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Scottish Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $13.63$10.34Much of Scottish mythology was imported by settlers arriving from across the Irish Sea, and so Scottish mythology in large part shares its characters and tales with the mythology of Ireland, from the Ulster Cycle featuring Conchobar mac Nessa, king of... -
MetaMAUS by Art Spiegelman
RRP: $48.75$37.30VISUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY RICH, TAKE A LOOK INSIDE ART SPIEGELMAN'S MODERN CLASSIC, MAUS'If you are serious about comics or the Holocaust, this book should be on your shelf' San Francisco Book ReviewMAUS is widely renowned as one of the greatest pieces of... -
Roman Legionary vs Gallic Warrior: 58-52 BC by David Campbell
RRP: $27.28$19.21In the manner of many Roman generals, Caesar would write his domestic political ambitions in the blood and treasure of foreign lands. His governorship of Cisalpine Gaul gave him the opportunity to demonstrate the greatness of his character to the people... -
Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II by Robert Kurson
RRP: $44.85$26.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760983Author Robert KursonFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Everyday Life in Traditional Japan Charles J. Dunn 9784805310052
RRP: $29.23$19.60Everyday Life in Traditional Japan paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided, and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan.With... -
The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran by Andrew Scott Cooper
$34.22In this remarkably human portrait of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Emperor of Iran, Andrew Scott Cooper examines the life of an infamously complex personality in a bold new light. The recent wave of instability in the Middle East has led Iranians and... -
The Way Of A Pilgrim by H. Bacovain
$18.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385468145Author Helen BacovcinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides by Polly Low
RRP: $58.48$51.36Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted... -
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner 9780192866646
RRP: $45.81$38.94Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a... -
Tiger by Thomas Anderson
RRP: $39.00$28.65One of the most feared weapons of World War II, the Tiger tank was a beast of a machine which dominated the battlefields of Europe with its astonishing size, speed and firepower, which continues to fascinate more than 70 years after it was first designed... -
Yorkshire Literary Landscapes by Paul Chrystal 9781999717575
RRP: $25.33$18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999717575Author Paul ChrystalFormat PaperbackImprint Destinworld Publishing LtdPublisher Destinworld Publishing Ltd -
Napoleon's Imperial Guard Uniforms and Equipment: The Infantry Paul L Dawson 9781526701916
RRP: $78.00$58.05From its origins as the Consular Guard of the French Republic, and as Napoleon's personal bodyguard, the Imperial Guard developed into a force of all arms numbering almost 100,000 men. Used by Napoleon as his principle tactical reserve, the Guard was... -
The Final Archives of the FüHrerbunker: Berlin in 1945, the Chancellery and the Last Days of Hitler by Paul Villatoux 9781612009049
RRP: $58.48$40.83In November 1945, two French officers secretly entered the Fuhrerbunker, the air raid shelter near the Chancellery in Berlin. The bunker was the last home of Adolf Hitler, the background of the last months of his life, and the war, where he married Eva... -
Allies in Auschwitz: The Untold Story of British POWs Held Captive in the Nazis' Most Infamous Death Camp by Duncan Little 9781905570218
RRP: $19.48$14.06The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reich's most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration camp - whose horrors are well-documented - but also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Situated close enough... -
British Rifleman vs French Skirmisher: Peninsular War and Waterloo 1808-15 by David Greentree
RRP: $31.18$22.64The battles between British and French forces during the Peninsular War (1807-14) and the Hundred Days campaign of 1815 saw both sides deploy specialist units of skirmishers trained in marksmanship and open-order combat. These 'light' troops fulfilled... -
Denisovan Origins: Hybrid Humans, Goebekli Tepe, and the Genesis of the Giants of Ancient America by Andrew Collins 9781591432630
RRP: $35.08$23.34Reveals the profound influence of the Denisovans and their hybrid descendants upon the flowering of human civilization around the world * Traces the migrations of the sophisticated Denisovans and their interbreeding with Neanderthals and early human... -
Old Greenock by Joy Monteith
RRP: $42.80$37.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333145Author Joy MonteithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake Publishing -
American Mafia: Chicago: True Stories Of Families Who Made Windy City History by William Griffith 9780762778447
RRP: $29.23$22.48Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the... -
Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe by Dr. Lisa Pine
RRP: $48.73$45.36Bringing together leading scholars from across the UK, North America and mainland Europe, this book provides a uniquely comparative exploration of daily life under dictatorship in 20th-century Europe. With coverage of well-known regimes and some that are... -
The Illustrated Police News: The Shocks, Scandals and Sensations of the Week 1864-1938 Linda Stratmann 9780712352499
RRP: $25.33$17.55The Illustrated Police News cost just a penny, providing an affordable illustrated roundup of `all the startling events of the week' from its first issue published on 20th February 1864. Promising to educate the people with fantastic features such as... -
Sheffield Troublemakers: Rebels and Radicals in Sheffield History by David Price 9781860776601
RRP: $39.00$29.33George III described Sheffield as a 'damned bad place' at a time when the town was notorious for radical agitation. This book traces this radical tradition right up to the 1980s, when David Blunkett's Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire fought Mrs... -
Diocletian and the Roman Recovery by Stephen Williams
RRP: $89.68$78.25Stephen Williams's book is the first biography of Diocletian to appear in English. It combines the historical narrative of his remarkable reign and those of his fellow-emperors, with a chapter-by-chapter study of each of the great problems he faced, the... -
Gosport by Ian Edelman 9780752403007
RRP: $25.33$19.25In this fascinating new collection of about two hundred old photographs compiled by Ian Edelman, curator of Gosport Museum, the recent history of the ancient town of Gosport is once again brought to life. Once surrounded by a moated rampart and boasting... -
The Secret History of Southend-on-Sea by Dee Gordon 9780752498041
RRP: $19.48$15.15The Secret History of Southend-on-Sea is full of intriguing information on the incredible residents, visitors and events that have played a part in Southend's story. Southend-on-Sea, the largest town in Essex, has had an amazingly rich history, and this... -
The Amusement Park: 900 Years of Thrills and Spills, and the Dreamers and Schemers Who Built Them by Stephen M. Silverman
RRP: $58.50$39.39Step right up! The Amusement Park is a rich, anecdotal history that begins nine centuries ago with the "pleasure gardens" of Europe and England and ends with the rise and fall and rise again of some of the most elaborate parks in the world. It's a... -
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the Third Reich by Friedrich Kellner
RRP: $74.08$65.46This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany's path to... -
The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
RRP: $39.00$27.87The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free of suffering and sin - a Kingdom of the Saints... -
Three Poets of the First World War by Wilfred Owen
RRP: $21.43$15.58This new selection brings together the poetry of three of the most distinctive and moving voices to emerge from the First World War. Here are the controlled passion and rich metaphors of Wilfred Owen's celebrated verses such as 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'... -
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson 9780743286978
RRP: $48.75$34.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743286978Author Walter IsaacsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 896Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 1089gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Exploring Roman London by Simon Webb 9781399058490
RRP: $33.13$23.95Much more than a simple guidebook, Exploring Roman London is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the early history of England's capital city. In addition to containing information on every site in London where Roman remains can be seen, the... -
The Struggle for Sea Power: The Royal Navy vs the World, 1775-1782 by Sam Willis
RRP: $29.23$19.89With a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, The Struggle for Sea Power charts the greatest war in the age of sail.In 1775 thirteen isolated colonies, without a navy or an army, began a war with Britain to win their independence from the greatest... -
A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick 9781915590626
RRP: $48.75$32.35'A compelling real-life thriller, full of passion, free of writerly fuss, woven from the most intractable archival cat's cradle imaginable.' Simon Ings, The Telegraph The true story of a decade-long investigation that opens a new window onto Cold War... -
Panzergrenadier vs US Armored Infantryman: European Theater of Operations 1944 by Steven J. Zaloga
RRP: $27.28$19.21During World War II, the two pre-eminent mechanized infantry forces of the conflict, the German Panzergrenadier arm and the US Army's armoured infantrymen, clashed in France and Belgium after the Normandy landings. These engagements went on to... -
Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two by Alan Allport 9780300168860
RRP: $21.43$18.74The trials, troubles and triumphs of returning home after the end of World War Two. What happened when millions of British servicemen were "demobbed"-demobilized-after World War II? Most had been absent for years, and the joy of arrival was often clouded... -
The Long Eighteenth Century: British Political and Social History 1688-1832 by Frank O'Gorman
$81.96This long-awaited second edition sees this classic text by a leading scholar given a new lease of life. It comes complete with a wealth of original material on a range of topics and takes into account the vital research that has been undertaken in the... -
The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton 9780393354447
RRP: $25.33$19.87A perennial favourite, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (The New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the... -
The Inner Citadel: The <i>Meditations</i> of Marcus Aurelius by Pierre Hadot
RRP: $58.40$46.86The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are treasured today-as they have been over the centuries-as an inexhaustible source of wisdom. And as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism, this is an essential text for everyone interested in ancient... -
Medieval Arms and Armour - a Sourcebook. Volume I - The Fourteenth Century by Ralph Moffat 9781783276769
RRP: $126.75$118.60Authoritative reference guide, using the documents in which arms and armour first appeared to explain and define them. "A substantial and impressive piece of scholarship, one that will serve scholars and enthusiasts of medieval arms and armour very... -
Astoria: Astor and Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Tale of Ambition and Survival on the Early American Frontier by Peter Stark 9780062218308
RRP: $38.98$25.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062218308Author Peter StarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 318g -
The Polymath: A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag by Peter Burke
RRP: $23.38$20.30From Leonardo Da Vinci to Oliver Sacks: the first history of the western polymath, from the Renaissance to the present"An absorbing group portrait and intellectual history."-Kirkus Reviews"An admirable mixture of industry and erudition."-Robert Wilson,...