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Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney by Kate Kennedy 9780691218557
RRP: £20.00£16.29The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylumIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the... -
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't by Stephen Prothero 9780060859527
RRP: £15.99£12.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060859527Author Stephen ProtheroFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Women Our History by DK
RRP: £20.00£14.29Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events... -
Skyhawks Over the South Atlantic: The Argentine Skyhawks in the Malvinas/Falklands War 1982 by Santiago Rivas
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866397Author Santiago RivasFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception by Annie Jacobsen
RRP: £14.99£14.82The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51.This is a book about a team of scientists and... -
Raw Generals and Green Soldiers: Catholic Armies in Ireland 1641-43 by Padraig Lenihan
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804511947Author Padraig LenihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window by Rob Young
RRP: £12.99£9.24A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast of moving pictures, from classics to occult hidden gems, The Magic Box is the nation's visual self-portrait... -
Goose Green: The first crucial battle of the Falklands War Mark Adkin 9781474626255
RRP: £9.99£6.80Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands conflictThe most in-depth and powerful account yet published of the first crucial clash of the Falklands war - told from both sides.'Thorough and exhaustive' Daily Telegraph'An excellent and fast paced... -
Inspector Morse on Location: The Companion to the Original and Bestselling Guide to the Oxford of Inspector Morse Including Lewis Fully Illustrated with Location Maps by Antony Richards 9781901091304
RRP: £8.99£7.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091304Author Antony RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams)... -
History and the Law: A Love Story by Carolyn Steedman 9781108736985
RRP: £24.99£21.18Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives in their coverture, History and the Law reveals how people... -
World History: 50 Events You Really Need to Know Ian Crofton 9780857380753
RRP: £12.99£8.60People often complain that in history lessons at school they were taught just a few topics - the Romans, the Tudors, the Nazis - and how they have no idea at all about what happened in between. To remedy this, World History: 50 Key Milestones You Really... -
Cursed Objects by J. W. Ocker
RRP: £17.99£13.35They re lurking in museums, graveyards, and private homes around the world. Their stories have inspired countless horror movies, reality TV shows, campfire tales, books, and even chain emails. They re cursed objects, and in order to unleash a wave of... -
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c.1200-1520 by Christopher Dyer
RRP: £42.99£37.77Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at... -
To Her Credit: Historic Achievements-and the Women Who Actually Made Them Happen Kaitlin Culmo 9781454946120
RRP: £16.99£11.54There's history as it's told, and then there's history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story as... -
English Canals Explained Stan Yorke 9781853068256
RRP: £7.95£6.61The English canal network becomes increasingly popular and widely used each year. The main aim of this book is to explain how everything works - from locks and lifts, to tunnels and towpaths. Stan Yorke, a life-long narrow boat enthusiast, explains in an... -
Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War by Frank McDonough 9780719048326
RRP: £19.99£17.82Re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement. The text suggests that the mood of the age in British society served to support appeasement, by analyzing the cluster of military, strategic, imperial and economic forces which served to justify it... -
We Armenians Survived!: Battle of Marash 1920 by Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut 9781733015905
RRP: £16.95£14.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733015905Author Ellen Sarkisian ChesnutFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Ellen Sarkisian ChesnutPublisher Ellen Sarkisian ChesnutWeight(grams)... -
The Story of the SS: Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death Al Cimino 9781788285353
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788285353Author Al CiminoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd -
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia Robert Carmichael 9781472143761
RRP: £9.99£6.80'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'JON SWAIN, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time'Through a profoundly moving tale that weaves together the connected stories of a victim, his... -
Russian Revolution, The Paper by Chris Culpin
£20.72Covering popular topics and containing sharply focused material, Longman History in Depth is ideal for AS/A Level or higher Still students of all abilities. Introduces students to each topis through a narrative supported by charts, maps, timelines,... -
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield
RRP: £16.99£13.65Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the... -
The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School by David Turner 9780300219388
RRP: £12.99£11.46To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country's top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including... -
China: A History in Objects by Jessica Harrison-Hall
RRP: £29.95£19.29This illustrated introduction to the history of China offers a fresh understanding of China's progress from the Neolithic age to the present. Told in six chapters arranged chronologically, through art, artefacts, people and places, and richly illustrated... -
Navigations: The Portuguese Discoveries and the Renaissance by Malyn Newitt
RRP: £25.00£24.18Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in... -
The Baby Boomer Generation: A Lifetime of Memories by Paul Feeney
RRP: £10.99£8.25Do you remember washing in a tin bath by the fire, using outside lavatories and not having a television? Did you grow up in the 1950s and were you a teenager in the swinging sixties? If the Festival of Britain, food rationing and the Queen's coronation... -
Tudor Roses: From Margaret Beaufort to Elizabeth I by Amy Licence
RRP: £25.00£16.83A dynasty is defined by its men: by their personalities, their wars and reigns, their laws and decisions. Their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are often depicted as mere foils, shadowy figures whose value lies in the inheritance they brought, or... -
The Swan King: Ludwig II of Bavaria by Christopher McIntosh
£24.11"The Swan King" is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'. A man of wildly eccentric temperament and touched by a rare, imaginative genius, Ludwig II of Bavaria... -
Sioux Warrior vs US Cavalryman: The Little Bighorn campaign 1876-77 by Ron Field
RRP: £15.99£13.33Following the discovery of gold deposits, in December 1875 the US Government ordered the indigenous population of the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota and Wyoming, the Sioux, to return to the Great Sioux Reservation. When the Sioux refused, the US... -
St Petersburg: a Cultural History by Solomon Volkov 9780684832968
£28.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684832968Author Solomon VolkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 938gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
A Study of History: Volume II: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
RRP: £23.49£17.87Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of human civilizations. Contained in two volumes, D.C. Somervell's abridgement of this magnificent... -
Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld by James Belich
RRP: £20.99£18.34Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin,... -
75 years of the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works by James C. Goodall
RRP: £50.00£37.62This pictorial journey takes the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follows the programme through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service. ... -
The Mighty 747: Australia's Queen of the Skies by Jim Eames
RRP: £16.99£12.28'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew millions of people to Australia, overseas for work, back to their homelands, on holiday and out of danger. For... -
Dive Truk Lagoon, 2nd edition: The Japanese WWII Pacific Shipwrecks by Rod Macdonald 9781849955416
RRP: £35.00£28.82Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707: The Double Crown by David Lee Smith 9780631194026
RRP: £34.95£31.23This is a survey of a seminal and intensely controversial period in British history, from the union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 to the union of the Kingdoms in 1707. The book explores the intersecting histories of the Stuart monarchies... -
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin
RRP: £20.00£14.69A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods,... -
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic... -
Anglesey at War by Geraint Jones
RRP: £17.99£13.64The First and Second World Wars had a profound effect on all parts of Great Britain, and the comparatively isolated and rural island of Anglesey was no exception. Men were recruited and conscripted into the armed forces in large numbers and some parts of... -
The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Strategies for a World War by Jeremy Black 9781538163702
RRP: £25.00£21.79The wars between 1792 and 1815 saw the making of the modern world, with Britain and Russia the key powers to emerge triumphant from a long period of bitter conflict. In this innovative book, Jeremy Black focuses on the strategic contexts and strategies... -
The White Sniper: Simo HaYha by Tapio Saarelainen
RRP: £14.99£12.21Simo Hayha (1905 - 2002) is the most famous sniper in the world. During the Winter War fought between Russia and Finland in 1939 - 1940 he had 542 confirmed kills with iron sights, a record that still stands today. He has been a role model for snipers...