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A Mighty Fleet and the King’s Power: The Isle of Man, AD 400 to 1265 by Tim Clarkson
RRP: £14.99£10.77Situated 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... -
Napoleon's Imperial Guard Uniforms and Equipment: The Cavalry by Paul L. Dawson 9781526708960
RRP: £40.00£36.00From 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... -
In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust by Jeffrey Veidlinger
RRP: £12.99£8.78A Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA riveting account of a forgotten holocaust: the slaughter of over one hundred thousand Ukrainian Jews in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. In the Midst of Civilized Europe repositions the pogroms as a... -
Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941 by Philip Cracknell
RRP: £10.99£7.25On the same day as the Pearl Harbor attack, forces of the Japanese Empire attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong without warning. Philip Cracknell provides a research-driven narrative about the battle for Hong Kong in 1941, which commenced on 8... -
Tantra: enlightenment to revolution by Imma Ramos
RRP: £35.00£24.83Tantra: enlightenment to revolution explores the radical philosophy that transformed the religious, cultural and political landscape of India and beyond. Originating in early medieval India, Tantra has been linked to successive waves of revolutionary... -
Letters From the Front: Letters and Diaries from the Bef in Flanders and France, 1914-1918. by Kevin Smith 9781781553381
£15.74A generation raised on the British Empire confronted the unexpected horrors of modern war. Never were a nation's expectations so different from the coming clash of the First World War. Expecting a vigorous romp to victory, soldiers endured a brutal... -
Spitfire People: The Men and Women Who Made the Spitfire the Aviation Icon by Paul Beaver 9781910505052
RRP: £25.00£18.02This book presents a fresh angle on the Spitfire by examining the contribution to its development and achievements by over 65 people - some famous, others not - ranging from politicians to pilots. Published to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of... -
Mapping the Heavens by Peter Whitfield 9780712352659
RRP: £14.99£10.80Throughout history people have sought ways in which to map the heavens. From the sources of mathematics and mythology sprang the classic star chart, the finest examples of which are both scientific documents and works of art. In this beautifully... -
History of Karate and the Masters Who Made It: Development, Lineages, and Philosophies of Traditional Okinawan and Japanese Karatedo by Mark I. Cramer
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172398Author Mark I. CramerFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S. -
The Medieval Knight by Christopher Gravett
RRP: £12.99£9.27The 'knight in shining armour' has become a staple figure in popular culture, and images of bloody battlefields, bustling feasting halls and courtly tournaments have been creatively interpreted many times in film and fiction. But what was the medieval... -
The Slave Trade Debate: Contemporary Writings For and Against John Pinfold 9781851243167
RRP: £12.99£11.46At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments put forward... -
Atlas of Forgotten Places: Journey to Abandoned Destinations from Around the Globe by Travis Elborough
RRP: £20.00£19.55Explore the places that time forgot. Abandoned, mysterious, sleeping monuments around the world have been relegated to the margins of history, pushed off the map and out of sight. From ancient ruins and crumbling castles to more recent relics - an art... -
The Dawn of Christianity: People and Gods in a Time of Magic and Miracles by Robert Knapp
RRP: £12.99£9.09Exploring the origins of Christianity, this book looks at why it was that people first in Judea and then in the Roman and Greek Mediterranean world became susceptible to the new religion. Robert Knapp looks for answers in a wide-ranging exploration of... -
Historic England: Newcastle: Unique Images from the Archives of Historic England by Paul Perry 9781445681252
RRP: £15.99£10.85This illustrated history portrays one of England's great cities. It provides a nostalgic look at Newcastle's past and highlights the special character of some of its most important historic sites. The photographs are taken from the unique Historic... -
Europe after Rome: A New Cultural History 500-1000 by Julia M. H. Smith 9780199244270
£23.46This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original... -
Chippenham Then & Now by Mike Stone 9780752463636
RRP: £12.99£8.91Just how much has changed in Chippenham over the decades is clear when you consider that Edward Hutton described 1920s Chippenham as 'one of the sleepiest places in England'. Today, the busy cattle traders in the Market Place of the 1890s and... -
The Case for Auschwitz: Evidence from the Irving Trial by Robert Jan Van Pelt
RRP: £50.00£44.41From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt's book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier... -
Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages by Anthony Musson 9780719038020
RRP: £19.99£14.52This book provides an accessible collection of translated legal sources through which the exploits of criminals and developments in the English criminal justice system (c.1215-1485) can be studied. Drawing on the wealth of archival material and an array... -
Titanic by David Ross
RRP: £19.99£13.65On 14 April 1912, less than a week into a transatlantic trip from Southampton to New York, the largest luxury cruise liner in the world struck an iceberg off the coast of Labrador, causing the hull to buckle. The massive 50,000 ton ship hailed as... -
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts 9780393347784
RRP: £13.99£11.13On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss... -
Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities after Hitler by Mary Fulbrook 9781785330278
RRP: £27.95£22.58For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural... -
Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente by Jeremi Suri 9780674017634
RRP: £29.95£29.90In a brilliantly-conceived book, Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social... -
Poole Park: The People's Park by Geoffrey Budworth
RRP: £12.99£9.62Constructed on 90 acres of land donated by Lord Wimborne for the express purpose of building a People's Park, Poole Park has catered for the town's residents through the decades with a variety of features, including a freshwater lake and duck pond,... -
Stoke Newington: The Story of a Dissenting Village by Rab MacWilliam 9780750990912
RRP: £15.00£11.55Stoke Newington has long been one of London's most intriguing and radical areas. Famous residents included Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, and it was home to a variety of religious dissenting groups, such as Puritans,... -
A Radical History of the World by Neil Faulkner
RRP: £18.99£13.15History is a weapon. The powerful have their version of events, the people have another. And if we understand how the past was forged, we arm ourselves to change the future. This is a history of struggle, revolution and social change: of hominids,... -
St Albans: Life on the Home Front, 1914-1918 by Sue Mann
RRP: £18.99£16.98Much has been written about the men who left to fight in the First World War but what was life really like for those left behind on the Home Front? A bustling market town profoundly touched by the war, St Albans is the perfect place of which to ask this... -
The Secret History of Southend-on-Sea by Dee Gordon 9780752498041
RRP: £9.99£7.55The 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... -
Sailors, Ships, and Sea Fights: Proceedings of the 2022 'From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815' Naval Warfare in the Age of Sail Conference by Nicholas James Kaizer 9781804513446
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513446Author Nicholas James KaizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Global Perspectives: Student Book by Karem Roitman 9781382008747
RRP: £23.99£22.77The Cambridge Lower Secondary Complete Global Perspectives Student Book provides a clearly defined route through the subject that completely covers the three-year programme and all the required skills, making it fantastic value for money. This... -
Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy
RRP: £25.00£19.59The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literatureIslamic book culture dates back to late antiquity, when Muslim scholars began to write down their doctrines on parchment, papyrus, and... -
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
RRP: £7.99£5.41From a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic comes an impassioned critique of the West's retreat from reason. 'The Death of Truth is destined to become the defining treatise of our age' David Grann ... -
The Battleship Scharnhorst by Stefan Draminski
RRP: £40.00£31.98The Kriegsmarine's Scharnhorst was a German capital ship, described either as a battleship or battlecruiser, and the lead ship of her class, which included one other ship, Gneisenau. She was launched on 3 October 1936 and completed in January 1939, armed... -
Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption by Ion Mihai Pacepa 9780895267467
RRP: £19.99£13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895267467Author Ion Mihai PacepaFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Publisher Regnery Gateway Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age 1971-1984 by Van Burnham
RRP: £17.99£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262524209Author Van BurnhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1973gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 254mm * 25mm -
American Political History: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Critchlow
RRP: £8.99£8.00The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those... -
The Buddha and the Sahibs Charles Allen 9780719554285
RRP: £10.99£7.40Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th century, when Sir William Oriental Jones, a British judge in India, broke through the Brahmin's prohibition on... -
The Hundred Years War: A People's History by David Green
RRP: £14.99£13.43What life was like for ordinary French and English people, embroiled in a devastating century-long conflict that changed their world The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) dominated life in England and France for well over a century. It became the defining... -
Victory Against Japan: A Ladybird Expert Book: (WW2 #12) by James Holland
RRP: £10.99£7.77BOOK 12 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhy did Japan decide to attack at Pearl Harbour?What... -
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
£19.04A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy "A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won't see Cleopatra the same way again."-Publishers Weekly "Where Prose really... -
The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster by John Gleeson 9781982186920
RRP: £20.00£18.23A riveting, decades-in-the-writing memoir from the determined young prosecutor who, in two of America's most celebrated trials, managed to convict famed mob boss John Gotti-and subsequently took down the Mafia altogether. John Gotti was without a doubt...