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Viet Nam: A History from Earliest Times to the Present by Ben Kiernan 9780190053796
RRP: $50.68$34.18For many Westerners, the name Vietnam evokes images of a bloody televised American war that generated a firestorm of protest and brought conflict into their living rooms. In his sweeping account, Ben Kiernan broadens this vision by narrating the rich... -
The Gravediggers: 1932, The Last Winter of the Weimar Republic by Hauke Friederichs
RRP: $21.43$15.35November 1932. With the German economy in ruins and street battles raging between political factions, the Weimar Republic is in its death throes. Its elderly president Paul von Hindenburg floats above the fray, inscrutably haunting the halls of the... -
Under the Hammer: Edward I and Scotland by Fiona Watson
RRP: $25.33$17.16Few aspects of Scottish history inspire as fervent an interest as the wars with England. The exploits of not one, but two, national heroes - William Wallace and Robert Bruce - have excited the attention of a host of novelists, filmmakers, artists and... -
The Emergence of Monasticism: From the Desert Fathers to the Early Middle Ages Marilyn Dunn (University of Glasgow) 9781405106412
RRP: $66.20$58.01The Emergence of Monasticism offers a new approach to the subject, placing its development against the dynamic of both social and religious change. First study in any language to cover the formative period of medieval monasticism.Gives particular... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
RRP: $39.00$28.29Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
The Manhattan Project (Revised): The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians by Cynthia C. Kelly
RRP: $37.03$24.86This updated edition of this essential collection of historic writings by the pre-eminent scientists and historians who bore witness to the birth of the modern nuclear age now includes President Barack Obama's 2016 statement at Hiroshima, all-new... -
The South Downs: A Painted Year by Antonia Dundas
RRP: $33.13$22.37A countrywoman's illustrated ramble through the seasons on the South Downs. Written over a period of twenty years, as she witnessed the stunning natural world around her, Antonia Dundas' diary records the progress of twelve months over her beloved... -
Empress of Rome: The Life of Livia Matthew Dennison 9780857381637
RRP: $25.33$17.22Empress of Rome is the fascinating biography of one of the most perplexing and powerful figures of the ancient world: the empress Livia. Second wife of the emperor Augustus and the mother of his successor Tiberius, Livia has been vilified by posterity... -
Hitler's Third Reich in 100 Objects: A Material History of Nazi Germany by Roger Moorhouse 9781784385163
RRP: $33.13$24.73_'An engaging and novel approach to a familiar history. Pleasingly comprehensive and accessible highly recommended_' - Iron Cross magazine. Hitler's Third Reich is still the focus of numerous articles, books and films: no regime of the twentieth... -
Old Leith Guthrie Hutton 9781872074658
RRP: $21.35$18.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872074658Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 180mm * 240mm * 4mm -
Carshalton, Wallington and Beddington by John Phillips 9780752403410
RRP: $25.33$19.25Carshalton, Wallington and BeddingtonBook InformationISBN 9780752403410Author John PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint The History Press LtdPublisher The History Press LtdWeight(grams) 300gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 172mm * 10mm -
Ordinary Man, An: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford by Richard Norton Smith
RRP: $58.50$52.44"Richard Norton Smith had brought a lifetime of wisdom, insight, and storytelling verve to the life of a consequential president-Gerald R. Ford. Ford's is a very American life, and Smith has charted its vicissitudes and import with great grace and... -
A History of Women in Men's Clothes: From Cross-Dressing to Empowerment Norena Shopland 9781526787675
RRP: $39.00$27.87Traditionally, historic women have been seen as bound by social conventions, unable to travel unless accompanied and limited in their ability to do what they want when they want. But thousands of women broke those rules, put on banned clothing and... -
Imagining Reality by Kevin MacDonald
RRP: $33.13$22.58In Imaging Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary, Oscar-winning documentary-maker Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September, Touching the Void) and leading broadcaster/historian Mark Cousins (The Story of Film) offer an expanded, revised edition of their... -
Attlee: A Life in Politics by Nick Thomas-Symonds 9780755636136
RRP: $29.23$23.26A biography of a key figure in British political life, now with a new foreword by Keir Starmer, providing a vivid portrait of the man and his politics. Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British... -
The Territories of Science and Religion by Peter Harrison
RRP: $44.85$43.15The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion... -
Outlaws of the Wild West by Terry C Treadwell
RRP: $48.75$34.36The 'Wild West', or American Frontier as it is also known, developed in the years following the American Civil War. However, this period of myth-making cowboys, infamous gunslingers, not always law-abiding lawmen, and saloon madams, is as much the... -
Military Aircraft Colouring Book by Amber Books Ltd 9781838862930
$34.40Featuring classic and modern military airplanes from World War I to the present day, Military Aircraft Colouring Book includes more than 120 biplanes, sea planes, single-seat fighters, bombers, transports, stealth aircraft and multirole fighters to... -
Suggs and the City: Journeys through Disappearing London by Suggs
RRP: $21.43$14.84Revelling in the off-beat and eccentric, Londoner Suggs takes us on a nostalgic adventure to explore the disappearing history of his extraordinary home town: from the sharp tailors of Saville Row to the sex traders of Bohemian Soho, by way of quaint and... -
The Renaissance Pupil's Book Rose Barling 9780719551864
$49.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719551864Author Rose BarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 282mm * 228mm *... -
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia Jeevan Vasagar 9781408713600
RRP: $37.03$27.32Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state.In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita was on a par with Jordan. Now it has outstripped Japan. After the Second World War and a sudden rupture with newly formed... -
The Waffen-Ss in Normandy: July 1944, Operations Goodwood and Cobra by Yves Buffetaut 9781612006413
RRP: $38.98$27.85One of the greatest paradoxes of the Battle of Normandy is that the German divisions found it much harder to reach the front line than the Allies, who had to cross the sea and then deploy in a cramped bridgehead until the American breakthrough of late... -
Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon
RRP: $27.28$19.79Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien,... -
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx 9781453716540
RRP: $19.40$18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453716540Author Karl MarxFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm * 11mm -
Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldier: South Africa 1880-1902 by Ian Knight
RRP: $31.18$22.64Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880-81 and 1899-1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos. The nature... -
The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich
RRP: $27.28$18.21*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall... -
The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327 by J.R. Maddicott
RRP: $61.41$58.19The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Starting with the national assemblies which began to meet in the reign of King AEthelstan, it... -
Polish Armor of the Blitzkrieg by Jamie Prenatt
RRP: $25.33$21.47The Polish army during the Blitzkrieg conjures up tragic images of infantry and dashing, but ineffective and ultimately doomed cavalry charges. In actuality the Poles, in the midst of a large-scale re-armament programme, had up to 600 armoured vehicles... -
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs 9780674659926
RRP: $35.00$28.90Between the eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. It was, as Allyson Hobbs writes, a chosen exile, a separation from one racial identity and the leap... -
Pet Revolution: Animals and the Making of Modern British Life: 2023 by Jane Hamlett
RRP: $39.00$27.87A history of pets and their companions in Britain from the Victorians to today.Pet Revolution tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we keep, as well as how we relate to and care for them, has... -
Van Dyck and the Making of English Portraiture Adam Eaker 9781913107345
RRP: $68.25$57.21A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to... -
The Crossbow by Mike Loades
RRP: $31.18$22.64Technologically sophisticated and powerful, the crossbow has long enjoyed a popular reputation for villainous superiority because it could be used with little training as a weapon of assassination. The study of bow designs, trigger mechanisms and... -
The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England by Karen Harvey
RRP: $40.93$29.60In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine the... -
Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency by Kate Simpson 9781912436613
RRP: $25.33$17.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912436613Author Kate SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Valley PressPublisher Valley Press -
The Byzantine Wars by John F. Haldon
RRP: $29.23$22.85By the middle of the sixth century the Byzantine emperor ruled a mighty empire that straddled Europe, Asia and North Africa. Within 100 years, this powerful empire had been cut in half. Two centuries later the Byzantine empire was once again a power to... -
Darkness Over Germany: A Warning From History E. Amy Buller 9781911350194
RRP: $29.25$19.31Hitler gave voice to a cry that came from the heart of a nation. Originally published in 1943, Darkness over Germany is a poignant and timely reminder of how high youth unemployment and the disenfranchised working class gave Hitler a savage worship. ... -
The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood 9780500288313
RRP: $38.98$26.81In a series of 54 stunning full-colour maps covering 3,000 years and spanning the whole of Europe, this book, newly available in paperback, comprehensively charts the dramatic history of the Celts from their origins in the Bronze Age to their present-day... -
On Wars by Michael Mann 9780300266818
RRP: $58.50$48.46A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, "There never was a good war or a bad peace." But what determines whether war or peace is chosen?... -
The Railway Man by Eric Lomax
RRP: $19.48$14.27During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with... -
A Short History of World War II by DK
RRP: $37.03$27.32Discover the story of the world's deadliest war. Combining expert historical insight with accounts of combatants and civilians, this important book offers a brilliant summary of the most important military, strategic, and political events across all...