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A death in Brazil by Peter Robb
RRP: £14.99£10.95Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil is a nation... -
Kent Folk Tales by Tony Cooper 9780752459332
RRP: £9.99£8.17These traditional stories and local legends have been handed down by storytellers for centuries. As folk tales reveal a lot about the people who invented them, this book provides a link to the ethics and way of life of generations of Kentish people... -
Outlaws of the Wild West by Terry C Treadwell
RRP: £25.00£17.62The 'Wild West', or American Frontier as it is also known, developed in the years following the American Civil War. However, this period of myth-making cowboys, infamous gunslingers, not always law-abiding lawmen, and saloon madams, is as much the... -
The Hats that Made Britain: A History of the Nation Through its Headwear by David Long
RRP: £20.00£15.44Many of the world's most famous hats have their origins in Britain; in the Middle Ages there were civil and religious laws requiring hats to be worn and in Victorian Britain a person would no more leave home without a hat than a pair of trousers. It is... -
Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy by John Prevas
RRP: £25.00£14.66According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood and made him swear eternal hatred of Rome. Whether the story is true or not, it is just one of hundreds of legends that have appeared over... -
Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France and England, Mother of Empires by Sara Cockerill
RRP: £25.00£16.83In the competition for remarkable queens, Eleanor of Aquitaine tends to win. In fact her story sometimes seems so extreme it ought to be made up. The headlines: orphaned as a child, Duchess in her own right, Queen of France, crusader, survivor of a... -
The Burden of Heritage: Hauntings of Generational Trauma on Black Lives by Aileen Alleyne
RRP: £30.00£25.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Gradiva Award 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781913494247Author Aileen AlleyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Confer BooksPublisher Karnac... -
Complete Book Of U.s. Presidents, The (ninth Edition) by William DeGregorio
RRP: £31.99£21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569808177Author William DeGregorioFormat PaperbackPage Count 900Imprint Barricade Books IncPublisher Barricade Books Inc -
The Practice of History Geoffrey R. Elton (Late of the University of Cambridge) 9780631229803
RRP: £31.95£28.29The new edition of G. R. Elton's classic work is a wide-ranging, succinct and practical introduction for all students and general readers of history. It makes a major contribution to the question "what is history?".About the Author G. R. Elton was... -
Kendall's Longitude by John Bendall 9781788239417
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788239417Author John BendallFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Victoria Crosses on the Western Front Battles of the Hindenburg Line Canal du Nord: September October 1918 by Paul Oldfield 9781526788115
RRP: £25.00£14.28IN THE PAST, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the... -
The French Revolution: From its Origins to 1793 by Gary Kates
RRP: £14.99£13.58Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the... -
Studying History by Donald M. MacRaild
RRP: £24.99£20.27This best-selling guide will help you get to grips with the larger themes and issues behind historical study, while also showing you how to formulate your own ideas in a clear, analytical style. Fully updated throughout, further advice on using web-based... -
Malta Strikes Back: The Role of Malta in the Mediterranean Theatre 1940-1942 by Ken Delve 9781473892446
RRP: £25.00£18.02The key to our position in the whole Mediterranean lay in Malta. (Tedder) Two of the greatest strategic mistakes by Hitler involved failure to take control of two key locations, Gibraltar and Malta; between them these two were able to influence, and at... -
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
RRP: £12.99£10.09SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's history' - Observer 'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating... -
Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today's India by Christophe Jaffrelot 9781849044295
RRP: £30.00£26.95In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician thrice elected to lead a state of the Indian Union, his stewardship as Chief Minister of Gujarat being the longest in that state's history. Modi and his BJP supporters explained his... -
The Glass Wall: Lives on the Baltic Frontier by Max Egremont
£13.13This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.Few countries have suffered more from the convulsions and bloodshed of twentieth-century Europe than those in the eastern Baltic. Small... -
Death on the Don: The Destruction of Germany's Allies on the Eastern Front, 1941-44 by Jonathan Trigg
RRP: £17.99£13.64Nazi Germany's assault on the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, Operation Barbarossa, was the largest invasion in history. Almost 3.5 million men smashed into Stalin's Red Army, reaching the gates of Leningrad, Moscow and Sevastopol. But not all of... -
Ancient Egyptian Jewelry: 50 Masterpieces of Art and Design by Nigel Fletcher-Jones 9789774169656
RRP: £19.99£16.42Jewelry was worn by ancient Egyptians at every level of society and, like their modern descendants, they prized it for its aesthetic value, as a way to adorn and beautify the body. It was also a conspicuous signifier of wealth, status, and power. But... -
Across The Airless Wilds: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings by Earl Swift 9780062986535
RRP: £22.00£18.91"THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." -The Times (London)A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed... -
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian London by Judith R. Walkowitz 9780226871462
RRP: £27.00£26.87From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal... -
Fairbairn-Sykes Commando Dagger by Leroy Thompson
RRP: £15.99£11.61The Fairbairn-Sykes Commando dagger has become iconic as the most widely recognized fighting knife in the world. The origins of the dagger can be traced to Shanghai in the 1930s where W. E. Fairbairn and US Marine officers including Sam Yeaton carried... -
Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England by Stuart Maconie
RRP: £14.99£10.95Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is... -
The Snows of Yesteryear: Portraits for an Autobiography by Gregor von Rezzori
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Snows of Yesteryear (1989) is Gregor von Rezzori's haunting evocation of his childhood in Czernowitz, in present-day Ukraine. Growing up after the First World War, Rezzori portrays a twilit world suspended between the dying ways of an imperial past... -
Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac 9780198784593
RRP: £26.49£19.49British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misinformation designed to divide and discredit targets from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Northern Ireland. It... -
Roman Legionary 109-58 BC: The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great by Ross Cowan
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Roman centurion, holding the legionaries steady before the barbarian horde and then leading them forward to victory, was the heroic exemplar of the Roman world. This was thanks to the Marian reforms, which saw the centurion, although inferior in... -
The Battle of the Little Big Horn: A New Appraisal by W.A. Wallace 9781399046718
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Little Book of the Isle of Wight by Jan Toms 9780752458175
RRP: £10.99£8.25Did you know? A new species of cat-like dinosaur, yet to be named, was discovered on the Isle of Wight in 1988. Darwin began his world famous 'On the Origin of the Species' while staying at the Kings Head Hotel. There are 21 tourists to every Island... -
Iraq: A History John Robertson 9781780749495
RRP: £18.99£12.27Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law - all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all... -
The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism by Thant Myint-U
RRP: £10.99£7.32A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2020A New York Times Critic's Pick 2019'A sobering account, told elegantly and eruditely.' Financial Times'Thant Myint-U is the greatest living historian of Burma.' William DalrymplePrecariously positioned between China and... -
The Tudor Housewife by Alison Sim
RRP: £12.99£8.17The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for the most part, eluded the historian's pen? The Tudor Housewife aims to answer this question, providing a... -
Paris Commune: A Brief History by Carolyn J. Eichner
RRP: £17.99£15.90At dawn on March 18, 1871, Parisian women stepped between cannons and French soldiers, using their bodies to block the army from taking the artillery from their working-class neighborhood. When ordered to fire, the troops refused and instead turned and... -
Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw 9780198828853
RRP: £8.99£6.45Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw remains one of the world's most important and popular writers. His plays are regularly performed around the world, from the boards of Broadway and the West End to regional, community, and college stages. The three... -
Hidden Britain: Secret Tunnels, Lost Chambers and Unknown Passageways by Alvin Nicholas
RRP: £15.99£12.25Britain's history is rich in mystery and scandal, and our ancient buildings hide the fascinating stories. Hidden Britain takes you backstage at some of our country's most intriguing locations, into secret tunnels, down concealed passageways and behind... -
Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl by Adriana Petryna
RRP: £28.00£21.80On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the... -
A Willingness to Die: Memories from Fighter Command by Brian Kingcome
RRP: £11.99£8.93In 1938 Brian Kingcome joined the RAF with a permanent commission and was posted to No 65 Fighter Squadron at Hornchurch, soon to be equipped with the Spitfire, and so it came about that Brian flew the Spitfire throughout the war. He became acting CO for... -
The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play by James C. Whorton
RRP: £15.99£11.61Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of... -
Slate Quarrying in Wales: A Gazetteer by Des Marshall 9781845245382
£15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845245382Author Des MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch CyfDimensions(mm) 198mm * 128mm * 15mm -
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by Samuel Moyn
RRP: £21.95£17.62Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In... -
The Hero by Lee Child 9780008361877
RRP: £5.99£4.18THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin...