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Ten Days that Shook the World by John Reed 9781642590029
RRP: £19.99£13.56Ten Days That Shook the World is an undisputed classic of political reportage. A stunning first-hand account overflowing with urgency and immediacy, Reed's masterpiece lives and breathes the streets, meeting halls, posters and pamphlets of the... -
Penarth and Sully by Geoffrey A. North 9780752406138
RRP: £12.99£9.62Penarth was an agricultural community but the Industrial Revolution brought a great change. The town owes its early development to the success of the South Wales coalfields and the necessity for additional port facilities to accommodate the industry that... -
Military Archaeology: How Detectorists and Major Finds Improve our Understanding of History by Tim Heath 9781399023238
RRP: £25.00£17.62Military and battlefield archaeology has always been viewed as a sub-discipline to that of traditional historical archaeology. Once considered the pursuit of learned history professors and their disciples today, military archaeology has flourished around... -
The Cambridge Companion to Thucydides by Polly Low
RRP: £29.99£26.34Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted... -
Clavis or Key to Unlock the MYSTERIES OF MAGIC by Dr Stephen Skinner 9781912212088
RRP: £64.00£42.50This is the highpoint of calligraphic Victorian grimoires, full colour throughout. A very significant magical text with lots of detail not normally found in a grimoireBook InformationISBN 9781912212088Author Dr Stephen SkinnerFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Achilleid by Publius Papinius Statius 9781624664069
RRP: £11.99£9.77"One of the most entertaining short narratives of all time, the Achilleid is a stand-alone work of compelling contemporary interest that moves with great rapidity and clarity. Its compact narrative, which encompasses a brutish childhood, an... -
Mau Mau Rebellion by Nick van der Bijl 9781473864573
RRP: £25.00£18.02In The Mau Mau Rebellion, the author describes the background to and the course of a short but brutal late colonial campaign in Kenya. The Mau Mau, a violent and secretive Kikuyu society, aimed to restore the proud tribe's pre-colonial superiority and... -
Suez Crisis 1956: End of Empire and the Reshaping of the Middle East by David Charlwood 9781526757081
RRP: £14.99£10.95In 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... -
Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator by Paul Corner 9780192866646
RRP: £23.49£19.97Mussolini in myth and memory. Paul Corner looks at the brutal reality of the Italian dictator's fascist regime and confronts the nostalgia for dictatorial rule evident today in many European countries. Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a... -
Tiger by Thomas Anderson
RRP: £20.00£14.69One of the most feared weapons of World War II, the Tiger tank was a beast of a machine which dominated the battlefields of Europe with its astonishing size, speed and firepower, which continues to fascinate more than 70 years after it was first designed... -
Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 by Tony Judt
RRP: £23.99£21.24Tony Judt provides a sharp and intellectual ideological description of mid-twentieth century French intellectuals "Past Imperfect is a forthright and uncommonly damning study of those intellectually volatile years [1944-1956]. Mr. Judt...does more than... -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples: One Volume Abridged Edition Sir Sir Winston S. Churchill 9781350042940
RRP: £23.99£22.37'This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
The English Chartered Trading Companies, 1688-1763: Guns, Money and Lawyers Michael Wagner 9781032401881
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies which were active during the period 1688-1763: The East India Company, the Royal African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, The Levant Company, and the Russia... -
Wellington's Unsung Heroes: The Fifth Division in the Peninsular War, 1810-1814 by Carole Divall
RRP: £29.95£20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915113924Author Carole DivallFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Role of Intelligence in the Battle of Britain by Norman Ridley
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Battle of Britain was fought between two airborne military elites and was a classic example of pure attack against pure defence. Though it was essentially a 'war of attrition', it was an engagement in which the gathering, assessment and reaction to... -
Homer: The Odyssey by Jasper Griffin
RRP: £19.99£17.13This handy guide to The Odyssey will introduce students to a text, which has been fundamental to literature for nearly 3000 years. Readers will be introduced to the world in that the Odyssey was produced, to the text itself and to its origins in oral... -
German Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Stalingrad 1942-43 Chris McNab 9781472824561
RRP: £14.99£10.95By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90 per cent of Stalingrad. Yet the Soviets stubbornly held on to the remaining parts of the city, and German casualties started to reach catastrophic levels. In an attempt to... -
El Alamein 1942: Turning Point in the Desert by Richard Doherty 9781526700797
RRP: £25.00£17.62The Battle of El Alamein is well established as a pivotal moment of the Second World War. Following the wildly fluctuating fortunes of the opposing sides, there was a real risk that Rommel s Afrika Korps and his Italian allies would break through and... -
Maiden Voyages: women and the Golden Age of transatlantic travel Sian Evans 9781473699045
RRP: £10.99£7.40HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID CROSS SECTION OF LIFE ON-BOARD THE ICONIC OCEAN LINERS FROM BELOW DECKS TO THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE.'In this riveting slice of social history,... -
Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam by Julia Blackburn
RRP: £20.00£14.29A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn... -
Old Rutherglen Rhona Wilson 9781872074726
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074726Author Rhona WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 170mm * 239mm * 6mm -
The Vikings Saebjorg Walaker Nordeide (Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University of Bergen) 9781942401896
RRP: £15.95£15.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401896Author Saebjorg Walaker NordeideFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Anna and the Black Knight: Incorporating Anna's Book by Fynn
RRP: £8.99£6.02Though her short life was vividly presented in Mister God, This is Anna, its huge success led to Fynn being inundated to write more about his experiences with her. Anna and the Black Knight introduces us to Mister John, a veteran of World War I and local... -
American Mafia: Chicago: True Stories Of Families Who Made Windy City History by William Griffith 9780762778447
RRP: £14.99£11.53Everyone knows stories about the American Mafia and its varied forms of crime, from racketeering to stock manipulation to murder. American Mafia: Chicago explores the Windy City, strolling through its neighborhoods and imagining scenes from the... -
A Million Bullets: The real story of the British Army in Afghanistan by James Fergusson
RRP: £18.99£13.61In April 2006 a small British peace-keeping force was sent to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. Within weeks they were cut off and besieged by some of the world's toughest fighters: the infamous Taliban, who were determined to send the foreigners... -
Anglo-Indians Abroad: Dreams Built on the Clash of Cultures by Andrea Malam BEM
RRP: £10.99£7.90Curious to find out what it means to be an Anglo-Indian? Join Andrea Malam BEM as she shares the story of her journey from Bombay to London, and the search for her ancestry and identity. Along with her contributors, Andrea reveals the... -
Dictatorship and Daily Life in 20th-Century Europe by Dr. Lisa Pine
RRP: £24.99£23.26Bringing together leading scholars from across the UK, North America and mainland Europe, this book provides a uniquely comparative exploration of daily life under dictatorship in 20th-century Europe. With coverage of well-known regimes and some that are... -
Not Forgotten: The Great War and Our Modern Memory by Neil Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.77There are 37,780 First World War memorials in Britain, listing names from all walks of life - estates, villages, places of work. They stand as landmarks to a defining period in British history - and yet one which is in danger of slipping away from... -
Gosport by Ian Edelman 9780752403007
RRP: £12.99£9.62In this fascinating new collection of about two hundred old photographs compiled by Ian Edelman, curator of Gosport Museum, the recent history of the ancient town of Gosport is once again brought to life. Once surrounded by a moated rampart and boasting... -
Japan's Asian Allies 1941-45 by Philip Jowett
RRP: £11.99£9.08During the Japanese occupation of large parts of Asia and the Pacific in 1941-45, Japan raised significant numbers of troops to fight alongside them, as well as militias to guard their conquests. The total number of these soldiers is estimated at no... -
Arctic Convoys 1941-1945 by Richard Woodman 9781844156115
RRP: £25.00£18.02During the last four years of the Second World War, the Western Allies secured Russian defences against Germany by supplying vital food and arms. The plight of those in Murmansk and Archangel who benefited is now well known, but few are aware of the... -
Around Yarmouth, Totland and Freshwater by Anthony Mitchell
RRP: £14.99£11.55Within these covers are over 200 high-quality images from the fascinating past of Yarmouth, Totland, Freshwater and the whole of the western end of the Isle of Wight. This area is world-famous because of its unique geographical and topographical features... -
My Opposition: The Diary of Friedrich Kellner - A German against the Third Reich by Friedrich Kellner
RRP: £37.99£33.57This is a truly unique account of Nazi Germany at war and of one man's struggle against totalitarianism. A mid-level official in a provincial town, Friedrich Kellner kept a secret diary from 1939 to 1945, risking his life to record Germany's path to... -
The Pursuit Of The Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages by Norman Cohn
RRP: £20.00£14.29The Middle Ages inherited from Antiquity a tradition of prophesy and gave it fresh and exuberant life. This tradition foretold a Millennium in which humanity would enjoy a new Paradise on earth, free of suffering and sin - a Kingdom of the Saints... -
The Blue Water War: The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1940-1945 by Brian E. Walter
RRP: £29.99£21.34For 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... -
The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder
RRP: £12.99£9.09Wilhelm von Habsburg wore the uniform of an Austrian officer, the court regalia of a Habsburg archduke, the simple suit of a Parisian exile, the decorations of the Order of the Golden Fleece and, every so often, a dress. He spoke the Italian of his... -
The Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815 by David Gates
RRP: £18.99£13.61Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product... -
The Viking World by Stefan Brink
RRP: £56.99£50.41Filling a gap in the literature for an academically oriented volume on the Viking period, this unique book is a one-stop authoritative introduction to all the latest research in the field.Bringing together today's leading scholars, both established... -
Libya: From Colony to Revolution by Ronald Bruce St. John
RRP: £12.99£9.62Since Qaddafi's ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by instability and conflict. To understand the tumultuous state of the country today, one must look to its past. With great clarity and precision, renowned regional expert Ronald Bruce St John... -
Monte Cassino: Amoured Forces in the Battle for the Gustav Line: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives by Jeffrey Plowman 9781526718938
RRP: £14.99£10.95The battles fought between the Allied armies and the German Wehrmacht at Monte Cassino in 1944 were key episodes in the protracted Italian campaign, and the eventual Allied victory was a decisive step in the wider war to liberate Europe from German...