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Clan Battles: Warfare in the Scottish Highlands by Chris Peers 9781399070034
RRP: $39.00$27.87Warfare between the clans of the Highlands in the late Middle Ages determined the course of history in this region of Scotland, and Chris Peers's gripping account of it - and of the rivalry between the strongest clans - gives the reader a deep insight... -
British Goats by Tiffany Francis-Baker
RRP: $15.58$12.38A lively, engaging introduction to the history of goats in Britain, and the recent renaissance of goat-related products. Ever wondered why a goat's eyes have rectangular pupils? Or what happened to Thor's goats each day after they finished pulling his... -
Snowdon by Robert Jones 9781854114211
RRP: $19.48$18.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114211Format PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 275g -
Naples: A Traveller's Reader Mr Desmond Seward 9781472142306
RRP: $25.33$16.97Many Italian cities look back with pride to the days when they were independent republics: Naples, on the contrary, remembers its days as a royal capital, the brilliant administrative and political centre of The Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, ruled over... -
The Art of War: Bilingual Chinese and English Text (The Complete Edition) Sun Tzu 9780804848206
RRP: $17.53$12.46Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still one of the world's most influential treatises on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield, its wisdom has never been more highly regarded. Now... -
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist by Marcus Rediker 9781786634726
RRP: $29.23$24.47The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He... -
Halton Boys: True Tales from Pilots and Ground Crew Proud to be called 'Trenchard Brats' by Sean Feast
RRP: $48.75$34.36The RAF Halton Apprenticeship Scheme has a deserved reputation for excellence. The brainchild of MRAF Hugh Trenchard, the founder of the Royal Air Force, it took the 'traditional' idea of an apprenticeship and interpreted it in a novel way. It allowed... -
High Wood by Michael Harrison 9781473834095
RRP: $25.33$17.92Bois de Fourcaux, a luxuriant woodland covering 75 acres, set in the area of the battlefields of the Somme, dominates the surrounding landscape today, as it did in the summer of the year 1916. Known to the British Army as 'High Wood', the invading... -
The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick Babita Sharma 9781473673229
RRP: $33.13$22.50A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Nuanced, human and engaging' Nikesh Shukla, Observer'Full of life, characters, gossip and all the richness of the local community' Sir David Jason'A delightful story of growing up "above the shop"' Nigel Slater,... -
Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil by Susan Neiman
RRP: $21.43$15.58'An ambitious and engrossing investigation of the moral legacies which stubbornly refuse to pass' Brendan Simms As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward?Susan... -
Cecily Neville: Mother of Kings by Amy Licence
RRP: $23.38$15.52Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to witness the arrival of the future Henry VIII, her great-grandson. Her life spanned most of the fifteenth... -
The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction by David Carrasco
RRP: $17.53$12.97This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy,... -
Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism by Mark Harrison
RRP: $105.30$90.52The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secret police, the Soviet state had seemingly unprecedented capabilities based on its near monopoly of... -
The A-Z of Curious County Limerick: Strange Stories of Mysteries, Crimes and Eccentrics by Sharon Slater
RRP: $29.23$22.85Limerick's history stretches back over thousands of years. It is famed for pigs and poetry, but so far only the surface of its past has been revealed.The A-Z of Curious County Limerick looks at the forgotten tales, such as the story of the deer that ran... -
Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in 100 Pieces by Norman Lebrecht 9780861547241
RRP: $21.43$15.58Without Beethoven, music as we know it wouldn't exist. Who was this titan of world culture? 'You want to build a Beethoven library? There can be no better starting point... Brilliant.' John Suchet, Classic FM presenter Through 100 recordings,... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two by Richard Overy
RRP: $67.26$48.63World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally... -
Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution by Helen Zia
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345522337Author Helen ZiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
The Light Over London: The most gripping and heartbreaking WW2 page-turner you need to read this year by Julia Kelly
RRP: $15.58$5.87A forgotten diary, a forbidden love affair, a desperate fight to save her country2017 When Cara Hargreaves discovers a diary from the 1940s, its contents will change her life forever...1941 When Louise Keene meets dashing RAF pilot, Paul Bolton, she is... -
The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History by Greg Woolf 9780199664733
RRP: $61.41$43.56The human race is on a 10,000 year urban adventure. Our ancestors wandered the planet or lived scattered in villages, yet by the end of this century almost all of us will live in cities. But that journey has not been a smooth one and urban civilizations... -
Suez Crisis 1956: End of Empire and the Reshaping of the Middle East by David Charlwood 9781526757081
RRP: $29.23$21.35In 1956 Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, ending nearly a century of British and French control over the crucial waterway. Ignoring U.S. diplomatic efforts and fears of a looming Cold War conflict, British Prime Minister... -
Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders by Peter Lehr 9780300273335
RRP: $23.38$20.30A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the Pirates of the... -
Roaring Girls: The forgotten feminists of British history by Holly Kyte
RRP: $21.43$12.77'Extraordinary' Woman&Home A Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, 'masculine' when she should be 'feminine'. ... -
The Stones of Time: Calendars, Sundials and Stone Chambers of Ancient Ireland by Martin Brennan 9780892815098
RRP: $33.13$21.61This 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... -
Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero by Lucy Riall 9780300144239
RRP: $38.98$33.87The first sustained analysis of the cult of the legendary Italian hero Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian revolutionary leader and popular hero, was among the best-known figures of the nineteenth century. This book seeks to examine his life and the making... -
Overkill or Under-kill by Anthony Paice
RRP: $33.05$23.91Middle East and Counter-Terrorism expert Anthony Paice uses research and analysis to trace the underlying causes of the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait in 1990, adding his own personal experiences of the events. He reveals how neither London nor Washington had... -
Military Jet Aircraft: 300 of the World's Greatest Military Jet Aircraft by Michael Sharpe
RRP: $25.33$17.47Military Jet Aircraft contains 300 of the most important and influential military jet aircraft that have flown since World War II, including such famous aircraft as the Messerschmitt Me 262, English Electric Lightning, and North American F-86 Sabre. Each... -
No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry by Owen O’Shea
RRP: $29.23$25.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374531Author Owen O'SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Spanish Civil War 1936-39 (1): Nationalist Forces by Alejandro De Quesada
RRP: $23.38$16.63The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39, was the curtain-raiser to World War II, and the major international event of the 1930s. It was the first great clash of 20th-century ideologies, between the rebel Nationalist army led by General Franco (right-wing, and... -
Alderney: Fortress Island by T. X. M. Pantcheff
RRP: $21.43$16.52What really happened in the small, German-occupied Channel Island of Alderney during the Second World War? Rumours have circulated and grown during the decades since, with sinister allegations, firstly against the Germans, that there was an extermination... -
Brutus of Troy by Anthony Adolph 9781473849174
RRP: $38.98$12.85Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to their origins they saw the looming mythological figure of Brutus of Troy. A great-great-grandson of the love goddess Aphrodite through her Trojan... -
Weapon of Choice: Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation by Matthew Ford 9781849046503
RRP: $68.25$60.43This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and might seem unlikely... -
Ruth: A Migrant's Tale by Ilana Pardes
RRP: $33.13$28.49A wide-ranging exploration of the story of Ruth, a foreigner who became the founding mother of the Davidic dynasty "[A]n insightful exploration of the book's themes of otherness, kindness, and loyalty. This is a valuable contribution to the literature... -
Victorian Engineering by L. T. C. Rolt
RRP: $33.13$25.60L T C Rolt was an engineer and pioneer of industrial history; in this book he combined these two passions to give us a fascinating account of the men who 'made' Britain. From Brunel to Telford, he takes us on a journey from the first railway tracks being... -
A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 to 1265 by Tim Clarkson
RRP: $29.23$21.00Situated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the first... -
In the Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral: The Churchyard that Shaped London by Margaret Willes 9780300273380
RRP: $21.43$18.74The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the... -
Farewell to the Horse: The Final Century of Our Relationship by Ulrich Raulff
RRP: $25.33$18.21THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR'A beautiful and thoughtful exploration of the role of the horse in creating our world' James Rebanks'Scintillating, exhilarating ... you have never read a book like it ... a new way of considering history'... -
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks 9780393326710
RRP: $23.38$20.30In November 2002 the United States Congress and President George W. Bush established by law the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission. This independent, bipartisan panel was directed to examine... -
Poisoned Legacy: The Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty by Aidan Dodson 9789774167522
RRP: $25.33$21.47After the death of RamesesII, the Nineteenth Dynasty, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II's promotion of a concept of a wider 'royal family'... -
The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China James M. Zimmerman 9781541701700
RRP: $48.75$28.59In 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... -
Until We Are Free: My Fight For Human Rights in Iran by Shirin Ebadi
RRP: $31.18$22.64'POWERFUL AND SOMETIMES SHOCKING ...' SUNDAY TIMES In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran, and the devastating backlash she faced after winning the Nobel Peace Prize...