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Land Rover: Military Versions of the British 4x4 by Ben Skipper
RRP: £16.99£12.28After the Second World War many American military vehicles become surplus stock and soon found their way into the hands of farmers and land owners across Great Britain. The subsequent heavy use and the real possibility of difficulties obtaining spares... -
Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45 by Maggie Craig 9781910948293
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A racily written, well-researched and heart-warming account' Scots MagazineToo many historians have ignored the role of women in the '45. This book aims to redress the balance. Damn' Rebel Bitches takes a totally fresh approach to the history of the... -
Catalaunian Fields AD 451 by Simon MacDowall
RRP: £15.99£11.61The battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive for more than 15 years following... -
Mythical Ireland: New Light on the Ancient Past by Anthony Murphy 9781838359331
RRP: £27.95£25.94Mythical Ireland embodies the search for a soul among Ireland's ancient ruins, and is an attempt to retrieve something of deeper import from 5,000-year-old megalithic monuments and their associated myths. The book represents a fascinating and engaging... -
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
RRP: £12.99£9.09Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a... -
Common Ground: Did you ever have a friend who made you see the world differently? Naomi Ishiguro 9781472273338
RRP: £10.99£7.40*An Evening Standard Must Read, Grazia Best Book of 2021 and Independent Debut Not to Miss*'Beautifully written, this is a book of real hope and connection' StylistDid you ever have a friend who made you see the world differently?Stan did, and his name... -
Complete Middle Egyptian: A New Method for Understanding Hieroglyphs: Reading Texts in Context Richard Bussmann 9781473609792
RRP: £44.99£29.65Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Middle Egyptian offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, access inscriptions in documents and monuments and even teaching... -
The Burgundians: A Vanished Empire by Bart Van Loo 9781803286969
RRP: £20.00£15.29A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year 'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich... -
We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism by Andy Campbell
RRP: £29.00£21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306827464Author Andy B CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm... -
European Ironclads 1860-75: The Gloire sparks the great ironclad arms race Angus Konstam 9781472826763
RRP: £11.99£8.43From Spain to Russia, and from Ottoman Turkey to Bismarck's Prussia, this book explores 15 years that transformed European naval warfare. When the Gloire slid down the Toulon slipway in 1859, it changed sea power forever. With this ship, the... -
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly
RRP: £22.00£12.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977226Author David CordinglyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
The American Future: A History From The Founding Fathers To Barack Obama by Simon Schama
RRP: £16.99£12.28The American Future traces the history of a country whose most enduring trait is its capacity for self-renewal, especially at times of disaster. Examining issues of power, race and immigration, religious fervour and prosperity, this masterful portrait of... -
The Bird in the Bamboo Cage by Hazel Gaynor
RRP: £12.99£12.18Inspired by true events... 'Moving and authentic' Dinah Jefferies'Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful' Jenny Ashcroft'A beautiful, tender and fascinating story' Sinead Moriarty 'Deeply moving. Be prepared - have... -
Black Victorians: Hidden in History by Keshia N. Abraham 9780715654880
RRP: £12.99£8.63Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary. In this deeply researched... -
Roman Britain: Life at the Edge of Empire Richard Hobbs 9780714150611
RRP: £12.99£8.60For nearly four centuries Britain was a province on the outer edge of the Roman Empire and developed a distinctively Romano-British culture and way of life. Using the archaeological evidence, ancient written sources and the latest research on surviving... -
F-102 Delta Dagger Units by Peter E. Davies
RRP: £14.99£10.95World War II saw the development of the heavy bomber as a decisive weapon which, in sufficient numbers, could overcome defensive fighters and guns and lay waste to strategic targets. The addition of nuclear weapons to the bomber's armament made it even... -
Firefighting the Blitz: Fire Service Memories by Aylmer Firebrace CBE, KPM
RRP: £25.00£18.02War was coming. Everyone knew that confrontation with Nazi Germany was inevitable and that London was likely to be a prime target of Hitler's bombers. So, in January 1939, Aylmer Firebrace, the Chief Officer of London Fire Brigade, was seconded to the... -
Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day E J Hobsbawm 9780140257885
RRP: £14.99£10.95This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the... -
Civil War by Caesar
RRP: £24.95£23.23The struggle that ended the Roman Republic.Caesar (C. Iulius, 102-44 BC), statesman and soldier, defied the dictator Sulla; served in the Mithridatic wars and in Spain; entered Roman politics as a "democrat" against the senatorial government; was the... -
Old Fulham by Francis Czucha 9781840336450
RRP: £22.95£20.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336450Author Francis CzuchaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
The World Crisis 1911-1918 by Winston Churchill
RRP: £20.00£14.69Winston Churchill's superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War is a defining work of twentieth-century history. With dramatic narrative power Churchill reconstructs the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts, the wars at... -
To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora, 1750-2010 by T. M. Devine
RRP: £12.99£9.09Part of his trilogy on Scottish history, T. M. Devine's To the Ends of the Earth is a compelling account of the Scots as a 'global people', charting their forgotten role in the building of the modern world. The Scots are one of the world's greatest... -
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman
RRP: £14.99£11.53It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by... -
Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China by Timothy Brook 9780674023987
£30.07Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the... -
Royal Bastards by Peter Beauclerk-Dewar 9780752446684
RRP: £12.99£9.62Since 1066 when William the Conqueror (alias William the Bastard) took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowledged at court and founded dynasties of their own - several of today's... -
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner 9781786892195
RRP: £16.99£15.51SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKBorn and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her... -
The Brothers: Inside the Private Worlds of William and Harry by Christopher Andersen
RRP: £27.99£17.84Featuring unreported details and stunning revelations, the long-awaited follow-up to the "fabulous, addictive" (Chicago Sun-Times) New York Times bestseller Diana's Boys explores the last twenty years in the lives of Princes William and Harry and the... -
Early Military Rifles: 1740–1850 by Balázs Németh
RRP: £13.99£9.75The conduct of combat operations in open order during the 18th and 19th centuries required an improved firearm with more accuracy than the standard-issue smoothbore infantry musket. Consequently, the appearance of a new type of regular light infantry... -
Logistics in the Falklands War by Kenneth L. Privratsky
RRP: £14.99£12.68While many books have been written on the Falklands War, this is the first to focus on the vital aspect of logistics. The challenges were huge; the lack of preparation time; the urgency; the huge distances involved; the need to requisition ships from... -
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich
RRP: £10.99£7.77Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth' - Caroline Moorehead, GuardianExtraordinary stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child... -
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great defied a deadly virus by Lucy Ward
RRP: £20.00£14.29A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022 SO FAR Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize 2022 'Sparkling history...with a fairytale atmosphere of sleigh rides, royal palaces and heroic risk-taking' The Times A killer virus...an all-powerful Empress...an... -
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut James Hanning 9781472155955
RRP: £25.00£16.78'A brilliantly researched and revelatory book, written with compelling authority and great narrative drive. Completely fascinating' William BoydLove & Deception is the extraordinary story of how Eleanor, an able, cultured American living in the... -
Gloucestershire Between the Wars: A Memoir by Arthur Stanley Bullock 9780752447933
RRP: £14.99£11.55One of the most eventful periods in history - the first half of the twentieth century - is vividly and astutely described by Arthur Stanley Bullock in this entertaining memoir. His unique insight comes from having not been in any sense part of the... -
Elegy: The First Day on the Somme by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £20.00£15.32On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front. Some ground was gained, but at a terrible... -
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley
RRP: £12.99£9.09'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' Jill Lepore, New Yorker 'One of the most exciting historians of her generation, but also one of the most interesting writers of non-fiction around' - William Dalrymple, Guardian ... -
Aikido Ground Fighting by Walther von Krenner
RRP: £17.99£12.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946060Author Walther G. Von KrennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot by James B. Stockdale 9780817993924
RRP: £15.95£15.14In describing his seven and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, the late Vice Admiral James B. Stockdale has said: "In that atmosphere of death and hopelessness, stripped of the niceties, the amenities of civilization, my ideas on life... -
A Short History of the World in 50 Places by Jacob F. Field
RRP: £12.99£8.73Discover the most impactful and incredible episodes from human history, from the prehistoric era to the early twenty-first century, through fifty of the most surprising and often less well-known places in the world.From the Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania,... -
A History of Sussex by Philip Payton
RRP: £19.99£15.63Philip Payton's history of the great county of Sussex is a masterly piece of work. Combining sound academic research with a genuine talent for writing, this superb new book tells the story of Sussex from ancient times to the present day, exploring some... -
Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer’s Life by Richard Morris 9781474623421
RRP: £28.00£21.80'A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived' JAMES HOLLANDBarnes Wallis became a household name after the hit 1955 film The Dam Busters, in which Michael Redgrave portrayed him as...