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The Cartoon History of the Modern World Part 2: From the Bastille to Baghdad by Larry Gonick
RRP: $31.18$22.29Part II of the "Cartoon History of the Modern World" picks up where Part I left off, right after the American Revolution. Gonick illuminates with the Enlightenment, then goes deep into the French Revolution, followed by Napoleon's conquests. He covers... -
First Raise a Flag: How South Sudan Won the Longest War but Lost the Peace by Peter Martell
RRP: $53.63$47.81When South Sudan's war began, the Beatles were playing their first hits and reaching the moon was an astronaut's dream. Half a century later, with millions massacred in Africa's longest war, the continent's biggest country split in two. It was an... -
Population Control: How Corporate Owners Are Killing Us by Jim Marrs 9780062359902
RRP: $25.33$16.98From the food we eat, the water we drink to the air we breathe, everything these days seems capable of killing us. Recently we have seen an unprecedented number of deaths due to medications for diseases that may not even exist, obscure cancers caused by... -
Ghost Patrol: A History of the Long Range Desert Group 1940-1945 by John Sadler
RRP: $33.13$23.95The origins of most of the west's Special Forces can be traced back to the Long Range Desert Group which operated across the limitless expanses of the Libyan Desert, an area the size of India, during the whole of the Desert War from 1940 - 1943. After... -
Armies of the First Sino-Japanese War 1894-95 by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: $23.38$16.63Describes how newly modernized Japan waged war against China in its first overseas campaign, marking its rapid transition into Asia's leading military power only 30 years after emerging from centuries of feudalism. After the Meiji restoration of the... -
Harry's War by Harry Drinkwater
RRP: $33.13$23.95'I saw several fellows fall, one fellow coughing up blood and all the time, bullets were hacking about me. I ran for about 70 yards carrying with me all the Lewis gun things I had brought up and dropped breathless into a shell hole headlong onto a German... -
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement by Christopher Sykes
RRP: $29.23$19.42At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes' lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and... -
Hermetica II: The Excerpts of Stobaeus, Papyrus Fragments, and Ancient Testimonies in an English Translation with Notes and Introduction by M. David Litwa
$45.34This volume presents in new English translations the scattered fragments and testimonies regarding Hermes Thrice Great that complete Brian Copenhaver's translation of the Hermetica (Cambridge, 1992). It contains the twenty-nine fragments from Stobaeus... -
A Short History of Lyme Regis by John Fowles 9780946159932
RRP: $11.60$11.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946159932Author John FowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote PressDimensions(mm) 180mm * 157mm * 5mm -
Richard the Lionheart: The Crusader King of England by W. B. Bartlett
RRP: $29.23$19.11Whilst Richard I is one of medieval England's most famous kings he is also the most controversial. He has variously been considered a great warrior but a poor king, a man driven by the quest for fame and glory but also lacking in self-discipline and... -
The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville by Giles Milton
RRP: $21.43$13.01In 1322 Sir John Mandeville left England on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty-four years later, he returned, claiming to have visited not only Jerusalem, but India, China, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as well.His book about that voyage, THE TRAVELS, was... -
Henry II by W. L. Warren 9780300084740
RRP: $42.90$38.14Henry II (1133-1189) was an enigma in his own time and has continued to excite widely divergent judgments ever since. His quarrel with Archbishop Becket, his troubled relationships with his sons and with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and other dramatic... -
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin 9780691153438
$75.33A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman EmpireAt the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on... -
Calamity Jane: The Life and Legend of Martha Jane Cannary by D. J. Herda
RRP: $27.28$21.14Young Martha Jane Cannary began life as a camp follower and street urchin. Parentless by the age of twelve, she morphed into the mother of two who just as often took employment as a waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl as she did an Indian scout or... -
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: Two Volumes in One Lafcadio Hearn 9780804847551
RRP: $33.13$22.83Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a complete, two-volume set of one of the most outstanding books on 19th century Japanese history and culture.Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains... -
Devonshire Folk Tales by Michael Dacre 9780752455051
RRP: $19.48$16.13This collection of traditional stories and tales, many of which are published for the first time, will delight lovers of Devonshire folklore. Some of the stories have been gleaned from residents of the county, whilst others have been developed by the... -
The Blue Water War: The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1940-1945 by Brian E. Walter
RRP: $58.48$41.61For three millennia the Mediterranean Sea served as the center of western civilization and the scene of many colossal wars and naval battles. In the early summer of 1940, this ancient body of water again played host to a new and extensive conflict as the... -
Access to History: Henry VII third edition by Caroline S. Rogers
$48.07Ensure your students have access to the authoritative and in-depth content of this popular and trusted A Level History series. For over twenty years Access to History has been providing students with reliable, engaging and accessible content on a wide... -
Avebury: The Biography of a Landscape by Joshua Pollard
RRP: $58.50$43.54Designated a World Heritage Site, the landscape around Avebury in north Wiltshire contains a remarkable wealth of archaeological remains, including some of the most spectacular prehistoric monuments in Europe. Incorporating extensive research and... -
Bela Bartok by David Cooper
RRP: $38.98$33.87The definitive account of the life and music of Hungary's greatest twentieth-century composer This deeply researched biography of Bela Bartok (1881-1945) provides a more comprehensive view of the innovative Hungarian musician than ever before. David... -
The RAF's Road to D-Day: The Struggle to Exploit Air Superiority, 1943-1944 by Greg Baughen 9781399051804
RRP: $48.75$34.36By the summer of 1943, the Third Reich's fate seemed sealed. The combined might of Britain and the Commonwealth nations, the United States and the Soviet Union had made a Germany victory impossible. All that remained to decide was how the Allies should... -
The Final Whistle: The Great War in Fifteen Players by Stephen Cooper 9780752499000
RRP: $25.33$19.25WINNER OF THE BRITISH SPORT BOOK AWARDS - RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR This is the story of 15 men killed in the Great War. All played rugby for one London club; none lived to hear the final whistle. Rugby brought them together; rugby led the rush to war. They... -
Defending the Rock: Gibraltar and the Second World War by Nicholas Rankin
RRP: $19.48$13.46Two months before he shot himself, Adolf Hitler saw where it had all gone wrong. By failing to seize Gibraltar in the summer of 1940, he had lost the war. The Rock of Gibraltar, a pillar of British seapower since 1704, looked formidable but was... -
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642 by Tim Harris
RRP: $43.86$33.48A gripping new account of one of the most important and exciting periods of British and Irish history: the reign of the first two Stuart kings, from 1567 to the outbreak of civil war in 1642 - and why ultimately all three of their kingdoms were to rise... -
Life in Roman London by Simon Webb 9780752465364
RRP: $38.98$29.76Seven years after the Roman invasion of Britain in ad 43, Londinium was created. It would rise to become one of the most important Roman cities in Northern Europe. Life in Roman London approaches the history of Roman London in an entirely new way. Rather... -
The War of Jenkins' Ear: The Forgotten Struggle for North and South America: 1739-1742 by Robert Gaudi
RRP: $25.33$16.40Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States-and the entire Western Hemisphere.In the early 18th century, the British and Spanish Empires were fighting for... -
In Nelson's Wake: The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars by James Davey
RRP: $29.23$26.19Battles, blockades, convoys, raids: how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the... -
Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s by Simon Hall 9780571353088
RRP: $21.43$15.35Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York.'With its cool judgements and blackly comic sense of irony, Hall's book is a rare pleasure to read.'DOMINIC SANDBROOK,... -
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan Jose Millas
RRP: $29.23$19.62A New Scientist Book of the Year Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan Jose Millas has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiens at all. Perhaps he is a... -
Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak
RRP: $19.48$13.65Here is an informative and entertaining guide to everything that any tourist needs for a journey back in time to ancient Rome in AD 200. You need only pack your imagination and a toothbrush - this guide provides the rest, describing all the best places... -
Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion Jonathan Clements 9781472137418
RRP: $29.23$19.31The sect was said to harbour dark designs to overthrow the government. Its teachers used a dead language that was impenetrable to all but the innermost circle of believers. Its priests preached love and kindness, but helped local warlords acquire ... -
Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules by L. David Marquet 9781591846406
RRP: $60.45$35.22"Leadership should mean giving control rather than taking control and creating leaders rather than forging followers." David Marquet, an experienced Navy officer, was used to giving orders. As newly appointed captain of the USS Santa Fe, a... -
Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Gazala to Tunisia, 1942–43 by Robert Forczyk
RRP: $68.25$49.34Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943. The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in... -
Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality by Marilyn Lake
RRP: $60.43$47.60In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined... -
The M4 Carbine by Chris McNab
RRP: $27.28$19.21The M4 carbine has become one of the defining military firearms of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Developed as a fusion of the XM177E2 Colt Commando and the M16A2 assault rifle, the M4 offered a more convenient battlefield firearm than the... -
The Treaty of Versailles: A Very Short Introduction by Michael S. Neiberg
RRP: $17.53$12.97Signed on June 28, 1919 between Germany and the principal Allied powers, the Treaty of Versailles formally ended World War I. Problematic from the very beginning, even its contemporaries saw the treaty as a mediocre compromise, creating a precarious... -
Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower by Susan Higginbotham
RRP: $25.33$16.73Of the many executions ordered by Henry VIII, surely the most horrifying was that of sixty-seven-year-old Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, hacked to pieces on the scaffold by a blundering headsman. From the start, Margaret's life had been marred... -
German Night Fighter Force 1917-1945 by Gebhard Aders 9781781555033
RRP: $68.25$51.52The German Night Fighter force had its origins in the First World War to repel night raids and to fly long-range intruder sorties. They developed operational procedures which became largely forgotten a few years after the Armistice. The Western Allies,... -
Hamas: From Resistance to Government by Paola Caridi 9781609803827
RRP: $31.18$22.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609803827Author Paola CaridiFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 585g -
I Should Be Dead By Now: The Wild Life and Crazy Times of the NBA's Greatest Rebounder of Modern Times by Dennis Rodman
RRP: $21.43$14.06Whether it was helping Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls win three consecutive NBA titles in the 1990s, or showing up to a book signing in a dress and full makeup, Dennis Rodman has always distinguished himself as one of the great and most polarizing...