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Bolt Action: Campaign: D-Day: Overlord by Warlord Games
RRP: $32.25$24.36From the scaling of Pointe-du-Hoc and the assault on Pegasus Bridge, to the landings on the Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches, this new Campaign Book for Bolt Action allows players to take command of the Allied Forces or those of the defending... -
Napoleon's German Allies (4): Bavaria Otto von Pivka 9780850453737
$17.20In 1805, Bavaria allied itself with France and Bavarian troops served with Napoleon during the 1809 campaign against Austria, and participated in the Russian campaign of 1812, before eventually abandoning the Emperor's cause in 1813 prior to the battle... -
Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome by Lesley Adkins
RRP: $30.30$23.05This handy reference provides full access to the 1,200 years of Roman rule from the 8th century BC to the 5th century AD, including information that is hard to find and even harder to decipher. Clear, authoritative, and highly organized, Handbook to Life... -
Olympia: A Cultural History by Professor Judith M. Barringer
RRP: $45.15$35.78A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form of the modern Olympic Games. But in the ancient... -
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis 9780812986631
RRP: $21.92$15.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986631Author Jim MattisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Best And The Brightest by David Halberstam
RRP: $29.67$20.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780449908709Author David HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint FawcettPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm... -
The World Beneath Their Feet: The British, the Americans, the Nazis and the Mountaineering Race to Summit the Himalayas Scott Ellsworth 9781473649620
RRP: $32.25$21.65The 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards of the History of the YearShortlisted for the 2020 William Hill Sports Book of the Year'A gripping history' THE ECONOMIST 'The World Beneath Their Feet contains plenty of rollicking stories' THE TIMES'Gripping' THE... -
Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli
RRP: $20.64$20.34Niccolo Machiavelli's Art of War is one of the world's great classics of military and political theory. Praised by the finest military minds in history and said to have influenced no lesser lights than Frederick the Great and Napoleon, Art of War is... -
The Story of Bradford by Alan Hall 9780752499772
RRP: $28.38$21.72The Story of Bradford traces the city's history from earliest times to the present, concluding with comments on the issues, challenges and opportunities that the 21st century will present. The departure of the German wool merchants in 1914 and the... -
The Great Shame Thomas Keneally 9780749386047
RRP: $24.50$17.56In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This masterly book traces the three causes of this depletion; first the manine, second the Irish diaspora and the emigrations to places such as America and Canada and thridly the transportations of... -
Life Among the Pirates: The Romance and the Reality by David Cordingly
RRP: $14.18$9.55What were pirates really like? How much, if any, of the piratical stereotype - of a dashingly handsome man with an eye-patch, peg-leg and a parrot on his shoulder - is based on the documented fact.In this revealing and highly original study David... -
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green
RRP: $18.05$13.34The Townhouse Bar, midtown, July 1992: The piano player seems to know every song ever written, the crowd belts out the lyrics to their favorites, and a man standing nearby is drinking a Scotch and water. The man strikes the piano player as forgettable. ... -
Hitler's Gauls: The History of the 33rd Waffen-SS Division Charlemagne by Jonathan Trigg 9780752454764
RRP: $19.34$14.90The divisions of the Waffen-SS were among the elite of Hitler's armies in the Second World War. But alongside the Germans in the Waffen-SS fought an astonishingly high number of volunteers from other countries. By the end of the Second World War these... -
Bomber Boys: The RAF Offensive of 1943 by Kevin Wilson
RRP: $16.76$11.09A gripping account of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1943 - the year when Bomber Command believed it could win WWII by bombing alone.In 1943 the RAF began a bombing campaign against Germany, the like of which had never before been seen... -
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 by Carlos Eire
RRP: $29.03$25.74A lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced survey of Western civilization's transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to... -
Lightning Force: RAF Units 1960-1988 - A Photographic Appreciation of the English Electric Lightning by Fred Martin
RRP: $25.74$18.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905414000Author Fred MartinFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingPublisher Dalrymple and Verdun PublishingWeight(grams)... -
The Book of Celtic Myths: From the Mystic Might of the Celtic Warriors to the Magic of the Fey Folk, the Storied History and Folklore of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales by Adams Media
RRP: $18.05$12.22Hear the tales of Gods, monsters, magic, and more! Warriors, poets, scholars, and visionaries--from the depths of time the ancient Celts have fascinated us. Their rich heritage lives on today. But who were they? From the Druids and fairies to King Arthur... -
The British Empire: Themes and Perspectives Sarah E. Stockwell (King's College, London) 9781405125352
RRP: $37.35$32.86This volume adopts a distinctive thematic approach to the history of British imperialism from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It brings together leading scholars of British imperial history: Tony Ballantyne, John Darwin, Andrew Dilley, Elizabeth... -
Lost Letters of Medieval Life: English Society, 1200-1250 by Martha Carlin
RRP: $39.99$35.81Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters... -
Cannock Chase: The Second Selection by June Pickerill 9780752410760
RRP: $16.76$12.41This is the second volume of archive photographs featuring Cannock Chase. Its particular charm derives from the fact that it draws on the hidden treasure of local people's photographs and recollections. All aspects of life in the area are recalled:... -
Farming in the 1920s and 30s by Jonathan Brown
RRP: $11.60$9.55With world markets upset and economies in recession, the 1920s and '30s were not an easy time for farmers, who required great resilience to survive. Jonathan Brown here examines the challenges that farmers faced and the ways in which they responded. Some... -
The Rotten Heart of Europe by Bernard Connolly
RRP: $20.63$14.13'The Brussels Commission has just suspended its senior economist, Bernard Connolly, for writing a book savaging the prospects for a common currency. There are many who now believe he should be lauded as a prophet.' Observer, Editorial, 1 October... -
Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala by Stephen Schlesinger
RRP: $25.74$21.31Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the... -
Battle of Britain 1940: The Luftwaffe's 'Eagle Attack' by Doug Dildy
RRP: $21.92$16.98In August 1940, the Luftwaffe began an operation to destroy or neutralize RAF Fighter Command, and enable Hitler to invade Britain that autumn. It was a new type of air warfare: the first ever offensive counter-air campaign against an integrated air... -
In the Forests of Freedom: The Fighting Maroons of Dominica by Lennox Honychurch
RRP: $12.89$9.02The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous. Not so the Maroons of another Caribbean island - Dominica, also a former British colony. Dominica's Maroons once controlled much of this wild and mountainous island but few details of their story of... -
Defending the Border: Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia by Mathijs Pelkmans
RRP: $36.11$31.14This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it illuminates the myriad ways residents of the... -
Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight Against Filth by Lee Jackson
RRP: $15.47$13.09In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In... -
Zitadelle: The German Offensive Against the Kursk Salient 4-17 July 1943 by Mark Healy 9780752457161
RRP: $45.15$35.11Few battles attract interest so much as the Battle of Kursk. Operation Zitadelle, the code name given by Hitler to the Wehrmacht's last offensive on the Eastern Front in July 1943, has acquired an almost mythic status as one of the greatest clashes of... -
Discover Ancient Sumer Paul Collins 9781910807361
RRP: $6.45$4.90Sumer was a region of the ancient world that today forms the southern part of Iraq. It is a vast, flat land of floodplains formed by the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. It was here that some of the world's first cities arose and writing was invented... -
The Allure of the Archives by Arlette Farge
RRP: $21.92$20.42An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation. Arlette Farge's Le Gout de l'archive is widely regarded as a... -
Scottish Myths by Jake Jackson
RRP: $9.02$6.85Much of Scottish mythology was imported by settlers arriving from across the Irish Sea, and so Scottish mythology in large part shares its characters and tales with the mythology of Ireland, from the Ulster Cycle featuring Conchobar mac Nessa, king of... -
The Conquistadors: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Restall 9780195392296
RRP: $11.60$8.53With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the... -
The Panjshir Valley 1980-86: The Lion Tames the Bear in Afghanistan Mark Galeotti (New York University, New York, USA) 9781472844736
RRP: $20.63$14.98An in-depth look at the struggle between the charismatic rebel commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, 'The Lion of Panjshir', and the Soviet forces who fought to control the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan. When the Soviets rolled into Afghanistan in 1979, they... -
A Short History of South-East Asia Peter Church 9781119062493
RRP: $24.51$21.78Explore the fascinating history of south-east Asia A Short History of South-East Asia, Sixth Edition is the latest in a series of updated texts spotlighting this fascinating region. With revised chapters for all of the countries in this geographic area,... -
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code by Matthew Cobb
RRP: $16.76$11.73Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough has had far-reaching consequences for how we understand ourselves and our place in the natural world. The code forms the most... -
The Struggle for Sea Power: The Royal Navy vs the World, 1775-1782 by Sam Willis
RRP: $19.34$13.16With a cast of swaggering swashbuckling characters, The Struggle for Sea Power charts the greatest war in the age of sail.In 1775 thirteen isolated colonies, without a navy or an army, began a war with Britain to win their independence from the greatest... -
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova
RRP: $24.50$17.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210156Author Hana VolavkovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 266mm... -
Imperialism: A Study by J. A. Hobson 9780851247885
RRP: $25.74$24.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247885Author J. A. HobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 23mm -
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself by Ann Wroe
RRP: $21.92$15.84Four questions consumed Shelley and coloured everything he wrote. Who, or what, was he? What was his purpose? Where had he come from? And where was he going? He sought the answers in order to free and empower not only himself, but the whole human race... -
England's First Castle: The Story of a 1000-Year-Old Mystery by Terry Wardle 9780752447971
RRP: $19.34$14.90In early September 1051, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recorded that 'the French had built a castle', the first Norman castle in England. Yet for centuries the circumstances behind the construction of this castle and its actual location have remained a...