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Cuthbert and the Northumbrian Saints by Paul Frodsham 9780955540639
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955540639Author Paul FrodshamFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesDimensions(mm) 230mm * 164mm * 8mm -
The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren
RRP: £10.99£6.47AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR'Captivating . . . a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer'A fascinating look at a piece of forgotten female history' Sunday Times'A treat, elegantly spinning a... -
Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology by Norman Friedman
RRP: £25.00£19.22The overriding image of the First World War is the bloody stalemate of the Western Front, but although much of the action did occur on land, the overall shape of the war even the inevitability of British participation arose out of its maritime character... -
The Folk-lore of Herefordshire by Ella Mary Leather
RRP: £15.00£12.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839294Author Ella Mary LeatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Little History of Essex by Judith Williams 9780750970419
RRP: £12.00£8.93There is nothing 'little' about the history of Essex! However, this small volume condenses that fascinating, rich history into a collection of stories and facts that will make you marvel at the events our county has witnessed. Discover the development of... -
Legends: Twelve People Who Made South Africa a Better Place Matthew Blackman 9781776391066
RRP: £13.99£9.20We have a lot to be positive about in South Africa. With all our problems, it's easy to feel bleak. But hold those thoughts, because Legends might be just the tonic you need to drive off the gloom. This book tells the stories of a dozen... -
China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran
RRP: £16.99£12.28China Witness is the personal testimony of a generation whose stories have not yet been told. Here the grandparents and great-grandparents of today sum up in their own words - for the first and perhaps the last time - the vast changes that have overtaken... -
Court and Civic Society in the Burgundian Low Countries C.1420-1530 by Andrew Brown 9780719056208
RRP: £19.99£17.82This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with... -
The Little Book of Essex Dee Gordon 9780750951272
RRP: £9.99£8.17The Little Book of Essex is packed full of entertaining bite-sized pieces of historic and contemporary trivia that come together to make essential reading for visitors and locals alike. It can be described as a compendium of frivolity, a reference book... -
Aircraft of the Special Forces by Edward Ward 9781838862992
RRP: £17.99£12.39Special Forces are a key component of every modern army, capable of carrying out clandestine operations, reconnaissance, and incisive attacks behind enemy lines. Units such as the British SAS, US Navy SEALs, the US Army's Delta Force, Polish GROM and the... -
Anne Neville: Richard III's Tragic Queen by Amy Licence
RRP: £10.99£7.12Shakespeare's enduring image of Richard III's queen is one of bitterness and sorrow. Anne curses the killer of her husband and father, before succumbing to his marriage proposal, bringing to herself a terrible legacy of grief and suffering an untimely... -
Napoleon by Philip Dwyer
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Vibrant and illuminating ... [Dywer] tells a fascinating tale' The Times 'Refreshing scholarship ... Energetic, readable and filled with colourful detail ... Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection is a thoroughly enjoyable book which divides well... -
The Final Whistle: The Great War in Fifteen Players by Stephen Cooper 9780752499000
RRP: £12.99£9.62WINNER OF THE BRITISH SPORT BOOK AWARDS - RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR This is the story of 15 men killed in the Great War. All played rugby for one London club; none lived to hear the final whistle. Rugby brought them together; rugby led the rush to war. They... -
Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 by Roger Crowley
RRP: £12.99£9.24Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture... -
Roman Civilization: Selected Readings: The Republic and the Augustan Age, Volume 1 by Naphtali Lewis 9780231071314
RRP: £50.00£39.52Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold's Roman Civilization is a classic. Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1955, the authors have undertaken another revision which takes into account recent work in the field. These volumes consist of... -
Women in Aviation by Julian Hale
RRP: £7.99£6.25Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart may be the most famous trailblazing women within the world of early aviation, but there were many others. From the Wright brothers' sister Katherine, who was awarded the Legion d'honneur, to Mary, Lady Heath, the first... -
Atlas: A World of Maps from the British Library by Tom Harper 9780712353328
RRP: £18.99£4.25From the publication in 1595 of the first 'atlas' by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform and evenly spread maps of all or some of the world. This is an atlas... -
The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present by Alison Richard
RRP: £10.99£7.25'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of Wilding A moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island. ... -
Warriors of the Word: The World of the Scottish Highlanders Michael Newton 9781912476596
RRP: £25.00£22.19Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles... -
That Sweet Enemy: The British and the French from the Sun King to the Present Isabelle Tombs 9781845951085
RRP: £25.00£18.62From Blenheim and Waterloo to 'Up Yours, Delors' and 'Hop Off You Frogs', the cross-Channel relationship has been one of rivalry, misapprehension and suspicion. But it has also been a relationship of envy, admiration and affection. In the nearly two... -
Music of Exile: The Untold Story of the Composers who Fled Hitler by Michael Haas 9780300266504
RRP: £25.00£20.92What happens to a composer when persecution and exile means their true music no longer has an audience? In the 1930s, composers and musicians began to flee Hitler's Germany to make new lives across the globe. The process of exile was complex: although... -
The Nuremberg Interviews: Conversations with the Defendants and Witnesses by Leon Goldensohn
RRP: £25.00£18.02The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history's greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi... -
Arnhem Lift: A German Jew in the Glider Pilot Regiment by Louis Hagen 9780752468686
RRP: £14.99£11.55Of the 10,000 men who landed at Arnhem, over nine days 1,400 were killed and more than 6,000 - about a third of them wounded - were captured. It was a bloody disaster. The remarkable Louis Hagen, an 'enemy alien' who had escaped to England having been... -
Imperial War Museum Second World War Flip Book: Spitfire by Imperial War Museum (Great Britain) 9781904897910
RRP: £3.99£3.19The Imperial War Museum s archive is home to more than 20,000 hours of moving image material spanning the twentieth century in Britain. The clips range from documentary film and official newsreels, to unedited combat footage, and amateur shots. In the... -
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home by Benjamin Hall
RRP: £25.00£19.14Dispatches from the Edge meets In an Instant in this dramatic memoir of war, family, resilience, and recovery from Benjamin Hall, the Fox News journalist who was gravely injured by a Russian drone attack in the early days of the invasion of Ukraine. ... -
D-Day 1944: The deadly failure of Allied heavy bombing on June 6 by Stephen Bourque
RRP: £14.99£10.95An illustrated study of the little-known history of the failed Allied bombing campaign designed to shatter German defenses on D-Day. D-Day is one of the most written-about events in military history. One aspect of the invasion, however, continues to... -
Wars of the Roses: The People, Places and Battlefields of the Yorkists and Lancastrians by Paul Kendall
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Wars of the Roses, which saw England and Wales ravaged by warfare for three decades and dynasties rise and fall, decimated the nobility of an entire generation, and saw the rise of the merchant class, the decline of medieval feudalism and opened the... -
Nuclear Weapons of the United States: An Illustrated History by James N. Gibson
RRP: £45.99£30.72This new book covers every nuclear delivery system the United States ever deployed. With few exceptions, each weapon and system is illustrated by either color or black and white photographs. Each weapon also comes with specifications and a history of its... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
RRP: £9.99£7.11During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with... -
Germany's Tiger Tanks: VK45.02 to TIGER II: VK45.02 to TIGER II Design, Production and Modifications by Thomas L. Jentz
RRP: £63.99£41.70This new volume covers development from the VK 45.02(P), VK 45.03(H) to the modifications under design for the Tiger II at the end of the war. All of this illustrated with scale drawings by Hilary L. Doyle combined with drawings, sketches, and... -
Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History by Sir Richard J. Evans
RRP: £10.99£7.40A bullet misses its target in Sarajevo, a would-be Austrian painter gets into the Viennese academy, Lord Halifax becomes British prime minister in 1940: seemingly minor twists of fate on which world-shaking events might have hinged.Alternative history... -
The Netherlands East Indies Campaign 1941-42: Japan's Quest for Oil by Dr Marc Lohnstein
RRP: £15.99£11.61At the end of 1941, Imperial Japan targeted The East Indies in an attempt to secure access to precious oil resources. The Netherlands East Indies Campaign featured complex Japanese and Allied operations, and included the first use of airborne troops in... -
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom by Erica Benner
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A ripping read ... fascinating, charming, enjoyably unorthodox' Daily TelegraphWas Niccolo Machiavelli really the cynical schemer of legend - or was he a profound ethical thinker, who tried to save the democratic freedom of Renaissance Florence as it... -
Around Crystal Palace & Penge by David R. Johnson
RRP: £14.99£11.55This South London neighbourhood has a strong community spirit, and there is great interest in the district's history. This collection of photographs bring its past to life. Over 200 black and white images are featured famous landmarks, like the Crystal... -
Bletchley Park Codebreakers by Ralph Erskine 9781849540780
RRP: £12.99£9.26The British codebreakers at Bletchley Park are now believed to have shortened the duration of the Second World War by up to two years. During the dark days of 1941, as Britain stood almost alone against the the Nazis, this remarkable achievement seemed... -
Teutonic Knight vs Lithuanian Warrior: The Lithuanian Crusade 1283–1435 by Mark Galeotti
RRP: £15.99£11.61Featuring full-colour artwork, maps and carefully chosen illustrations, this exciting book investigates the Teutonic Knights and their Lithuanian foes during the epic Lithuanian Crusade. The Teutonic Knights were a military order committed to... -
The Language of Thieves: The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History by Martin Puchner
RRP: £16.99£11.58You might have heard the saying 'you're in a pickle' meaning you're in a difficult situation. This is just one example of Rotwelsch, an ancient language of the road influenced by Yiddish and written in rudimentary signs, and spoken by vagrants and... -
By Sword and Fire: Cruelty And Atrocity In Medieval Warfare by Sean McGlynn
RRP: £12.99£8.60A vivid and original account of warfare in the Middle Ages and the cruelty and atrocity that accompanied it.Sean McGlynn investigates the reality of medieval warfare. For all the talk of chivalry, medieval warfare routinely involved acts which we would... -
Ghosts of Wales: Accounts from the Victorian Archives by Mark Rees 9780750984188
RRP: £15.99£12.25In the Victorian era, sensational ghost stories were headline news. Spine-chilling reports of two-headed phantoms, murdered knights and spectral locomotives filled the pages of the press. Spirits communicated with the living at dark seances, forced... -
A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by David Todd 9780691205335
RRP: £25.00£19.59How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth centuryAfter Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military...