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Top Secret Worcestershire by Stephen Burrows
$20.11Deep in the beautiful Worcestershire countryside lie a number of secret places that played a special part in protecting a generation from the onslaught of a world war. Travellers passing through leafy Worcestershire lanes may catch a glimpse of a... -
The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC by J. G. Manning
RRP: $45.15$35.78The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs... -
The Lie of the Land: Irish Identities Fintan O'Toole 9781859841327
$19.65The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland's fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in... -
True Tales and Amazing Legends of the Old West: From True West Magazine by True West
RRP: $25.74$18.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307236388Author Editors of True WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)... -
Liturgy, Architecture, and Sacred Places in Anglo-Saxon England by Helen Gittos 9780198737056
$63.43Church rituals were a familiar feature of life throughout much of the Anglo-Saxon period. In this innovative study, Helen Gittos examines ceremonies for the consecration of churches and cemeteries, and processional feasts like Candlemas, Palm Sunday, and... -
Reading Ireland: Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland by Raymond Gillespie
RRP: $25.79$22.72This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the... -
Lancastrians: Mills, Mines and Minarets: A New History by Paul Salveson
RRP: $32.25$28.42A landmark new history of the great English county of Lancashire, exploring its people's impact on Britain and beyond. This popular history explores the cultural heritage and identity of Lancashire, stretching from the Mersey to the Lake District. Paul... -
Nimrod's Genesis by Chris Gibson 9781902109473
RRP: $38.64$28.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902109473Author Chris GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Hikoki PublicationsPublisher Hikoki Publications -
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by J. R. Clark-Hall
RRP: $41.28$34.70This classic dictionary deals carefully and exhaustively with all the words which occur in Anglo-Saxon poetry and prose. Variant dialectic forms are given, together with variant forms found in the same dialect. Purely poetic words and words not common in... -
Along the Kent Coast by Ray Hollands
RRP: $21.92$16.69This book is a unique photographic record of a journey along the Kent coastline. From the starkness of Dungeness in the south to the magisterial sweep of Dartford Bridge in the north, the descriptions of Paul Harris and the contemporary photographs of... -
Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt: Her Life and Afterlife by Aidan Dodson
RRP: $38.69$31.68Nefertiti's current world dominion as a cultural and artistic icon presents an interesting contrast with the way in which she was actively written out of history soon after her own death. This book explores what we can reconstruct of the life of the... -
The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer
RRP: $16.76$11.73WINNER OF THE CUNDHILL HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017, THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY BOOK PRIZE 2017THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, BBC HISTORY and TLS BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Masterful, ... -
Kensington & Chelsea: Britain in Old Photographs by Barbara Denny
RRP: $21.92$16.69This fascinating selection of historic photographs documents the dramatic transformation that has taken place over the last 150 years in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The book gives an unforgettable impression of familiar streets and... -
Coastal Scotland by Stuart Fisher
RRP: $32.25$24.87With several thousand miles of coastline and nearly 800 islands, Scotland has the most diverse coast of the United Kingdom. From the wild waters around Cape Wrath to the serene beaches of the Silver Sands of Morar, via one of the world's largest... -
HM Naval Base: Clyde by Keith Hall
RRP: $16.76$12.41The Clyde submarine base was officially commissioned in 1967. The Faslane site had originally been used as a military port during the Second World War and was built and manned by the army. HMS Adamant, the Depot ship of the 3rd Submarine Squadron, first... -
Zemke'S Wolfpack: A Photographic Odyssey of the 56th Fighter Group During the Second World War by Nigel Julian
RRP: $38.64$28.28The only US 8th Army Air Force fighter group to retain the mighty P-47 Thunderbolt throughout its combat tour in the European Theatre of Operations, the 56th Fighter Group justified its nickname of 'Zemke's Wolfpack' by the aggressive attitude and... -
Flashpoints: Air Warfare in the Cold War by Michael Napier
RRP: $45.15$33.40From acclaimed aviation historian Michael Napier, this is a highly illustrated survey of the aerial fighting in the flashpoints of the Cold War. The Cold War years were a period of unprecedented peace in Europe, yet they also saw a number of localised... -
Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations by Suzan Shown Harjo
RRP: $45.15$34.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588344786Author Suzan Shown HarjoFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1g -
1960s Childhood by Dr Janet Shepherd
RRP: $11.60$7.77Sixties children grew up in a more permissive and commercial age. They enjoyed a childhood in which new vaccines gave children protection from life threatening diseases while the contraceptive pill meant smaller family groups. A controversial programme... -
A Bad Day, I Fear: The Irish Divisions at the Battle of Langemarck, 16 August 1917 by Michael James Nugent 9781804513262
RRP: $32.25$22.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513262Author Michael James NugentFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Children of the 1940s: A Social History by Mike Hutton 9781399049504
RRP: $28.38$20.15What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies above. Of evacuation and a clash of cultures between city centre kids and their country cousins. All endured... -
Macchi C.202/C.205V Units in Combat by Marco Mattioli
RRP: $20.63$14.98A study of the Macchi Folgore and Veltro, the most successful Italian fighters in World War II. With specially commissioned profiles, the book examines how these fighters were conceived, their performance and the fascinating stories of their pilots. ... -
The English Resistance: The Underground War Againt the Normans Peter Rex 9781445604794
RRP: $16.76$10.94In 1066 the English were conquered by the infamous William the Conqueror. However, the English did not just roll over and die before their oppressors; far from it. For over five years the English violently rebelled against the invading Normans, murdering... -
Air Battle for Dunkirk by Norman Franks
RRP: $12.90$9.56'Where is the RAF?' was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern France, and where they were now being pounded by the Luftwaffe. The air... -
Panzer IV: 1939-1945 Paul Thomas 9781526711281
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Panzer IV Panzerkampfwagen IV was one the foremost German fighting vehicles of the Second World War, and this volume in the TankCraft series is an ideal introduction to it. With detailed captions, text and illustrations the book tells the story of... -
Kenya: A History Since Independence by Charles Hornsby
$38.02Since independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya has survived five decades as a functioning nation-state, holding regular elections; its borders and political system intact and avoiding open war with its neighbours and military rule internally. It... -
The War For All The Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy A. Adkins
$19.65As France emerged from revolution, a young general named Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt, hoping next to march overland to India. It would not happen. Britain swung her forces into action to battle for control of the world's sea-lanes and thus all... -
Armoured Warfare in the Battle of the Bulge 1944-1945: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Anthony Tucker-Jones 9781526701756
RRP: $19.34$14.13The Battle of the Bulge took the Allied armies by surprise in 1944/. It was a result of the extraordinary recovery of Hitler's panzer divisions following crushing defeats on the Eastern and Western fronts. In a daring offensive he hoped his panzers would... -
Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag by Nicolas Werth 9780691130835
RRP: $28.38$22.39During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor camps, but ten thousand of... -
Have You Been Good?: A Memoir by Vanessa Nicolson 9781783780785
RRP: $12.89$8.64Vanessa Nicolson is the granddaughter of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. She was born to an illustrious name and an unhappy marriage. Her father, the art historian Ben Nicolson, was homosexual and his marriage to Vanessa's Italian mother fell... -
T-34 Tank Owners' Workshop Manual: Insights into one of the most influential tank designs of the 20th century and the mainstay of Soviet armoured units in the Second World War by Mark Healy
RRP: $29.66$21.52An insight into the design, construction and opera, The Soviet T-34 was the most produced tank of the Second World War and its revolutionary sloping armour became a major influence on future tank design. With its combination of heavy firepower, mobility... -
Kilmichael: The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush by Eve Morrison
RRP: $23.21$21.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551458Author Eve MorrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten History by Massoud Hayoun
RRP: $36.11$23.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620974162Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press -
Coatbridge: Images of Scotland by Helen Moir 9780752421322
RRP: $19.34$14.90Located in the parish of Old Monkland, Coatbridge was a sleepy collection of villages until the late eighteenth century. Then, with the discovery of ironstone, the building of the Monkland Canal and the increased mining of coal, the sleepy villages grew... -
High Command: British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars by Christopher L. Elliott 9781849048132
RRP: $20.63$18.67** Includes a New Postcript 'The Chilcot Report-Early Thoughts on Military Matters'** From 2001 Britain supported the United States in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 'Victory' in such conflicts is always hard to gauge and domestic political backing... -
1990s, The A Ammonite 9781906672157
RRP: $19.34$13.16This series is each devoted to a decade of British life and contains around 300 photographs which were hand-picked by PA Photos' own archivists. Most have lain unseen since they were first used as news pictures and each image has been scanned especially,... -
King's Lynn by Paul Richards 9781860774287
RRP: $23.21$17.60A history of King's Lynn.Book InformationISBN 9781860774287Author Paul RichardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Phillimore & Co LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 185mm * 20mm -
Spetsnaz by Mark Galeotti
RRP: $19.34$14.13Authoritative illustrated analysis of the history of the military Special Forces units of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation. When the shadowy, notorious Spetsnaz were first formed, they drew on a long Soviet tradition of elite, behind-the-lines... -
Life in a Medieval City by Frances Gies
RRP: $14.18$9.35"Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention...Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies." -George R.R. Martin, author of the series A Song of Ice and... -
Long Barrows of the Cotswolds and Surrounding Areas by Tim Darvill 9780752429076
RRP: $32.25$17.40Long barrows with their massive tapering mounds and hidden burial chambers, bear witness to the architectural proficiency of our ancestors. Built by early farming communities between 4000 and 3000 BC, they form part of Western Europe's earliest surviving...