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In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris Livia Manera Sambuy 9781529922721
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.76A lost princess and a vanished world: a remarkable true story that moves from the Punjab of the Raj to 1930s Paris and the cataclysm of the Second World War'Remarkable and compelling. I loved this... -
Cuneiform by Irving Finkel
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Cuneiform script on tablets of clay is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The choice of clay as writing medium in ancient Mesopotamia meant that records of all kinds could... -
Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture William R. Leach 9780679754114
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $21.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards 1993.Book InformationISBN 9780679754114Author William R. Leach -
The Lancaster Story: True Tales of Britain’s Legendary Bomber by Sarah-Louise Miller 9781789296396
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $14.33The epic story of the RAF's legendary heavy bomber: the Avro LancasterThe Lancaster Story takes readers on a remarkable journey through the history of an aviation icon. Between its introduction in... -
The Evolution of the Passenger Ship by Chris Frame 9781803991559
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.91Take a voyage through the rich history of passenger ships. From mass migration through to luxury holidays, passenger shipping has played a central role in the collective human story. They have been... -
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant 9781399404990
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.33'Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you've been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.' - Emily Maitlis 'Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit... -
The Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz 9780349015880
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $17.97Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The... -
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale Miranda Seymour 9780008650377
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.36'A kind of blissography, teeming with bon mots' Sunday Times A celebrated modern classic that has revolutionised our understanding of the Bloomsbury group and... -
A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel 9780006546818
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.89This study of the history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt via the invention of printing in the 15th century to the birth... -
Rex v Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders by Laura Thompson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson... -
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.10'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe world known as the 'Dark Ages', often seen as a time of barbarism, was in fact the... -
Goose Green: The decisive battle of the Falklands War - by the British troops who fought it by Nigel Ely
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.02*As featured in the landmark BBC2 documentary Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story*Published to mark the fortieth anniversary of the Falklands war'There was a time when we did extraordinary things.'... -
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 by Richard Overy
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $14.86A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE GILDER LEHRMAN PRIZE FOR MILITARY HISTORY'A masterpiece. It puts all previous single-volume... -
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley 9780007267125
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.17Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction 2011. Life is on the up. We are wealthier, healthier, happier, kinder, cleaner, more peaceful, more equal and... -
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick
RRP: $19.98Booksplease Price: $13.53The Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet regime and the opening of its archives, it has become possible... -
Painted People: A History of Humanity in 21 Tattoos by Matt Lodder
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $14.06In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.' ... -
How to Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks by Adam Nicolson 9780008490829
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.36A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we... -
AH-1 Cobra Gunship vs NVA Armor: Vietnam 1967–73 Peter E. Davies 9781472861740
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.47A new study of how the first purpose-built anti-tank helicopter gunship - the Bell AH-1 Cobra - engaged communist armor and well-armed irregular fighters in the war for control of Vietnam. The... -
White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda de Lisle
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.42The subject of a BBC TV series on Charles I The prize-winning biography of Charles I * Winner of the HWA Crown for Best Work of Historical Non-Fiction 2018 ** Times Book of the Year ** Shortlisted... -
ESV Archaeology Study Bible by 9781433550409
RRP: $67.07Booksplease Price: $46.96The ESV Archaeology Study Bible roots the biblical text in its historical and cultural context, giving Bible readers a framework for better understanding the people, places, and events recorded in... -
Toxic by Sarah Ditum 9780349727134
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $16.83'Brilliant . . . really made me realise how no one has pulled back and given an overall story to the last 20 years . . . It's clever because it makes me think about now' ADAM CURTIS,... -
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023 by Andrey Kurkov 9781529427837
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55"Both a pleasure and a testament to life in Ukraine, before" Sunday Times"Ukraine's greatest living novelist" New European"A Ukrainian Murakami" GuardianA love letter to the beautiful city of Lviv,... -
Hawker's Early Jets: Dawn of the Hunter by Budgen, Christopher 9781526792174
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.32On 2 September 1947, Hawker Aircraft Ltd figuratively and literally took to the air with their first jet design, the P.1040/. Conceived in the latter days of the Second World War, and developed in... -
The Cairngorms: A Secret History by Patrick Baker
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.55Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness,... -
Special Forces Brothers in Arms: Eoin and Ambrose McGonigal: War in the SAS and SBS by McGonigal, Patric 9781399082198
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.84The McGonigal brothers, Eoin and Ambrose were fiercely independent characters. Born and educated in southern Ireland to a catholic family but raised in Belfast, they wasted no time in enlisting at... -
America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators by Jacob Heilbrunn 9781324094661
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $20.50Why is today's Republican Party, which claims to be the defender of American values, so drawn to the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the brazenly illiberal Victor Orban, who has crushed an... -
Levellers and the English Revolution by Henry N. Brailsford 9780851241548
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851241548Author Henry N. BrailsfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Impr -
Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.14As in Austerity Britain, an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive this narrative. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781529008401
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $9.83Niccolo Machiavelli provides a remarkably uncompromising picture of the true nature of power, no matter what era or by whom it is exercised. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of... -
The 1930s House Explained by Trevor Yorke 9781846740022
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97This is a guide to the style of houses built in the 1930s. Tradition continued to dominate the outside while inside art deco was all the rage. It contains many photographs and detailed drawings.About... -
The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries by Alastair Campbell
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.82The Blair Years is the most compelling and revealing account of contemporary politics you will ever read. Taken from Alastair Campbell's daily diaries, it charts the rise of New Labour and the... -
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $25.79'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called `path breaking,' `seminal,' `essential,' a `must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois... -
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.03Richard Miles's Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Civilization charts one of the bloodiest dramas of the Ancient World: the devastating struggle to the death between Carthage... -
One Hundred Days by Sandy Woodward
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.50Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force. ... -
Our Divine Double by Charles M. Stang 9780674287198
RRP: $63.15Booksplease Price: $48.22What if you were to discover that you were not entirely you, but rather one half of a whole, that you had, in other words, a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, this idea gripped the... -
Nefertiti's Face: The Creation of an Icon Joyce Tyldesley 9781781250518
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $11.15More than three thousand years ago a sculptor working in the royal city of Amarna carved a limestone bust of an Egyptian queen. The queen was Nefertiti, consort of the 'heretic pharaoh' Akhenaten... -
The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world by Joseph Hone 9781784744670
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $22.11'Absolutely fascinating . . . A must-read for anyone enthralled by the value and integrity of books' Janice Hallett, author of The Alperton AngelsA true detective story from the age of Agatha... -
NEW Higher History: Revise for SQA Exams (Leckie Complete Revision & Practice) by John Kerr
Booksplease Price: $14.18Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: History Two books in one! Combining a revision guide and a full set... -
The Northmen's Fury: A History of the Viking World by Philip Parker
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.72The Northmen's Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian homelands to conquer larger parts of France, Britain... -
The Tower of London: The Biography by Stephen Porter
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.80The Tower of London is an icon of England's history. William the Conqueror built the White Tower after his invasion and conquest in 1066 to dominate London, and it has become infamous as a place of...