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The Secret History Of The Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407160Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)... -
The January 6 Report by The January 6th Committee
RRP: $29.23$19.70The instant #1 New York Times bestsellerThe official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump's related coup conspiracies to overthrow the election, with an original... -
Women Our History by DK
RRP: $39.00$27.87Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events... -
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: $29.23$24.86The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51.This is a book about a team of scientists and... -
Raw Generals and Green Soldiers: Catholic Armies in Ireland 1641-43 by Padraig Lenihan
RRP: $58.40$40.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511947Author Padraig LenihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window by Rob Young
RRP: $25.33$18.39A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait... -
How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History by Felipe Fernández-Armesto 9781789148404
RRP: $48.75$34.36"Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that... -
The Knights Templar in Yorkshire by Diane Holloway
RRP: $35.08$26.99Where can you see an effigy of a Templar? What prompted King John to hand England over to an Italian? Who worked for the Templars in Yorkshire? The Knights Templar in Yorkshire answers all these questions and many more. This new book explores what... -
Exploring the Lancaster Canal: A history and guide Robert Swain 9781910837221
RRP: $23.40$16.65200 years ago, in 1819, the Lancaster Canal was officially completed. It represented a new and bright future for all those who traded between Preston and Kendal. It was to become a vital navigable artery during Britain's industrial heyday, and also a... -
York Through The Lens of The Press by Paul Chrystal
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739819415Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
Burma 1942: Memoirs of a Retreat: The Diary of Ralph Tanner, KOYLI by R E S Tanner
RRP: $21.43$16.52In December 1941 a Japanese battalion of 143rd Regiment of 55th Division crossed the Burma-Siam border and seized Victoria Point, heralding the invasion of Burma. The first air raids on Rangoon were opposed by only two fighter squadrons - 16 P40s of the... -
U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Survival Manual by Captain (Retd.) Dick Couch
RRP: $27.28$21.31Experts agree that the next terrorist attack on our soil will not come in the same form as September 11. The possibility of nuclear, chemical or biological attack is increasingly likely. The U.S. Armed Forces Nuclear, Chemical and Biological... -
Cursed Objects by J. W. Ocker
RRP: $35.08$26.03They re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes around the world. Their stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, campfire tales, books, and even chain emails. They re cursed objects, and in order to unleash a wave of... -
The Great Empires of Asia by Jim Masselos
RRP: $25.33$17.22Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of Europe. How and why did those empires gain such power, and lose it? What legacies did they leave? This book... -
Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 2: State, Economy and Society 1933-39: A Documentary Reader Jeremy Noakes 9780859895996
RRP: $42.88$39.33Volume 2 of this series of documents with commentary covers the domestic aspects of the regime between 1933 and 1939: the political stystem, the economy and society, propaganda and indoctrination, policies towards youth and women, the SS system of... -
Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer by Francis Beckett
RRP: $25.33$17.73Far from Winston Churchill's jibe that he was a "modest little man with plenty to be modest about," in this acclaimed biography, comprehensively revised in this new edition, Francis Beckett makes the case that Clement Attlee's reputation as Britain's... -
This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime by Stephen Ellis
RRP: $38.98$34.75Nigeria and Nigerians have acquired a notorious reputation for involvement in drug-trafficking, fraud, cyber-crime and other types of serious crime. Successful Nigerian criminal networks have a global reach, interacting with their Italian, Latin American... -
The English Civil War: A Military History Peter Gaunt 9781350143517
RRP: $42.88$37.60Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of the most famous and moving letters of the Civil War, Oliver Cromwell told his brother-in-law that on 2 July... -
British Army Uniforms of the American Revolution 1751 - 1783 by Carl J. Franklin 9781473886667
RRP: $38.98$36.31Based on contemporary records and paintings, this book identifies each cavalry and infantry regiment and illustrates changes in uniforms, their facing colours and the nature and shape of lace worn by officers, NCOs and private soldiers from 1751 to 1783... -
The Great Fire of London by Samuel Pepys
RRP: $5.85$5.13'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops'A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great FireIntroducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th... -
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $29.23$21.35Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of... -
Red: A Natural History of the Redhead by Jacky Colliss Harvey
RRP: $33.13$22.93A New York Times bestseller, Red is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world.With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, Jacky Colliss Harvey explores red hair in the ancient... -
The Olympics' Strangest Moments: Over A Century of the Modern Olympics (Strangest) Geoff Tibballs 9781907554476
RRP: $17.55$15.70The Olympics' Strangest Moments recounts the bizarre, controversial, heroic and plain unlucky from the first modern games in 1896 to the return of the games to their birthplace in Athens in 2004. The Olympics' Strangest Moments recounts the... -
The Nine Cloud Dream by Kim Man-Jung
RRP: $25.33$19.11A Buddhist journey reminscent of Dante's Inferno exploring the illusions of human life, published here in the first new translation in forty yearsOften considered the greatest work of classic Korean fiction, The Nine Cloud Dream poses the question: will... -
The Queen's Pirate: Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind by Kevin Jackson
RRP: $15.58$11.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916190894Author Kevin JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TSBPublisher Can of Worms Press -
The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Yang Jisheng 9781800750852
RRP: $29.23$19.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750852Author Yang JishengFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press -
Sophocles: Electra by Sophocles 9780521097963
RRP: $56.53$49.94In this edition of Sophocles' Electra, one of the greatest tragedies in Greek or any literature, Mr Kells presents the play as a study in revenge, but in a subtle way whose meaning depends upon the continuous use of dramatic irony. He relates the... -
A Study of History: Volume II: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: $45.81$34.85Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent... -
Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory Chil Rajchman 9781849163996
RRP: $21.43$15.35Chil Rajchman, a Polish Jew, was arrested with his younger sister in 1942 and sent to Treblinka, a death camp where more than 750,000 were murdered before it was abandoned by German soldiers. His sister was sent to the gas chambers, but Rajchman escaped... -
Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world Simon Garfield 9781786892782
RRP: $21.43$14.471856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has... -
The Twelve Caesars by Matthew Dennison
RRP: $25.33$17.16One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come to be known as the 'twelve... -
Katalin Street: WINNER of the 2018 PEN Translation Prize Magda Szabo 9780857058478
RRP: $21.43$14.84BY THE AUTHOR OF THE DOOR, ONE OF NYTBR'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2015** WINNER OF THE 2018 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE **** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WARWICK WOMEN IN TRANSLATION PRIZE 2019 **"Extraordinary" New York Times"Quite unforgettable" Daily Telegraph"Unusual,... -
Colossus: Bletchley Park's Last Secret by Paul Gannon
RRP: $29.23$20.09This is the last untold story of Bletchley Park. Using recently declassified information, Paul Gannon has written a gripping account of the invention of the world's first true computer, Colossus.Uncover the secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking... -
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty by Sarah Gristwood 9780861543748
RRP: $21.43$14.06A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 'One of the most important books to be written about the Tudors in a generation.' Tracy Borman In this groundbreaking history, Sarah Gristwood reveals the way courtly love made and marred the Tudor dynasty... -
Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi
RRP: $25.33$22.35The first history of London to show how immigrants have built, shaped and made a great success of the capital city London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages are spoken. But the history of London has... -
Sea Peoples of the Bronze Age Mediterranean c.1400 BC-1000 BC by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: $29.23$21.35This title features the latest historical and archaeological research into the mysterious and powerful confederations of raiders who troubled the Eastern Mediterranean in the last half of the Bronze Age. Research into the origins of the so-called... -
When Friday Comes: The rise of football in the Middle East and the road to the Qatar World Cup by James Montague
RRP: $33.13$23.95'Passionate and moving and provides further evidence of the universality of football' Jonathan Wilson, FourFourTwoThe definitive story of the Middle East's unstoppable rise to football superpower, and the road to the Qatar World CupWhen James Montague... -
Hampstead Heath: The Walker's Guide by David McDowall 9781838198015
RRP: $23.38$22.74This is the third revised edition of the same title, by David McDowall & Deborah Wolton, originally approving in 1998. It contains ten walks which thoroughly explore all of Hampstead Heath, looking at the history and ecology of the landscape.About the... -
The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century by David 9780857206374
RRP: $21.43$14.06In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to... -
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire by Julie Kavanagh
RRP: $25.33$17.16ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2021'The tale of the Phoenix Park murders is not unfamiliar, but Kavanagh recounts it with a great sense of drama... Kavanagh's account reminds me of the very best of true crime.' The Times (Book of the Week)On a...