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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Goldhagen
RRP: £14.99£9.80Daniel Goldhagen re-visits a question which history has treated as settled, and his research leads him to the inescapble conclusion that none of the answers holds true. That question is: How could the Holocaust happen? His response is an exploration of... -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
RRP: £7.99£5.79WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the woods in Massachusetts. He stayed for over two years, living self-sufficiently in a small cabin built with his own hands. Walden is... -
Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History by Sidney W. Mintz 9780140092332
£11.75A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern dietsIn this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace... -
Young Bloomsbury: the generation that reimagined love, freedom and self-expression by Nino Strachey
RRP: £10.99£6.47'I wanted to climb inside this book and live there' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'This witty, fascinating book is a delight. Read it' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Superb, sparky and reflective' The Spectator'Gender fluidity? Pansexuality? Throuples? Chosen families?... -
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
RRP: £10.99£6.14Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to... -
Sophia by Anita Anand 9781408835470
RRP: £14.99£10.59**By the presenter of the hit podcast EMPIRE** 'Sophia is the sort of remarkable, almost unbelievable untold true story that every writer dreams of chancing upon. A wonderful debut, written with real spirit and gusto. Anita Anand has produced a... -
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall
RRP: £9.99£6.87'It is absolutely brilliant, I think every woman should read it' PANDORA SYKES, THE HIGH LOW 'My wish is that every white woman who calls herself a feminist will read this book in a state of hushed and humble respect ... Essential reading' ELIZABETH... -
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
RRP: £16.99£12.47A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This edition also includes an extra chapter charting the course from Blair to Brexit.It tells the story of how the great political visions of New... -
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton
RRP: £14.99£10.95'An epic of survival' -- MICHAEL PALIN'A "grade-A classic"' -- SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly enthralling' -- GEOFF DYER, GUARDIAN'Deeply engrossing' -- NEW YORK TIMESLISTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMESThe harrowing, survival... -
History of Britain and Ireland: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK 9780241666661
RRP: £30.00£20.95Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with... -
Germania: A Personal History of Germans Ancient and Modern by Simon Winder
RRP: £12.99£8.78The Sunday Times Bestseller and insipration behind David Mitchell's Unruly.'Entertaining and informative . . . Delightful' - IndependentThere are many reasons to be fascinated by Germany: forests, architecture and fairy tales, not to mention its history... -
The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy 9780300098259
RRP: £15.99£13.82In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and antipapal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in... -
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells
RRP: £10.99£7.77**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should probably be this' David Sexton, Evening StandardSelected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the Sunday Times,... -
Undercover War by Harry McCallion
RRP: £9.99£6.85When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969 to keep apart rioting factions of loyalists and nationalists, they could not have known that they were being drawn into the longest campaign in the British Army's history, a battle against... -
SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Explosive Untold Story by Damien Lewis
RRP: £10.99£7.40'An incredible story, and so well told' Bear Grylls'Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy BillinghamThere were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero and Bravo... -
Major and Mrs Holt's Pocket Battlefield Guide to Ypres and Passchendaele by Tonie Holt 9781844153770
RRP: £6.99£5.13Covering the important WW1 Battles of Ypres, including the notorious Passchendaele, this guidebook takes readers on a historic trip through some of the well-known and most important sites of the area. This book, part of a new series of guides, is... -
A Very British Murder by Lucy Worsley
RRP: £14.99£10.95This is the story of a national obsession.Ever since the Ratcliffe Highway Murders caused a nation-wide panic in Regency England, the British have taken an almost ghoulish pleasure in 'a good murder'. This fascination helped create a whole new world of... -
How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life by Ruth Goodman
RRP: £12.99£9.09TRAVEL BACK IN TIME WITH THE BBC'S RUTH GOODMANWe know all about the dramas that played out in the Tudor court - most notably those of Henry VIII - but what was life really like for a commoner like you or me?To answer this question, the renowned "method... -
East Anglian Witches and Wizards by Professor Michael Howard 9781945147128
RRP: £19.95£12.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945147128Author Professor Michael HowardFormat PaperbackImprint Three Hands PressPublisher Three Hands PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
Edward the Confessor (Penguin Monarchs): The Sainted King by David Woodman
RRP: £14.99£10.95Edward the Confessor, the last great king of Anglo-Saxon England, canonized nearly 100 years after his death, is in part a figure of myths created in the late middle ages.In this revealing portrait of England's royal saint, David Woodman traces the... -
The Nazi Hunters by Damien Lewis
RRP: £12.99£8.60'A humbling, inspiring account of some of the real founders of modern day Special Forces soldiering' Bear GryllsPraise for Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Damien Lewis' SAS mission series:'One of the great untold stories of WWII' - Bear Grylls on... -
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust by Julian Borger 9781399803304
RRP: £20.00£11.65'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL, BOOK OF THE WEEK'I SEEK A... -
Stalin: A Biography by Robert Service
RRP: £16.99£12.47Drawing on a wealth of unexplored material - available for the first time since the collapse of the former Soviet Union - Robert Service's biography of Stalin is the most authoritative yet published. It concentrates not simply on Stalin as dedicated... -
Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate by Paul Lay
RRP: £12.99£9.09'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian. ***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents... -
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Professor of Journalism Deborah Blum
RRP: £19.00£11.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118824Author Deborah BlumFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm *... -
Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age by Charles H. Hapgood 9780932813428
RRP: £27.00£17.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932813428Author Charles HapgoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g -
Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration Nadine Akkerman 9780300267549
RRP: £20.00£16.98A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspirators... -
Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through the Dancefloor by Emma Warren 9780571366040
RRP: £10.99£7.38'A clarion call to get up on the dance floor.' FINANCIAL TIMESWhy do we dance together? What does dancing tell us about ourselves, individually and collectively? Whether at home, in '80s club nights, Irish dancehalls or youth centres, Emma Warren has... -
Six Tudor Queens: Jane Seymour, The Haunted Queen: Six Tudor Queens 3 by Alison Weir
RRP: £10.99£7.40'This brilliant book is a bombshell! Jane Seymour the shy mouse type? Think again!' Kate WilliamsAlison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession, draws an... -
Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 by Dominic Sandbrook
RRP: £18.99£14.01SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, LONDON EVENING STANDARD, DAILY MAIL AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'Magisterial ... If anyone wants to know what has been happening to Britain since the 1950s, it is difficult to imagine a more... -
A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.40Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their... -
The Shortest History of China by Linda Jaivin
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913083250Author Linda JaivinFormat PaperbackImprint Old Street PublishingPublisher Old Street Publishing -
The Honour of Rome by Simon Scarrow 9781472258502
RRP: £10.99£3.51A stunning novel of courage, camaraderie and deadly enemies from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Centurion and The Emperor's Exile.AD 59. BRITANNIA. TENSION IS SIMMERING. DANGER LIES ROUND EVERY CORNER FOR ROME'S BRAVE SOLDIERS ...Fifteen years... -
Normandy: the Sailors' Story: A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle for France by Nick Hewitt 9780300256734
RRP: £20.00£17.38The first account of the Allied navies’ vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign The Allied liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe is one of the most widely recognised events of modern history. The assault phase,... -
A History of Britain in Just a Minute by Gyles Brandreth 9781785947605
RRP: £10.99£7.77The story of us - without hesitation, repetition or deviation.Join national treasure and Just a Minute regular Gyles Brandreth on a hilariously addictive romp through British history. This isn't just another history book - there's a catch! From... -
The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict 431-404 BC by Donald M. Kagan
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an immensely readable, brilliant, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancient Greece. The Peloponnesian War, fought 2,500 years ago between oligarchic Sparta and democratic... -
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones
RRP: £12.99£8.32The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule.Some of the greatest... -
The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past by Christopher Hadley 9780008356729
RRP: £10.99£7.12A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every page a random... -
Early Christian Writings: The Apostolic Fathers by Andrew Louth
RRP: £9.99£7.11The writings in this volume cast a glimmer of light upon the emerging traditions and organization of the infant church, during an otherwise little-known period of its development. A selection of letters and small-scale theological treatises from a... -
Meet the Ancient Egyptians by James Davies
RRP: £8.99£6.22There's so much to digest when it comes to History - how do you know where to begin? These incredible short introductions are just the thing for readers who are beginning to explore ancient history. Get to know the basics on Ancient Egypt from gods and...