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Lockheed F-104 Starfighter: A History by Martin W. Bowman 9781473863262
RRP: £30.00£28.04The F-104 Starfighter is quite possibly one of the most photographed aircraft of all time. It is certainly one of the most iconic. Here, Martin Bowman offers up a well researched, comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining history of this impressive... -
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up by Mary Beard 9780520277168
RRP: £25.00£19.07What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear--a world of wit, irony, and knowing... -
The Irish Difference: The Story of Ireland's 400-Year Journey to Independence by Fergal Tobin
RRP: £10.99£7.32An Irish TImes Book of the Year'The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity, and is full of fascinating detail... Exemplary.' Irish IndependentFor hundreds of years, the... -
Scapa 1919 by Innes McCartney
RRP: £30.00£21.95The German High Seas Fleet was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world, and had fought the pride of the Royal Navy to a stalemate at the battle of Jutland in 1916. After the armistice was signed, ending fighting in World War I, it surrendered... -
Miriam's Farm: The story of Haggs Farm, D.H.Lawrence and the Chambers family by Clive Leivers 9781915434074
RRP: £10.00£8.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915434074Author Clive LeiversFormat PaperbackImprint Five Leaves PublicationsPublisher Five Leaves Publications -
Rape: A History From 1860 To The Present Professor Joanna Bourke 9781844081554
RRP: £14.99£9.80Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and... -
Cops and Robbers: The Story of the British Police Car by Ant Anstead
RRP: £10.99£7.25TV presenter and all-round car nut Ant Anstead takes the reader on a journey that mirrors the development of the motor car itself from a stuttering 20mph annoyance that scared everyone's horses to 150mph pursuits with aerial support and... -
A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land by Jeremy Seal
RRP: £16.99£12.28The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a bitterly divided country' Colin Thubron'Read this book if... -
Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: The Golden Age and the Viking Age by Fiona Edmonds
RRP: £26.99£22.47WINNER OF THE FRANK WATSON BOOK PRIZE 2021. SHORTLISTED IN SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2021 The first full-scale, interdisciplinary treatment of the wide-ranging connections between the Gaelic world and the Northumbrian kingdom. Northumbria was... -
A Compendium of Medieval World Sovereigns Timothy Venning 9781032361987
RRP: £125.00£107.86The Compendium of World Sovereigns series contains three volumes: Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern. These volumes provide students with easy-to-access 'who's who' with details on the identities and dates, ages and wives, where known, of heads of... -
Europe and the Roma: A History of Fascination and Fear by Klaus-Michael Bogdal 9780241519028
RRP: £40.00£28.39'A magisterial contribution to the understanding of the cultural position of Romani people in Europe. ... nothing short of astounding' Literary ReviewThis remarkable book describes a dark side of European history: the rejection of the Roma from their... -
Stone Voices: The Search For Scotland Neal Ascherson 9781862075832
RRP: £9.99£6.70Neal Ascherson is one of Britain's finest writers in an undefinable genre that fuses history, memoir, politics and meditations on places. His books on Poland and his collected essays on the strange Britain to which he returned from Europe in the... -
Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction by Emma Nicholson 9780192866769
RRP: £117.50£106.11Philip V of Macedon in Polybius' Histories: Politics, History, and Fiction offers a historiographical and literary study of Polybius' portrait of Philip V and aims to advance our knowledge of both the Macedonian king and the historian. It takes a... -
Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition by Bronwen Everill
RRP: £16.95£13.85"Impressive...[Readers] will be rewarded with greater understanding of historical developments that changed the relationship between consumers and producers in a global economy in ways that reverberate to this day."-Wall Street Journal"Everill... -
Churchill's Last Wartime Secret: The 1943 German Raid Airbrushed from History by Adrian Searle 9781399077705
RRP: £14.99£10.95Its been a State secret for more than seventy years. The official line in the UK has always been that it never happened but this new work challenges the assertion that no German force set foot on British soil during the Second World War (the Channel... -
A Bite-sized History Of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment St (c)phane H (c)naut 9781620975473
RRP: £13.99£9.26From the cassoulet that won a war to the crepe that doomed Napoleon, from the rebellions sparked by bread and salt to the new cuisines forged by empire, the history of France is intimately entwined with its gastronomic pursuits. A witty exploration of... -
Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did by Loren Baritz 9780801859533
RRP: £25.50£22.44In a probing look at the myths of American culture that led us into the Vietnam quagmire, Loren Baritz exposes our national illusions: the conviction of our moral supremacy, our assumption that Americans are more idealistic than other people, and our... -
A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783 by Paul Langford 9780192852533
£57.29Drawing on up-to-date research, this volume in The New Oxford History of England is the most authoritative and comprehensive general history of England between the accession of George II and the loss of the American colonies. Delving beneath the... -
The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror's Subjugation of England by Teresa Cole
RRP: £12.99£8.481066 saw three kings of England, the last of whom was William, Duke of Normandy. Tradition tells us the conquest of England by the powerful Normans was inescapable, and suggests England benefited almost at once from closer links with Europe. But new... -
Filth: Dirt, Digust, and Modern Life by Ryan Johnson
RRP: £21.99£19.19From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with... -
The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780486445090
RRP: £8.99£5.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486445090Author A.A. KotovFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)... -
Lucretius I: An Ontology of Motion by Thomas Nail
RRP: £21.99£17.97The most original and shocking interpretation of Lucretius in the last 40 yearsThomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive... -
Her Majesty The Queen: The Official Platinum Jubilee Pageant Commemorative Album by Katie Nicholl 9781906670955
RRP: £49.95£36.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906670955Author Katie NichollFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Black Dog PressPublisher Black Dog Press -
Mao: The Man Who Made China by Philip Short 9781350376724
RRP: £18.99£14.59One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful... -
The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings: A medieval ghost story by Dan Jones
RRP: £9.99£8.16A chilling medieval ghost story, retold by bestselling historian Dan Jones. Published in a beautiful small-format hardback, perfect as a Halloween read or a Christmas gift. One winter, in the dark days of King Richard II, a tailor was riding home on... -
Samurai Armies of the Late Sengoku Period: Volume I: Anatomy of a Samurai Army in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Till Weber
RRP: £26.95£22.61The "Anatomy of a samurai army" details its composition, hierarchies, strengths and weaknesses as well as examining how it fought. Other aspects include: - the differences between samurai and European warfare; - the roles assigned to samurai and... -
Dassault Mirage F1s by Salvador Mafe Huertas 9788366148819
RRP: £20.50£17.34The Mirage F1 emerged from a series of design studies performed by French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation. Having originally sought to develop a larger swept wing derivative of the Mirage III, which became the Mirage F2, to serve as a vertical... -
US Navy Gun Destroyers 1945-88: Fletcher class to Forrest Sherman class Mark Stille 9781472855121
RRP: £12.99£9.09An illustrated history of the long Cold War careers of the US Navy's last gun destroyers, from the modernized World War II-era Fletcher-class to the Forrest Sherman-class. The finest American destroyers of World War II had surprisingly long careers... -
Wicked City: The Many Cultures of Marseille by Nicholas Hewitt
RRP: £25.00£21.79Marseille is a thoroughly ambiguous place. France's second city and its major sea-port, its impact on the national imagination is unparalleled. Yet it is also a frontier city, arguably capital of the Mediterranean, and with a traditionally suspect... -
Relics of War in Northumberland: Military Remains in the Landscape Ian Hall 9781916237629
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916237629Author Ian HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Northern HeritagePublisher Northern Heritage ServicesDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 10mm -
Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt by Atef Shahat Said 9781478025504
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Revolution Squared Atef Shahat Said examines the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to trace the expansive range of liberatory possibilities and containment at the heart of every revolution. Drawing on historical analysis and his own participation in the... -
Armies of the Crimean War, 1853 1856: History, Organization and Equipment of the British, French, Turkish, Piedmontese and Russian forces by Gabriele Esposito 9781399089852
RRP: £25.00£17.62Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy by Jonathan Israel
RRP: £25.00£19.59Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N... -
The History of Rome by Michael Grant
RRP: £16.99£11.58From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that dominated the Western world. Powerful in war, Rome was magnificent in peace, so that even today her poets, artists, philosophers and historians... -
Life in 1940s London by Mike Hutton
RRP: £10.99£7.25The most momentous decade in London's colourful history was one of huge contrasts. The war provided a heady brew of fear, bravery, stoicism, cowardice and crime, set to a background of popular music from Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn. To some, London was... -
Jamaica: Absolutely by Arif Ali 9781906190323
RRP: £18.00£13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906190323Author Arif AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications LimitedWeight(grams) 1025g -
Bygone Clydebank by John Hood 9781840333503
RRP: £11.95£10.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333503Author John HoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 174mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Scottish Proverbs by Colin S.K Walker
RRP: £6.99£4.84Proverbs, once described as 'the wisdom of many and the wit of one', offer unique insights the way of life and the social mores of past generations. This book features an introduction which explores the role of proverbs in Scottish culture and over... -
Life in the Victorian Hospital by Michelle Higgs 9780752448046
RRP: £17.99£13.64Throughout the Victorian period, life-threatening diseases were no respecter of class, affecting rich and poor alike. However, the medical treatment for such diseases differed significantly, depending on the class of patient. The wealthy received private... -
The Charge: The Light Brigade, the Crimean War and a Military Disaster by John Harris
RRP: £11.99£7.57Cannon to the left of them; cannon to the right of them... The legend of an extraordinary defeat brought vividly to lifeThe cavalry charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War remains one of the most iconic disasters in British military history. Here...