Scrooby, Potters Bar, Stansted Mountfitchet, Melbury Bubb, White Ladies Aston, Lugwardine. Every name, like every word, has an origin. But how many of us really know how our towns, cities and villages got their names? In this easy-to-understand... -
Colchester: A History by Andrew Phillips 9780750986915
RRP: $20.63$15.80Colchester boasts 2,000 years of history. Few towns in Britain can equal that. Yet this new book, by a local author, is the first full and concise history of Colchester to be published for over half a century, during which time our knowledge of the... -
The Sword Behind the Shield: A Combat History of the German Efforts to Relieve Budapest 1945 - Operation 'Konrad' I, III, III by Norbert Szamveber 9781914059247
$48.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059247Author Norbert SzamveberFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Grim Almanac of Lincolnshire by Neil Storey 9780752457680
RRP: $19.34$14.90A Grim Almanac of Lincolnshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 365 ghastly tales from around the county dating from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. Full of dreadful deeds, macabre deaths, strange occurrences and heinous homicides, this almanac... -
Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past by Elizabeth Boyle
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Like nothing else you will read' Hilary MantelTop 25 History Books of the Year, The Times - the perfect gift for book lovers this Christmas!Every day a beloved father dies. Every day a lover departs. Every day a woman turns forty.All three happening... -
Hull (West) 1890: Yorkshire Sheet 240.02 by Susan Neave 9781847844958
$4.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781847844958Author Susan NeaveImprint Alan Godfrey MapsPublisher Alan Godfrey Maps -
Greek History: The Basics by Robin Osborne
RRP: $24.50$21.76Greek History: The Basics is a concise and compelling introduction to the study of Ancient Greece from the end of the Bronze Age to rule by Rome.With a chapter on each crucial period of Greece's ancient history, the book covers the key topics, approaches... -
Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet by F. Bruce Gordon
RRP: $32.25$27.50A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli-the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was the most significant early reformer after Martin Luther. As the architect of the Reformation in Switzerland, he created the...