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Kisses on a Postcard: A Tale of Wartime Childhood by Terence Frisby 9781408801062
RRP: $17.53$12.77'When you get there', our mum said, 'you find out your new address and you write it on the card. Then you post it at once. Now, the code. Our secret code ...You know how to write a kiss? Well, put one kiss if it's horrible and I'll come straight there... -
Secret Intelligence: A Reader by Richard J. Aldrich
RRP: $93.58$83.48The second edition of Secret Intelligence: A Reader brings together key essays from the field of intelligence studies, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and ongoing debates about the... -
Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement by G. C. Peden
RRP: $58.48$51.36Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for... -
A Thousand Miles up the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards 9780856982514
RRP: $57.53$48.34"This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I most hope to be remembered - if I may hope to be remembered at all!" Amelia B Edwards, 1877. A chance visit to Egypt in 1873 by Amelia Edwards changed the future of British Egyptology... -
Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa
RRP: $31.18$24.30The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa... -
Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark: Amazing Revelations of the Incredible Power of Gold by Laurence Gardner
RRP: $25.33$16.98New in paperback by Laurence Gardner, the bestselling author of Bloodline of the Holy Grail. From the tombs of pharaonic Egypt, to the laboratories of modern science, comes the extraordinary account of gravity defiance and teleportation in the ancient... -
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages by Katherine Harvey
RRP: $25.33$17.73The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much - or too little - sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong... -
On Brick Lane by Rachel Lichtenstein
RRP: $21.43$15.58Brick Lane today is a place of extremes - a street that's constantly reinventing itself. Blending history and reportage with personal testimony and urban myths, and interspersing these with maps and photography, On Brick Lane is a one-of-a-kind chronicle... -
RAF Transport Aircraft by Chris Gibson
RRP: $31.18$14.27From their modest origins with BE.2c and Vickers Victoria biplanes delivering food and ammunition in the Mesopotamian deserts to the massive Globemasters delivering hardware in the same theatre a century later, transport aircraft have played a key role... -
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World by Liang Qichao 9780241568781
RRP: $25.33$18.21'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and... -
Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain by Andrea Zuvich 9781526753076
RRP: $33.13$23.95Peek beneath the bedsheets of Stuart Britain in this frank, informative, and captivating look at the sexual lives of the peoples of the British Isles between 1603 and 1714. Popular Stuart historian Andrea Zuvich, The Seventeenth Century Lady , explores... -
The Kings & Queens of Wales by Timothy Venning
RRP: $21.43$14.33The Welsh kings and queens who ruled prior to the Norman Conquest of Wales are shrouded in mystery. Most of what we know is from legend, names in annals, and from their opponents. This book sets out to identify what we know or can reasonably surmise... -
It Happened in Shropshire by Bob Burrows
RRP: $25.33$19.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906122195Author Bob BurrowsFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 375g -
The Perfect Sword: Forging the Middle Ages by Edoardo Albert
RRP: $42.90$28.68The story of the Bamburgh Sword - one of the finest swords ever forged. In 2000, archaeologist Paul Gething rediscovered a sword. An unprepossessing length of rusty metal, it had been left in a suitcase for thirty years. But Paul had a suspicion that... -
Torn Apart: Fifty Years of the Troubles, 1969-2019 by Ken Wharton
RRP: $33.13$25.82In the early twentieth century there was a war brewing on Britain's doorstep. Northern Ireland was filled with discrimination and suspicion, a sense of foreboding that would soon erupt into full-blown rioting. As the fiftieth anniversary of the Troubles... -
The Last Assassin Peter Stothard 9781474613163
RRP: $19.48$13.46'A gripping history' Mary Beard'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel'Atmospheric and gripping, and [his] scholarship is impeccable' Greg WoolfMany men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers... -
Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century by Kyung Hyun Kim
RRP: $44.83$39.02In Hegemonic Mimicry, Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture-the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television, which is also known as hallyu-from a transnational and transcultural perspective. Using the concept... -
Rethinking American Grand Strategy by Elizabeth Borgwardt 9780190695668
RRP: $181.35$141.51A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy. What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achieve? And what differentiates it from normal strategic thought--what, in other words, makes it "grand"?... -
Groupthink by Christopher Booker 9781472959058
RRP: $39.00$29.72In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor... -
Pby Catalina: Consolidated's Flying Boat in WWII by David Doyle
RRP: $44.83$30.52The PBY Catalina, designed and produced by Consolidated Aircraft, whose production was supplemented by that of Boeing Canada, Canadian Vickers, and the Naval Aircraft Factory, was the most widely used flying boat of all time. Developed in the 1930s, the... -
Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story Fanny Pigeaud 9780745341798
RRP: $38.98$26.42Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism. The CFA Franc was created in 1945, binding fourteen African states and... -
Victorian Recipes by Pitkin
RRP: $9.75$7.47This charming little book provides a feast of original recipes from Victorian times, which are still perfectly reliable today. How about spring soup or mayonnaise of chicken in shells to start? Followed by toad in the hole made with steak and kidney,... -
Military Intelligence Blunders by John Hughes-Wilson
RRP: $21.43$14.76'A cracking good read... I will recommend this book to anyone' - Professor Richard Holmes, CBE 'The Falklands, Yom Kippur, Tet and Pearl Harbor? Avoidable intelligence blunders or much worse? Altogether a compelling read from someone who knows the... -
A Short History of the Renaissance in Northern Europe by Malcolm Vale 9781780763859
$32.70The concept of a Northern European 'Renaissance' in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture north of the Alps often evokes the idea of a cultural transplant which was not indigenous to, or rooted in, the society from which it emerged. Classic... -
Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire Victor Sebestyen 9780753827093
RRP: $25.33$17.22'A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world' Jonathan Dimbleby, MAIL ON SUNDAYFor more than 40 years after the Second World War the... -
Growing Up in Wartime Uxbridge by Stephen Skinner 9780752445434
RRP: $25.33$19.25From a child's viewpoint, the pre-war years of the 1930s were full of carefree, halcyon days when the sun always used to shine; but for many people the 1930s were, regrettably, quite the opposite. In this book all aspects from pre-war to post-war... -
Culloden: Great Battles by Murray Pittock
RRP: $25.33$18.21The battle of Culloden lasted less than an hour. The forces involved on both sides were small, even by the standards of the day. And it is arguable that the ultimate fate of the 1745 Jacobite uprising had in fact been sealed ever since the Jacobite... -
Hathors Alchemy: The Ancient Egyptian Roots of the Hermetic Art by Alison M Roberts 9780952423331
RRP: $53.63$34.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952423331Author Alison M RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Northgate PublishersPublisher Northgate PublishersWeight(grams) 976g -
Origins of the Chinese Revolution, 1915-1949 by Lucien Bianco
RRP: $40.93$36.39The 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... -
Who Owns the Dead?: The Science and Politics of Death at Ground Zero by Jay D. Aronson
RRP: $70.10$57.70After September 11, with New Yorkers reeling from the World Trade Center attack, Chief Medical Examiner Charles Hirsch proclaimed that his staff would do more than confirm the identity of the individuals who were killed. They would attempt to identify... -
Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen 9781474615792
RRP: $37.03$25.64'A huge, fizzing omnium-gatherum of a book . . . marvellous' Daily Telegraph'Witty, wise and elegant . . . a classic of history itself' The Spectator'Grave and witty, suave yet pointed . . . full of energy' Hilary Mantel'An enthralling investigation . . ... -
The Man Who Drew London by Gillian Tindall
RRP: $33.13$24.32The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington... -
Shakespeare's Restless World: An Unexpected History in Twenty Objects by Neil MacGregor
RRP: $29.23$21.66The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. Shakespeare's Restless World uncovers the extraordinary stories behind twenty objects from the period to re-create an age... -
Titanic by David Ross
RRP: $38.98$26.62On 14 April 1912, less than a week into a transatlantic trip from Southampton to New York, the largest luxury cruise liner in the world struck an iceberg off the coast of Labrador, causing the hull to buckle. The massive 50,000 ton ship hailed as... -
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson 9780812969702
RRP: $29.23$19.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969702Author Victor Davis HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm)... -
NKJV, Value Thinline Bible, Large Print, Leathersoft, Blue, Red Letter Edition, Comfort Print: Holy Bible, New King James Version by Thomas Nelson
RRP: $37.03$27.12A balance of being both easy-to-read and easy-to-carry, this Bible is an ideal choice to take with you wherever you go. This edition is published in large NKJV Comfort Print type, which was designed exclusively for Thomas Nelson to be the most readable... -
A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer 9780753559925
RRP: $48.75$35.14London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the sordid crime of publishing and selling a birth... -
The Mudd Club by Richard Boch 9781627310512
RRP: $60.43$40.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310512Author Richard BochFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
Roman Mail and Scale Armour by M.C. Bishop
RRP: $29.23$21.35Fully illustrated, this study investigates the origins, evolution and use of the mail and scale armour worn by the soldiers and gladiators of Imperial Rome. Less glamorous than the Roman Army's instantly recognizable plate armour but much more...