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The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World by Patrick Wyman
RRP: $32.25$24.78In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides... -
The Falklands Naval Campaign 1982: War in the South Atlantic by Dr Edward Hampshire
RRP: $20.63$14.98The Falklands Conflict was remarkable for many reasons: it was a hard fought, bloody and short conflict between a leading NATO power and one of the most capable armed forces in South America; it demonstrated the capabilities of a range of cutting-edge... -
A Grim Almanac of Oxfordshire by Nicola Sly 9780752465814
RRP: $19.34$14.90A Grim Almanac of Oxfordshire is a day-by-day catalogue of 366 ghastly tales from the county's past. There are murders and manslaughters, including the killing by Mrs Barber of her entire family in 1909 while temporarily insane, and the brutal murder of... -
London in the Roman World by Dominic Perring 9780198789000
RRP: $59.33$50.58incAn original, authoritative survey of the archaeology and history of Roman London. London in the Roman World draws on the results of latest archaeological discoveries to describe London's Roman origins. It presents a wealth of new information from... -
A History of Louth by Richard Gurnham
RRP: $25.80$19.92Anglo-Saxon invaders first settled at the point where the ancient Barton Street trackway forded the river Lud in the late fifth or early sixth century. Following the arrival of Christianity, the little settlement became an important religious centre and... -
Hitler's and Stalin's Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction was Turned into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets by S D Tucker 9781399073158
RRP: $32.25$22.73Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
People of Providence: Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants Tony Parker 9781906011192
RRP: $21.92$14.89Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing estate in South London. He listened to an assorted mixture of personalities - including a vagrant, two policemen, an often-convicted fence who was the mother of... -
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker
RRP: $33.53$27.18This is a new edition of Geoffrey Parker's much-admired illustrated account of how the West, so small and so deficient in natural resources in 1500, had by 1800 come to control over one-third of the world. Parker argues that the rapid development of... -
The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown
RRP: $25.80$19.92In 2017, DNA tests revealed to the collective shock of many scholars that a Viking warrior in a high-status grave in Birka, Sweden, was actually a woman. The Real Valkyrie weaves together archaeology, history and literature to reinvent her life and... -
A Most Enigmatic War: R.V. Jones and the Genesis of British Scientific Intelligence 1939-45 by James Goodchild 9781911512554
RRP: $64.44$50.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512554Author James GoodchildFormat HardbackPage Count 658Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Great Tapestry of Scotland by Alistair Moffat
RRP: $38.70$28.51The Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry's Wimbledon victory of 2013. More than 1000 stitchers spent a total... -
Mauve: How one man invented a colour that changed the world Simon Garfield 9781786892782
RRP: $14.18$9.441856. Eighteen-year-old chemistry student William Perkin's experiment has gone horribly wrong. But the deep brown sludge his botched project has produced has an unexpected power: the power to dye everything it touches a brilliant purple. Perkin has... -
Old Springburn Andrew Stuart 9781872074122
RRP: $15.42$14.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074122Author Andrew StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 175mm * 4mm -
Secret Alliances: Special Operations and Intelligence in Norway 1940-1945 - The British Perspective by Tony Insall 9781785904776
RRP: $32.25$23.53In 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... -
EU law in the UK by Sylvia de Mars 9780198805922
RRP: $63.20$60.49The first new textbook to publish since Brexit, EU Law in the UK tackles EU law with a post-Brexit perspective interwoven throughout. It takes a uniquely contextual approach designed to enliven the learning experience, support understanding, and help... -
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
RRP: $12.89$8.57In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant... -
The Royal Arsenal, Woolwich: Britain in Old Photographs by Roy Masters
RRP: $16.76$12.41Little is generally known of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and the immortal place it holds among all the Royal Ordnance Factories. For nearly four hundred years it was a 'secret walled city', self-sufficient and closely guarded. As it grew, and developed... -
A Companion to the Falklands War by Gregory Fremont-Barnes 9780750981774
RRP: $32.25$24.43The Falklands War is a story of occupation, fierce air battles, heavy naval losses and bitter encounters between ground forces amidst an inhospitable terrain and unforgiving climate. With complex political machinations and nationalist sentiment at the... -
A Brief History of the Caribbean: Indispensable for Travellers Jeremy Black 9781408713488
RRP: $12.89$8.77A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to the present day This is a concise history, intended for travellers, but of inestimable value to anyone looking for an overview of the Caribbean and its... -
The Mediterranean in the Ancient World by Fernand Braudel
RRP: $21.92$15.84This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate... -
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping by Klaus Mühlhahn 9780674248311
RRP: $29.61$24.85"Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China."-William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead?It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng... -
Faces from the Front: Harold Gillies, the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup and the Origins of Modern Plastic Surgery by Andrew Bamji
RRP: $38.64$26.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113023Author Andrew BamjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Dr Johnson's London Liza Picard 9781842127292
RRP: $16.76$11.09'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' ObserverWhen Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in... -
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague by Timothy Garton Ash
RRP: $14.18$9.44The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Timothy Garton Ash was there in Warsaw,... -
The War Against the Commons: Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism by Ian Angus 9781685900168
RRP: $24.50$20.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900168Author Ian AngusFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Sewing Circle: Hollywood's Greatest Secret-Female Stars Who Loved Other Women by Axel Madsen 9781504008730
RRP: $15.47$13.29Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck-to name a few-maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off... -
Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany by Robert Gellately
RRP: $30.95$28.86The Nazis never won a majority in free elections, but soon after Hitler took power most people turned away from democracy and backed the Nazi regime. Hitler won growing support even as he established the secret police (Gestapo) and concentration camps... -
The Spitfire Story by Peter R. March
RRP: $12.89$9.74Probably the most famous fighter aircraft of all time, the Supermarine Spitfire reigned supreme and unsurpassed from the biplane era to the dawn of the jet age, a period that included the Second World War. Here is the incredible story of this legendary... -
The Tent Generations: Palestinian Poems by Mohammed Sawaie
RRP: $14.18$9.86From the Introduction by Mohammed Sawaie:The Palestinian poets included in The Tent Generations, Palestinian Poems represent different age groups and backgrounds, yet they all express a strong sense of "Palestinian-ness". They include Israeli citizens,... -
Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny by Con Coughlin
RRP: $32.25$20.81'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the West's policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David PetraeusIn Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and... -
Berkshire Airfields in the Second World War by Robin J. Brooks
RRP: $10.26$8.53Berkshire began the Second World War in 1939 with virtually no military airfields. However, this quickly changed and a massive building programme was soon underway, initially intended to provide training facilities for bomber crews. As the newly built... -
Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment by Lee Jackson 9780300254785
RRP: $15.47$13.09An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the... -
Cornish Folk Tales for Children by Mike O'Connor 9780750984492
RRP: $12.89$9.74Join Jamie, the son of a travelling droll teller, as he journeys across Cornwall, a land steeped in myth and legend. Along the way you will hear mysterious and exciting tales like what happened when Bodrugan took his soldiers to capture Richard Edgcumbe,... -
Scottish Fairy Belief by Lizanne Henderson
RRP: $32.25$22.34The authorities told folk what they ought to believe, but what did they really believe? Throughout Scottish history, people have believed in fairies. They were a part of everyday life, as real as the sunrise, and as incontrovertible as the existence of... -
British Infantryman vs German Infantryman: Somme 1916 by Stephen Bull
RRP: $20.63$17.20The mighty struggle for the Somme sector of the Western Front in the second half of 1916 has come to be remembered for the dreadful toll of casualties inflicted on Britain's 'New Armies' by the German defenders on the first day of the offensive, 1 July... -
Cicero's Catilinarians by D. H. Berry
RRP: $30.30$24.72The 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... -
Romans at War: The Roman Military in the Republic and Empire by Simon Elliott
RRP: $38.64$28.28In Romans at War ground-breaking research is presented in an accessible, entertaining, and sumptuously illustrated format, including:* A new consideration of the nature of late Roman military leaders; the author argues they were effectively independent... -
A Century of Burnley: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Chris Makepeace
RRP: $20.63$15.80A Century of Barnsley offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Barnsley's recent history are... -
Only in Seville: A guide to unique locations, hidden corners and unusual objects by Duncan J. D. Smith
RRP: $12.84$11.76Discover Seville's colourful history, astonishing architecture, and dynamic street life with this explorer's guide to Spain's most alluring city. More than 55 fascinating and unusual historical sites, including grand palaces and closed convents, artistic... -
The French Mind: A Cultural History of an Exceptional People by Peter Watson
RRP: $38.70$34.93'Majestic, ambitious' Literary Review_________________________________________________________________________________________We are endlessly fascinated by the French. We are fascinated by their way of life, their creativity, sophistication and...