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Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome: A Laboratory of Images in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries by Annie Labatt
RRP: £108.00£94.71Emerging Iconographies of Medieval Rome examines the development of Christian iconographies that had not yet established themselves as canonical images, but which were being tried out in various ways in early Christian Rome. This book focuses on four... -
The Reformation Prof Patrick Collinson 9780753818633
RRP: £9.99£6.80A short but powerful study of one of the great watersheds of European historyAlthough for generations the Reformation was regarded as a major turning point in European history, in recent years its significance has been downgraded. But in this book... -
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lodz Ghetto by Dawid Sierakowiak 9780195122855
RRP: £18.49£14.87"In the evening I had to prepare food and cook supper, which exhausted me totally. In politics there's absolutely nothing new. Again, out of impatience I feel myself beginning to fall into melancholy. There is really no way out of this for us."... -
The Chinese Civil War: 1945-49 Michael Lynch 9781472853141
RRP: £11.99£8.43In this fully illustrated introduction, Dr Michael Lynch provides a concise overview of the Chinese Civil War, a defining conflict in world history. Between the end of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War, one of the most important conflicts in... -
Operation Market-Garden 1944 1: The American Airborne Missions by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: £16.99£12.28In the summer of 1944, plans began for a complex operation to seize a Rhine river bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands. The American portion of the airborne mission was to employ two divisions of the US XVIII Airborne Corps to seize key terrain features... -
Can We Talk about Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted by Daniel Sokatch
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635573879Author Daniel SokatchFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 596g -
Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia by Donald Rayfield
RRP: £17.99£14.61Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East and, despite having one of the longest, most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world, no proper history of the country has been written for decades. Eminent... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Ancient Greek Economy by Sitta von Reden
RRP: £29.99£26.34This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A team of specialists provides in non-technical language cutting edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in economic history, explaining how ancient Greek... -
Putney and Roehampton by Patrick Loobey
RRP: £12.99£9.62Putney and RoehamptonBook InformationISBN 9780752406329Author Patrick LoobeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Thermopylae: Great Battles by Chris Carey 9780198754107
RRP: £23.49£17.47During the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, a Greek force of approximately 7,000 faced the biggest army ever seen in the Greek peninsula. For three days, the Persians--the greatest military force in the world--were stopped in their tracks by a vastly... -
The Shaping of Modern Britain: Identity, Industry and Empire 1780 - 1914 by Eric Evans 9781408225646
£38.94In this wide-ranging history of modern Britain, Eric Evans surveys every aspect of the period in which Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power. By the end of the nineteenth century, Britain was still ruled by wealthy landowners,... -
How to Drink Like a Writer: Recipes for the Cocktails and Libations That Inspired 100 Literary Greats by Apollo Publishers
RRP: £15.99£11.04Pairing 100 famous authors, poets, and playwrights from the Victorian age to today with recipes for their iconic drinks of choice, How to Drink Like a Writer is the perfect guide to getting lit(erary) for madcap mixologists, book club bartenders, and... -
A Secret Country by John Pilger
RRP: £14.99£10.95Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye. In this fully updated edition of A Secret Country, he pays tribute to a little known Australia and tells a story of high... -
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War by Victor Davis Hanson 9780812969702
RRP: £14.99£9.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969702Author Victor Davis HansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm)... -
Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of a Common Fate by Mark Kurlansky
RRP: £18.99£12.88WINNER OF THE JOHN AVERY AWARD AT THE ANDRE SIMON AWARDS If we can save the salmon, we can save the world Over the centuries, salmon have been a vital resource, a dietary staple and an irresistible catch. But there is so much more to this... -
Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £12.99£8.60Called an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India, a Prime Minister's resignation and the... -
Antisemitism: A World History of Prejudice by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
RRP: £17.99£14.04Anti-Semitism has featured in the history of Western civilization since the Greeks. What the twentieth century has seen through the lens of the holocaust has been happening for over 3000 years. Dan Cohn-Sherbok traces the origins of anti-Semitism and its... -
Fortress Russia: Conspiracy Theories in the Post-Soviet World by Ilya Yablokov 9781509522668
£19.95Allegations of Russian conspiracies meddling in the affairs of Western countries have been a persistent feature of Western politics since the Cold War - allegations of Russian interference in the US presidential election are only the most recent in a... -
The Bren Gun by Neil Grant
RRP: £15.99£13.33Adopted in 1938 and remaining in British service until 1991, the popular and reliable Bren was an iconic light machine gun, and arguably the most recognizable Commonwealth weapon of World War ll. Gas-operated and magazine-fed, it was based on a Czech... -
London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God' by Jerry White
RRP: £30.00£21.35Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert.London in the nineteenth century was the greatest city mankind had ever seen. Its growth was stupendous. Its... -
Letters by Pliny the Younger
RRP: £24.95£23.39Correspondence from a distinguished and eventful life.The Younger Pliny was born in AD 61 or 62, the son of Lucius Caecilius of Comum (Como) and the Elder Pliny's sister. He was educated at home and then in Rome under Quintilian. He was at Misenum at... -
Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control by Dominic Streatfeild
RRP: £12.99£8.60- What would it take to turn YOU into a suicide bomber? - Do heavy metal LPs contain subliminal messages? - What was MI6 doing with LSD in the 1950s? - Does the Unification Church brainwash recruits? - Is The Manchurian Candidate fact or fiction? - Is it... -
The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and Its Arabs by Andrew Hussey 9781847082596
RRP: £12.99£8.56Beyond the affluent centre of Paris and other French cities, in the deprived banlieues, a war is going on. This is the French Intifada, a guerrilla war between the French state and the former subjects of its Empire, for whom the mantra of 'liberty,... -
Frank Sutcliffe: Photographer of Whitby by Michael Hiley
RRP: £20.00£15.44'His photographic skills enabled him to convert what he felt about Whitby and the countryside around it-the feelings he carried inside himself from the time he came from smoky Leeds as a child to first see the coast-into a visual tribute which goes far... -
Victorian Recipes by Pitkin
RRP: £5.00£3.73This charming little book provides a feast of original recipes from Victorian times, which are still perfectly reliable today. How about spring soup or mayonnaise of chicken in shells to start? Followed by toad in the hole made with steak and kidney,... -
Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement by G. C. Peden
RRP: £29.99£26.34Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for... -
Ancient Africa: A Global History, to 300 CE by Christopher Ehret
RRP: £22.00£17.36A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world historyThis book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in... -
A Concise History of Sweden by Neil Kent
RRP: £22.99£18.72Neil Kent's book sweeps through Sweden's history from the Stone Age to the present day. Early coverage includes Viking hegemony, the Scandinavian Union, the Reformation and Sweden's political zenith as Europe's greatest superpower in the seventeenth... -
Holocaust by Imperial War Museum 9781912423408
RRP: £20.00£14.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJames Bulgin is a lead historian at the Holocaust Galleries at Imperial War Museums.Book InformationISBN 9781912423408Author Imperial War MuseumFormat... -
1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C Mann
RRP: £19.00£12.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400032051Author Charles C. MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 527gDimensions(mm) 203mm... -
Smells: A Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times Robert Muchembled (University of Paris) 9781509536788
RRP: £17.99£12.14Why is our sense of smell so under-appreciated? We tend to think of smell as a vestigial remnant of our pre-human past, doomed to gradual extinction, and we go to great lengths to eliminate smells from our environment, suppressing body odour, bad breath... -
Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital by Philip Hoare
RRP: £10.99£7.25The story of Netley in Southampton - its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley's links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s. It was... -
Brummie Kid by Graham V. Twist
RRP: £14.99£11.55Brummie Kid is a fascinating recollection of the experience of growing up in the slums of Nechells and Aston. All the harshness of daily life is remembered here by local author Graham Twist. Despite hard living conditions and a distinct lack of money, a... -
Tudor Wales: Full-Colour Guide to the Many Places in Wales Associated with This Famous Dynasty Nathen Amin 9781445617732
RRP: £15.99£10.85The Tudors are one of history's most infamous families and the era over which they reigned still captures the public's interest without rival. 'Tudor England' in itself has become a well known phrase that covers many aspects of the era, particularly... -
Hitler's New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia by Stevan K. Pavlowitch
RRP: £19.99£17.82The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across the territory of that... -
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924 by Philip Mansel
RRP: £16.99£11.54Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history of Constantinople (formerly known as Byzantium) absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror... -
Tiger I & Tiger II Tanks: German Army and Waffen-SS Normandy Campaign 1944 by Dennis Oliver 9781526771636
RRP: £16.99£13.40In spite of the relatively small numbers involved, the Tiger I and Tiger II tanks of the German Army and Waffen-SS heavy Panzer formations played a central role in resisting the Allied invasion of France in the summer of 1944/. British and American tank... -
Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 by Frederick Taylor
RRP: £16.99£12.28At 9.51 p.m. on Tuesday 13 February 1945, Dresden's air-raid sirens sounded as they had done many times during the Second World War. But this time was different. By the next morning, more than 4,500 tons of high explosives and incendiary devices had been... -
RAF Transport Aircraft by Chris Gibson
RRP: £15.99£7.11From their modest origins with BE.2c and Vickers Victoria biplanes delivering food and ammunition in the Mesopotamian deserts to the massive Globemasters delivering hardware in the same theatre a century later, transport aircraft have played a key role... -
A Brief History of the Roman Empire by Dr. Stephen P. Kershaw
RRP: £12.99£5.47In this lively and very readable history of the Roman Empire from its establishment in 27 BC to the barbarian incursions and the fall of Rome in AD 476, Kershaw draws on a range of evidence, from Juvenal's Satires to recent archaeological finds. He...