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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... -
The Jeep: Second World War by Lance Cole 9781526746511
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Second World War Jeep was one of the most famous and influential military vehicles of all time, and over 600,000 were produced. It served with all the Allied forces during the war on every front and it has been the inspiration behind the design of... -
The Japanese Cruiser Asama by Aleksander Suchaniewicz
RRP: £25.95£18.25"Azuma" was one of the six armored cruisers built under the programme. Four of them were built by the British Armstrong shipyard, but "Azuma" was ordered in France, and its sister vessel, the "Yakumo", in Germany. Both cruisers were to carry British... -
Alamein Stephen Bungay 9781854109293
RRP: £14.99£9.80El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain had to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces were threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need of military victory. Then, in... -
The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims by Khaled A. Beydoun
RRP: £23.00£17.36"The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe."-Kimberle Crenshaw, from the foreword "A profound wake-up call... -
Under Fire: Black Britain in Wartime 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne
RRP: £12.99£9.62During the Second World War all British citizens were called upon to do their part for their country. Despite facing the discriminatory 'colour bar', many black civilians were determined to contribute to the war effort where they could, volunteering as... -
The Classical Tradition by Anthony Grafton 9780674035720
RRP: £70.95£58.43"A vast cabinet of curiosities."-Stephen Greenblatt"Eclectic rather than exhaustive, less an encyclopedia than a buffet."-Frederic Raphael, Literary ReviewHow do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus's sirens to those of an ambulance? The... -
Coal Mining in Britain by Richard Hayman
RRP: £8.99£6.96An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them. Coal heated the homes, fuelled the furnaces and powered the engines of the Industrial Revolution. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the coalfields -... -
The Spy Who Painted the Queen: The Secret Case Against Philip de Laszlo by Phil Tomaselli
RRP: £9.99£7.55Was Philip de Laszlo a secret agent and was MI5's source really as they claimed? Did an enemy spy really paint the portrait of the young Princess Elizabeth? In 1917, noted society portrait painter Philip de Laszlo, who painted such luminaries as the... -
The Family Tree Detective: Tracing Your Ancestors in England and Wales by Colin Rogers 9780719071263
RRP: £14.99£13.64The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in England and Wales. It takes into account... -
A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23 by Diarmaid Ferriter
RRP: £14.99£10.95Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in response, the Irish Volunteers, who would later evolve into the IRA... -
Birmingham: The Workshop of the World Professor Carl Chinn 9781781382479
RRP: £16.45£16.19Birmingham is a city with an extraordinarily diverse achievement in fields as varied as science, industry, politics, education, medicine, printing and the arts. Labels such as the 'first industrial city', 'city of a thousand trades', 'the best-governed... -
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King by Claire Tomalin
RRP: £22.99£16.28Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully readable. As gripping as the best fiction' Independent on Sunday Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of... -
Revolution: the bestselling memoir by France's recently elected president by Emmanuel Macron 9781911344797
RRP: £14.99£9.80The bestselling memoir by France's president, Emmanuel Macron. Some believe that our country is in decline, that the worst is yet to come, that our civilisation is withering away. That only isolation or civil strife are on our horizon. That to protect... -
Vindolanda: Everyday Life on Rome's Northern Frontier Robin Birley 9781848682108
RRP: £19.99£13.73The beautiful site the Romans called Vindolanda lies in south-west Northumberland, in the district of Tynedale, more or less half way between the North Sea east of Newcastle and the Irish Sea to the west of Carlisle. It is just within the boundary of the... -
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
RRP: £32.00£15.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2022 and Kirkus Prize 2022 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 2022 and PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction... -
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
RRP: £12.99£8.56SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six and living in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. She began holding secret meetings in... -
Josiah the Great: The True Story of The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre
RRP: £12.99£8.48The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds of Afghanistan. In the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant,... -
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion by Andrew Robinson
RRP: £12.99£8.60An updated edition of this acclaimed book, now with a new preface and published to tie in with the bicentenary of Champollion's breakthrough in 1822. Cracking the Egyptian Code is the first biography in English of Jean-Francois Champollion, the... -
Prehistory: The Making Of The Human Mind Professor Lord Colin Renfrew 9780753824276
RRP: £9.99£6.80A brief and original prehistory of the worldPrehistory covers human existence before written records, i.e. most of human existence. But it also refers to the discipline through which we scrutinize prehistoric times. PREHISTORY begins by looking at the... -
Hardcore History: Humanity vs the Apocalypse, from the Bronze Age to Today by Dan Carlin
RRP: £10.99£7.77THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time,... -
Light in the Dark: The Last Sanctuary from the Holocaust Robert Marshall 9781800326422
RRP: £10.99£7.00An extraordinary true story of survival and courage through the Holocaust.Poland, 1943. It was the last refuge of the desperate, a warren of sewers underneath their city. Above, as the Nazis destroyed the ghetto of the city of Lvov, a small band of Jews... -
Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga by William W. Fitzhugh
RRP: £26.95£24.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560989950Author William F. FitzhughFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1520gDimensions(mm)... -
Luftwaffe Mistel Composite Bomber Units Robert Forsyth 9781472808462
RRP: £16.99£14.10The striking appearance of Luftwaffe's Mistel Composite attack aircraft might seem ridiculous to modern eyes, but employed correctly, these original 'fire and forget' weapons were devastatingly effective, as Allied sources testify. This book draws on a... -
Under the Devil's Eye: The British Military Experience in Macedonia 1915 - 1918 by Simon Moody
RRP: £14.99£11.61The authors have researched the Salonika Campaign in every detail, from the arrival of the first British troops in 1915 to final victory. During this period large numbers of British and allied troops were tied up in the strategically vital Balkans. ... -
The Lost World of Byzantium by Jonathan Harris
RRP: £14.99£13.03A fresh, concise, and accessible history of one of the medieval world's greatest empires For more than a millennium, the Byzantine Empire presided over the juncture between East and West, as well as the transition from the classical to the modern world... -
1923: The Forgotten Crisis in the Year of Hitler’s Coup by Mark Jones 9781529360738
RRP: £18.99£14.11The astonishing year when German democracy faced crisis and near destruction.1923 was one of the most remarkable years of modern European history. In January, France and Belgium militarily occupied Germany's economic heartland, the Ruhr; triggering a... -
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan
RRP: £35.00£28.14In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the... -
Battle of Britain The Breaking Storm: 10 July 1940 12 August 1940 by Dilip Sarkar 9781399056410
RRP: £25.00£19.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel
RRP: £14.99£9.80Levant is a book of cities. It describes Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut when they were windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. Using unpublished family papers, Philip Mansel describes their... -
Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps by Ian Baxter 9781399048774
RRP: £14.99£10.95As the Allies closed in on Hitler's Germany the horror and scale of the Final Solution and concentration camps became all too apparent. This latest Images of War book provides the reader a truly disturbing insight into the Nazi's brutal regime of... -
The January 6 Report by The January 6th Committee
RRP: £14.99£10.10The instant #1 New York Times bestsellerThe official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump's related coup conspiracies to overthrow the election, with an original...