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A Sultry Month by Alethea Hayter 9780571372294
RRP: £12.99£8.56Wine and dine with Victorian London's literati in a heatwave in one of the first ever group biographies, introduced by Francesca Wade (author of Square Haunting).Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and... -
The Search for Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence 9780393934519
£45.62This text, the classic introduction to modern China for students and general readers, emerged from Spence's highly successful introductory course at Yale, in which he traced the beginnings of modern China to internal developments beginning in the early... -
Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition Through the Eyes of the Women They Left Behind by Katherine MacInnes
RRP: £12.99£8.32'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry ... A welcome contribution to polar studies.' Sara Wheeler, Spectator '[MacInness] handles the whole thing with masterly skill...takes us to the heart of the hope, love, anguish and grief'... -
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon
RRP: £13.99£10.15Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien,... -
The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigo Takamori by Mark Ravina
RRP: £28.99£19.80The dramatic arc of Saigo Takamori's life, from his humble origins as a lowly samurai, to national leadership, to his death as a rebel leader, has captivated generations of Japanese readers and now Americans as well - his life is the inspiration for a... -
China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict by David Daokui Li 9780393292398
RRP: £22.99£18.21Recent rising tensions between China and the West largely stem from a basic misunderstanding of China's approach to governance, argues Dr David Daokui Li, who has served as an advisor to senior Chinese Communist Party leaders as well as major... -
Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War by Kathryn Welch 9781910589007
RRP: £75.00£72.20Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy and the Mediterranean World. But... -
The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain by David Miles
RRP: £14.99£9.80Focusing 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... -
The Trials of Charles I by Ian Ward 9781350025141
RRP: £27.99£24.27One of the iconic moments in English history, the trial and execution of King Charles I has yet to be studied in-depth from a contemporary legal perspective. Professor Ian Ward brings his considerable legal and historical acumen to bear on the particular... -
Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle by Mark Stille
RRP: £25.00£18.58A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force... -
Major & Mrs Holt's (Gallipoli) Battlefield Guide to Gallipoli by Tonie Holt
RRP: £14.95£12.28As the battlefields of Gallipoli become even more firmly established on the tourist map, this book is bound to be as popular as it is useful. The format of Major and Mrs Holt's battlefield guides is by now tried and tested, providing as they do not only... -
Voices of North and South Ockendon by Cecilia Pyke 9780752499185
RRP: £12.99£9.62This warm and nostalgic collection of memories reveals the fascinating history of North and South Ockendon before, during and after the Second World War. The 1930s saw great change in South Ockendon as London Land Company, London County Council and Essex... -
Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World Anthony Sattin 9781473677791
RRP: £25.00£16.78A Sunday Times Best History Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the Year'A book of beauty and beguiling rhythm that offers unsettling lessons about our present-day world of borders' The Times'Thoughtful, lyrical yet ambitiously panoramic . . . an... -
Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton by Martin van Creveld
RRP: £30.99£25.63Why did Napoleon succeed in 1805 but fail in 1812? Could the European half of World War II have been ended in 1944? These are only two of the many questions that form the subject-matter of this meticulously researched, lively book. Drawing on a very wide... -
Early Modern Wales, c.1536-1689: Ambiguous Nationhood by Lloyd Bowen 9781786839589
RRP: £16.99£13.09This is the first general history of early modern Wales for more than a generation. The book assimilates new scholarship and deploys a wealth of original archival research to present a fresh picture of Wales under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. It adopts... -
The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Linda J. Bilmes 9780393334173
RRP: £21.50£17.70America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due-including staggering costs to take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with disability... -
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 by Jonathan I. Israel
RRP: £55.00£47.69Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific... -
The Future of Nostalgia by Svetlana Boym
£26.86Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins... -
Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 by Lucien Bianco
RRP: £20.99£18.37The original French edition of this book, published in 1967, was widely acclaimed as the best introduction to Chinese Communism ever published. A fresh, bold interpretative survey, it focuses on the dynamic social forces underlying the Chinese... -
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath by Paul Ham 9781250070050
RRP: £27.00£17.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070050Author Paul HamFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm * 28mm -
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson 9780380715435
RRP: £17.99£10.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380715435Author Bill BrysonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Avon BooksPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 198mm *... -
Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia by Tobias Becker 9780674251755
RRP: £29.95£23.66A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of "retro" to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump.Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity... -
The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand by Andrew Biggio
RRP: £12.99£11.36Tales of American combat and comradery in World War II all connected to the iconic rifle of the era, the M1 Garand. An award-winning author puts one such rifle into the hands of a series of vets, records their stories, and gathers their signatures on the... -
Stone on Stone: The Men Who Built The Cathedrals by Imogen Corrigan
RRP: £25.00£20.70Standing in the nave of a cathedral, it is hard not to wonder how ordinary human beings could have created sky-scraping, dizzyingly high buildings on which even the top-most parts were delicately decorated, in an age before even the simplest of power... -
The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century by David 9780857206374
RRP: £10.99£7.00In 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 Boys of '67: Charlie Company's War in Vietnam by Andrew Wiest
RRP: £10.99£8.38Following on from the stunning success of the novel Matterhorn as well as Osprey's own Tonight We Die as Men, this book follows the trials and tribulations of a group of Vietnam draftees from basic training to the rice paddies of Vietnam. In the... -
Rome and Its Empire, AD 193-284 by Olivier Hekster
RRP: £29.99£27.79This was a time of civil war, anarchy, intrigue, and assassination. Between 193 and 284 the Roman Empire knew more than twenty-five emperors, and an equal number of usurpers. All of them had some measure of success, several of them often ruling different... -
After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift Giles Macdonogh 9780719567667
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1945 Germany was a nation in tatters. Swathes of its population were despairing, homeless, bombed-out and on the move. Refugees streamed towards the West and soldiers made their way home, often scarring the villages they passed through with parting... -
Chernobyl by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£14.05On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened near the Ukrainian town of Pripyat: two massive steam explosions ruptured No. 4 Reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, immediately killing 30 people and setting off the worst nuclear accident in history... -
Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice by Pam Fessler
RRP: £22.99£18.54The Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans curls around an old sugar plantation that long housed one of America's most painful secrets. Locals knew it as Carville, the site of the only leprosy colony in the continental United States, where... -
Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 by Geoffrey Levin 9780300267853
RRP: £25.00£23.94A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights American Jews began debating Palestinian rights issues even before Israel's founding in 1948. Geoffrey... -
Sheffield Troublemakers: Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History by David Price 9781860776601
RRP: £20.00£15.04George III described Sheffield as a 'damned bad place' at a time when the town was notorious for radical agitation. This book traces this radical tradition right up to the 1980s, when David Blunkett's Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire fought Mrs... -
The Brandon Men: In the Shadow of Kings by Sarah Bryson
RRP: £10.99£7.52Four generations of Brandon men lived and served six English kings, the most famous being Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, best friend and brother-in-law to King Henry VIII. Yet his family had a long history tied closely to the kings of the Wars of the... -
Bread for All: The Origins of the Welfare State by Chris Renwick
RRP: £10.99£7.77SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY PRIZE 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2018 'Makes a gripping human story out of the wisest and most progressive policy achievement of any government in the history of the world ... the welfare state deserves... -
Leyte Gulf 1944 (1): The Battles of the Sibuyan Sea and Samar by Mark Stille
RRP: £15.99£11.61In October 1944, the US prepared to invade the Philippines to cut Japan off from its resource areas in Southeast Asia. The Japanese correctly predicted this, and prepared a complex operation to use the remaining strength of its navy to defend its... -
The Great Silence: 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicolson
RRP: £10.99£7.40Peace at last, after Lloyd George declared it had been 'the war to end all wars', would surely bring relief and a renewed sense of optimism? But this assumption turned out to be deeply misplaced as people began to realise that the men they loved were... -
British Motor Gun Boat 1939-45 Angus Konstam 9781849080774
RRP: £12.99£11.01Motor Gun Boats were the Spitfires of the Seas of the Royal Navy. Bristling with small-calibre guns and machine guns, they served in a variety of roles during the War. In the early war period they battled against German E-boats in the English Channel,... -
Country House Secrets: Behind Closed Doors Ruth Binney 9781910821312
RRP: £14.99£9.80With a foreword by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey who concludes that: `This is the world that Ruth Binney has brought so wonderfully to life in her book'. Inside the country house, what exactly were the ... -
GARBO: The Spy Who Saved D-Day by Tomas Harris 9781550025040
RRP: £17.99£12.70Juan Pujol, a young Spanish antifascist, became agent GARBO, a master of deception and intrigue. His story contains all the hallmarks of classic spy adventure-enciphered messages, secret inks, items concealed in cakes-culminating in one of the greatest... -
Building a WWII Jeep: Finding, Restoring, and Rebuilding a Wartime Legend by Sean Dunnage
RRP: £25.00£20.62The Jeep as we know it from WW2 news reels, big screen movies and television shows such as M.A.S.H. or The Rat Patrol was the result of the US War Department's requirement for a light command-reconnaissance car to meet the US Army's needs under the...