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Imperial Nostalgia by Peter Mitchell
RRP: $29.23$21.68A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK's future and its place... -
Bountiful Empire: A History of Ottoman Cuisine by Priscilla Mary Isin
RRP: $68.25$49.32The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history. In this powerful and complex empire, the production and consumption of food reflected the lives of people from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of different classes... -
Letters on England by Francois Voltaire
RRP: $25.33$18.21Also known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French... -
In Search of the Romans (Second Edition) James Renshaw (Godolphin and Latymer School, London, UK) 9781474299916
RRP: $42.88$39.80In Search of the Romans is a lively and informative introduction to ancient Rome. Making extensive use of ancient sources and copiously illustrated with photographs, drawings, maps and plans, now for the first time in colour, its opening two chapters... -
Maritime Strike: The Untold Story of the Royal Navy Task Group off Libya in 2011 by John Kingwell
RRP: $39.00$27.87In April 2011, the newly created Royal Navy Response Force Task Group deployed to the Mediterranean to provide a range of military options in response to the Arab Spring. For the next six months the group planned and prepared for a range of potential... -
SR-71 Blackbird: Stories, Tales, and Legends Rich Graham 9780760311424
RRP: $46.80$31.53Feel the Mach 3 power generated by Lockheed's incredibly fast SR-71 Blackbird! Former SR-71 pilot, instructor and wing commander, Richard Graham, presents the most intriguing SR-71 stories ever told. This once highly classified program is fully revealed... -
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey
RRP: $21.43$15.58Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern... -
Dunkirk: The Real Story in Photographs by Tim Lynch 9780750982733
RRP: $29.25$22.85The Second World War saw heroic efforts made by the Allied forces from its very outset, but in May 1940 disaster befell the British Expeditionary Force in France. Isolated from the rest of their allies, they faced insurmountable numbers of enemy troops... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis Dr Stephen P. Kershaw 9781472145673
RRP: $58.50$38.61Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineIn 2022 it will be 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This astonishing... -
The Spartans: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: $17.53$12.97Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, and considered an enigma. The Spartans who fought for freedom against the Persians... -
The Apothecaries' Garden by Sue Minter
RRP: $25.33$19.25In the heart of London, beside the Thames not far from the site of the world famous flower show, there is another magical garden. It has been there for over three hundred years and is now the calmest corner, and the most valuable four acres of freehold,... -
Ronin by Craig Woodfield
RRP: $25.33$19.15Set in an age of feuding samurai, wandering swordsmen and fearless warrior monks, Ronin is a skirmish wargame that captures the flavour and excitement of such Akira Kurosawa films as Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Whether they prefer the loyal samurai... -
Lady Katherine Grey: A Dynastic Tragedy by Conor Byrne
RRP: $39.00$29.78'I have always abhorred to draw in question the title of the crown, so many disputes have been already touching it in the mouths of men . . . so long as I live, I shall be queen of England; when I am dead, they shall succeed that has most right.' -... -
The Rifle 2: Back to the Battlefield by Andrew Biggio 9781684515066
RRP: $42.90$27.40In this highly anticipated follow-up to The Rifle, Andrew Biggio brings to light more untold stories from the quickly vanishing ranks of the veterans of World War II.Ordinary Men with Extraordinary PurposeThey are called the Greatest Generation, but they... -
OCR GCSE (9-1) History B (SHP) Foundation Edition: The People's Health c.1250 to present by Jamie Byrom
$42.76Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP)Level: GCSE (9-1)Subject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2016First exams: Summer 2018An OCR endorsed textbook.Help more students to access the content for OCR GCSE History B (SHP) with this Foundation Edition,... -
The Great Silence: 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War Juliet Nicolson 9780719562570
RRP: $21.43$14.84Peace 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... -
Ju 87 Stuka vs Royal Navy Carriers: Mediterranean by Robert Forsyth
RRP: $27.28$19.21Ju 87 dive-bombers, originally developed for pin-pointing bombing missions against land targets and Allied naval vessels were deployed by both the Luftwaffe and the Regia Aeronautica against the Allied forces. Included in such a target were perhaps the... -
Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: $38.98$35.04How to account for decades of worldwide war, revolution, and human suffering in the seventeenth century? A master historian uncovers the disturbing answer. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the... -
By Permission Of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London Adrian Tinniswood 9780712668477
RRP: $25.33$18.21There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame, monsters born in city slums. Then, in the early hours... -
Crow Killer, New Edition: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson by Raymond W. Thorp
RRP: $23.38$21.33The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6'2" in his stocking feet and weighing nearly 250 pounds, he was a mountain man among mountain... -
Enquiring History: The French Revolution by Dave Martin
$49.16Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.Enquiring History: It makes you think! The OFSTED report on school history suggests that the current generation of A Level students... -
Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew by Kate Teltscher
RRP: $19.48$14.37'A glorious green adventure story.' Ann Treneman, The Times 'Books of the Year''The most enthralling historical book I've read this year.' Claire Tomalin, New Statesman 'Books of the year' Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew... -
Tibetan Civilization by R. A. Stein
RRP: $48.73$42.26A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804709019Author R. A. SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 408g -
The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War by Mark Stille
RRP: $68.25$50.49An highly illustrated examination of the key ships, tactics and operations of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the War in the Pacific in World War II. The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the third most powerful navy in the world at the start of World... -
Typhoon to Typhoon by Chris Gibson
RRP: $58.40$42.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109596Author Chris GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
The AK-47: Kalashnikov-series assault rifles by Gordon L. Rottman
RRP: $29.23$22.91A detailed, fully illustrated study of the most recognizable assault rifle ever produced. The Kalashnikov AK-47 is the most ubiquitous assault rifle in the world, with more AK-47s and its variants in use than any other individual small arm. Created by... -
The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland by Lindy Brady
RRP: $146.25$132.09The inhabitants of early medieval Britain and Ireland shared the knowledge that the region held four peoples and the awareness that they must have originally come from 'elsewhere'. The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland studies these... -
Scottish Folk & Fairy Tales: Ancient Wisdom, Fables & Folkore by Dr. Sarah Dunnigan
RRP: $21.43$15.17Scottish folk and fairy tales are full of mischief and malevolence, with spirits and goblins, bogles, witches, kelpies and mer-folk lurking in every corner of the land, behind every tree and craggy rock at midnight. In these pages lurk the Fairy queen,... -
The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss
RRP: $25.33$18.21The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek letter lambda. 'This is Sparta!', bellows Leonidas on... -
Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Icelandic Stories by Hermann Palsson
RRP: $25.33$18.21Written around the thirteenth century AD by Icelandic monks, the seven tales collected here offer a combination of pagan elements tightly woven into the pattern of Christian ethics. They take as their subjects figures who are heroic, but do not fit into... -
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters by Nancy Goldstone
RRP: $29.23$19.31In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of... -
Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar by Ciara Meehan
RRP: $52.63$37.52When Fine Gael entered a coalition government with Fianna Fail in 2020 the party did what would have been unthinkable for its forefathers who fought and won a bitter civil war to establish the institutions of an independent Irish state almost a century... -
Kate: The Future Queen by Katie Nicholl
RRP: $37.03$26.54Katie Nicholl, bestselling author and royal correspondent for The Mail on Sunday , gives an inside look into the life of the future Queen of England, Kate Middleton. Since becoming Duchess Catherine of Cambridge in 2011, Middleton has captivated royals... -
Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic Robert D. Ballard 9781426220999
RRP: $48.75$35.14The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania reveals the secret military missions behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Titanic find. Best known for finding the wreck of the... -
The Bombing of London 1940-41: The Blitz and its impact on the capital by John Conen
RRP: $27.28$19.52This is the story of the London Blitz of 1940-41 and is a combination of social and military history of this time. The title emphasises bombing over blitz as the word 'Blitz' has now taken on a much more general meaning associated with Britain's wartime... -
Armies of the Caliphates 862–1098 by Dr David Nicolle
RRP: $25.33$21.47The 8th century heralded the start of a golden age in the history of the Islamic world. At this time, the Sunni Muslim 'Abbasid Caliphate, with its capital at Baghdad, ruled virtually the entire Islamic world. Islamic military power peaked in the 9th... -
Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem
RRP: $27.28$23.05The international bestseller that mesmerizingly charts quixotic journeys through London's past, Mudlark thrills Anglophiles and history lovers alike. Long heralded as a city treasure herself, beloved "Mudlark" Lara Maiklem tirelessly treks along the... -
Reagan: An American Journey by Bob Spitz
RRP: $35.08$24.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143110590Author Bob SpitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Javelin Boys by Steve Bond
RRP: $29.23$21.35The Gloster Javelin was the UK's first line of night and all-weather air defence both at home and in RAF Germany. In the 1950s, when it replaced the Meteor and Venom, this revolutionary bomber interceptor became integral to many great stories told here... -
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive Lucy Adlington 9781529311969
RRP: $39.00$26.81*** The New York Times Bestseller ***'Lucy Adlington tells of the horrors of the Nazi occupation and the concentration camps from a fascinating and original angle. She introduces us to a little known aspect of the period, highlighting the role of...