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Bosworth 1485: Psychology of a Battle Michael Jones 9781848549081
RRP: £12.99£8.60In 1485 the Battle of Bosworth marked an epoch in the lives of two great houses: the house of York fell to the ground when Richard III died on the field of battle; and the house of Tudor rose from the massacre to reign for the next hundred years. Michael... -
Lost Skills and Crafts Handbook by Alan Titchmarsh
RRP: £16.99£12.28In this inspirational and practical guide to country life, passionate and hugely knowledgeable countryman Alan Titchmarsh explores the heritage of rural Britain, its landscapes and wildlife, its traditions, customs and crafts. The Lost Skills and Crafts... -
Icebound by Andrea Pitzer
RRP: £9.99£6.41'An epic tale of exploration, daring and tragedy told by a fine historian - and a wonderful writer' - Peter Frankopan, author of the bestselling The Silk Roads. 'The name of William Barents isn't that familiar to us these days...but this enthralling,... -
Waffen-ss (europa Militaria 6) by Andrew Steven
RRP: £16.00£13.34This title offers a useful reference source for the uniform collector, modeller and student of military dress and equipment. The reader can trace the development of the colour and design of the Waffen-SS uniforms: all the uniforms worn in the 150 colour... -
Drone Theory by Gregoire Chamayou
RRP: £8.99£6.45Drone Theory is Gregoire Chamayou's poignant and sharply argued polemic against US drone warfare.In 2011 alone, the US deployed one drone strike every four days in Pakistan. Drone Theory is a rigorous polemic against the increasing use of robot warfare... -
British Forces in Germany: The Lived Experience Dr Peter Johnston (Head of Collections Research and Academic Access) 9781788160322
RRP: £35.00£25.29A lavishly illustrated military and social history of the forces in Germany, published to coincide with the winding down of the operation in 2019-20. The book is split into decades and covers important military strategy, political events such as the... -
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment by Kevin Birmingham
RRP: £25.00£16.53From the acclaimed author of The Most Dangerous Book, the incredible true story behind the creation of a masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and PunishmentIn the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in... -
Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia Levi Roach 9781529398465
RRP: £25.00£14.26'In this fascinating, panoramic account, Levi Roach brings an expert eye and page-turning energy to the telling of their extraordinary story' Helen Castor, bestselling author of She Wolves'A fresh retelling of the story of the Normans . . . written with... -
Henry VII: The Maligned Tudor King by Terry Breverton
RRP: £10.99£7.25Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and by 1485, the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses left Henry as the sole adult Lancastrian claimant to... -
Life and Death in Asia Minor in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Times: Studies in Archaeology and Bioarchaeology by J. Rasmus Brandt 9781785703591
£80.26Life and Death in Asia Minor combines contributions in both archaeology and bioarchaeology in Asia Minor in the period ca. 200 BC - AD 1300 for the first time. The archaeology topics are wide-ranging including death and territory, death and landscape... -
Extreme Fitness: Military Workouts and Fitness Challenges for Maximising Performance by Chris McNab
RRP: £14.99£9.98Who's going to guide you when your military boot camp class is over? What's going to help you prepare for the next boot camp challenge? With the aid of superb line artworks, SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Extreme Fitness demonstrates to the reader how... -
The New Science by Giambattista Vico
RRP: £20.00£17.38A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico's masterpieceThe New Science is the major work of Italian philosopher Giambattista Vico. First published in 1725 and revised... -
Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome Dr Kathryn Tempest 9781472530561
RRP: £23.99£21.08As the greatest Roman orator of his time, Cicero delivered over one hundred speeches in the law courts, in the senate and before the people of Rome. He was also a philosopher, a patriot and a private man. While his published speeches preserve scandalous... -
The Ravine: A family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed by Wendy Lower
RRP: £9.99£7.11A strikingly original book about a terrible photograph - an exceptionally rare image documenting the horrific final moment of the murder of a family in Ukraine. A Times Book of the Year 'A very rare kind of picture... To the murdered others, this... -
Birmingham at War 1939-45 by Julie Phillips 9781473866973
RRP: £14.99£10.95Barely 17 years after the Great War that had brought Britain to its knees, the country was once again asked to make sacrifices and give their all to the war effort. With its strong industrial background, Birmingham was already geared to help manufacture... -
The Crusader Strategy: Defending the Holy Land by Steve Tibble
RRP: £27.50£22.89"Engagingly written."-Andrew D Buck, BBC History Magazine "[A] compelling book."-Ian Garrick-Mason, Spectator Shortlisted for the 2020 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military HistoryA new look at the crusaders, which shows how they pursued long-term plans... -
Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker 9780099484332
RRP: £16.99£12.282014 is the 100-year-anniversary of the panama canal: one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history.Hell's Gorge traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.The human cost... -
The German Fallschirmtruppe 1936-41 (Revised Edition): its Genesis and Employment in the First Campaigns of the Wehrmacht Karl-Heinz Golla 9781909384569
RRP: £49.95£36.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909384569Author Karl-Heinz GollaFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler 9780691160184
RRP: £16.99£11.95When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - "godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell ...by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw... -
Exploring the World of the Vikings by Richard Hall
RRP: £16.95£11.91This authoritative survey of Viking history and culture, now available in paperback, tells the complete story of the Vikings from their origins in Scandinavia during the first millennium ad, through the incredible period of raiding, trading and settling... -
The Great Filth: Disease, Death and the Victorian City by Stephen Halliday 9780752461755
RRP: £17.99£13.64Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Britain changed from an agricultural to an industrial ecomony, people swarmed into the towns and cities where... -
Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In by John Guy 9780008304904
RRP: £12.99£8.48Now a major film, this is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by one of the leading historians of this period. Who was the real Mary Queen of Scots? The most enigmatic ruler of England lived... -
The Last Train To Key West by Chanel Cleeton
RRP: £12.99£9.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451490889Author Chanel CleetonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age by Hal Brands
RRP: £38.00£26.40The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and... -
How Women Became Poets: A Gender History of Greek Literature by Emily Hauser 9780691201078
RRP: £35.00£27.74How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one-aoidos, or "singer-man." The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words,... -
Voices from the Blue: The Real Lives of Policewomen by Jennifer Rees 9781472143105
RRP: £10.99£3.51'God, I love these women! Their breeziness, compassion, humour and resilience are a tonic'Libby Purves, Times Literary SupplementIn February 1919, London's first women police officers took to the streets of the city. They battled entrenched gender... -
Scottish Murders by Judy Hamilton 9781902407838
RRP: £4.50£3.97An anthology of Scotland's worst and most infamous murders, this book contains 22 stories from Scotland's bloodstained past. Dating back to the fifteenth century, we have the story of the gruesome Bean family, who terrorized and cannibalized victims in... -
Children of the Mill: True Stories From Quarry Bank David Hanson 9781472220431
RRP: £10.99£7.40Channel 4's The Mill captivated viewers with the tales of the lives of the young girls and boys in a northern mill. Focusing on the lives of the apprentices at Quarry Bank Mill, David Hanson's book uses a wealth of first-person source material including... -
Stockton-on-Tees: Britain In Old Photographs by Charlie Emett
RRP: £14.99£11.55Charlie Emett has compiled a pictorial history of Stockton-on-Tees. With this superb collection of over 200 photographs, he illustrates many aspects of the town's development - both as a port and as a commercial centre - following the opening of the... -
Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf.B: Construction and Development by Alexander Volgin
RRP: £29.99£21.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155583131Author Alexander VolginFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint PeKo Publishing Kft.Publisher PeKo Publishing Kft. -
Catullus: A Selection of Poems Dr John Godwin (Independent Scholar, UK) 9781350060227
RRP: £16.99£15.22This is the OCR-endorsed publication from Bloomsbury for the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 3) prescription of Catullus' poems 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 40, 70, 76, 85, 88, 89, 91 and 107, and the A-Level (Group 4) prescription of poems 1, 34, 62 and 64 lines... -
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Stephen Shames
£30.43In words and photographs, here is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale's, with contributions from Kathleen Cleaver and many others; the photographs, which capture range... -
Shorelines: The Coastal Atlas of Ireland by Robert Devoy
£89.09The Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland's coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from across the island of Ireland and beyond, the Atlas takes an explicitly all-island approach; though the work... -
The Secret History of Oxford by Paul Sullivan 9780752499567
RRP: £12.99£9.62The Secret History of Oxford offers the reader an off-the-beaten-track tour of the city's landmarks and streets. Filled with hundreds of facts and anecdotes, it reveals the amusing, unlikely and downright wonderful stories hidden beneath the surface... -
Among the Wolves of Court: The Untold Story of Thomas and George Boleyn by Lauren Mackay 9781350147058
RRP: £12.99£9.79The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- are often relegated to the margins of the history of Henry VIII's turbulent reign. Well before Anne's coronation... -
Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese
RRP: £12.99£9.09The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history, perfect for fans of Mark Kurlansky's Salt and Jeremy Paxman's Black Gold. 'A passionate plea for a more considered way of treating the earth, its resources... -
Modern Minds the twentieth-century world Pupil's Book by Jamie Byrom
£29.13Invokes curiosity and wonder to engage all pupils through arresting source material, thought-provoking enquiry and clear, vibrant pates. Supports development of thinking skills through progressive steps in each enquiry, which gradually build... -
Waterloo Battlefield Guide: Second Edition David Buttery 9781526731081
RRP: £16.99£12.28The defeat of Napoleon's French army by the combined forces of Wellington and Blucher at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 was a turning point in world history. This was the climax of the Napoleonic Wars, and the outcome had a major influence on the shape of... -
The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by Adam Nagourney 9780451499363
RRP: £35.00£22.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451499363Author Adam NagourneyFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 902gDimensions(mm) 242mm... -
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper
RRP: £30.00£24.29A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle...