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The Colombia Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Ann Farnsworth-Alvear 9780822362289
RRP: $30.95$28.17Containing over one hundred selections-most of them published in English for the first time-The Colombia Reader presents a rich and multilayered account of this complex nation from the colonial era to the present. The collection includes journalistic... -
The Green Man by Jeremy Harte
RRP: $9.02$6.54We see the Green Man half-hidden on the walls of many of our old churches, a face surrounded by leaves. This beautifully illustrated and well-researched Pitkin Guide looks at this fascinating creature, its history, and where to find him. Look out for... -
Medieval Pets Kathleen Walker-Meikle 9781783275694
RRP: $25.79$21.89An engaging and informative survey of medieval pet keeping which also examines their representation in art and literature. Animals in the Middle Ages have often been discussed - but usually only as a source of food, as beasts of burden, or as aids for... -
Haunted Dover by Lorraine Sencicle 9780752448596
RRP: $16.76$12.41Featuring tales from the seventeenth century to the present day, this exhaustive A-Z guide reveals the mysterious side of historic Dover. Situated at the narrowest part of the English Channel, Dover has had its fair share of waifs and strays travelling... -
The Stones of Time: Calendars, Sundials and Stone Chambers of Ancient Ireland by Martin Brennan 9780892815098
RRP: $21.92$14.29This revealing text describes the exciting discovery and deciphering of the 5,000-year-old stone chambers and standing stones of pre-Celtic Ireland. At midwinter sunrise, Martin Brennan and his research partner observed a beam of light shining into the... -
Panzer Tracts No.4-3: Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf.H and J by Hilary Doyle 9781915969002
RRP: $25.79$18.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915969002Author Hilary DoyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Panzer TractsPublisher Panzerwrecks LimitedWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 280mm *... -
The Thames Through Time: A Liquid History by Stephen Croad
RRP: $25.80$19.25Drawing on the resources of English Heritage's unrivalled photographic archives, The Thames Through Times is a photographic journey along the length of the tidal river and over almost 150 years. We see the rural Thames as it approaches London, riverside... -
The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft by Ronald Hutton
RRP: $21.92$16.40'a brilliant history' The Sunday Times 'makes for riveting reading' The Independent Modern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed religion England has given the world, and has now spread across four continents. This second... -
The Vietnam Wars by Marilyn Young 9780060921071
$16.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060921071Author Marilyn YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 328gDimensions(mm)... -
OCR A Level History AS: The First Crusade and the Crusader States 1073-1192 by Toby Purser
$39.04* Accessible, engaging and packed with activities to build the skills required * Focused to the latest specification and OCR's support materials * Unique Exam Cafe gives students a motivating way to prepare thoroughly for their exams.Book InformationISBN... -
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough
RRP: $39.98$21.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880093Author Bryan BurroughFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult -
Taranto: And Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940-1945 by David Hobbs
RRP: $45.15$32.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dundrum: Ireland in Old Photographs by Joe Curtis 9781845888886
RRP: $21.92$16.69For many years Dundrum was just another stop on the railway between Harcourt Street and Bray; it was a village in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains that, despite its rich history, was often thought of as simply the best place to rest on a journey to... -
The Accidental President by A. J. Baime
RRP: $16.76$11.73Heroes are often defined as ordinary characters who find themselves facing extraordinary circumstances and, through courage and a dash of luck, cement their place in history. Chosen as President Roosevelt's fourth term Vice President for his admired... -
German Armies 1870-71: Prussia: v. 1 by Michael Solka
RRP: $16.76$14.20In 1870 Bismarck, Prime Minister of Prussia, engineered a war with France that would result in the fall of the Second Empire. It was the first modern European war and saw the use of bolt action rifles, machine guns, railway transport and professional... -
Railway Guns of World War I by Marc Romanych
RRP: $15.47$10.87World War I was the Golden Age of the railway gun. Even though at the start of the conflict none of the armies possessed any railway artillery pieces and the very idea was comparatively new, more railway guns were used during this war than in any other... -
British Aircraft of the Falklands War by Lee Chapman
RRP: $20.63$9.17The Falkland Islands is a remote British territory, about 8,000 miles from the UK mainland and just over 400 miles from the coast of Argentina. The ownership of the islands had long been disputed, but it reached a boiling point in March 1982, when a... -
British Battle Tanks: Post-war Tanks 1946-2016 by Simon Dunstan
RRP: $38.70$28.32This book, the last in a four-part series on British Battle Tanks covering the whole history of British armoured warfare, concentrates on those vehicles that have served following the end of World War II up to the present day. Starting with the... -
Finisterre by Graham Hurley
RRP: $11.60$9.12'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Germany, October 1944: Dozens of cities lie in ruins. Enemy armies are at the gates. For the Thousand Year Reich, time is running out. Desperate to avoid the humiliation of unconditional surrender,... -
Polemical Encounters: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond by Gerard Wiegers
RRP: $55.41$49.63This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics-works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others-this volume aims to... -
Operators: On the Streets with Britain's Most Secret Service by James Rennie 9781781592625
$20.94Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the Operators of 14 Company are Britain's most effective weapon against international terrorism. For every bomb that goes off 14 Company prevent twelve. The... -
Call Of The Litany Bird: Surviving the Zimbabwe Bush War Susan Gibbs 9781907991004
RRP: $23.21$20.56As a trained nurse, newly married to the son of the Governor of Rhodesia during the UDI years, Susan writes compellingly about bringing up a family on their farm in Matabeleland in the midst of the unfolding terror and growing number of atrocities. ... -
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World by William L. Bernstein
RRP: $25.80$17.36A Splendid Exchange tells the epic story of global commerce, from its prehistoric origins to the myriad crises confronting it today. It travels from the sugar rush that brought the British to Jamaica in the seventeenth century to our current debates over... -
Royal Navy Torpedo Vessels: 1870 - 1914 by Les Brown
RRP: $51.60$36.62The self-propelled or locomotive torpedo was probably the greatest game-changer in the history of naval warfare. For the first time the largest warship could be sunk by a weapon carried by the smallest, and most navies were quick to see the potential... -
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men: A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West by Carl P. Russell 9781602399693
$15.09This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and... -
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages by Katherine Harvey 9781789144895
RRP: $25.80$18.95An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people. The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much-or too little-sex, while the Roman Catholic Church... -
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century by Hugh Kennedy 9780367366896
RRP: $47.72$41.96The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600 to 1050 AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the... -
The Historical Atlas of the British Isles by Alex Swanston
RRP: $25.79$21.29This atlas covers the history of the British Isles from earliest times to the present day.The first hunter-gatherers,who crossed into what would become our familiar islands by the land-bridge, and later followed by more familiar peoples the Celts,Angles,... -
The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone 9780091949310
RRP: $24.50$17.56'This is not history for history's sake, however - this is the history of our present and future, long beyond cold war, into war on terror, war on drugs' Ed Vulliamy, GuardianThe Untold History of the United States is filmmaker Oliver Stone and historian... -
Rethinking the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer 9780300093001
RRP: $20.63$17.20Yehuda Bauer, one of the world's premier historians of the Holocaust, here presents an insightful overview and reconsideration of its history and meaning. Drawing on research he and other historians have done in recent years, he offers fresh opinions on... -
Cicero: Philippics I-II by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $36.11$31.31This edition is the first since J. D. Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text of and a commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of the most polished orations in the Ciceronian corpus. These speeches, which were composed less than six... -
A6M2/3 Zero-sen: New Guinea and the Solomons 1942 by Mr Michael John Claringbould 9781472857491
RRP: $20.63$14.98This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens. The combat record of the Zero-sen in New Guinea has mostly been overstated, with little due being... -
World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II by Hugh Thomas
RRP: $19.34$14.13Following Rivers of Gold and The Golden Age, World Without End is the conclusion of a magisterial three-volume history of the Spanish Empire by Hugh Thomas, its foremost worldwide authorityWorld Without End is the climax of Hugh Thomas's great history of... -
The Complete Persepolis: 20th Anniversary Edition by Marjane Satrapi
RRP: $45.15$25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593701058Author Marjane SatrapiFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 692gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm... -
Late Roman Infantryman vs Gothic Warrior: AD 376-82 by Dr Murray Dahm
RRP: $18.05$12.58Ravaged by civil war and pressure from the Huns to the east, in late summer AD 376 the Gothic tribe of the Theruingi - up to 200,000 people under their leader Fritigern - gathered on the northern bank of the River Danube and asked the Eastern Roman... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies 9780199608447
RRP: $37.40$27.35This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors... -
Celtic Gods and Heroes by Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
RRP: $9.66$6.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414416Author Marie-Louise SjoestedtFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Flight Craft 27: The Boeing B-17 by Ben Skipper
RRP: $21.92$15.84The B-17 Flying Fortress, a term coined by a Seattle Daily Times report in 1935, was a quantum leap in offensive air power. Designed for a nation whose foreign policy was still deeply isolationist, and an Air Corps whose in-service bomber fleet was... -
War In A Stringbag by Charles Lamb
RRP: $14.18$9.55A classic autobiography by the best known Second World War Fleet Air Arm pilot. A story of real life adventure, action and heroism.Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It... -
Aircraft Carriers, The World Encyclopedia of: An illustrated history of amphibious warfare and the landing crafts used by seabourne forces, from the Gallipoli campaign to the present day Bernard Ireland 9780754835714
RRP: $19.35$14.14This impressive, newly-updated encyclopedia is both a fascinating history of aircraft carrier development and a well-documented visual directory of more than 150 of the world's aviation ships spanning a period of almost 120 years. The book's coverage...