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A People's Church: A History of the Church of England by The Revd Dr Jeremy Morris 9781781252499
RRP: $38.70$27.54Weaving social, political, and religious history together with church music and architecture, A People's Church is a clear-eyed look at Anglican history through the ages. This history is as tumultuous as it is long. The transformative 1534-1660... -
Northmen: The Viking Saga 793-1241 by John Haywood
RRP: $14.18$10.02'Haywood's lucid explanations of the cultures of the Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians are vital to understanding the motivations for their movements' KIRKUS REVIEWS. The violent and predatory society of Dark Age Scandinavia left a unique impact on the... -
The Somme by Robin Prior
RRP: $15.47$13.09Published in a new edition on the centenary of the seismic battle, this book provides the definitive account of the Somme and assigns responsibility to military and political leaders for its catastrophic outcome. "A magisterial piece of scholarship. . . ... -
The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran by Roy Mottahedeh 9781851686162
RRP: $24.50$23.10Drawn from the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses, Roy Mottahedeh's absorbing tale of Islam and Politics in revolutionary Iran is widely regarded as one of the best records of that turbulent time ever written. This revised edition includes a new... -
30 Years of Mobile Phones in the UK by Andy Sutton
RRP: $19.34$12.51In 1985, the seeds of a revolution were sown in the UK when people were first able to communicate using one of the most remarkable items of personal technology to have been developed - the mobile phone. The authors, both acknowledged experts in this... -
The Hellenistic Age: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Thonemann
RRP: $11.60$8.32The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cultural globalization: in the third century BC, a single language carried you from the Rhone to the Indus... -
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram 9780316881463
$39.65A larger-than-life fighter pilot and genius of aviation, engineering and military strategy, Boyd dared to challenge the intractable military bureaucracy and its outmoded practices. The single-minded determination developed in his youth carried him on to... -
The Oil Campaign 1944-45: Draining the Wehrmacht's Lifeblood by Steven J Zaloga
RRP: $19.34$14.13A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt. With retreating German forces losing their oilfields on the Eastern Front,... -
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice by Adam Makos
RRP: $14.18$9.44***NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING JONATHAN MAJORS AND GLEN POWELL***'This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.' Erik LarsonDevotion tells the gripping story of the US Navy's most famous aviator duo - Tom Hudner, a white New Englander, and... -
1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steve Pincus
RRP: $32.25$23.39Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that it-not the French Revolution-was the first truly modern revolution For two hundred years historians have viewed England's... -
Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945 Neill Lochery 9781610391887
RRP: $20.63$11.69Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million... -
Defending Gloucestershire and Bristol by Mike Osborne 9781781558898
RRP: $32.25$23.92Gloucestershire's strategic location straddling the Severn is reinforced by Bristol's importance as a port. The Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds are densely populated by prehistoric hillforts and Gloucester, Cirencester and Winchcombe were important... -
Succession to the Crown: From Charles II to Charles III by The Gazette 9780117094314
$34.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780117094314Author The GazetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint TSOPublisher TSO -
The Little History of Yorkshire by Ingrid Barton 9780750983563
RRP: $15.48$11.52There is nothing 'little' about the history of England's largest county, Yorkshire! However, this small volume condenses a rich history into a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the events this county has witnessed, from... -
A Concise American History by David Brown
RRP: $46.43$40.88Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the shifting political climate of the past decade, this highly... -
Human Game: Hunting the Great Escape Murderers Simon Read 9781472112620
RRP: $16.76$11.09In March 1944, 76 Allied officers tunnelled out of Stalag Luft III. Of the 73 captured, 50 were shot by direct order of Hitler. This is the story of how a British Bobby from Blackpool, Frank McKenna, was sent to post-war Germany on the express orders... -
The Crossing Place: A Journey among the Armenians by Philip Marsden 9780008127435
RRP: $12.89$9.17A revised and updated edition of Philip Marsden's classic travel book, published to coincide with the centenary of the Armenian massacres. After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th... -
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents Dominic Selwood 9781472131898
RRP: $38.70$26.32From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie language - this is Britain's past. But, today, Britain is experiencing an acute trauma of identity, pulled... -
The walks near Godalming: 44 short walks 4-6 miles linking Shalford Compton Thursley Gibbet Hill Chiddingfold by Bill Andrews
$6.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999997519Author Bill AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Bill AndrewsPublisher Bill Andrews -
African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa by Robert Gaudi
RRP: $21.92$19.75At the turn of the twentieth century, European colonial powers scrambled in Africa for trade, land and political advantage. When the First World War broke out, they were forced to contend with one another not just in trenches on the Western Front, but in... -
Semicolon: How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life by Cecelia Watson
RRP: $11.60$7.77'Fascinating... I loved this book; I really did' David Crystal, Spectator A biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling... -
No Hero: The Evolution of a Navy Seal by Mark Owen 9780451472243
RRP: $21.92$14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451472243Author Mark OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint New American LibraryPublisher New American LibraryWeight(grams) 305g -
Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern: The Politics of Time in the Sultanate of Oman by Amal Sachedina 9781501760020
RRP: $33.53$29.01Cultivating the Past, Living the Modern explores how and why heritage has emerged as a prevalent force in building the modern nation state of Oman. Amal Sachedina analyses the relations with the past that undergird the shift in Oman from an Ibadi shari'a... -
BOUDICA THE TRUTH by Janet Smart
RRP: $12.89$12.40In the province of Britannia during AD60. the brutality of the Roman Empire forced catastrophic retaliation by the people. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, rose in rebellion, joined by thousands of her fellow countrymen. Together they engaged in a deadly... -
How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters by Daniel Hannan
RRP: $12.89$9.17This book tells the story of freedom and explains how it is a uniquely 'British', rather than 'Western', invention. It shows how the inhabitants of a damp island at the western tip of the Eurasian landmass stumbled upon the extraordinary idea that the... -
Ghostly Northumberland by Rob Kirkup
RRP: $19.34$14.90From reports of haunted castles, hotels, battlefields, chapels and churchyards, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, Ghostly Northumberland investigates twenty of the most haunted locations in... -
The Oxford History of Medieval Europe by George Holmes
RRP: $21.92$16.24This is the most authoritative account of life in Medieval Europe between the fall of the Roman Empire and the coming of the Renaissance. Full coverage is given to all aspects of life in a thousand-year period which saw the creation of western... -
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses by Aarathi Prasad
RRP: $28.38$18.46There is not just one story of silk.In silk is science, history and mythology.In silk is the future. Aarathi Prasad's Silk is a gorgeous new history weaving together the story of a unique material that... -
A History of Modern Lebanon Fawwaz Traboulsi 9780745332741
RRP: $38.69$25.03This is the first history of Lebanon from the Ottoman Empire to the modern period. Based on previously inaccessible archives, it is a fascinating account of one of the world's most fabled countries. Starting with the formation of Ottoman Lebanon in... -
Prisoner 1082: Escape from Crumlin Road Prison, Europe's Alcatraz by Donal Donnelly
$17.75On 26 December 1960, 12,000 Ulster police and B Specials began one of their biggest manhunts. It was for Prisoner 1082 - Donal Donnelly - who had made a dramatic escape from the prison known as 'Europe's Alcatraz'. Using hacksaw blades, torn sheets and... -
Marx: Later Political Writings by Karl Marx
RRP: $21.92$18.19Marx: Later Political Writings, first published in 1996, brings together translations of Marx's most important texts in political philosophy written after 1848. Marx challenged political theory to its very fundamentals, as his works do not follow... -
The History of the Rebellion: A new selection by Edward Hyde,Earl of Clarendon
RRP: $18.05$12.58'I am doing your Majesty some service here, whilst I am preparing the story of your sufferings; that posterity may know by whose default the nation was even overwhelmed with calamities, and by whose virtue it was redeemed.' Clarendon's massive History... -
German Armor in Normandy by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006437
RRP: $25.79$19.98Throughout the Second World War, a shift occurred in the composition of the large armored units of armies which lead to an increase in the power of their tanks in particular. The Germans were no exception. Many of its recently formed Panzer divisions,... -
An Empire of Laws: Legal Pluralism in British Colonial Policy by Christian R Burset 9780300253238
RRP: $70.95$67.74A compelling reexamination of how Britain used law to shape its empire For many years, Britain tried to impose its own laws on the peoples it conquered, and English common law usually followed the Union Jack. But the common law became less common after... -
Hathors Alchemy: The Ancient Egyptian Roots of the Hermetic Art by Alison M Roberts 9780952423331
RRP: $35.48$22.86Apologies 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 -
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds
RRP: $19.34$15.04In this important and compelling young readers adaptation of his National Book Award-winning title, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, writing with award-winning author Jason Reynolds, chronicles the story of anti-black, racist ideas over the course of American history... -
SDKFZ 251 - 251/9 and 251/22 Kanonenwagen: German Army and Waffen-SS Western and Eastern Fronts, 1944-1945 by Dennis Oliver 9781526791146
RRP: $21.92$15.84Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Station 12: SOE's Secret Weapons Centre by Des Turner 9780752459448
RRP: $15.47$11.52The full story of Aston House in the Second World War has never been told before. Its activities were top secret and as important to the Allied war effort as those of Bletchley Park, but in a different way. Situated near Stevenage, Aston House was one of... -
The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 by Charles Freeman 9781803281957
RRP: $38.70$27.03The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; some sixty years later,... -
The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years Aleks Sierz 9781350301764
RRP: $15.47$14.22British theatre is booming. But where do these beautiful buildings and exciting plays come from? And when did the story start? To find out we time travel back to the age of the first Queen Elizabeth in the 16th century, four hundred years ago when there...