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Black Tom: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution by Andrew Hopper 9780719071096
RRP: £19.99£17.82Sir Thomas Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, was creator and commander of Parliament's New Model Army from 1645 to1650. Although Fairfax emerged as England's most successful commander of the 1640s, this book challenges the orthodoxy that he was purely a... -
The Collector: The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces by Natalya Semenova
RRP: £12.99£11.46A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia's art world Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was... -
The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be Brave by Polly Morland
£9.00This book is a modern investigation of an ancient virtue, inspired by a group for stage-frightened musicians in 1940s Manhattan. Coinciding with the terrifying height of World War Two, it was called The Society of Timid Souls. Seventy years later, as... -
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell
RRP: £27.99£24.67The fascinating history of poetry anthologies and their influence on British society and culture over the last four centuries. For hundreds of years, anthologies have shaped the way we encounter literature. Eighteenth-century children and young women... -
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
RRP: £14.99£11.47'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent ... -
Country House Society: The Private Lives of England's Upper Class After the First World War Pamela Horn 9781445644776
RRP: £12.99£8.48The First World War particularly affected the landed classes with their long military tradition; country houses were turned into military hospitals and convalescent homes, while many of the menfolk were killed or badly injured in the hostilities. When... -
Witness to Roswell, 75th Anniversary Edition: Unmasking the Government's Biggest Cover-up by Thomas J. Carey
RRP: £17.99£14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637480038Author Thomas J. CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint New Page Books,USPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Germany Ascendant by Prit Buttar
RRP: £16.99£12.68A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele... -
The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties by Timothy Brook
RRP: £21.95£18.47The 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... -
The Limit: Life and Death in Formula One's Most Dangerous Era by Michael Cannell
RRP: £12.99£8.5610 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember. Phil Hill - the firstAmerican to break into the top ranks of European racing - and his... -
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
RRP: £12.99£11.46A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and decay Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences-traffic jams, noisy neighbors,... -
Women's Experiences in the Holocaust: In Their Own Words by Agnes Grunwald-Spier
RRP: £12.99£8.48This book brings to light women's experiences in the Holocaust. It explains why women's difficulties were different to those of men. Men were taken away and the women were left to cope with children and elderly relatives and obliged to take on new roles... -
Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England by Roger Scruton
RRP: £10.99£7.32For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of theroad, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the... -
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle by Martin Middlebrook 9781526726803
£22.30Arnhem was meant to end the war in Europe. The Germans were in retreat from Normandy and seemed to be beaten. Three airborne divisions were to seize the bridges across the great rivers of Holland and unleash the Allied armies into Germany. The Battle of... -
Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case by James Ward
RRP: £10.99£7.77We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex are integral parts of our everyday environment. So much so that we never think about where they come... -
Lulu's Sleepover by Anna McQuinn 9781907825385
RRP: £11.99£7.59Lulu is excited about her first sleepover at cousin Hani's house. She chooses what to bring then off she goes. The day with Hani is packed! They play in the garden and make water pictures. After lunch, (when Lulu tries cucumbers for the first time!)... -
With Scott in the Antarctic by Isobel Williams 9780752452463
RRP: £14.99£11.55Edward Wilson (1872-1912) accompanied Robert Falcon Scott on both his celebrated Antarctic voyages: the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-1913. Wilson served as Junior Surgeon and Zoologist on Discovery and, on this... -
Bloody April 1917: The birth of modern air power by James S. Corum
RRP: £15.99£11.61Researched from original-language primary sources, this is a uniquely well-informed and multi-faceted history of the World War I air campaign of Bloody April. Researched from original German-, French-, and English-language sources, and written by an... -
Defying Vichy: Resistance in the Heart of South-West France by Robert Pike 9781803995656
RRP: £15.99£12.25'Defying Vichy takes us into the heart of the French Resistance: the Dordogne region (in) this moving account of the darkest and brightest period in French history.' - Matthew Cobb, author of The ResistanceVichy France under Marshal Petain was an... -
Henry VIII's Imprisoned Women: The Women of the Tower by Neha Roy
RRP: £22.00£17.62The year is 1534. Henry VIII sits on the throne of England. He has set aside his first wife, Queen Katharine of Aragon, and has married a second time. The marriage to Anne Boleyn brings a new wave of Reformation in England dividing the people and even... -
Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces 1: 31 BC-AD 195 by Raffaele D'Amato
RRP: £11.99£8.43At its height the Roman Empire stretched across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, maintained by an army of modest size but great diversity. In popular culture these soldiers are often portrayed in a generic fashion, but continuing research... -
She Played and Sang: Jane Austen and Music by Gillian Dooley 9781526170101
RRP: £20.00£14.53Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them. Until... -
Cavalier Capital: Oxford in the English Civil War 1642-1646 by John Barratt
RRP: £25.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059551Author John BarrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Hitlerjugend Soldier vs Canadian Soldier: Normandy 1944 by David Greentree
RRP: £15.99£13.33Canadian and Waffen-SS troops of 12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend faced one another in a series of bloody battles following the D-Day landings of June 1944. The Canadian units fought in a number of distinguished regiments, while the Hitlerjugend... -
Racism: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Rattansi 9780198834793
RRP: £8.99£6.45There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions. In... -
Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal 9781913505721
RRP: £12.99£8.94When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great - yet forgotten - novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayat's best friend,... -
Malplaquet 1709: Marlborough’s Bloodiest Battle by Simon MacDowall
RRP: £15.99£11.61In 1709, after eight years of war, France was on her knees. There was not enough money left in the treasury to pay, equip or feed the army and a bad harvest led to starvation throughout the kingdom. Circumstances had worsened to the point that King Louis... -
The Spider (The UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY Series, Book 2) by Leo Carew
RRP: £14.99£9.80After the critically acclaimed epic fantasy THE WOLF comes THE SPIDER, book two in Leo Carew's UNDER THE NORTHERN SKY seriesA battle has been won, but the war still wages on . . .Roper, the Black Lord of the northern people, may have vanquished the... -
Sweet and Clean?: Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England by Susan North 9780198856139
£116.41Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an... -
Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation since 1945 by Paul Lendvai 9781805260592
RRP: £30.00£26.95Austria has long been considered a European success story: a land-locked country on the losing side of World War Two, which emerged from ten years of post-war occupation as one of the EU's richest member-states, a symbol of social consensus and political... -
Sister Queens: Katherine of Aragon and Juana Queen of Castile Julia Fox 9780753826829
RRP: £10.99£7.40Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first bride, has become an icon: the betrayed wife, the revered Queen, the devoted mother, a woman callously cast aside by a selfish husband besotted by his strumpet of a mistress. Her sister, Juana of Castile, wife of... -
On Nationalism by Eric Hobsbawm
RRP: £12.99£8.60I remain in the curious position of disliking, distrusting, disapproving and fearing nationalism wherever it exists . . . but recognising its enormous force, which must be harnessed for progress if possible.In the last two decades the uses of the term... -
Escape From the Ghetto: The Breathtaking Story of the Jewish Boy Who Ran Away from the Nazis by John Carr
RRP: £9.99£5.96'Trust me, this is a great true story' - Ken Follett 'This is an unbelievable story that is all completely true. The life described is astonishing. John Carr has done an extraordinary and riveting job uncovering the real father behind the dad he thought... -
Access to History: Napoleon, France and Europe Third Edition by Andrina Stiles
£24.65Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939 by Zara Steiner
RRP: £20.99£19.54In this magisterial narrative, Zara Steiner traces the twisted road to war that began with Hitler's assumption of power in Germany. Covering a wide geographical canvas, from America to the Far East, Steiner provides an indispensable reassessment of the... -
The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China James M. Zimmerman 9781541701700
RRP: £25.00£14.66In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictured an idyllic overnight journey on a brand-new train of unprecedented luxury-exactly what the advertisements promised... -
Sir Garnet Wolseley: Soldier of Empire by Stephen Manning 9781399072441
RRP: £25.00£17.62Field Marshal Lord Wolseley was an eminent Victorian, one of a handful of late nineteenth-century military men whose reputation transcends his age. He served the British empire in Burma, India, China, the Crimea, Canada, Asante, Egypt, South Africa and... -
An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict by Mike Martin
RRP: £15.99£14.47'An Intimate War' tells the story of the last thirty-four years of conflict in Helmand Province, Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the Helmandis. In the West, this period is often defined through different lenses -- the Soviet intervention, the... -
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World by John Keay
RRP: £30.00£14.71'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' Michael Palin History has not... -
20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change by Nicole Robertson
RRP: £33.99£32.9620th Century Britain provides an authoritative and accessible survey of contemporary research on economic activity, society, political development and culture. Written by leading academics, it examines recent advances in scholarship and gives a grounding...