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The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians 751-987 by Rosamond McKitterick 9780582490055
$164.11An exciting examination of the entire history of the Carolingian 'dynasty' in western Europe. The author shows the whole period to be one of immense political, religious. cultural and intellectual dynamism; not only did it lay the foundations of the... -
The Oil Campaign 1944-45: Draining the Wehrmacht's Lifeblood by Steven J Zaloga
RRP: $29.23$21.35A new illustrated history of one of the key air campaigns of late World War II - the American effort to cripple Germany's oil production, and grind its armed forces to a halt. With retreating German forces losing their oilfields on the Eastern Front,... -
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Heather Dune Macadam 9781529329353
RRP: $25.33$16.97'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline MooreheadOn March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of... -
Norwich in the Second World War by Neil Storey
RRP: $35.08$26.99Norwich in the Second World War is the story of the city and its people, both civilian and military, from the construction of the first air raid shelters in 1938 through to VE Day in 1945 and the return of Far Eastern prisoners of war in 1946.Featuring... -
The Kuban 1943: The Wehrmacht's last stand in the Caucasus by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $33.13$23.95In the summer of 1942, the Wehrmacht invaded the Caucasus in order to overrun critical oil production facilities at Maikop, Grozny and Baku. However, the Red Army stopped the Germans short of their objectives and then launched a devastating winter... -
The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass 9780399562396
RRP: $44.83$29.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399562396Author Richard HaassFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
1492 by Dr. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 9781408809501
RRP: $29.23$21.35'Fernandez-Armesto's rich vision of the 1490s is unlike any other world historians have given us. He has performed an amazing feat of portraying the world as one place before it had yet become one place ... This is popular history at its best: grounded... -
Ledbury: People and Parish before the Reformation: England's Past for Everyone by Sylvia Pinches
RRP: $29.23$22.52Ledbury is a small town in the lush Herefordshire countryside. How did it come to be here and who and what shaped its development? This volume explores a quiet corner of England from the earliest times until the middle of the 16th century. Hunters,... -
Scotland: a New History Michael Lynch 9780712698931
RRP: $48.75$34.94From Bannockburn and Robert the Bruce to the union of the crowns and Mary, Queen of Scots; from the Reformation and John Knox, to the Enlightenment and the Highland Clearances, and right up to devolution, Scotland is the definitive history of a country... -
The Complete Catalogue of British Tanks James Taylor 9781914929038
RRP: $87.75$61.52As the nation that conceived the first tank more than a hundred years ago, Britain has a long and fascinating series of tank designs to its credit. Despite a period of apathy from the relevant authorities about the value of tanks, which led to its... -
Cicero's Catilinarians by D. H. Berry
RRP: $45.81$37.36The Catilinarians are a set of four speeches that Cicero, while consul in 63 BC, delivered before the senate and the Roman people against the conspirator Catiline and his followers. Or are they? Cicero did not publish the speeches until three years... -
A Short History of the World by H. G. Wells
RRP: $21.43$15.33Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the evolution of life and the development of the human race. Along the way, Wells considers such diverse subjects as the Neolithic era,... -
A History of Ancient Egypt Marc Van De Mieroop (Columbia University and University of Oxford) 9781119620877
RRP: $79.85$71.31Explore the entire history of the ancient Egyptian state from 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D. with this authoritative volume The newly revised Second Edition of A History of Ancient Egypt delivers an up-to-date survey of ancient Egypt's history from its origins to... -
Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 by Edmond Smith
RRP: $53.63$44.64WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE "A superb book."-Jerry Brotton "Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched."-William Dalrymple "Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and always accessible."-Nandini Das A new history of English... -
The Disinherited: A Story of Family, Love and Betrayal by Robert Sackville-West
RRP: $25.33$17.92In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later that the full story... -
The Wife's Tale: A Personal History by Aida Edemariam
RRP: $25.33$16.98WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old... -
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective by Tony Insall 9781785904776
RRP: $48.75$35.57In this extraordinary book, historian Tony Insall reveals how some of the most striking achievements of the Norwegian resistance were the detailed reports produced by intelligence agents living in the dangerous conditions of the country's desolate... -
Excellent Essex by Gillian Darley 9781910400678
RRP: $29.23$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910400678Author Gillian DarleyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: The Book of Mnemonic Devices by Rod L. Evans 9780399533518
$28.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399533518Author Rod L. EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 184g -
Oxford Clinical Guidelines: Newly Qualified Doctor by David Fisher
RRP: $64.33$56.22Medical practice in the modern age requires familiarity with clinical guidelines and standards, which are often published separately in long and discursive documents. This new addition to the Oxford Medical Publications summarises the key clinical... -
German Night Fighter Aces of World War 2 Jerry Scutts 9781855326965
RRP: $33.13$27.50Germany's nightfighter force was virtually non-existent at the start of the war, mainly due to Reichmashall Herman Goring's boast that bombs would never fall on Germany. By mid 1940 the folly of this statement had been revealed and the first Luftwaffe... -
World War I Battlefield Artillery Tactics Dale Clarke 9781782005902
RRP: $29.23$24.47As the First World War bogged down across Europe resulting in the establishment of trench systems, artillery began to grow in military importance. Never before had the use of artillery been so vital, and to this day the ferocity, duration and widespread... -
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties by Timothy Brook
RRP: $42.80$36.02The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire-a millennium and a half in the making-was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was... -
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff 9781472261915
RRP: $25.33$16.97***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE***A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair.For the... -
Letters concerning the English Nation by Voltaire 9780199555321
RRP: $19.48$12.89Inspired by Voltaire's two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightment. Exactly contemporary with Gulliver's Travels and The Beggar's Opera, Voltaire's controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and... -
Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements and Forms by Mira Locher 9784805313282
RRP: $48.73$32.72Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricately carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat-each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story.In Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these... -
Bayern: Creating a Global Superclub by Uli Hesse
RRP: $25.33$17.92'MASTERFUL' Raphael HonigsteinThe story of superclub Bayern Munich by the critically acclaimed author of Tor!Bayern Munich is a team of extremes. They are the most passionately supported club in Germany and the most hated. There is no doubt that they are... -
Gertrude Jekyll by Twigs Way
RRP: $15.58$13.34Almost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is still one of the most influential of all English garden designers. Best known for the superb use of colour schemes in her hallmark flower borders, she combined an early training in art... -
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
RRP: $25.33$18.21From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would... -
The Weaker Vessel Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126356
RRP: $33.13$23.09Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent... -
Putting the Tea in Britain: The Scots Who Made Our National Drink by Les Wilson
RRP: $29.23$19.62'Deserves to sell like hot cakes' - Allan Massie, The Scotsman Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a 'nice cup of tea' has been a stock British response to a crisis. But... -
The Thames Through Time: A Liquid History by Stephen Croad
RRP: $39.00$29.09Drawing on the resources of English Heritage's unrivalled photographic archives, The Thames Through Times is a photographic journey along the length of the tidal river and over almost 150 years. We see the rural Thames as it approaches London, riverside... -
Alexandria: A History and Guide by E.M. Forster
RRP: $29.23$22.00With a novelist's pen, Forster brings to life the fabled, romantic city of Alexander the Great, capital of Graeco-Roman Egypt, beacon of light and culture symbolised by the Pharos, where the doomed love affair of Antony and Cleopatra was played out and... -
The Somme: Death of a Generation by John Harris
RRP: $21.43$19.19The bloodiest battle in the history of the British Army.In 1916 the Great War seemed caught in a stalemate. The British were determined to break it with a huge summer push. By the time the campaign wound down in November, it proved to be the most... -
Three Epic Battles that Saved Democracy: Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis by Dr Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: $29.23$19.31Praise for the author's A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths: 'Eminently sane, highly informative'PAUL CARTLEDGE, BBC History magazineThe year 2022 marks 2,500 years since the final defeat of the invasion of Greece by the Persian King Xerxes. This... -
Journey's End: Bomber Command's Battle from Arnhem to Dresden and Beyond Kevin Wilson 9780753828588
RRP: $25.33$17.22'A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground' ObserverIn February 1945, British and American bombers rained down thousands of tons of incendiaries on the city of Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 people and destroying one of the most... -
The Mars Project by Wernher Von Braun
RRP: $42.88$37.42This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all. Here the German-born scientist Wernher von Braun detailed what he believed were the... -
Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft & Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland by Emma Wilby
RRP: $82.88$75.95The confessions of Isobel Gowdie are widely recognised as the most extraordinary on record in Britain. Their descriptive power and vivid imagery have attracted considerable interest on both academic and popular levels. Among historians, the confessions... -
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
$54.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807056431Author Karl PolanyiFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 25mm -
A Concise History of Italy by Christopher Duggan
RRP: $44.83$37.64Since its formation in 1861, Italy has struggled to develop an effective political system and a secure sense of national identity. This new edition of Christopher Duggan's acclaimed introduction charts the country's history from the fall of the Roman...